That’s rude. I’m Italian and I hate the situation.

And yes, I hate this fool’s proposal too.

I wonder what country you herald from? What’s your country’s worst historical figure? How about I compare you to that person?

“Keynesian”, “refute”.

(I am unacquainted with the sound-bites of this particular charade, so if those are deliberate errors deriving from some moron politician’s dicta, ignore my post.)

It’s simple: because it’s difficult... just because they almost couldn’t.

I went this year on 10 April and the guide was brilliant. He even answered some of the finer points of Dilly Knox’s diagonal board.

And the Soviet Union adopted a teleprinter encryption system loosely based on the Lorentz (Tunny) and Siemens Geheimschrieber. Needless to say, the Soviets wouldn’t have adopted that kind of technology if they had known it had already been broken during the war, and thus what was (presumably) a huge insight into the USSR’s secrets would have been lost.

If no hint was given that those cipher systems had been broken, it could be plausibly hoped that other nations would adopt similar systems after the surrender of Nazi Germany, considering them secure. Sure enough, the Soviet Union soon cobbled together a similar system, probably inspired by captured equipment. One can only imagine the frisson of glee that ran through the cryptanalysts when they discovered they could re-apply techniques and breaks they had already honed against the Germans.

So, on the whole, it made absolute sense.

I’ve read much the same. Maybe we read Neal Stephenson’s “In The Beginning Was The Command Line” or something like that? Might that be it?

Yes... and doesn’t it amuse you that somewhere in their ranks, there’s a marketer stewing in anger that his dire warnings of the effect this might have on Mickey Mouse sales in Saudi Arabia have gone unheeded?

I cannot help but feel that inviting the possibility of retribution over a matter of intellectual property from a Navy SEALS unit, however remote, should be cause for caution.

I’m also somewhat surprised that a global firm with such an obsession for it’s public image as Disney would do something as unilaterally endorsing as promoting a single nation’s military. Surely some marketer in their ranks is concerned this will affect sales of Mickey Mouse in Saudi Arabia?!

Behold, we have a Luser Attitude Re-adjustment Tool.

Holding-it-wrong is the perfect solution to the problem.

*abstraction*, not *abstruction*