Non-IT News Thread
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Interesting archaeological piece...
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I'm curious to know why this (NYC) horrible, but much less sever, attack was a terrorist attack, but the far more severe attack in Las Vegas was not a terrorist attack?
The ignorance just completely amazes me, it's unreal.
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@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:
I'm curious to know why this (NYC) horrible, but much less sever, attack was a terrorist attack, but the far more severe attack in Las Vegas was not a terrorist attack?
The ignorance just completely amazes me, it's unreal.
There is no hard definition for terrorism that is commonly accepted.
But beyond that, the Las Vegas shooting has no known links to existing terrorist groups. This NYC incident apparently does.
In the U.S., terrorism has been defined since 2001 as revolving around known terrorist groups.
Finally, the definition of terrorism in most dictionaries does include this
the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.Has there been an announced motivation for the Las Vegas shooting beyond mental illness?
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@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:
I'm curious to know why this (NYC) horrible, but much less sever, attack was a terrorist attack, but the far more severe attack in Las Vegas was not a terrorist attack?
The ignorance just completely amazes me, it's unreal.
Severity is not related to terrorism. Terrorism is about goals. Terrorism is about scaring other people outside of the attack, presumably to some end. It’s to enact terror. Just killing people to kill people, rather than to terrorize people, is awful but not terrorism. Terrorism is subjective, any act of terror is heroism to someone else. But just slaughter is simply slaughter.
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Horrific hit and run in DFW...
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@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:
I'm curious to know why this (NYC) horrible, but much less sever, attack was a terrorist attack, but the far more severe attack in Las Vegas was not a terrorist attack?
The ignorance just completely amazes me, it's unreal.
Has there been an announced motivation for the Las Vegas shooting beyond mental illness?
As far as I know, there is no evidence of mental illness (or any motive really)... at least none beyond the fact that anyone who would follow through with any kind of terroristic or similar act like this isn't mentally ill in some form.
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Actor Shakib Khan sued by Bangladesh rickshaw driver over phone error
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'Big void' identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
'Big void' identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41845445I'm curious what they're using for the imaging tech in the last picture.
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This hit a little too close to home for me. I have 2 kids near the same age and this is my hometown.
http://www.fox4news.com/news/north-texas-mom-accused-of-murdering-2-young-children
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Really Papa John's? That's what your going with? Not that your pizza sucks, but because they are protesting?
http://www.businessinsider.com/papa-john-slams-nfl-following-national-anthem-protests-2017-11
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
Really Papa John's? That's what your going with? Not that your pizza sucks, but because they are protesting?
http://www.businessinsider.com/papa-john-slams-nfl-following-national-anthem-protests-2017-11
They're not only one out there that believes the protesting is hurting their business.
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
This hit a little too close to home for me. I have 2 kids near the same age and this is my hometown.
http://www.fox4news.com/news/north-texas-mom-accused-of-murdering-2-young-children
That's so horrible.
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@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
Really Papa John's? That's what your going with? Not that your pizza sucks, but because they are protesting?
http://www.businessinsider.com/papa-john-slams-nfl-following-national-anthem-protests-2017-11
They're not only one out there that believes the protesting is hurting their business.
Where "believes" = "claims".
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Good read
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@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Not by crossing the ice from Russia to Alaska?
Correct. Looks like water-based landfall in South America might predate any Alaska foot traffic.
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A missile was shot into the Saudi capital, but they managed to stop it before it landed, yesterday. It was aimed at the airport. Yemen claims to have fired it.
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'Mass shooting' reported at small town church in Texas
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41880511
