even if he managed earth walking speeds of 4kmph it would take him 2.7 hours to get there, so he would have under 4 hours to do his stuff before he had to turn around and go home before his oxygen ran out. If he had a vehicle to ride there in, why not just turn that into a big rover instead?
As Opposed to the American football nanobots which wear so much padding to play they are no longer nanoscale.
We need nano rugby, get these bots in a scrum, punching each other in the quarks when the ref isn't looking, that's a real test of the hardest nanobot.
Yes, and we regard the killing of civilians in eastern Europe by firing squads as terrible war crimes, yet the killing of civilians in Britain by advanced rocket attacks and dropping anti personal mines on cities are not seen as great war crimes?
Maybe because our side did the same things to them with firebombing and atomic bombings of Axis cities, or maybe because those things were done with advanced technology, by people miles away, not by the shooting and hanging of civilians by men using their own hands to kill.
You heard it here first. If you have a gun, you're not a civilian, you're a legitimate military target.
You can cut the 9/11 civilian death toll to 1650, cos 45% of Americans have guns! the other 1350 were legitimate military targets not civilians!
Seriously tho, that's just a bullshit anecdote you pulled from ur ass, go check out IBC, they have pretty strict methodology. maybe precise percentage points are a bit too far but its a decent distance between them, there'd need to be tens of thousands of insurgents classed as civillians to draw even, and lets recall that many other studies are way way higher than IBC, I picked it cos it's reliable, i could have gone with the lancet's estimates of 654,965 deaths and got a figure of something like 90%.
Also don't forget to spread you logic both ways. How many civilians in WW2 were bomb wielding French resistance fighters, or in unofficial soviet militias? How many resistance fighters in Finland? How many Chinese people had guns and fought against the Japanese but weren't in the army?
Insurgent, coalition and Iraqi security forces deaths are from casualties.org, and civilian deaths are from the minimum figure from Iraq body count. So these are all deaths confirmed by report, so that's the minimum percentage, as the estimated maximum deaths of civilians by most studys is higher than the confirmed figure by IBC. The number of coalition deaths and security forces deaths is pretty definite, and I hardly think the coalition troops are going to claim they have killed less insurgents than they really have.
Blah, flushing all my moderation here but I simply had to say something about this.
We have seen every development of new more advanced weapons lead to more and more killing and less and less regard for human life. Rather than stopping the killing of civilians, it just makes it more acceptable by giving cover to those who killed the civilians.
If a soldier goes into a town and stabs an innocent child with a sword, there is do doubt he is a murderer, if he shoots him with a rifle, then some people will be willing to believe it was an accident, a stray bullet, opps, if he man flys over in a plane and drops a bomb, oh well, theres always some collateral damage, the child isn't even acknowledged as a human being, the killer is 100% blameless.
Smart bombs are not to reduce civilian casualties but the make them acceptable, oh yes, we dropped these bombs all over civilian houses, we dropped them on this hospital, of this school, but these were smart bombs, they targeted the evil doers next door, all the innocent people that were still killed by the horrible shock wave were just collateral damage.
Oh we didn't drop that horrible weapon napalm on these people, be used this harmless white phosphorus for illumination, the civillians who had their faces burned off were just collateral damage.
These weapons will be used to kill everyone in the area just as before, except now they will have a new line. Oh we used a laser to get the evil doers, all these blind children with thier faces burned off are just collateral damage, theres a lot less of them than if we had used a normal bomb.
Whats that idea? Send in troops on the ground to actually find and shoot the bad guys rather than blast the whole neighbourhood from the air? That's crazy talk! But then an American might have died, and as you know 1 American soldier = 10000 Iraqi children, people back home might not support our important war for oil and Bushes approval ratings might go down if an American dies, we can't have that!
No, the chronophage grasshopper is the real working escapement, and the whole clock is 100% mechanical, there are no electronics except probably a few resistors to protect the blue LED's in the back.
no, we worship him cos he is the ultimate nerd, all he does is sit in a chair behind a computer all day. He never even gets up, he only moves 1 muscle to control his computer, he even communicates entirely through his computer all the time, that is something we can only aspire to.
lol, do you really think the USA, the country that said it would support a world court only if American soldiers were given immunity from prosecution, would collect and present such evidence of it's own people's actions?
Do you really expect a country that refused to apologise when one of it's warships entered another countries territorial waters then shot down a civilian airliner killing everyone on board, would provide evidence on it's own soldiers.
To be fair, there's probably not many countries that would, protecting their own no matter what crimes they commit is the MO of pretty much every police force and military in the world, and if they have a new excuse of 'the robot did it' they won't waste the opportunity.
The pattern we have always seen is new technology always leads to new ways to excuse the killing of civilians and other inhumane acts. If a man with a sword sticks it through an innocent kid, everyone would agree a war crime has been committed, if a man with a gun shoots the kid, some people will be willing to accept it's an accident, the kid was caught in the crossfire, stray bullet, if the man drops a bomb on the kid from a plane, it's just collateral damage, unavoidable, certainly not the pilots fault. If he does it from hundred of miles away with a robot, fuck knows, he'll probably get a medal or something.
Drill Sergeant: I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be sir. Do you maggots understand that?
It would be notable in the article about that particular episode of star trek, it would not be notable in an article about nuclear aggression during the cold war.
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even if he managed earth walking speeds of 4kmph it would take him 2.7 hours to get there, so he would have under 4 hours to do his stuff before he had to turn around and go home before his oxygen ran out. If he had a vehicle to ride there in, why not just turn that into a big rover instead?
What? Scotty was such a good engineer because he was kept free of dust by the wind?
I just never thought about it Whoopie.
As Opposed to the American football nanobots which wear so much padding to play they are no longer nanoscale.
We need nano rugby, get these bots in a scrum, punching each other in the quarks when the ref isn't looking, that's a real test of the hardest nanobot.
What? That was Dr Farnsworth when his horse lost in a quantum finish.
http://www.clipstr.com/videos/FuturamaAQuantumFinish/
It doesn't even make sense for a chess game.
Yes, and we regard the killing of civilians in eastern Europe by firing squads as terrible war crimes, yet the killing of civilians in Britain by advanced rocket attacks and dropping anti personal mines on cities are not seen as great war crimes?
Maybe because our side did the same things to them with firebombing and atomic bombings of Axis cities, or maybe because those things were done with advanced technology, by people miles away, not by the shooting and hanging of civilians by men using their own hands to kill.
You heard it here first. If you have a gun, you're not a civilian, you're a legitimate military target.
You can cut the 9/11 civilian death toll to 1650, cos 45% of Americans have guns! the other 1350 were legitimate military targets not civilians!
Seriously tho, that's just a bullshit anecdote you pulled from ur ass, go check out IBC, they have pretty strict methodology. maybe precise percentage points are a bit too far but its a decent distance between them, there'd need to be tens of thousands of insurgents classed as civillians to draw even, and lets recall that many other studies are way way higher than IBC, I picked it cos it's reliable, i could have gone with the lancet's estimates of 654,965 deaths and got a figure of something like 90%.
Also don't forget to spread you logic both ways. How many civilians in WW2 were bomb wielding French resistance fighters, or in unofficial soviet militias? How many resistance fighters in Finland? How many Chinese people had guns and fought against the Japanese but weren't in the army?
oops, should say icasualties.org
Insurgent, coalition and Iraqi security forces deaths are from casualties.org, and civilian deaths are from the minimum figure from Iraq body count. So these are all deaths confirmed by report, so that's the minimum percentage, as the estimated maximum deaths of civilians by most studys is higher than the confirmed figure by IBC. The number of coalition deaths and security forces deaths is pretty definite, and I hardly think the coalition troops are going to claim they have killed less insurgents than they really have.
In WW2 62.2% of deaths were civilian
In Iraq, 77.1% of deaths have been civilian.
This frosty seems to have melted and slid down the page 6 places.
Blah, flushing all my moderation here but I simply had to say something about this.
We have seen every development of new more advanced weapons lead to more and more killing and less and less regard for human life. Rather than stopping the killing of civilians, it just makes it more acceptable by giving cover to those who killed the civilians.
If a soldier goes into a town and stabs an innocent child with a sword, there is do doubt he is a murderer, if he shoots him with a rifle, then some people will be willing to believe it was an accident, a stray bullet, opps, if he man flys over in a plane and drops a bomb, oh well, theres always some collateral damage, the child isn't even acknowledged as a human being, the killer is 100% blameless.
Smart bombs are not to reduce civilian casualties but the make them acceptable, oh yes, we dropped these bombs all over civilian houses, we dropped them on this hospital, of this school, but these were smart bombs, they targeted the evil doers next door, all the innocent people that were still killed by the horrible shock wave were just collateral damage.
Oh we didn't drop that horrible weapon napalm on these people, be used this harmless white phosphorus for illumination, the civillians who had their faces burned off were just collateral damage.
These weapons will be used to kill everyone in the area just as before, except now they will have a new line. Oh we used a laser to get the evil doers, all these blind children with thier faces burned off are just collateral damage, theres a lot less of them than if we had used a normal bomb.
Whats that idea? Send in troops on the ground to actually find and shoot the bad guys rather than blast the whole neighbourhood from the air? That's crazy talk! But then an American might have died, and as you know 1 American soldier = 10000 Iraqi children, people back home might not support our important war for oil and Bushes approval ratings might go down if an American dies, we can't have that!
when the parent said banker, he meant a merchant banker
No, the chronophage grasshopper is the real working escapement, and the whole clock is 100% mechanical, there are no electronics except probably a few resistors to protect the blue LED's in the back.
no, we worship him cos he is the ultimate nerd, all he does is sit in a chair behind a computer all day. He never even gets up, he only moves 1 muscle to control his computer, he even communicates entirely through his computer all the time, that is something we can only aspire to.
lol, do you really think the USA, the country that said it would support a world court only if American soldiers were given immunity from prosecution, would collect and present such evidence of it's own people's actions?
Do you really expect a country that refused to apologise when one of it's warships entered another countries territorial waters then shot down a civilian airliner killing everyone on board, would provide evidence on it's own soldiers.
To be fair, there's probably not many countries that would, protecting their own no matter what crimes they commit is the MO of pretty much every police force and military in the world, and if they have a new excuse of 'the robot did it' they won't waste the opportunity.
The pattern we have always seen is new technology always leads to new ways to excuse the killing of civilians and other inhumane acts. If a man with a sword sticks it through an innocent kid, everyone would agree a war crime has been committed, if a man with a gun shoots the kid, some people will be willing to accept it's an accident, the kid was caught in the crossfire, stray bullet, if the man drops a bomb on the kid from a plane, it's just collateral damage, unavoidable, certainly not the pilots fault. If he does it from hundred of miles away with a robot, fuck knows, he'll probably get a medal or something.
Drill Sergeant: I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be sir. Do you maggots understand that?
Recruits: Sir, yes sir.
Helmet: What a dickhead.
They mixed up the price they say it cost, and what it really cost to fake it in a film studio.
No, because that was the exact opposite.
I have a pet loach that lives in a cute little concrete cave in my fishtank, and you have just insulted it.
No, the USA only gives money to Israel for things that involve killing Arabs.
ummm, yea, I mean wasn't that established by Catherine Zeta-Jones vs Hello magazine.
Hey, it's not my fault that Bush is walking semi-talking stereotype.
It would be notable in the article about that particular episode of star trek, it would not be notable in an article about nuclear aggression during the cold war.
As far as I know, no kid ever went into his school and murdered his classmates with his gay parent's marriage certificate.