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  1. rwatson
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  2. hoytedow
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    hoytedow Carbon Based Life Form

    That we know of.
     
  3. ancient kayaker
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    Are you telling us that the laser guided bombs used extensively in Iraq were guided to their targets by non-military devices, perhaps handheld laser pointers? Or maybe the pilots used laser range finders from Walmart?

    Or are you stating that the laser guiding systems are not classified as weapons because they are merely part of a weapon? That seems a bit disingenuous . . . lasers have been used in war, bigtime. It doesn't matter how they were used.
     
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    Very true, you are on top form at the moment. A case of you can't have your yellowcake and eat it/blow it up.

    I googled your post 752 "Lächeln ist billiger als elektrischer Strom und gibt immer Licht." You are the first item but it includes a translation. ;)
     
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    You must read more carefully. The translation is roughly "A smile is cheaper than electric power and gives better light".
     
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    There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few went to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen.
    Henry David Thoreau
     
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    The point I was trying to make was that for nearly two thousand years since the phrase was coined, All weapons conceived for war were employed for war. It is only since 1950 or so that weapons have have been built and not employed. I didn't mean that it was only nuclear weapons, I was just referencing a time frame. And thus this generation may have a rather different take on "prepare for war" than our forefathers did. With us, it may be a question of if or how. Earlier, it was only a question of when- the how was bring everything you got. Or so history informed us.

    So for a counter example, let's say fielded before the end of WWII, VJ day.

    Lasers Have been tested in the wild.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriev_A-60
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1
     
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    “Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”

    Winston Churchill
     
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    "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
    Winston Churchill
     
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    Great quote Hoyt. Must share points but you deserve points for the posting.
     
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    Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
    Hubert H. Humphrey
     
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    PAR Yacht Designer/Builder

    Winston Churchill was a pompous *** hole, previously found wanting, found a nitch to fill during the war and then booted again after ward, rightly so. Not that he didn't do a reasonable job during WW II, but he was as self-serving and undeserving a fool as there was. Don't get me started on the misery that idiot caused. Okay he wasn't actually an idiot, frankly quite bright, but unfortunately drenched in an Edwardian mentality that cost millions of lives.
     
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    failure is always an option. mythbusters.
     
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    Although Churchill had his points, he was a walking disaster anytime he got near military strategy. As First Lord of the Admiralty during World War I, he was he chief proponent of the ill-considered and disastrous Dardanelles (Gallipoli) Campaign, which cost the British and Commonwealth ground forces well over 200,000 casualties -- on top of heavy naval losses, including at least three battleships.

    Apparently Churchill was a slow learner, because he spent an extraordinary amount of time and energy during World War II carrying on about 'the soft underbelly of Europe.' He wanted the main assault on occupied Europe to basically be a repeat of Gallipoli, with landings in the Balkans instead of in France.

    The Italian campaign was basically a bone thrown to Churchill and his 'soft underbelly' nonsense, to keep him busy and out of everyone's hair while they planned and executed D Day.
     

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    Winnie did pretty good for England before 39 when he began lobbying for help from FDR!
    Winnie's speeches did a lot to keep the English Morale up during that war. A good point that overshadowed all his poor points.
     
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