Totally agree - that’s why I said “might”. It’s hard to know what would be the outcome of leaving Saddam’s network in place, which essentially terrorized people into submission. Maybe we’d end up with somebody worse, maybe sectarian war in Iraq was inevitable. Or hell, maybe an intact Iraq would have resulted in…

There was evidence, otherwise there would not have been sanctions. During the crisis, Saddam would not allow the inspectors to continue their work, which is why the issue escalated so many times to the Security Council. Had Saddam allowed inspections to continue as set out by the resolutions, there would have been no…

If I could go so far as to ask you to write the definitive history of the Gulf Wars, maybe you can enlighten me. Clearly all these policy analysts and historians are full of unnecessary information and heretical nuance. All we need to render judgement on history and people is your completely informed and indisputable…

Great! I’ll send the historians your way. We need to make sure they get your unadulterated version of events to make sure everybody falls in line with the correct dogma.

You know, I hadn’t considered that angle but you bring up a good point. That kind of insight is exactly what the democratic and republican parties are looking for.

You say “revisionist”, but allowing time to pass typically allows people to see the world less tinted by their neurotic political affiliations. I get it - you think Bush and Cheney are horrible lying bastards, willing to kill lots of Iraqis and lose American lives for profit. A more nuanced view is that they genuinely…

People forget the run up to the second Gulf War and immediately knee jerk “OMG BUSH LIED”. If you actually take a sober view of what was happening at the time, Saddam was flouting UN resolutions on WMD inspections. Most of the world, particularly France, was not opposed to using force. They did want to give sanctions…

The guy in the car also does the BMW stereotype no favors. Probably texting at the light, pulls forward and hits the truck, calls the police and acts like a epic wuss and claims the truck “rammed” him on purpose.

There’s something else going on, maybe they had a back & forth in a parking lot or something. The woman jumps out immediately, like she was prepared for an altercation. Normally when I get hit, it takes a second or so to look around and figure out what the fuck just happened. Also, the he leaves that much space, then…

You can tell the car is shit from the description. Anybody who uses that many exclamation points in the description is a young idiot, who did not come into the money to buy this car with skill or intelligence, and therefore trashed the car.

What kind of person hates TIE fighters? You sir, are worse than Hitler.

In 15 years, jalops will be lusting after non-fixed versions. Future NPCP headline: “For $7500, would you get down & dirty TDI?”.

IIRC, it was mostly an ISA bus thing. With ISA cards you had jumpers which you would set depending on what other hardware was installed. I Renner futzing around with them anytime I added a sound card (back in those days it was called “multimedia”) or graphics card.

You are projecting modern morals to a time of different moral standards, the classic error of interpreting history. I’m sure some Romans, Africans, Ottomans, etc treated their slaves good as well, and many have had better living conditions than not being a slave. The fact that there might have been some positives…

It’s like that old question: “Would you rather make $130,000 when everybody else made $250,000, or make $90,000 when everybody else made $40,000. Most people choose the latter, because they don’t want to be low on the totem pole. Rockefeller most certainly relished being at the top of the elite - there’s no way he…

It’s opt-in, I can assure you. There’s no way to set it up otherwise, and it’s transparent to the kid that their activity is being monitored (there’s a big pop-up windows when they log in that says their activity is being monitored by the parent). It has other features too - I add money to their account so they can…

You must be fun at parties.

*eyeroll*. It’s not a default feature. You have to set it up and the kid has to agree to it. I set it up myself this weekend. It has other features like managing screen time, giving them an allowance on certain apps, providing cash for music, video, and app purchases, and yes, block certain websites and report website…

You’re just wrong. It’s absolutely not opt-out, I set it up myself this past weekend. It’s quite a process. First, your kid must have a Microsoft account so you need to set that up. Then, you need to send an invitation to the Microsoft account of the kid, that kid has to opt-in to the Family feature, and that…

The old layout is no picnic either. I have a single, tiny column of content in an ocean of empty space.