[8:34
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Trump
is definitely thinking ahead.
We
don't need to worry about healthcare if we're all dead.
[8:35
AM] Mr. Blue:
Or
global warming if there's a nuclear winter
[8:36
AM]
Save
the world by strategically damaging it.
[8:40
AM] Mr. Blue:
North
Korea has no allies. They just have countries that tolerate them more
than others
But
they don't wanna end up like Libya, Iraq, etc.
If
North Korea strikes first, it'd be the entire world vs. North Korea.
It'd be insane.
As
opposed to even the Korean War - when they had Russia & China as
allies and they almost won that war.
[8:41
AM] Mr. Brown:
Yeah
most other countries are not going to touch that. Being on their
side will put them back on trade and such.
[8:42
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Pardon
my ignorance again, but was the Korean War when they split?
[8:42
AM] Mr. Blue:
They
were split beforehand
[8:42
AM]
The
Korean War never ended.
[8:42
AM] Mr. Blue:
It
was never technically a war either
War
wasn't declared. It rarely is.
"Police
Action"
[8:42
AM]
A
"Police Action" that lasted for years and killed thousands
on opposing sides.
Rose
by any other name...it was a war.
[8:43
AM] Mr. Blue:
Japan
occupied the Korean peninsula before and during WW2. They lost
WW2, and had to give up their empire. Russia controled half of
Korea and the US controlled the other half...two separate
governments...like how Europe was split between US/Britain in the
west and Russia in the east.
Then
NK invaded SK... America joined to help... Somewhere along the line
China and Russia joined NK and the UN joined SK... NK pushed SK to
like the very tip of the peninsula, but then SK pushed back. Their
current border is pretty much exactly where it was before the “police
action”.
[8:43
AM]
And
they've been holding a cease fire for 67 years
Wait...
64
Silly
way I know when the Korean War ended... Godzilla
M.A.S.H.
characters would occasionally refer to Godzilla, which didn't seem
right. So I looked it up. Godzilla came out the year
after the Korean War ended.
[9:01
AM] Mr. Brown:
LOL
Gotta
love that
[9:01
AM]
Not
sure how long after til it was released in the US
[8:49
AM] Mr. McGreen:
BG
and AG. Before Godzilla and After Godzilla
We
are now in the year 53 AG on the Godzillian calendar.
[8:45
AM] Mr. Blue:
NK
has intermittently provoked SK over time, firing at boats near the
coast. Sometimes SK finds tunnels dug under the border from the north
side. There's been a propaganda war between both. NK has taken
part in terrorism a few times...even blew up a passenger plane at one
point, and abducted and assassinated people
[8:47
AM] Mr. Brown:
NK
showed how everybody came out in support of their Great Leader in NK
when he died.
Well
yeah... For one thing they don't want to die or go to prison because
they didn't.
For
another thing - they don't know any better
[8:47
AM] Mr. Blue:
They
showed North Koreans crying and wailing... But supposedly that's just
a cultural thing. The south does that too when their politicians and
popular people die.
It's
like that story that I think is true how a room full of people stood
and clapped for Stalin for like 40 minutes because nobody wanted to
be the first person to stop clapping
[8:51
AM] Mr. Brown:
The
NK War will come down to who will consider everybody to be necessary
collateral damage.
[8:52
AM] Mr. Blue:
If
it were me, and I'm no expert, I'd try to get the blessing of SK,
Japan and China to do some strategic strikes on their enrichment
site, and their 2 major launch sites. Blow the hell out of them and
set their missile tech back a good 10-12 years
[8:52
AM] Mr. Brown:
Yeah
[8:52
AM] Mr. Blue:
We
know the sites, you can look them up on Google.
Their
nuclear enrichment facility is underground but it's in the mountains
with only 1 road in. Blow up that road and they can't get in or out
for a while.
[8:52
AM] Mr. Brown:
Kim
to me seems like the kind of leader that would have all his civilians
move in next door before starting a war.
I
know one thing. No country but NK wants to have any nukes going off,
because it effects everybody.
[9:03
AM]
"In
2017, North Korea experienced World War 3. Everyone watched it
on CNN."
[9:03
AM] Mr. Brown:
LOL
I
bet we already have rockets aimed, and have since last year.
[9:05
AM]
Khadaffi
was going to destroy the US with his ancient tanks, as I recall.
I remember a poster in school with a kitten in a toilet that I taped
his hat and glasses to, and put a speaking bubble making fun of his
speech on it.
He
at least had some regional sympathizers
There
was some ex-diplomat on CNN yesterday who's opinion basically came
across as "We're kind of to the point of asking nicely for the
Chinese to just tell their annoying neighbor to shut up for a while.
It's really all it should take."
[9:10
AM] Mr. Blue:
Libya
didn't have anyone close they could hold a gun to, like NK does with
SK.
[9:10
AM]
True
I
think I remember Khadaffi said something about their powerful navy.
Which
was something like 2 old destroyers and a bunch of coasters
[9:20
AM] Mr. Brown:
I
wonder who is next in line if Kim Jong Un gets axed
[9:22
AM]
Well...it
was Nam first...
Then
Il...
We're
up to Un...
What's
the Korean word for "Four"?
[9:22
AM] Mr. Brown:
LOL
Net
Kim
Jong Net
I
think at the current moment he has no successor.
So
it would be a military take over, I think
[9:29
AM]
He
has no declared successor, is not likely to have a bloodline one for
"20 years", and had his only most-likely replacement
"removed" in Malaysia.
[9:29
AM] Mr. Brown:
Yeah.
The guy that liked things outside of NK and wanted to make peace
LOL
Can't
have that. So Un got rid of him.
[9:01
AM]
On
that whole "I'm tired" note... Down stairs - blearily
watching a Cloud services commercial while making my tea.
Series
of awesome cloud can do things...
Then...
"And
this is a satellite livestreaming an asteroid 250 miles above the
Earth to millions of people."
(me)
"JEE-bus CRIPES! 250 MILES?"
[9:04
AM] Mr. Brown:
That
would be very close. lol
[9:04
AM]
LOL
Yeah,
a bit
[9:04
AM] Mr. Brown:
Like,
count down to impact close.
[9:07
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Someone
call Bruce Willis
[9:09
AM] Mr. Brown:
We'd
need a crack team of people that know how to drill
[9:09
AM] Mr. McGreen:
My
dentist would be great
[9:11
AM]
"The
Cloud can serve all your business application needs until impact."
[1:55
PM] Mr. Brown:
[1:57
PM]
"Bat
Species that Looks Like a Bat Officially Named Yoda"
[1:57
PM] Mr. Brown:
That's
what I was thinking
All
bats must look like Yoda to them.
LOL
[1:58
PM]
"Chadra-Fan
Species Fans Pissed" http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Chadra-Fan
[10:17
AM]
Heh...
Was out group camping on the lake over the weekend.
The
two cute girls in the party go off kayaking...the high wind seems to
be dragging them out.
The
camp Action Man in his early 20s sees this. "I'd better go out and
see if they need help!"
(mature
woman) "Going to be the impressive hero for them, eh?"
"Hehe...if
I'm lucky!" (paddles off...)
(me)
"He knows those two are a couple, right?"
(she)
"Guessing no."
(mature fellow) "That kid's not in control of that canoe...he's sitting too
far back. The wind is taking him."
(me)
"I think they'll need to rescue him."
[10:21
AM] Mr. Blue:
"Ladies,
is this wind bothering you?"
[10:21
AM]
:-D Mr. Blue
Anyway,
about 20 mins later he's entirely vanished and never reappears before
the girls get back with no issues.
About
an hour and a half after that, Action Man walks back into camp after
getting a ride.
"Gotta
drive over there and get the canoe back. I ended up stranded on the other side of the
lake."
Hehe
[10:23
AM] Mr. Blue:
Nice
