<div dir="ltr"><br><div>I find it insane (insanity-as-unual -- SNAFU) that Hezbollah complains that the pager explosions were inexcusable because they attacked civilians.</div><div>It's the usual "start-a-war-then-blame-the-people-you-attacked" BS that is working all-too-well against Israel.</div><div><br></div><div><i>But regardless of political right/wrong, it is just so sad that humanity has not progressed beyond the primitive tendency to war and violence.<br></i>Violence and Hatred aside, physical warfare is just so wasteful and destructive to the desired ends (unless the end is overall reduction of the poor population to prevent rebellion, or even just simple genocide). Please note this is only an academic observation, NOT an endorsement of these methods!</div><div><br></div><div>Clearly humanity has offended the gods. In the ancient mesopotamian cuneiform Gilgamesh text, their version of Noah's flood has the gods destroying humanity because "we made too much noise". Why do I think that crazy idea makes some sense?</div><div><br></div><div>At least the Japanese realized that business competition is a much more civilized form of warfare. </div><div> </div><div>-- uncle Ersatz</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 19 Sept 2024 at 10:17, Dave Serls <<a href="mailto:dave@dashs.denver.co.us">dave@dashs.denver.co.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.<br>
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All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.<br>
You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...<br>
For great justice.<br>
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Has there been any hard evidence (aside from shrapnel) as to how the<br>
pagers and walkie-talkies were manufactured and distributed?<br>
Is this just an extreme case of "caveat emptor"?<br>
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