Tyrannical on 04 June 2009
| Khuutra said: So it uses a camera and a microphone with a lot of different software. Like I said: that isn't "advanced" and it isn't new. The applications of it will undoubtedly be very cool, but it is no more or less advanced than the accelerometer-based motion detection of the Wiimote+. |
I think it's capable of depth perception, that's new.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
