Mantergeistmann
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I don't think any president wants to have to make the call of "Hey, this country just nuked a non-Nato country and wiped them off the map. Do we... respond?"
You don't want to set the precedent that there's no response or a limited one, and you also don't want to be the one who gets dragged into a nuclear/heavy-handed military response that has to try to force regime change.
The temple's gates were open in times of war, and closed in times of peace. The formal declaration of war and peace was a superstitious, religious matter for the Romans.
Weren't the gates open for something like a 400 year stretch at one point? AKA longer than the USA has been in existence?
Israeli Army command post deep underground beneath its headquarters
Isn't that like saying "there's a US Army command post/bunker deep underground beneath the Pentagon"? And yes, launch as many bombs as you want at the Pentagon/bunkers beneath it during a war; it's certainly not a war crime to hit any nearby civilians with a miss.
You're changing too many variables, I'm afraid. None of those involve irreversably claiming someone else's possession.
Smoke Jaguar
They were the opponents in MW3, right? I'm still waiting for any sort of modern platform re-release of that one... by which I mean the ability to purchase and play the OG on a modern Windows machine.
Oh, what the hell.
In a sort of "it isn't money that's the root of all evil, it's love of money" way?
LotRO and GW2 do it, but in separate ways: LotRO has the way you describe it, your cosmetic outfit vs your gear, whereas GW2 has transmog, which changes the appearance of thr piece of gear itself. I have a hunch FFXIV does something similar as well based purely on what I've heard of fashion in that game. I'd assume it's becoming more and more popular in MMOs in general, but I don't know how much it exists outside of that realm (other than things like e.g. BG3's camp clothes vs adventuring gear swap).
I would expect gang member conviction to carry a higher burden of proof than asylum proceedings, personally...
Personally, I think more about torpedoes. Some are very long range, with impressively hard to defeat terminal guidance, and they are absolutely ship-killers in terms of payload/mechanism, rather than just mission-killers.
right wing administrations are dominated by conservative Catholics
Catholics? Really? Not protestants/evangelicals?
I suppose the assumption is that companies will raise prices on imported goods dollar-for-dollar with the tariff increases.
The required advantage to get ahead in sports gambling is pretty small, right? Just slightly above flipping a coin?
If women were equally strong then societies would have an advantage if they encouraged women to be warriors to better protect and defend those societies, and women would be similarly self-interested in doing so.
Not necessarily. Even if women were better fighters than men, a nation would still be better off losing 90% of its men than half its women just for the purposes of replacement for future wars. Or similar -- I'm sure someone has done the math on the numbers for a world building scenario if nothing else.
Yeah, that's a movie/hollywood convention. Nothing to do with the books.
In some cases I think it does, but that's the exception, not the rule.
Oh, absolutely not. That's a major part of the conflict in the region, and the point of my mirrored statement.
So what's your opinion on the South China Sea?
I more just find the similarity of the timing entertaining.
More people need to make lengthy posts about their cool jobs in the vein of my previous post
My current job is fake and lame, but maybe I'll manage to get off my ass at some point and write a few words on the day in the life of a System Design Agent. Or, before that, a Technical Writer allowed to do exactly zero writing/editing.
Are you sure it's a real position and not one of those "ghost job listings" I keep hearing about? If it had been a shorter amount of time, I'd assume they'd just written it to target one specific person as a formality, but if it's been posted for a while, then it certainly can't be that.
It's an interesting situation. On the one hand, I can see that being absolutely correct. On the other, my reading of Admiral Byng's court-martial is that he was absolutely hung out to dry for political reasons. Which makes for an interesting social/moral dilemma: if you were involved in the process back then, and knew (or had an idea of) the beneficial effects it would have on the future navy, would you choose to have an innocent man executed?
I often wonder this about the justice system in general: if it means placating the mob, is it sometimes worth committing an act of injustice to a single individual?
Okay, yeah, that's pretty good.
Yes, my understanding is that detergent a) never goes bad, and b) everyone needs. It's a very safe sale to make.
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