chess online

chess online

Play online chess!

Are the US armed forces naive?
« Back to club forum
FromMessage
deneb000
05-Nov-06, 03:03

Are the US armed forces naive?
Why did they take Sadam prisoner? I think that had SAS found him they would have popped him where he lay and that way his death would not have brought on reprisals. I fear that his hanging will cost the lives of many US and UK troops with the ensuing upsurge in insurgency. Perhaps SAS would not even have made his death public - our governments would have known where he was and might say that he was still in hiding like a coward. Good propaganda for the Allies. If he is reprieved then do we look forward to many hostage situations where his release is demanded as an exchange? Perhaps he may still 'suicide' in prison? This might save some of our lads lives.
leo_london
05-Nov-06, 03:11

I agree with you there Den. Hearing the expected verdict given this morning, I can only anticipate further trouble. He should have been " found " dead along with his sons.
It will be very interesting to see how this all pans out, I will be watching news coverage and Iraqi reactions very closely.
bobbynox
05-Nov-06, 05:56

This just goes to show the inherent honesty of the US military and how there really are NO conspiracies.

Hang him high.
pawntificator
05-Nov-06, 12:04

No conspiracies at all?
I don't know....just because they didn't murder Saddam right away says nothing about the vast range of possible conspiracies in the world.

zorroloco
08-Dec-06, 10:46

perhaps
the conspiracy is to hang him at the right time to garner public support for the 'war on terror' (whatever the hell that really means).
markallen
08-Dec-06, 11:07

war is peace, peace is war
proginoskes
08-Dec-06, 11:28

naive? - no all is going according to plan - Saddam's location was known for a long time before he was
"captured" - accordin to marines who were involved - and his "capture" occured coindentally on the same
day Bush signed Patriot Act II into law - pretty convenient. You *MUST* understand the US government
does NOT want stability in the region - or more specifically malignant elements within the government who
have big monetary stakes in the goings on in the world do not want stability there. Simple. Poor soldiers
as pawns, as it has always been. Nothing is new under the sun . . . indeed
leo_london
08-Dec-06, 18:12

This story just came up on our " News 24 "..its good to hear of some acts of selfless humanity among the carnage.
www.abcnews.go.com" target="_blank">-> www.abcnews.go.com
oldguard
09-Dec-06, 00:31

irrelevant comment
A British observer in Vietmam said that the problem with the American military is that they tended to confuse fast reaction with initiative.
I know this is completely irrelevant to the thread but I have just had dinner with a nice bottle of Australian wine and I don't care.
I am relying on pawnificator to correct spelling and grammar.
pawntificator
09-Dec-06, 00:57

You can count on me!
First thin' Id point out, if'n ya'll don't mind, is dat yer post be off'n topic.

Second, you shunt drink a whole bottle by yersef.

Spellin looks dandy. Grammar is still hanging in there but she's old, so I don't spect her to speek good.

Also, I don't think you can say a large group of any sort of people are naive. It just doesn't make sense. A single person is naive, not a group. Unless of course you are talking about a group of naive people, then the group is naive. Whatever.
jaymar
09-Dec-06, 01:40

Good one Oldguard..
..are you taking the p?!

"I am relying on [pawnificator] to correct spelling and grammar."

He missed it!!
soulcrates
09-Dec-06, 02:16

He did miss it.
I missed it, until you said it. He misspelled pawntificater.
proginoskes
09-Dec-06, 06:27

Researchers Find Typos Indicative of Stupidity.
Tuesday, December 2, 2003 Posted: 8:18 PM EST (0118 GMT)

SANCHEZ, South Dakota (AP) -- A team of researchers have found typos to be indicative of intelligence
levels.

Dr Stuart Coleman, the leading researcher of a team studying Internet typos, has found that there is a
conclusive link between kinds and frequency of typos, and intelligence.

The team studied over 1,000 subjects from every walk of life. The subjects were asked to perform several
different tasks, from E-mail to instant messaging and even Internet message boards, and the researchers
would document the typos made and how often they occurred.

"We decided to focus specifically on 'typos' that are typically used as Internet slang, instead of accident
related typos," said Dr Coleman. "These including things such as 'U-R' instead of 'you are.'"

Several others studied included "your" instead of "you're," "plz" instead of "please," "im" instead of "I'm."
Other mistakes studied were grammatical, such as capitalization, correct comma use, even decipher made
up words.

"Sometimes people would inquire about the study, and when I explained it to them, try to write off the
typos as time saving," said Dr Coleman. "But when you think about, selling you intelligence for a few
microseconds it takes to type the extra ' and e to spell "you're" correctly, is it really worth it?"

He continued to say; "It really gets me when people think that just because you're online you can typo like
a f***ing retard. If you have the motor control of a retarded chimpanzee with Parkinson's disease you
should be able to do it."

The study concluded that people with advanced college degrees made almost no typos, and would actually
fix accidental ones they found. People with a standard four year degree tended to use time savers, (i.e.
skipping apostrophes in you're, as well as capitalization), while people with a high school diploma or less
tended to type with the grammatical accuracy of a horse bashing its hoof against a keyboard.

Dr Coleman's main research analysts, Dr Anthony Doucet, had this to say about the results, "Generally as
education improves grammar and spelling improve, as does diction and clarity of thought. But sometimes
you'll find a douche bag who managed to struggle through a 2-year community college who would write
like second grader on crack. Those were painful."

One post-based site frequented by the poorer performers was ubersite.com. Dr Doucet had this to say of
people posting on this site, "I saw way too many posts that looked like they were written by a second
grader with one hand two feet up his ass talking about how Black people suck, or how Mexicans are
destroying the economy, or God knows what other garbage."

When some of these people were asked to take IQ tests, few accepted. "The ones who did enjoyed an
average IQ of 57. That indicates severe mental retardation, or some form of brain trauma," said Dr
Doucet. Dr Coleman was overheard saying, "Christ, even people who just had strokes and can barely
move score better than that."

Dr Coleman gave a brief synopsis of the results as this, "As intelligence and education go up, generally
these typos decrease. Of course, this is not always the case, but the trend is obvious. It is also important
to note that there are many other factors playing into this, such as lifestyle, political views, ethnicity, et
cetera. We still need further analysis to be able to conclusively identify trends in other areas."

These results may m
ake dumbasses type correctly. For the sake of mankind, this reporter hopes so.

www.ubersite.com" target="_blank">-> www.ubersite.com
proginoskes
09-Dec-06, 06:29

more technically however, spelling ability does parallel linuistic intelligence and generally speaking the best
spellers are also more intelligent, but spelling ability does not necessarily indicate intelligence.
soulcrates
09-Dec-06, 15:27

Wow,
pharps I culd thro of mi apponts bye makin dem theenk im dum.
markallen
09-Dec-06, 15:31

crikey wot abut rare ozzie dialects dat nuthern hemisferians dont unestand? yr'e a conga lyne of suck holes
soulcrates
09-Dec-06, 15:33

suck holes?
Anyone who understand English, knows what that means. waterya sum kyn da idey ot? A moroon of sortz? Dag glumit, sassifrass ding dong willy wacker.
pawntificator
09-Dec-06, 17:15

Miss it?
Dare I say I did not? I dare!
soulcrates
09-Dec-06, 18:32

DAG
GLUMIT!



GameKnot: play chess online, chess teams, free online chess games database, monthly chess tournaments, Internet chess league, chess clubs, online chess puzzles and more.