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Core Overload?
POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 00:42
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Monday, July 11, 2011 11:31 PM
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Originally posted by Bytemite:Quote:
There might be a slight jab at them in the "pretty sad that they're the best prepared" angle, but I read it as just a remark on how shitty the whole industry is, when the French government represents the apex of it.
That's the one.
I'm not sure if HW was saying it's sad because the French shouldn't have been prepared (didn't build robots) but were more prepared than the Japanese, or if it was a general comment on French planning and dealing with crises, popular in America since WW2.
Which would be funny, if the U.S. had any better record of winning wars since then...
Korea: Stalemate.
Viet Nam: Lost. Badly.
Gulf War Episode I: Stalemate.
Gulf War Episode II (The Clone of the Attack): Hmmmmm...
Afghanistan: Well, we've been there longer than the Russians were, and about as long as we were in 'Nam (U.S. combat troops have been in Afghanistan longer than they were in 'Nam), but we haven't really seemed to have closed the deal...
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011 12:42 AM
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Originally posted by Hardware:
Unless you have some superior, unimpeachable source of information on what was happening? I don't know anyone personally who works at Fukushima, so I had to take official news reports and Japanese government statements.
No, you *CHOSE* to take those reports at face value, even AFTER they lied, and lied, and lied, and you became aware they lied.
Because you *WANTED* to believe them, despite the fact that common sense would logically cause someone to consider them unreliable as an information source after repeated lies.
And THAT is all too common amongst folk of any political persuasion who have invested belief in something, to ignore all logic and sense while continuing to take known liars at their word, over and over again...
And on that note, can I borrow twenty bucks, I'll pay you back, really I will...
-Frem
I do not serve the Blind God.
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