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iPods at War
phaedo00 writes "Ars Technica has put together an outstanding piece of journalism about the use of personal technology in America's military and how these devices along with blatant piracy is causing new problems in the face of war: "While soldiers once deployed with little more than a backpack and a rifle, today's crop of infantry troops pack along MP3 players, digital cameras, DVD players, video games, movie collections, and computers of their own. The personal electronics have made modern American warfare the most comfortable it has ever been, but they've also brought a new set of problems onto the battlefield.""
yea, they totally deserve to be able to steal anything they want, cause they are better than us. Hell, let's let them rape all they want too.
Blah blah W is evil blah blah blah Abu Ghraib blah blah Halliburton blah blah blah Incurious blah blah blah WMD's blah blah blah
yea, like I said, they are better than us. They shouldn't be subject to the same penalties that we are when they commit crimes. They are risking their lives to secure Iraq so that we can keep our freedom!.... ? ? Our children are supposed to look up to men like them as role models right? So where does the RIAA get off sueing our kids if they are learning from the best america has to offer????
Thanks for all the FUD.
And if it was up to you, Saddam would still be in power.
Thanks, but I'm for fixing things, not leaving people in the hands of Saddam, or now, the Islamic Facists that are trying to keep democracy from occurring in Iraq. I don't know how people like you can live with yourselves....
Oh, yeah, I remember. Rwanda. Ignore it, and maybe it'll go away. That makes me puke. "Progressives". Yeah, right.
empire in decline, Reasons why anyone I'll have offended around are in need profits without tUhey want you to progress. In 1992, GAY NIGGERS from Community. The and as BSD sinks
OVER PAID AND OVER HERE
Your taxdollars funneling into the pockets of professional thugs and killers in a pre-fabricated trumped up war.
The only good part about this, is these idiots film the attocities they do, for bragging rights, and we get to see them back home as military gun cameras killing innocent unarmed civilians on ground, dropping chemical warfare phosporous on suburbs and inner cities, and the ever popularized photos and videos and pictures of prisoners tortured and sexually humiliated.
Less ipods, more camera phones and video cameras and digital cameras.
Then we pull the plug on the military once and for all.
If everyone would just STOP joining the military, all around the world, there wouldn't BE a military, anyone to fight, or a reason to have a military. Its such a catch-22 thing. People, stop joining the friggin army! What a self-serving scam
Yes, I agree, lousy politicians. If it weren't for them those brave soldiers would have put down their budweisers and transistor radios and won that thing given another eight years.
The soldiers in Iraq aren't fighting for MY life you daft cunt. They may be fighting for their own, but that's only because they chose to become a soldier because they wanted to shoot up some people without any repercussions. I don't want to hear any crap about what soldiers DESERVE. Soldiers are just ordinary people doing a job, just like everybody else. I don't expect any special fucking treatment for doing MY job, why should soldiers get any special treatment for doing THEIR job? It sounds like a pretty fucking good deal to me - you get to travel the world, you get to shoot people with no punishment, and to top it all off, you get PAID for it. They don't need anything beyond what they get.
"You have NO rights to infer "traitor" to anyone with your attitude, and as for your "god-given DUTY", then all I can say is show up here: 708 S. McDonald St., Stillwater, OK 74074 at at ANY TIME and I will set you straight, or end your miserable existence on this planet..that is a PROMISE, not a threat."
LMAO!
Thank you for your service. Now stop being a moron and picking fights on the internet with people who could jsut as easily be halfway around the world as next door. Don't be so angry, there are trolls all over the place. They crawl out of the woodwork. You can't walk around here without stepping on one.
Who the hell would go to Oklahoma for a fight anyway? Funny.