artvader

Facepalm!

1. Until you understand that a ratio disadvantage of 500 to 1, I'm afraid no amount of explanation will make you discern how strategically pointless and an exercise in idiocy trying to modernize the military. Which in itself as an institution is an unbelievably corrupt organization.

 

The Chinese also have a few of those so-called NUCLEAR SUBMARINES which can fire missiles from 500 miles with great precision. We can buy 10 new craft and it will be sunk in less than 10 minutes.

 

2. You obviously are not a student of history. Or maybe you're still very young to remember that before the Martial Law era, a significant portion of the middle/upper class own guns and yet crime is relatively low.

 

Again you're missing the point.

 

And I repeat. The point here is not those islands but the overall safety of the country from foreign threats.

 

Countries which allows its citizens to have guns have the lowest crime rates (Switzerland, US). While those who impose strict gun controls suffer from high crime rates. Eherm! Philippines. hehe

 

It's quite basic and simple really. And I understand you have been deluded into thinking otherwise. MORE GUNS MEANS LESS CRIME.

 

But to finish the point.

 

Switzerland is a very small country in the middle of Europe and yet it has survived 2 world wars without being invaded by anyone. Kahit si Hitler at si Stalin hindi naglakas loob na pasukin ang bansang ito kahit nandito pa ang mga malalaking bangko at pera... dahil....

 

Tama ang hula mo pre. Ang galing.

 

Bawat pamilyang Swiss owns an average of 5-6 RIFLES. Essentially every man, woman and child is armed. Think 50 million Filipinos armed. The Chinese will never dream of sh_tting on us.

 

In contrast saten when the Japanese invaded Filipinos died by the thousands and thousands because we are unarmed.

 

Simple arithmetic and a knowledge in history goes a long way to wisdom. hehe.

If you think the military is corrupt, then you must be living in a make believe world where the people are not corruptible themselves. Obviously, you've been filtering out news of people firing their guns indiscriminately during the new year, thereby killing innocent children. Or to that person who shot a driver because of a simple road altercation? I'm not convinced that ordinary Filipinos can be trusted to act responsibly with a gun.

I'd rather not add the stress of knowing that any day now my next-door neighbor can go postal, especially since he can now k*ll me and my loved ones from a few meters away.

Another reason why these should be left to the military? In the even that war happens and our military gets thrashed, there's a chance the invading forces will just spare the civilian population, or at least colonize them. Arm every population? The invading forces would just bomb the whole country until there's no population to worry about.

Now, if you're saying they have nuclear subs that can fire from 500 miles away, what would armed citizens have against that, you think? Your proposition is at least as pointless as what you think of mine.

And the US?!? Bad example, dude. Have you even heard of all those school massacres happening all over their country? The US doesn't even have a low crime rate. In fact, its at the top of the list that has jailed its citizens (1 out of 1000!).

Hard to imagine 6 years ago that Apple would be considered "mainstream" today...

http://www.macworld.com/article/1166169/new_trojan_variant_can_install_without_password.html#lsrc.rss_main

Sigh. It was only a matter of time...

"...vulnerability, identified as CVE-2012-0507, allows the malware to install itself from a malicious website the user visits, without needing the user to enter an administrator’s password."

After the antenna-gate here's another design flaw: http://www.businessinsider.com/an-apple-design-flaw-revealed-2011-8 . And it affects all current iOS versions, too! I guess Apple lost its center when Steve Jobs went on medical leave (and stepped down as CEO).

the only superpower that will engage them head on is the US which is now having problems with its economy.

 

soon China will commence the sea trials of their only Aircraft Carrier to ram our BRP-GDP into sinking.

It's actually not the aircraft carrier that's the problem. It's the aircrafts that it's going to carry...

Actually China can even claim America as they say they discovered it before Columbus. Buong mundo na lang kaya sa kanila. Sus.

At least they have 15-year-old jets. We've got 60-year-old propeller planes. Wish we could modernize our military sooner.

I'm willing to bet he's going to use the inherited problem/blame game speech again this coming SONA. Stop it already! We're tired of it.

In fairness to Camiar. He was always preaching about "quiet resolve" on how to handle the Spratly's situation and what he said was to make us see that a small force can cause trouble even to a much larger army.

But you are also right, while we may win some skirmishes, the overall war (if it happens) will leave us devastated (if the nation survives, that is).

Look at that: the Chinese outpost looks like a gun aimed at the Kalayaan Island. Is it a subliminal message?

Hmmm the new iMac with the Thunderbolt interface comes equipped with a custom pin configuration for its hard drives.

Pretty soon all Mac models will support this new pin configuration and you won't be able to buy an off-the-shelf hard drive replacement for your Mac. Sneaky b@stards. Classic bait and switch technique.

Well thank goodness I'm not a teenager. But I can safely say that I haven't been tilting the darn thing while an audio plug was inserted. I only use the audio jack when I'm watching movies (connected to an external speaker) and the machine is laid out flat on a table.

So... it's supposed to be a portable gadget, but it's not designed to take on some usage strains from something that it would most likely experience in its lifetime. I would say that's odd. For a desktop machine I would accept that. But for a laptop? Hmmm.

Hmmmm.... my one year old macbook's internal speakers are conking out on me (or rather, it's the line-in socket that's acting up). In any case, the option to select the internal speakers as the output disappears.

I thought they made these things to last...

iPads are now available locally. (Screw you, grey market sellers!)

You can also order one online through http://store.apple.com/ph.

How many in North Korea knows that communism has been dead all these years except in their own country and Cuba? You can't keep something a secret in the world as we know it right now. But in another system, a meritocracy, where the learned men CONTROLS everything, what is broadcast by the government is what is true.

I disagree. As I said before, you CANNOT control everything. Unless you're God.

Secrets will come out even in those countries you speak of. Surely you've heard of people defecting from said communist countries because they know that they're more free there?

All right. Keep a thousand for research purposes. More than that is superfluous.

That's fine... in an ideal world. A world without chaos.

No. You either debunk my premise or create your own moral code (that is what this exercise is all about). According to my version of "meritocracy", what is good for humanity is what is true. If you are no longer contributing to what is good for humanity, and in fact, is now a THREAT to all of humanity, your existence is no longer required. And because you are a THREAT, your termination is in fact GOOD FOR HUMANITY.

If it's a visible threat, then there's no problem. Do we have ways to monitor ALL of the HIV infected people out there? That's the dilemma we're facing here. If you systematically k*ll them off, but fail to exterminate ALL of them (and believe me, there are much more HIV positive people out there than we know), you'll be left with infected people waging a silent war that could augment the rate of infection.

Statements 1 and 2 are so convenient because they beg the question. But for the sake of argument, what if the killing of people with HIV/AIDS could be kept secret and what if they really serve no useful purpose? My own moral code provides an answer for that. What answer does your moral code provide? That's what i'm interested in.

Your reasoning is irrational. You live in a world of impossibilities.

If you're an individual who can predict all of that with absolute certainty, wouldn't that make you God?

From your statement, it can be inferred that it would be ok to k*ll them if it could be kept secret.

 

Also, you would keep them alive as long as they have a utility to other people. So if it turned out there was none (i.e. turns out they have no value as research specimens), it would be ok to k*ll them.

 

You would not keep them alive because of the innate sacredness of their lives, to which i subscribe from the moral code proceeding from my belief in God.

I'm sorry, but you arrived at the wrong conclusion.

1) In the real world it can't be kept a secret. I think I made that clear.

2) Also in the real world, they'll always have a purpose as research subjects or whatever. That will never go away.

3) In a god-less moral code, it doesn't matter if the reason they're alive is because of the "sacredness" of the human life or not. As long as they're alive.

I don't think you can keep killing a few diseased individuals a secret... no matter how hard you try. They'll just wikileak it somehow. People belonging to a certain group have ways to know what is happening to each other.

If there's a reason to keep them alive, then it would be for research. Even if it's not to find a cure, then at least to gain understanding how to prevent similar future diseases from taking root. A frozen lab sample is good, but a live subject would offer better understanding how the disease mutates depending on the host.

It would be too expensive. HIV testing costs a lot, so you can't possibly test the whole population for HIV/AIDS.

Killing known infected people would just make other diseased individuals more difficult to find as they'll surely just entrench themselves even deeper. Even if a single individual escapes the culling, that would undermine the whole operation and survivors might just go crazy and/or desperate and infect the rest of the population (via tainted syringe or some other method) as a form of revenge.

It would be easier to just accept them into society and make them come out on their own so that the rest of the public would know who to avoid having coitus with. At the same time, we assure them of their safety to ensure that they are psychologically stable enough to be responsible for the sake of humanity.

Another good episode. Hay... it's too short lang.

Maybe it's the cost of hiring hundreds of extras and dressing them up as zombies that's limiting them from making it a whole 21 episode series...

You'll have no problems with the firmware with a new iPhone, since you'll most likely be getting an iPhone 4.

You may want to carefully wrap it in protective skins, though since both the front and the back of the phone is made of glass, which is prone to cracking (if it's wrapped with one of those transparent plastic covers, it may reduce the risk of that happening).

Or you may want to just want wait for iPhone 5, which is just 7 months or so away from launch, anyways...

Or just go to HK or Singapore to buy your iPad, since it's being sold there, officially. It's 3,888 Hong Kong dollars = 21,908.593 Philippine pesos and 728 Singapore dollars or 24,722.9996 Philippine pesos, respectively. Sure beats the 52K and a plane ticket to the US...

It's a nice series (though maybe gross at times).

Great. A reprieve from all those emo vampire shows!