berntb

69 ms·

541.
by berntb 13y ago
Well, this story is about intelligence agencies exchanging information. Afaik, intelligence agencies often spy on third parties interesting for other countries, just to have data for exchange. I am far from an expert, but this seems like
542.
by berntb 13y ago
I only want to add one thing to my comment here. And that is that I'm an idiot for wasting my time. There are three possibilities when someone repeatedly refuse to answer the single, simple reason for my position (in this case, also th
543.
by berntb 13y ago
>>Your so called counter-argument, the one that you repeatingly kept asking a reply for is not a counter-argument at all. As I've written five++ times, it is not only my motivation -- it is the Obama administration's motiva
544.
by berntb 13y ago
This is my way of seeing it: 1. I write my single argument about bombing (similar to the Obama administration). 2. You write about everything else. 3. I ask for an answer time and again. 4. Then I only post short comments and ask
545.
by berntb 13y ago
I didn't read carefully -- after I asked FOUR times, you really did touch (not answer) my single argument, similar to the Obama administration's position. Just five days after I posted it ... https://news.ycombinator.c
546.
by berntb 13y ago
I generally agree, it is easy to define good human rights for a country. But this gets hairy when you start evaluating how bad a non-perfect country is. Consider press freedom. Today, e.g. Turkey and Russia keeps the press down and stop d
547.
by berntb 13y ago
See comment to previous. In short: I still can't see that you answered my simple counter argument. The shorter I write, noting you pretend you don't see it, the more text you write.
548.
by berntb 13y ago
>>explain my position So much text and you didn't answer my single argument (same as what the Obama administration use) for the FOURTH time. You even repeated that which the argument answered, pretending never to have seen it..
549.
by berntb 13y ago
I tried to write short, with just the content of mine (and the Obama administration's) argument, to force you to answer it. You just wrote longer, still without touching the main counter argument!! (I thought the Amnesty reference was
550.
by berntb 13y ago
I wrote an answer, but removed it. I repeat my only argument regarding motivation from the GP comment, for the THIRD time. You seem to have missed answering it? This is hardly new for you. Almost the same argument is presented by the Obam
551.
by berntb 13y ago
>>I haven't yet found the documents that would support your thesis about the human rights record of Bashar Al Assad I do believe you never heard of e.g. HRW... This took seconds with Google: http://www.hrw.org/n
552.
by berntb 13y ago
Let me also note the contrast of how certain you are about the US motivations (a heterogeneous entity if any!) -- and here you write that you are "not certain of anything"! I am certain of one thing -- you are either confused or y
553.
by berntb 13y ago
You also claimed the US involvement is a conspiracy. After Obama has wriggled like an eel for two years to not get involved in another war... You have no comment on that you are on the side of just the dictators, against democracies? You ha
554.
by berntb 13y ago
1. What says it was your hated USA that lied and not the locals? (In Syria, US, France and Israel agrees.) The first thing that dies in a war is the truth -- e.g. the Internet is full of people arguing exactly the same conspiracies as onl
555.
by berntb 13y ago
>>I don't defend the Syrian government. As I wrote in what you comment on: "Devil's advocates are needed, but you refuse to acknowledge that you defend the devil. [...] you really avoid the point that the Syrian junta
556.
by berntb 13y ago
You have a non-extremist link that shows Gadaffi to be a democratic humanitarian? :-) Ahh, I forgot... all the large media with the best reputation (NY Times, Washington Post, BBC, etc) are in on the conspiracy! The only countries supportin
557.
by berntb 13y ago
pipy, you ignored my answer and jumped in much later. Please use one account. :-) Some general notes: A. You are [also] not going to acknowledge how straight out evil the mass murderers, rapists, torturers and thieves are in the junta? B. Y
558.
by berntb 13y ago
Enough. Devil's advocates are needed, but you refuse to acknowledge that you defend the devil. Again: Are you in a Syrian or Iranian 50 cent army? Or are you one of those leftwing extremists that never support a democracy against a dic
559.
by berntb 13y ago
First, that conspiracy theory has fucking nothing to do with my point, you just reacted with your ideological hate where USA is worse than WMD using tyrants (oh yeah, you deny the chemical weapons in another comment, assuming France, Isra
560.
by berntb 13y ago
I apply the general principle: It is a good thing to depose a mass murdering, torturing, raping and thieving tyrant. Why do YOU think it could ever be a good thing when a small minority steal a country and treat the population -- except (
561.
by berntb 13y ago
Hear hear. A black T-shirt today. :-(
562.
by berntb 13y ago
>>Nothing will change as a result of this. A good guess is that the enthusiasm at e.g. Samsung for making Windows Phones have gone down quite a bit... Windows Phones seems to be an internal Microsoft thing now, Xbox style.
563.
by berntb 13y ago
Can you give a better alternative even with 20/20 hindsight for Korea..? And Libya is far, far from perfect. But they don't have a Nero-copy as dictator, which would have murdered a lot of people if he had won the civil war... C
564.
by berntb 13y ago
I can confirm that there were a big dot com death and hangover the first years of the millennium. Specifically, for Sweden. The rest of the Swedish economy was quite OK. The takeaway lesson you should get kids, is that there is a boom/
565.
by berntb 13y ago
I thought the point of body building was people's genetically based reactions to horrendous amounts of steroids? But seriously... I am all for sport enhancements from now on. We really need to do lots of tests with RNA based genetic
566.
by berntb 13y ago
Oh my Cthulhu, thanks for a depression :-( :-) I had forgotten about the Tor network and most of the other craziness. So, the last dictators kept the church down and the coming one one hugs it closely? Re religion... As a hard line atheist,
567.
by berntb 13y ago
As an addendum, seeing this a few days later, I'll add a note also about the other side of my claim, to be complete; the Swedish/European media I'm familiar with. For any given year before the Syrian crisis, you could find ki
568.
by berntb 13y ago
Hi again, I have no clue how posting stories works. (I have a suspicion that a of extra accounts are often(?) used to vote most stories up, so they get to the front page.) Most of the times when I get (or lose!) karma is when I write someth
569.
by berntb 13y ago
Thanks for an interesting read about a subject, when the main discussion was about the media garbage regarding the subject! Some points: 1. I was lucky I saw that, stuff disappears quickly from the front page on HN. Next time the subject co
570.
by berntb 13y ago
There has been active Neonazi groups in Russia since the 90s, with gay bashing and attacks on non-whites. But it is a point, my example might be wrong since media coverage do differ.

More ›