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03-08-2011, 08:21 AM
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Workers of the world unite!
You have nothing to lose but your chains!!!
http://www.minyanville.com/articles/print.php?a=33198
If there's any truth to this, we're more like China than we care to admit.
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03-08-2011, 08:34 AM
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Really. They're paying the prisoners $0.23/hour for their labor while charging the government countless billions for the assembled missiles. Brilliant.
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03-08-2011, 12:39 PM
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Really. They're paying the prisoners $0.23/hour for their labor while charging the government countless billions for the assembled missiles. Brilliant.
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True unfettered capitalism at it's best.
Chas, I would think a former prison guard would know we've used prison labor for a long, long time. Nothing new there. However, I wasn't aware that it went so high tech.
Thanks for the article.
Dave
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03-08-2011, 12:41 PM
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True unfettered capitalism at it's best.
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They made a movie about stuff like this - Schindler's List.
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03-08-2011, 02:31 PM
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Well in WW II the prisoners in Nazi factories making 9mm amunition used to hold back about 3/4 of the powder from one cartridge and dump it into the next one along with its normal charge. The weak one would jam in the barrel and the next would blow apart the breech - in your face. Sure hope we don't need to use those missiles.
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03-08-2011, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
True unfettered capitalism at it's best.
Chas, I would think a former prison guard would know we've used prison labor for a long, long time. Nothing new there. However, I wasn't aware that it went so high tech.
Thanks for the article.
Dave
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They made items to be used in the other institutions, such as soap, license plates, and office furniture for the state. Anything which was in direct competition with private industry, or allowing private industry to use the con's as slave labor was prohibited.
But that was the state and 25 yrs ago. For all I know, they have them running a boiler room operation out of the joint now.
I understand the Dep't of Mental Health used the crazies for some kind of letter writing operation in which they were granted access to peoples addresses.
I think that got shut down pretty quick.
Chas
PS: For a time the state was selling mailing lists taken from public records, but I think that had the kibosh put on it as well.
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03-08-2011, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by merrylander
Well in WW II the prisoners in Nazi factories making 9mm amunition used to hold back about 3/4 of the powder from one cartridge and dump it into the next one along with its normal charge. The weak one would jam in the barrel and the next would blow apart the breech - in your face. Sure hope we don't need to use those missiles.
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Squib round, something to watch out for. Any time you have a round which doesn't sound right , or recoil right, you need to clear your weapon and examine the barrel for an obstruction. Most the the time they are a result of a casing which didn't receive a powder charge.
I think it was Remington who produced a bunch of cheap .22LR rounds in which half of them sounded like squibs, but weren't. Some of the people I used to shoot with complained about them.
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03-09-2011, 07:22 AM
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Squib round, something to watch out for. Any time you have a round which doesn't sound right , or recoil right, you need to clear your weapon and examine the barrel for an obstruction. Most the the time they are a result of a casing which didn't receive a powder charge.
I think it was Remington who produced a bunch of cheap .22LR rounds in which half of them sounded like squibs, but weren't. Some of the people I used to shoot with complained about them.
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Right, but in the heat of battle many a Luger was being rapidly fired and -BOOM.
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03-09-2011, 11:48 PM
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Right, but in the heat of battle many a Luger was being rapidly fired and -BOOM.
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Ha, ha! Serves the Nazi bastard right.
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03-12-2011, 01:09 AM
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Back to the OP.
I think you're right. Won't be long before the vast majority of us will be little more than peasants. Only our masters won't be of the communist variety. They'll wear an entirely different hat. But, we will be subjugated to their will none-the-less.
Dave
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