@parabellum2000: China is not going to attack Taiwan because they don't want a war with the U.S. They may be building an aircraft carrier, and training for carrier landings, but the U.S. has 11 carrier fleets and 10 amphibious assault ships, which are basically small aircraft carriers (plus 1900 Marines). A war for…

@anitesh.jaswal: There is no way that it could be argued that the F-22 is obsolete. The F-22 is the only 5th generation fighter. Saying that better options are being tested, and therefore the current option is obsolete is like saying that gunpowder is obsolete because of railguns. They may be in the process of being…

@Freelancer λ 1-1: Exactly. I disagree with the Iraq War, not because it didn't need to be fought, but because it was fought terribly and the wrong justification was provided. Everybody wanted Saddam out, but nobody would admit it, so we went in on the premise of WMD's. To quote from a TED talk given by Thomas…

@mark.pilgram: Is it plugged in?

@taniquetil: But that cuts down on some freedom. The way that I read the OP, he was commenting on the flawed views of some who believe that there should be no limits on the internet. If people can be arrested for what they say, that puts some measure of government control on the internet, for better or for worse. It…

@Abishai: Yeah, I was incorrect there. I meant epilepsy.

@mrantimatter: I don't think that's how it works. State monopolies on violence happen to work very well.

@mrantimatter: I wouldn't say that the public doing bad things to his body was a good thing.

@mrantimatter: That was more like a revolution than one taking the law into one's own hands.

@Kaiser Acore: Actually, taking the law into your own hands is very rarely a good thing. In fact, I can't think of a single time that a lynch mob did something good.

@Odin: Actually, they have in the past. Remember that time that they posted flashing gifs on autism forums?

@taniquetil: Saying that there should be reasonable limits on what can be said on the internet (just like the limits for real life) is not saying that anything not factually true must be censored. Any argument can be won by taking that opponent's view and making it more extreme. Your argument strategy is like if we…

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@getz999:

@Amang: I was arguing for a surface fleet, not against it. I was saying that surface fleets aren't obsolete. I guess I don't understand your argument. If you are arguing for surface fleets, that's good, and I'm glad we're on the same side. If you're arguing against surface fleets, then you have no idea how to argue,…

@Br1zon: The United States Navy is not a country. But every navy that uses catapults uses steam catapults. Many navies don't use any catapults at all, though.

@rivercat: The idea of naming ships after living people, while rare, isn't exactly new. Washington had four ships named after him while he was alive. And Gerald Ford was a president, and a president, even if "only" a half-term president, is nothing to sneeze at.

@m1ndtr1p: You can point to the collateral damage (or "collateral murder," as Julian Assange calls it), but the fact remains that drone strikes have allowed the United States to strike a severe blow to al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan where the Pakistani government refuses to operate. According to the New…

@EvanSei The noise is strong with this one: One of the most effective weapons in the war on terror has been UAV's.

@dethklokso: I;m pretty sure we do the same thing. Also, if you read the article, you would see that it probably wasn't intended to cross the border.