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by berntb 13y ago
If I should put it simpler, in terms that is easy for you: You accept military solutions for combatants (combatants or in e.g. logistics) in conflicts with states. There are often no simple categories as either countries or individuals. The
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by berntb 13y ago
I get what you say, e.g. the NSA is not a practical problem as long as there isn't a McCarthy and economic depression scenario. Then you would literally risk a 1984 scenario. Point is, your distinction re "real" war definitio
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by berntb 13y ago
I don't know where you live, but the Swedish Green party still want to immediately start phasing out nuclear power. More CO2 for the world. (If the seas do have an ecological crash which makes the remaining eco systems go down, then an
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by berntb 13y ago
Again: Your point is that you are principally against killing US citizens in organisations that do violence against USA -- as long as the organisations aren't countries which you can declare war against. One word: Weird. You say a co
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by berntb 13y ago
>> As an [active participant] of a country with which Congress had declared war [it is ok to kill a target] Ok, so your problem is just that alQ is a non-country organization (after the Taliban fell, at least). There is no party to ma
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by berntb 13y ago
So you say Goebbels would not have been an ok US target during WW2, if he was an American citizen? (Sorry, I just can't see how it is ameliorating that the Nazi side did non-warcrime attacks too, in contrast to alQ? :-) )
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by berntb 13y ago
I thought that for a military bombing weapon, the drones have very good statistics for civilian causalities? (If they should be used to target the people they are targeting is another question.) (Also, terrorists that know they have a targe
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by berntb 13y ago
pron's point was [~ mainly] about the new languages from Google. nostrademons wrote mostly regarding what I wrote (and why it was wrong/simplified).
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by berntb 13y ago
That is a bit too harsh. But at a minimum -- check the references on those subjects.
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by berntb 13y ago
Not Pallywood, then? :-)
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by berntb 13y ago
Sometime the integrated pads/computers will be good for most people, but I (and Apple, it seems) doubt it is 2013 or 2014. The "concept" of Surface 2 is the same idea as the first, but maybe the execution is good enough to
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by berntb 13y ago
I always thought the Java love at Google came from needing speed more than a startup -- they automatically will get factors of ten more users directly for most everything they do. (Edit: Point is, "Java-like" is Google's op
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by berntb 13y ago
>>The need to easily type is vastly underrated IMO. You can use a bluetooth keyboard with iPad, there are cases with built in keyboards too. I assume the same is true for Android. Careful in your enthusiasm, you might sound like a fan
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by berntb 13y ago
>>Everything I've read says that 1 java server =~ 10 ruby servers I believe that is roughly correct. I'd add two points: - This goes about the same for all the scripting languages and the faster compiled languages. (+) - You
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by berntb 13y ago
I would have paid for PvZ 2. I didn't buy anything when playing, it would have felt like cheating.
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by berntb 13y ago
>>If anything is widespread, it's good old fashioned paranoia. Well, you will see this as paranoia then: There were lots of people arguing like you that there were no bubble -- just until it burst. For instance, this "everyo
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by berntb 13y ago
>>when the government has zero trust in us Oh, please. You know, I know and the governments know that somewhere between 0.1% and 1% of the population is a danger to the rest because of our fanatically held opinions. (Considering my
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by berntb 13y ago
That is three (and one coming). About the same as the number of iPhone models you can buy in a store. How many of those phones can you update in three years, like I just did for my iPhone 4? (An armless man can count them on his fingers? :-
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by berntb 13y ago
>>If you want to go Android - you can mostly get what you want :) As long as multiple requirements are met in a single device. For instance, if you want regular O/S upgrades you have about as many Android phones to choose between
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by berntb 13y ago
The admins seems to have stopped me answering pipi. I have already written the same answers repeatedly to the troll's "points" about why he doesn't need to answer mine/Obama's motivation for bombing.
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by berntb 13y ago
>> You see, all of the "trivial points" that you mention in the link above are all assumptions on your side, but not facts [1]. I've answered similar garbage repeatedly, so I'll just quote myself: " As I'
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by berntb 13y ago
>> Higher margin will eventually lead to lower prices. As long as countries don't have large economic areas based on corporativism, oligopolies and regulatory capture. More work against that is needed from economic liberals in e.
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by berntb 13y ago
>>[2]: Compare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Pharmacology and http://www.energyfiend.com/harmful-effects-of-caffeine Cough, was that completely honest? since you linked to Wikipedia for N
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by berntb 13y ago
>> It is Damian. Go. Agreed, it is well worth the risk of sanity loss. :-)
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by berntb 13y ago
In this comment, pipy wrote: >> I sincerely don't understand what you're talking about. >>What "counter argument" I refuse to touch, in your opinion? pipy "sincerely" lie -- in his previous comment
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by berntb 13y ago
>>Finnish scores are constantly better than almost equally homogenous Norway. Uh, considering the high immigration into Norway -- can you back that up? (Finland is more like the rest of the EU in immigration.)
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by berntb 13y ago
Well, first let me say that the US health care system seems like the worst one in the Western world. We skip comparing with that. [Edit: In Scandinavia] If you pay taxes for health care etc -- then someone else decides the priorities. This
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by berntb 13y ago
Damien scares me a bit, despite that you could probably earn money making a teddybear looking like him and sell to kids. :-) When he talks, you get the feeling it are thoughts that should not be thought; like going crazy from seeing Cthulhu
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by berntb 13y ago
To, sigh, go even more off topic. I like my metal a bit less melodic. :-) Meshuggah, Nile, Dillinger Escape Plan, etc. Not the extreme stuff (when Darkthrone's "Blaze in the northern sky" gave me a headache; then I knew I was
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by berntb 13y ago
As a hard core atheist, it is good for me to see really religious guys like Larry Wall which are so laid back that they can make fun of their own opinions. For the record, I have met a few. A little bit like when, as an Emacs user, I see a

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