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What Happens In Vegas Happens In Afghanistan
theodp writes "After the morning commute from his Las Vegas apartment, Air Force captain Sam Nelson sits in a padded chair inside a low, tan building in Nevada, controlling a heavily armed drone aircraft soaring over Afghanistan, prepared to kill another human being 7,500 miles away if necessary. Welcome to the surreal world of drone pilots, who have a front-row seat on war from half a world away. 'On the drive out here, you get yourself ready to enter the compartment of your life that is flying combat,' explained retired Col. Chris Chambliss. 'And on the drive home, you get ready for that part of your life that's going to be the soccer game.' No wonder why the Air Force is interested in the Xbox LIVE crowd and the Army's opened a new arcade recruitment center!"
You seem to have forgotten that 9/11 changed everything. A small number of people crossed the border through the front doors, then assembled and killed thousands in an attack nobody had thought of defending against yet. This isn't a conventional wars where we can shoot down personnel carriers, and there's no "homeland" to attack.
WTF is he doing in Vegas, I mean...
how long until
I have very little respect for bombers and pilots who kill enemies while sipping Mountain Dew from the comfort of their chair and air conditioning.
That's retarded. By that logic you should have "very little respect" for programmers, engineers, and pretty much anyone else who works in an office environment.
Cowards should not be held up as heroes.
Yeah brave keyboard warriors such as yourself are clearly much more heroic than anyone operating an armed drone. Keep Fighting The Good Fight!
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” - Adolf Hitler
Sure this has nothing to do with drone pilots, those great aces of war. Technology is nice, fullscale brainstorming the poor minds. I wonder when all this puppets will realize what America is all about... a pure terror machine.
So should we start living in fear?
I would suppose the next great ace to figure at the side of people like: Michael Wittman, Hans Ulrich Rudel, Pvt Severloh, Felix Steiner, Kurt Meyer and other... will be a fat DoD Source III gamer... I would suppose Valve would be covering soon linux and openBSD with their Steam Client. The hardware manufacturers no longer provide drivers, because Red Hat has provided a full open source driver. The pentagon injected money as they could use it combined with a micro GNU/linux kernel operating on some cheap Nintendo hardware for their new ICBM platform.
Finally CDMA2000 was dropped and evil European GSM took over. Apple runs out of stock. Apple hardware is wanted by the mainstream of Fedora. Fedora now has a EFI Fedora sub-distro.
A new legion of fanboys and urban myths takes over...
Finally with the success of the drone bombing machines the human overpopulation problem disappears. As long as you support the state, you won't be bombed while sleeping. The US end establishing a powerful military platform in the middle east and seize the remaining oil resources. Finally there's only China and India...
this is the kinda stuff that ends up scaring people.
And don't forget about the Unix Terrorist
You sir, cannot be serious. Fairness? Dropping an atomic bomb from 30,000 ft onto a densely populated city doesn't quite strike me as fair.