"Civilian" collaborators are fair game (once you're a collaborator on one side or another, you're no longer a civilian but a 'partisan'), but no Western resistance fighter ever went after them by blowing themselves up in a crowded market.
Wow, that sure is a moral high ground for torture, rape and execution. They're obviously so much better for doing it at home to each other! Give me a break.
You are either a liar or misinformed. The US signed the conventions in 1949 and ratified them in 1955, earlier than any other major English-speaking nation.
If China invaded tomorrow, I'd join up properly, fight IN UNIFORM, observe the GENEVA CONVENTION and follow sensible RULES OF ENGAGEMENT all within an ACCOUNTABLE CHAIN OF COMMAND. If at some point an underground resistance is necessary, I would take part in it in the grand tradition of Western armed underground resistance, targeting military assets, minimizing as much as possible the damage done to 3rd parties.
That would be as much a distortion as anything else has been. The reality of the matter is that neither side had clean hands. Both sides were attempting to succeed by means of intimidation through ideological witch hunts, torture, executions, rape, theft, and whatever else might seem to advance the agenda at a given time. You would do well to read When Heaven and Earth Changed Places.
I get tired of this BS myth that Apple crap isn't frustrating. At one time I worked for a company that did analogue to digital media conversion and specifically I did slides. Kodachrome, Ektachrome, and generic type of slides. We had some badass automated slide scanners from Nikon, and when I started they were being driven off of Win2K machines. Every once and a while the software would crap out, but most of the time you could just kill the process and restart it without the whole machine. Then somebody had the genius idea to replace my Win2K stations with Mac Minis running OSX. They sucked balls. The scanning software froze on them easily 3 times more often, and unlike a Windows box, they would freeze HARD. They would take no further input except holding the power button. Then I'd have to wait for them to reboot and restart the software and redo all the settings for the batch. Crash different! Those shitty things significantly increased the time and tedium of my job, and I would have jumped at the chance to empty a magazine of.45 ACP into each of them.
Yeah well, since you're female, you're protected by society's double standards anyway. South Park got it right in the episode 'Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy' wherein the police are confused as to why they should do anything about a underaged male (in that case a toddler) being pursued by an attractive woman.
Everything in the US is still mph. The speed doesn't bother me, I've done my share of 80+ driving when traffic is light, but when every lane is full and you get cut off three feet away with no signal, all the time, that's too much.
As funny and true as that representation is of Ballard, it doesn't scale to the rest of Seattle. My parents grew up in Ballard, and it is (or was) pretty much its own self-contained little world. Of course you're looking at things with SoCal eyes, so compared to the death race driving down there, it might seem like all of Seattle drives at 7 mph.
too hip and you're mocked, not hip enough and you're mocked
This is so true. Seattle kicks ass. It moderates people like a giant social immersion of the Golden Mean. I once compared Seattle to China, essentially a culture so relatively deep, compelling and intelligent that it remakes outsiders in its image even if they fight it.
You're a 3rd gen too? I prefer overcast to any other weather. All the people from out of state (which seems like most people these days) think that's weird. I could never, ever live in SoCal. Between the heat, glare, smog, shallow people, political stupidity, higher crime rate, reckless driving, and the only place with worse traffic than Seattle etc. it would drive me insane.
It snows a lot more in Portland. Seattle doesn't get as much as often because of the effect Puget Sound has on temperatures. The Columbia River doesn't exert nearly as much influence and Portland is fairly significantly inland. So I don't know what he's smoking, but in Portland it's probably meth or weed.
It's 'Seattle Freeze' and it's real. I'm 3rd generation native, from a good Norwegian family, and I'm probably part of 'the freeze'. Do you really know what constitutes 'the freeze'? Oh we're polite, even 'nice' as you say, but Seattle is full of insular clique groups that don't take people in easily. Outsiders are kept at arm's length until they do something worth appreciating. (If you ever saw the first episode of Deadliest Catch, you'd see a good example in Capt. Sig Hansen, another Norwegian-extracted Seattle native. The newest guy on his boat wanted to shake his hand, and he said 'I'll shake it after the season's over if you do a good job.')
Besides which, how did this 'friend of a friend' social network of yours start? Is it composed mainly of people who weren't born here? I'd wager it is, unless it's grown out of the internet which short-circuits the older social order somewhat.
I can't believe that in talking about LA vs. Seattle you'd negatively portray Seattle drivers. Seattle drivers are more hardcore than probably everybody else for a few hundred miles, but no way are they hardercore than LA drivers. Jesus. I'm a 3rd generation Seattle native and weave through heavy traffic at 70 mph with the best of them, but when I go down to LA I'm scared. They do 80+ and change lanes without signaling.
And you're right. Seattle is full. No more Californians. Ever.
It's not really 'racism' per se. Virtually every ethnic group in Asia is insular and xenophobic, but the post-WWII attitudes aren't racist claptrap like 'black people commit all the crimes'. The Japanese really were the Nazis of Asia. They had forced labor camps that worked people to death by design, mass murders, rape and pillage, created ghettos in the territories they occupied, etc. Those were all very real things, and what's worse the Japanese have made an art out of pretending it didn't happen. At least the Germans appeared to feel sincere remorse for their crimes against humanity under their half of the Axis power structure. So yeah, if your grandparents were treated with unflinching, merciless brutality by a nation that won't even take responsibility for their actions, you'd probably hold a grudge too.
Your meaning was ambiguous. I can see now you meant 'only' as 'merely' as opposed to 'exclusively'. When I read it first I read it as 'exclusively' as did the other responder.
Mod parent up. It's both sad and dangerous that people have already become so ignorant of history that some think the holocaust was 'based only on racial/religious prejudice'. Like the burning of the Reichstag never happened.
Slashdot Mirror
"Civilian" collaborators are fair game (once you're a collaborator on one side or another, you're no longer a civilian but a 'partisan'), but no Western resistance fighter ever went after them by blowing themselves up in a crowded market.
Wow, that sure is a moral high ground for torture, rape and execution. They're obviously so much better for doing it at home to each other! Give me a break.
You are either a liar or misinformed. The US signed the conventions in 1949 and ratified them in 1955, earlier than any other major English-speaking nation.
If China invaded tomorrow, I'd join up properly, fight IN UNIFORM, observe the GENEVA CONVENTION and follow sensible RULES OF ENGAGEMENT all within an ACCOUNTABLE CHAIN OF COMMAND. If at some point an underground resistance is necessary, I would take part in it in the grand tradition of Western armed underground resistance, targeting military assets, minimizing as much as possible the damage done to 3rd parties.
That would be as much a distortion as anything else has been. The reality of the matter is that neither side had clean hands. Both sides were attempting to succeed by means of intimidation through ideological witch hunts, torture, executions, rape, theft, and whatever else might seem to advance the agenda at a given time. You would do well to read When Heaven and Earth Changed Places .
Ugh. Mod parent up for truth.
I get tired of this BS myth that Apple crap isn't frustrating. At one time I worked for a company that did analogue to digital media conversion and specifically I did slides. Kodachrome, Ektachrome, and generic type of slides. We had some badass automated slide scanners from Nikon, and when I started they were being driven off of Win2K machines. Every once and a while the software would crap out, but most of the time you could just kill the process and restart it without the whole machine. Then somebody had the genius idea to replace my Win2K stations with Mac Minis running OSX. They sucked balls. The scanning software froze on them easily 3 times more often, and unlike a Windows box, they would freeze HARD. They would take no further input except holding the power button. Then I'd have to wait for them to reboot and restart the software and redo all the settings for the batch. Crash different! Those shitty things significantly increased the time and tedium of my job, and I would have jumped at the chance to empty a magazine of .45 ACP into each of them.
Moderated down and removed are not the same thing.
Your post was twice as insightful as the original, but I have no mod points.
Yeah well, since you're female, you're protected by society's double standards anyway. South Park got it right in the episode 'Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy' wherein the police are confused as to why they should do anything about a underaged male (in that case a toddler) being pursued by an attractive woman.
Everything in the US is still mph. The speed doesn't bother me, I've done my share of 80+ driving when traffic is light, but when every lane is full and you get cut off three feet away with no signal, all the time, that's too much.
As funny and true as that representation is of Ballard, it doesn't scale to the rest of Seattle. My parents grew up in Ballard, and it is (or was) pretty much its own self-contained little world. Of course you're looking at things with SoCal eyes, so compared to the death race driving down there, it might seem like all of Seattle drives at 7 mph.
That sounds more like northern suburbs driving, like Edmonds.
too hip and you're mocked, not hip enough and you're mocked
This is so true. Seattle kicks ass. It moderates people like a giant social immersion of the Golden Mean. I once compared Seattle to China, essentially a culture so relatively deep, compelling and intelligent that it remakes outsiders in its image even if they fight it.
You're a 3rd gen too? I prefer overcast to any other weather. All the people from out of state (which seems like most people these days) think that's weird. I could never, ever live in SoCal. Between the heat, glare, smog, shallow people, political stupidity, higher crime rate, reckless driving, and the only place with worse traffic than Seattle etc. it would drive me insane.
It snows a lot more in Portland. Seattle doesn't get as much as often because of the effect Puget Sound has on temperatures. The Columbia River doesn't exert nearly as much influence and Portland is fairly significantly inland. So I don't know what he's smoking, but in Portland it's probably meth or weed.
It's 'Seattle Freeze' and it's real. I'm 3rd generation native, from a good Norwegian family, and I'm probably part of 'the freeze'. Do you really know what constitutes 'the freeze'? Oh we're polite, even 'nice' as you say, but Seattle is full of insular clique groups that don't take people in easily. Outsiders are kept at arm's length until they do something worth appreciating. (If you ever saw the first episode of Deadliest Catch, you'd see a good example in Capt. Sig Hansen, another Norwegian-extracted Seattle native. The newest guy on his boat wanted to shake his hand, and he said 'I'll shake it after the season's over if you do a good job.')
Besides which, how did this 'friend of a friend' social network of yours start? Is it composed mainly of people who weren't born here? I'd wager it is, unless it's grown out of the internet which short-circuits the older social order somewhat.
I can't believe that in talking about LA vs. Seattle you'd negatively portray Seattle drivers. Seattle drivers are more hardcore than probably everybody else for a few hundred miles, but no way are they hardercore than LA drivers. Jesus. I'm a 3rd generation Seattle native and weave through heavy traffic at 70 mph with the best of them, but when I go down to LA I'm scared. They do 80+ and change lanes without signaling.
And you're right. Seattle is full. No more Californians. Ever.
That is the older half of a comparison of two studies, but thanks anyway.
It's not really 'racism' per se. Virtually every ethnic group in Asia is insular and xenophobic, but the post-WWII attitudes aren't racist claptrap like 'black people commit all the crimes'. The Japanese really were the Nazis of Asia. They had forced labor camps that worked people to death by design, mass murders, rape and pillage, created ghettos in the territories they occupied, etc. Those were all very real things, and what's worse the Japanese have made an art out of pretending it didn't happen. At least the Germans appeared to feel sincere remorse for their crimes against humanity under their half of the Axis power structure. So yeah, if your grandparents were treated with unflinching, merciless brutality by a nation that won't even take responsibility for their actions, you'd probably hold a grudge too.
Your meaning was ambiguous. I can see now you meant 'only' as 'merely' as opposed to 'exclusively'. When I read it first I read it as 'exclusively' as did the other responder.
Typical knee-jerk ad hominem from the mainstream. 'I don't like your opinion, so you're a tool!' Makes me glad I'm a libertarian.
Mod parent up. It's both sad and dangerous that people have already become so ignorant of history that some think the holocaust was 'based only on racial/religious prejudice'. Like the burning of the Reichstag never happened.
Mod parent up.
Sick 'em Jen-Hsun Huang.