Drones were never immune to detection and shutdown. Nor is that their draw at present.

Aircraft that are many times more expensive than drones and which contain a human pilot.

The same reasons that morality would get involved in a weapon system with a human pilot, would get involved with any other weapons system. We see it with landmines, for example. The cost/benefit of remote or autonomous systems is different, but your morality should apply equally.

And humans would still be involved. It's not like they'll throw away all information about the kills the autonomous robots are making. After all, they'll want those robots to be more effective, and you can't make anything more effective by ignoring it.

Just feel good that you'll never be as bad as your children.

Good thing the carve up isn't actually happening then. From 1988-2008, two thirds of humanity increased their income by at least 30%, adjusted for inflation.

Except when that real research doesn't, of course.

My "postulation" is often well documented in the literature of the time such as the documented behavior and infighting of the Roman elite during the centuries of the empires of Rome or similar activities of other large empires of China and Egypt. Famines, disease, etc are often also documented, which may partially support your claims of climate change.

While it is claimed that Ataturk was in a different part of the Ottoman empire at the time of the massacres, he had similar policies during a later war with Greece with several notable massacres happening under his watch, particularly, the so-called Great Fire of Smyrna.

It's not a stretch to wonder if Ataturk (or for that matter other powerful supporters) had a greater involvement in the genocides of 1915 than his official record suggests.

And there's some indication that reduced farm fertility may have helped destabilized the Roman empire as well as several Chinese empires. My point remains. Climate disruption is not an automatic death knell. But societal parasitism tends to undermine adaptability.

I think a big part of the reason it's so taboo is that the founders of modern Turkey were probably involved in the genocide, including Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the president of Turkey from 1923-1938. To admit that the leaders of Turkey of the past, were involved might call into question the legitimacy of Turkey today (particularly among minority groups like the Kurds and the hardcore religious) and undermine its secular myth building.

Yes.

Plows and draft animals aren't that hard to come by.

But solar thermal can be used as the primary energy input to produce fuel.

I thought we were speaking of the energy input. Of course, we can develop all that fine tuned equipment and that supply network too. After all, it's something that happened before. Food has been solved before as well.

Read my post. I don't say that.

Solar thermal.

As long as there is plentiful solar power, we'll be able to reboot civilization over and over again. And it'll be easier than starting from scratch due to all the tech we'll have lying around.

Fossil fuels are far from free. And we have solar power which is vastly more plentiful than fossil fuels.

Parasitism. There's a common thread in the end of most empires, large or small. The build up of incompetent bureaucracies and the elevation of power struggles and who gets what over survival of the empire.

Uh, you do realize you replied to the "complaint" with why you modded me? That makes your post having everything to do with them and a reason for me to reply.

If you didn't want people replying to your posts, then don't post on Slashdot. It's quite simple how it works.

I don't mind negative mods. I do mind being anonymously insulted by people who don't think. There were two very obvious problems just with the little bit you wrote. And this isn't the first time someone has posted to me in the third person and then claimed they weren't.