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English wikipedia on various aspects of 'British' history is pretty biased and prejudiced. There is the typical careful framing to tilt perception positively and negatively as required, such a desperate bunch.


Is this your homework Larry?


Yeah, after they move on he has no problem answering, pretty much text book case of silence that was deafening.


The Romans weren't afraid to win wars by attrition. Some of their generals were definitely good but they could just swarm any opposing force with highly disciplined, well armed troops.

Hannibal crushed the Romans several times, it didn't matter. Carthage still got wiped off the map.


Who dealt Rome the most damage?

Spartacus and the Slave Wars

Hannibal and Carthage

Bar Kohkba and the Judaic Wars?


In a single event, the Roman navy during the first Punic war. Rome lost the entire invasion fleet with estimates of more than 90.000 drowned during a storm. (It is still the second worst maritime disaster in history as Wikipedia counts. [0] Wikipedia lists the Mongol invasion of Japan as the worst, with more than 100.000 lives lost.)

The bloodiest war in Roman history was the second Punic war, that is the battles lost against Hannibal.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_maritime_disasters


What about the sinking of the Spanish armada invading Britain? As far as maritime disasters it was pretty huge. And that seems to have turned the tide of history.


That's third on the list linked above, with estimated 15-20k men lost.


Persians, only the Romans can compete. They only stopped being a problem when the Muslims replaced them.


I didn't watch the whole thing just jumped around but he has included slides that are marked 'SECRET//NOFORN' so if that material is accurately classified at that level (and its disclosure was not authorized), well he probably shouldn't be presenting to that.

Of course whether those slides would cause 'serious damage' to national security is a whole other matter or maybe it was 'authorized'.


All classified slides shown were from Snowden. One unclassified (but marked "Law Enforcement Sensitive") slide is from elsewhere.


Perhaps they were previously leaked through Snowden or others and he's only included them in his slides? Then he's not disclosing anything. He hasn't worked at NSA for a loooong time.


I'm no expert, and you are right he did leave sometime ago, perhaps there were changes with regards to protecting classified information after he left.

Classified information does not become unclassified just because it is publicly available if I remember correctly. Either way, I can't comment on whether including them in his slides is disclosing/divulging or not.


Around 7:30 he says that he is using some documents that were leaked by Snowden.. maybe that's them.


Well I'm fully on board with the notion that (workplace) diversity is overrated nonsense but this document could only be described as counter-productive at best. So things like this will only be used to justify the very thing he claims to be objecting to.


How unsurprising. Firstly, for most professions there are plenty of resources documenting what typical salaries are for degree/experience, so if you end up making less than that, well that seems like that is on you.

It flies in the face of economic common sense that if you could hire an equally skilled women and they would consistently accept 75% the pay as a man, then companies would have taken advantage of that fact. Just like they do with lower paid immigrant workers.


Yay, at minimum 7 Mb freed up going forward. People will remember this joyous occasion, would rate 10/10 again.


Never ceases to amaze me how some scientists can embrace a bunch of 2000+ year old nonsense.


Funny how some people stopped searching once you could no longer do it anonymously.


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