Non-IT News Thread
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Wow. That's rough.
Thoughts & prayers go out to the families there, for sure.
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@scottalanmiller Same thing happened a few months ago with a bunch of Navy training jets.
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@Danp said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller Same thing happened a few months ago with a bunch of Navy training jets.
Similar stuff? Just maintenance issues grounding them?
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Flint water crisis: Michigan officials on manslaughter charges
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@scottalanmiller Stuff like that should happen more often. Fixing corruption, incompetence and laziness in government starts at the local level, not at the top.
I could start a very long rant about the incompentence of Seattle's leaders, but i wont as i am sure it is the same where everybody else lives. Vultures, all of them.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Flint water crisis: Michigan officials on manslaughter charges
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40278565I could have sworn there was a law in place protecting officials when they act within their official capacity. Maybe that's just citizens sueing officials.
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Helmut Kohl just passed away.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Similar stuff? Just maintenance issues grounding them?
Similar issues concerning lack of oxygen.
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A resort in Mali is actively under attack.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
A resort in Mali is actively under attack.
I spent a good part of today trying to get ahold of friends that are close to there. They are fine (not even in Mali right now).
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Another terrorist attack in London overnight, seems to be a "retaliation attack" - but targeting peaceful Muslims that have never done anything wrong...
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@NattNatt said in Non-IT News Thread:
Another terrorist attack in London overnight, seems to be a "retaliation attack" - but targeting peaceful Muslims that have never done anything wrong...
Was that confirmed? Assuming you're talking about the vehicle that ran over some people? The last report I read said that they didn't know if it was just an accident or intentional?
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@NattNatt said in Non-IT News Thread:
Another terrorist attack in London overnight, seems to be a "retaliation attack" - but targeting peaceful Muslims that have never done anything wrong...
Was that confirmed? Assuming you're talking about the vehicle that ran over some people? The last report I read said that they didn't know if it was just an accident or intentional?
Yeah, the latest was that when the guy was arrested, he was shouting "Death to Muslims, I've done my part" while being taken away - sounds pretty intentional to me sadly.
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@NattNatt said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@NattNatt said in Non-IT News Thread:
Another terrorist attack in London overnight, seems to be a "retaliation attack" - but targeting peaceful Muslims that have never done anything wrong...
Was that confirmed? Assuming you're talking about the vehicle that ran over some people? The last report I read said that they didn't know if it was just an accident or intentional?
Yeah, the latest was that when the guy was arrested, he was shouting "Death to Muslims, I've done my part" while being taken away - sounds pretty intentional to me sadly.
While it's true (and completely wrong) that we call a single person acting out a terror attack these days - I personally don't consider this a terrorist attack unless it was sponsored by one of the terrorist orgs.
With any luck, this is just one pissed of person with an ax to grind, and sadly this is how they decided to grind it.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@NattNatt said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@NattNatt said in Non-IT News Thread:
Another terrorist attack in London overnight, seems to be a "retaliation attack" - but targeting peaceful Muslims that have never done anything wrong...
Was that confirmed? Assuming you're talking about the vehicle that ran over some people? The last report I read said that they didn't know if it was just an accident or intentional?
Yeah, the latest was that when the guy was arrested, he was shouting "Death to Muslims, I've done my part" while being taken away - sounds pretty intentional to me sadly.
While it's true (and completely wrong) that we call a single person acting out a terror attack these days - I personally don't consider this a terrorist attack unless it was sponsored by one of the terrorist orgs.
With any luck, this is just one pissed of person with an ax to grind, and sadly this is how they decided to grind it.
By definition a "terror attack" is just an attack that is designed//executed to cause terror, can be a crazy-guy targeting a specific group or an organised group out to cause as much destruction as possible.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
While it's true (and completely wrong) that we call a single person acting out a terror attack these days - I personally don't consider this a terrorist attack unless it was sponsored by one of the terrorist orgs.
grind it.You redefining what it means doesn't make it so, though. Your definition doesn't match up with what the term means.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
With any luck, this is just one pissed of person with an ax to grind, and sadly this is how they decided to grind it.
Why would that make it better?
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
While it's true (and completely wrong) that we call a single person acting out a terror attack these days - I personally don't consider this a terrorist attack unless it was sponsored by one of the terrorist orgs.
grind it.You redefining what it means doesn't make it so, though. Your definition doesn't match up with what the term means.
You're both right - but at the same time, we didn't call these types of attacks terror attacks 20+ years ago, they were hate crimes, etc.
Now we call everything a terror attack - just fueling the governments machine to take away more of our freedoms.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
With any luck, this is just one pissed of person with an ax to grind, and sadly this is how they decided to grind it.
Why would that make it better?
It's better because it's less likely that another attack will be forth coming, at least from the same person.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
While it's true (and completely wrong) that we call a single person acting out a terror attack these days - I personally don't consider this a terrorist attack unless it was sponsored by one of the terrorist orgs.
grind it.You redefining what it means doesn't make it so, though. Your definition doesn't match up with what the term means.
You're both right - but at the same time, we didn't call these types of attacks terror attacks 20+ years ago, they were hate crimes, etc.
Now we call everything a terror attack - just fueling the governments machine to take away more of our freedoms.
That's people fueling that. If people didn't assume that terror attack meant something that it doesn't, the government would have no fuel.
A terror attack has always been an attack meant to cause terror. And remember, all military action is a terror action to someone.
