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[mainiac]

My old roommate just moved to the Dutch Harbor (the closest decently sized town).  Ah well, I hardly knew the guy.

[kaijyuu]

Why in the world would Mr. Cameron lie about th...

The Prime Minister said the threat from North Korea showed that Britain needs to keep the Trident nuclear deterrent.

Oh. That makes sense for why.

[Cthulhu]

And now Anonymous is involved.

I had grudgingly started to respect anonymous over the past few years.  In one sentence I am now convinced that I should never make the mistake of respecting them again.

Thank you! 

[MonkeyHead]

Why in the world would Mr. Cameron lie about th...

The Prime Minister said the threat from North Korea showed that Britain needs to keep the Trident nuclear deterrent.

Oh. That makes sense for why.

That, and he is carrying on a tradition started a few Prime Ministers back involving blatant lies about WMD's in the run up to wars as a paper thin lie justification.

[nenjin]

Look on the bright side. If electronic infrastructure is important to their ballistic missile system and Anon has messed that up, they've put that much more distance between now and a possible nuclear strike. Although their CnC systems are probably ancient.

Still, of all the people I'd want involved in this, anon is among the last. The last thing a young, possibly unstable dictator needs is to be trolled by the internet in his own backyard.

[Owlbread]

Why in the world would Mr. Cameron lie about th...

The Prime Minister said the threat from North Korea showed that Britain needs to keep the Trident nuclear deterrent.

Oh. That makes sense for why.

In trying to scare Scots into rejecting independence and keeping trident (that was the purpose of his speech), he's managed to overstep the mark and become the first European leader to openly declare that North Korea can attack a European country with nukes.

[Culise]

Look on the bright side. If electronic infrastructure is important to their ballistic missile system and Anon has messed that up, they've put that much more distance between now and a possible nuclear strike. Although their CnC systems are probably ancient.

Still, of all the people I'd want involved in this, anon is among the last. The last thing a young, possibly unstable dictator needs is to be trolled by the internet in his own backyard.

To be fair, if their electronic infrastructure controlling their nuclear deterrent actually was connected to the Internet, they rather deserve to have it taken out by hackers half a world away.

[Max White]

And now Anonymous is involved.

Bad move anon.
Some nutter is holding a gun to a hostages head, you don't produce pornography of the nutters mother.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

In trying to scare Scots into rejecting independence and keeping trident (that was the purpose of his speech), he's managed to overstep the mark and become the first European leader to openly declare that North Korea can attack a European country with nukes.

I'd just like to state for the record that the US is actually closer than the UK is to Korea. So anyone who believes Mr. Fearmonger has to believe NK has the ability to nuke, let's say, Los Angeles.

[misko27]

Cameron may be, jumping the gun a bit. From my observations, the missile they are mobilizing does not have the range to hit Guam. They do sorta have a ICBM, sorta, but what they are moving around is not it.

Anyway, do you guys think that if enough people mock Korea, they might go through with it?

[Flying Dice]

Depends on whether the military have enough ranking officers who recognize the reality of the situation. If Dear Leader is provoked to the point where he tries to start a war, there's a good chance that he'll be quietly removed. Of course if the humiliation reaches a certain point, who can say? In a sense it's the situation of a repulsive, friendless asshole being bullied by his peers: will they push him to the point where he lashes out, even if he will only land one punch before being shut down and clearly knows it?

[10ebbor10]

Just a  note about bioweapnry, it's significantly easier to produce these than a nuclear warhead. I do doubt that they have the launch capacity toc dispense it in usefull amounts. They can't make a plague, but anthrax should work.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

With their facilities, they'd be lucky not to anthrax themselves.

[ChairmanPoo]

Bioweaponry is not that easy to produce. For what I've read, the techniques have little enough in common with your run-of-the-mill microbiology lab (in particular, dispersal methods were as important as the germs themselves). Supporting this is the fact that to date bioterrorism attacks have been very ineffective.

BTW: I am earwormed by "No motherland without you" in the last few days. Does anyone else have the same problem?

[Max White]

BTW: I am earwormed by "No motherland without you" in the last few days. Does anyone else have the same problem?

son of a bitch...


Anyway, bioweapons are interesting, because it depends on what you mean. The oldest form of bioweapons involved flinging a plague corpse over a wall during a siege and watching disease spread through the population.
These days infecting a population with an already existing pathogen is a much more feasible option than a home grown variant, the problem comes in mass delivery.
As for developing their own super virus... Well I feel pretty safe on that front.

Edit: Typo:

These days infecting a population with an already existing pathogen is a much more feasible option than a home grown variant, the problem comes in ass delivery.

^{hehehe, viral ass delivery.}