The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea

Post by pmarreck » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 4:34 PM UTC

rsync wrote: post #129

The only rational response to this is deep, deep skepticism. In the old days of the USSR, while very difficult, it was at least conceivable that you could just fly to moscow and see if they were eating their children there or burning priests or god knows whatever else. There was a natural limit to the deception that could occur and further a normal person could make conclusions about the things they saw with their ow…

Post by random314 » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 12:22 AM UTC

n8n3k wrote: post #252

random314 wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There is still a moral difference: Al-Qaida tries to kill as many american civilians as they can. The US doesn't try to kill as many arab civilians as they can. Terrible argument. Consider several events from Al-Shifa bombing, bombing of Nagasaki etc. targeting a purely civilian population to achieve political and military goals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Menu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_R…

> US installing a dictator to prevent dictatorship in a democracy has to be the most insane arguments that I keep seeing that makes me question the entire education system! It worked though. Chile is a democracy now, no communist country is.