I know he hit some nerves, and some of these nerves get hit alot, especially in a public forum. This forum has done alot to reduce dumb posts and mis-information, and has succeeded in it for the most part. But the question was asked in a simple manner, and the grammar looked fine. I just think he should have been given alittle slack. I mean, its a public forum, and questions/posts like this will never stop. There will always be posts that strike nerves with readers, as new people will always be coming in, sometimes not reading all the FAQs and rules and suggestions. So you can either reply to each one of these "dumb" or stupid questions in a bitter way (which reflects these boards in a negative manner, and keeps some people from posting) or give a bit of slack, every now and again, when a question is asked articulately.
Sometimes what one person sees as common sense, is not so common to another. For instance, I was always wondering, can people smoke on submarines? My common sense tells me NO, because oxygen is limited down there, and it needs to be clean to breath. But sometimes intelligence can cloud your common sense. My intelligence (subjective I know) tells me that many advances in air filtration systems have been made, and maybe there is a small room somewhere on a sub, with a filtration system where the submariners can smoke every now and again.
Gunnerlove:
Maybe ne has never seen the destruction, but maybe he knows how destructive artillery can be, and can't really picture it being used in any of the modern conflicts we were in, because alot of these conflicts recently are in an urban scenario, where there are civilians, and artillery wouldn't be used. I don't know, just playing a bit of devil's advocate, thats all.
