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WoD Seemed an interesting circular logic. They kept at 80mm because it worked .... why not 100mm it would have worked even better : ) I think the answer is weight. Later IV Stug variants suffered greatly from being front heavy I believe. It does not matter if your overall psi is 14lb if the track pressure at the front is 25lb then you will sink in sooner.

Tank Corps 1942 - 1945 April 1942: 40 x T-60, 40 x T-34, 20 x KV-1, 42 x 82mm Mortars, 4 x 120mm Mortars, 12 x 45mm ATG, 20 x 37mm AA, 20 x 76mm Guns January 1943: 70 x T-70, 98 x T-34, 48 x 82mm Mortars, 4 x 120mm Mortars, 12 x 45mm ATG, 2 x 37mm AA, 24 x 76mm Guns, 8 x BM-13 Katyusha January 1944: 208 x T-34, 1 x KV-1, 21 x SU-76, 16 x SU-85, 12 x SU-152/ISU-152, 52 x 82mm Mortars, 42 x 120mm Mortars, 12 x 45mm ATG, 16 x 57mm ATG, 18 x 37mm AA, 12 x 76mm Guns, 8 x BM-13 Katyusha May 1945: 207 x T-34, 21 x SU-76, 21 x SU-85, 21 x SU-152/ISU-152 52 x 82mm Mortars, 42 x 120mm Mortars, 12 x 45mm ATG, 16 x 57mm ATG, 16 x 37mm AA, 36 x 76mm Guns, 8 x BM-13 Katyusha "Red Army Handbook 1939-1945" by Steven J. Zaloga and Leland S. Ness Note that the 57mm ATG is more common than the 45mm ATG post January 1944 Looking at March 1944 figures from CMBB the rarity factor for the 45 is 0% and the 57mm is 65%. In point terms the 45mm costs 35 and the 57mm is 133points. My assumption is that up the pointy end of battles you have your best kit and the obsolescent kit is kept just in case.

i am somewhat surprised that, at this stage, nobody has chimed in with the number of 45mmATG's lost or destroyed in the early years. Purely taking production figures overall is OK but hardly as accurate as the actual manifest. I do have, and have had for some time, a niggling doubt on playing with standard rarity. I can subscribe to variable rarity as it adds greatly to the fog of war. The concept that rarity is true across all of the Russian fronts in the same month is self evidently bogus. Placing a Tiger heavy division on a particular front alters the likelihood of meeting one there and lessens it elsewhere so variable rarity works in terms of logic. I also have a suspicion that Tigers were more likely to be active however that is possibly untrue and a reflection on the amount of attention they get. However by comparing Battalion accounts it should be possible to compare vanilla unit activity levels with ubers. To be fair for all I know BF have done a greater amount of work on rarity than I know. But then possibly not ...!

Justice would have been served if he had been penalised. However from the US justice's point of view why pay to keep him in a US jail. Fining him would have been similar to fining his wife - who had written to the court asking for no action to be taken the day after the attack. Obviously the guy has problems - I am not sure if he was damaged mentally by playing or he was never the sharpest tool in the box. Sportsmen may be great but that does not necessarily make them great guys - or commentators. Abuse of drugs other than cocaine probably can be traced back through his career - I am guessing here as I do not know what the AFL test for - but sportsmen do tend to try to build muscle etc.

Wiki regarding World Cup 1988 I considered this very fortunate for the French and even in 1988 thought of sub-sonic sound [rather than drugs] as a possible cause. State morale is perhaps too important to be left to chance when one is so close to a championship. I have long felt that acoustics is a somewhat neglected area. Today of course the EU pointed out how easy it is to damage hearing using I-pods - something you think would have been noticed about 5 years ago. France were of course the first country to kick up on it banning Apple from selling them until there was a limiter.

My guess is better shells given size and velocity were similar. In game the M43 T34 is marginal head-on to the Tiger whilst the M44 has chances to 500 metres. Seems reasonable. The thread concentrates on penetration, and in battle getting any shot off was the primary thought rather than poncing around for the ideal position. Nice if you could arrange it though and well worth trying to engineer. Not that you often see it in CM games! However that is to overlook the total package in a tank that makes some far better than others. Acquiring your target and killing it before they can nail you is important - in fact vital. And the Tiger was a very good tank to fight from. Tactics - like commander head up etc and highly trained crews also make a very large difference to an outcome - in RL and in CM.

WoD This highlights the reason why having casualties on is a good thing. Firstly it is historically accurate. Secondly cherry-pickers better start buying platoons as buying one of an item may not give you any. Thirdly on larger maps being rich in uber forces but with little frontage you are liable to be flanked Fourthly, the extra points available allow purchases above what is normally possible Fifthly, players can no longer easily calculate their opponents purchases against BF's parameters I think it is a great travesty in what is meant to be a historical game the default setting, and a lot of scenarios, provide 100% complete forces. : )

http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1895&tag=nl.e589 and if you want it - here http://www.openoffice.org/ and a blog comment As Paula wrote yesterday Open Office 3.0 was released yesterday. The launch was so successful the site partly crashed. All visitors can see right now is a text-based link to mirrors where the software is available, under 7 different configurations and in 14 different languages (including Kurdish). This is good news and bad news. The good news is we have more proof of the popularity of Open Office, which continues to seize market share from Microsoft Office and reduce the monopoly rents that company earns. The bad news is it will take some time, and some money, for the open source group to scale-up. I know they can speak for themselves, but it’s time that companies which benefit from OpenOffice step up to the plate. If you’re an enterprise standardizing on OpenOffice, or a company that competes fiercely with Microsoft, you have a stake in this. It’s time for you to step up and support OpenOffice. Now is the time for all good men (and women) to come to the aid of the software."

BBC 29 Dec 2006 Is this anything to do with the Reptiloids!

Good news. Open Office 3 is out today. I have downloaded my 142MB's and added lots of optional extras from the add-ons. Its great to migrate from Office'97 to a slick well-supported and FREE package.

I was quite impressed with the stating the obvious approach with the graphs. Out of curiosity what would you guess was the rate of fires between 4 and 7 a.m. if peak is 100%.

Yeknodathon, : ) I am swayed by your piece[!] but think it lacks suitable links. And vaguely on topic I would confirm that animals are sensitive to impending earthquakes and as humans are animals then it need not be impossible. Whilst animals are not totally reliable they have a few saves to their names by humans following their lead in evacuating an area. There is a Chinese town that benefitted from this observation and the Chinese did embark on installing animals , snakes I think, in towns. Whether progress has overtaken this EWS I do not know. Given we are told that earthquakes rumble on around all the time I assume that some because of potential nearness are sufficient to get animals to move. Moving out of a built-up area argues either they fee the risk is high where objects are tall, OR, it also happens in the countryside but there are not many humans to notice.

The remark on the HMG's I thought was wrong. All the HMG's appear to be penalised to fall in with the changing of barrels on the German MG's. The British WW1 HMG's were famous for firing all day so that has been ignored with all HMG's being equally prone to "jams". I think a generic model was applied across the game.

Crumbs point one and the guy is already wrong! http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/miami/23504.html

The Ford car concerned is a diesel. Diesels have been high in particulates. BTW it is only in the last year or so that US diesel has become refined enough for modern diesel engines. Diesel fuel is more expensive than petrol in the US so that is a cost strike against it. There are, importantly legislative hurdles to cross. Mercedes and another German manufacturer have just persuaded California that there diesel is clean enough for the US. Shame Ford do not bite that bullet also : ) However there are plenty of petrol engined European cars that give 48+ on combined cycle and the 65 mpg may not be what people driving normally would get. That is irrelevant. The bottom line is that GM and Ford viewed importing from Europe as not profitable - of course when they can arrange cheaper imports from Mexico, Brazil or China you will see these cars and they will get exemptions like the German diesel cars in California.

From this educational thread http://iidb.infidels.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=86831&page=2 and this highly recommended site for debunking http://www.hallofmaat.com/read.php?6,494448,494477#msg-494477

Thank goodness for that. I have not been able to play CMBB for months - and I have done nothing with this machines video card since I bought it several years ago. Thanks for the fix

Always try to play with variable rarity on - it makes everything less predictable. Valentine's actually can be quite cheap and act as mobile ATG's but remember they should ambush rather than go head to head.

The New Scientist arriving today has features on all the renewable technologies and it will take some time to encapsulate the reports. However on energy transmission over distance the prime answer appears to be to go to DC rather than use AC as you will have much lower transmission losses. Over 1000km AC loses 10% whilst DC loses 3%. Converting to AC at the consumer end is 0.6% Also the use of intelligent machines - air conditioners , fridges etc where a chip can modulate the device on and off when the grid is understrain will provide up to a 20% buffer. Over the weekend perhaps I will cover each resource in a new thread.

Curses! You mean I have to give the trick away at the beginning of the thread! : (

Very interesting video - suitable for all ages http://vimeo.com/1789964

Failed to raise obelisks? See I have been brainwashed I thought that had been done - perhaps only in Europe. But on the positive side for the argument of "fact" we are all familiar with the concept of Columbus discovering America - which was taught fact a mere 50 years ago. While not agreeing with all of JK's points it is true that certain potential drugs are left to languish as being unpatentable the drug companies have no interest in developing them. And of course spending more money on sales effort than on research does sort of show where priorities are for some drug companies. Following the auto-industry as I do the idea that Ford could not bring the car over are bogus. Whether it was a good idea to possibly cannabalise their market with expensively produced imports was an important consideration for them. Given the circumstances I may well have taken the same decisions as they have. Admittedly I would have been two years ahead of the curve in seeing the impending crisis : )

: ) I already have enough investments in the new technology field - some I no longer have and some I monitor: XAAR - print head technology Transense - remote pressure/temperature, and remote torque measurement AFCEnergy - power from waste hydrogen ImageScanHoldings - Xray technology AdvancedID - RFID tags ZenergyPower - very pertinent power transmission management a risky business investing in newish technology companies. I will see how these do and get back to you next year : ) Having got the NewScientist weekly for the last 20 years and subscribing to many on-line journals I have to take a lot of information in and a lot of it on on trust. And of course a year or two down the line you find things have very much changed. Perhaps I am so long in the tooth that I can afford to be less picky than someone younger has yet to learn how much of all info is subsequently redundant or plain wrong. For the protection of the youthful perhaps it is fair to attack JK's wacky points. But to attack him personally and rake up old points that new readers are unaware of seems counterproductive. I am all in favour of science, and of the scientific approach. I also think that the scientific approach is sometimes limited in what it can prove and what it cannot prove does not mean the effect does not exist. Accepting uncertainty is not an unreasonable view for a scientist. With regard to JK and sensitivities there is a recent article relevant on the NS site which throws doubts on some sensitives claims. I may get time to post it. The effectiveness of placebos, and the ineffectiveness of actual real drugs given with the client unaware of being dose is another area of interest.

Its nice to have books : ) I did get rid of 600 or so before moving - and those I had read!. The joke books, garden books and cookery books are all dip into stuff so they are all used if not read. On maps etc this is meant to be one of the most information laden graphics ever: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Minard.png and it is even a map also : ) I bought something similar in France this year - all the civilisations in the world since earliest time by continent. Very informative but more graph than any mapping. I thought I might find some nice maps to add here - no joy - yet.

That analysis was interesting. And are'nt i| due a turn : ) However it does raise the concern as to why lax regulation of lending was permitted. Who was asleep at the wheel? Would not mega-infrastructure projects used dollars and been more useful than allowing housing bubbles? Consider how beneficial it would have been for those billions to have gone into improved mass-transportation in densely populated areas, tidal power as per the Rance. The Bay of Fundy and the Severn Estuary are infinitely more useful but untapped. For sunnier climes solar energy has been under used - excepting Spain. The French centerist administration have always been able to look further into the future than the WASP capitalist nations and it shows. TGV, nuclear power, low household debt rate. Makes you wonder about the WASP governments abdication to market forces and the consequent efficiencies. Ballocks - the markets planning span is unlikely to be more than five years and often less and the criteria is maximised profit! Great way to run a country - not.