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So many whataboutisms

Maybe he doesn't have the access to the same type of confidential papers and communications in Russia that he had in the US?

Actually, you don't. Not at all. And you have too much faith in technology. Those people monitoring peoples activities and communications? They were picked because they were zealots. True believers in a cause. Anything that looked even remotely circumstantial like what they were looking for got tagged and persecuted. I would recommend checking up on confirmation bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias. Once people start looking for something, they start seeing shadows of it everywhere. Better destroy a few hundred innocent lives than letting one genuine villain escape, right? Did it ever occur to you, that there was a reason that wiser people than that added the clause "innocent until proven guilty" (aka presumption of innocence) to legal systems in civilized countries? We've already established you're not a fan of democracies, but still, you may have heard about this particular principle. Those people will not be neutral, they wont be objective and they wont give you any benefit of doubt. They will have quotas to meet, to justify their existence and "1984" will start looking like a fairy tale that would should strive for compared to the reality you're advocating. Edit: Once you start a witch hunt, guess what? You can't really stop it again. But then, nobody expected the Spanish inquisition, right?

It has. The system you favour was implemented in the DDR (for East Germany), Poland (during the Warsaw Pact days), Czecoslovakia, The Soviet Union, The CCP, North Korea, Hungary (during the Warsaw Pact days) and probably a several others, but those were the obvious examples that most Nordic people of a certain age would be familiar with. Guess what? People didn't like it.

You're against governments looking the military over the shoulders, but in favour of them looking normal citizens over the shoulder. Go figure... I wouldn't want to live in your idea of a world.

I don't live there, I only read the web news, but every time somebody in the US uses the word 'Liberal' to describe someone or something, it's implied they means 'Commie' (or socialist) Cambridge defines it a bit differently https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/liberal And a liberal party... can be just about anything. When I was still living in Europe, the various western European countries liberal parties were centre-right parties favouring unregulated market economy, tax the poor and reward the rich kind of attitude. edit: the latter being why I don't think the US use of the word quite matches the perception of it elsewhere. edit2: The current Australian PM and his party are the 'Australian Liberal Party', biggest pile of vile scumbags you'll ever see in a western country.

Mussolini won the election in 1924... with a coalition of fascists, catholics, liberals (not to be confused with the American use of the word liberal) and conservatives. The parallels (edit: what feels attracted to what) are hard to overlook.

Hey! That's the Powerpoint presentation of every go-live ever Edit: Brings back fond memories of driving for many hours through South Australias desert, heading home after a stay inland at a customer, just to get a phone call 1 hour away from Adelaide (where I was living at the time, many years ago), that would be around 7-8pm'ish that I was needed asap at a customer site in Adelaide. The customers server had crashed with defect hard drives, database was corrupt and they had sort of forgotten to test if their backup procedures actually worked Spent all Friday night (after driving through desert much of the day) and part of Saturday drinking beer with the customer and trying to salvage as much data as possible from a corrupt database, transferring the salvageable parts to an impromptu new "server" running on a laptop. McGyver would've been proud. In the end, we got a "workable" system up and running, though the poor interns would have to reenter transactions from the last 4 weeks as a new data entry exercise.

Still mostly playing Guild Wars 2 these days. Taking a break every now and then for the usual suspects. Xenonauts, Master of Orion 2, Borderlands 2, NieR: Automata and a few old SSI wargames on my C64 emulator Speaking of NieR, looking forward to NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139. I hope Kaine is still as foul mouthed as she was in the original (never played that one, only watched youtube clips)

New thread here:

One way of catching your food I suppose Real men catch their own food Old thread:

Somebody need to kill that urban legend some day... the mask is not to protect you from other people, it's to protect other people from you (in the case you unknowingly picks up the virus). It only really works if everybody wears a mask

How about a compromise?... safe sex and less environmental impact! https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20191209-the-vegan-condoms-keeping-sex-lives-safe-and-sustainable

Maybe you could can grind their noses into a fine powder and sell it as an aphrodisiac?

Bruce, you seriously need to learn to read. The talk wasn't about adding a tonne of red tape. It was about formalizing things the way they were *before* Trump. The latter didn't want the responsibility of calling the shots, so it got delegated away from the civilian government. I'm not joking when I say, I think you somewhere deep at heart hate democracy and favour military junta type governments to run countries. So far, in this whole conversation, you've said nothing, null, njet, rien, nada to contradict that impression. Your mileage may vary of course, but I prefer democratically elected leaders to call the shots when it comes to things like when , where and how to take military action (scope and rules of engagement), order the military to work out plans and strategies accordoingly and then approve these. Not the military telling the government what to do and how to run the country, which is what you're advocating at the moment.

Correct me it I'm wrong, but in the US, isn't the president also commander in chief of the armed forces? Why shouldn't it be his call? Edit: Ah yes, I just remembered. He is democratically elected and democracy sucks according to you when it isn't doing what you want it to and is best either disposed of or suspended until they do the "right thing" again.

Yes. Which is why I asked. It seems like you missed the point of the quoted article.

Didn't say it happened, it's a measure to prevent it from happening. The final word should belong to the president in things like for example the execution of foreign nationals. Currently it seems to be unclear whose decision it is. Edit: Because the previous president seems to think it was too much decision making "restoring the kind of White House control over that decision-making process that President Donald Trump attempted to dismantle. "

Did you read the article? Just curious, as it wasn't a prohibition, it was a tighter control with what will be allowed when. Rather than any gung-ho trigger happy general killing whoever looked at him the wrong way.

Oh no... I posted this one a long time ago Not like the army ever really had a chance without air superiority. How do you fight an enemy like this??? https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2016/10/on-this-day-the-emu-wars-begin/ I hope they've learned their lesson before the Chinese army shows up!

Yeah, it's a bit ironical that she's remembered for her good looks and acting, when her contributions to the war effort completely overshadows that in what she contributed to the world. Says a few (not so nice) things about the world we live in. But then, I was always of the opinion, that you should not be judged by who you're born as, but by your actions. People shouldn't be disadvantaged, nor privileged because of some kind of birthright (or the opposite). Judge each on their own actions or lack of (the latter bit being important too). Now, enough of all those weird special minority group days... when is the privileged white male day???

For a bit of Nordic flavour... from the Faeroe Islands

Main difference between the link and what I'm doing seems to be the use of ginger instead of onion I might give that a try some day. It was something I picked up when staying in Sydney for a while, an Indian place had it on their menu. Best Indian curry I've had so far wasn't in London, but in Wellington. A place called 'Dawaat' (iirc). Their Chicken Lababdar curry and their fresh made Naan breads (made by the chefs behind a glass screen, spinning them around in the air at times, fresh to order, while you watch them making it).

You don't need foreign intervention to bring the US to its knees... the added weight to its citizens by the soft drink companies, overly processed foods manufacturers and junk food franchises will do it for you. Cheaply too Working on my Chicken Massaman process. Almost good now. I do "cheat" and buy a curry paste for the spice mix. Adding stuff like Tamarind Puree and Sugar (i.e. the sweet and sour part), Fish Sauce, diced potato and onion bits and coconut milk. Well, and chicken too. I might try it next time with beef, but I have very little experience with beef that isn't cooked on the BBQ Edit: Note to self, remember to buy some crushed peanuts to sprinkle over it next time

I think I posted this already a few years ago, but who cares. I was dusting off old cd's and ran across this album which I bought a long time ago. It's the kind of music that makes you want to run over to your neighbour, knock on his door and then declare war right here and now! (I first heard it as a background track for an old Warhammer 40K cutscene montage on youtube)