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Re:Anonymous net access (Score:3, Informative)
AOL didn't add anonymity to the 'Net, it just added the unwashed masses to it. Even back when it was all technologically advanced and educated people who knew of and had access to the net through universities, there was still anonymity. It's when you add the "normal person" and "audience" ingredients to that anonymity that you get the total fuckwads we're familiar with today. When it was just a handful of generally better-than-normal people, the anonymity didn't make a mess of everything.
Re:Guns? (Score:5, Informative)
According to a couple of sources the quote is from a Gen. Patton speech; 3rd Army Speech - England; 31 MAY 1944 - 6th Armored Division:
http://www.turtletrader.com/patton.html [turtletrader.com] (includes an MP3)
All I can say is that the specifcity (date and audience) leads me to beliveve that the quote is accurate.
This link says, "maybe" and provides a little background as to why maybe is probably as good as we'll get:
http://books.google.com/books?id=EKkO4JBxtVkC&pg=PA552&lpg=PA552&dq=No+bastard+ever+won+a+war+by+dying+for+his+country.+He+won+it+by+making+the+other+poor+dumb+bastard+die+for+his+country.&source=bl&ots=MEq0ycF7Bu&sig=LqpmVfPrzogZTX1WmuV5jHlhY94&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zjmCUODmHKbUyQH_04CgCg&ved=0CFYQ6AEwCTgU [google.com]
Great movie, BTW. The biography of Patton by Ladislas Farago "Ordeal and Triumph" that was the basis for the movie is also quite good.
Cheers,
Dave
Re:missing option (Score:4, Informative)
Ubiquitous video cameras -- what the hell? Does making large numbers of invention X turn it into invention Y?
Yes. Ubiquitous video cameras turn into a surveillance society. See Trapwire.
You're not a very good Spy Handler if you can't see that.
Re:Guns? (Score:4, Informative)
Guns put an end to roving bands of brigands, and made the world a much more peaceful place.
Like Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, .. all places where a few dollars will kit you out with a Kalashnikov.
Police forces made safe civil societies, not vigilantes.
If you wanted to save people, you would do much better to un-invent the Central Bank,
Oh, you're a lunatic, so this is wasted on you...
Re:Social Media? (Score:5, Informative)
It's telling that for Allied war prisoners, you had better survival odds under the Nazis than under the Imperial Japanese
Only if you know nothing of the respective cultures.
In Europe, the Nazi propaganda was a fairly recent idea and while it put Arian Germans above every other race, it only put them barely above other european races - there just wasn't enough difference to really make the point, and even back then, enough people had family ties across country borders. So the "sub-human" predicate was reserved for clearly identifiable, small ethnic groups. Jews, gypsies, the like.
Japan has always had and to this day retains a culture that views japanese as superior people and everyone else as considerably less so. There are still restaurants with "japanese people only" signs in Tokio to this day, just in case you thought things like "this bench only for whites" died with the fall of the south african apartheid regime. Mind you, they are incredibly friendly people, I've been to Tokio and I never felt unwelcome or hatred. But at the same time, I was always a foreigner, the way that I am not when I'm in, say, London.