Joe Petviashvili

war, war never changes

“Russian tanks have entered Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, says Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.”

“Fragging is a term from the Vietnam War, used primarily by U.S. military personnel, most commonly meaning to assassinate an unpopular officer of one's own fighting unit, often by means of a fragmentation grenade (hence the term). A hand grenade more...

“the heat and pressure can be sufficient to spontaneously detonate the tank's entire load of unfired explosive shells at once”

how World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley

This site holds my father's records about internation in prison camp, located in Ukraine, republic of exUSSR(Allies), where he was kept after World War II. Although drawing is just a hobby for us, we feel obliged to use the Internet more...

cutting of five high speed Internet Submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East over a period of 12 days

A fourth cable linking Qatar to the United Arab Emirates was damaged on Sunday causing yet more disruptions, telecommunication provider Qtel said.

The document explains the rationale behind torturing prisoners, torture methods, and a justification for ignoring international law. Forness advocates the injection of truth serums, threatening to inject Muslim prisoners with pigs' blood, and torturing detainees' friends and family.

it suddenly hit me: I had, quite unconsciously, adopted the tactics of a suicide bomber -- or a kamikaze pilot. It's not just that I'm willing to sacrifice my life to kill someone else. It's that I'm exploiting the psychology more...