2010-08-01, 17:16 | Link #8441 |
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My sister died when she was born, and my mom went psycho and divorced my dad soon after. By all rights I am an only child(though I have a half brother i haven't seen in 17 years), and I worry about being able to take care of my father and my step-mother when they reach that age. He is 63 and she is 51 so I'm not too concerned for at least another couple of decades, but there will be a time when it does fall on me. And unfortunately there will be a small horse ranch that I will have to tend to as they get older and unable to take care of it themselves. It's a burden I'd rather not have, but will be carrying out of respect and love for them.
I can completely relate to that article, as I'm not close with my extended family at all(I have no contact at all with my mom's family ever since '96 when my grandfather passed away), and really am only close to my Father(who is a great human being who has just about done everything in life you can do). It would be far easier if I could hurry up and start a family of my own soon so we could keep the family line going. |
2010-08-01, 19:56 | Link #8442 | |
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2010-08-02, 06:37 | Link #8444 |
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Well it's good to see that Jullian Assange is so concerned over any people he might kill.
Security issues pertaining to how the US organizes info on infomants not being very secure there probably are, but how the fuck does Jullian go about saying he bears no responsibility if anyone gets killed here? Also, like how he reverts to fall back on his official "why we take lots of care to not leak dangerious info that might get anyone killed" in response that's he's done just that, rather than explain why releasing the names and residence of informers isn't dangerious. |
2010-08-02, 08:49 | Link #8446 | |
In scientific terms only.
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2010-08-02, 09:47 | Link #8447 | ||
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Julian bassically sounds like he's saying that since US security wasn't tight enough to prevent him from leaking the info, that he bears no responsibility on any fallout from the leak. Quote:
-His name -His fathers name -The name of his village This is easily sufficient information for that guy to tracked down and killed. Does it mean he'll definitely be killed? No. But the information is specific enough that I consider it rather analogous to blindly dropping bricks from the top of a hundred story building onto a street below. Do you know if it'll killed anyone? No, but it's not exactly a huge logical leap to think there's a very good chance you did. Do I need to head down to the street level to check for dead people to formulate an opinion about how responsible someone is for dropping bricks of a skyscraper? Because Julian Assange is opposed to the war it's ok for him to do irresponsible things that get Afghani's killed? |
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2010-08-02, 15:47 | Link #8449 | ||||
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(Though just out of curiosity, how many Bothans working for Wiki leaks must die before wikileaks bears full responsibility for leaking any info?) Quote:
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Though I don't recall ever coming out and saying how wonderful the US war effort was either. |
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2010-08-02, 16:47 | Link #8450 |
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@Roger Rambo,
Security by obscurity is always a risky procedure. If this incident makes the US military rethink their security policies, it might be beneficial. Imagine a random US soldier sold the information to the taliban/alquaida instead of publishing it on wikileaks... Now, personally I think thats a weak justification but can accept it as that. Its not weaker than the justification to invade Iraq, its playing dirty in a dirty business - no matter how you look at it, it smells.
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2010-08-02, 21:11 | Link #8451 |
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If "US National Security" is already compromised because of corrupt or incompetent decision making, war profiteering, and other crapola.... it makes the Good vs Evil argument on leakage really really murky.
In other news, Pakistan is having its worst floods in 80 years... lots of people displaced.
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2010-08-02, 21:46 | Link #8452 | |
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2010-08-03, 03:29 | Link #8453 |
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Robbers try to rob a gaming store, gamers fight back.
"You can have our money...but you can never take...MY NINTENDO DS!!!" (wasn't sure whether to post this here or the other news thread) |
2010-08-03, 05:18 | Link #8454 | |
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The robber might even get his house burned down and family murdered.
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2010-08-03, 21:14 | Link #8455 | |
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2010-08-04, 02:56 | Link #8458 |
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Deadly border clash breaks out at Israel-Lebanon border.
Apparently the IDF were carrying out a routine tree cutting operation when a skirmish occured between them and the Lebanese military.
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2010-08-04, 04:55 | Link #8459 | |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...n6741823.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10864861 http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/me...id=ykzuFnMbP8z Spoiler for view on the map:
the Lebanese forces open fire for no reason, and the israeli soldier who died was a Lt Col who was standing WELL behind the fence (and was killed by sniper fire). this was someone's attempt to warm up the entire sector. its not exactly surprising that this would happen now. Lebanon is under a LOT of internal pressure at this point, because the investigation into the murder of former PM harir is about to release its findings the result, is the second worst kept secret in the middle east. Hezbollah agents were responsible for the murder. Hezbollah's situation is already very dire after the events of may 7 2008 (where they attacked Beirut, forever shuttering the illusion that they exist solely to fight israel) and many people in Lebanon have not forgiven them for dragging the whole country into war with Israel in 2006 (a war that devastated much of Lebanon) and their connections with Iran are already an image problem in and of its own (they are viewed as agents of a foreign non-Arab power) Hezbollah's image as "Lebanon's protectors" (their Reison D'etre) is already in taters this Revelation that they were behind the murder of a Lebanese PM could well spell the doom for this group. and since Hezbollah is not going down without a fight, Lebanon is on the brink of a potential civil war. Yesterday's incident, was someone's attempt to start a war with Israel in order to try and wag the dog. nothing helps distract from an internal problem, like an external one.
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