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pwasser wrote: my own opinion
Yup, and there's no need to take it to the soapbox to express it (unless you want to do a soapbox "talk").
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My kid sister was not offended.
But I see what you mean, a little offense can put you in an orange jump suite in a cage ready for some warm hospitality.
Smart play.
Rage against the narrative.
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Creating such artifacts takes a lot of time and effort, may be months of diligent (team)work. Destroying them takes just a few minutes.
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Entropy always win! 
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If only they had jobs to go to. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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Destroying a country's cultural heritage is fairly standard for psychopaths,
Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin and others have done this throughout history.
By removing references to the people's cultural past these psychos then try and 're-educate' the population with their ridiculous megalomaniacal 'year-zero' ideas.
History shows that it doesn't work in the long run.
It does show what a bunch of uneducated oafs, amongst other qualities, this particular bunch are.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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What's really lucky is that there just happened to be a super-spy photographer at the site!
Aren't we incredibly fortunate that he wasn't out trying to photograph things of military interest!
Why do I feel like I'm being bullsh1tted?
Anyone wanna bet against the guys in sheets being western stooges (possibly on a hastily re-worked moonscape set)?
What's most frightening is that:
0. People who are in the right don't need to lie
1. These tiswas characters appear to be nasty enough that there's no need to lie about them.
2. Despite 1 & 2, we're still seeing more bullsh1t than truth.
And everyone wonders why kids, who are just finding their feet and looking for what's right for them, are turning away from the bullsh1t and toward tiswas.
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No spying involved. The video was published by ISIS. They are bragging about how they are destroying these terrible (from their point of view) things. The rest of the world does not consider these ancient artifacts to be so terrible.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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Tragic, but nothing new. It's just history repeating itself. We've had Iconoclasts[^] in Europe and America too. I think most recently somewhere around 1940? Hitler destroyed thousands of pieces of Jewish or degenerate art[^]. Even now art stolen during WWII is missing and found.
To me it only shows, once again, that human stupidity has no boundaries.
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
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Sander Rossel wrote: human stupidity has no boundaries.
I think it was Einstein who said that two things are infinite: The Universe and Human Stupidity. And he wasn't sure about the Universe.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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He did say that, yeah 
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
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throw new NotSupportedException();
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It's not a tragedy - it's a crime!(*)
All humans are destined to die some day, but art is immortal.
(*)This does not mean that their crimes against Humanity should be ignored. It only adds to the docket.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I have a comment I need to make on a old post of mine (turns out I was right) but my oldest post I can find dates back to 2009. I think the message I'm looking for is dated 2007/8.
Are these still available somehow?
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It took you eight years to realize you were right?
And you still remember an argument after eight years?
I dunno if that's impressive or disconcerting.
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Disconcerting 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
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New information has recently come to light, I also can't remember who I was debating it with at the time.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: And you still remember an argument after eight years?
I dunno if that's impressive or disconcerting.
Feminine.
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why you do not live in the present and let the past be the past?
I know that, I'm the same idiot, but I'm working on it  !
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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No, but isn't that post funny today!
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What was that post about? It is really easy to find it through Google or CP search.
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Then start a new thread ("Hey, Numbnuts! You were wrong wrong wrong WRONG Nyaa-naa-naa!" or some-such).
If you add something to an 8-yr-old thread, it will sit in the 8-yr-old box, way at the back.
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Yes, but the other person will get an reply email notification. In starting a new thread a lot of context will be lost, that and I can't remember who the guy was.
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