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America's Army 2.0 Available for Linux and OS X
Time Doctor writes "Linux and Mac gamers will be happy to hear that America's Army 2.0 is out of private beta, and available via mirrors at 3DGamers and HappyPuppy, among others. See this news post on the AA site for the gameplay changes." We covered the release of the Windows version of AA 2.0 a couple of weeks back, as this free FPS recruiting tool continues toward its goal of "providing civilians with an inside perspective and a virtual role in today's premiere land force, the U.S. Army."
If you think our freedom is something that was just given to us, then you are both naive and ungrateful.
Have a chat with your grandfather about how much freedom costs; I'd be willing to bet he is very well aware of the price our soldiers pay to keep people like you safe and stupid..
Will the source be released? If so, this could be fun to play with to create great games for Linux. Games like Postal 3 (for linux!), Grand Theft Auto 4 (for linux!), you know those great anti-establishment games that we all love to play. :-)
~ kjrose
I suspect any mods that disparage the image of the U.S. military would be frowned upon. And since most modders would object to going through an official approval process for their creative works, I'm not surprised if mod options don't get very far.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
FYI, you stupid shit, the US hasn't fought a defensive war -- a war to defend our freedom -- since the Revolutionary War. Every other war we have either initiated or joined in in a hostile basis. All of those soldiers fought and died for the alterior motives of various Presidents, politicians, and special interest groups -- not to preserve our freedom, despite what you may have been brainwashed into thinking.
Of course Freedom isn't free. Ideally, in an anarcho-capitalistic world, it takes money to pay law-enforcement agencies to protect us from random criminal acts. However, you cannot preserve Freedom or increase Freedom by murdering thousands of individuals (which is all that war is).
social sciences can never use experience to verify their statemen
The actions of the military consist of the murder of men, women, and children. You can say it was "collateral damage" or "during war", but that doesn't change the fact that murder is murder.
Hitler, WWII: Caused by the short-sighted and ignorant actions of the victors of WWI. WWII was made inevitable by the politicians who set up the treaty after WWI.
WWI: WWI would have been forced to resolve peacefully, as it was at a standstill, had not the US intervened. Btw, the British weren't "good guys". They formed an illegal blockade around Germany, and were starving millions of civilians. Meanwhile, the US was sending weapons to them on the Lucitania, the sinking of which (for that reason) we later used to justify our entry into the war.
Somalians starving: I don't see how the plight of starving people can be solved by murder. In fact, pretty much all starvation and other miseries of the world are caused by The State.
Taliban, Afghanistan, WTC, and terrorists: The US is only a target of terrorism because of our imperialistic invasion in everyone else' business. Fanatical religious nutcases wouldn't give a shit about the US if we weren't interfering in everyone else's business.
In short: All of the problems that The State claims we need military force for were in fact caused by The State, or the combined effect of several States (which are nothing more than geographical blocks of centralized power). The solution is not for these various power-blocks to demolish eachother and murder the opposing State's citizens, but to eliminate The State.
social sciences can never use experience to verify their statemen
Benevolent oligarchy?
Just a guess.
While I also feel that the author is just being flippant and "rebellious", I have to say that just because something is the best, doesn't mean that it's "beautiful". Solid poo is better than squishy poo or watery poo. That doesn't make my poop beautiful.
Ok, I guess now I'm being flippant ^_^
defensive. Retaliation is also justified, but only against they who initiated the aggression. "Japan" did not bomb Pearl Harbor. Specific air-force officers of Japan, under the orders of the leaders of Japan, bombed Pearl Harbor. Retaliation against those specific individuals -- and only those specific individuals -- would have been justified. Murdering those not involved -- as we did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and any other initiation of violence -- was not justified.
social sciences can never use experience to verify their statemen
Read it...and it says pretty much what I'd understood the libertarian platform to be. It's a scenario I would give anything to avoid. Right now the police at least have to give lip-service to treating everyone equally. If privatized to the degree it discusses in the link, the poor would have no protection at all. No thanks, I prefer civilization.