Comment Re:Umm, what? (Score 4, Insightful) 784
he's explaining a shitty reality, not condoning it
ever hear of the phrase "shooting the messenger"?
he's explaining a shitty reality, not condoning it
ever hear of the phrase "shooting the messenger"?
irrational fear has been the keystone to all patriotism
nothing american about a human phenomenon
that's naive
every govt in the world, every govt that has ever existed, every govt that will ever exist, has sensitive secrets
all the intelligence snowden has decays in value over time. the longer he waits to release it, the less useful it is
knowing all of the spies of regime {X} doesn't matter if half of them have been replaced/ retired/ killed/ lost
knowing the battle plans of country {Y} doesn't matter if country {Y} did a new analysis in the interim
knowing about leader {Z}'s mistresses doesn't matter if we now have leader {W} in charge
etc.
the usa has every incentive to have delay the release of snowden's cache
The guy who owned that transaction was already located. His name is Dustin and he is not Satoshi. What's more, these transactions had aroused interest before, been researched, the guy who owned them was not really trying to hide his identity and publicly confirmed they were his. And all this was available just by doing a google search on the address in question.
This is the second time Shamir has associated his name with research which contains elementary mistakes, makes wild claims and is funded by the Citi Foundation (as in, Citibank). What is going on?
give it a decade or two
russia gets more decrepit, china gets more powerful
china is not going to do anything until it's an easy grab
that's some simple nice pat hindsight
i'm sure all the countries where they were stuck under the failed system for decades were happy there was no need to resist and it would just go away on it's own
heck they should have just let the entire western hemisphere, the usa even, fall to communism and just let things run their course, right?
are you telling me the chinese have common culture with coral sponges?
no one lives there. no one ever did. it's a fucking joke that china claims these atolls clearly the property of the philippines
as for russia being an ally, you're historically ignorant
i wasn't thinking about tom clancy, i was thinking about recent history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict
not to mention manchuria and beyond has been a war field between russia, japan, and china for decades in recent history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Port_Arthur
china, today, has border arguments with all its neighbors, all around
but russia?
shhh
all quiet on the western front
ominous
ruling?
they floated boats there
they made maps
that's not rule
i was going to argue with you but...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries
you are correct sir
you're about 75 years too late
isolationism's heyday has come and gone
appeasement doesn't work. it just emboldens aggressors
it's POTS
the world is everyone's interest
you nip problems when they are small and far away, or when they are large and on your border
those are your choices in life
i'm glad the usa is involved heavily in the world- by that i do not mean wars, i mean policy questions, like diplomacy with iran
you make enemies sure. you also make a lot more friends
isolationism is a failed, loser's attitude
why do you have to view problems only through the lens of the usa's motives?
you do realize there are other actors in the world right? they have their own agenda and their own organic, original actions
the world does not actually revolve around the usa
if you can only view every international question through "well the usa..."
you're doing it wrong
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.