But when you are in a gold rush you don't spend time making detailed maps, building beautiful camps for the miners, setting up a day care, and otherwise making everything perfect. You yell "Charge!" and run at the enemy with your sword waving above your head.
Uh, what? Were you a speechwriter for George Bush or something? Talk about disconnects... *shakes head as if to clear it*
You're full of shit. Not a single country on the fucking planet has "open borders".
HAHAhahahaHAHAhahaha... *catches breath, wipes tear from eye*
Thanks, I really needed that.
BTW, JSYK, I can get on a train right now here in Stockholm, travel through about a *dozen* countries, and *never* show a passport. Cheers.
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It's quite easy to make grand-sounding statements like this. It also marks you as someone who should never be trusted with the command of any military unit, ever.
Ahh, so you have never heard of General George S. Patton then?
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
Exactly. You expend the minimum amount of force needed to obtain your objective. You conserve your resources whilst forcing your opponent to expend his. *This* is how wars are won, not by going all gung-ho.
As for Vietnam, the reasons the US did not achieve its objective there is simple: It did not *have* a clear objective, and ended up fighting a protracted holding action to preserve a corrupt and inept régime that otherwise would probably have collapsed on its own eventually, even without being helped out of power by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong.
The really senseless thing about Vietnam is that Ho Chi Minh wanted to be a US ally, and we told him to go fuck himself.
And you might call that thing that went on for ~100 hours a "battle", but I have another word for anything with a result that lopsided: "massacre". You do realise that by destroying the Iraqi Army in that fashion, the US virtually guaranteed that the country would fall into the chaos into which it has indeed fallen, don't you?
As Heinlein said, spanking a baby with an axe is neither nice nor warranted.
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You hit the enemy with everything, 100% of the available force, hold nothing back, obliterate them...
It's quite easy to make grand-sounding statements like this. It also marks you as someone who should never be trusted with the command of any military unit, ever.
You're using "steal" in a context where it doesn't really seem to apply. What exactly do you mean by "steal"? Are you implying that the Indian government intends to use FOSS software without respecting the license? What evidence have you in support of this?
O child of privilege and leisure, you really have not a blessed clue, have you?
The poor are the MOST affected by climate change. For example, they can't just turn on the A/C or hop in the SUV and drive up to the Poconos to cool off when it's too hot for comfort, like you can. And most likely do.
You conveniently glossed over the fact that the study was concerned with *violent* pornography and *depictions of rape*.
It was not about videos that simply show consenting adults naked and/or fucking. It was about videos that show (or re-enact) the commission of violent sex crimes.
Not the same thing at all. But, hey, thanks for playing.
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Not sure how a fairly relevant quote from KITH gets modded as Flamebait.
Perhaps someone needs to see the film?
Now that I've calmed about a bit... (You couldn't tell I was pissed off? No, really?)
This is why I quit using Windows 10 years ago: MY machine, which does what *I* tell it to do.
Or I get out a Linux or FreeBSD install CD.
And if *that* doesn't work, I get out a sledgehammer.
Fuck you
I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you
I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you
I won't do what you tell me
Fuck you
I won't do what you tell me
Translation: I do *not* intend to just "get used to it", and Peter Bright can kiss my shiny white gluteus.
Or you could, you know, go to an ATM, withdraw some cash, then walk into $shop and buy one there, using the cash...
You do realise that over here in Europe, we have *Christian Socialist* parties in a number of countries, don't you? Just thought I'd ask...
The authorities in at least 2 US states (Indiana, Massachusetts) beg to differ.
They concluded that Planned Parenthood is not engaged in *any* such transfer of bodies or even bits of them, not even through donations.
Let's see your videos that you're so confident in that you couldn't be bothered to link to them, shall we?
Be sure to let us know who's prepared to go on the record as to their authenticity and provenance, too.
We want to know!
That assertion has so many different kinds of stupid and wrong wrapped up in it that I don't know where to begin.
They never heard of the Elixir sulfanilamide incident.
Neither had I. The first result from a quick search makes for some chilling reading.
Thanks for that--I think.
Government is bad because--Uncle Joe Stalin!
Makes perfect sense to me.
"But it was just a few flipper babies...!" --Brain Candy
... Starbucks, who created a pseudo-coffee-language such that customers could control every detail of the coffee they ordered.
Does that now include, "Stop burning the fucking beans!"?
But when you are in a gold rush you don't spend time making detailed maps, building beautiful camps for the miners, setting up a day care, and otherwise making everything perfect. You yell "Charge!" and run at the enemy with your sword waving above your head.
Uh, what? Were you a speechwriter for George Bush or something? Talk about disconnects... *shakes head as if to clear it*
You're full of shit. Not a single country on the fucking planet has "open borders".
HAHAhahahaHAHAhahaha... *catches breath, wipes tear from eye*
Thanks, I really needed that.
BTW, JSYK, I can get on a train right now here in Stockholm, travel through about a *dozen* countries, and *never* show a passport. Cheers.
It's quite easy to make grand-sounding statements like this. It also marks you as someone who should never be trusted with the command of any military unit, ever.
Ahh, so you have never heard of General George S. Patton then?
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
Exactly. You expend the minimum amount of force needed to obtain your objective. You conserve your resources whilst forcing your opponent to expend his. *This* is how wars are won, not by going all gung-ho.
As for Vietnam, the reasons the US did not achieve its objective there is simple: It did not *have* a clear objective, and ended up fighting a protracted holding action to preserve a corrupt and inept régime that otherwise would probably have collapsed on its own eventually, even without being helped out of power by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong.
The really senseless thing about Vietnam is that Ho Chi Minh wanted to be a US ally, and we told him to go fuck himself.
And you might call that thing that went on for ~100 hours a "battle", but I have another word for anything with a result that lopsided: "massacre". You do realise that by destroying the Iraqi Army in that fashion, the US virtually guaranteed that the country would fall into the chaos into which it has indeed fallen, don't you?
As Heinlein said, spanking a baby with an axe is neither nice nor warranted.
You hit the enemy with everything, 100% of the available force, hold nothing back, obliterate them...
It's quite easy to make grand-sounding statements like this. It also marks you as someone who should never be trusted with the command of any military unit, ever.
Dear Sir|Ma'am|Flipper,
You're using "steal" in a context where it doesn't really seem to apply. What exactly do you mean by "steal"? Are you implying that the Indian government intends to use FOSS software without respecting the license? What evidence have you in support of this?
Thanks!
Then don't appeal to genetics to make your case for what's obviously a social and cultural issue.
Eh, what?
I'm a Buddhist, and I live in Sweden.
Care to try again?
And another got shot in his bed in Pakistan.
O child of privilege and leisure, you really have not a blessed clue, have you?
The poor are the MOST affected by climate change. For example, they can't just turn on the A/C or hop in the SUV and drive up to the Poconos to cool off when it's too hot for comfort, like you can. And most likely do.
Please engage sarcasm detector, then read it again.
Nice mixture of racism and social Darwinism you've managed to concoct there, but shouldn't you be off attending a Hitler Youth meeting or something?
You conveniently glossed over the fact that the study was concerned with *violent* pornography and *depictions of rape*.
It was not about videos that simply show consenting adults naked and/or fucking. It was about videos that show (or re-enact) the commission of violent sex crimes.
Not the same thing at all. But, hey, thanks for playing.
Usually I'm with you. But this time you're (over)reacting to a phrase.
Congratulations and welcome to Slashdot.
Your eyeglasses with attached rubber nose & fake moustache are in the mail.