Whoodathunkit

Aussies are some real mental titans and they are still working on this brainteaser.

They think the problem is insufficient "ammo control."

Yeah. That's it. These guys are true rocket scientists.

During Prohibition they deliberately poisoned grain alcohol with contaminants and killed/maimed/blinded permanently thousands of otherwise law-abiding people who were trying to brew a simple drink in their bathtubs. If you did it, that would be murder.

The reason I loved the series BOARDWALK EMPIRE is that it was incredibly honest in showing just what a bunch of bullsh*t the whole idea of Prohibition was. It was brilliant opportunists making use of braindead do-gooder morons to make themselves fabulously wealthy and paid for the construction of the largest criminal syndicates in world history. Gun prohibition is a billion times dumber than Prohibition and there are one million reasons it will all end in tears.

Australians are not learning animals. They just keep trying the same approach and expecting different results. I've been watching them for 25 years and I can count on one hand the people I have seen here who respond to feedback from the real world. The rest just ignore it like genetic automatons or biological windup toys ... shambling towards failure, death, destruction and dissolution.

In other news, the criminals here are doing fantastic. They are armed to the teeth with the very best weapons in the world and have no reason to fear anything, much less the law.

These idiots have not seen anything yet. This crystal meth epidemic is just getting started. I know the Australian character and if there was a match made in heaven it is meth and the most narcissistic males in the world. The narcissist always wants a shortcut to feeling like the greatest guy in the world and crystal meth is the express train for that sort of personality. If you asked the narcissistic personality how he would feel about just settling down into a nice gentle self-loathing and general disdain for himself (like my character) and he's going to find it unbearable. Crystal meth is his ticket out. I predict that crap is going to tear this nation apart and leave it a blasted wasteland judging by what Hillbilly heroin has done in the States. They'll see. When they finally figure it out it will be too late to recover what they have lost. The criminals will run the country and all others will have a 5 pm curfew wherever they live.

Kwanstainia Used To Dominate the World In Stealth Technology

Not any more. Past glories do not apply forty years later.

Can be make or break in a nuclear conflict. If you can't detect a first strike until you have been struck you may not be striking back at all. The retaliatory striking capacity can be lost if their strike upstrokes your own strike before you've struck. Again, Civil Defense can be the deciding factor every single time in a nuclear war. If you have no pawn pieces left it doesn't matter if you still have your King or Queen remaining on the board.

The craziest notion of them all is imagining World War III continuing to be waged by automatics even with the majority of the citizens dead. That's the worst nightmare of them all.

Mankind better hurry if they want to fight their final war before the planet finishes them all off.

The only thing that makes sense in a world like this is a vault.

Serious Vault-Co Shelter

This is what I am talking about. I am never going back to one of these tin cans I built in the past. My next shelter is going to be a subterranean spacious garden of eden. Buying the infrastructure components soon. Guarantee you that Vault-OS is going to be stabler, cheaper and more likely to run for a century with secondhand equipment than the expensive computer systems you see in the above article. Who is going to fix those things when they break or go down? You'd also need a complete IT department down there just to keep the lights on.

I am lucky to live in Melbourne now because the locals are well versed in all aspects of this sort of construction and have it down to a science.

UPDATE : Terrific article describing the scientific reality of post-nuclear survival as depicted in Fallout 4.

Nothing to worry about, just U.S. government secretly firing nuclear ballistic missiles over inhabited metropolitan areas in clear violation of Posse Comitatus. The future is so bright I gotta wear shades.

P.S. At my day job the full end-to-end architecture of Vault-OS was fielded today to great acclaim. I am doing parallel work at home to match the advances I have gotten at work. This is a secure, distributed system monitoring high-end industrial equipment with web browser display using mailslots. We have already handled a variety of complex data from assorted devices and it is running like a charm including the mechanisms for real-time update. You'd be amazed at the village idiot simplicity of it all. I was consulting with a company last week about their existing PLC system and we were like aliens coming from different planets discussing adaptability. Their system had already cost almost a hundred grand in licensing fees just to get it to version one for a single protocol. For example, they explained when they wanted to support BACNet for their client they had to invest another hundred thousand dollars. I told them I had written a daemon for BACNet in a single day and was using it around-the-clock testing at home with no headaches. While they were explaining how hard all this stuff was to me, I ran the demo on my laptop for them with a BACNet device over RS-485. They were in the middle of telling me these things were "never that simple." They are - if you think about them the right way.

When A True Genius Appears In Your Midst, All Fools Are Allied Against Him

You could take ten thousand of these scienmagists and grind them up in a blender and they would not be worth Linus Pauling's fingernail. They are nothing but chattering monkeys in comparison.

At the rate they are going, we should have some substantial medical progress in ten thousand years. Keep it up, fellows. Here is another fifty trillion dollars for research, can't wait to see what you "discover" next.

Linus Pauling's contemporaries hurled every ugly slur they could muster when he was alive, ridiculed his Vitamin C research and got even nastier once he was dead. Like with Dr. Atkins, they all claimed that because he died, this proved his ideas were wrong. What made these people think they were qualified for a career in science I can't possibly imagine.

Bill Nye The Charlatan Guy

Pretend smart person Bill Nye dodges the tough questions because he is running game for a political ideology, not science.

The globowarmthinkers are getting really desperate and expressing the sort of sentiments about people who disagree once only heard from the Grand Inquisition. Any who defy them are labeled toxic, diseased, evil and they assure us all such people should be silenced for the common good.

Mt. Saint Helens Is A Supervolcano!!

Second magma chamber discovered that dwarfs the much smaller one above it.

Counting the one in Yellowstone you now have two reasons that North America may have been vacant at intervals throughout the past hundreds of thousands of years. There appear to have been successive waves of immigration to North America over the last hundred thousand millennia with each reigning group suddenly vanishing to prepare for the next wave of new arrivals. Was each established population first blasted out to leave the continent empty and attractive to exploration?

Don't Drink The Water In The Western World

Remember when they used to say this to you when you traveled to third world countries?

They give any idiot access to add whatever they want to these water supplies nowadays. It is a chemical soup of experimental compounds never approved by any legislator in most cases. They decide let's try it and see what happens. This is your kids and your health they are talking about.

In the old days it was always supervillains who wanted to poison the water supply but were always foiled by the hero at the last moment. Nowadays the supervillains realised that all they ever needed to do was to run for office and they could kill, cripple or zombify anybody they wanted to with the full protection of the law.

Chocolate Flavoured Koch Brothers Animatronic Puppet Self Destructs

Carson got caught in some absolute whoppers in his autobiography.

Saying you were considering applying to West Point is one thing. Saying you were offered a full scholarship and commission at West Point but turned it down is world class lunatic scam artist chicanery. Such a man could never be considered trustworthy enough to be President.

Nazis Were Like The Vienna Boys Choir In Snappy Dress Compared To Kwanstainian Death Cult

War crimes to rival those of Nuremberg - and most at Nuremberg were fabricated accounts acquired by torture.

This sounded like Dresden all over again when I was reading it. They were strafing those who tried to flee the hospital. Glad that Kurt Vonnegut did not live to see this nightmare.