Posts by giovanni tiso
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Cheap bastard, I presume.
The man wins... nothing. I'm too cheap to come out with a prize.
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I have been that lemming (without the excessive disposable income).
There is a word for an early adopter, and it rhymes with "cupid".
I've always waited at least three years from realease before upgrading to a new Windows operating system (in part because what I am rhymes with "bleep mustard") except for one time where I came in right at launch.
It was Vista. I lasted a week.
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...and jesus stop with the "liberal" arguement christaan,it's poor, the causes of this war lay predomiantly in circles who haven't had a liberal thought in their lifetime.
Shall we count how many Democrats voted for it? How many members of the UK Labour Party? Shall we pretend the Labour government in NZ didn't send troops? Christopher Hitchens? Hallo?
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However to me it doesn't seem to be a very useful starting point for serious questions about how and why modern technowar as practised by the US consistently results in these appalling things happening.
So, where's a good starting point? Looking at the Wikileak video and saying 'hey, what if it was all a catastrophic mistake?' I think it's quite clearly not the case, but what if it had been? How would it change the much broader picture of what technowar has been allowed to become, and how instrumental it has been in selling military interventions to the moderate Left, on the grounds that these days we have a technology that enables us to only kill the really bad guys?
The far bigger problem is that war is the appalling thing that happens. Even if this particular incident and others like it or Abu Graib had never happened, we still went in and bombed everything in sight and killed thousands of civilians without even getting to the fuck-ups part.
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Now this is obviously just a part of your post, but do you realise just how similar it sounds to the zero-middle-ground arguments that helped get the US and the rest of us into this clusterfuck in the first place?
It also sounds to me like not wanting to collude with murderers. And frankly I'm okay with that. The idea that the Left in the last ten years has been too intransigent is just bloody ridicolous, to the point of being offensive. Try 'not nearly intransigent or principled enough'.
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Whoah. I may have some issues with the post, but I'm not ready to lump Keith with the guys described in this book.
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I feel left out. No Dottor Chi for us. Emma, you owe me a post about Sandokan.
(I'll take Kabir Bedi over all your doctors. I don't care how much larger their digs look on the inside than on the outside.)
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We are so not in the area of "catastrophic mistake" here, one cannot find adequate words to express it.
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Now I'm left fuming, staring at my screen in this confounded office I share with two Catholics and a Mormon.
Let me guess: you spend your day coming up with pub jokes?
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so I suspect they have all developed a culture of not believing that reasonable standards of conduct apply to them
Look, this didn't start yesterday. And it is not confined to brown people. The US army has immunity from its own prosecutions. Is anybody familiar with what Wikipedia charmingly calls the Cavalese cable car disaster (rather than, say, massacre), in which two top guns who liked to race down valleys cut through the cable of an aerial gondola, killing twenty? They were done for "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman" for tampering with the evidence. Or what about the time that a pilot ejected himself over the skies of Bologna, allowing his plane to crash into a school, killing 12 children? Acquitted too. It's a pretty long list.