Comments on: Duck and cover… http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=664 Níl ann ach raiméis : It's nothing but nonsense Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:45:18 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: eileen http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=664#comment-1508 eileen Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:53:38 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=664#comment-1508 yes just like northern Ireland ! How many years were Ireland fighting with the UK????? yes just like northern Ireland ! How many years were Ireland fighting with the UK?????

]]> By: Deaglan http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=664#comment-1084 Deaglan Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:32:16 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=664#comment-1084 Dunno about you, but I'd be pretty relieved to see Israeli jets blowing Iran's nuclear facilities to smithereens. Given that Iran currently suffers under the yoke of a despotic theocracy headed up by a president who wants to wipe another UN state "from the map", I know whose side - as a democratic socialisist - I'm on. Dunno about you, but I’d be pretty relieved to see Israeli jets blowing Iran’s nuclear facilities to smithereens. Given that Iran currently suffers under the yoke of a despotic theocracy headed up by a president who wants to wipe another UN state “from the map”, I know whose side – as a democratic socialisist – I’m on.

]]> By: United Irelander http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=664#comment-1083 United Irelander Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:51:52 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=664#comment-1083 Israel isn't exactly the calmest country on the planet and this guy Ahmadinejad seems positively nuts so bearing in mind these two counties could have nuclear weapons soon, I think we should be very afraid. Israel isn’t exactly the calmest country on the planet and this guy Ahmadinejad seems positively nuts so bearing in mind these two counties could have nuclear weapons soon, I think we should be very afraid.

]]> By: Winds and Breezes http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=664#comment-1082 Winds and Breezes Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:12:19 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=664#comment-1082 Rhys: you may be at war, but it's other people's daily lives have been touched. Maca - someone once told me that as you had kids, and they grew older, you tended to get more concerned about the future of the country/planet. That being said, technology has changed things a lot. War reporting has a global reach, and the ease with which people can move around the world can bring trouble a lot closer. We know about trouble now, whereas even 80 years ago we might not hear about it immediately. I remember reading an account of how the explosion of Krakatoa reached the outside world via telegraph and how long it took and how it was one of the first global news stories. I always felt that ever warmongerer should be made to visit (and perhaps stay in over night) the few remaining WW1 trenches in Belgium. Rhys: you may be at war, but it’s other people’s daily lives have been touched.

Maca – someone once told me that as you had kids, and they grew older, you tended to get more concerned about the future of the country/planet.

That being said, technology has changed things a lot. War reporting has a global reach, and the ease with which people can move around the world can bring trouble a lot closer. We know about trouble now, whereas even 80 years ago we might not hear about it immediately. I remember reading an account of how the explosion of Krakatoa reached the outside world via telegraph and how long it took and how it was one of the first global news stories.

I always felt that ever warmongerer should be made to visit (and perhaps stay in over night) the few remaining WW1 trenches in Belgium.

]]> By: Rhys http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=664#comment-1081 Rhys Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:06:31 +0000 http://www.ssi-developer.net/rant/?p=664#comment-1081 I share your worry for the future. Something that struck me recently that we in the UK (I don't say that very often) are more or less war at the moment and have been continiously for around 5 years with Afganistan and Iraq, but during all this our daily lives as citizens has been untouched. I don't know if this is something we should thank our government for as we don't suffer rationing in anyway or have to blackout our windows like generations before us, or is it something we should worry about as the government can more or less hide the effects of war from us. It seems rather perverse to me. I share your worry for the future. Something that struck me recently that we in the UK (I don’t say that very often) are more or less war at the moment and have been continiously for around 5 years with Afganistan and Iraq, but during all this our daily lives as citizens has been untouched.
I don’t know if this is something we should thank our government for as we don’t suffer rationing in anyway or have to blackout our windows like generations before us, or is it something we should worry about as the government can more or less hide the effects of war from us. It seems rather perverse to me.

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