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Unintended consequences
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2023 2:24 pm
by philip964
https://reason.com/video/2023/11/10/gre ... standards/
Gun buyback in Oakland
Poppy crops in Afghanistan
CAFE standards and why everyone has a truck or SUV now.
Re: Unintended consequences
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2023 7:26 pm
by tomneal
Book by John Ross
Re: Unintended consequences
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2023 7:58 pm
by LDB415
tomneal wrote: ↑Sun Nov 12, 2023 7:26 pm
Book by John Ross
Excellent book. Would be good if it morphed from fiction to current events.
Re: Unintended consequences
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2023 4:20 pm
by Grayling813
LDB415 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 12, 2023 7:58 pm
tomneal wrote: ↑Sun Nov 12, 2023 7:26 pm
Book by John Ross
Excellent book.
I read it once per year. No longer in print, link to pdf below. Everyone should read it, at least once.
https://archive.org/download/unintended ... uences.pdf
Re: Unintended consequences
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2023 5:16 pm
by LDB415
I'd like to know who the cover model is. I'm lucky enough to have bought the book way back when. You can get them through bookfinder.com still, for a premium usually.
Re: Unintended consequences
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2023 7:15 pm
by Rafe
LDB415 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2023 5:16 pm
I'd like to know who the cover model is.
The guy in black with what looks like it might be an MP5 or a knockoff?
Oh. Not that guy...
The book is also floating around the web in an EPUB format for those, like me, who prefer to read on a Kindle or other eReader. Can't remember where I got my copy, but it's in my "digital library."
Re: Unintended consequences
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2023 7:57 pm
by surprise_i'm_armed
How about the unintended consequences of creating gun free zones, enabling bad guys to kill without opposition?
Or the feds shoving EV's down our throats and expecting an already strained electric generating system to keep up?
Note to the greens: electricity does not make electricity!
Or how about letting violent prisoners out of jail so they can continue to offend good people?
SIA
Re: Unintended consequences
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:02 am
by Excaliber
surprise_i'm_armed wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2023 7:57 pm
How about the unintended consequences of creating gun free zones, enabling bad guys to kill without opposition?
Or the feds shoving EV's down our throats and expecting an already strained electric generating system to keep up?
Note to the greens: electricity does not make electricity!
Or how about letting violent prisoners out of jail so they can continue to offend good people?
SIA
Those are all intended consequences cloaked in the guise of good intentions but with actual malevolence behind them.
Re: Unintended consequences
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2023 10:34 pm
by mrbc
Yea, I'll be reading this soon.
Re: Unintended consequences
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:04 am
by Rafe
Excaliber wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:02 am
surprise_i'm_armed wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2023 7:57 pm
How about the unintended consequences of creating gun free zones, enabling bad guys to kill without opposition?
Or the feds shoving EV's down our throats and expecting an already strained electric generating system to keep up?
Note to the greens: electricity does not make electricity!
Or how about letting violent prisoners out of jail so they can continue to offend good people?
SIA
Those are all intended consequences cloaked in the guise of good intentions but with actual malevolence behind them.
Like the fact that EVs require large batteries, batteries that have to be replaced after several years at a cost of $5,000 to $15,000, and...ta dah!...77% of all the world's batteries are made in China.
Re: Unintended consequences
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:00 pm
by Chemist45
Rafe wrote
Like the fact that EVs require large batteries, batteries that have to be replaced after several years at a cost of $5,000 to $15,000, and...ta dah!...77% of all the world's batteries are made in China.
That's not unintended that is fully intended.
Or, had you forgotten that Slow Joe's paymasters are in China?
Re: Unintended consequences
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2023 3:09 am
by Rafe
Chemist45 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:00 pm
Rafe wrote
Like the fact that EVs require large batteries, batteries that have to be replaced after several years at a cost of $5,000 to $15,000, and...ta dah!...77% of all the world's batteries are made in China.
That's not unintended that is fully intended.
Or, had you forgotten that Slow Joe's paymasters are in China?
Well, in Woodside, California, yesterday.
But I was replying to Excaliber's statement: "Those are all
intended consequences cloaked in the guise of good intentions but with actual malevolence behind them."