I'll still push for it; I was half-joking when I told them that anyway.

I am still in the field, just not clearing the mines. I work with the communities to educate them on the dangers and to identify the suspected locations of mines and explosives. My teams and I are the eyes and ears of the operation, the clearance guys are just the grunts.

I've already seen my fair share of UXO. Even had a guy bring a mortar to a risk education session as we were discussing how you shouldn't touch or move them; that was fun.

So far, not as stressful as I imagined. What I hear from the clearance guys is that it's actually a pretty boring job. Accidents are very rare if you do it right. In order to keep the risk to basically zero, it is a very slow, deliberate, and methodical process. So, basically, they wear heavy gear, sweat all day, and move through an area with a fine-toothed comb.

The sacredness of life is subjective, which makes it a useless measure.

A Palestinian mother thinks her son's life is priceless, an Israeli mortar team don't even consider it. An American husband thinks his wife's life is sacred, the terrorist that blows up the plane she is on does not.

Think about the dispassionate way we regard yearly statistics on road fatalities or death due to chronic disease. Do we weep our hearts out for every one of those deaths? Of course not, those lives have no worth to us beyond the abstract "fellow human being". They don't really bother us emotionally because we have almost no care for them.

If life is only subjectively sacred, then it's not really sacred at all...

The people that picket abortion clinics are the same ones that vote down social support mechanisms to promote and enhance people's lives. Life is so sacred that they oppose things that would make the live far more worthwhile living...

I'd say "ironic" but it's not surprising in the least.

57.4 million subscribers x $7 month = $401,800,000 monthly.
Did I compute that right?

Consider that profit against no bricks and mortar stores, or front counter employees - making overhead and expenditures relatively small.

Lol, that's a pretty flaccid attempt at selective quotation...

"I had a good laugh at the "50% of the kids have PTSD. Oh the poor dears, perhaps their government shouldn't have zoned their houses in a fucking warzone. At least they have bomb shelters, a warning system, Iron Dome ffs..."

Whereas Palestinian kids have... Oh right, a mortar shell knock minutes before the explosive payload arrives.

I feel pity for innocents on both sides of the line, but I feel more pity for the hundreds of targets of high precision directed artillery/guided missiles and bombs as opposed to the handful of victims of random chance dumbfire rockets...

Absolutely correct. Well put.

http://videosift.com/video/End-3-billion-a-year-aid-to-Israel

Using precision guided missiles and mortars to kill innocent children playing on the beach.

http://videosift.com/video/Israel-bombs-and-kills-kids-on-beach-NBC-fires-reporter

News reports obsess over the number of rockets fired from Gaza, comparing them to Israel's missile response. Never mentioning that Israel's missiles destroy entire city blocks and whole families whilst Gaza rockets (fireworks) have had nearly no effect on Israel whatsoever,
The hypocrisy of stating Israel is under attack, yet it's safe to holiday there, there has been nearly no impact from rockets whatsoever, and how dare any airline stop flights, is stunning.
The numbers speak for themselves. Gazan death toll is over 1000, 80% civilian. Israel is 30-ish, and that is 90% soldiers due to their ground invasion.

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Had a similar experience. We were firing a 160mm mortar and one shell made a weird thump noise when fired... We saw it land at about 10 meters away. I remember someone making a similar girly scream like the one on the vid :-)

Staged or not, the subtitles speak the sobering truth of the planet at-large. The difference between a kid with a head full of sports statistics and one abreast of regional religious extremes and government abuse is the difference between growing-up watching cartoons and playing XBOX and being raised amidst the sounds of mortars and helping your mother raise your siblings while dad is out chewing Khat and talking Muslim smack with his buddies.

What we need is an immediate alternative to fossil fuels in the form of unlimited free power and a worldwide routing of all assholes who hold the power now-In the next world war, the blood in the streets should only be blue.

Let's see... fresh baked cupcake for or pre-packaged possibly pre-historic "edible oil products" from AM/PM for the same price of $3.25

http://cupcakesforcourage.com/flavors.html

Ya. I can see why the brick-and-mortars are scared.

I've got no problem paying taxes on things I buy online. It will help brick and mortars compete with warehouse operations - which will save jobs - and it will also help cash strapped states with revenue.

My point was that those who uses in celebrations or hunting, are not firing the gun in order to kill another human being. i know this is my personal value and not shared by all (there are tons of examples where my logic fails..) but those who take the gun to kill another human, have to accept the fact that it might kill them. It's my upbringing, being third generation conscious objectors (grandfather, during the continuation war and my father went to jail because of it, law was changed, i didn't have to) but picking up that gun in that pretext is next to murder (it's a murder when you succeed in your quest of killing someone, anyone that happens to be wearing different clothes than your side)

So getting killed from spiked up bullet is much harder to "justify", but with grenades and mortar etc the issue is more clear. I'm not saying this is RIGHT as spiking the ammo is an act of war too. With ammo it can easily spread and wreak havoc years and years from now, just like landmines, spreading the casualities of war well outside that particular conflict.

Somehow the idea of spiked ammo feels more wrong than rigged grenades and mortars.. Last two can't be used for anything beneficial, at least ammo can be used for hunting. And celebrating too, imagine one spiked batch of bullets and a wedding party.. Grenades and mortars are exclusively for killing humans so in a way, they still are 100% fit for the purpose ( i actually don't care which side they kill, who makes the decision to kill has to be ready for consequences like getting killed.)

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She's had martial training, you can tell from her form-She twirls the long staff well enough, has a well-oiled sense of her center, quite grounded-BUT, if she wants to be a Ninja she's needs to be able to scale vertical obstacles with only the texture of the stone and the mortar seams to hold on to.

the last 3 comments....Remember Bruce Lee? He was taught by the best (IpMan-Wing Chun styles) and his version of martial arts was an amalgam of several styles. He called it Jeet Kune Do and the Chinese purists were saying the same thing about his hybridized, eclectic form.

Y'all remember Bruce Lee right?

This chick would throttle most posers.

If you put two of those mortars in a tube at once, one blows the other one out and eight times out of ten you get the second report and resulting effect at about 20-30 feet above the launch tube. Spectaculaaaaaar!