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Fibre. It’s how we internet now.

lucky760 says...

Google Fiber is finally available in my neighborhood, but they require sending having someone in my house for the installation, so I have to postpone it until post-apocalypse.

AT&T fiber will do until then, but is $20 more per month.

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Guns with History

Asmo says...

America's problem is not guns, it's the awful social situation that rampant capitalism and consumerism has landed it in. Same as drugs aren't the reason why large communities of black people are stuck in the same cycle of drugs/gangs/violence/death. It's not because of the drugs, or the people themselves, it is because they are pretty much abandoned by society.

Guns are just a means to an end, and an easy one at that. They are an easy answer when you want to cause violence to someone else, or yourself.

The fact that so many people want to cause violence to others or themselves is what needs to be looked at.

I've visited many parts of the US and the people have generally struck me as friendly and polite to a fault. People will just strike up a conversation with you as if you were a long lost relative. I've had people sit with me on a public bus well past their stop just to make sure I got off at the right place. At it's heart, it's a great country. But the flip side is that currently, it's built on basic inequity and inequality. I was in LA when Katrina hit, and watching what happened was freaking unreal for me as a person who lives in an area prone to cyclones. When we get hit, the entire community bands together and takes care of each other. When New Orleans got hit, it was post apocalypse dog eat dog.

Getting rid of guns in the US won't stop inequality, it won't stop senseless accidents and it won't stop violence. The UK has had strict regulations on guns for years and *surprise* has a very high rate of knife crime. Australia introduced tough gun legislation after the massacre at Port Arthur massacre, but we didn't really have serious violence problems before that so while people claim that bans on semi-autos etc "worked", it's very hard to quantify going from "very little gun violence" to "very little gun violence" as much of a shift... It's a core difference in the social fabric of countries.

People who completely focus on banning the gun are neglecting to look at the bigger picture, and are often doing so deliberately because the bigger picture is far harder to solve. Same as the war on drugs. Regulate guns, sure, enforce safety and bring in high penalties for misuse or allowing your weapon to be misused. But banning them won't fix anything.

I don't really mind the video, thinking twice before owning a firearm is a good thing. But I think it misses the point.

NRA: The Untold Story of Gun Confiscation After Katrina

xxovercastxx says...

First, I agree that the NRA is totally nuts. Let's get that right out of the way.

During gun rights discussions on Videosift, I often hear "this isn't the wild west anymore", that gun ownership is no longer justified in modern society. Given that, when NO was reduced to something resembling a post-apocalypse movie, with burglars and looters a constant threat, and with authorities overwhelmed, isn't that exactly the time when people ought to have a way to protect themselves?

Confiscating guns at a time like this is no different than suspending habeas corpus for terror suspects or ignoring freedom of speech because people are critical of the government: that's what those rights are there for.

Fairbs said:

NRA people are so freaking nuts. New Orleans after the storm was a disaster zone not normal America. Was it wrong to take the guns? Perhaps, but after the storm passed and life started to get back to normal, did they continue to take your guns? Of course not.

38 End Of The World Movies Supercut

55. Delete Facebook

oOPonyOo says...

A common sense video that says that real life is better than online. Meh.

Check the link for the really silly stuff. The video on the link claims that the economy will collapse and the dollar will be worth nothing. Maybe so. The real value, then, will be the commodities of fuel, food, and precious metals (according to videos). Sounds like Glen Beck's push to buy gold for survivalist value.

I heard the the U of Texas recently bought a ton of gold to prepare for any financial collapse. This gold needs to be guarded, vaulted, transferred with special measures as it is heavy as hell. All that excess expense would offset any interest it may generate.

If it all goes post-apocalypse, what value would precious metals have? They have some unique physical properties that would give them manufacturing value, but with no factories, who would want to trade for them? Post-apocalypse value of gold and silver implies that factories would still be intact, but mining would not be.

I for one would think fuel and food would be infinitely more valuable than shiny metals.

DARPA's gigantic new quadruped "AlphaDog"

vaire2ube says...

this is necessary for Defense why ..... There is no reason for this weirdo pack dog to be developed by our military. Air and sea superiority, which we have, takes care of moving supplies. The reasons why we would need this machine are basically for post-apocalypse, so I'd like them to come out and say what is really on their minds here... this isnt for outer space its for this planet...



the darpa exo skeleton that is like the one in Alien, now that has uses for actual people, not targets in a war or scarce resources in toxic environments... or drone wars against "resistance fighters".

paranoid sundays!

Some Thoughts on the Ape Movie (Blog Entry by dag)

dystopianfuturetoday says...

I dug Rise of the Planet of the Apes too. Part of the reason Ceasar seemed so human was that Andy 'Gollum' Serkis did the motion capture.

I do love me some dystopian apocalyptic fiction, and had no problem cheering on the apes, but I certainly don't have a societal death wish. Quite the contrary. I think these films are more of a warning of what may happen if we don't get our collective shit together as a planet. I think these films are an exaggeration of the problems of the present - greed, selfishness, conformity, commercialization, corporatism, the devaluation of humanity, disconnectedness, environmental destruction, weapons of mass destruction, cosmetic surgery, prescription drugs, a return to base human violence, loveless sexuality, prejudice, etc. The post apocalypse is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

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Terminator Salvation Trailer

NetRunner says...

Christian Bale as John Connor will probably get me to go see this.

Terminator motorcycles and a Mecha-Godzillanator might make me regret it.

It all comes down to whether they find a way to make the post-apocalypse war against the machines interestingly fresh, or if they fall onto sci-fi cliches (we're gonna make a virus! or we've got to destroy the central brain/power generator).

Watcha Gonna Do With Yer Stinkin' Economic Stimulus ChecK?? (Election Talk Post)

bleedingsnowman says...

If spending this money is for the future of the country then I am using my check to gear myself for the post-apocalypse. Yes, nothing but collapsible shovels, bolt-action carbines, assless chaps, vitamins, karate and farming lessons for me.

Also this is a *quality post. Very fun.

Thundarr the Barbarian!!11one Intro (58s)

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