That is why the defense of "just following orders" does not work. They were the ones giving the orders.
I'm not sure what you mean by that but there were certainly people executed for carrying out orders they didn't originate themselves. Nuremberg is hardly the epitome of justice, hell the first man to die was convicted of relaying an execution order against a group of Allied commandos captured while conducting military operations in civilian clothing, which made them unlawful combatants still entitled to "humane" treatment under the Geneva conventions but not protected against execution like ordinary uniformed prisoners.
Obviously, should the first German officer tried in an allied war trial be exonerated and released, it would be an embarrassment for the Roosevelt administration.
For that reason, the prosecutor and my father sent a wire to Washington, informing the administration of the situation. Shortly thereafter, the prosecuting officer received the reply: "Lacking standard evidence, hearsay will be accepted as evidence in the trial."
Many of the others were convicted of "waging wars of aggression."
After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico, and we were stripped down to nothing, territorial expansion suddenly becomes a crime. It's been going on for centuries, and it will still go on.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring#Nuremberg_Diary_.281947.29
Yeah so "justice" at Nuremberg makes a neat bedtime story but reality is important if you're going to cite it as precedent.
One madman with a nuke is worse than a peaceful leader with a thousand nukes.
So in other words it's ok for your leaders to have as many as they want, just not anyone else? I think that's what a lot of people in countries like Iran see in the US's strong opposition to any development of nukes: not a spirit of genuine concern against proliferation but a fear of any challenge to (Anglo-)American dominance. Bitterness is understandable, especially in consideration of the fact that the US effectively allows Israel free rein with regards to its nuclear production.
On a side note I find it embarrassing that the American media constantly implies Israel will be immediately obliterated if Iran is allowed to develop a primitive first nuke, while making no mention of the fact that Israel reportedly has hundreds of nukes with modern delivery vectors. Sigh, what ever happened to logic or reason?
Jingoistic propaganda is unlikely to work in most modern democracies, absent real attacks such as 9/11 (and even then, the effect seems quite limited)
This may be the first time I've heard the effects of 9/11 and subsequent fearmongering described as "limited." The creation of a new cabinet department, two foreign wars, and a major change in national consciousness qualifies as limited now huh? Have we gotten into Newspeak already?
Nah more like if they sold PS3's for $50 until their competitors withdrew from the market then jacked the price to $1500, but dumping isn't that big of an issue with luxury goods like game consoles anyway, because people will just stop buying them if the price is too high.
The robber barons were famous for doing that kind of thing to crush anyone who didn't bend to their will, but with more important goods (steel, oil). And now for some reason Carnegie and Rockefeller are names most people respect. So much for karma eh?
One of my history teachers in high school recommended Enemy at the Gates as a great historical view of the Battle of Stalingrad and the Eastern Front of WWII in general. The entire plot of that film is fictional and the battle scenes are laughably inaccurate (run into battle unarmed or be shot comrades!). Otherwise the guy was intelligent but lacking any proper information he chose to believe what he saw in the movies.
So, have the Germans learned their lesson of not eradicating groups that they disagree with, or that challenge their official morals?
I'd like to point out that most Germans alive today were born after 1945 so treating the entire ethnic group (I assume you're excluding the large modern immigrant population from your generalizations) as if it were a continuously existing entity is quite fallacious. Then again it's extremely common to do so in the US thanks to WWII in Europe being only briefly covered by primary/secondary schools and blatantly centered on the limited American role.
"We saved the world from a mass of nameless, faceless evil robots who wanted to destroy freedom" is all a student needs to know. Maybe if schools bothered to provide a little bit of context for the rise of Nazism, students could gain more than a fabricated feel good bedtime story about their grandfathers and actually apply it to becoming better informed, more aware citizens. That might lead them to question their government though, and God knows we can't have that.
Post to undo accidental modding. A long set of dropdown boxes that take effect immediately with no way to confirm or change...what could go wrong? (Or have I missed something?)
Oh, did I mention the engine is FAST? Probably one of the fastest engines ever written, in terms of "prettiness/speed ratio". It's just "another FPS", sure, that's a fact, but it's also by far one of the best. I don't know what your hardware configuration is, but the demo ran quite poorly on the auto detected settings (at 1280x960) for me and didn't look all that impressive.
With a: 7900GS X2 4000+ 2.1 Ghz 2GB DDR2
I'm redownloading the demo now to give it another run through because of everything good I've been hearing. Maybe I just need to tweak a few things manually.
Did you have to directly quote A Few Good Men? That trivializes the whole thing a bit.
The debate over the role of soldiers and their ability to question orders has been around for a long time. I believe the US military states somewhere that soldiers are obligated to refuse to carry out clearly immoral orders and explain the situation at their resulting court martial. Obviously the stresses of combat could interfere in practice, but that's the principle.
Doom 3 is cited for 3.5 million PC sales. Would you want to throw those out the window so you could kick the game out the door six months earlier in console only form?
I think they try to prevent any trademarked terms from being used in Gamertags. While that makes some sense, it seems pretty worthless to block two (three including Microsoft's own) of the tens of thousands of trademarked names and phrases in the US.
I doubt it's malicious. Just seems like an oddity to me.
any new attempts at creating a new nation will have to be based on a natural land mass. I think a combination of tubes and big trucks could solve this problem.
Right, because the kernel is so useful without any applications. Did you even read the line that you quoted? Can is the key word that you seem to have skipped over.
I have Vista, and haven't had my system crippled. Enough of zealotry already. I certainly hope you're not in the field of science. "The outcome in this individual observed case is clearly indicative of all others."
This has nothing to do with restricting free speech. This is about how far people who don't want to offend others (like major newspaper editors) will go. You personally are welcome to say whatever offensive material you can come up with as always, just don't expect it to land on the front page of the Washington Post.
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Just because China has a "communist" government doesn't mean they murder children at random. The Cold War is over, you can come outside now.
That is why the defense of "just following orders" does not work. They were the ones giving the orders.
I'm not sure what you mean by that but there were certainly people executed for carrying out orders they didn't originate themselves. Nuremberg is hardly the epitome of justice, hell the first man to die was convicted of relaying an execution order against a group of Allied commandos captured while conducting military operations in civilian clothing, which made them unlawful combatants still entitled to "humane" treatment under the Geneva conventions but not protected against execution like ordinary uniformed prisoners.
Obviously, should the first German officer tried in an allied war trial be exonerated and released, it would be an embarrassment for the Roosevelt administration. For that reason, the prosecutor and my father sent a wire to Washington, informing the administration of the situation. Shortly thereafter, the prosecuting officer received the reply: "Lacking standard evidence, hearsay will be accepted as evidence in the trial."
http://www.nd.edu/~com_sens/issues/old/v17/v17_n5.html#dostler
Many of the others were convicted of "waging wars of aggression."
After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico, and we were stripped down to nothing, territorial expansion suddenly becomes a crime. It's been going on for centuries, and it will still go on.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring#Nuremberg_Diary_.281947.29
Yeah so "justice" at Nuremberg makes a neat bedtime story but reality is important if you're going to cite it as precedent.
One madman with a nuke is worse than a peaceful leader with a thousand nukes.
So in other words it's ok for your leaders to have as many as they want, just not anyone else? I think that's what a lot of people in countries like Iran see in the US's strong opposition to any development of nukes: not a spirit of genuine concern against proliferation but a fear of any challenge to (Anglo-)American dominance. Bitterness is understandable, especially in consideration of the fact that the US effectively allows Israel free rein with regards to its nuclear production.
On a side note I find it embarrassing that the American media constantly implies Israel will be immediately obliterated if Iran is allowed to develop a primitive first nuke, while making no mention of the fact that Israel reportedly has hundreds of nukes with modern delivery vectors. Sigh, what ever happened to logic or reason?
Any signatory of the Schengen agreement?
I'm gonna have to call bullshit on employers paying taxes for their illegal immigrant workers. Got a source?
Jingoistic propaganda is unlikely to work in most modern democracies, absent real attacks such as 9/11 (and even then, the effect seems quite limited)
This may be the first time I've heard the effects of 9/11 and subsequent fearmongering described as "limited." The creation of a new cabinet department, two foreign wars, and a major change in national consciousness qualifies as limited now huh? Have we gotten into Newspeak already?
No, I am NOT an American
Evidently not.
Nah more like if they sold PS3's for $50 until their competitors withdrew from the market then jacked the price to $1500, but dumping isn't that big of an issue with luxury goods like game consoles anyway, because people will just stop buying them if the price is too high.
The robber barons were famous for doing that kind of thing to crush anyone who didn't bend to their will, but with more important goods (steel, oil). And now for some reason Carnegie and Rockefeller are names most people respect. So much for karma eh?
Downloading the flv (with Flashgot media or otherwise) then using FLV Extract is faster and will result in better quality audio.
Could this ultimately help Germany develop historical blind spots?
Unlikely as long as most people keep believing everything they see in Hollywood movies and the tired old holocaust film formula keeps winning awards.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-12-31/film/from-reverence-to-rape-in-defiance-and-good
One of my history teachers in high school recommended Enemy at the Gates as a great historical view of the Battle of Stalingrad and the Eastern Front of WWII in general. The entire plot of that film is fictional and the battle scenes are laughably inaccurate (run into battle unarmed or be shot comrades!). Otherwise the guy was intelligent but lacking any proper information he chose to believe what he saw in the movies.
So, have the Germans learned their lesson of not eradicating groups that they disagree with, or that challenge their official morals?
I'd like to point out that most Germans alive today were born after 1945 so treating the entire ethnic group (I assume you're excluding the large modern immigrant population from your generalizations) as if it were a continuously existing entity is quite fallacious. Then again it's extremely common to do so in the US thanks to WWII in Europe being only briefly covered by primary/secondary schools and blatantly centered on the limited American role.
"We saved the world from a mass of nameless, faceless evil robots who wanted to destroy freedom" is all a student needs to know. Maybe if schools bothered to provide a little bit of context for the rise of Nazism, students could gain more than a fabricated feel good bedtime story about their grandfathers and actually apply it to becoming better informed, more aware citizens. That might lead them to question their government though, and God knows we can't have that.
You must not have checked very recently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnoreligious#Jews
Secret Service you say? (Does not involve Rick Astley)
Edit - direct from LucasArts - "I can tell you definitively that there is no PC version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed planned."
I had less than an hour during the hurricane event in question
Wow, you were in Galveston? I can only imagine how ancient those screws are now.
Post to undo accidental modding. A long set of dropdown boxes that take effect immediately with no way to confirm or change...what could go wrong?
(Or have I missed something?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
You may have played one of the console versions. Half-Life 1 and 2 for the PC have very similar loading screens and do interrupt gameplay for them.
The invasion of the Soviet Union began in June, which is hardly winter.
With a:
7900GS
X2 4000+ 2.1 Ghz
2GB DDR2
I'm redownloading the demo now to give it another run through because of everything good I've been hearing. Maybe I just need to tweak a few things manually.
Did you have to directly quote A Few Good Men? That trivializes the whole thing a bit.
The debate over the role of soldiers and their ability to question orders has been around for a long time. I believe the US military states somewhere that soldiers are obligated to refuse to carry out clearly immoral orders and explain the situation at their resulting court martial. Obviously the stresses of combat could interfere in practice, but that's the principle.
PC games may sell more slowly than console games, but it's ridiculous to think that they're suddenly not profitable anymore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games
Doom 3 is cited for 3.5 million PC sales. Would you want to throw those out the window so you could kick the game out the door six months earlier in console only form?
I doubt it's malicious. Just seems like an oddity to me.
"The outcome in this individual observed case is clearly indicative of all others."
This has nothing to do with restricting free speech. This is about how far people who don't want to offend others (like major newspaper editors) will go. You personally are welcome to say whatever offensive material you can come up with as always, just don't expect it to land on the front page of the Washington Post.