E-Bombs: Technology Update

vaderhelmet writes "'In these media-fueled times, when war is a television spectacle and wiping out large numbers of civilians is generally frowned upon, the perfect weapon would literally stop an enemy in his tracks, yet harm neither hide nor hair. Such a weapon might shut down telecommunications networks, disrupt power supplies, and fry an adversary's countless computers and electronic gadgets, yet still leave buildings, bridges, and highways intact. It would strike with precision, in an instant, and leave behind no trace of where it came from.' (Story from IEEE Spectrum Online)"

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Re:what if your enemy doesn't use technology?

[JPelorat]

That's not an 'idea', that's a homicidal asshole.

And since you freaks scream "1984!!! BIG BROTHER!!!" every time the government scratches its ass, much less when they actually do anything, you're right, we're not going to have the capability to stop one single person in an undisclosed location from doing something that requires no overt or hostile action aside from the explosion itself.

You people don't even know what you want. First you scream freedom, then you scream security. Can't have both at top capacity. At a certain point they become mutually exclusive.

Use your head.

[El Camino SS]

And since you freaks scream "1984!!! BIG BROTHER!!!" every time the government scratches its ass, much less when they actually do anything, you're right, we're not going to have the capability to stop one single person in an undisclosed location from doing something that requires no overt or hostile action aside from the explosion itself.

You people don't even know what you want. First you scream freedom, then you scream security. Can't have both at top capacity. At a certain point they become mutually exclusive.


Well, considering that this country was founded on fighting a control freak like King George who restricted and taxed the freedoms of its people, and that WWI, WWII, and Korea were about freaks that restricted freedoms, then I would suggest you look back at a FARKING HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE about why you feel so inclined to give away your freedoms for a little security AT ALL UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

There is strong historical evidence to prove that dictators and kings cause wars. There is also even stronger historical evidence to prove that innocent boys get drafted into wars to die on both sides for some reason that is more about a dictator's greed and schlong size than his merits as a leader. The equation goes a little like this: Weirdo gets in power. Weirdo takes all the power. Weirdo takes your son and decides to put a rifle in his hand. Son dies. Weirdo gets to leave country and sit on beach in some other weirdo's country for rest of life. Son never comes back from dead.

Lose your freedoms? Then you should have "property of" stamped on your forehead. Your goverment and leaders eventuality is to ship you off. This CONCLUSION is as inevitable as the fucking sun coming up tomorrow. It is backed up in historical fact for generations. You will have someone you know get killed for mom and apple pie for NO APPARENT REASON if you let these people take all of your freedoms away. You will be sitting in the back of a cargo truck in a military base thinking to yourself, "hell, I don't even know where this place is on a map. What the hell are we doing here?"

But no, you morons, you "I would die to protect my country" morons don't realize that there is no purpose in dying for your country. You trade in your life, YOUR ONLY LIFE, for a pre-emptive war against some unreasonable twits, and our unreasonable twit leaders think its great. Do American servicemen get oil money for this? HELL NO! They get a second class trip home in a box with a extra medal and a plot at a national cemetary. I guarantee that the Bush and Cheney family is going to make a handsome living out of all of this. Really, they should go to federal prison for duping the American people and lying in a manner that caused Americans to die.

Saddam is not Hitler. Saddam is not even Kim Il Jong. This is a personal war. Our boys are caught in the middle of it, along with Iraqis and the racist a-holes that are attacking it.

It's a flag, people. Fabric and ideas. Just jumping up and saying "freedom!" doesn't excuse the deaths of others on either side. That is the same crap that got the Romans to truncate the skulls of countless other people, for what? A lifestyle? This king and country crap is as old as dirt. It has been around for generations.

Doing what you're told doesn't make you free. Giving up your rights for security is not an acceptable answer. It is only a matter of time before anything that can be abused, will. Need the proof of that? Go to a public toilet. Give the car keys of your brand new sports car to your teenage child. People have been like this for millenia. All of that rhetoric, all of that "he died for freedom" crap. EXPLAIN TO ME IN TINY DETAIL HOW GETTING SHOT IN BAGHDAD, OR SOMALIA, OR AFGHANISTAN, OR WHEREVER IS DEFENDING FREEDOM. This is a time where we send men off to die for a cause our leaders KNEW WAS BOGUS, AND IMPLIED THE BOGUS FACTS TO PLY THEIR CONSTITUENTS, and then restrict