Look around. Deplorable is a judgement call, but the majority of people are sexist, misogynist, racist xenophobes. Nobody wants to believe that they could be any of those things, so they don't look inside and actually figure out which of those beliefs are based on some bullshit programming from early in their formative years. If you don't think you were programmed with any sexist, misogynist, or racist data when you were developing, you're not thinking. These ideas have been pervasive in our nation since before day one.
Talk like that is why Trump won. Just so you know. It's you're fault.
This was a protest by ordinary Americans who are fed up with being told such nonsense. Told it even by the GOP. The American people grew tired of being treated like shit, in a very personal way, by their government. Now the pendulum is just starting to swing the other way. You ain't seen nothing yet.
His general disdain for constitutional rights. People think it's no big deal now because they aren't the target of his disgust, but wait until the day you disagree with him.
The entire fundament of the Constitution is distrust of the president, and ways to limit his powers.
I think he has given license to political and racial violence.
Islamic terrorists have killed many thousands of Americans. American racist backlash has killed 1 guy (who wasn't even Muslim). I think you underestimate the moral center of Trump supporters.
And I don't think for one minute his tax policy will do anything other than benefit the very wealthy at the expense of everyone else.
So, no change then. Or are you confusing "high income" with "wealthy".
10000 Troops would be silly, though it would do wonders for the economy of the border towns. 100 drones and the existing border patrol is all that's needed.
His Supreme Court picks are the big wildcard. He might actually pick someone judicially conservative (but pro-choice) and break the mold. Or he could do some stupid nonsense. So hard to guess.
The Clinton Foundation, and the bribery economy of DC in general, is where he could make the most profound changes, but where I think he's least likely to actually make a difference.
It's only old games for which GOG does the value-added repackaging into DOSbox with settings that work on modern Windows. My point was that someone with more capital than an indie-dev could offer the same for Mac or Linux distribution, port the game for a larger cut (especially where there game was written in Unity or similar, and it's mostly a test/support cost rather than a deeper port effort).
Obama constantly speaks untruths. Maybe he should have a fact checker next to him.
Remember that puzzle where there's one guy who always lies, and one guy who always tells the truth, and they look the same? Politics is like that, except it's missing that second guy. (Wow, my.sig is on-topic for once.)
This one weird trick that your browser mislabels as false made this housewife millions. Firefox hates her!
Fact-checking is REALLY hard work. And frankly, even the best sites make errors. How do you rate a webpage if it is largely accurate, but still has known (minor) fact errors? Or is this only for targeting sites that are known to disseminate nonsense and disinformation? What if those sites also carry some articles that are largely accurate?
Heck, some of the "fact-checking sites" are sites that are known to disseminate nonsense and disinformation, but also carry some articles that are largely accurate. Beware political fact-checkers.
Ah, sure, but don't conflate "human nature" and "culture". Culture shapes what we see as acceptable and not, as opposed to our baser instincts which we then try to shove down. Culture is what evolves, and needs not to stagnate into a monoculture at some local maxima. There will always be people without those constraints, however, and that's the fundamental tension to all of this.
Ok, just to put it into perspective. "One humanity" just means, a world where a child can be born anywhere and it'll have similar opportunities for education, health, happiness, etc.
Still sounds like a distopian novel. You have to understand that one persons judgement of good opportunities is different from another's. We need different groups, each doing what they think is best, even though other groups think it's stupid and wrong. That's freedom. A central authority imposing "equal opportunity" will end in tears.
So, when I say, "one humanity", I mean something like, stage 7. Where everyone in the world is past all the empire stuff and so on, and authoritarian stuff and so on
There's no evidence, at all, that human nature can change. We just get better at constraining the assholes. But there will always be assholes, and occasionally they will seize power.
I remember grilling some charity worker about, how does he know that their scheme really works and is really awesome? Do they collect data after 2 years? Do they keep track? Oh no he says, too difficult, all the clients/recipients move address, too difficult to keep track, but it really works! It's great! You should give!
This is why I don't give to US charities. Mutual aid societies were great, because it stayed within a circle of people who know one another. But that's vanished. Churches doing local charity can be just as good, if kept within the same sphere. But there are too many places that need help more than anyone in the western world, that need to break the cycle they're stuck in.
Not happy with the amount of telemetry Windows 10 has by default? We've got an answer for you! Download Chrome and more than double your keylogging! Chrome: when privacy is for other people.
One is because multiple large developers all want their own ecosystem for digital downloads. That in itself is good since it helps with the cost of the games in the end, and in most cases leads to significant discounts.
OK, your UID is too low to be an astroturf account, so, seriously, you're advocating a distribution monopoly as the key to low prices? Really?
See the 20% off or more on titles from places like Greenmangaming, Gamersgate or Gamesrepublic vs say Steam, Origin or Ubi's thingy
Wait, maybe you worded the first quote wrong or something? Origin is EA's "own ecosystem for digital downloads" and unsurprisingly isn't big on discounts. Steam OTOH is famous for "80% off" sales for older games. I have hundreds of Steam games, lots of them big-budget titles, but my average purchase price is well under $10.
Now getting all games on all platforms? More difficult, since developing for multiple platforms becomes expensive. Especially since consoles require a "buy-in" to develop on and for every patch they require you to pay for certification of said patch
Overlap between console peasant gaming and PC overlords isn't necessarily good for game quality, and mobile gaming is the same deal - three different worlds with three different ideals for good UI and good gameplay.
OTOH, making all "PC games" available for Windows, Mac, and Linux is certainly worthwhile. Smaller devs might not be able to afford to test everything thoroughly on three platforms and be wiling to stand behind it, but that's what value-added distributers like GOG could come in. GOG, for the old games they sell, does the work to make DOS and early Windows games work well on modern Windows (and they're starting to do that for Mac, but again for old games). There's certainly room for a Mac-specific GOG-like, that makes indie games run flawlessly on Mac for a larger cut. Ditto Linux. For an indie dev, that's still more money coming in than not being on that platform at all.
Do you read the same Slashdot I do? I see both "only racist Trumphitlers could oppose immigration for any reason" and "H1-Bs are the evil product of sociopathic companies pushing down labor costs" every week, sometimes from the same posters. It's getting really old.
How about we recognize that people who see job pressure due to immigration can reasonably want less immigration, without being racist xenophobes? And that America needs some amount of immigration regardless, so it's really about "how much is reasonable" and not the extremes so often advocated?
True, and if we are ever to become one humanity on this planet,
Wow, that sounds like the beginning of a dystopian novel. Nothing good comes from monoculture.
How about we instead become different groups of people each living in the way it's members think is best. Libertarian over here, authoritarian over there, left to the left, right to the right. Freedom of movement is important to that, but it only works if immigration to any given area is limited to the rate of acculturation. Otherwise the bad ideas just move like locusts from place to place.
Part of the reason there has been a shortage in some trades, is because both government levels(federal and provincial/state), have said "trades are outdated, you don't need do THOSE."
Good point there, and nice illustration of the problems with central economic planning.
Manufacturing were just the first ones hit, and hit hard. But now you can see imported labor and people being laid off. From janitorial staff to machinists, and IT(at any level) to accountants and legal.
Sure, but manufacturing started its slide 40 years ago. Now we see "easily automated jobs" starting the slide. (Legal is something different, I think - we had a huge glut of law grads, maybe 10 years back, and that's working its way through the system). What low-skill jobs aren't going to be automated soon? Anything requiring a personal touch and a bit of creativity. Also, for the next 20 or so years, anything involving caring for the elderly will have massive demand.
Depends, did you lose your job? Then it's rational self interest. It's Trumphitlerism otherwise, always is.
So, if your neighbor or brother lost his job, in a similar line of work, it's totally irrational to think you're next? I think this has stopped making sense again.
You'll also remember all that smugness from white collar workers and media pundits who said to the skilled/unskilled/trade workers back in the 1980's and 90's that "if they didn't want to lose their jobs, they should have turned around and gotten white collar jobs like theirs.
Well, media pundits will say anything, as long as it's stupid and wrong, but the skilled trades have always been going strong. It was manufacturing jobs that people were being steered away from as far as I recall, and that was and remains good advice.
The FBI called me up asking about some website I had visited, thinking that it was related to Columbine. It turned out, they were investigating a website related to the tabletop RPG "Teenagers from Outer Space," which apparently the Columbine kids played and wrote about in one of their journals.
In between gales of laughter, I told the agent that if he had any more leads on threats from role playing games that he should feel free to give me a call and I'd be happy to help out as best I could.
It wasn't so funny when they actually raided Steve Jackson Games when they were making a hacking-themed game. I wonder about the FBI - surely a portion of them are actually savvy about this sort of thing. Is it just some institutional bias against asking fellow agents who might be familiar with the subject at hand?
So, wait, is opposing unlimited immigration racist Trumphitlerism, or rational self interest today? Slashdot groupthink seems very confused on this one. On even-numbered stories, the only reason anyone could oppose immigration is being a racist Trump-supporter. On odd-numbered stories, it's totally rational and those big corporations are lying sociopaths.
Oh, wait, I get it: immigration is fine when it's other people's jobs, but it's totally a tool of the sociopathic corporations when it's our jobs at risk. Perfectly consistent after all.
What part of Troopers seemed in any way libertarian? The authoritarian government wasn't very corrupt, in-book because the people voting actually cared a lot about that, but it certainly "abused its power", at least from my point of view.
And there's actually a country that's close to what Heinlein dreamed of
Oh, jeez, another idiot who thinks an author must be endorsing something just because he wrote about it. I'll leave it to you to reconcile Troopers and Moon.
nuclear bombing a city (with "small" 2kt nuclear weapons),
Is it the "nukular" part that's scary? Are you projecting that fear onto this fiction world for some reason?
purposefully attacking civilian infrastructure to intimidate the population,
So, like any war we've ever fought, then?
"Old Man's War" by Scalzi is much more nuanced in this regard.
Fuck Scalzi, that Hugo-ruining SJW asshole. I had a couple of his books once - I burned them last winter Most satisfying. I might have found a different use for them, but the pages were too thick.
I really don't think "challenging ideas about an authoritarian government" would play well in China, do you? Do you think they're trying to make a good movie, or make a profit? I have the lowest expectations for this one - but it they put everyone in power battle armor, I'm there.
In the meantime, the badly-animated 3D cartoon is actually pretty good SF, and far closer to the book (though stuck with the premise of the movie, they at least added a few large power suits to the mix).
What does that mean? Is a history of Germany in the 30s a book that is "pretty fascist"? The book described a society (authoritarian, but not fascist, there are other sorts of authoritarian governments you know), neither endorsing nor condemning it, instead describing it from the point of view of someone who grew up there, horrifying bits and all.
You do realize that libertarianism and fascism/authoritarianism are opposite ends of a political spectrum, right? Because you seem pretty confused about this.
Heinlein's book was an unselfconscious Libertarian fantasy,
Are you confusing it with Moon? Nothing about the society was libertarian - it was straight-up authoritarian. It's often described as fascist, but I think that's people conflating any sort of authoritarianism with fascism.
The big miss of Verhoeven's movie was that it showed the soldiers as poorly equipped and expendable, quite the opposite of the book (where everyone was in powered battle armor, and superior 1-on-1 against a bug soldier).
why they keep voting rights to military - the answer is basically "just because".
They don't restrict voting rights to the military - read it again. I could be wrong, but I think most of the serving military couldn't vote, not having finished their first term. You had to have completed some sort of term of service to the community (military was just one option) to earn the vote.
Heinlein himself couldn't even justify it in-novel
The entire book is presented from the point of view of people raised in the society. Therefore, everything about the society, our protagonist and his friends see as normal, because that's what they grew up with. It's neither presented as particularly good or bad, just the way things are. It's never "justified", merely explained.
Heinlein wrote many books about some particular political ideology taken to its logical extreme, in a (mostly) sincere and non-corrupt way, running the spectrum from fascism to libertarianism. They each explored the good and bad elements of that society, for there are always both in any interesting society.
The behavior of troopers is also contrary to the modern rules and laws of war.
There are no "laws" of war, there are treaties, binding only as long as both sides adhere to them. (As an aside, the last enemy the US fought that signed the Geneva convention was the Nazis - everyone since then has behaved worse than the Nazis towards captives and civilians). Do you believe the bugs signed any such treaties?
Or are you talking about the military traditions that set so much of modern military behavior? In a fictional world with its own history and traditions? Most of what played out in the military was exactly as Johnnie expected, suggesting it was fully in line with military tradition.
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Look around. Deplorable is a judgement call, but the majority of people are sexist, misogynist, racist xenophobes. Nobody wants to believe that they could be any of those things, so they don't look inside and actually figure out which of those beliefs are based on some bullshit programming from early in their formative years. If you don't think you were programmed with any sexist, misogynist, or racist data when you were developing, you're not thinking. These ideas have been pervasive in our nation since before day one.
Talk like that is why Trump won. Just so you know. It's you're fault.
This was a protest by ordinary Americans who are fed up with being told such nonsense. Told it even by the GOP. The American people grew tired of being treated like shit, in a very personal way, by their government. Now the pendulum is just starting to swing the other way. You ain't seen nothing yet.
His general disdain for constitutional rights. People think it's no big deal now because they aren't the target of his disgust, but wait until the day you disagree with him.
The entire fundament of the Constitution is distrust of the president, and ways to limit his powers.
I think he has given license to political and racial violence.
Islamic terrorists have killed many thousands of Americans. American racist backlash has killed 1 guy (who wasn't even Muslim). I think you underestimate the moral center of Trump supporters.
And I don't think for one minute his tax policy will do anything other than benefit the very wealthy at the expense of everyone else.
So, no change then. Or are you confusing "high income" with "wealthy".
10000 Troops would be silly, though it would do wonders for the economy of the border towns. 100 drones and the existing border patrol is all that's needed.
His Supreme Court picks are the big wildcard. He might actually pick someone judicially conservative (but pro-choice) and break the mold. Or he could do some stupid nonsense. So hard to guess.
The Clinton Foundation, and the bribery economy of DC in general, is where he could make the most profound changes, but where I think he's least likely to actually make a difference.
It's only old games for which GOG does the value-added repackaging into DOSbox with settings that work on modern Windows. My point was that someone with more capital than an indie-dev could offer the same for Mac or Linux distribution, port the game for a larger cut (especially where there game was written in Unity or similar, and it's mostly a test/support cost rather than a deeper port effort).
Obama constantly speaks untruths. Maybe he should have a fact checker next to him.
Remember that puzzle where there's one guy who always lies, and one guy who always tells the truth, and they look the same? Politics is like that, except it's missing that second guy. (Wow, my .sig is on-topic for once.)
Very well said.
Nonsense will always be out there no matter what.
This one weird trick that your browser mislabels as false made this housewife millions. Firefox hates her!
Fact-checking is REALLY hard work. And frankly, even the best sites make errors. How do you rate a webpage if it is largely accurate, but still has known (minor) fact errors? Or is this only for targeting sites that are known to disseminate nonsense and disinformation? What if those sites also carry some articles that are largely accurate?
Heck, some of the "fact-checking sites" are sites that are known to disseminate nonsense and disinformation, but also carry some articles that are largely accurate. Beware political fact-checkers.
Ah, sure, but don't conflate "human nature" and "culture". Culture shapes what we see as acceptable and not, as opposed to our baser instincts which we then try to shove down. Culture is what evolves, and needs not to stagnate into a monoculture at some local maxima. There will always be people without those constraints, however, and that's the fundamental tension to all of this.
Ok, just to put it into perspective. "One humanity" just means, a world where a child can be born anywhere and it'll have similar opportunities for education, health, happiness, etc.
Still sounds like a distopian novel. You have to understand that one persons judgement of good opportunities is different from another's. We need different groups, each doing what they think is best, even though other groups think it's stupid and wrong. That's freedom. A central authority imposing "equal opportunity" will end in tears.
So, when I say, "one humanity", I mean something like, stage 7. Where everyone in the world is past all the empire stuff and so on, and authoritarian stuff and so on
There's no evidence, at all, that human nature can change. We just get better at constraining the assholes. But there will always be assholes, and occasionally they will seize power.
I remember grilling some charity worker about, how does he know that their scheme really works and is really awesome? Do they collect data after 2 years? Do they keep track? Oh no he says, too difficult, all the clients/recipients move address, too difficult to keep track, but it really works! It's great! You should give!
This is why I don't give to US charities. Mutual aid societies were great, because it stayed within a circle of people who know one another. But that's vanished. Churches doing local charity can be just as good, if kept within the same sphere. But there are too many places that need help more than anyone in the western world, that need to break the cycle they're stuck in.
IE exists solely to download Chrome
Not happy with the amount of telemetry Windows 10 has by default? We've got an answer for you! Download Chrome and more than double your keylogging! Chrome: when privacy is for other people.
One is because multiple large developers all want their own ecosystem for digital downloads. That in itself is good since it helps with the cost of the games in the end, and in most cases leads to significant discounts.
OK, your UID is too low to be an astroturf account, so, seriously, you're advocating a distribution monopoly as the key to low prices? Really?
See the 20% off or more on titles from places like Greenmangaming, Gamersgate or Gamesrepublic vs say Steam, Origin or Ubi's thingy
Wait, maybe you worded the first quote wrong or something? Origin is EA's "own ecosystem for digital downloads" and unsurprisingly isn't big on discounts. Steam OTOH is famous for "80% off" sales for older games. I have hundreds of Steam games, lots of them big-budget titles, but my average purchase price is well under $10.
Now getting all games on all platforms? More difficult, since developing for multiple platforms becomes expensive. Especially since consoles require a "buy-in" to develop on and for every patch they require you to pay for certification of said patch
Overlap between console peasant gaming and PC overlords isn't necessarily good for game quality, and mobile gaming is the same deal - three different worlds with three different ideals for good UI and good gameplay.
OTOH, making all "PC games" available for Windows, Mac, and Linux is certainly worthwhile. Smaller devs might not be able to afford to test everything thoroughly on three platforms and be wiling to stand behind it, but that's what value-added distributers like GOG could come in. GOG, for the old games they sell, does the work to make DOS and early Windows games work well on modern Windows (and they're starting to do that for Mac, but again for old games). There's certainly room for a Mac-specific GOG-like, that makes indie games run flawlessly on Mac for a larger cut. Ditto Linux. For an indie dev, that's still more money coming in than not being on that platform at all.
Interesting question, isn't it? It's almost as if the people in charge of the government aren't people whose names we know.
Do you read the same Slashdot I do? I see both "only racist Trumphitlers could oppose immigration for any reason" and "H1-Bs are the evil product of sociopathic companies pushing down labor costs" every week, sometimes from the same posters. It's getting really old.
How about we recognize that people who see job pressure due to immigration can reasonably want less immigration, without being racist xenophobes? And that America needs some amount of immigration regardless, so it's really about "how much is reasonable" and not the extremes so often advocated?
True, and if we are ever to become one humanity on this planet,
Wow, that sounds like the beginning of a dystopian novel. Nothing good comes from monoculture.
How about we instead become different groups of people each living in the way it's members think is best. Libertarian over here, authoritarian over there, left to the left, right to the right. Freedom of movement is important to that, but it only works if immigration to any given area is limited to the rate of acculturation. Otherwise the bad ideas just move like locusts from place to place.
Part of the reason there has been a shortage in some trades, is because both government levels(federal and provincial/state), have said "trades are outdated, you don't need do THOSE."
Good point there, and nice illustration of the problems with central economic planning.
Manufacturing were just the first ones hit, and hit hard. But now you can see imported labor and people being laid off. From janitorial staff to machinists, and IT(at any level) to accountants and legal.
Sure, but manufacturing started its slide 40 years ago. Now we see "easily automated jobs" starting the slide. (Legal is something different, I think - we had a huge glut of law grads, maybe 10 years back, and that's working its way through the system). What low-skill jobs aren't going to be automated soon? Anything requiring a personal touch and a bit of creativity. Also, for the next 20 or so years, anything involving caring for the elderly will have massive demand.
Depends, did you lose your job? Then it's rational self interest. It's Trumphitlerism otherwise, always is.
So, if your neighbor or brother lost his job, in a similar line of work, it's totally irrational to think you're next? I think this has stopped making sense again.
You'll also remember all that smugness from white collar workers and media pundits who said to the skilled/unskilled/trade workers back in the 1980's and 90's that "if they didn't want to lose their jobs, they should have turned around and gotten white collar jobs like theirs.
Well, media pundits will say anything, as long as it's stupid and wrong, but the skilled trades have always been going strong. It was manufacturing jobs that people were being steered away from as far as I recall, and that was and remains good advice.
The FBI called me up asking about some website I had visited, thinking that it was related to Columbine. It turned out, they were investigating a website related to the tabletop RPG "Teenagers from Outer Space," which apparently the Columbine kids played and wrote about in one of their journals.
In between gales of laughter, I told the agent that if he had any more leads on threats from role playing games that he should feel free to give me a call and I'd be happy to help out as best I could.
It wasn't so funny when they actually raided Steve Jackson Games when they were making a hacking-themed game. I wonder about the FBI - surely a portion of them are actually savvy about this sort of thing. Is it just some institutional bias against asking fellow agents who might be familiar with the subject at hand?
Nuking Mecca is just to Revelations for my taste. What about pigbombing instead? A few megatons should do the trick.
So, wait, is opposing unlimited immigration racist Trumphitlerism, or rational self interest today? Slashdot groupthink seems very confused on this one. On even-numbered stories, the only reason anyone could oppose immigration is being a racist Trump-supporter. On odd-numbered stories, it's totally rational and those big corporations are lying sociopaths.
Oh, wait, I get it: immigration is fine when it's other people's jobs, but it's totally a tool of the sociopathic corporations when it's our jobs at risk. Perfectly consistent after all.
(Is there a -1, unpleasant truth mod?)
What part of Troopers seemed in any way libertarian? The authoritarian government wasn't very corrupt, in-book because the people voting actually cared a lot about that, but it certainly "abused its power", at least from my point of view.
And there's actually a country that's close to what Heinlein dreamed of
Oh, jeez, another idiot who thinks an author must be endorsing something just because he wrote about it. I'll leave it to you to reconcile Troopers and Moon.
nuclear bombing a city (with "small" 2kt nuclear weapons),
Is it the "nukular" part that's scary? Are you projecting that fear onto this fiction world for some reason?
purposefully attacking civilian infrastructure to intimidate the population,
So, like any war we've ever fought, then?
"Old Man's War" by Scalzi is much more nuanced in this regard.
Fuck Scalzi, that Hugo-ruining SJW asshole. I had a couple of his books once - I burned them last winter Most satisfying. I might have found a different use for them, but the pages were too thick.
I really don't think "challenging ideas about an authoritarian government" would play well in China, do you? Do you think they're trying to make a good movie, or make a profit? I have the lowest expectations for this one - but it they put everyone in power battle armor, I'm there.
In the meantime, the badly-animated 3D cartoon is actually pretty good SF, and far closer to the book (though stuck with the premise of the movie, they at least added a few large power suits to the mix).
The book is pretty fascist.
What does that mean? Is a history of Germany in the 30s a book that is "pretty fascist"? The book described a society (authoritarian, but not fascist, there are other sorts of authoritarian governments you know), neither endorsing nor condemning it, instead describing it from the point of view of someone who grew up there, horrifying bits and all.
libertarian proto fascist philosophy
You do realize that libertarianism and fascism/authoritarianism are opposite ends of a political spectrum, right? Because you seem pretty confused about this.
Heinlein's book was an unselfconscious Libertarian fantasy,
Are you confusing it with Moon? Nothing about the society was libertarian - it was straight-up authoritarian. It's often described as fascist, but I think that's people conflating any sort of authoritarianism with fascism.
The big miss of Verhoeven's movie was that it showed the soldiers as poorly equipped and expendable, quite the opposite of the book (where everyone was in powered battle armor, and superior 1-on-1 against a bug soldier).
why they keep voting rights to military - the answer is basically "just because".
They don't restrict voting rights to the military - read it again. I could be wrong, but I think most of the serving military couldn't vote, not having finished their first term. You had to have completed some sort of term of service to the community (military was just one option) to earn the vote.
Heinlein himself couldn't even justify it in-novel
The entire book is presented from the point of view of people raised in the society. Therefore, everything about the society, our protagonist and his friends see as normal, because that's what they grew up with. It's neither presented as particularly good or bad, just the way things are. It's never "justified", merely explained.
Heinlein wrote many books about some particular political ideology taken to its logical extreme, in a (mostly) sincere and non-corrupt way, running the spectrum from fascism to libertarianism. They each explored the good and bad elements of that society, for there are always both in any interesting society.
The behavior of troopers is also contrary to the modern rules and laws of war.
There are no "laws" of war, there are treaties, binding only as long as both sides adhere to them. (As an aside, the last enemy the US fought that signed the Geneva convention was the Nazis - everyone since then has behaved worse than the Nazis towards captives and civilians). Do you believe the bugs signed any such treaties?
Or are you talking about the military traditions that set so much of modern military behavior? In a fictional world with its own history and traditions? Most of what played out in the military was exactly as Johnnie expected, suggesting it was fully in line with military tradition.