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Grenade-Style Wireless Camera For Combat
nk497 writes "A new wireless camera called the I-Ball is being developed to be shot into locations using a grenade launcher so troops can see what lies ahead. The I-Ball sends real-time, 360-degree video back to soldiers while it's flying through the air and when it lands."
I wasn't going to waste my time anymore, but something occurred to me. You are really missing the point if your hangup is on the phrase "bad guy". Something I deliberately used because it is so controversial. You have to understand when you're on the ground in the middle of a war there are good guys, bad guys, and unknowns. We're talking about a wartime invention which militaries might be using in actual battle. Don't tell me you don't understand what a "bad guy" is. I'm not going to sit here and argue about what the target actually is. To the fighter on the ground, the target is a bad guy. Why sit here and worry about terminology? If I had said insurgent, someone would have said freedom fighter. If I had said enemy militant, someone would have said terrorist. If I had said target, someone would say that's sugar coating the situation. I think you need to worry more about the big picture and less about terminology.
Then you be alarmed at the terms being used while everyone else actually worries about the situation.
You are a frothing at the mouth lunatic, all your posts here indicate that you are totally jingoist and have, behind the lip-service you pay for political correctness, nothing but total disregard for the lives of those who are not from Your Side(tm).
How about you step back a moment, and have look at the whole war in context, recognize that it's a war based on a lie (the claim that WMDs posed a threat vs the greed for oil and economic gain) and that discussing the issue about civilian collateral damage is moot next to the discussion about whether we (the coalition of the willing) should even be there in the first place.
Damn you for dragging the world into an era of perpetual war, damn you to hell.
I hate printers.
Perhaps.
I note that your previous posts are pretty much exclusively on topics involving war and combat, and also note that you are a member of the US Army infantry.
I no longer find it surprising that your understanding or war is limited to combat related issues, and that questions like "Should this war be fought" and "Is the life of one of our soldiers worth more than the life of a civilian on the other side" are utterly beyond you. You are trained to be too stupid to ask questions.
I've met soldiers like you before. You think that because you're a soldier, you understand war. Meat heads like you don't understand war any more than police dogs understand the principles of the legal system. That's all you are; a trained dog fighting for something you don't understand or gain anything from.
I hate printers.
I like to refer to it as "humanity".
I hate printers.