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by pinkfoot 6y ago
I never claimed they faced no consequences, but the OP's claim that the US military are held to much higher standards of accountability that the civil service is not justified. And I showed why.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
And the muppets in the ski area?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Sure, then how about these paragons of military justice: 1. In 1998, a US maring navigator flew - against US regulations - his fighter aircraft at low altitude over the Cavalese ski resort in Italy. The muppets managed to cut the wires of c
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> Military officers are held accountable in ways that politicians and bureaucrats (almost) never are. "On Monday, President Trump pardoned the convicted war criminal Michael Behenna, who had murdered Ali Mansur, an unarmed, naked Ir
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Done it a few times down here in Africa. Was never a problem. Presumably you'll now update your position based on my personal anecdote? [Or is that not how it works]
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
I cannot think of a single action that will promote the adoption of Hauwei's app store more than banning TikTok.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> If I were anyone relying on China right now I would diversify to other countries as fast as possible. I suspect even more are asking whether they are going to be cut off from American tech.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Ok, let’s test that. So how do you decide if someone on a forum who you have never met has either: 1) listened with empathy, but still disagrees 2) ignored your argument, but replied with the same answer. You cannot. So its just a linguisti
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
“Hearing from the heart” This is just undefined, non-falsifiable, linguistic drivel that allows you - and you alone - to dismiss any response you dont like. Which you do.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
You failed to presume that the OP did that and thereafter still came to their conclusion. Instead, once you realised that the OP had not capitulated to your point of view, you belittled and dismissed it as not listening/hearing How els
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
It almost as if your definition of ‘hear me’ really means ‘silently agree with me and acquiesce to all remedies that I alone propose’.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> China regularly arrests dozens of foreign citizens on bogus charges every month Care to list the 25+ people arrested in June?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
The also made decent long-range, Mach 2 bombers. (For the time)
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Nope - sub Sarahan Africa is getting drier.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Smelting metal still is the skill that makes you the king.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Sure, but say they do, will the USA continue to pay when the EU and China later refuse to pay their dues becuase they are grumpy about something? My guess is the whinging would be operatic.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Yes, but its a whole new vein of offence to be mined.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
For neurosurgeons ? Come now.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> There's nothing stopping one from working on the code at a leisurely pace once a paper is submitted Preparing for the next paper?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
This would be a violation of the NNPT and by extension America’s own laws.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
It tends to work out poorly for surgeons and structural engineers. We rightly extrapolated that such an approach has similarly poor odds in other domains.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> The GDP per capita in Central African Republic is $681/year. No doubt you factored in that 40% of the CAR is under 14. (And fully 60% is under 25). The denominator also counts. And that's ENTIRELY controlled by the good folk
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Now you know how Iran feels :)
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
This is not how spies work in the real world. Kompromat, bribery, and threats. Not watching kids videos.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
I cannot begin to imagine how my adolescenct daughter could be of any possible use to the middle kingdom. Remotely, via a dance app.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Pavements. You can learn everything you want to know about a country from its pavements.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
How would you classify Frances Kesley who prevented thalidomide from being sold in the USA. And how would you rank the German authorities who allowed it to be sold over the counter?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
If we're making sweeping generalizations, then countries that don't project military power to prop up dodgy regimes and enforce their currency on major commodities don't get targetted by terrorist action. To be clear, I'
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Best they rename Swaziland to its new name "eSwatini" before the woke find out!
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Chalmers Johnson and Robert Higgs were making the case as long ago as 2006 that the actual US defence budget was obfuscated and was over a trillion dollars. They argue that if you add the budgets of the Department of Energy (nuclear researc

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