daveym

Jshandorf: Posting the bombing of Dresden as a counter-point in this argument is not productive. Any critic of the Waffen-SS, if so inclined (and if given many hours of time), can dig up thousands upon thousands of incidents in which Waffen-SS troops murdered hundreds or thousands of people in village/town x in country y. You are insulting the victims of war crimes everywhere, be it at the hand of a b-17 or mp-44.

There is no reason for fighting here. The originators of this discussion are clinging to argument simply for its sake; they seem to have a logically untenable position. Examine what I think most people here would agree upon: 1) Waffen-SS were soldiers, not concentration camp guards. 2) However, as the military extension of the Nazi party, many of the Waffen-SS troops committed horrible crimes, probably to a greater extent than regular army troops(?unsure about this; data available?) 3) Troops everywhere committed war crimes. There may be evidence for racial motivation of war crimes. 4) War crimes are irreprehensible, and as such should be punished. By these points, if indeed the Waffen-SS are responsible for more than the average incidence rate of war crimes, then they should definitely be remembered as such, as should any such military unit

What's a Dalem? A daveym sits at a desk all day and attempts to work but is distracted by BTS forum, /., the newspaper, coffee, lunch, girlfriend calling to yell at him, etc.

I learned a lesson from my current computer, which is: never buy something with proprietary technology in it. It is *impossible* to upgrade cheaply. The machine: HP Vectra Pentium-Pro 200 with 64 megs of memory and Voodoo 3. I always scratch my head when I hear that people with P2-233's can run CM, as the PPro 200 _should be_ an all-around superior chip (onboard cache)...and, when I hear that FPU performance is critical for CM, I scratch my head again, cause the PPro architecture for FPU is excellent. Anyhow, whatever the cause, the CM demo gives my computer a serious beating. Around 1 frame per second, with all the detail and sound turned off. So that's why I am stuck waiting for the computer fairy (and the stock market fairy) to come and rescue me. Last night I dreampt that Apple accidentially shipped me a Titanium PowerBook...

My sad story. This is hard for me to do.... ...but I am a serial lurker. I am addicted to lurking. I read the Combat Mission boards everyday at work. 3,4 times a day. This has been going on for over 9 months. This would not be so bad, except I DON'T OWN COMBAT MISSION. I played it (1) time on a friend's computer in July. It was a religious experience. I told myself I was going to upgrade my computer so I could play, but ever since the stock market crashed, I have been stuck with my sh*tbox Pentium Pro. Done in by the bears, I guess. It's off my chest. Now I can go in peace....