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Satellite Imagery

The NYT has a piece on the history and future of satellite imagery. Short but interesting.

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  1. WHAT IS IT WITH THESE PEOPLE?!?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    (I'm bhtooefr, I just don't want to take a karma hit)

    Michael, to be exact. He posted an Xbox mod article that said basically the same thing. OK, so out of all of the most recent six articles (also all of his), only two were short like this, but still...

  2. Re:END US SUPPORT OF ISRAEL NOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Israel is only western-and-rich because the US is burning your tax dollars to pay for their mahoosive army and keeping their piss-poor economy afloat, their defense budget way outstrips the most facist of dictatorships. If you fucking Yanks had kept your fucking nose out of it they would have been invaded and nicely annhilated and none of the problems today would ever have happened.

  3. Re:Military Might by Original+AIDS+Monkey · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    dear fecal troll matter,

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  4. Re:Military Might by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    That's what happens when you send draftees in to do a soldier's job. The U.S. military stopped using conscription after Vietnam, due to the fact that units composed of these soldiers repeatedly failed in their missions. In addition, their poor discipline resulted in occasional atrocities. European militaries still persist with this outdated tradition for some strange reason.

    Of course, if the conscript troops had spotted any submarines, the Swedish would have probably just blamed America. They had a long tradition of turning a blind eye to systematic Soviet provocations and instead blaming NATO forces...for example the famous Whiskey on the Rocks incident.

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  5. Re:WMD by localghost · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I agree completely. The war just ended recently, and we haven't exactly been able to search while the whole place was a war zone. Once things settle down, we'll be able to do a thorough search, and I assure you that they will find WMDs. Saddam's spent a decade unsupervised, and very pissed at a number of countries, expecially America and Israel. I find it very difficult to believe that he hasn't been spending any time and money on creating weapons. Not to mention, the government would not want to release it right away. First they would conduct a thorough investigation to make sure that what they found really was WMDs, that they were commissioned by Saddam, and that they posed a threat to us or our allies. Furthermore -- OH MY GOD, THEY FOUND WEAPONS! HA, EAT SHIT, LIBERALS!

    Damnit, it was just fertilizer.

  6. Does anyone actually take the times seriously by McAddress · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    After last week, does anyone take the NYT seriously anymore. Sure, today its sattelite images, tommorow they'll try to convince us that the patriot act is a bad thing, and then they'll try to tell us that we kind of failed in Afganistan..

    damn, hold on a second ......

    1. Re:Does anyone actually take the times seriously by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      The Times spends more time kissing Nigger ass than a 2 dollar crack ho.

  7. Re:Google Partner Link by evilviper · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    My thanks to the man who is too lazy to type "o" twice in a row...

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  8. Re:Military Might by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Why would the U.S. and Russia fight

    You'll have to forgive me, I get confused by all those tiny European countries whose security has been guaranteed by the U.S. Isn't Finland the European country that freely allied itself with Nazi Germany? Or maybe they're the ones who surrendered after a few weeks' resistance...maybe that was Belgium or Denmark or France or the Netherlands or Greece. I'm sorry, I received an American public school education, please excuse me if I learned my facts wrong.

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