Nidan1

Now that hurts.....

Yeah, but its junk with 3Gig of Ram, a 256mb vid card, and a 500 watt power supply. I runs faster, so I can actually finish more turns in between the roboots.

Well, we certainly don't see anything coming from your whereabouts that could possibly liven things up. Perhaps if you set yourself on fire and send us the video link, or better yet climb in a hole, cover it up until only your head pokes out...have someone pour honey on you, and then wait until the ants arrive...this could also be video taped, and linked so that we all could enjoy it. You could go to the coin operated laundry (if they have such things down under) get into the dryer, spin around for a while, and then attempt to cross a busy thoroughfare, in other words be yourself, but let us watch.

The mother board is about three years old, I think ,its an ASUS Ps333, with a P4. I also added a new power supply. I connected a 20pin adapter to the motherboard, another smaller 4 pin connecter, also to the motherboard, so there were two seperate connectors on the motherboard. The graphics card also had its own 4 pin power connection. The new vid card requires 350 watts, the new power supply will produce up to 500W. I'm at a loss, as usual, its obviously got something to do with the new hardware I addded because my system was rock stable before I added the new stuff. Oh, and Macey if you think those tanks you are sending up the hill on my right will ever make it to the flag, well all I can say about that is MUHAHAHAHAAHAHA!!

AGP, I have a 8X card and the slot is 4X, but I read that the card will work fine at the speed of the slot, so I dont think that is an issue. I reinstalled the drives just in case one might have gotten corrupt, I have the latest NVidea drivers now.

I got a new video card for my PC...it really improves the look of CM, as well as ending all the problems I had with slowness...well I know my opponents were slow, I can't fix that now, can I? there is a down side to all this lightening speed, some problem is causing random reboots of my machine...something caused by "device drivers" according to the MS Troubleshooter thingie, anyone experience something similar after upgrading graphics hardware?

How many more times are we going to hash out this argument, when there are obvious agendas in play, we can discuss this stuff to death, which is what often happens on this forum. "My army is smarter than your army, nah! nah! nah!" Woe to those who are tied up in the logic that the process is more important than the final product.

Recently I made contact with the older sister of my long deceased friend Rick Canova... ( Seanachai I blame you for bringing on this bout of melancholy). http://www.thevirtualwall.org/ At this URL is a website run by the Vietnam Memorial Fund, it has a data base containing the names of all of those who sacrificed during the Vietnam War. I visit it from time to time, and plug in the names of guys I knew. My best friend from those days, Rick, is on the wall. Well, the last time I visited, there was an electronic rememberance from Rick's sister and brother. I have been corresponding with her, and her children. It brings back wonderful memories, and also horrible ones. Well anyway, I read the threads on this forum about the new game, and combat in Iraq and elsewhere and I want to scream. I do not consider myself a special man because I survived combat. Maybe years ago, when I was younger, I thought there was something special to it...I still get dragged into emotional highs when I hear the "Marine Corps Hymn", but now in my 60th year on this planet, I realize that war and destruction are one of the follies of mankind, people will always be at odds, and in my little world, the safety and happiness of my family and friends is paramount, I don't really care anymore about what goes on elsewhere. Call me selfish or narrow-minded, but that's the way I feel. I have always been interested in war games and things military, but lately that interest is waning, I can't see an end to the death and destruction...I don't like what the new policies of the government is doing to my country. We spend so much time, energy and imagination coming up with new ways of vaporizing our "enemies". Time that could be spent elsewhere, I guess, finding cures for diseases and so forth. I don't want to glorify war and the military any more. Young men, and now women as well...die, and are maimed by war...both physically and pyschologically. Those who serve suffer hardships that the rest of us (Americans in particular), can never imagine. There is just too much suffering in the world... and there should not be, especially with the immense wealth that resides in certain pockets of the globe. I want to go in the "US MARINES" thread again and shout at the top of my lungs to all the people in there dispassionately discussing the great killing machine that is the US Marine Corps. I tried with one post, but no one listened, to explain to them how ****ed up war is, and how the people in it are just pawns. My friend Rick died in 1966, his sister wrote to me that "Ricky will always be 20 years old in my heart" Try to imagine the feelings that go into that statement. I'm am sure it has been made in similar fashion by poeple troughout time who have had to deal with the violent death of a loved one. I don't know...it just made me think.....if I'm not posting often...you will know why.

rleete ,

Actually my internet has been working for days I just forgot about you & your stinking set-up... though NG Cavscout will confirm for you that I can take quite some time when setting up a defence, so you're still gonna have to wait.. ... and wait ... and wait </font>

That's about the brightest thing I've read from you thus far. </font>

Is that your best Desi Arnaz impression??

NO!!!! NO!!!! no more acronyms PLEASE!!!!

You can READ!!!!????

LtCol West: An RCT really must be someting to see, actually I have really no way to reference it compared to the way units were organized in my day. We had organic armor and Arty and such, but never used it in the wayits used today. Actually armor was used as perimeter defence, essentially a pill box. I can only imagine the thunderous power of modern Marine units, based on whatI have experienced or seen on television as a frame of reference. It must be an awesome thing. Actually when I went to Vietnam it was with the newly minted 26th Regiment. In the Spring of 1966, the 5th Marine Division was re-activated. The 1st Bn. was created in Camp Pendleton, and we trained and worked together as an entire unit, with supporting units. (I was a 1371, Combat Engineer). We went over by ship, 3 rifle companies on the USS Iwo Jima and one on the USS Point Defiance, along with the supporting units. The chopper squadron HMM 363 if I recall, met us in the Phillipines. I was lucking in that regard, to be with a complete unit, and not just a replacement as was the experience of most young Marines back then. Just. We were eventually absorbed by units of the 3rd Mar Div, but the infantry battalions remained intact. Imagine an entire battalion, all MOSs rotating back to the States on the same day...that's the way it worked. TufenHuden; I understand where you are coming from, the Corps certainly has a reputation....sometimes one that's hard to live up to when you are in. The stories remain the same however, and like fine spirits, they get better with age, I'm sure The trick is sometimes to try not to let all that advance publicity get inside your head...remember no one is invincible, and when you are the top dog, everyone is trying to knock you down.

Why, I would be happy to.

TufenHuden, I don't know if would say that I "respected" the NVA and the Viet Cong. The word respect indicates a lot of things. I think your SSGT used that word in hindsight and based on the tempering and aging of his memories over the years. I hated the little ****s with a passion, I dont think I respected them, probably as a 20 year old I had no idea of what respect was really, or how it was earned or given. All I wanted to do was see them dead, they we trying to kill ME, after all. The Marine Corps back in those days was given missions far beyond the capabilities or supply structure needed to properly support them. We were always living on a shoe string, stealing gear, hordeing stuff, because you never knew when the next supply mission would come along. We had gear left over from the Korean War, and we were told to make do because we were after all "Marines", we could do anything with nothing. The NVA were better supplied than we were in most cases, and they carried everything down the trail with them. During 66-67 when I was there, it was always a case of "too little too late" . We would send in companies against battalions with predictible results. We very rarely initiated anything, we reacted to what they were doing. We tramped around in the bush hoping to pin down large NVA units to be pulverized by arty and airpower. It always ended up with us getting ambushed, lose a few guys, and by the time the arty and planes arrived they pulverized the surrounding ground, but no enemy forces. The Marine Corps held the line in the northern provinces, but we were not geared for that type of mission. In the logic of the day "its the only war we've got" so no way was the Corps to be left out. By the time you learned what you were doing, you were ready to rotate home, or you were in the hospital or worse. There was very little in the way of passing down "lessons learned" If you were lucky you had a decent company commander who put your safety over his own career goals. Looking at things today, I get the feeling that the Marine Corps is a lot better equipped and supported than it was in my day. Instead of being neglected and misused, there seems to be a little more thought taken before these fine young men are sacrificed, at least I pray that is the case. BTW, its Capt. Dale Dye, he was a sergeant and a combat correspondent when I knew him, I dont know how he made Captain, but he's a movie star now. [ January 05, 2006, 06:17 AM: Message edited by: Nidan1 ]

Right on..Brotha!!!

Yes, but if you were at all observant instead of the shovel headed nimrod we've all come to know and attempt to ignore, you'd notice that the posting slows down about now (as it indeed has) and instead of the heady, raucous, devil-may-care posting you witness in the first several pages of the Thread, we will now be subjected to a more timid, drive-by style of posting. </font>

I am in my twenties I don't have a sense of responsibility at all. </font>

Thanks for the info!!

You being drunk is in all likelyhood the obvious factor, but don't you think that Patrick Swayze has a nice ass?, and I liked Ron O'Neil better as "Superfly" than some cigar-smoking Cuban grunt.

So what is a photon torpedo warhead doing while it is sitting in a launcher aboard the Starship Enterprise? Is it at rest, or does the inertia applied by the motion of the Enterprise itself give the photons in the torpedo warhead their mass? Are the torpedos stored in a vacuum or are the launch tubes pressurized? If they are pressurized does that effect the mass of the photons inside the warhead as well?

There are 32 posts...er 31 left until the magic number of 300. Plenty of time to safely post some drivel without the fear of feeling responsible for a new incarnation.

You buy your own!! *Climbs back in my new Sopwith Camel* </font>