Re: Off Beat: U.S. Navy to Mask Swastika-Shaped Barracks

["Åke Nordin" <polymorpevz () gmail com>]

On 9/28/07, Brian Loe <knobdy () gmail com> wrote:
> On 9/28/07, Åke Nordin <polymorpevz () gmail com> wrote:
> > On 9/28/07, Brian Loe <knobdy () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > All are valid points and real problems. Censoring sattelite imagery
> > from one source certainly doesn't help with any one of them, it only induces
> > a false sense of security. And we're now a very long way from mounting
> > an attack on those swastika-lodged seabees.
>
> Never said they did - your mixing arguments. Choose one and argue it.

Uhm, then I dont know how to interpret the following:

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On 9/27/07, Brian Loe <knobdy () gmail com> wrote:
> On 9/27/07, Ken Dyke <kdyke () keycomputerconsultants com> wrote:
> > China and Russia have their own satellites, so google earth is not
> > telling them anything they don't already know.
>
> What about the Iranians?
>
> Could the google image help you plan your attack on a military base? I
> would think so.
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I believe this was so early in the thread that the sattelite images that
were discussed was those of the swastika-shaped buildings at
Coronado. At least I made that connection when you wrote about
censoring sattelite images to mitigate threats to the bases when
the fear mongering part of this thread flowered.

> > I fail to comprehend how outspoken animosity towards Iran from
> > another Head of State with strong backing from another set of
> > religious fundamentalists could have any positive effect at all
> > in that matter.
>
> I don't either, so what's your point?

Seismic testing of your opinions, I think. That is, having you state
just that.

> And are you calling Israel a
> bunch of religious fundamentalists?

I can't say that I've followed developments that close that I got the
scoop on Shimon Perez or Ehud Olmert threatening Iran with
full-scale war. Neither does "strong backing" necessarily imply
the entire population. A vocal minority with a strong agenda
certainly fits in.

So no, I wasn't primarily thinking of ultraorthodox jews, rather
the usual suspects of U.S. TV evangelists, creationists and
what else we illuminated europeans perceive your religious
right wing Washington lobby to be. Explicit enough?

> If they are, we could use a lot
> more of that kind of fundamentalism in the muslim world - then they'd
> be more focused on trade and building something out of their dessert
> heap as opposed to slobbering all over themselves about what another
> group was able to do with theirs!

Couldn't agree more. That has been a subject of my fascination
ever since I was a kid (around the time of the Yom Kippur war
and on). I primary blame that on their liberal, democratic soft
underbelly that never could function as effective as the very
efficiently run totalitarian states that are their neighbours.

-- 
Åke Nordin Unix/net geek, Netia.se consultant, Stacken member.
Damian Conway: "The programmer is fighting against the two most
destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity."

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