DZJ
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That number seems excessive to me. A figure like that seems more on par with years of industrialised total war, rather a few years of terrorism and counter-insurgency. Given that the same group published a controversial estimate of 100,000 as early as 2004, part of me suspects they're deliberately proposing contentious numbers. I find myself questioning their motives.
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I thought the same thing, a complete non-story with a disgracefully sensationalistic headline.
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As I understand it, the Amish renounce violence even in self-defence, believing that their attacker might see something of God's love and forgiveness in their non-resistance. Can't find a source for that at the moment, but I read it in the paper.
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Personally I consider these people first and foremost to be attention seekers. Their 'religion' seems to be a means, not an end.
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As far as I can see the only way to keep these people in check is to ignore them. Every mention they get online, in the print media or on radio/TV is free publicity that sustains their bizarre organisation. It would seem nothing can be done using existing law to prevent from spreading their bile (even mounting civil lawsuits would provide them more attention in the fighting of them), so the only alternative is to cut off the oxygen of publicity.
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I don't think I fully get your meaning, but I think you're misreading me. It's not my intention to bash the States, I'm just wondering whether these awful events actually have any effect on the way people/society view things. As an outside observer, the fact that these things keep recurring seems to say no, but I was just wondering if there was more to it.
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Just out of interest, do these school shootings ever actually prompt change? It just seems that these things happen periodically (or sometimes in a sudden rash), there's a period of general chitchat about the ills of the world and how awful it all is, and then sooner rather than later everyone concludes the perpetrators were just really reaaaally bad people and it's somehow exceptional. I'm just wondering if the hand-wringing and cries 'Oh my! How horrible!' ever actually result in a change in attitudes or values, or if America is now so used to these sorts of things that they no longer have any impact besides on anything besides newspaper headlines? Do these things no longer shock?
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There is also no such thing as evolution, only a list of animals that Chuck Norris allows to live!
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In a war film sort of mood (can't remember if these were already taken) Full Metal Vagina Apocalypse Vagina A Vagina Too Far The Longest Vagina The Dirty Vagina The Big Red Vagina The Thin Red Vagina Vagina of Iron All Quiet on the Western Vagina The Vagina Busters Reach for the Vagina Vagina of Britain
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You really think that editing footage of a skydive (which he did do) is comparable to claiming to have served in Iraq/Afghanistan (which, I'm presuming, he didn't)? I come back to my earlier point - as the skydive isn't the point of the ad, but only illustration, what does it matter if the footage of it is edited?
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I'd have thought it would be a matter of clarity. Easier for the audience to see who's speaking and less distraction from other jumpers with only one person in shot (as opposed to him and a TI or 2 AFFI's). I don't see anything sinister in the editing.
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To tell the truth, I'm a little puzzled by your passion. The advert is hardly fraudulent or deceptive. I would bet that the vast majority of people who saw that ad would think, 'That guy jumped out of a plane'. The more critical might think 'That guy jumped out of a plane to illustrate his point'. How the jump was made is irrelevant and the overwhelming majority of people wouldn't even pause to think about it. The jump itself only really serves the same purpose as a graph or chart of statistics might. If the jump itself was the point of his ad (or if his message had been something like, 'Hi, I'm really brave. Look at me jump out of this plane all on my own. Wouldn't you want someone brave like me for mayor?') then I think you'd have a point and your anger would be justified. As it stands though, I think you've overreacted a bit.
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Tactics "Crazy and monstrous" - Israeli rocket commander
DZJ replied to jakee's topic in Speakers Corner
Not going to defend it (not my job) but I saw a report on this that suggested that the motivation may have been to deny Hezbollah freedom of movement in areas peppered with bomblets. -
I'm more interested in the point of painting this elephant in the first place. According to that article, the artist was trying to make a point about 'the elephant in the room' syndrome i.e. the problem that everyone knows about but never address. Surely then putting an elephant in a room eau naturale would make the point just as well as tarting it up with an elaborate paintjob?
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What's the 'Daedalus Project' (as written on the canopy)? Some subdivision of Icarus?
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Apparently the CRW 85-way started showing up on local radars from 30+. (If I recall an article in the BPA magazine correctly)
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Versus having a cop on the street? I'm curious, how many London police in total, are there? In New York City, there are roughly 40,000 for a population of roughly 8,000,000. London has a population of what, 9,000,000 people? According to the Met: Today, the Metropolitan Police Service employs 31,141 officers, 13,661 police staff, 414 traffic wardens and 2,106 Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), and, since the realignment of police boundaries in April 2000, it covers an area of 620 square miles and a population of 7.2million. http://www.met.police.uk/about/index.htm Had nothing better to do, so I looked it up.
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Walking through Picadilly Station one time, I heard an announcement that said 'To the gentleman who has just urinated in the escalator hall, please be advised that we have a great CCTV picture of you, and the police are on the way'. In cases as clear cut as that, I don't have any problem with this technology. More generally, as long it is restricted to public areas and used with reasonable restraint (and in conjunction with sufficient police to actually make good on the surveillance), I could support this.
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I hope the video man knew exactly what was in the rig he was handed. 'Borrowed gear kills', and all that.
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Btw, in the title you said 'another school shooting', have there been other school shootings recently?
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How would guns in locals' hands make a difference to this situation, unless you'd like to have those guns in schools?
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I thought the States stopped caring about British opinion sometime in the eighteenth century?
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Speaking of Monty Python http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbHF3XwSJJk (The 'Camelot' song rendered in Lego from MP and the Holy Grail)
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Seem to remember Nostradamus saying something similar...