Seattle’s tax dollars at work. No doubt plenty of state and federal money, too. How many centuries are people going to go on trusting government when cr*p like this is a regular way of doing business? (H/T MJ)
Why religious people should consider Sam Harris a worthy opponent — and even in some ways an ally.
Home Sweet Homer, the strange saga of a real-life Simpsons house.
Clearly another lone nut with an arsenal, a threat to All the Chilllllldren!
Noah BodyJuly 27, 2018 1:10 pm
On core motivators for human behavior: I have seen the acronym MICE to explain how to get people to do things or understand what makes them tick. M=Money, I=Ideology, C=compromise/coercion, E=Ego.
I have read that the Russians substituted an S for the C; S=sex. Which is often a subset of the C-factor.
davidJuly 27, 2018 1:16 pm
Shooting spit-balls around corners with scary accuracy! ha!
Comrade XJuly 27, 2018 1:39 pm
Methinks we are finally approaching the last straw for our republic!
davidJuly 27, 2018 2:29 pm
“Instead, we should create new mechanisms for championing our liberties. Since they’re apparently done with it, maybe the American Civil Liberties Union leadership would even surrender the group’s name for the cause.”
WE don’t need no stinkin ‘new mechanisms’. WE have guns, and mine stay loaded. My liberties will only go away when I’m dead and don’t need them any longer.
davidJuly 27, 2018 2:46 pm
Seattle’s problems were all forseeable, because they obviously ignored engineering considerations in order to buy something big and shiny. It’s FUBAR. SNAFU. And reminds me of the Boston Big Dig, of Detroit revitalization, of Congress. Is there anything a liberal government can’t screw up quickly? Seattle – Detroit is your future if you don’t change your ways.
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anonymousJuly 28, 2018 7:00 am
“Liberty makes us less free, sez the all-new ACLU.”
America needs a civil liberties union. It’s too bad we don’t have one.
– paraphrasing something I heard about 20 or so years ago. I think it was attributed to Alan Dershowitz, but it’s been so long I don’t remember.
anonymousJuly 28, 2018 7:06 am
“I have seen the acronym MICE to explain how to get people to do things or understand what makes them tick. M=Money, I=Ideology, C=compromise/coercion, E=Ego.”
I learned it as E = Excitement, an appeal to one’s sense of adventure. But ego and excitement aren’t exclusive (and can often go hand-in-hand), so they both work.
I can’t see the Russians leaving “C” out. Coercion is the “or we’ll send you to Siberia or just shoot you” part. They used it a lot.
anonymousJuly 28, 2018 12:18 pm
Noah:“I have read that the Russians substituted an S for the C; S=sex. Which is often a subset of the C-factor.”
Larry:“I can’t see the Russians leaving ‘C’ out. Coercion is the ‘or we’ll send you to Siberia or just shoot you’ part. They used it a lot.”
I think Noah was referring to using honeypots/sparrows/swallows to blackmail (a subset of coercion); i.e., get us the secret rocket formula, or we’ll release these photos of you in a compromising position with our honeypot agent to your wife and/or the media”.
Threatening to send an American politician or defense contractor employee to Siberia isn’t an effective threat.
Threatening to send an American politician or defense contractor employee to Siberia isn’t an effective threat.
Well, there’s always North Dakota. 😉
I was thinking more about what the USSR did to its own people, when they weren’t just starving them to death. I took a cultural exchange trip behind the Iron Curtain once. Soul-killing. Once was enough.
OMG, I have a whole unopened box of bendy-straws in the pantry. Talk about WHITE PRIVILEGE!
“whole unopened box of bendy-straws”
Clearly another lone nut with an arsenal, a threat to All the Chilllllldren!
On core motivators for human behavior: I have seen the acronym MICE to explain how to get people to do things or understand what makes them tick. M=Money, I=Ideology, C=compromise/coercion, E=Ego.
I have read that the Russians substituted an S for the C; S=sex. Which is often a subset of the C-factor.
Shooting spit-balls around corners with scary accuracy! ha!
Methinks we are finally approaching the last straw for our republic!
“Instead, we should create new mechanisms for championing our liberties. Since they’re apparently done with it, maybe the American Civil Liberties Union leadership would even surrender the group’s name for the cause.”
WE don’t need no stinkin ‘new mechanisms’. WE have guns, and mine stay loaded. My liberties will only go away when I’m dead and don’t need them any longer.
Seattle’s problems were all forseeable, because they obviously ignored engineering considerations in order to buy something big and shiny. It’s FUBAR. SNAFU. And reminds me of the Boston Big Dig, of Detroit revitalization, of Congress. Is there anything a liberal government can’t screw up quickly? Seattle – Detroit is your future if you don’t change your ways.
Criminologists, certain types of intelligence analysts, and forensic psychologists have been doing profiling for quite a while.
And salespeople, preachers, and bureaucrats have been doing it since forever. See: Simpsons House.
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“Liberty makes us less free, sez the all-new ACLU.”
America needs a civil liberties union. It’s too bad we don’t have one.
– paraphrasing something I heard about 20 or so years ago. I think it was attributed to Alan Dershowitz, but it’s been so long I don’t remember.
“I have seen the acronym MICE to explain how to get people to do things or understand what makes them tick. M=Money, I=Ideology, C=compromise/coercion, E=Ego.”
I learned it as E = Excitement, an appeal to one’s sense of adventure. But ego and excitement aren’t exclusive (and can often go hand-in-hand), so they both work.
I can’t see the Russians leaving “C” out. Coercion is the “or we’ll send you to Siberia or just shoot you” part. They used it a lot.
Noah: “I have read that the Russians substituted an S for the C; S=sex. Which is often a subset of the C-factor.”
Larry: “I can’t see the Russians leaving ‘C’ out. Coercion is the ‘or we’ll send you to Siberia or just shoot you’ part. They used it a lot.”
I think Noah was referring to using honeypots/sparrows/swallows to blackmail (a subset of coercion); i.e., get us the secret rocket formula, or we’ll release these photos of you in a compromising position with our honeypot agent to your wife and/or the media”.
Threatening to send an American politician or defense contractor employee to Siberia isn’t an effective threat.
Threatening to send an American politician or defense contractor employee to Siberia isn’t an effective threat.
Well, there’s always North Dakota. 😉
I was thinking more about what the USSR did to its own people, when they weren’t just starving them to death. I took a cultural exchange trip behind the Iron Curtain once. Soul-killing. Once was enough.
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