On Feb 26, 2:43 pm, "Ken S. Tucker" wrote:
On Feb 26, 9:59 am, " wrote:



On Feb 26, 12:39 pm, "Ken S. Tucker" wrote:

Not really WW1 and 2 were sissy fights, historically
serious war is totally genocidal.

50+ Million killed over 8 years is a "sissy fight"?

It's a matter of proportion, try to keep a global
perspective, eg. Spanish Flu killed more than
WW1 did, something few know about.
Entire races were wiped out in the past, 99%.

So according to you, a war is "sissy" if the 'entire race" wasn't
wiped out.

POW's where taken in WW1&2,

Except on the Eastern Front during WWII and in the island fighting
against the Japanese, when they mostly weren't.

but historically, the
captive soldiers had genitals removed, salted and shipped
back for consumption, and the rest slaughtered or
enslaved.

Except when they weren't, which was most of the time. See my previous
post for discussion.

Hunh? Which? SimCity?

No, the sims were automated.

Well, there you go. Who can gainsay such compelling evidence! They
were AUTOMATED!

The "automation" removes contamination.
It's rather like growing bacteria on a Petri dish.
One merely introduces various bacteria on to
the dish with variables in it's reproduction habits,
and statistically determines the winner.
It's bit more complex, but you get the picture.

OK, hang on. I did my degree in molecular biology and I work in a
research lab, and I can't figure out what experiment you're
describing. I also know that:

a) What works in a model system does not always work in a more complex
system. The bacteria that grows out of control on a petri dish may
not grow as well in a living host, and so on. There are always
variables you didn't allow for.

b) Any experiment is only as good as its design, not as good as its
techniques. Having an automated simulation is meaningless if it's not
designed to reflect reality, just like having clean glassware in the
lab is meaningless if you don't have proper controls. If I'm going to
accept that your automated models show something relevant to the real
world you're going to have to convince me that they actually model
what's going on in the real world accurately.

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LOL, I guess you'd bomb Sicily to attack organized crime.
Ever heard of NATO?

Dan

Regrads
Ken

Yes, I heard of NATO. Served in the US Army in support of NATO in
Germany.

Well then duh you should know the Afghan mission is
a NATO operation and entire force of NATO cannot get Bin
Lauden, so why do think the Taliban could, you're wasting?
Ken

Sigh. I know I said I'd stay out of this, but...does it occur to you
that the U.S. and NATO *might* have been just a bit more interested in
finding bin Laden than the Taliban were?

-JTD