That's awesome, actually. Well, thank him for/that/ particular service, has to be rough if he's open about it.
Like I said... I'm biased... I look at a lack of hesitation as good training. I heard a saying in basic - "Ready, aim, fire, yours, theirs, bodycount and regrets - in that order." and while we could argue all day about the morality of striking targets with no feasible means of fighting back (foot vs chopper) they did everything according to procedure - a procedure that's designed to protect your significant other and my friends when they've got boots on the ground, so... that's a win in my book.
It sucks... but war isn't pretty and it never will be. I would butcher 100 to save 1000 - and our ROE save lives every day - don't forget it.
I'm biased. I was in the US Army. Now that that's out of the way -
Plenty of people join with nothing but the best intentions; if you think the guys actually pulling the trigger in that video don't lose sleep over it I don't think you know many soldiers. If you simply must condemn someone for that video, by all means - go after the people who attempted to cover it up. Not the poor guys who had to find out after watching the news that they killed innocent men.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. - William T. Sherman
But as we all know, games are routinely killing 4 player and even 2 player local multiplayer simply because it's more money to have 4 people each buy a copy and play online than to have everyone gather around an N64 for some slap matches. Oh how I wish the days of Goldeneye were back.
You're right, it's a very good point and something that I agree with - I'm simply stating that the amount that you do get is less than it used to be is all. Multiplayer gaming is still the best bang for your buck entertainment wise, I believe.
How is a story about a bookstore, particularly one as influential as Borders not "news for nerds." Don't get me wrong, I'm all for most of the/. hate when it's warranted but I think that you're incorrectly assuming "nerd" is a synonym for "technophile."
You're completely, 100% incorrect. In no way, shape or form was Bradley Manning a cause of that particular incident -- considering it's one of the first things that he leaked...
Please don't mod parent insightful, through no fault of his own - it's not correct.
This is a common misconception. While it is true that enlisted men (such as I used to be many years ago) swear their allegiance to the constitution, they also swear loyalty to their chain of command naming POTUS specifically.
Officers, on the other hand, do NOT swear loyalty to the President. This is specifically for this reason:
"I, _____ (SSAN), having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God." (DA Form 71, 1 August 1959, for officers.)
I personally don't like chocolate, so I can't vouch for that but to imply that for some reason European beer is any better or worse is asinine nationalistic bullshit.
Yeah, we've got swill like Bud Light. I'm sorry (I really am, honestly.) But we've also got Three Floyd's stout selection and Dogfish Head IPAs.
But to counter that, you've tried to match us in the suckfest that is mainstream beers by putting Champ next to the likes of Chimay or Denison's hefeweizen.
Very interesting. I imagine it is a little harder on you because you'll be going from country to country whereas in N. America I get cell reception pretty much everywhere I need to go. Cool though.
I'd also like to see a little more regulation on the credit card side of things -- why can't I arbitrarily limit what countries or states my credit card is good in? If credit cards by default didn't work overseas -- you had to call 1-800 and get them enabled in the specific countries you wanted them to work in -- that would help, too.
If you can make it harder to charge a credit card overseas, wire transfer money, etc, you might make it harder to profit from these kinds of crimes.
That's actually brilliant and I'm surprised that I've never heard anyone mention it before. If all it took was a call to the card companies to change the working status of your card in other states/countries that wouldn't even be inconvenient for a legitimate customer. And if the service was opt-in users who thought it was too much effort for security wouldn't ever have to deal with it.
Fair enough - one thing I thought of as well is that they're taking action to inform him directly, rather than just reporting at large. Intent probably plays a big part in it.
Let me get this straight - are you implying that somehow these morons on facebook had more information on the SWAT team's whereabouts than the journalists and were able to convey that information in twitter-sized morsels more effectively than a 1080i newscast?
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That's awesome, actually. Well, thank him for /that/ particular service, has to be rough if he's open about it.
Like I said... I'm biased... I look at a lack of hesitation as good training. I heard a saying in basic - "Ready, aim, fire, yours, theirs, bodycount and regrets - in that order." and while we could argue all day about the morality of striking targets with no feasible means of fighting back (foot vs chopper) they did everything according to procedure - a procedure that's designed to protect your significant other and my friends when they've got boots on the ground, so... that's a win in my book.
It sucks... but war isn't pretty and it never will be. I would butcher 100 to save 1000 - and our ROE save lives every day - don't forget it.
Plenty of people join with nothing but the best intentions; if you think the guys actually pulling the trigger in that video don't lose sleep over it I don't think you know many soldiers. If you simply must condemn someone for that video, by all means - go after the people who attempted to cover it up. Not the poor guys who had to find out after watching the news that they killed innocent men.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. - William T. Sherman
I don't understand what you're so defensive about, I never said that all games did it - it's just that more and more games are going that way now.
I miss when it was the standard; now it's the exception.
But as we all know, games are routinely killing 4 player and even 2 player local multiplayer simply because it's more money to have 4 people each buy a copy and play online than to have everyone gather around an N64 for some slap matches. Oh how I wish the days of Goldeneye were back.
Yeah, but generally other people would be upset if you retaliated by shooting that person in the face.
You're right, it's a very good point and something that I agree with - I'm simply stating that the amount that you do get is less than it used to be is all. Multiplayer gaming is still the best bang for your buck entertainment wise, I believe.
Of course, that's assuming that they don't kill whichever server you're attempting to connect to. Or now that CoD is moving to a pay-for-play model...
Call me crazy, but the amount of gaming you're able to get out of online-multiplayer titles is about to go down, drastically.
Do you honestly believe objects falling inside an atmosphere infinitely accelerate?
No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die.
How is a story about a bookstore, particularly one as influential as Borders not "news for nerds." Don't get me wrong, I'm all for most of the /. hate when it's warranted but I think that you're incorrectly assuming "nerd" is a synonym for "technophile."
You're completely, 100% incorrect. In no way, shape or form was Bradley Manning a cause of that particular incident -- considering it's one of the first things that he leaked...
This is a common misconception. While it is true that enlisted men (such as I used to be many years ago) swear their allegiance to the constitution, they also swear loyalty to their chain of command naming POTUS specifically.
Officers, on the other hand, do NOT swear loyalty to the President. This is specifically for this reason:
"I, _____ (SSAN), having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God." (DA Form 71, 1 August 1959, for officers.)
It at least explains why it stinks...
God I hope that wasn't a whoosh.
I personally don't like chocolate, so I can't vouch for that but to imply that for some reason European beer is any better or worse is asinine nationalistic bullshit.
Yeah, we've got swill like Bud Light. I'm sorry (I really am, honestly.) But we've also got Three Floyd's stout selection and Dogfish Head IPAs.
But to counter that, you've tried to match us in the suckfest that is mainstream beers by putting Champ next to the likes of Chimay or Denison's hefeweizen.
I like this as it would discourage these particular trolls from their 'income dragnet' of just accusing as many people as possible.
Good lord. You're an idiot, even by AC standards. I clearly have "Source." listed in the bottom of that post as a link.
Though I will give you the Gamestop comment though. Please excuse me for treating the word as synonymous with "store that sells videogames."
The game has already been out for a month. It was not published clearly on the outside of the box, just in the manual (and who RTFM around here?).
They're treating it as a success at capcom because Gamestop is paying 6$ for it used in the UK and in Japan.
Source.
I guess we can forgive you for not "hearing" the first time this joke was used in this article, given the context.
He would have, but it's already been implemented!
Very interesting. I imagine it is a little harder on you because you'll be going from country to country whereas in N. America I get cell reception pretty much everywhere I need to go. Cool though.
I'd also like to see a little more regulation on the credit card side of things -- why can't I arbitrarily limit what countries or states my credit card is good in? If credit cards by default didn't work overseas -- you had to call 1-800 and get them enabled in the specific countries you wanted them to work in -- that would help, too.
If you can make it harder to charge a credit card overseas, wire transfer money, etc, you might make it harder to profit from these kinds of crimes.
That's actually brilliant and I'm surprised that I've never heard anyone mention it before. If all it took was a call to the card companies to change the working status of your card in other states/countries that wouldn't even be inconvenient for a legitimate customer. And if the service was opt-in users who thought it was too much effort for security wouldn't ever have to deal with it.
Fair enough - one thing I thought of as well is that they're taking action to inform him directly, rather than just reporting at large. Intent probably plays a big part in it.
Let me get this straight - are you implying that somehow these morons on facebook had more information on the SWAT team's whereabouts than the journalists and were able to convey that information in twitter-sized morsels more effectively than a 1080i newscast?
Well, Philly is backwards - but it's not Southern.
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/sports/mlb/phillies/Osama_Bin_Laden_Dead_Citizens_Bank_Park_USA_Chants_050111
WARNING: Parent can't read, but thankfully the low-flying joke still whooshed right over his head.