Posts by The Postman

Quote from neotic

They don't have uniforms, aren't recognized by the standing army of any nation, etc.

So that makes it okay to torture them? Wow, how humane. Glad we're not above that as a "civilized" nation.

On topic with the thread, 15 new Abu Grahib photos came out today! Huzzah!

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I call this one: "We do not torture."

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Quote from Scraps

If we're in a war, how come they aren't accorded POW rights?

Because we have an Att. Gen. that referred to the Geneva Conventions as "quaint."

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Gonzales authored a controversial memo in January of 2002 that explored whether Article III of the Geneva Convention even applied to Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters captured in Afghanistan and held in concentration facilities around the world, including Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The memo made several arguments both for and against providing Article III protection to Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters. He concluded that Article III was outdated and ill-suited for dealing with captured Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters. He described as "quaint" the provisions that require providing captured Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters "commissary privileges, scrip, athletic uniforms, and scientific instruments". He also argued that existing military regulations and instructions from the President were more than adequate to ensure that the principles of the Geneva Convention would be applied. He also argued that undefined language in the Geneva Convention, such as "outrages upon personal dignity" and "inhuman treatment", could make officials and military leaders subject to the War Crimes Act of 1996 if mistreatment was discovered.

Mawibse, what would it take for you to admit that we torture people? We have documented videos of prisoner beatings, accounts of "renditioning" ( :roll: ) techniques that have killed prisoners, literally hundreds of photos from Abu Grahib and Gitmo, accusations by the EU of CIA run secret prisons in Poland (the irony of the placement is not lost on me). What does it take? The president admitting personally "We torture people, what are you gonna do about it? Ha!" I get the feeling then you'd simply justify it.

Quote from Fletch

Yeah, don't forget the getting naked and piling up in human pyramids, having bags taped over your head as people take pictures to send home to loved ones Good thing they were being interrogated.

Or being put into sleeping bags and subjected to extreme heat after a massive beating.

We don't torture though, nuh uh. Really. Serious here.

Quote from mawibse

That was wrong.But I was refering to Guantanamo Bay, not an incident in war zone where the guards got out of hand, whom has been punished for their actions btw.

I'm sure it's just a few bad apples, and not supported, documented procedure. :

It's torture no matter what. Cut the damned doublespeak out, Mawibse.

Come on, what you're saying is tantamount to shouting "WHY DON'T YOU LOVE AMERICA?" in response to a valid accusation.

Looks interesting, but desert themed realism mod? Couldn't you guys think of something new?

I like the screenshots though, I love abandoned stuff

Quote from RD

The logic i was referring to is that IF we have (free) will (which basically all of humanity blindly assumes), than it is only logical we have a soul.

Again, this is an assumption and a leap of faith. Explain it instead of just assuming it's true or "logical."

Quote from Pericolos0

postman are you suggesting you are some kind of unconscious robot? I agree with rd, everything we percieve is first processed throught our brains. Everything we perceive can be a big illusion, we simply do not know what is real and what not or even what consciousness (the soul) is. It's one of the biggist enigmas ever

Not at all. I'm pointing out that RD is making the assumption that we have a soul. That is all. He says it's logical to assume there's a soul. There's nothing logical about assumption, it's simply guessing.

Quote from RD

No Posty, i dont have proof. Only my friend logic seems to agree with me

Uh...how is that logic? I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Quote from RD

Well, evrything you see, hear or feel is processed by your brain and reaches your consciousness/subconsciousness a moment after it has actually happened. Theres an even longer moment before the brain reacts to it. For us it seems like a nano second, but for the soul it could be a thousand years! It is the most important nano second of the universe for us, our thoughtbirth singularity. Just think about it mabwise!What it adds is instead of us being drones to this nano moment we are masters of it.

Again, you're assuming there's a soul. RD, do you have any philosophical readings or articles to back this stuff up or are you just waxing crazy like you're wont to do?

Huzzah for theocracies! This is fucking awful. She's the victim of rape and they fucking hang her? Oh fundamentalist regimes, I fucking hate you with a passion.

Quote from RD

If you think about it it is only logical that we must have a soul. What else makes our decisions?

Why is that logical? You're making unfounded assumptions and passing them off as logic. Back this up.

Quote from RD

I agree gin, we are just malformities to the DNA that has hijacked our souls

Got any studies or statistics or articles to back this up or are you just supposing?

Quote from jayrabbit

Yes but this is gonna upset Swiss people

Pfft, they're neutral.

Quote from ReNo

You know, I was gonna comment on the fact I preferred her without, but then I noticed in the "why we did this" thing that she is only 14. Now I just feel like a god damn pervert. Great.

Ewwww, that's what I get for not reading the text. Now I feel icky

Quote from Thrik

Some would call that prejudicial profiling. xD

Some would call it accurate

Quote from RD

I think when she is not retouched and you are not blinded by her makeup you can literally see into her soul. That really is why below average women are more attractive

The real point is that no women look like her. They either physically can't or the laws of physics don't allow light to react like that.

She's touched up for a reason, to be larger than life, a symbol not a reality.

Quote from RD

Only thing i disagree with is deleting some of the pictures. You guys would probably not have believed it if i told you muslims were walking around the streets in Europe threatening to behead westerners and carrying signs saying "we will do another 911 and bomb your subways". So i posted pictures of it.

For future reference please tell us about it, link the pictures and we're 100% a-ok.

Quote from Thrik

No, not at all. It's been proven that a lot of men have a distinct, genuine taste for girls of below average attractiveness due to various psychological issues relating to attainability and self-perception.

Or because I hate bleach blonde bimbos because my experience with them dictates that damned near 99.9% of them have nothing interesting to say and use their good looks to cover up for the fact that they have no personality or character. Nice jab at me though, really felt that one

Looking great man!

Am I the only one that thought she looked better without the retouch?