in the article, Kim looks very excited to learn about how lubricant is made. when a man grows tired of lubricant manufacturing, he grows tired of life.
Well genious, he shot the man with an anti aircraft GUN not a SAM missile per every report out there. See Greenman’s post. They are still used throughout the mideast and eastern europe and in backwards countries like N Korea. As Greenman pointed out it’s roughly equivalent to 4 .50 cal guns mounted together on the back of something, typically a pickup truck. In the mideast they’ve latetly just been using them as heavy machine guns.
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I’m right, anti-aircraft GUNS don’t shoot missiles, anti-aircraft launchers shoot missiles and now you look doubly stupid.
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My point was that eventually it backfires rather than immidiately. Case in point, any ruler ever historically who’s tried this, such as Hitler.
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I am, always have been and always will be smarter than you.
K, thanx Bye!
Just to clarify the clarification - satellite evidence suggested that there was more than one of these guns that did the killing. I guess one wasn’t enough to prove his point.
And as far as the “gun vs. missle” debate–I suspect that there’s not much difference to the guy who’s staring down the barrel.
Do SAM’s even have manual targeting mode?
Getting diced by a quad .50 would be a pretty shitty way to go.
Other than the fact that only an idiot would think a surface to air missile would be used to target a man at visual range in front of hundreds of spectators.
I’m mostly disturbed at this choice of execution weapon that goes beyond the practical need for killing someone. It’s like a kid burning ants, or microwaving a frog to see what happens. Something is just wrong with this Kim guy.
No they don’t. Most can’t even physically target an object on the ground.
Ever since learning BlackSwan grew up in an evangelical context, I feel like now I understand why he acts like ^ sometimes.
I assumed it was roids.
^^^^You missed my point. There are better ways to communicate someone’s error than simply saying they’re wrong. It would have been much more polite and informative to have said, "yeah, I doubt he shot him with a big ass missile. It was most likely this type of big ass gun. Instead you do what you always do and come off like a dick.
And, btw, you’re still technically wrong - which is the best kind of wrong. Since your so set on being pendantic, those rounds still qualify a missiles. Then again, so does any object thrown or shot by a person or machine. So, no, you’re not smarter than me. You’re just a gigantic narcissist that can’t stand not being an expert on everything.
Fair enough Ohai and RawRaw, but calling me out as a dick that doesn’t know what he’s talking about when I make a factual correction that turns out to be valid isn’t going to have the effect of softening my approach.
STL, you’ve just reinforced your idiocy. Sorry for your loss.
Since you appear to only understand wikipedia:
How is anything I said inaccurate?
Edit: I love how you edited your post three times to get that burn just right. Hope it was worth it.
I just updated my post. By any common military usage of the term I was correct and the point I was making is still correct just as the original point in all essence that you made is still incorrect. You can accept that and move on, or you can keep going with the webster definition, but it’s just too easy for me to defend my position. The exercise only highlights this fact further.
I decided to use the dictionary this time…again, either be pendantic or don’t.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/missile
Edit: Your position that he was shot with a big ass gun and not a surface to air missile? Ok. Or your position that this kind of heavy handed brutality will eventually lead to Kim’s demise?
Hm, a 31 year old kid with absolute power over several million people, who achieved it by being born into the right family.
Is it really so unusual that this kind of person delights in seeing how many ways he can use his power for personal entertainment? Much as an 8 year old using a magnifying glass to burn ants, or Nero using the Tunica Molesta
What’s interesting is how a western education apparently had zero effect in instilling any enlightenment-style values. Then again, it’s often hard to find those values even here on AF. Perhaps some of our clan would act this way in his position.
(Tunica Molesta video)
It’s not pedantic to point out the idiocy of you and yours up there assuming this guy is lobbing actual “SAM” projectiles at individuals. The phrase surface to air missile you used is non-ambiguous in any context.
Anyhow, I’m right, you’re wrong and bitter about it trying to comfort yourself, back to work for me.
I’d stop arguing, Sweep. Even if you win, you’re still gonna lose.
BS doesn’t look at all like a doucebaggy, teenage loser with a giant chip on his shoulder for no good reason.
Um no. I was just trying to help you be not such a dick. You correct people all the time on all sorts of issues, and you do so with extremely little tact. Just try not to act like an expert on everything all the time and engage in more thoughtful conversations with people.
And seriously, you should look into talking to someone about your narcissism. If I posted just these bullets and asked the AF community who first sprung to mind, I wonder who they’d say…
- An obvious self-focus in interpersonal exchanges
- Problems in sustaining satisfying relationships
- A lack of psychological awareness (see insight in psychology and psychiatry, egosyntonic)
- Difficulty with empathy
- Problems distinguishing the self from others (see narcissism and boundaries)
- Hypersensitivity to any insults or imagined insults (see criticism and narcissists, narcissistic rage and narcissistic injury)
- Vulnerability to shame rather than guilt
- Haughty body language
- Flattery towards people who admire and affirm them (narcissistic supply)
- Detesting those who do not admire them (narcissistic abuse)
- Using other people without considering the cost of doing so
- Pretending to be more important than they really are
- Bragging (subtly but persistently) and exaggerating their achievements
- Claiming to be an “expert” at many things
- Inability to view the world from the perspective of other people
- Denial of remorse and gratitude
Honestly 1) it doesn’t really bother me that I’m narcisistic half this industry is, I just let a spade be a spade 2) your own approach lacked tact 3) I shouldn’t have to ease into a minor factual correction over a stupid gun like his self worth depends on it 4) when I stop being right, I’ll stop acting like I know what I’m talking about, particularly w/r/t weaponry… am I supposed to just act like I’m not sure or something and have a more thoughtful conversation about a stupid gun in Korea?
This is why I stick to being a narcisist, who the hell has time for this kind of coddling BS?