I'll second that. "The History of Rome" podcast was pretty good. I still go back and listen to some of my favorite episodes.

"210 reasons..." pretty much covers it. Too much communism, capitalism, religion, and lack of religion. Etc. Interesting, the list contains much of the best of humans, as well as the worst. I guess I'm reminded that every solution to a problem contains the seeds of the next problem.

"The message is a message to all the people that is we're going to exert our power over you," he said. "Jews are the default scapegoat throughout history for despots to send a message to the general public: Don't step out of line."

Well, yeah, the Georgian prez nailed it. One paragraph in a diplomatic cable. One man's opinion. This is what you call "the entire Crimean plan"?

Absolutely. A huge part of spycraft is keeping the other side in the dark about what you actually know and how you know it.

I agree. I expect it will lead to hundred of thousands, if not millions of deaths.

You have no idea.

Hah! That's worth a grin.

"Talking about NSA "invasions of privacy" is a bit ironic when you're cooperating with a country that is literally invading other countries." Good point. I'm also reminded a bit of Benedict Arnold. He was a patriot, too.

I expect that the results of snowden's actions will be hundred of thousands, if not millions, of deaths. It will take one or two decades for the ramifications to fully expand.

I'm way in the middle of a hundred postings. I reply to an article. I ask it to be quoted. Oops, the quote tags are visible, wtf is this? Ok, go into options. For some reason I was reset to "extrans". Ok, whatever, I change back to html. I save, and, lo and behold, my comment is gone, all the other comments are missing. I'm back to the first page with the first five comments. And this is in the "good, well-programmed" version, not the beta.

This is hilarious

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"...couldnt take a 7.62x39 mm bullet...". Maybe, but it occurs to me that in many special ops missions, if a bullet is flying, the mission has already failed. This may not be a tool selected for certain missions, but may be a fine tool for others.

"These are not the drones you're looking for"