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Comment on International law should mandate much higher standards for military personnel by Mike Linksvayer

Mike Linksvayer — Thu, 24 May 2012 02:05:14 +0000

The first link says the U.S. Army now has too many bodies, but they are concerned about not having enough in the future. .5m is just active, uniformed employees of one branch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces give different numbers for reserves, but there’s about 1.5m active uniformed, 1.1-1.5m reserve, and 700k civilian employees. No idea how many people employed via contractors, but a large number. $550b budget.

Empire is expensive, very expensive. It only “pays” when highly extractive, and even then so much of the extraction is captured by private interests within the empire that extraction is no guarantee of holding off decline. Of course by historic standards, the US is a non-entity in terms of both extraction from outside and private capture within.

Comment on Imagine a one-year usufruct by Future of Intellectual Protectionism and not much Innovation Policy – Mike Linksvayer

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:55:29 +0000

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Comment on Open Source Semiconductor Core Licensing → GPL hardware? by Future of Intellectual Protectionism and not much Innovation Policy – Mike Linksvayer

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:55:13 +0000

[...] Of the dystopian stories, Solís is probably most dystopian, Eddie most humorous, and Betteridge overall best executed. Żyła needs a bit of development — the trend posited is incongruous and unexplained — but maybe due to an unknown factor to be suggested by fictional future freakonomics, or perhaps I just missed it. Melin ends with some hope, but annoys me for contemporary reasons — why would the recipient of a body part artificially grown with “open” methods be constrained in the disposition of that part by a “Creative Commons license” on those methods? Another reason to discourage use of CC licenses for hardware design. [...]

Comment on Future of Copyright by Future of Intellectual Protectionism and not much Innovation Policy – Mike Linksvayer

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:54:48 +0000

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Comment on International law should mandate much higher standards for military personnel by Lucas Gonze

Lucas Gonze — Wed, 23 May 2012 23:46:06 +0000

Raising standards is a tall order. The military has a tough time recruiting enough bodies. Those employment numbers are pretty jaw dropping. ~500k staff? Seriously?

How come you’re thinking maintaining the empire is causing long term decline instead of staving it off? That’s a interesting topic.

Comment on Invasion ethics by International law should mandate much higher standards for military personnel – Mike Linksvayer

Wed, 23 May 2012 21:43:05 +0000

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Comment on No more child veterans by International law should mandate much higher standards for military personnel – Mike Linksvayer

Wed, 23 May 2012 21:42:48 +0000

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Comment on Things that bring all the classes and cultures in a community together by Go! Oakland Warriors! – Mike Linksvayer

Go! Oakland Warriors! – Mike Linksvayer — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:23:34 +0000

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Comment on Future of Copyright by Works for „Future of Copyright” e-book selected « Fundacja Nowoczesna Polska

Thu, 17 May 2012 23:17:10 +0000

Comment on SXSW: Why XSLT is Hello World by technicaldebt.xsl – Mike Linksvayer

technicaldebt.xsl – Mike Linksvayer — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:03:00 +0000

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