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Comment Re:Don't appease aggression (Score 3, Informative) 519

There was a war between the two in 1979 regarding Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge (Communist government of Cambodia) made the mistake of attacking battle hardened Vietnam, and the Vietnamese responded by invading and taking over Cambodia. Cambodia's communist government was supported by China, and tacitly by the USA, so China decided to teach Vietnam a lesson for interfering. One positive byproduct of the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia was to stop the genocide of counter-revolutionaries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War

Comment Re:Or, perhaps the test is not 100% selective (Score 3, Insightful) 241

My anecdotal experiences contradict your statement.

Consider doctors must slog their way through 4 years med school, 4 years residency, 2 years or so of fellowship, ~200K of student debt, and the threat of lowering wages due to healthcare reforms. All that, and they don't start their career in earnest until around age 32.

Most likely, doctors don't put up with that unless they want to help others to some degree. If they are driven purely by greed, there are other lucrative careers with more immediate earning potential- banking, law.

Comment timely discussion in light of Ender's Game (Score 1) 726

Having been a huge fan of the book Starship Troopers, I was sorely disappointed with the movie when it came out. I was 18 at the time. As I matured, I grew to love the movie version. The movie fits in so well with Verhoeven's other scifi flicks Robocop and Total Recall, and serves as the perfect riposte Heinlein's naive jingoism. Plus, I find it delicious how people continue to this day to take Starship Troopers at face value. The satire is way over the top and still relevant today.

I really wish the movie of Ender's Game got the same treatment. The book is terrible, but I think if the movie had properly satirized the source material, the movie would be a classic.

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