dieseltaylor

Whilst finding it admirable that you can look to the 2nd Amendment isn't that the right to bear arms? If freedom of speech is about people talking to each other - and interacting with question and answers then I can see the point. Or newspaper articles which can be rebutted in a similar way. Now the question is did the founders actually consider a case where people would be assailed with snappy comments and outright lies with no opportunity to interact? My guess is that they did not. I also guess that the psychology of instilling fear and loathing was less understood in the 18th century. Being scared of Indians and Hessians notwithstanding.

I could not agree more with your final analysis. The problem that may have been unseeable to the founding fathers was the growth of massive media and the discovery that people are actually easily triggered and bamboozled. Once you learn how to manipulate people en masse can you rely on politicians not to do it? A commission to pre-vet all adverts for truthfulness.? No advertising by special interests ? Limitation on advertising other than in paper form? I don't know the answer but if democracy is to survive effevtively it needs to give people time and proper resaoned arguments. One of the advantages if the media is taken out is there will be less need to pander for money by the candidates.

Unfortunately the problem for the US is that you can have two lousy candidates at the same time - and lets face it the odds of anyone standing for President who has not cut deals to gain support or has some skeletons is probably nil. I make exceptions for at least Dwight D. The founding fathers if they saw the current set-up would probably want to go back to the drawing board. Particularly if they understood the way the media "Ads" to the quality of the debate. The trouble from the rest of the worlds point of view is the US has taken to making big mistakes overseas to demonstrate how powerful it isn't. And I can see the next one being teed up and I really think the US will ever be able to live it down.

ZPB - obvious noobie mistake - your tank was stationary : )

JonS posted in another thread that even people with really bad eyesight might actually spot something ahead of others. This was in the context of squads/tanks missing moving targets. I mention it here as without my glasses I am pretty blind and a large tree 100 yards away would merely be a shape. What I found this morning whilst lying in bed without my glasses I could actually see a parakeet fly across near the tree. Which tends to confirm that though are resolution of detail may be crap the ability to see motion remains very high. So spotting moving targets should be in general substantially higher than spotting non-moving targets.

I had not realised how possible another Middle East war was: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/us/politics/mitt-romney-and-benjamin-netanyahu-are-old-friends.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all Lets be honest I have problems with people who really believe there is a God guiding them It makes killing other people that much easier I reckon. As for Romney and his financial past - Bain Capital seems to have done the old pump and dump pretty successfully. What gets me is that any business taken private and then re-floated with a ton more debt has to be dangerous. But then I suppose all the people getting pay-offs in the flotation are happy even if the eventual portfolios where the shares end up take a hit 3 years or more later. Think Facebook but with tangible asstes but loads of debt.

Carrying thermal imagers does make it so much more simple to spot the bad guys!! BTW should you also test it the other way round to see if US teams are better at remaining undetected. Good that you are testing.

Seems very reasonable and to honest not particularly important. The interesting thing is that it was only lent and I personally don't like to furnish my study or house with lent objects.

Not a great review but he called it how he saw it. I suspect for the review he was demonstrating the effects not how good or bad a player he was. Though we know : ) He did correctly call BF on the countdown clock whilst giving reinforcements in forward time. If BF insist on messing with the time why not just go with a clock that says 14:30 or whatever and tell you its a capture by 15:15. Then the three reinforcements listed could be calculated or shown and make sense.

You must let me know your source. I know they donated one from one of their Tiger !!'s at one time and the engines have been a problem. I would be incredibly interested to know how one would adapt tank to a Challenger engine or vice versa. According to the Daily Mail it has the right engine - and then there is film and the apparent sound of a Maybach engined Tiger. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123736/Back-70-years-mighty-Tiger-tank-Only-surviving-example-works-restored-wartime-specification.html p.s Here is a Challenger 2 engine sound and I am sure someone can find a Challenger 1. Anyway here is the turbo-diesel Challenger engine sound

I saw the bovington Tiger 1 a few years ago and I think the problem? is that the really low notes just don;t get recorded. And possibly feeling it through the ground makes me misremember : )

This actually shows moving tanks but were the Panthers appear to be bouncing around appears due solely to terrain apart from a stop where it lurches forward - and there it is possible that is accentuated by the ground dipping away. No doubt someone at some stage will do a comparative on YouTube.

Nice film. Interesting in showing JagdTiger moving despite missing chunks of running gear and also its agility in rotating.

Seems that people need to be reminded of the heroics of some of the Italian units in Russia before being too disparaging about nations. Thanks Sergei for reading thoroughly.

: ) I am kind of interested in how he managed to get so much into his retirement pot. However overall when you know that the economy was dragged to disaster by financial/political insiders shennanigans you would have thought a candidate with that background in spades would be seen as wildly unpopular. The Tea Party must feel somewhat pissed with both candidates being part of the insiders. Wiki has some interesting stuff including his draft deferments. My general feeling is that people who have never been at the sharp end are much more gung-ho than those who have fought or suffered from war.

: ) great one

I an agree shade is highly relevant as I know to my cost playing paintball in British woods in high summer , and for that matter other times of year. You may be misled by the present population density levels In rural France and of course most of us are unfamiliar with the rural economy of Normandy in 1930-40's. You say copse which is a slight difference in scale to woodland. I am still unable to find stats for rural population in France for the period which is annoying but I will persevere. The French economics site does not back anywhere near far enough but is still faintly interesting for land under grass, wooded, cereal crops, size of farm post 2000.

Churchill design allowed for many bogies to be shot out with it being immobilised. The interleaved kitty wheels also were meant to be tough to take out. The deliberate aiming at tracks appears to be banjaxed as I understand it with the BF model. I have not tested to see if superior crews are allowed or get any benefit in where to aim.

Colour coding the icons would seem to be a great aid possibly,

In the last century wood was the plastics of our age and I am reasonably convinced that most French woodland would have been tended. Pigs feeding on acorns, chestnuts as food , hazel for coppicing, timber for building, for clogs and for chemicals. Particularly during the war where wood was both fuel and car fuel. It is noticeable when looking at some scenarios where the designer hasn't the foggiest about 1940s Norman countryside and towns. But then rather than investigate they just think their imagination will suffice. The nice thing is the good maps look really outstanding : )

FOREIGN visits are a great way to burnish a politician's statesmanlike credentials, especially for a presidential hopeful. So the headlines in today's British press are not what Mitt Romney ordered. "Romneyshambles" quips The Independent. "Who invited party-pooper Romney?" asks the conservative, and generally pro-American, Daily Mail. And The Sun, as always, is the pithiest; "Mitt the Twit" is its headline. Mr Romney's mistake was in the classic mould for all politicians; deliver one message tailored for the home audience, before being more diplomatic overseas. Questioned by Brian Williams over whether the Olympic games would be a success, he said You know, it's hard to know just how well it will turn out. There are a few things that were disconcerting, the stories about the private security firm not having enough people, supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials, that obviously is not something which is encouraging. To be fair, most Britons would have similar doubts. But that's not to say they like to hear some foreign politician expressing them. It's a bit like going to a dinner party and complaining loudly about the decor and the cooking. Perhaps Mr Romney thought Britons wouldn't notice. But over here in "old Europe", we have the television. The internet, even! The remarks were perhaps designed to highlight Mr Romey's own success as the organiser of the Salt Lake City winter Olympics in 2002. But the patronising tone did nothing to endear him to the Conservative Party over here. David Cameron tartly remarked We are holding an Olympic games in one of the busiest, most active, bustling cities anywhere in the world. Of course, it's easier if you hold an Olympic games in the middle of nowhere. Boris Johnson, mayor of London, mocked the American, telling a Hyde Park crowd There's a guy called Mitt Romney who wants to know whether we're ready. Are we ready? Sadly for Mr Romney, that was not his only gaffe. He appeared to forget the name of Ed Miliband, calling him "Mr Leader" and said he had looked out of the backside of Downing Street at the beach volleyball court. Again, the latter can be put down to the vagaries of the English idiom and there are plenty of Britons who might forget the name of the Labour leader, who is popularly claimed to look like Wallace (from the Wallace and Gromit animation) or Rowan Atkinson's Mr Bean character. Still, not a great start to the tour. The most biting remarks came from anonymous officials. The Daily Mail quotes one mandarin as saying What a car crash. We are speechless. while the unkindest cut of all came from a "diplomatic source" in The Times: It is worse than Sarah Palin in terms of basic diplomacy. Update: It may be a good job that the British press hasn't read Mr Romney's book, "No Apology". Foreign Policy points out that the book contains a section that says England is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2012/07/romney-britain?spc=scode&spv=xm&ah=9d7f7ab945510a56fa6d37c30b6f1709

Interesting to consider what would have happened if the armour battle had gone the other way.

Excellent stuff. This would have been so much better if this sort of savvy sarge advice had accompanied the FM and F does not mean field. It would make the game hugely more understandable. Perhaps it is not to late ...? Thanks Womble.

Not so funny and even as Facebook sinks losing 18$ on every share bought in the May IPO. A bigger con job is hard to imagine - well this year anyway. ANd

It is interesting to look at CM:SF mods as an indicator of how played with it might be compared to CM:BN. In both the Repository and CMMODS the tale seems to be that WW2 is much more played with: CMMODS CMSF mods 223 released June 2007 CMBN mods 208 released May 2011 Repository CMSF 486 CMBN 544 So whilst I hear the phrase "You would be surprised how many people play CM:SF" it does not fill me with wonder any more. You note how I said CMBN appeared more "played with" as I am not claiming necessarily more games are played based on the mods numbers but it does seem to indicate that more people are getting involved. CMBN has over half the number of threads 6877 and posts 115063 that CMSF 11235/205103 accrued in in 5 years so there appears to be more evidence of WW2 being a more interesting arena to players.