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    Quote Originally Posted by jcustis View Post
    Are you related to anyone with the last name of Sparks?
    You must admit that a few of these, mounted on strategically located pyramids, would be a huge deterrent to attack on any embassy...

    “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”

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    Come on, his idea is so 'weak'* that we really don't need any ad hominem or guilt by imaginary association tricks to fend it off.


    (Says the guy who collects infractions for supposed ad hominem attacks, more often than not thinking skins are too damn thin in this place.)



    *: I came up with this kind of ideas when I was 14.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dayuhan View Post
    You must admit that a few of these, mounted on strategically located pyramids, would be a huge deterrent to attack on any embassy...
    No but a couple of hundred of these in a giant circle surrounded by a minefields would be.


    The Pyramid of Cestius, Rome, photoshopped into a gun tower

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