Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Machine Thinking" channel.

  1. ​ @l.h.9747  Newsflash: Rambo is an American. But he's a fictional character. If you want to see real American heroes I suggest you start here http://www.cmohs.org/recipient-archive.php "Realizing the imminent danger to his comrades from this fire, Pfc. Albanese fixed his bayonet and moved aggressively into the ditch. His action silenced the sniper fire, enabling the platoon to resume movement toward the main enemy position." Pigs like you get stuck!
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  2.  @l.h.9747  of course our mission was to repel invaders. No one knows where communism may have spread without our efforts in Vietnam either. We cannot know what never was. I'm good with how everything turned out. Can't see any commies from my house.
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  3. I make plenty still and I don't care what my father thinks.
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  4. Discrete components on printed circuit board.
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  5. Being as it meant life or death you can say the motivation was there.
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  6.  @thechickenmaster6543  don't keep just saying I don't know anything without offering anything. Because I know you're full of shit. I got a whole bookshelf of history books about war that I've read. Mostly World War 2. I can turn on the TV start watching in the middle of a documentary they show an image from a battle and 9 times out of 10 I'll know what it is before they say.
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  7.  JEDIMASTERZAK  I don't think German rockets had the payload or guidance capable of delivering a nuclear weapon. I know I would not have wanted to be around when it was launched. I've seen too much footage of their rockets blowing up. Germans did not destroy technology to keep it from falling into Allied hands either. By accounts they were quite proud to show off whatever they had.
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  8.  @Regis_Comerlatto  education may fill people's heads with dangerous ideas. It is easier to simply stop poor teaching than it is to improve it too. I do admire competent fascist dictators. They are efficient leaders. So good luck with your new strong man.
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  9.  @6h471  yes, I know. Most of the German army marched on foot.
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  10.  @gregtaylor6146  your opinion is only proof to you.
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  11.  @jannerahkamaa1011  say what you will about Stalin but he brought Russia out of the middle ages into the modern age. Though the process was a painful one.
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  12. @Frosch Reiniger can you be a bit more vague?
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  13.  @baggedroots2472  what about Vietnam?
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  14.  @Notyourprofile  I do not think there is a limit to bias. But maybe there is?
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  15.  @martini380  the American interpretation of history is the factual interpretation of history.
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  16.  @shakdidagalimal  Heinrich Müller is quoted to have said, "One should herd the entire intelligentsia into a mine and then blow it sky-high."
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  17.  @williamwingo4740  you have confused technology with design. They are two separate things. The basic premise of a bridge is technology. The oversight of considering resonance is a failure of design. Soviet and German armor used the exact same technology. Their designs and construction differed though. As did the designs of nations involved in the conflict.
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  18.  @l.h.9747  what about Vietnam? The South did not fall while the US was engaged in combat operations there. Maybe you should learn some history someday? The USA pulled out in 1972. South Vietnam fell in 1975. So it took the North years just to recover from the beating we gave them. We'd wiped them out as an effective fighting force. Practically nothing in WW1? You can't blame us if the Germans surrendered once we showed up. Heck the war ending didn't even stop us from attacking. So it's not like we didn't want more action. You're just dumb.
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  19.  @l.h.9747  I'd say that anyone that objectively looked at our battle history could come to that conclusion. You hate America though so that leaves you out.
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  20.  @l.h.9747  our main goal was reached. That was stated as the cessation of hostilities. They didn't dare fire a shot until after we'd left. They stayed off our embassy grounds until after we'd evacuated too. They wanted to give us no excuse to come back. Now go back to your shithole country and don't bother me anymore you anti-American floater.
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  21.  @l.h.9747  that's what you think. Our mission was peacekeeping. When we left it was peaceful. Now we could have went back and fought for peace some more. But by then it seemed pretty pointless.
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  22.  @l.h.9747  first off Vietnam was not a war for us. It was just a conflict we were peripherally involved in. Second it was never ours to lose. Who said we charged into machine gun fire? That was what the continentals did. We dug into Belleau Wood and drove the Germans mad! “Retreat, hell we just got here!"
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  23.  @l.h.9747  oh come now. You can't suggest we care about what happens halfway around the world.
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  24.  @l.h.9747  it was no war for us. When we go to war you'll know about it.
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  25.  @l.h.9747  it is war when Congress declares war. Vietnam was not a war because it was never declared as such when we got involved. You're really ignorant. You should learn things.
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  26.  @l.h.9747  what about them?
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  27.  @l.h.9747  this topic is clearly too complicated for you to understand. I am not interested in trying to explain it to you either. Someday if you ever know all that I do you'll find that I am right.
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  28.  @bloodyhell8201  while the USA was engaged in combat operations in Vietnam we did not lose a single battle. Two years after we left the South fell. At that point we were not interested in going back. I doubt the western Allies could have defeated Germany without the USA's involvement. It was all they could do with our help.
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  29. Six hours of work for seventy cents worth of material. Now that's how to make a living!
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  30. That happens on another channel here called Primitive Technology.
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  31. They had lodestones. Though I don't know if any ancients put the magnetic technique together for themselves. Some may have? They were often more clever than we give them credit for being today. Quite often how iron was smelted was a carefully guarded secret. Like classified defense research is today. Because back then that's what this was. Those with iron had better swords.
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  32. How do you measure how far light travels in a vacuum in 1/299792458 of a second when you are on a desert island?
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  33. You have to have faith in the logic that there is no way 3 surfaces can all align with each other flatly without all of them being perfectly flat themselves. So when the three agree they're all flat. It is often called, "The rule of three." Though you'd never know it by searching that term on the worthless Internet.
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  34. It was a lot of work as it is. But you are correct. The blower takes out a huge hurdle that the ancients had to face.
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  35.  @axeguy3856  Machines replaced apprentices. Which is why we no longer use the apprentice system today.
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