2012-12-14, 18:31 | Link #25203 | |
Meh
Join Date: Feb 2008
|
Quote:
China would much rather the US having to go through N.Korea first before getting inside China proper in an invasion, rather than getting directly inside China from the start. |
|
2012-12-14, 19:04 | Link #25204 | |
Banned
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
Age: 40
|
Quote:
If the North Korean regime falls, I'm not sure the reunification process would be immediately going underway considering how the gap between North and South Korea is way too wide. North Korea will need to show that they have something valuable of their own as well as the will to work hard in order to improve their current situation before South Korea would consider reunification with a more serious eye. In other words, North Korean people will need to prove that they won't act like parasites only feeding off South Korean help if the reunification process begins. |
|
2012-12-14, 20:44 | Link #25205 | ||
Meh
Join Date: Feb 2008
|
Quote:
Quote:
I mean, East Germany totally had to show they had to have something valuable and would work hard to prove they won't act like parasites before people tore down the Berlin Wall! ...oh wait. |
||
2012-12-14, 20:51 | Link #25206 |
Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 46
|
It will be a struggle to balance it out between North and South Korea. Mainly because of how the North Korean government has treated its civilians. While they might be good for cheap labor in the first years, the amounts of food production and other things will take time to normalize within the South Korea economy.
Consider that it has only been about a decade ot two since the border was reclosed. Before that families could see each other sometimes (I don't recall when the border became slightly less hostile to work and family visits, not how long that lasted...only that there was another shift around the time the North Koreans started renewed work on nuclear weapons and missiles).
__________________
|
2012-12-14, 20:59 | Link #25207 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
|
Quote:
|
|
2012-12-14, 21:05 | Link #25208 |
a random Indonesian otaku
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Xanadu
Age: 32
|
so many things happened when I was sleeping
deep condolences for the family and Americans... why he should choose Elementary school to do his deed? that's horrible... and United States should really take gun-control rules seriously... |
2012-12-14, 21:35 | Link #25210 | |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
Join Date: Jan 2009
|
Quote:
__________________
|
|
2012-12-14, 21:40 | Link #25211 | |
Senior Member
Author
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Philippines
Age: 47
|
Quote:
Looks like this copycat pattern of horror is bound to continue. :|
__________________
|
|
2012-12-14, 21:44 | Link #25212 | |
=^^=
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: 42° 10' N (Latitude) 87° 33' W (Longitude)
Age: 45
|
Quote:
At the high school level -- they achieved this since Columbine. Schools took notice and increased security.
__________________
|
|
2012-12-14, 21:51 | Link #25213 | |||
Banned
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
Age: 40
|
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
|
|||
2012-12-14, 21:51 | Link #25214 |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
Join Date: Jan 2009
|
Yeah...that's always the problem isn't it? Resources....
Let's divert resources away from important things like social and mental care and focus solely on the hammer solution of armed security when the hammer may not always swing down in time to end the threat. Let's leave out certain individuals to rot in their own blackened minds perhaps as a result of interaction with other individuals. And when they finally snap and such shit happens, let's pretend that the greater society did not contribute to it in any way...that people's minds are not affected by their environment, that these people are anomalies. Yeah, I love this world so much indeed.
__________________
|
2012-12-14, 21:52 | Link #25215 |
Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 46
|
But they shouldn't need increased security. Guns or no guns, there shouldn't have been a need for such security measures in schools.
This sort of thing didn't seem to happen (or at least not to any scale like these events) when were were growing up in the 80s and early 90s. News were fairly wide spread then. No internet yet, but the cable news channels were starting up and regular news media changed from the days of Walter Cronkite. What happened between when I graduated from high school and these sorts of incidents?
__________________
|
2012-12-14, 22:00 | Link #25216 |
Juanita/Kiteless
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: New England
Age: 40
|
American society has a problem, ethically. There are too many people who lack good moral standards and who are poor, ethically. It isn't just these shooting sprees. You can find the lack of good ethics all across America from all sorts of people (male, female, young, old, liberal, conservative, etc.).
Why this is...is probably due to a large number of factors. America is a very complex and complicated society. I think this is a big reason for its instability. It is probably the most complex and complicated society on earth and in the history of humanity. I definitely think this is integral to our moral decline.
__________________
|
2012-12-14, 22:12 | Link #25217 |
formerly ogon bat
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Mexico
Age: 53
|
An evil well orchestrated plan. Some may say that the plan is to make guns illegal in the USA, that ain't happening since it is a bu$ine$$. But as these incidents keep happening people will not protest as law enforcements slowly but surely becomes 1984-esque. I do not mean to say someone is brainwashing these guys, as someone said before, the reduction (or complete absence) of government funded mental institutions to treat people (or at the very least identify) this people is what happened between then and now. Criminal profiling is not going to work because these are not criminals (which usually are sane and just want some money for their hard illegal work), these are people that stared for to long into the darkness and snapped.
|
2012-12-14, 22:15 | Link #25218 | ||
AS Oji-kun
Join Date: Nov 2006
Age: 74
|
Quote:
Quote:
__________________
|
||
2012-12-14, 22:22 | Link #25219 |
Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 46
|
Reagan closed the mental institutions in California in the 1960s. I wasn't even born yet when that happened. I graduated in the mid-1990s. Something happened after that (or progressed enough after that to start showing more and more problems).
__________________
|
2012-12-14, 22:36 | Link #25220 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
|
Looks like there's undeniable pattern emerging... let's say for ~14 yrs
OP/ED slightly dated but still relevant, fresh... Quote:
Spoiler for TL ; DR:
|
|
Tags |
current affairs, discussion, international |
Thread Tools | |
|
|