Enthusiasts don't make good team members.
They're actually really disruptive in a classical "monolithic deliverable" development ecosystem where you have a lead architect and a swarm of implementers.
Simply put, they think too much. They're good at agile, great at microservices, but a nuisance otherwise.
There is effort and respect for classical technique...
But I also can see why he was flunked twice on the entrance exam. If it had been done alla prima he'd be the best alla prima painter who ever lived, but it wasn't so he doesn't have that excuse.
I believe conscription could still be successfully enacted in Europe.
But in the United States... no. There's no apatite for it on either the right OR the left base. The leftists will hate it for all the reasons they hated it during Vietnam, and the right will hate it because they don't believe in the cause its for.
Dostoyevsky pointed out that it's not the severity of punishment that deters so much as the certainty of it.
The Terran Federation's system it does its best to leave no doubt in the immediate, certain consequences of transgression. An important step in that is that there must be no appeals, and no untimely delays between arrest and trial, nor conviction and punishment. The delay must be brief to maintain the public awareness of the causal link between the crime and the result of the crime.
I have little doubt that the Terran Federation would run a higher false conviction rate than America does. I also have little doubt that in absolute numbers, they would have way less crime in general.
a Red Sox fan going on a Yankees forum just to pester everyone
Not a fair comparison.
When your payroll is bigger than the combined payrolls of the bottom four teams in the league, you are the definition of a mary sue and have no right to complain about anyone giving you shit.
There are major settlements in Ohio and Iowa. Generally the further west you get the more accepting individual communities become of technology. In Iowa, they'll own tractors, they might use gas for heating and cooking, and if non-amish mennonites offer a community van service, they'll use it.
Yes. Also phones.
In a few places where amish homes are bunched together the county has put up phones on poles that can just dial 911 in the hope that the amish will use them.
I recall maybe a decade ago a utility was trying to trench a fiber optic line along a road and every amish house they went past they had issues. The amish don't take kindly to concepts like utility easements along right of ways.
It is dumb to dictate that you cannot care about results without running for office yourself.
I disagree. Either something is worth committing your existence to or it is not. This is why Quakers generally don't vote, and those that do inevitably become leading party activists if not candidates.
You've definitely made anger about the state of things a central part of your self identity but you've taken no action to apply your agency to that anger.
Then why aren't you running?
I give you shit OTP because there's a massive disconnect between your words and your actions. You say you really, really give a fuck but you're actions say you don't. If I was as passionate as you are about fixing the things you're angry about, one of two things would be true:
Either, A, I'd be holding office, or B, I'd be dead and there'd be a bloody trail behind me.
I judge your words and actions against my own standards and come to the conclusion that you're just angry and all talk.
I'm pretty sure no jewish people were involved in the creation of La Blue Girl.