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11 Sep 2010, 9:30 pm
CowboyFromHell wrote:
No, I haven't been in the military. Basically I was just using the whole general "Republicans vs. Democrats" outlook that is more commonly used, disregarding all the other stuff. This whole ordeal with the two-sided pentagon was just a random experiment to see if people would think of the political pentagon rather than the mathematical pentagon, and if not then whatever else people would have posted.
No, I haven't been in the military. Basically I was just using the whole general "Republicans vs. Democrats" outlook that is more commonly used, disregarding all the other stuff. This whole ordeal with the two-sided pentagon was just a random experiment to see if people would think of the political Pentagon rather than the mathematical pentagon, and if not then whatever else people would have posted.
No, I haven't been in the military. Basically I was just using the whole general "Republicans vs. Democrats" outlook that is more commonly used, disregarding all the other stuff. This whole ordeal with the two-sided pentagon was just a random experiment to see if people would think of the political Pentagon rather than the mathematical pentagon, and if not then whatever else people would have posted.
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12 Sep 2010, 2:58 am
DeaconBlues wrote:
Except that the Pentagon in that picture is not a political institution as such. While wearing the uniform, you are not Democrat or Republican or Green or Reform or People's Socialist or any other political party - you are a soldier/airman/sailor/Marine, and expected to act like it. You follow orders from above; you disseminate orders below. You don't, say, obey an order from the President because he's a Democrat and so are you, but ignore orders from the Chief of Staff because he's Republican - you obey orders from both, because both are your superior officers. Politics are for after hours, outside the building, and outside the uniform.
As for the other proposed solution, a pentagon in three dimensions is a pentagonal prism, rather than being a "pentagon" per se; if you assign "top" and "bottom" as sides, it becomes a septahedron, as it a) is now a solid, and b) has seven sides.
As for the other proposed solution, a pentagon in three dimensions is a pentagonal prism, rather than being a "pentagon" per se; if you assign "top" and "bottom" as sides, it becomes a septahedron, as it a) is now a solid, and b) has seven sides.
Now I'm really getting a chuckle.
The details regarding the Pentagon are irrelevant, I am just referring to the general opinion of politics, just two sides. This thread was somewhat of a riddle.
I'm not intending to sound like an ass with that last statement, in fact I admit I'm not nearly the most knowledgeable about politics, and I admire the fact that you do your homework, which is something that I am working on lately.
