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When did Speakers Corner become Tech Support? - Dan G

You're the one making the claim that PTSD incidence has increased because the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are unjust. I'll I'm doing is rebutting your theory. I've made no statements of my own to back up. Yes, you're explained that you think this is true. If I explain that unicorns live inside the Earth and geysers are more prevalent near underground unicorn colonies, it doesn't make it true, no matter how many times I say it. Providing some evidence is required. I was asking for any evidence whatsoever that your pop psychology theory relates to PTSD. You can't provide any. Again, if you can provide any evidence beyond how you feel on the subject, your credibility will go up. Right now you sound like a child stomping his feet and saying the same thing over and over. I realize you are desperate to show that the wars in Iraq and Afghanstan are unjust. If you want to use the increase in PTSD caused by fighting an unjust war as evidence of that, then you have to do at least two things: 1) Show that the rate of PTSD among US service members has gone up (this should be easy if it is true), while controlling for such things as increased diagnostic efforts and societal acceptance (may be a little harder) 2) Compare the rates of PTSD in "just" wars against those in "unjust" wars, while simulataneously reaching consensus on what makes a war "just" and how these different wars were perceived by the people fighting them (good luck with that part). - Dan G

Yes, let the ignorance flow. I give up. If you're going to just repeat the same thing over and over without any attempt to back it up, there's no point. - Dan G

Duh. So according to your theory, people in the Pacific theater should have suffered PTSD less often than people in the European theater. Was that the case? Yes, that's what you think. Is what you think borne out by real life? You never responded to my point about WWI. You claim it was a just war, so PTSD cases should have been more rare. In fact, PTSD (shell shock) was rampant. So either WWI wasn't a just war, or your theory is bunk. Please point us to where you're getting these mass numbers. - Dan G

Eww. (This is Bonfire) - Dan G

Then why do so many first responders suffer from PTSD? Or people in terrible accidents? Frankly, you're practicing internet psychology without a clue. PTSD was rampant in WWI, but they called it something else. It had nothing to do with how just the war was. BTW, no one came into the US's "home" during WWI, and the Germans didn't invade the US during WWII. - Dan G

It's one thing to send a Hellfire into a remote compound in the tribal areas, quite another to drop a bomb in the middle of a large city, a couple miles from the Pak version of West Point. You keep saying "Act of War" like we aren't already at war. We've been committing what you would call "Acts of War" in the region for decades, long before 9/11. All the actual DIPLOMACY we've been doing in Pakistan for the last 25 years has gotten us very little. We wouldn't have been waiting a couple months, bin Laden would have disappeared for another decade. - Dan G

Really? You think that we wouldn't hand over the Chinese equivalent of Osama bin Laden? The tensions between the US and China are not nearly as bad as you think. I don't see what that has to do with the discussion. Yeah, except when they don't comply, we lose what little help we do get from them, and now we're officially at war with a nuclear armed nation. Not a very realistic option. Hardly. They didn't even know for sure if he was there in the first place. - Dan G

That would be really upsetting. Of course, they wouldn't have to do that, since we wouldn't knowingly hide him to begin with. - Dan G

The question still stands. How would you have handled it? Tell the Pakis you know where he is? You think he'd still be there an hour later? If China alerted us that a terrorist accused of 3,000 counts of murder was hiding down the street from West Point, don't you think we'd go arrest him for them? - Dan G

How exactly would you have handled the Bin Laden situation? - Dan G

No, it was 60/40 if you could get it to the floor for a vote. That could only happen if one senator didn't put a secret hold on the nomination, or threaten (not perform, just threaten) a filibuster. - Dan G

I didn't vote for either of them. - Dan G

No. And they are both scumbags. - Dan G

Yes, as long as she also has a Mac to do the developing on. - Dan G

I guess. There was no service so bad that I wouldn't have left a 15% tip in the States anyway. I prefer to know the price up front. The only restaurant in Italy that ticked me off was the one that printed "gratuity not included" in tiny letters on the back of the menu, but in big letters on the bill. I thought that was tacky. It wasn't the server's fault. - Dan G

I recently spent a couple weeks in Italy, where everyone says the servers are rude and inefficient. Had a great time, and service was no different from what I usually get in the States. No matter where you go, expect shitty service in a shitty restaurant, and good service in a good restaurant. In some of the restaurants we ate at, the service was lousy. In some they took the time to chat, offered a drink or two on the house, etc. Just like at home. - Dan G

I'm no expert, but I do have an iPad that I really like. If you need to put your own software on it for your experiements, then forget about the iPad. Unless you jailbreak it, I don't think you can get any software on it that doesn't come through Apple. - Dan G

I know they're ironic. It seems like the media has a Mad Lib form for gun related reports. "Mr. ___(arrestee)___ was found in possession of ___(number of guns)___ and over ___(number of rounds)___ rounds of ammunition." If you don't fill in the whole Mad Lib, you don't get any credit. They do the same thing for skydiving stories. - Dan G

To be fair, it didn't say, "more than 100 rounds!!!" It said, "more than 100 rounds." You (and most other people) added the three exclaimation marks in your heads. - Dan G

If I look at my on-line statement shortly after a meal, there will usually be a pending charge for the non-tip bill. The next day or two, that charge will disappear and an approved charge for the full amount will be applied to the account. - Dan G

Touche - Dan G

I did read your post. You said you're against filling the spots on the 2nd because they don't have the case load. Then you said you favor an up or down vote. Those are two separate comments. I asked a question on the second comment. That's not a lack of reading comprehension, it's how a discussion works. - Dan G

Am I the Dan? I don't get it. - Dan G

Alright ladies and gentlemen. Remember we have a show every night at 8, and two on Friday. Have a great night, and be kind to your wait staff. Unless they're gay, then be a dick. - Dan G