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Sunflower Farm Boy

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  1. This pseudo-science gibberish has more holes in it than a Tetley tea bag. First of all his study doesn't have any blinds, he hasn't identified any independent variables, and it doesn't replicate easily.

    Anybody can do stats, but only the pros can come up with bullet-proof research models.

    This research has as many holes in it as a T-37.

  2. Explorers find the remnants of 9 thousand soldiers

    20:38 2002-10-29 The servicemen of the search expedition Dolina reburied 91 soldiers of the Red Army, whose remnants were found on battlefields of the past. As the headquarters of the expedition said, the remains of the Red Army soldiers and officers were buried according to military traditions. The funeral ceremony took place on Saturday in the settlement of Igozhevo, the Novgorod region.

    Specialists say that these soldiers of the Red Army died during the first two years of the Great Patriotic War. Two of the so-called “death medallions” were found in the woods and swamps of the Novgorod region. These medallions were little plastic boxes that contained records about the killed soldiers.

    The search expedition Dolina will try to find the relatives of these soldiers so they will know where their fathers or grandfathers were buried. In addition to death medallions, the expedition found fragments of the downed Soviet Pe-2 plane with the remains of a radio operator.

    The headquarters of the Dolina expedition reported that the remains of 171 Red Army officers and soldiers were found last fall around the settlement of Pervomaysky. On the whole, the expedition managed to find and rebury the remains of almost nine thousand Soviet soldiers. Over 60 thousand soldiers have been reburied by the expedition since 1998.

    Translated by Dmitry Sudakov

    Pravda

  3. Originally posted by Lumbergh:

    And, since I am a noob, can someone explain to me the obsession with all things German these people tend to exhibit? I for one find it a tad disturbing.

    :rolleyes: . What's your problem with 'all things' German bub? Germany has a prolific and long-lived culture worthy of closer inspection by all. And so does Russia for that matter....

    [ October 29, 2002, 11:59 AM: Message edited by: Sunflower Farm Boy ]

  4. Russia had better armor, sure, but their tank tactics stunk. Now imagine they had've followed the German school of thought right from 1941 in the proper tactical use of armor, and the war might've been shortened by a year or two. I mean driving a platoon of T34's on the crest of a hill is just an invitation for a trigger happy AT position to rake up the kills...and I guess the real problem is that the Russians never learned any better until the later years of the war when manpower finally became an issue.

    I don't think a wargamer would mimic those mistakes repeatedly...well maybe if they're Russian...or the AI :D

  5. I played 'BreakOut' on the TRS-80 with a group of pot-smoking buddies back in the mid-80's, and that was the best thing since running naked through a field of 8 foot sativas.

    The real plus of this game is what I call the 'Beck-Bong Factor'. Three 1L bottles of Beck's beer, a bong full of nice Hawaiian Sativa, ground level camera angles while bullets and shells fly, and I swear my brain hasn't been frazzled like that since I quit chasing the dragon 2 years ago.

    A fully invigorating and visceral game. Well worth the money. Eeven if the soldiers and tankers look like PlayMobil people.

    [ October 24, 2002, 09:30 AM: Message edited by: Sunflower Farm Boy ]

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