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by woodman 12y ago
> Such as the US guaranteeing that the Emperor stays in power, which they allowed after the war anyway? "the authority of the Emperor and the Japanese Government to rule the state shall be subject to the Supreme Commander of the All
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by woodman 12y ago
> ... the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were far from the most deadly bombings at that time. That is my point exactly. Those cities were selected for the purpose of a technological demonstration, not body count. I thought I made i
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by woodman 12y ago
> ... they could have ended the war before that, without any need to even think about invasion. There is no way to know that without knowing the conditions of surrender that Japan had in mind. I have a feeling that the conditions would
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by woodman 12y ago
So Japan's surrender, six days later, was just a coincidence? Maybe if you shared one of the "many" demonstrations that the "A-bomb was not the decisive part", we could weigh that against the strange timing of the
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by woodman 12y ago
Note: The following is written from the perspective of an individual who accepts that states are necessary, and that war is justifiable. This isn't something I personally believe, but something that the vast majority of people do - n
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by woodman 12y ago
> The incident in question was my talk at DEFCON 19 That makes much more sense. DEFCON, a hacker convention where each speaker seems obligated to comment on how much they've had to drink - while holding a beer. Also, "hacker&
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by woodman 12y ago
I don't think most people follow that very flexible definition of "thinking it through". With it being so relativistic, it loses any practical use.
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by woodman 12y ago
> overly logical analysis of social situations to the detriment of all Where do you see that in any of this? It seems to me to be a classic example of what happens when you don't think things through.
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by woodman 12y ago
> Bitcoin has nothing to do with waging war or the end of the state. Cash is just as important in war as bodies to throw into the meat grinder. If the state loses its control over the money supply, it isn't going to be able to fina
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by woodman 12y ago
> In the spirit of civility you might want to spell out why it's not a good idea to "try and piss-off a Marine" instead of resorting to implying things. He is probably cautioning you against antagonizing Marines, because w
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by woodman 12y ago
> No, I don't understand you since you have no arguments. Seems pretty clear to me: 1. You say that Captain Kudo's loyalty to his Marines is "mostly a cliché" 2. I disagree and provide personal examples (which isn&#x2
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by woodman 12y ago
> That's no way to have a discussion. Says the person who just said that millions of people's understanding of loyalty, myself included, is a "bastardisation" of the word. > You clearly didn't either read or u
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> You can't really push that sort of responsibility up. You own it. That is pretty unrealistic. I agree with you about ignoring intent, but I also recognize the fact that at present this sort of philosophy would not work in a world
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by woodman 12y ago
> That's a bastardisation of loyalty though. Yes, people volunteer, because they are expected to. It is pretty clear that you have no idea what you're talking about. You know that you can dislike people in general, but still r
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by woodman 12y ago
> When you volunteer ... you have a special moral responsibility for what happens during a war. A responsibility for your actions, or everything that happens during the war? What if your voluntary enlistment was due to false information
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by woodman 12y ago
> I think that is mostly a cliché too though. It is not, not in the infantry at least, where brain wa... er - psychological conditioning is the strongest. For example: just days after my battalion got back from a fairly taxing deploymen
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by woodman 12y ago
It is always an interesting experience when you recognize a little of your old self in somebody else, projection is really tempting. My head was in the same place almost ten years ago, after Fallujah - the end justifies the means. That is
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by woodman 12y ago
"Private" is not the best word to use here. Gun shops are required to maintain logs. Outside of that, transactions between individuals aren't involuntarily logged (the poorly named "gunshow loophole").
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by woodman 12y ago
Not with Paypal you can't, they'll shutdown your account for anything firearm related.
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by woodman 12y ago
> Similar situation was when Windows caused Linux to emerge. I know you are playing devil's advocate, but you don't actual think anybody could reasonably believe that do you? There is a reason it is called Linux and not Lindow
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by woodman 12y ago
I'd mistakenly assumed that phrase had filtered into popular culture. Flying a desk is a euphemism for performing tasks of little importance, administrative busy work, pushing paper... while seated behind a desk.
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by woodman 12y ago
> Do you have a dog in this fight you're picking... No more than you. The neurolinguistic programming is a nice touch, by disagreeing and providing a counter argument in a voluntary exchange of ideas - I have picked a fight and the
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by woodman 12y ago
Hmm, I don't know how I could be any more clear - any further distillation would be repetitious. Consider the situation with an eye to formal logic: Catholicism doesn't allow for condoms. Most Irish are catholic. Therefor most
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by woodman 12y ago
It seems to me that the burden of explanation should be on those that are pointing to this guy's military record as some sort of potential link to Israeli spy masters... but it isn't that complicated. If the majority of Israeli c
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by woodman 12y ago
"Site is offline due to DDOS with the recent media attention." Phhh, more likely an attempt at controlling knowledge of the "Intelligence Core"!
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by woodman 12y ago
Nah, it was a copy writer. I don't know much arabic, but I know the correct translation for a lot of military words, including corps. I know that because it was once important to me, but 10 years later I can tell you that the Marine
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by woodman 12y ago
Yup, and it is a temporary effect - that is why there is a graduated rank structure. As the mental conditioning (to put it charitably) wears off, you are further removed from danger and positions where immediate obedience to orders is nece
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by woodman 12y ago
lol, first of all - it is corps, not core. Second, these are the same people that monitor cctv feeds of border fences - it isn't some elite unit of super hackers.
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by woodman 12y ago
Conscription make the military service irrelevant.
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by woodman 12y ago
While I am all for giving Lenovo hell, I'd highly recommend that people avoid voluntary interaction with US "law enforcement". They aren't really on your side, and this has been demonstrated more than once.

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