may I kindly ask you to go to the posted link, fill in the form and hit the "Donate" button.
Thank you.
no, no you certainly may not. seeing as the next regime will be worse than this one, probably with very strong islamic influences (sharia law) and even more persecution of coptic christians.
I for one welcome the old overlords of egypt.
I've seen mass effect comics around. I don't know which came first and I'm too lazy to google, but the whole franchise could've been spawned by the comics and not the game.
damn you! I spat my coke out and then nearly choked reading that! I'll see you in small claims court for a new keyboard!
seriously though, thanks for the laugh.
The point of hollowpoint ammo is to give off as much energy as possible (ie expand) when it hits the target. effectively that means a lot of tissue damage - much more than when using ammunition with a steel core (FMJ or ball ammo I believe it's american name is). FMJs hardly expand - especially when used against soft targets. Thus, the damage these bullets do is considerably less than HPs.
the point I'm trying to make is that the aim in war is to incapacitate the enemy and *NOT* kill them. the reason for this is to bind resources. all a dead soldier needs is a box and someone to slump him in it. A wounded soldier needs his buddies to carry him off the battlefield, a medevac, a doctor, treatment, rehab, his pay etc etc, all of which cost time, money, manpower and other valuable resources.
viewed from this perspective, it makes little sense to use HP ammo instead of FMJ (on a side note, ballistic armor is a lot more effective against HP ammo than FMJ). Now whether it's allowed under geneva conventions or others and if the americans are party to those, I don't know.
having said that, seeing that the war in iraq and afghanistan are actually insurgencies and any resources bound by incapping insurgents come out of the west's pockets, it might make more sense to kill rather than incap.
also, seeing as incapping is actually a form of weakening the enemy state and bringing about an end to the war, it might miss it's effectiveness against radical fundamentalist muslim insurgents, as it's an ideological war and not a conventional one.
"would you like to see all the colors?" yes
"(..) like everyone else can?" no
that's exactly the point she's making.
having said that, this isn't really new in any way. there have been genocides of non-conforming people - and many of those who were persecuted acted like they were "normal". for instance jewish people in nazi germany, christians today in many predominantly muslim countries like egypt for one.
all that has really changed is that it has now become a personal choice (speaking of DNA - not religion).
furthermore, if anything, this is an ethical question. Morals are subjective and I don't give a flying frack about anyone else's but mine.
totally agree with you both. I think it could be interesting as a way to control a computer as a supplement to a mouse for instance.
I'm not a fan of all of these hand-holding technologies. it just makes people lazy and more often than not complicates things.
oh and I do not grant wiki acedemic status. after you posted that I could've changed half of the info to fit my claims. cite a source that has a reputation to lose (or gain).
peer review, this is somersault. somersault, meet peer review.
do you have a link? I'd be fine with a youtube or ted link or something.. at least something with a citation. I'm no HIV/AIDS expert but to my knowledge AIDS appeared in humans around the late 1960s approx. granted, it could have been transferred via indigenous cultures, that still hunt as their primary source of food.
I'm stil weary though.
yeah sorry buddy, you're gonna have to look it up..:-)
agreed!
lately, I've been coming back around to an old thought; IT technology is advancing too quickly for us. The movies Terminator, matrix, etc.are foreboding. Not in a sense, that zombie machines are going to eat my brain, but that we create something with technology that we cannot or do not want to control anymore.
the average user enjoys the benefits of a nice gui, social networking, simple searches, etc. and is oblivious to the actual problems arising with it. we have the same principle of the creeping islamisation of europe and the world financial crisis. people asleep and not realising the disaster looming.
I agree. with ever more worry do I watch google develop into some megacorp gaining more and more influence and data over people.
I don't know how long we can still "trust" them - it's not like we ever really could.
I am/was an avid user of gmail and their search engine, but I'm growing ever more weary of them and considering using bing and maybe even moving away from gmail.
yes, you heard right; after all the shit apple and google have recently pulled, ms seems like a viable alternative!
now aint that a fscking bombshell.
generally you do have a point, but the mentality of just throwing more mem and cpu at inefficient programs is wasteful.
microsoft went that way with vista - just stuff everything in there, lads! people'll just buy more ram. but this backfired badly, as vista came out just before the big netbook and smaller-is-better hype.
we shouldnt need a fracking beowulf cluster of powerhouse PCs to run a browser or some other everyday app.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm just glad it didn't blink :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda#Strategy
kettle, pot. pot, kettle.
may I kindly ask you to go to the posted link, fill in the form and hit the "Donate" button. Thank you.
no, no you certainly may not. seeing as the next regime will be worse than this one, probably with very strong islamic influences (sharia law) and even more persecution of coptic christians.
I for one welcome the old overlords of egypt.
And what's more fun, tags no longer appear to work, including retroactively. See look, not italics.
let's see if quotes still work.
so copy the link and open it up in a new window to get rid of the referrer.
unless you log out, even posting ac will wipe the the points
I've seen mass effect comics around. I don't know which came first and I'm too lazy to google, but the whole franchise could've been spawned by the comics and not the game.
"Invisibility cloak?!? Ha! I'll believe it when I see it!" :-)
so, do you believe it now that you can kinda see it from an angle?
damn you! I spat my coke out and then nearly choked reading that! I'll see you in small claims court for a new keyboard!
seriously though, thanks for the laugh.
The point of hollowpoint ammo is to give off as much energy as possible (ie expand) when it hits the target. effectively that means a lot of tissue damage - much more than when using ammunition with a steel core (FMJ or ball ammo I believe it's american name is). FMJs hardly expand - especially when used against soft targets. Thus, the damage these bullets do is considerably less than HPs.
the point I'm trying to make is that the aim in war is to incapacitate the enemy and *NOT* kill them. the reason for this is to bind resources. all a dead soldier needs is a box and someone to slump him in it. A wounded soldier needs his buddies to carry him off the battlefield, a medevac, a doctor, treatment, rehab, his pay etc etc, all of which cost time, money, manpower and other valuable resources.
viewed from this perspective, it makes little sense to use HP ammo instead of FMJ (on a side note, ballistic armor is a lot more effective against HP ammo than FMJ). Now whether it's allowed under geneva conventions or others and if the americans are party to those, I don't know.
having said that, seeing that the war in iraq and afghanistan are actually insurgencies and any resources bound by incapping insurgents come out of the west's pockets, it might make more sense to kill rather than incap.
also, seeing as incapping is actually a form of weakening the enemy state and bringing about an end to the war, it might miss it's effectiveness against radical fundamentalist muslim insurgents, as it's an ideological war and not a conventional one.
"would you like to see all the colors?" yes
"(..) like everyone else can?" no
that's exactly the point she's making.
having said that, this isn't really new in any way. there have been genocides of non-conforming people - and many of those who were persecuted acted like they were "normal". for instance jewish people in nazi germany, christians today in many predominantly muslim countries like egypt for one.
all that has really changed is that it has now become a personal choice (speaking of DNA - not religion).
furthermore, if anything, this is an ethical question. Morals are subjective and I don't give a flying frack about anyone else's but mine.
totally agree with you both. I think it could be interesting as a way to control a computer as a supplement to a mouse for instance.
I'm not a fan of all of these hand-holding technologies. it just makes people lazy and more often than not complicates things.
oh and I do not grant wiki acedemic status. after you posted that I could've changed half of the info to fit my claims. cite a source that has a reputation to lose (or gain).
peer review, this is somersault. somersault, meet peer review.
never.
yeah, he probably though you were talking about rugger.
do you have a link? I'd be fine with a youtube or ted link or something.. at least something with a citation. I'm no HIV/AIDS expert but to my knowledge AIDS appeared in humans around the late 1960s approx. granted, it could have been transferred via indigenous cultures, that still hunt as their primary source of food.
:-)
I'm stil weary though.
yeah sorry buddy, you're gonna have to look it up..
epoch fail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX-_mSBHDTE != hamster dance. check the replies to the GP
funny vid. next time dont give away the punchline though, please.
agreed!
lately, I've been coming back around to an old thought; IT technology is advancing too quickly for us. The movies Terminator, matrix, etc.are foreboding. Not in a sense, that zombie machines are going to eat my brain, but that we create something with technology that we cannot or do not want to control anymore.
the average user enjoys the benefits of a nice gui, social networking, simple searches, etc. and is oblivious to the actual problems arising with it. we have the same principle of the creeping islamisation of europe and the world financial crisis. people asleep and not realising the disaster looming.
I agree. with ever more worry do I watch google develop into some megacorp gaining more and more influence and data over people.
I don't know how long we can still "trust" them - it's not like we ever really could.
I am/was an avid user of gmail and their search engine, but I'm growing ever more weary of them and considering using bing and maybe even moving away from gmail.
yes, you heard right; after all the shit apple and google have recently pulled, ms seems like a viable alternative!
now aint that a fscking bombshell.
generally you do have a point, but the mentality of just throwing more mem and cpu at inefficient programs is wasteful.
microsoft went that way with vista - just stuff everything in there, lads! people'll just buy more ram. but this backfired badly, as vista came out just before the big netbook and smaller-is-better hype.
we shouldnt need a fracking beowulf cluster of powerhouse PCs to run a browser or some other everyday app.
not in the long run.
dito. I'm not looking forward to goatse in 3D though. it's bad enough without depth-perception of that bottomless pit.
some more info on the matter of birthrates
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbO5SNDXio&feature=related