Posts by giovanni tiso
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I wonder how many people have seen David Simon's Generation Kill? I thought it delved into these issues quite well - what does a soldier who is trained to sport enemies see when he scans a civilian population? how can the rules of engagement be bent? how are these crimes recorded and policed?
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Plenty about Tiger Woods though.
Who flouted the rules of being engaged. See that's not that far off.
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Is fake art real art until such point as it is discovered to be fake?
Apparently. It happened once in Italy when a group of pranksters revealed they had sculpted and left in a ditch to be 'discovered' three busts subsequently attributed to Amedeo Modigliani. Eminent art historian Giulio Carlo Argan was amongst the experts who had declared the sculptures to be authentic beyond all doubt.
This made a lot of people who had been assigned Argan's history of art as a textbook in high school very happy.
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The video is "graphic evidence of the dangers involved in war journalism and the tragedies that can result," said David Schlesinger, editor-in-chief of Reuters news.
I would have thought it was graphic evidence of the dangers involved in being an Iraqi myself.
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Perhaps the crew really did think that there were guys with AKs and RPGs down there. If those people actually *were* a group of insurgents with weapons on their way to an ambush, would it look different? Is it possible for this to be a genuine, reasonable, yet catastrophic mistake?
I really can't see how failure to follow the rules of engagement can be regarded as a mistake. Criminal negligence, surely, to say the very least?
Just about anybody could be an insurgent on the way to an ambush. That's why they're supposed to ascertain who they're shooting first.
I struggle mightily to see the point you're trying to make in this post.
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What if somebody is injured?
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It only happens in games that have strict rules about stopping the clock when the ball is not in play. Rugby doesn't have that. Soccer has it even less. I have a feeling the games would last longer if they instituted that rule.
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My partner succumbed to the temptation of buying the Modern Motherhood issue and could be heard screaming from down at the zoo.
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Agree. It needs to be longer and those reasons need to go away. Most countries have shows like Media7 and they all last longer because you need time to tease out them big topics.
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Scorcese
Scorsese, people. Scorsese.
Carry on.