People don't understand that there are only 2 or 3 english speaking international news services in existence. I know I know newspapers bad, twitter good. BUT Reuters and AP are the only things left on the planet keeping us from having no real news AT ALL. This isn't about a format going into obscurity or some bloated giant dying. This is about news itself dying. The implications of that are staggering.
By your logic we could have ended the Iraq war by nuking all the major cities. And tell the Iraqis for each terrorist act you vow to kill 1000 civilians. The fight would be over sure. And no
US soldiers would die but at what cost? I realize I'm taking this to an extreme but that is the purpose of wartime conventions. To stop things from getting to far out of hand.
Also WP is a sticky cloud. It gets into your lungs and starts to cook you. On your arms it begins to burn taking off your hair and then burning off your skin slowly you turn black and holes start to punch through you. Eventually the stuff in your lungs makes it near impossible to breath until you have holes going right through you. You try to wash it off but the water only speeds up the process. You eventually suffocate with no lungs and die. The phosphorus keeps going, melts off your face burns out your eyes, blackens your bones leaving a skeletal zombie corpse behind. So yeah, most people prefer a bullet to WP.
They used WP in Vietnam as well just they used a ton of napalm. They also used forest killing chemical weapons. And a bunch of other shitty stuff. All that aside you think we would have learned since vietnam. It was a shitty horrible thing back then. The after effects were terrible. Why the fuck do it again?
It is a deal. Thats the purpose of war conventions. If you don't sign it you are fair game. Enjoy seeing US troops have their faces melt off from unconventional weapons. How about bio-warfare? Nuclear weapons? The idea is one of detente. You are supposed to bring down the horrors of war with these deals. If we did and believe me we CAN went the opposite direction. And had a war with the UK, gloves are off no treaties apply. There would be likely only a fraction of the population of the planet left standing within a month. I for one am happy that we do NOT have a nuclear powered cruise missile that kills everything it flies near for months, launching nuclear bombs as it goes. (Something the US had planned before detente came into effect)
I said slaughter not genocide... Anyways the scale wasn't the same but in Fallujah the US spat on the geneva conventions which it hasn't signed. Killed tons of innocents. Basically they got emotional because of the corpses hanging at the entrance to town and in turn slaughtered everyone the could.
Nope. They are nuts and holding a big gun. But spitting in their face isn't likely to get them drop the gun and play nice. Amazingly simple concept that the US doesn't seem to get.
No, I completely agree. I was thinking of the moon specifically. Honestly if I hadn't said asian space race and just said space race 2. I'd probably have listed the US amongst the countries trying to make it to space given recent history haha.
It is forbidden by the Geneva Convention. But I guess that is one of those unheard of unimportant ones right? The US merely hasn't signed it. So it is legal for the US. Just fantastically depressing knowing that you won't sign the fucking geneva convention.
War involves death, and innocent civilian death too. But do we need to highlight the worst atrocities committed by the US in recent time. Going into buildings and sweeping out families including children. Trapping groups of people with phosphorous then bombing them. If they are made out as heroes as I guess they will be since marines are part of the game making process it makes me sick.
If Fallujah is ok we should have a gas chamber game. You go around in a big truck and kill thousands of jews, I see no moral reprehensibility. (Is it still a Godwin if its relevant?)
Honestly though this is sick. It was a wholesale slaughter of people. Burning corpses hanging in chunks from buildings. People having their flesh burned to the bone while they are alive. I'm normally ok with this sort of thing but this is up there on the offensive scale. Not going to leave out the fact that the US violated weapons treaties are we?
It is new though. As more people adopt it more people will adopt it. (No that wasn't a typo). Its not like you are losing out anyways unless you live right beside a school or something. With support enough people will get it for the service to be useful.
But those laws are a joke and impossible to uphold ANYWAYS. Go find the original/. article on that and its all people laughing at how amazingly infeasible the law is.
Yeah I meant it more politically. They don't really have any allies near them. Thailand.... Iran?.... And the land they ARE attatched to, china and SK have giant fucking walls with lots of guns and hundreds of guards. Not exactly Europe where you can drive through. To get into the country you go by plane not by car which basically means it is an island. Impressed only you chewed me out about that haha.
Oh don't get me wrong. He is definately batshit crazy. And hes not a misunderstood saint. BUT we haven't helped. And spitting in their face doesnt help. And while the party might be batshit crazy not all of northkoreans are fans of living in poverty starving to death. I'm sure they are open to seeing alternatives. And while nk gov is batshit crazy i dont think they are stupid enough to fire their handful of shitty dirty bombs. It serves no purpose. Thats my point, when you view a country as evil you cant think straight. They might be selfserving and all that. But their is no advantage to NK for firing their nukes at anything.
Anyways sorry about the messiness and lack of fact checking. It wasn't meant to be an essay I typed it in about 10minutes without using any references. Thanks for making it through the whole thing.
Sure Craigslist might be big when it comes to... 'traditionally styled classified ads on the internet'. But classified ads are just a means to sell your crap. I'm sure the amount of crap sold on Ebay is taking a huge slice of that pie, a slice bigger than Craigslist. Amazing that this slipped by...
Read your history. When the republican party took control the deal was essentially killed. The fuel/electricity provided was rarely enough or very late. And the only reason that was provided at all was emergency funds and international support. With the reps in control the normalized trade never happened (the biggest part of the deal). Funding to build replacement powerplants didn't happen so people had to beg the international community to pay for it since the US wouldn't. NK warned repetatively that if the US did not keep up its end they would restart research. The powerplants they were promised didn't start until years later. The funds were late. The economic sanctions were never lifted. For NKs end, NK did stop research. They shut down their reactors as asked. They submitted to searches. And begun dismantling the reactors. What more could you possibly expect?
First off, we know that NK does NOT have nuclear weapons. So please be quiet about them nuking everything.
Secondly, it would make no sense at all for NK to shoot anything. They are isolated, NK might make poor decisions but they won't choose to get every cubic meter of NK bombed.
We also know Kim is full of himself. If he lived 5000years ago we would have people building him giant pyramids as monuments to his greatness. At the moment, the greatest achievement a country can make is space travel. Sure the US did it first so what? Right now china, japan and india have space programs and hope to stick a man on the moon. Space Race Asian Edition. Many countries think NK is a crazy backwards land that can't do anything since they are under a horrible tyrannical rule. If anyone felt that way about you wouldn't you want to prove them wrong? Show them how awesome and advanced you are by making it into space.
NK is a bit nutty and isolated from the world. Clearly they must be assholes. But lets look at both sides. The korean war 'ended' poorly sure. Remember the end of WW1 where the global community basically fucked Germany in the ass after winning? Which lead to the bitchiness allowing/causing WW2. A mistake we did not repeat after WW2. So we decide to not trade with NK. Even put up trade barriers/embargoes internationally. Many thousands of people starve in North Korea while the world at large says, give up tyranny and we'll help you eat. (how well does that work?). North Korea is stuck on an island with enemies to the south. Enemies that are much better funded and better armed. They are also probably jealous of the fact and maybe a little pissed that their neighbors are doing so well. They need a bargaining chip. NK starts developing nuclear technology in the early 90s. Out of fear the US promises to provide electricity and normalized trade in exchange NK would disassemble their nuclear plants and join the NNPT. Korea agrees! They take apart their factories. The US changes to the republican party. They do not provide electricity, they do not normalize trade, they spit in NKs face. Bush calls NK part of the axis of evil and lists them as elligable for preemptive nuclear strikes. How the fuck the north koreans are the badguys in this one is beyond me. They were willing to normalize international relations given the chance and it was thrown in their face. So of course they will begin work on nuclear weapons again, they need a bargaining chip.
Clearly NK does not have a good human rights record. Clearly it is terrible that people are starving. But the US policy of Good vs Evil is NOT helpful. Isolating a country, not letting them trade with you, threatening them, hating them does not help. I don't understand the idea that we can fix the problem by giving them an ultimatum they cannot possibly accept then never talking. It is like the 'hard on crime' laws that never seem to help either. Maybe if we offered a hand to NK that we dont use to stab them with they'll be a bit more trusting. Maybe with more money and education, a link to the rest of the world they can join us. A country cannot be evil it isn't a demon or even a person. If we keep going as we have how can you EVER expect countries like North Korea and Cuba to rejoin the rest of us, or maybe the truth is you don't really care.
What does that have to do with open source? With closed source games you can run such a hack without much difficulty. Granted it could be harder but not a big deal. Client-side hacking can always be done.
The problem is not that the game is free as in libre but free as in cash. You can make an infinite amount of hack detecting tools. But if you don't charge people for the game you can't punish them. Ban them? and they will be back in minutes. They only reason client-side isn't CONSTANTLY hacked in games is because if you fuck up and get busted you are out 10~60$ which ruins the point. Client side hacking in MMOs can be stopped, instead of losing money you lose your character if you get busted. Not quite as unstoppable but it cuts back on hacking a decent amount.
When you look at offered services, % of people covered and a handful of healthservice benchmarks. NOT life expectancy because of unhealthy lifestyles. The figures are equally pitiful.
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People don't understand that there are only 2 or 3 english speaking international news services in existence. I know I know newspapers bad, twitter good. BUT Reuters and AP are the only things left on the planet keeping us from having no real news AT ALL. This isn't about a format going into obscurity or some bloated giant dying. This is about news itself dying. The implications of that are staggering.
By your logic we could have ended the Iraq war by nuking all the major cities. And tell the Iraqis for each terrorist act you vow to kill 1000 civilians. The fight would be over sure. And no US soldiers would die but at what cost? I realize I'm taking this to an extreme but that is the purpose of wartime conventions. To stop things from getting to far out of hand.
Also WP is a sticky cloud. It gets into your lungs and starts to cook you. On your arms it begins to burn taking off your hair and then burning off your skin slowly you turn black and holes start to punch through you. Eventually the stuff in your lungs makes it near impossible to breath until you have holes going right through you. You try to wash it off but the water only speeds up the process. You eventually suffocate with no lungs and die. The phosphorus keeps going, melts off your face burns out your eyes, blackens your bones leaving a skeletal zombie corpse behind. So yeah, most people prefer a bullet to WP.
Err so everyone that pays taxes qualifies as an enemy combatant during war? I certainly have never heard that definition before.
They used WP in Vietnam as well just they used a ton of napalm. They also used forest killing chemical weapons. And a bunch of other shitty stuff. All that aside you think we would have learned since vietnam. It was a shitty horrible thing back then. The after effects were terrible. Why the fuck do it again?
Unless he personally participated or has overwhelming pride for said atrocities it isn't hypocritical...
It is a deal. Thats the purpose of war conventions. If you don't sign it you are fair game. Enjoy seeing US troops have their faces melt off from unconventional weapons. How about bio-warfare? Nuclear weapons? The idea is one of detente. You are supposed to bring down the horrors of war with these deals. If we did and believe me we CAN went the opposite direction. And had a war with the UK, gloves are off no treaties apply. There would be likely only a fraction of the population of the planet left standing within a month. I for one am happy that we do NOT have a nuclear powered cruise missile that kills everything it flies near for months, launching nuclear bombs as it goes. (Something the US had planned before detente came into effect)
I said slaughter not genocide... Anyways the scale wasn't the same but in Fallujah the US spat on the geneva conventions which it hasn't signed. Killed tons of innocents. Basically they got emotional because of the corpses hanging at the entrance to town and in turn slaughtered everyone the could.
Nope. They are nuts and holding a big gun. But spitting in their face isn't likely to get them drop the gun and play nice. Amazingly simple concept that the US doesn't seem to get.
No, I completely agree. I was thinking of the moon specifically. Honestly if I hadn't said asian space race and just said space race 2. I'd probably have listed the US amongst the countries trying to make it to space given recent history haha.
It is forbidden by the Geneva Convention. But I guess that is one of those unheard of unimportant ones right? The US merely hasn't signed it. So it is legal for the US. Just fantastically depressing knowing that you won't sign the fucking geneva convention.
War involves death, and innocent civilian death too. But do we need to highlight the worst atrocities committed by the US in recent time. Going into buildings and sweeping out families including children. Trapping groups of people with phosphorous then bombing them. If they are made out as heroes as I guess they will be since marines are part of the game making process it makes me sick.
White phosphorus is even better than napalm.
If Fallujah is ok we should have a gas chamber game. You go around in a big truck and kill thousands of jews, I see no moral reprehensibility. (Is it still a Godwin if its relevant?)
Honestly though this is sick. It was a wholesale slaughter of people. Burning corpses hanging in chunks from buildings. People having their flesh burned to the bone while they are alive. I'm normally ok with this sort of thing but this is up there on the offensive scale. Not going to leave out the fact that the US violated weapons treaties are we?
It is new though. As more people adopt it more people will adopt it. (No that wasn't a typo). Its not like you are losing out anyways unless you live right beside a school or something. With support enough people will get it for the service to be useful.
But those laws are a joke and impossible to uphold ANYWAYS. Go find the original /. article on that and its all people laughing at how amazingly infeasible the law is.
Yeah I meant it more politically. They don't really have any allies near them. Thailand.... Iran? .... And the land they ARE attatched to, china and SK have giant fucking walls with lots of guns and hundreds of guards. Not exactly Europe where you can drive through. To get into the country you go by plane not by car which basically means it is an island. Impressed only you chewed me out about that haha.
Oh don't get me wrong. He is definately batshit crazy. And hes not a misunderstood saint. BUT we haven't helped. And spitting in their face doesnt help. And while the party might be batshit crazy not all of northkoreans are fans of living in poverty starving to death. I'm sure they are open to seeing alternatives.
And while nk gov is batshit crazy i dont think they are stupid enough to fire their handful of shitty dirty bombs. It serves no purpose. Thats my point, when you view a country as evil you cant think straight. They might be selfserving and all that. But their is no advantage to NK for firing their nukes at anything.
Anyways sorry about the messiness and lack of fact checking. It wasn't meant to be an essay I typed it in about 10minutes without using any references. Thanks for making it through the whole thing.
Sure Craigslist might be big when it comes to ... 'traditionally styled classified ads on the internet'. But classified ads are just a means to sell your crap. I'm sure the amount of crap sold on Ebay is taking a huge slice of that pie, a slice bigger than Craigslist. Amazing that this slipped by...
There is a japanese /. which clearly allows for more characters. I'm sure it would take them whole minutes to transfer the hack.
You can go into preferences and shut kdawson off if you like. So i fail to see the complaint.
So fix that?
Read your history. When the republican party took control the deal was essentially killed. The fuel/electricity provided was rarely enough or very late. And the only reason that was provided at all was emergency funds and international support. With the reps in control the normalized trade never happened (the biggest part of the deal). Funding to build replacement powerplants didn't happen so people had to beg the international community to pay for it since the US wouldn't. NK warned repetatively that if the US did not keep up its end they would restart research. The powerplants they were promised didn't start until years later. The funds were late. The economic sanctions were never lifted.
For NKs end, NK did stop research. They shut down their reactors as asked. They submitted to searches. And begun dismantling the reactors. What more could you possibly expect?
An alternate hypothesis.
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First off, we know that NK does NOT have nuclear weapons. So please be quiet about them nuking everything.
Secondly, it would make no sense at all for NK to shoot anything. They are isolated, NK might make poor decisions but they won't choose to get every cubic meter of NK bombed.
We also know Kim is full of himself. If he lived 5000years ago we would have people building him giant pyramids as monuments to his greatness. At the moment, the greatest achievement a country can make is space travel. Sure the US did it first so what? Right now china, japan and india have space programs and hope to stick a man on the moon. Space Race Asian Edition. Many countries think NK is a crazy backwards land that can't do anything since they are under a horrible tyrannical rule. If anyone felt that way about you wouldn't you want to prove them wrong? Show them how awesome and advanced you are by making it into space.
NK is a bit nutty and isolated from the world. Clearly they must be assholes. But lets look at both sides. The korean war 'ended' poorly sure. Remember the end of WW1 where the global community basically fucked Germany in the ass after winning? Which lead to the bitchiness allowing/causing WW2. A mistake we did not repeat after WW2. So we decide to not trade with NK. Even put up trade barriers/embargoes internationally. Many thousands of people starve in North Korea while the world at large says, give up tyranny and we'll help you eat. (how well does that work?). North Korea is stuck on an island with enemies to the south. Enemies that are much better funded and better armed. They are also probably jealous of the fact and maybe a little pissed that their neighbors are doing so well. They need a bargaining chip. NK starts developing nuclear technology in the early 90s. Out of fear the US promises to provide electricity and normalized trade in exchange NK would disassemble their nuclear plants and join the NNPT. Korea agrees! They take apart their factories. The US changes to the republican party. They do not provide electricity, they do not normalize trade, they spit in NKs face. Bush calls NK part of the axis of evil and lists them as elligable for preemptive nuclear strikes. How the fuck the north koreans are the badguys in this one is beyond me. They were willing to normalize international relations given the chance and it was thrown in their face. So of course they will begin work on nuclear weapons again, they need a bargaining chip.
Clearly NK does not have a good human rights record. Clearly it is terrible that people are starving. But the US policy of Good vs Evil is NOT helpful. Isolating a country, not letting them trade with you, threatening them, hating them does not help. I don't understand the idea that we can fix the problem by giving them an ultimatum they cannot possibly accept then never talking. It is like the 'hard on crime' laws that never seem to help either. Maybe if we offered a hand to NK that we dont use to stab them with they'll be a bit more trusting. Maybe with more money and education, a link to the rest of the world they can join us. A country cannot be evil it isn't a demon or even a person. If we keep going as we have how can you EVER expect countries like North Korea and Cuba to rejoin the rest of us, or maybe the truth is you don't really care.
(man this went longer than I intended, sorry
What does that have to do with open source? With closed source games you can run such a hack without much difficulty. Granted it could be harder but not a big deal. Client-side hacking can always be done.
The problem is not that the game is free as in libre but free as in cash. You can make an infinite amount of hack detecting tools. But if you don't charge people for the game you can't punish them. Ban them? and they will be back in minutes. They only reason client-side isn't CONSTANTLY hacked in games is because if you fuck up and get busted you are out 10~60$ which ruins the point. Client side hacking in MMOs can be stopped, instead of losing money you lose your character if you get busted. Not quite as unstoppable but it cuts back on hacking a decent amount.
Go to any speed test site and the fastest recorded tests will be in gunma japan someplace.
When you look at offered services, % of people covered and a handful of healthservice benchmarks. NOT life expectancy because of unhealthy lifestyles. The figures are equally pitiful.