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Maple leaf rag~

Really, I keep forgetting that regular music listening is a positive sign for my general mood and then going for a few weeks without. Gotta' stop doing that, music's the closest I get to religious experiences without major depressive breakdowns. It's a good thing.

One the other hand, a limitation of two gigs on hand is kinda' stifling. Need to get around to figuring out how to extract my main stash from the effectively dead laptop.

E: Bit later, the Entertainer. Good ragtime is cheering.

Let them take the taller role? Or just roll with it. I don't actually know enough about tango to know why a woman partner being taller is a bad thing, heh.

Why are you talking about tungsten light poles? o_o...

What's so special about them?

Dense, mostly. Iirc, one of those things dropped from orbit would hit harder than most nukes we've got, without the nasty radiation stuff. Plus it's not really stoppable. One of the theoretical methods of an easy to deploy kinetic kill vehicle.

Nin'd!

Re: military tactics on Pandora, I present for your consideration:

1) Tungsten light pole from orbit.
2) Tungsten light pole from orbit.
3) Tungsten light pole from orbit.
4) Unmanned drones.

Kinetic kill is one of the better kills

Starship Troopers!

trolololo?

Trolololo indeed. If it had been closer to the books, wouldn't have been quite as badly of a mockery in that area. Book wasn't quite perfect in that arena either, but it was pretty old, so that's a bit forgivable. Was still fairly decent as that stuff goes.

And yeah, the written word as a much better track record as such things go.

*generic expression of rewelcome*

You did, but Frumple has seen it. The song is great.

Some day someone's going to have to explain how that scenario even works, especially on a military level. If the entire Muslim population was hostile to America, our only strategic choices would be surrender or suicide. Roughly a third of the world's population is Muslim -- America has neither the force projection nor resource base to be able to do anything against that. It's just not physically possible.

Capitulation would be literally the only viable military solution available, and it's just not possible to game out a better resolution -- anything else, when put up against a genuinely united worldwide Mulsim population, would end with either destruction or occupation. The numbers are too disparate, and even if you could kill off a sufficient amount to cripple the theoretical Muslim military capability, the economic shocks from losing that much population would absolutely cripple the US -- and everywhere else, of course. Nuclear response would result in the exact same thing -- even if the US went absolutely isolationist, the repercussions from losing that much worldwide population in the sort of timeframe such an act entails would necessarily entail we'd lose most of our own population to economic shock (never mind any retaliation from non Muslim countries for the horrific war crime that would necessarily entail.).

More worrisome than just about any damn thing to me is that we've got military strategists -- even shit poor ones -- that are even considering such a thing as a possibility. It's a theoretical assumption that goes beyond even staggering stupidity into something I can't think of the words to properly describe.