Comments on: This system, with Koreans, had some success

By: Kirk

Kirk — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 10:02:49 +0000

Wang, the freeloading isn’t the point. The real issue is that the “career minded” are usually lacking in the military virtues. As well, they also lack the will to kill, the essential sociopathic joy in the act.

In short, they are usually pragmatic little sheepsies, far too self-interested to sacrifice or even risk their lives. Good soldiers need a core of essential insanity in order to dance in the whirlwind, which these career-minded dweebs just don’t have within them. Rationalizers need not apply, because they will rationate their way into doing whatever is in their carefully-reasoned self-interest.

By: Wang Wei Lin

Wang Wei Lin — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 04:18:57 +0000

Kirk,

Freeloading POSs dying first sounds like a benefit…except for the good guy getting killed also.

By: Sam J.

Sam J. — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 04:17:15 +0000

Off topic but I saw this and it tracks with what I said about AI beiong a huge threat to most all work. When I said this there was a lot of nay saying, “computer progress has stalled” etc., etc.

I say not so and here is,

“…Intel’s Raja Koduri gave the Monday keynote talk at the Hotchips 32 conference today. He argued in the keynote that within the next 5 years the industry would be able to increase performance by 1000 times…

…Raja describes a path to 50x Transistor Density…”

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2020/08/computer-chips-will-improve-1000-times-within-5-years.html

This performance leap is plenty to have most all average work done by a cheap robot. Looking at just the amount of steel and hand full of sensors needed I’m sure you build on these cheaper than a dishwasher in mass production(assuming the processors cost is low).

By: Kirk

Kirk — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:22:37 +0000

Dave,

As they say regarding these issues in the military, “One is none; two is one”. You’ve got one kid as a legacy, you’ve got no legacy. Sad but true.

And, anyone encouraging their kid to join the military for “…education and career experience…” is a damn fool. The military exists for one fucking purpose, and that’s to defend the nation with blood and human lives. If you’re there for the benefits or the “experience”, you’re a freeloading POS who is more than likely to lack the mental stamina or strength of character to actually be able to “do the necessary” when it comes time to pay the blood price.

I’m dead set against the draft, and the whole “Join for the benefits” mentality we’ve got going today. Time comes, and you find yourself on some hillside with the sunshine patriot types, life sucks and you’re probably going to lose the engagement. Bennie-boys and girls don’t have the spines you need when it gets down to the fist and blade. No killer instinct; no kills.

Someone tells me they want their kid to get experience and benefits, I tell them to go find a non-military apprenticeship program, and keep their precious little darlings the hell out of the armed forces; at best, they represent a fraud on the nation, and at worst, they’re the reason we lose all of our initial engagements.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:08:04 +0000

I know a couple who plan to send a tomboy daughter, their only child, into the Navy. They think it’s a great way for her to gain education and career experience. What they don’t realize is that one hypersonic missile from Russia or China immediately ends their bloodline.

In a peacetime socialist welfare state, the military is either an afterthought (FDR) or a welfare program for black women (today). If you enlist now, you’re signing up for the next Bataan Death March. Feminists, gays, trannies, and the melanin-enriched, who remind us every five minutes that it’s their country now, let them have the honor of dying for it!