Yeah probably. I'd imagine there is a lot that doesn't get reported. It's probably not their fault though tbh, they are trained and brainwashed to not care about anything but the mission. It's amazing that anyone from any military is able to live a normal life after their tours are up. I couldn't imagine killing anyone, or how often I'd think about it or have nightmares about it.
How long must I put up with the unholy sound of your gun?
Oh no, if I had to use it I would. I just hope I never have to. Maybe I would cry like a girl and hand the gun to my wife. That sounds like a good plan actually!
How long must I put up with the unholy sound of your gun?
I do karate and I'm ok at it, I could probably hurt someone quite a bit if I kicked them inna face, or to the side of the knee, and like you, if I had to use it, I would, but it seems so out of my nature to want to inflict harm like that to another person. I guess you can't tell how you'd react until you're ever in that situation, and I hope it never happens too.
I think you could probably make some of those Bruce Lee noises and scare people without even having to use any moves. Do you have a belt color? eh, um colour?
How long must I put up with the unholy sound of your gun?
During the fighting bit of my Police training, the first thing we were taught to do was the schoolyard trick of going for a dead leg. But I think that was only because we were supposed to treat easily-damaged areas like joints, groin and skull as last resort targets.
Fair enough, but wouldn't say the skull was easy to damage (at least with bare fists, a police baton might be a different story), it's a huge piece of bone that's not very easy on the knuckle - obviously there's soft spots, but some people have very large foreheads:
"The next few years" is probably optimistic (or pessimistic if you think they're going to kill us all). The computational and storage potential of the human brain is still something scientists don't fully understand, but it certainly doesn't seem to be something that can be accurately expressed in terms of petaflops and exabytes. In particular, the capacity for abstract thought in the absence of external stimulus is a mystery, and that's the sort of thing an artificial intelligence would need to do in order to be considered remotely "alive".
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