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Networked Landmines Work Together
crazedpilot writes "New landmines will soon communicate via a radio network, and move from place to place in order to be most effective." Termed the "self-healing minefield", the individual mines are capable of detecting an enemy breach and then moving to seal the gap.
Why the fsck would you not use a Metal Storm Area Denial pod instead? The only reason to use landmines is that you want to maim children 75 years from now.
-- "Have you ever seen your own brain?"
Weapons are weapons. Once you decide that you're going to create a device to kill a man, then the morality of HOW you do it is very negligible. A land mine is just as moral as a laser guided bomb, or a 50 cal sniper rifle.
The morality of a weapon is not the weapon itself but whether the users are morally right in using them. For instance, I would completely advocate a minefield on the Israeli-Gaza border, because the fence to keep out suicide bombers and gun-toting terrorists isn't working. However I would not advocate one on the U.S. / Mexican border, since Mexicans aren't carrying bombs at the border guards.
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reads like a whos who of third world countries and banana republics, what good company USA keeps
That list is not so different from the list of countries that still permit the death penalty. I suppose that comes from a general disregard for human life common to countries in both lists.
I'm glad you're able to justify it to yourself, I really am. Actually, I'm not glad that someone who is obviously smart enough to code well doesn't have the moral fibre to know when what they are doing is NOT a benefit to the world.
Justifying that the mines you work on are the 'nicer' mines still doesn't change the fact that you're building mines. Things that blow up, thing designed to kill and mame and destroy.
But hey, if you're happy with that, go right on working for the military because you get to shoot stuff... never mind that those things that you're shooting end up killing a whole lot of innocents, you get to to shoot stuff.
Reminds me of the list of countries that execute the most people:
1770+ China
94+ Iran
86+ Saudi Arabia
60 USA
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You contributed to the development of land mines. You should be fucking ashamed of yourself. There's no making a mine 'safe'.
They do reduce civilian casualties
Obviously you get your data from the DOD. Your statement makes bullshit seem as honest as mash potatoes and gravy. Cluster bomb 'mines' are bright yellow and above ground and they are still killing thousands of civilians, mostly children, a year in Afghanistan [ref. John Pilger, BBC] alone, not to mention actual land mines. Their use is absolutely unconscionable, and it is a profound indication of the savagery of human civilization that we even allow them to exist at all. If I were president, their manufacture and use by the United States would very quickly become illegal.
I think you are a festering piece of shit for contributing to something so purely malevolent and destructive, something with no redeeming qualities of any kind whatsoever, something which has no purpose beyond sickening, barbaric cruelty. And while it's probably futile considering that you come from the, "I got to FIRE ROCKETS! Super cool!" school of retardation, I sincerely hope it haunts you until the day you die.
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