You're right, the North Korean prison camps by all accounts seem worse, but the Wikipedia article actually contained a lot of information that was new to me. For example...
In 2004 Spc. Sean Baker, a soldier posing as a prisoner during training exercises at the camp, was beaten so severely that he suffered a brain injury and seizures.
How many deaths are swept under the rug at places like Gitmo or at CIA black sites? If they're beating people to the point of brain injury, I'm guessing it happens.
Sorry to be a jerk but does it annoy anyone how often conversations about the military/soldiers go through the perfunctory "I respect your service blah blah blah..."?
The term "military service" itself irks me to no end. It's not service, it's a government job. No one thanks DMV employees for their "service".
Actually, there is the term "civil service" that denote all other government jobs that are nonmilitary. I always referred to my mother as a civil servant (she held a government job for 35 years before retiring)
My husband is a career sailor, in his 3rd enlistment, Iraq war veteran, and he takes more of a "it's a job" look at it. He still doesn't really know how to respond to strangers' "thank you for your service" even after 14 years.
I think people say it because they respect someone's willingness to risk their life. Especially since we are taught that the military defends our freedom.
The less scrupulous English language schools do exactly this where I live. They'll post a job offering online and have you teach a "demo class" as part of your interview. In reality, that demo class is just a class that they didn't want to pay a substitute teacher for. Clever eh?
I have a dual install of Mint on my machine precisely because of its seamless HDMI support. It was the one thing I could never get working properly on my primary OS, but Mint did the trick right out of the box.
"Water pipes" or "bongs" still involve smoking, but the smoke is passed through water. I don't know to what extent this reduces the ill-effects of inhaled smoke.
It's the recommended method for obtaining Bitcoin (semi) anonymously, ever since exchangers started complying with AML regulations. That, or cash-in-mail sent with a fake return address.
That physical clues were distributed worldwide indicates there might be a little more to the story. Wikipedia lists the locations as
Annapolis, Maryland /
Chino, California /
Columbus, Georgia /
Erskineville, Australia /
Fayetteville, Arkansas /
Granada, Spain /
Greenville, Texas /
Haleiwa, Hawaii /
Little Rock, Arkansas /
Miami, Florida /
Moscow, Russia /
New Orleans, Louisiana /
Okinawa, Japan /
Paris, France /
Portland, Oregon /
Seattle, Washington /
Seoul, South Korea /
Warsaw, Poland
I hadn't heard about this, does anybody have links to some of the original forum threads/puzzles?
That's weird, because searching "guerrillas" (an unambiguously nominal form of the word) in the Corpus of Contemporary English (COCA) gives me over two thousand hits!
In 2004 Spc. Sean Baker, a soldier posing as a prisoner during training exercises at the camp, was beaten so severely that he suffered a brain injury and seizures.
How many deaths are swept under the rug at places like Gitmo or at CIA black sites? If they're beating people to the point of brain injury, I'm guessing it happens.