It doesn't seem to have hurt this site. Not even doing it poorly.
Yeah, but this site doesn't need to be on Apple's good side to get information,
You imply apple give different information to each reporter, they don't. they make an announcement with very few pieces of actual information and every apple shill goes and writes 1000 words on it. All of them saying the same basic exact same thing surrounded by fluff.
So what?
The "climate of fear" even affects journalists, who face not only stonewalling from Apple after negative reporting
So a journalist becomes persona non grata with Apple, can't get information about The New Big Thing until long after their competitors have published articles about it, so they get a reputation for being slow to publish about new stuff and probably end up with a reputation for recycling other peoples information because they can't get anything from Apple.
I get what you mean, in the long run that attitude will only harm Apple, but in the short term it'll require a bunch of journalists who aren't concerned about falling behind their competitors.
Bullshit, in that regard a reporter might not get invited to apple events, but that doesn't stop them reporting on real actual news, such as the winner of Bumsville, Idaho Annual Pie eating contest or just reading what all the apple approved writers put down, rewording and posting with a ten minute lag.
Claiming that killing people saves lives is delusional to the point of insanity. Unfortunately this insanity is alive and well, though today we claim "we must kill all the Muslims to get peace" instead of those "dirty Japs".
It's not though. The harsh facts are dropping the nukes resulted in far fewer casualties than would have been suffered through invasion and the war ending sooner than it would have had Japan been traditionally combated. The battle for Japan would have dwarfed anything previous and would likely never be topped. The invasion itself would have made D-day look like a gentle stroll in the park with more people dead in the first day than though all victims of the nukes combined. Any one who thinks Japan would have surrendered is delusional and would probably say the same about America facing invasion. What do you think would happen if America were invaded, would they surrender? I really really really doubt it.
Also, only nutters say we should kill all Muslims. We are not at war with them nor intending a massive invasion of their lands.
Women can have kids in the future and may even be pregnant now,.
Not on their own they can't.
Remember, these guys get about one shot to get their test explosion right, because in about an hour after a successful test of an H-bomb by anyone the US considers a threat the USAF is going to be raining actual working H-bombs on their entire nuclear program, with a few diverted to cover the presidential palace, the parliament, and essentially every researcher and civilian within a 20-km radius of the aforementioned targets. The US will not tolerate a new state of MAD with a new non-Western-approved government.
What? so any other country the US doesn't like so much tests a bomb and you're going to immediately flatten them with nukes? Good luck with that ever happening. What will happen is whichever choad you have in charge at the time will say something like we cannot stand for this and then do fuck all. Maybe have a whinge to the UN to write a letter or something.
Without knowing the pedigree of the material he looked at, it is impossible to know whether it was classified or not. Simply releasing classified material to the public does not declassify it, especially if the release was unauthorized.
Who do they think they are? They are the people who are paid to protect classified information doing the job they are paid to do, when asked to do that job by the author of the book. He asked, they had to tell him to cut things. They don't get the right to change the classification on material, that has to go through the classifying authority.
Surely there's no classified material in there, otherwise they'd be able to do more than ask him to take it out and I doubt he'd be allowed to tell them to fuck off.
"Then again, killing civilians indiscriminately with drone strikes as "collateral damage" is pretty barbaric as well."
You are an idiot. The entire purpose of drone strikes is to carry out very targeted killings. If we didn't care about collateral damage and didn't mind indiscriminately killing people, expensive drones would not be necessary. All we'd need is some far cheaper cluster bombs. Maybe some napalm.
The main reason for using a single targeted munition is not having to carpet bomb an entire area with multiple aircraft which is a lot more expensive and risky for your guys. The fact you get fewer additional casualties or damage is just a happy bonus.
I think ISIS are ideological crazy bastards. And then I look a the American right, and see equally crazy bastards who want the world to reflect their religion and are more than willing to force their beliefs on power through force.
And then I'm forced to conclude they're really both crazy and delusional, and view their own cause as somehow being different.
Most of the USA does not agree with the American religious right, which is what you are referencing. Most of ISIS does not disagree with ISIS.
Nice, most USAians don't agree with the religious right but most of the religious right do. Most muslims don't tend to agree with ISIS either. Here your equivalents are UASians - Muslims and USA religious right - ISIS. If you want to tar them all with the same brush you're starting from very shakey grounds.
You can almost guarantee if they thought they could get away with it (at least some of) the religious right there(USA) would seriously consider carving themselves out some land, through force of arms most likely because the land is already claimed. Then try and expand that and take in all peoples under their brand of religion to 'save the souls of mankind' and kill everyone who disagrees. Just like ISIS are doing. just like happened in the crusades, just as any religion taken to the extreme is want to do.
Yeah, well call me when John Boehner starts burning people alive and posting it to Youtube.
There was no youtube but don't pretend americans/christains are above burning people to death. Relatively recently too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
