Ranting about someones spelling just to further one's barbaric and moronic agenda and then writing "capitol letters" gets "insightful" mods. Yeah, way to go here.
Ah, American neo-barbarism. Could you guys perhaps stop at just being civilized between your wild swings between barbarism and decadence, just for a while?
You won? News to me. The people of the Warsaw Pact countries won. They liberated themselves from their oppressive regimes. You stood on the sidelines, posturing and pissing away your national product on an armory of madness.
Unmitigated gall, eh? Also interesting that opposing genocide on a never seen before scale automatically puts me on the left. Nice worldview you got there, quite differentiated.
Listen, man. Retaliation is natural, of course. Retaliation is even necessary in this scenario, there is no question. But nuking a country to kill every inhabitant not only makes you a barbarian, it makes you an enemy of humanity.
I understand perfectly fine that there are people out there still being brutish and uncivilized. Considering "not killing everyone down to the last newborn" an act of inhuman restraint is a quite perfect example for it. What the hell is it with the false dichotomies? There are ways between "nuke em till they glow and shoot em in the dark" and "sing kumbaya".
As the other poster replying to you stated quite correctly, I never implied doing nothing. Of course, if someone willingly nuked my country, I would wish to see retaliation. I would wish to see them conquered, disarmed, their military forever removed, every single member of their government dragged to a quick tribunal and shot. That is still quite different from killing everyone down to every newborn child.
Nothing personal really, I guess that is the scenario, but calling not committing genocide on a scale shadowing everything that happened in the whole history of manking "literally inhuman restraint" seriously creeps me out. Are you sure your planners haven't returned their membership card to humanity quite some decades ago? Or do you mean by "literally inhuman" that those in power are indeed the Lizard People?
I can't get into Hegel as a German myself. I recommend reading Schopenhauer's critique on Hegel instead. His language is actually understandable and he brings everything that is wrong with Hegel to a point.
We probably won't lose a century of technological progress - but the the pain will be bad when the prices really start to take off. The one number that has me scared: for each calorie of food produced, 10 calories of petroleum are invested, 7 of those in transport. Well, those were three numbers, but you get the point. Each of the invested calories is of course replaceable, but at what price, and for what shortterm consequences?
Think any nuclear sub stays up for 8 minutes? Let alone long enough to be detected + 8 minutes? Cool tech, but no real use for it. You guys could wipe the floor with the Chinese navy as is, anyway.
Give it up. You can't argue with those. They are nuts from a scientific standpoint, and heretics from just about every theological standpoint outside their own echo chamber. You can't reasonably talk with people who willingly lie, cheat and distort every fact to fit their "theory".
It is your option to shit on reason, but if you do it, could you please refrain from using a nick that besmirches Aristoteles in the process? Thanks a lot.
Ah, but the "crocodile people" in the Mediterranean according to Illium were the Calibani - no ancient myth, this is directly ripped from Shakespeare's Storm. Caliban was the slave of the sorceror Prospero in that piece. The whole book is a wierd Homer/Shakespeare crossover. Highly recommendable by the way.
I would fully support you to spam Slashdot in protest on your own. That is what is happening here - this is not a rented botnet, these are thousands of people setting their boxes up to spam Amazon. You are free to try such a movement going if Slashdot bans you. Good luck. The difference is, that no one will care for your case.
Freedom of press is not a privilege. There are no obligations with it. Apart from that, yes, Mastercard is not suppressing the freedom of the press on its own account, I never said that. They are assisting the government with it. That makes them a bunch of spineless collaborators.
Thanks for clarifying that you are a groveling little lickspittle. How's the arse of your corporate overlords tasting today? The sweet smell of submission and obedience as always?
One of them is a member of the press distributing information, one of them is a business collaborating with a government in the suppression of freedom of the press. Do you see a difference there?
That might very well be, but since when is the answer to the government getting more totalitarian to cower in the shadows hoping that their next strike will hopefully pass you by? That's the spirit that enables dictatorships.
Fortunately for you, idiots aren't. If slashdot would delete your account and IP ban you for being a moronic wingnut, you'd scream bloody murder, censorship, freedom of speech. See the parallels?
The "Selbstschussanlagen" at the East German border were no automatic turrets. Just a fancier name for a claymore-type mine with a high directional characteristic. Basically the explosive force and shrapnel was directed by a funnel shaped "barrel". The whole thing was triggered by a tripwire.
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Ranting about someones spelling just to further one's barbaric and moronic agenda and then writing "capitol letters" gets "insightful" mods. Yeah, way to go here.
Ah, American neo-barbarism. Could you guys perhaps stop at just being civilized between your wild swings between barbarism and decadence, just for a while?
You won? News to me. The people of the Warsaw Pact countries won. They liberated themselves from their oppressive regimes. You stood on the sidelines, posturing and pissing away your national product on an armory of madness.
Now here's the lonely voice of sanity in this thread. If you ever decide to run for secretary of defense, call me for donations.
Listen, man. Retaliation is natural, of course. Retaliation is even necessary in this scenario, there is no question. But nuking a country to kill every inhabitant not only makes you a barbarian, it makes you an enemy of humanity.
I understand perfectly fine that there are people out there still being brutish and uncivilized. Considering "not killing everyone down to the last newborn" an act of inhuman restraint is a quite perfect example for it. What the hell is it with the false dichotomies? There are ways between "nuke em till they glow and shoot em in the dark" and "sing kumbaya".
As the other poster replying to you stated quite correctly, I never implied doing nothing. Of course, if someone willingly nuked my country, I would wish to see retaliation. I would wish to see them conquered, disarmed, their military forever removed, every single member of their government dragged to a quick tribunal and shot. That is still quite different from killing everyone down to every newborn child.
Nothing personal really, I guess that is the scenario, but calling not committing genocide on a scale shadowing everything that happened in the whole history of manking "literally inhuman restraint" seriously creeps me out. Are you sure your planners haven't returned their membership card to humanity quite some decades ago? Or do you mean by "literally inhuman" that those in power are indeed the Lizard People?
I can't get into Hegel as a German myself. I recommend reading Schopenhauer's critique on Hegel instead. His language is actually understandable and he brings everything that is wrong with Hegel to a point.
We probably won't lose a century of technological progress - but the the pain will be bad when the prices really start to take off. The one number that has me scared: for each calorie of food produced, 10 calories of petroleum are invested, 7 of those in transport. Well, those were three numbers, but you get the point. Each of the invested calories is of course replaceable, but at what price, and for what shortterm consequences?
Think any nuclear sub stays up for 8 minutes? Let alone long enough to be detected + 8 minutes? Cool tech, but no real use for it. You guys could wipe the floor with the Chinese navy as is, anyway.
That's kinda the trouble with a bunch of nerds constantly pouring ridicule on the "soft sciences". No skill at all in literary criticism.
Give it up. You can't argue with those. They are nuts from a scientific standpoint, and heretics from just about every theological standpoint outside their own echo chamber. You can't reasonably talk with people who willingly lie, cheat and distort every fact to fit their "theory".
It is your option to shit on reason, but if you do it, could you please refrain from using a nick that besmirches Aristoteles in the process? Thanks a lot.
Ah, but the "crocodile people" in the Mediterranean according to Illium were the Calibani - no ancient myth, this is directly ripped from Shakespeare's Storm. Caliban was the slave of the sorceror Prospero in that piece. The whole book is a wierd Homer/Shakespeare crossover. Highly recommendable by the way.
I would fully support you to spam Slashdot in protest on your own. That is what is happening here - this is not a rented botnet, these are thousands of people setting their boxes up to spam Amazon. You are free to try such a movement going if Slashdot bans you. Good luck. The difference is, that no one will care for your case.
Freedom of press is not a privilege. There are no obligations with it. Apart from that, yes, Mastercard is not suppressing the freedom of the press on its own account, I never said that. They are assisting the government with it. That makes them a bunch of spineless collaborators.
Thanks for clarifying that you are a groveling little lickspittle. How's the arse of your corporate overlords tasting today? The sweet smell of submission and obedience as always?
One of them is a member of the press distributing information, one of them is a business collaborating with a government in the suppression of freedom of the press. Do you see a difference there?
That might very well be, but since when is the answer to the government getting more totalitarian to cower in the shadows hoping that their next strike will hopefully pass you by? That's the spirit that enables dictatorships.
Fortunately for you, idiots aren't. If slashdot would delete your account and IP ban you for being a moronic wingnut, you'd scream bloody murder, censorship, freedom of speech. See the parallels?
Guess you'd have said the same 40 years ago about sit-ins?
Can as well upgrade half, heck, one quarter of Dylan's work. Come to think of it, no need for upgrades, it is as valid as ever.
Nope, they invited Kim Jong Il to that honour.
The "Selbstschussanlagen" at the East German border were no automatic turrets. Just a fancier name for a claymore-type mine with a high directional characteristic. Basically the explosive force and shrapnel was directed by a funnel shaped "barrel". The whole thing was triggered by a tripwire.