i don't watch tv so i don't know what you are talking about.
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It is also likely that there are considerations of critical importance that I fail to take into account, thereby invalidating some or all of my conclusions.
I have gone to some length to indicate nuances and degrees of uncertainty throughout the comment's text— encumbering it with an unsightly smudge of “possibly,” “might,” “may,” “could well,” “it seems,” “probably,” “very likely,” “almost certainly.” Each qualifier has been placed where it is carefully and deliberately. Yet these topical applications of epistemic modesty are not enough; they must be supplemented here by a systemic admission of uncertainty and fallibility.
This is not false modesty: for while I believe that my comments are likely to be seriously wrong and misleading, I think that the alternative views that have been presented in the threads are substantially worse.
it is absolutely morally wrong, but it certainly can be effective and has been used throughout history. usually, things that don't work don't last anywhere near that long.
there are all sorts of reasons to oppose it, which of course I do, but saying it cannot be effective just isn't one of them.
no it does not...almost everyone in the world understand that under certain conditions, torture to get potentially life-saving information is just the way of things.
let me put it this way...if your immediate family was going to be blown up in two hours, wouldn't you say go ahead and torture that guy who you KNOW has information on how to diffuse the bomb?
uhhh terrorist attacks and terrorism are, by definition, "not very comforting" and in many ways are impossible to stop, thus the word "terror" that is used so prominently in their constructions.
this narrative just seems way to neat and prepackaged and allows under-informed US citizens to consume it and still feel safe and make sense of the connected world we all swim in every day.
i agree it's being spoonfed via media and politicians, but to me, that's all the more reason to be highly suspect of it.
this event is becoming the ultimate nail to everyone's hammer.
US companies get hacked all the time...have you not been reading the internet over the past, oh, 10 years?
also, there is still big doubts that the NK's did this.
really? a nation-state attacking a for-profit multi-national corporation with little more than embarrassing information is an "act of aggression"??
you better read up on your military history my friend.
lol...well you just described my last contract.
amen...i've been discussing this concept with a frontend developer just this week, and could not agree more.
things have set market value, irregardless of how fast you can get it done, and undercutting this market value is a sure way to keep your bank account low.