http://philliphigley.com/2009/06/04/killing-via-joystick/ Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:09:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://philliphigley.com/2009/06/04/killing-via-joystick/comment-page-1/#comment-680 Phil Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:13:22 +0000 http://philliphigley.com/?p=1224#comment-680 Ya, Geoff. This was pretty dang sad. It's rather interesting that the government, that blessed beacon of American manifestdestiny, can resort to spending literally billions of dollars on joystick killers while at the same time people are going bankrupt because they have to have their tonsils removed. I don't want to treat the military as a whipping boy, but man, do we really need to be creating billion dollar drones? Why not spend that money for other purposes? I don't claim to have all the answers or know the complexity of the situation, but I guess saying it's sad is good enough to point out the absurdity. Ya, Geoff. This was pretty dang sad. It’s rather interesting that the government, that blessed beacon of American manifestdestiny, can resort to spending literally billions of dollars on joystick killers while at the same time people are going bankrupt because they have to have their tonsils removed. I don’t want to treat the military as a whipping boy, but man, do we really need to be creating billion dollar drones? Why not spend that money for other purposes? I don’t claim to have all the answers or know the complexity of the situation, but I guess saying it’s sad is good enough to point out the absurdity.

]]> http://philliphigley.com/2009/06/04/killing-via-joystick/comment-page-1/#comment-679 Geoff Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:55:43 +0000 http://philliphigley.com/?p=1224#comment-679 wow... a sad commentary on what drives our society. wow… a sad commentary on what drives our society.

]]> http://philliphigley.com/2009/06/04/killing-via-joystick/comment-page-1/#comment-677 Wayne Higley Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:03:12 +0000 http://philliphigley.com/?p=1224#comment-677 Yes if you can't see the horror and the blood, you don't have much reason to stop, short of genocide or more likely bankruptcy. Looks like we have it all cleaned up and taken care of. What's next? Computers calculating what we would have lost during a simulated attack and then we all step into the disintegrator like a bad Star Trek episode? Yes if you can’t see the horror and the blood, you don’t have much reason to stop, short of genocide or more likely bankruptcy. Looks like we have it all cleaned up and taken care of. What’s next? Computers calculating what we would have lost during a simulated attack and then we all step into the disintegrator like a bad Star Trek episode?

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