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by kinsomo 8y ago
>> The precise cause of the civil war was the domestic policies of the Assad regime > https://www.sott.net/article/377588-Syrian-War-for-Dummies-T... . Sott.net doesn't seem like a very reliable source. T
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by kinsomo 8y ago
>> Also the Syria and Yemen are civil wars. Don't know how you think it's reasonable to pin that on the "US, NATO and friends". > Though I think you can put much of the blame of the civil wars staring on the US,
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> The drone program is an assassination program which is fundamentally different than somemething like the f-35. My point is there's no meaningful difference between dropping a JDAM on a particular target with an F-35 or dropping a
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> If they had learned from that mistake they wouldn’t be trying to wall the internet off. They're walling off foreign political ideas and avenues for domestic political organization, not foreign technological advancements. They are
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Nothing in that amendment specifically mentions the purpose of preventing totalitarian government. You have to take into account the context. It was written and ratified by people who'd just staged a revolution against what they
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Seems many Americans are willing to crap all over the 2nd Amendment, which is specifically in place to prevent totalitarian government. Exactly. If America has learned anything from the past half century of foreign military adventures
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> That didn’t work for the USSR, why would it work for China? The CCP does have the benefit of learning from the failures of the Soviets. > China was here before. Cutting yourself off from the world just means you eventually find your
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> In other news, the US, NATO and friends in this century alone destroyed Iraq, Libya, almost destroyed Syria and Yemen and did a few other nasty things that resulted in at least a million dead. Do you have a big enough item 5 for that?
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> I agree but how should this actually work? I feel like we have no options here. Everything comes from China, beginning with my mobile devices. One option is to more or less emulate China. It's factories were built over the last 3
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> I very much doubt it is sustainable. The cost of policing is quite substantial and the productivity lost is hard to replace which adds to the cost. Why do you think the Chinese government can't sustain the cost? Intensive policin
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> If I ran a forum for a number of years, and a person decided to close their account, that'd be fine. But if they then said that I need to remove _all of their posts_, that's really shitty. > It would destroy the usefulness
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> If we reduce everything to being ahead of a potential enemy, then we soon get to a point where the solution of all problems is a single deadly upfront attack. > Those technologies aren't for defense; Have you ever heard of Mutu
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> So in your opinion developers and scientists are not "patriotic" enough, I disagree Where, exactly did I say that? You're putting words in my mouth.
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by kinsomo 8y ago
The same Wikipedia article states: "The drones are flown by United States Air Force pilots located at an unnamed base in the United States. US Department of Defense armed drones, which also sometimes take part in strikes on terrorist t
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by kinsomo 8y ago
>>> No, the primary difference is that we deploy drones in areas we are not engaged in warfare, and to assassinate various individuals in foreign countries where we are not at war. >> The US hasn't been officialy "a
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> The point is these aren't even military operations I disagree. I would call operations conducted with military equipment and with the participation of military personnel (e.g. USAF pilots) military operations.
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> No, the primary difference is that we deploy drones in areas we are not engaged in warfare, and to assassinate various individuals in foreign countries where we are not at war. The US hasn't been officialy "at war" in a
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> 1 Do you think China will send drones and attack US citizens? It's not unthinkable, especially if they feel confident that they have a technological advantage that would shield them from detection or in-kind retaliation. They als
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> The Make-A-Wish Foundation is mostly useless. People have a moral obligation to set aside their feelings in order to do the right thing. Giving to the Make-A-Wish Foundation is motivated mostly by a desire to feel good. > If you wan
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More A-10s to get new wings, as Air Force officially launches ATTACK(arstechnica.com)
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> In case your question is serious: There are still some of us who believe in peace as an end-goal for us humans Refusing to assist the military develop weapons doesn't really help that goal. A weak(er) military with a lesser techn
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Drone strikes, as they are used, are a more evil way of taking out identified targets of other nationalities. I find the concept of a nation state summarily assassinating people a bit troubling, but drone strikes make it even worse by
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> That's a fair point, but ultimately people are going to care more about children that are 'closer' to them. You're free to criticize people for this, but it probably won't do you any favours. Also, making chari
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> In reality FB events are extensively used by ages 16-30 as well for bigger group gatherings, such as going on holiday, going for a weekend somewhere, or something like that. I don't understand why you'd use FB events for &quo
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> See maybe this is why I never understood the supposed all-important-ness of Events. I still just hang out with friends or family or by myself rather than going to "events". It's not so much all-important, but it's t
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> I suppose you can object and campaign for the EU to setup its own Great Firewall or something along those lines and only allow companies to operate within its borders which adhere to stringent rules around posted imagery. Good luck wit
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> I agree. At this point, FB and others are just to big to be able to subject them to policy. Even how they handled the GDPR just right before May 25 is a joke. They have billions of cash on hand to fight all the lawsuits whicht might co
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by kinsomo 8y ago
I liked his idea that the common American is stuck at the loser-end of a system of "asymmetric risk." Americans are expected to take on more and more "personal responsibility" (i.e. risk) for healthcare, for securing in
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> I despise the removal of the 3.5 mm jack to this day... and I still do not get why Apple removed it. What exactly did it get in the way of and what was made available by its removal? Worst move ever. Johnny Ive took "worse is bett
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> I've seen quite a lot of criticism against the social credit system. But to me it it just crime history and (financial) credit history mined from big data and combined into a centralized system. > What's particularly bad a

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