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• heteromeles commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
  There was a wee bit of sarcasm thrown in there. The weird thing is trying to figure out what the mythical past of any part of the US would be. Is it antebellum or (more likely) 1950s? I've been reading The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese Society (BigMuddy Link) by Pierre Francois Souyri. Aside from having a nice translation by Kathe Roth, I found the parallels between pre-Sengoku (Warring States) Japan and other periods in history (like now) fascinating. I don't know whether this was by design, or whether their experience parallels our own right now in a number...
• von.hitchofen commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
  Yes, in WW2, ELINT worked against the Germans and Japanese. There's no particular evidence it worked in the Cold War (or perhaps it did, and that's why the war never hotted up Well, up to a point. ELINT [more accurately SIGINT - Y Service, and cryptanalysis - "Station X" /Bletchley Park] helped the British war effort no end - but only combination with aerial reconnaissance and good old HUMINT. Many ULTRA decrypts took so long to process their moment of utility had passed. The Soviets had no ELINT capability to speak of, not much radar and didn't even have tank-to-tank...
• aebrain commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
  India. A billion humans. Almost as many cults. I suspect this is already a no-go zone, with its own unique ecology of technomancy and competing factions. My gods can beat up on your gods. A billion humans, written off as unsaveable. Australia. Trying really hard to extend and intensify the natural shield techniques/technology of the OLD DREAMERS. Weaponising the uniquely resistant Class II entities that have evolved in this environment, so hostile to them, the Wulgarus and Bunyips. And while we're at it.. using Krantzberg syndrome plus similarity and contagion to keep Gorgonic tumours at controllable levels (and other neoplasms...
• ARNOLD commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
  “My Gods can beat up on your gods?” ...Well that's a universal TRUTH I fear. A couple of decades or so ago one of my TECH Support Colleagues at a British University told me that I was DOOMED!!!! Doomed I Tell You!!! And so forth. This despite the fact that I had been kind to him and had helped in his career development and so on. In casual conversation my colleague told me that, since I had not been born into HIS particularly exclusive branch of Christianity, MY SOUL would be dissolved upon Death!!! Evidentially Burning in The Pits of...
• ARNOLD commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
  Oh, further to my post above, and just in case this has been missed... " HIV patients told by Pentecostal pastors 'to rely on God'" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23729684 Bit of a waste of time really since, according to my late colleague, they are DOOMED!!! Etcetera and so forth.......