SHIT_TALKER

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Don't forget Eisenhower's original wording described it as the military-industrial-congressional complex. The KC-X would be flying if the original contract to EADS had not been scuttled by Congress:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC-X

Comment · 11 years ago

Small arms are used to gain large arms. That's how it always works.

Comment · 11 years ago

While perpetuating ignorant propaganda. No one speaking against it helps bullshit spread.

Comment · 11 years ago

Calling something or someone "disappointing" or "problematic" is how these people evade enumerating arguments while still attempting to establish themselves as intellectually superior to those they are criticizing. They assume to have the correct position and condescend to anyone who demurs.

Comment · 11 years ago

Don't worry - it isn't.

Comment · 11 years ago

Sounds like WordFence. Email notifications are configurable. Turning off most of them is advisable. I've had trouble with users with nominally static IP addresses changing with sufficient frequency to be too much of an annoyance to stay with IP whitelist. Limiting the failed login attempts and maxing out the lockout period cuts down on a lot of the bot activity.

Comment · 11 years ago

Doesn't that break admin-ajax.php access? It sits behind /wp-admin/. WordPress recommends allowing access when using IP whitelists.

Apache:

  # Allow access to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
  <Files admin-ajax.php>
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
      Satisfy any
  </Files>

Nginx:

  location /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php {
    allow all;
  }

Comment · 11 years ago

In case you aren't just playing along: He's making a joke about braces.

Comment · 11 years ago

ULA's reasoning was pretty straightforward. The main reason they dropped out of the competition is because the bidding was to be decided largely on price,

The reason they had to drop out is because they're a space launch company without any goddamned engines. The chatter about the bid process is just the typical jawing members of the defense cartel engage in when they deign to speak of competitors. Sometimes they're even successful in reopening the bid process. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC-X

Comment · 11 years ago

They work but there has to be a commitment to seeing things through no matter the extent of the ensuing carnage, something most western countries have lost their stomach for. See: Chechnya.

Comment · 11 years ago

The slave trade had stopped years ago, and the pirate activity, while not over, was way down.

Thanks to military defeats at the hands of Americans, English, and Dutch.

Comment · 11 years ago

One example of an extremely sucessful, multicultural society is Singapore.

So that's one. And one overseen and enforced by an autocrat.

Comment · 11 years ago

Context: It was French colonization that put an end to the predations of the Barbary pirates and the Arab slave trade.