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@Texas-Hawk-10 wrote something a lot of board rats including me probably wonder about. He wrote, "Charlie Weis absolutely gutted this program." It provoked a question I don't have an answer for, so I am posing it to the board.
Why did Charlie Weis gut the program, and why was he allowed to?
What was Sheahon Zenger thinking?
Why put a guy in charge that would gut it?
And if he didn't recognize that Weis would do it, why did he let him once he started gutting It?
What was there to be gained from letting Charlie Weis gut the program?
And nearly instantaneous communication across great distances can be achieved through quantum entanglement
Nano fleets in space seem like the future to me. Very cheap. You do not need gigantic spaceships to move gigantic objects in the void.
And who is that little PG in the salmon top? Could have some trouble being posted up by tall guards!!!😎
Traylor and BG don't look happy; that's never a good sign in a casual picture.
Great response. Thx for indulging me and sharing.
Re: who can get out there, and how far--EU, Russia, China and Japan have probed meteorites, if I recall. Front end cost of solar system mapping has been substially completed for some time. Front end propulsion research cost incurred already too. Thus entry cost obstacles are reduced for all. China and Russia now seem to have the combined resources enabling both near and deep space exploration. Japan and France maintain space capacity. Israelis supposed to have nukes and nuclear subs which suggest capacity for ICBMs and space delivery. Since driverless exploration and trade are apt to prevail, that makes it much cheaper to undertake on a solar system level and so more players should be able to compete and so stimulate trade. Defense applications are where space will grow costly, same as on earth. Space trade will have its own unique economic parameters, just as ocean trade has.
I don't think Slayr is calling for Beaty's head, and I know I'm not. It's more like Beaty's head has already been handed to us. We don't want it, but there it is. The question is: what to do at a beheading?
I decided to make some jokes.
I wish Coach Beaty well. It took courage to take the job. I would even be willing to sew his head back, if he would like.
So: have you had time to digest? 😀
Hunch: the Sasha hire was driven by the same folks that sacked the AD. No way did this catch Sasha by surprise. If it did, then he will likely be gone himself shortly. But that just seems far fetched.
It would be interesting though if Adidas bought its way into Texas and aims to make the B12 it conference. Probably not, but money talks in Texas.
It's not my explanation, though I would love to take credit for it.
Roy, or someone involved, reputedly said he and dean made the agreement.
And then he proceeded not to win any rings.
I don't make the news.
I just was astonished by it. 😀
I mean how Was he going to win rings recruiting the lesser half of the country against coaches at elite programs recruiting the entire country, even with the apparent sweetheart arrangement between Dean, Roy, Mike, Nike, and Sonny, anyway, eh?
Maybe someone can explain how that was supposed to work.
Why can't Thiessen-Krupp get into shoes? Tell the Kochs to buy Adidas. Then get State of Kansas to give Adidas a $3 Billion subsidy to locate in Lawrence. Then KU could get an OAD 1 and an OAD 5! 😀
Cracking coal gas and refining tar sands and pitch are so pre China Pivot!
Let's get Kansas growing with petro apparel!
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Just kidding.
Notice also how the shoes are carefully cropped from the picture. The shoes are all that matter in determining which stack he goes to, right?
My guess would be WWW. 😎
The freshmen's penises were caught in their ear holes.
They just didn't play with each other very well. They have to play with themselves better. It's how you play with yourself that determines how you play with each other.
Sheahan Zenger hired me to be the third straight coat of stripper to take this program all the way to bare metal. Cut me some slack. I am doing my job faster than Gill or Weis, and for less money.
Call me the third phase of Zenger's Hat Trick of Despair.
I keep telling the kids that there is more to football than Onanism, but they're just not listening yet.
If you don't score in football, you are always playing for ties. But a tie is like auto eroticism with barbed wire.
Look, I was only hired, because Mangino needed another year of weight loss before coming back.
Zenger makes us wear these bird helmets. How can anyone coach and look at those things at the same time?
Even nymphomaniacs aren't attracted to us right now.
jaybate 1.0 gives us less support than a jock made of bungee cord.
Kansas just ain't Alta Texas. We aren't even Baja North Dakota.
Even Elon Musk couldn't turn this program around.
Even GM and a Federal Bailout couldn't turn this program around.
Even Sergei Brin and Larry Page gave up searching for a solution to our problems.
At least the eyes of Texas aren't upon us.
I'm waiting for DOT.COM BUBBLE 2.0 to burst before making our move.
Think of me as theme and variation on futility. Kind of a fugue in D Minor at Memorial Stadium in autumn. Taps at Dawn.
We didn't block, or tackle, aggressively. We didn't even masturbate aggressively. But I've seen them do all three in practice, so I know there is hope.
I resent our team being called Beaty's Beat Offs. We're better than that.
(Note: all fiction and frustration. No malice.)
How do we know if Cheick will be eligible?
Self and Hunter are the miner's canaries.
If Self were smiling and stroking Big Mik, then Cheick would be a lost cause.
If Self were treating Big Mik like last season, the waiter would have brought the Cheick.
Bottom line, we need basketball season to start. :-)
Post Script: And I am not even addressing what Steven Hawkings keeps saying through his voice synthesizer; that we ought to stop sending out beacons across the galaxy and universe, because there is a very good chance that any extra terrestrial life we attract the attention of is apt to be superior to us technologically and so we are apt to come to a very bad end, say, the way the native Americans of Mezzo America did when the Europeans went looking for a sea trade routes around the Seljuk Turks road block down at Constantinople and Cairo. Maybe I'm just having one of those days, but this is what my antennae are picking up.
Traditional weaponry like the aircraft carriers are in my layman's opinion rather the contemporary equivalents of the battle ship at the start of WWII. They continue to have utility of a kind, especially in what might now be called conventional limited and unconventional limited warfare, or what I am calling linear warfare. By linear warfare, I am referring to great powers engaging in, or sponsoring surrogates in the engagement in, warfare of the kind we have been witnessing since WWII. Things never really get threatened in the grand strategic order. Force is used in a kind of chess game at the frontier of the status quo to try to bring about incremental changes that may over time lead to tipping points for regimes. But unlimited warfare is never engaged in, because nuclear arms and CBW and cyber warfare technologies could easily converge to wipe us all out.
But I foresee what might be called a "nonlinear" conventional and unconventional warfare risk. War is not just a phenomenon of wealth and force. It is wealth and force interplaying in a battle space. What the Age of Discovery 1.0 did is geometrically (if you will) expand the battle space by enabling/requiring grand strategic interplay to occur around a globe, not just in an eastern Hemisphere stretching from Western Europe across Eurasia, the Mediterranean and the Indian and Southwest Pacific oceans. Over several centuries the geometric expansion of battle space (known accessible world) prompted concerted massive investment in technology to fight in and control this expanded space.It was a nonlinear increase in warfare relative to the war making before it. It culminated by the 20th Century in first nuclear weapons and then an array of weapons of mass destruction. This lead to an end of the option of escalating to unlimited warfare, except by accident.
But as the ending of unlimited warfare was occurring space exploration was simultaneously leaping forward to open up "exponentially" if you will the size of our known universe. We now know there are almost certainly other inhabitable exo planets perhaps even in our own galaxy. We now know that there are the raw materials needed for colonization on other planets and moons in our own solar system. And we now know that we are now critically dependent on our internet cloud for sustainment of human life on earth without catastrophic disruption. And we now know that this "information" is not defensible here on earth. Electromagnetic pulses can wipe all, or parts, of it out. And when that data wipe out occurs, there will be catastrophic interruptions in human activity and loss of status quo with unforeseen consequences. In turn we know that that is an intolerable risk and one that at least the great powers of the world will do their best to minimize. And we can reasonably infer that part of the risk management solution will be to place "backups" of our cloud in locations that can be protected, at least for periods of time, where the backups cannot be damaged, so that all, or parts, of human civilization on earth can be "reset" if you will in the event of an accident, or what have you.
Part of the risk management will have to involve moving "back ups" off planet. Moving back ups off planet will only be a partial and imperfect solution, as have all strategic steps of risk management throughout human history, but it will be taken as surely as the British built great fortresses at Gibraltar, the Straits of Malacca, and St. Kitts from which to secure the trader routes of the Crown of Great Britain a world away in the age of sail in the British Isles. There is no distance too great, no cost too great to bear, no risk management too imperfect to be tried, when the perpetuation of a private oligarchy of a global power is at stake. Just look at the lengths the Vatican and the Habsburgs were willing to go to when the Seljuk Turks cut off their trade with the Far East and triggered the Age of Discovery 1.0.
We are in the throes of the Age of Discovery 2.0. First the nuclear arsenal of USSR and now the onrushing development of Russian and Chinese spanning of the Eurasian Center Point have effectively set at risk and threaten to cut off USA-Crown of Great Britain from their global trade routes.
Space exploration in the Age of Discovery 2.0 is the contemporary equivalent of ocean voyaging in Age of Discovery 1.0. but instead of increasing our navigable and trade-able world geometrically around a globe, it is expanding it exponentially across a solar system and a galaxy and eventually beyond. I used to think this notion was poppycock, but now I think it is already happening and I have just been too thick headed to recognize it.
The back-ups have to be put out under a frozen ocean on a moon of Jupiter, or Saturn, first. They have to be stored somewhere far enough away that most of the powers of earth cannot yet get to them and destroy them. It HAS TO BE DONE. It may already be done.
The moon was close enough in the 1960s. Mars is close enough now. The moons of Jupiter and Saturn will be close enough once Mars is close enough. It is a game of moving the pea under the shell farther and farther out from threat.
And to do it requires the ability to have lines of communication with the sites. And to set up sustainable long term communications requires means of regular access to the storage sites. And the building of this trade route will trigger great discoveries that will alter what we do out there and what we do here.
And so vast monies are going to be invested to develop ways to develop the trade routes out to the flanks of space that have to be controlled by private oligarchies on earth. And so there will be colonization and resource exploitation and "bidness."
And the kinds of weapons that can be created in space with unlimited access to solar energy in a void grow frankly unthinkable to someone like myself. Star Wars and Star Trek will seem like the science fiction fairy tales they are.
And such devices are already technologically feasible should we devote our resources to going there, staying there, and enabling trade routes.
Space navy.
Space anchors away.
The ships have already started sailing IMHO.
No turning back now.
The only question is how much human involvement in space will occur, or will it be a driverless realm.
You and I can conceive looking back what a change occurred in naval strategy when air space over fleets became navigable by airplanes extending from air craft carriers and from land air bases.
We have learned that the US Navy networked the entire ocean with microphones just to listen to russian nuclear subs.
We hear it reputed that our defense forces are working with directed energy weapons from space, presumably from low earth orbit.
What kinds of weapons could be built on Mars, or the moon and moved aloft into orbiting tracks that control pinch points of travel around the solar system and on and off the earth?
And we now know why the exploration will be continue to be driven outward.
To move the pea under the next shell outward.
To find dynamic circulating networks of information bounced so far out, around and back, that time itself would become a defense against those that would seek to harm the information.
And, here is the scary part, for all human spatial expansion has the scary element.
The more protected the backups begin, the more incentive there is to screw with the other guys information that is not as well backed up. If we can restore and they cannot restore, then we win in this primitive attavistic human calculus.
And that is an iPandora's Box that humanity slipped into after the Age of Discovery 1.0 started and has lived with to this day. It may be been that way before the Age of Discovery 1.o. There may have been an Age of Discovery Beta that I just haven't read about yet. But his dynamic is real and seems to have some capacity for recurrence. History never repeats. It just comes close with infinite variation within limits.
Nonlinear warfare in an exponentially increased battle space with backed up information off planet seems a harrowingly significant risk to me now.
It didn't ten years ago.
But it does now.
I suspect that the guys at Office of Net Assessment contemplated all of this at considerable length quite some time ago and what we have been living through the last couple decades is significantly a part of their recommended response.
And then there is the usual blundering and misreads to complicate it further.
Come on people now,
Smile on your brothers (and sisters),
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right now...
MEMO
FROM: @jaybate 1.0, Director/Janitor, Directorate World HQ, Langley IHOP, Langley, Virginia, BIA,
TO: @Lulufulu, Case Officer, Northeast CONUS, BIA
RE: Operation Southwood
CLASSIFICATION LEVEL: quinessentially secret
ENCRYPTION LEVEL: Quantum Pig Latin--a key found in Allen Turing's possession just prior to his departure from this mortal coil.
Word straight from the top of the private oligarchy in ownership of a key element of the private Federal Reserve is that DPT and DDT will be appropriated and used by supposed basketball fan-terrorists as talking points in a covert plan to get Coach K another ring. The covert operation is reputedly called Operation Southwoods, and in this plan a false flag operation will be undertaken by covert Duke special ops pretending to be the KSU fans that orchestrated the Jayhawk being violated in the pornographic formation used by the KSU marching band. These basketball terrorists will be brandishing bull castration implements and will rob a dollar store of four balsa wood and rubber band propeller driven aircraft and will then storm and occupy a dormitory on Daisy Hill. From the roof of one of the dorms, these perpetrators will arm the balsa wood and rubber band driven airplanes with Black Cat and Zebra brand fire crackers taped to their fuselages and fly them into the walls of an empty Allen Field House the night before the the KU-KSU game this season, thus sparing KSU yet another humiliating beating. Allen Field House will shortly after the impacts erupt in white hot flame and the field house will fall in its own footprint. (Note: thermite charges will reputedly be used to saw the girder system of AFH at 45 degree angles and induce the collapse that could not occur simply from Black Cats and Zebra brand fire cracker detonations.) Further, all of the Daisy Hill Dorms emptied of students that will have already run down the hill to watch the collapse of their beloved field house, will, without being impacted by anything, inexplicably fall in their own foot prints. And it will subsequently be discovered in an official inquiry scoped to ignore the impact free collapses of not one but several worker housing style dormitories, that the Duke Chancellor's adopted half brother he will claim never to have known, took over building security for Allen Field House and the Daisy Hill dorms a month before the event. This catastrophic event will then prompt BEMA COB (aka the Basketball Emergency Management Agency's Continuity of Basketball shadow governing agency) to declare martial basketball law, suspend further NCAA competition, and arbitrarily award Coach K and Duke next season's NCAA national title. Jeb Bush will also reputedly with draw from the National presidential campaign and be selected President of the NCAA.
Despite how fantastic all this stretcher seems, the BIA of course intends to use all of its considerable nonexistent resources available to its unfunded disposal to see that this tragic farce is not perpetrated upon college basketball, or KU, or Allen Field House. You, BIA Case Officer Lulu, have been tasked with retaining the services of former BIA Agent Ethan Dunk and his current IBMF (Impossible Basketball Missions Force) team to take down these Duke hooligans before they desecrate the greatest arena in all of sport, so as to leave the sharply inferior Cameron Indoor Events Center next in line for the rank of best basketball arena.
Of course, if you, or any of the IBMF team are exposed, captured, or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your existence.
(CUE: the smoke and the Impossible Basketball Missions theme)
New acronym: DPT.
PHOF
The deep space network is being expanded rapidly for a reason.
Idle curiosity.
A lot depends on principal central bank ownership goals, agent-state goals, client naval mission, on perceived decisive strategic pinch points and battle spaces, on fighting and logistic technologies, on force, robotic and propulsion technologies, on raw material and manufacturing sources for building and operations, on what we want our allies to contribute, on who our allies and opponents are likely to be, and on their characteristics in all these same regards. You match up "us vs them" in pursuit of MUA, and remember that what ever you do, the navies you, your allies and your opponents commit to build, the building will then trigger you, your allies, and your opponents to revise all of the above to counter the MUA created and that over time some highly complicated equilibrium strategy with enormous sunk costs, strengths, and weaknesses and limits of adaptability will result that will itself be obsoleted by whatever actual mission and conflict scenarios in fact evolve.
The key really is building navies capable of handling what goes on foreseeably without overcommitting and becoming too inflexible to respond to the unforeseeable nonlinearities of sudden large scale conflict.
It's only about numbers of ships, and quality of same, after you know what you foreseeably will be facing and decide the extent to which you cannot foresee things. Some periods are harder to foresee than others and so better to avoid major sunk costs in.
I can imagine scenarios where mission, allies, opponents and technology applied make past ship numbers useful indicators, followed by nonlinear escalations of conflict that make such numbers and composition irrelevant.
In foreseeable, linear conflict situations it's hard for me to imagine us ever needing even half what we have now. The Crown of Great Britain is running the first, second or third largest economic entity on the planet with a tiny fleet.
China wouldn't even have a navy if we hadn't built their economy and insisted they build a navy and help pay for securing the Sealanes.
We don't need a single aircraft carrier to project sustained attack force anywhere in the world, if we change emphasis on delivery technology.
In unforeseeable terms, we need a naval space fleet. We need hundreds, maybe thousands of nano fleets for earth and space. We need completely submersible fleets hardened to directed energy from space. We need truly amphibious fleets that run on both air and land. We need completely unmanned fleets that can fight and rescue in CBW and nuclear and net degraded regions. We need primitive fleets capable of fighting without wifi and using only the energy they can generate themselves. These are the unforeseeable realms of conflict where wars will soon be fought.
Navies exist to control trade routes with force pure and simple. It's all they have ever done and what they are good for. We have created a vast global economy that now requires a solar system economy to underwrite the cost of securing its space flanks and space trade routes. The best way to store and protect critical information is off planet. The best way to out flank enemies on earth with directed energy is to locate directed energy batteries farther out in the solar system than our enemies. To pay for it and defend its off planet storage, trade will be enabled. Space Trade will have new space trade routes and new pinch points on and off earth. Thus we have no choice but to continue Age of Exploration 2.0. Into Age of Colonization 2.0. There WILL BE more and more heavily used trade routes than ever before.
THE QUESTION FOR THE CENTRAL BANK OWNERS AND THE CNO WILL BE WHICH TRADE ROUTE SECURITY TO INVEST AND ENGAGE IN NOW, AND WHICH TO LEAVE FOR THE TIME OF CONFLICT NONLINEARITY.
Sunk costs map a topology of both naval strength and naval inflexibility.
Naval inflexibility at a time of extraordinary potential nonlinear conflict seems a more grave threat to national security now than insufficient conventional ships and fleets for foreseeable linear conflict.
Thus if it were up to me, I would be standing pat with conventional naval maritime fleets, or even cutting back, and moving all ahead full with the naval space fleet formation; that space fleet will be what Mahan would be advocating were he alive now instead of maritime fleets. The key always is to be prepared to wage war in the ways and in the places that will yield decisive advantage when the time comes.
The critical flank for surface fleet force projection and control of pinch points necessary for control of maritime trade is in space. You can't wage war effectively here without controlling space, and how space is controlled will determine the way the navy wages war on the oceans of earth.
Many of the most critical aircraft carriers and fleets of the near future will be in space. They may already be there and we just don't know it. But given the tendency of inside the box thinking, I doubt it.
Howling!!!!
Thanks so much for thinking of me!
I am on the road today, and will read it eagerly, but may not respond for a day or so.
Go Navy!
Can't say about UConn, since I don't much care about UConn, because of their Jim Calhoun-screw-the-rules-I'm-at-the-end -of-my-career legacy titles that really shouldn't be counted as UConn titles at all. Hell, Self could have won ten in a row easily had he done what Calhoun reputedly did.
Note: it amazes me that Calhoun and Calipari are held in high esteem about their winning, when perhaps any second rate coach in the USA could have equalled what Calipari has done with his anomalous talent stream, and any first rate coach would likely have exceeded what Calhoun did with his reputed "approach to the rules" his last 10 years. Imagine how many titles Bob Knight could have won at UConn "educating" and "recruiting" the players the way Calhoun did, eh? Coach K would STILL be chasing Knight's all time W number.
But about seeding bias and refereeing bias in the NCAA tournament working against the Big 12, the apparent seeding and apparent refereeing of the last couple seasons, plus the comments of coaches about the seeding process, IMHO puts the onus of producing evidence to the contrary on anyone that wants to argue that the Big 12 is competing on a level playing field in post season.
Capice?
The big 12 proves year in and year out it is a tough conference in November and December and in all the Independent ranking algorithms by season's end.
What happens in post season is seeding and referee bias operating against a conference with an insignificant EST FOOTPRINT.
NEXT.
Here is a scary thought. COBOL reputedly runs over 70 percent of the apps on the Internet and they are having trouble training programmers to replace the old ones leaving the field or retiring. Imagine a world where everyone that knows how to program COBOL IS DEAD and hackers unleash a virus to randomly reverse or delete a line of COBOL code from routines now on the net. Revelations was apparently foreshadowing our geek-centric world. Here is a fun, DEADPAN slide show on COBOL
http://mobile.eweek.com/developer/slideshows/cobol-10-reasons-the-old-language-is-still-kicking ↗
Oops, that was from FORTRAN
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AFTER AARON CONCLUDES THE JOCK WASHING RITUAL YEAR OF FUTURE GREAT SELF ASSISTANTS, HOPEFULLY HE WILL BE TURNING OUT RAZOR EDGED AND HARD NOSED POINT GUARD FANATICS IN NO TIME.
@wissoxfan83 said:
and kept it til this day.
IT HAS ALWAYS SEEMED A VERY SAD AND PETTY ASPECT OF KING'S GREAT LEGACY.
WHO WANTS TO BE IN A HALL OF FAME WITH JOHN CALIPARI IN IT?
ITS LIKE JOINING A PRESIDENTIAL HALL OF FAME WITH RICHARD NIXON IN IT.
AND IF JAY WRIGHT IS GOING TO BE IN IT, ITS LIKE JOINING A PRESIDENTIAL HALL OF FAME WITH DUBYA IN IT.
REALLY, THE BHOF HAS DISGRACED ITSELF.
FRANKLY, I WOULD LIKE FOR KU, UNC, DUKE, MICHIGAN, WISCONSIN, INDIANA, AND ANY OTHER PROGRAMS THAT HAVE A SHRED OF SELF RESPECT AND INTEGRITY LEFT TO WITHDRAW THEIR COACHES FROM THE BHOF IN PROTEST OF CALIPARI'S ADMISSION AND BAND TOGETHER AND CREATE A NEW BHOF AND INSTALL THEIR GREAT COACHES IN IT.
THIS IS THE COLLEGE BASKETBALL EQUIVALENT OF ANTHONY MACAULIFFE TELLING THE GERMANS "NUTS" DURING THE SIEGE OF BASTOGNE!
I have had my issues with Memphis over the years.
But the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
THE GREAT TRADITION OF BASKETBALL IN THE CITY OF MEMPHIS HAS TAKEN ITS FIRST STEP TO FULL REDEMPTION.
BY GOD ANYONE THAT ELOQUENT NEEDS TO BE SAVED.
SCHEDULE MEMPHIS NOW!
SCHEDULE MEMPHIS NOW!
There are many good statues. But if you have seen the David, afterwards you don't know any more about sculpture than you did before, but you know you have seen an intimation of perfection in stone.
There are many good 2 guards. But if you have seen the Jo Jo, afterwards you don't know any more about how to play the 2 than before, but you know you have seen an intimation of perfection in sneakers.
After all these years, it is still hard to believe he existed.
Good question.
The kind I was referring to was that kind reputedly maintained under adverse conditions by the millions in China and certain other far eastern countries largely as a wage dampener on the paid labor force, thus serving a traditional function analogous to chattel slave labor, but not called slave labor.
But I am not opposed to all prison labor. Decent work and accomplishment are good for most anyone's self esteem, especially those among us marginalized by society and engaged in substance abuse and related crime. But I am opposed to a steady diet of work as punishment; that has never made sense to me. Work as punishment robs work of its only real net benefit for economy, culture, state and individual. If Self punishes players with the stair master daily afterwards regardless of their subsequent behavior, there ceases to be learning or benefit. The goal becomes escape not getting better.
I am not naive. There are some incorrigibles. But they are hardly good workers or altered by punishment. Confinement is about the only thing to do with them.
Obviously there are grey areas and obviously I am no penal expert, but I don't enjoy or approve of inflicting routine suffering on those on my team, whether they have screwed up or not. Citizens are my fellow citizens whether in prison or out, until we execute, or deport them. And I am against capital punishment morally and in principle in a republic even though there are times when my individual emotions get the better of me regarding crime. In those moments I would hope my fellow citizens and rule of law would restrain my (and others) calls for execution. The DNA stats are in. We are imprisoning and executing significant numbers of innocent persons and we have the power and authority and technical feasibility to stop doing it, and should.
But I digress.
I am specifically opposed to the abusive and exploitative kind of prison labor maintained at levels of prisoner supply aimed at maintaining an alternate labor force used to dampen wages and be ready to be moved to forced labor camps under military command in the event of martial law declaration. These are incarcerated labor forces that are human rights violations and crimes against humanity waiting to happen for at least the last century or two that I have read some about.
That's what I am against, and for, in a short form on this issue.
Rock Chalk!
I fear we Americans are all somewhat in the position of Northerners in the 1850s. We oppose slavery, prison labor, peonage, and child labor, and hope other regions that practice them stop, and try to discourage our own regions, but we benefit enough from the trade and consumption enabled by the exploitation that we do not successfully organize to move forward to stop it by rule of law backed by force. I fear the equivalent of a great global civil war one day to put a stop to the abuses. And I fear it will it will come one day when yet another infrastructure as spatially decisive to control as rail and telegraphy were, seeks to exploit our virtues and vices in this matter to divide and conquer us again, as occurred when bankers and railroaders mobilized north and south against each other with slavery politics to grab control of transcontinental rail and telegraph construction in order to.grab control of global maritime trade crossing the Western Hemisphere.
No wonder Nike appears to have the best talent conveyor system. Oregon gave them $2'Billion in subsidy. Even I could corral a lot of talent with just $1 Billion. Saw this low in a story about Tesla getting subsidy and indicating how Tesla may be apparently a small timer at the subsidy trough compared to other major corporations and industries.
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150602-story.html ↗
Isn't it time for Adidas to move their headquarters to Lawrence and for the state of Kansas to give adidas $2 Billion, so Adidas can stack its teams as well as Nike appears to? Doesn't THE LEGACY deserve it, if this subsidy crap has to go on?
P.S.: Elon Musk was in good form. He said if he cared about subsidies, he would go into the oil and gas business. He added Tesla and Ford were the only American car manufacturers not to have gone bankrupt. 😀
P.P.S.: Tesla is building such superior luxury cars, and promising to do the same for $35,000 cars in two years, that the private oligarchy's water carriers appear to be being asked to get out front and attack Elon for answering speculative questions about terra forming Mars and Musk answering speculatively that nuking Mars' poles might be one way to warm the Martian climate sufficiently for terraforming. Oooooooooh, oooooh, bad Elon, he talked about nuking Mars!😀 Wink, wink, nudge, nudge! Don't buy Elon's electric cars, because he wants to clean up earth and ruin Mars with terra forming, while we want to keep polluting earth and keep Mars clean. HOWLING! Consumer Reports just announced Teslas test so superiorly (sp?) that they have had to revise their ranking system. The bailed out, deeply subsidized petro-car companies have to stop claiming electrics cannot be built. And so Elon has to be portrayed as a crazy. What a surprise! Somewhere up in heaven Preston Tucker is laughing his ass off and shouting GO, ELON, GO!!!! And Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, who said electrics were the future back in 1914, are cheering Elon to expose the do nothing's also. And Steve Jobs? He is shaking his head and saying, "Well, of course insanely great products can be built."
You present as good of case as any...and a good pic as usual.
I recall that post. It conveyed my profound bafflement at the situation even as I tried to understand it.
The most interesting part was body language. Sometimes guys just cross a line with Self as RR ONCE DID. And he has an all season dog house.
Maybe Mik and him really just were at loggerheads for a season over some conduct code crossing.
And WUG marked his release from Selfenworth Penitentiary with time served.
Here is a serious question for you.
if Mick is good enough to make us a FF team this year, then why in the flip wasn't he racking up BIG minutes last season?
WTF was going on last season?
Now this is an issue to question Self on?
Bill, WTF were you thinking playing injured players instead of Mick?
What was that REALLY about?
Did Hunter run his mouth and get the RR EXILE TREATMENT, or what?
Finally, some positive on Diallo. Needed it.