tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post4421291754732899728..comments2024-02-23T01:30:06.101-08:00Comments on Early Warning: Friday LinksStuart Stanifordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182839827506265860noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-43168820903567883642013-06-08T08:35:29.485-07:002013-06-08T08:35:29.485-07:00Michael:
Wow - I didn't know it was that clos...Michael:<br /><br />Wow - I didn't know it was that close. Those guys are heroes for sure.Stuart Stanifordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07182839827506265860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-60543465455167121042013-06-08T03:19:20.559-07:002013-06-08T03:19:20.559-07:00Dispatches from Planet WTF:
http://en.wikipedia.o...Dispatches from Planet WTF:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Alexandrovich_Arkhipov<br /><br /><br />Michael Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10045827917076142231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-14426382480538426002013-06-07T17:50:00.070-07:002013-06-07T17:50:00.070-07:00Hard to say what "using [legal framework of a...Hard to say what "using [legal framework of an authoritarian regime] to the max" would mean, but there is little reason to believe those with access to "use" it, are somehow composed of individuals notable for their restraint.<br /><br />Every regime with access to large sized jackboots, also have access to highly developed means of propaganda and indoctrination. As long as people can be led to believe that those ruling them are somehow "different this time" (from rulers supposedly scarier in other times and places), it is cheaper to rely on the two latter means of making them behave in a way deemed appropriate.<br /><br />But if you look at how people straying even a bit off their assigned, well indoctrinated, reservation are treated in the US today, there is precious little to be complacent about. If you're not being dragged off to Gitmo, aren't having your children kidnapped, or aren't forced to go against your beliefs and principles by armed thugs, it's only because you show no interest in doing anything that appears meaningfully threatening to The Party.<br /><br />WRT nuclear explosions; while they undoubtedly suck to bee caught too close to; as this video demonstrates, they're hardly the inevitable harbingers of immediate Armageddon popular imagination make them out to be. People are generally fairly resilient, and live on a large planet. They, at least some of them/us, can cope with, and find ways to thrive in the presence of, all kinds of newly introduced stresses.Stukihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00729167033124570823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-83786884551243317142013-06-07T15:05:29.815-07:002013-06-07T15:05:29.815-07:00Funny you should say that Michael. Following Stua...Funny you should say that Michael. Following Stuart's link, I eventually found this one: http://www.cracked.com/article_19546_7-nuclear-weapon-screw-ups-you-wont-believe-we-survived_p2.htmlStephen B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00746137367376861899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-79101458323287385892013-06-07T13:14:20.552-07:002013-06-07T13:14:20.552-07:00Nuclear tests.
You look and wonder what they were...Nuclear tests.<br /><br />You look and wonder what they were thinking. It's amazing we're still alive.Michael Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10045827917076142231noreply@blogger.com