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The Wobbly Orange wrote: | Funnily enough the only time [nukes] have been used is when only one country had them. This is proof in practice of a deterrent. |
Use of nuclear weapons by a nuclear armed state against a non-nuclear armed state: 1 (ish)
Use of nuclear weapons by a nuclear armed state against a nuclear armed state: 0
It's thin gruel on which to nurture the mythology that nukes make you safe from nukes.
The determinant seems me to be the willingness to use them.
I really do wonder what Sharia has written in those letters of last resort, because that's what actually matters.
Do you believe that she wrote "My legacy will be to order you to exterminate as many wogs as possible in bloody vengeance." ?
I rather suspect not. It's not her style, it wasn't Camœron's style, nor Bliars (he's more the Full Apocalypse messiah), and it's certainly not Comrade Corbyns.
Our deterrent is only as strong as our serving Prime Minister, and we've brewing weak tea in that urn. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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You forgot the third option.
Use of nuclear weapons by a nuclear armed state against a non nuclear armed state when there were no other nuclear armed states.
The Soviets were preparing to move against Japan, I think the nuclear attack was to speed capitulation so the US could get all of that piece of the pie. ____________________ People tell me I am lovely. How wrong they are! |
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Are they coming back for a second try?
I ask because I'm wondering what the relevance is to $(CURRENT_YEAR). ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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For a while at least they had a 100 year old working there.
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I'm being selfish.
I don't have kids and don't see why I should pay for other peoples kids to be looked after while they go to work. Kids are a lifestyle choice. I chose motorcycles, nobody buys me a motorbike.
I don't use the fucking trains either. They are too expensive and too crap and they are better now than when they were nationalised.
I could go on and pick every one of the things Labour wants to do.
In essence, absolutely nothing Corbyn wants to bankrupt the country for decades into the future to pay for will be of any benefit to me whatsoever. It's like being back in the 70's but without the casual racism. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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Are you planning to euthanise yourself when you're past working age, or will you be expecting my children to take care of you? ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Rogerborg wrote: | Are you planning to euthanise yourself when you're past working age, or will you be expecting my children to take care of you? |
They'll be too busy looking at their wrist-phones.
I expect by the time I'm past working age, I'll have to make my own arrangements anyway because the state certainly wont be contributing. As such, I'm trying to keep hold of as much as I can now. Maybe we'll finally get robots who at least wont get fed up with my whinging?
The welfare state long ago stopped being a case of the current workers paying forwards for the care of the previous generation. It's become borrowing backwards onto the next generation.
If we vote for socialists, they'll just accelerate that process.
If it's genuinely a numbers thing, I can't see how come there is a shortage of housing? I really don't believe it.
In any case, there are far too many fucking people on this island as it is. Just visit anywhere south of Preston.
Also state jobs aren't real jobs, they don't generate growth or create anything, they just use up tax money in an ever decreasing spiral. That goes for the "jobs" supposedly generated by the nuclear weapons too. 100% of that money is coming from tax and you get nothing useful back to show for it. Certainly nothing worth more than you put in which is how jobs in the private sector work. It would be more effective if you just handed out the money spent on trident to people to sit doing nothing, it would put more of it back into the economy.
Actually, I'm really interested in how some of these garaunteed minimum income experiments turn out. We could cut out swathes of quangos and civil servants in one fell swoop. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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'Kin 'ell. I thought we'd been here in threads passim.
There (were) are 25 million or so 'baby boomers', all due to shuffle within the next ten-fifteen years. The way social care is heading its almost like a mass cull. 'Oh, but you are all living longer!' comes the screetch. Maybe, but the few extra years that the ordinary Joe gets, (as opposed to those rich enough to afford harvested organs) are hardly going to alter the numbers.
Where, just the hell, WHERE are these projected population growths heading anywhere up to 80 million coming from? Even the prodigiously producing Asians can't bang out that many little Jihadists.
I estimate that by 2025 /2030 our population will actually have dropped to below 60 mill, but, it will be of a mainly younger age, without the lead weight of the aged to support. Even with a robotically mechanised workforce, there will still be a need for the engineers to maintain and install, program and actually develop the artifacts they are making.
Its a different future, for sure, but not necessarily apocalyptic. ____________________ The CBR900RR has been sold. Aprilia Falco worms its way into my heart.
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Here's a very good reason why people vote Tory. Illness my arse!! If she hasn't been gagged then I'm a monkeys uncle.
Diane Abacus only has to speak on any subject (while rolling her big googly eyes to give the illusion of conscious thought)
to start costing labour votes. She's done more for the Conservatives than May has. Polarbear wil be laughing his arse off. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Oneear wrote: | Anyway, slightly off topic. Carry on. |
Interesting, but I think it is OT since all the major parties (possibly absent UKIP) have much the same mass immigration solution to that top heavy population "pyramid", based on the perverse notion that people are fungible.
Huh, I've just noticed that Borglets #1 and #2 are both in that narrow 10-14 bracket near the bottom. You're welcome. What were the rest of you doing for your country around 2002? ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 323 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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