Stalins Organ
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Well done NZ. Show the Aussies's how to deal with European teams : )
And of course the Aussies can take a lesson from the Italians about acting......WE WAS ROBBED!!
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That woudl be Bacon & Egg Pie....without a top on.....
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JonS
1/ if you don't know what I'm on about why did you comment?
2/ Let me explain it to you....someone made a reference to the GM Firefly jsut after Serenity's Firefly. The GM Firefly (Pontiac) is a copy of a small Japanese car which I think we know in these parts as a Suzuki Swift. Hence I was surprised that it was teh 2nd connection to Firefly that otehrs made, and not the Sherman Firefly.
Bloody heck I hate it when I have to connect the dots for you!
Meaty - tag......
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Which is why I said Firefy rather than Fireflies.....but given the hint in the subject (Tigers and Panthers ffs!) I'd expect the 2nd guess to be the tank and not some Yank rip-off of a rice burner!
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Hey guys - come on - this is a wargaming forum - how on earth did you not think of the Sherman Firefly....Tigers and Panthers...Sherman Firefly...geddit??
Bleedin' heck....
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Except Firefly. Firefly laughs at everything.
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I expect the rmains of a North Korean torpedo will shortly be found on the seafloor nearby.
But perhaps Above Top Secret has it right?? It's really Halliburton & Goldman Sachs in league with NK.....
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Shoot, I need to get working on a conspiracy theory, hmm can I work Bigfoot into this, where's John when I need him,,,,
I'm sure Kraken and Cthulhu can be found to be involved if you look hard enough.....
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I thought hanging from a yard arm was traditional on ships.
Or keel hauling - that would work if they have to pass under a pipeline connecting the ship to the seafloor......
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BP, and almost any organisation, are very susceptible to the rewards & sanctions that _actually_ exist.
and basically if they are getting away with stuff then that becomes learned bahaviour. Same with employees - if they get bollocked for insisting on operating in accordance with safety manuals they soon learn to not bother.
It's really basic, simple human behaviour that exists across all endeavours - the pilots ofhte NWA flight that overflew their destination because they were busy with their laptops, the routine at Piper Alpha that allowed it to be destroyed, Bhopal, Air NZ flight 401 into Mt Erebus in the Antarctic, the London underground fire that was caused by dust build up in escalators - all of them show the same thing - learned norms/habits that go against basic good practice.
the only way to stop such things happening is to have an utterly ruthless regulator that is well resourced to do whatever it needs.
For example the US's aviation authority has half of that formula -0 it's f-ing ruthless!! any infraction will cost you $1000/flight - so if a major airline screws up somethign across its flet & flys for a couple of months with an error on board most of it's a/c - that'll be (say) 6 flights per day, x (say) 60 days x $1000/flight = $360,000/aircraft....multiply that by 100 or 200 or 500 aircraft......
And yes they have done that to the likes of United & continental ocasionally.
they usually use the resulting figure as a starting point and negotiate it down for good behaviour!!
But the FAA is not well resourced to go out and proactively find such things, so they don't happen often.
But even so airline execs in hte US are extremely aware that they _could_ happen.....and so do actually...generally...pay some attention to safety.
Contrast that with BP's experiences with whatever authority it is that regulates oil exploration in the US - they submitted an emergency response plan that said that they could cope with a much larger spill than has actually happened, and the likelihood was almost nil anyway, so the regulator required them to do nothing!
I'd be prosecuting the people who perpetrated that fraud - both from BP and at the regulator.....pour l'encouragement des les autres.
Unlike the front lines in WW1, making examples of corporate fraud & regulatory negligence does actually seem to work!
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As I thought they are supposed to be in Sth Africa too.......
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I'm pretty sure England have a better claim to that title....the AB's don't lose to rank outsiders in the first game of WC's....it tends to be in hte quarters and semis....and I'm pretty sure that's where England has usually ended up in soccer isn't it...since oh...say 1966??
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How can we listen to him - he doesn't say anything except trite oneliners.
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Yep - that's probably as much as we can hope for - getting more points is even less likely.....but a couple more goals as we bow out would be great. Another point (or 3!) would be the upset of the tournament!
Perhaps we don't need a wookie factor - a woolly one might be enough!
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Oh to make the quarter finals........
....what with New Zealand being the 3rd lowerst ranked team, never been anywhere near a nuke (except those French ones at Muroroa and the occasional visiting US warships until 1984), having no wookie factor at all, and not being allowed to blow our own haka! -
Not at all....my life is wonderful even without this particular piece of (presumed) entertainment.
If you need to see this to make your own life non-sucky then you have my sympathy.
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I said both had been done for at least a very long time - the gun I linked to dates from 1300 or thereabouts IIRC.
What I said was that killing people is always easier if you think you have your deity's approval, and people have been invoking religon in various forms for the killing of others for a very long time
I don't see any attempt there to equate marking of personal weapons with manufacturing them with such markings.
But since you asked.....come to think of it....no...I dont' see any difference. Both are expressions that your imaginary friend is better than the other guy's imaginary friend and are a sad reflection of the human condition.
And I applaud the atheists who raised the matter with the US military for standing up the the Military-Industrial Theocracy.
As a matter of interest.....why did you bring the matter up in the first place?
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Nope - kids had the computers last night, I wont' be home until late tonight & won't be logging on at all, and they'll have the computers tomorrow night too.......
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Yeah so it's wrong....I think everyone has said that since it was first pointed out........I never said otherwise - I said (paraphrasing myself!) that it is a time old practice that is completely understandable - perhaps you missed that point?
Edit - perhaps the sights with the references on them will becoem collectors pieces??!!
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can't see it due work block - how about a summary?
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So it's been happening since time began...and...er....what's your point again??
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I don't believe the original was inscribed with anything
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Markings on weapons are not the only way of knowing you have your deity's approval - I've seen/read plenty of examples of officers & men believing god was on their side.
Markings on weapons is just 1 expression of it - and not a particularly new one at that (check out the Morko handgun).
Invoking the gods on your side is an ancient activity & it should be no great surprise that we haven't grown out of it in "the west".
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Utah killer executed
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It is overwhelming when there is no doubt.
the bar for conviction is "beyond reasonable doubt"......and I have little problem with a bar for execution being "beyond any doubt".