Archive for July, 2007
Geostrategy via Economics: China Providing the U.S. with Enough Rope to Hang Itself
July 2nd, 2007For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. —Sun Tzu, The Art of War As good as this article is, it doesn’t mention a certain, former superpower that was also bogged down in a futile war […]
Several U.S. Corporations Support Colombian Death Squads
July 2nd, 2007One for your same-shit-different-century file. Via: Los Angeles Times: A former paramilitary soldier told a congressional panel Thursday that several U.S. companies provided financial support to illegal militias accused of killing Colombian civilians. Edwin Guzman, a former Colombian army sergeant who later became a paramilitary member, testified that his military units were responsible for guarding […]
Cryptogon Story on the Front Page of Reddit
July 1st, 2007Guys, the Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation story below is on the front page of Reddit at the moment and the traffic is so heavy that it’s exceeding the CPU time that my account is allowed on the server. If you see a high CPU usage error page, try back in about three minutes. […]
iRobot Corp.: Arming Robots with Tasers
July 1st, 2007Via: AP / MSNBC: RoboCops and robot soldiers got a little closer to reality Thursday as a maker of floor-cleaning automatons teamed up with a stun-gun manufacturer to arm track-wheeled ‘bots for the police and the Pentagon. By adding Tasers to robots it already makes for the military, iRobot Corp. says it hopes to give […]
