mididoctors
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Yeah its ok..ish but rather naive... the notion of a global command economy that succeeds where the soviet union failed is based on the notion that bar code tracking system is of a maturity that supply and demand and importantly equitable distribution can be more accurately modeled than current market actors who apply market competitiveness. The sections on city and urban design are almost comical like something out of Logans run. Part of human existence resides in organic unplanned growth and living in some bubble city is unlikely to be adopted. there is a fair amount of technorapture stuff flung in there which i find dubious.
The paradox is the film is correct I think about its criticism of market system inefficiency which is based around short term cycles of inbuilt obsolescence and debt. However a market system that use times scales of benefit measured generationally rather than individually would bring about a far greater degree of efficiency in a way this zeitgiest bunch hope for...
ie the market system is not invalid as long as the maximum profit is measured against the lifespan of the resource rather than a yearly salary or ledger sheet.
I suppose its thought provoking and brave...
its essentially a sort of scientific new age communism(dispite claiming not to be). I am not so much agin it but it looks out of place in this world.
sh!t is F@%ked up
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Pretty stupid thumbnail analysis. Lightly or unarmoured? do they mean just like every other light helicopter in the world?
fuel in self-sealing wing tanks is a problem? I guess that makes every other combat aircraft in the world useless too?
And the idea that any ol' grunt will be able to fly them is equally silly.
I doubt there's going to be any need for them so they'll never get built in numbers, but as "blue sky" research into technologies it seems like quite a reasonable idea - right up there with the thousand other aircraft only built as prototypes, research designs or small production runs ever since time began.
I dont see the point of it if any old grunt cant fly it.
cos your really just got a heavy but light lift helicopter that drives around with a overtrained expensive specialist driver?
if it isn't a ubiquitous capability then there is no operational advantage. yeah its cool for the patrol that has one
a multi tasking Bradley MICV is not cool in mobile warfare because there are only a few of them?
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IR: Ah thats the kind of info we are looking for : )
as for helicoptors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopters_used_in_World_War_II
thats one hell of a list for Germany. An example of undirected "planning"?
floating tanks
DUKW - US
PLUTO
Funnies
Dozer tanks
APDS
Airportable tanks - USSR?
most of the german helicopters used were unpowered towed autogyros for u boat use and the like
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Ah, I read it to mean that the photos were made in Berlin, Prague and Vienna. Where a BT would not likely be found.
But I see now that if I had paid attention to the photographs that needn't be the case. Some are taken in Russia.
at least one is Leningrad
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I didn't know Israel had nuclear subs....
shows how I'm out of the loop
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4. You'll need to build a lot more power plants.
Busted: Actually, there's enough off-peak electricity in the U.S. to power 79 percent of U.S. driving demand. As more EVs are deployed, it's important to ensure that the smart-charging (time-based charging management) and vehicle-to-grid connectivity progresses as well. A connected network of millions of micro-energy storage devices (which is what EVs will become) provides significant opportunities to improve the stability and performance of electric grids and better balance peak demand.
where does the other 20% come from?
this "busted: is a contradiction in terms
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I just watched 1 &2. There were a few references to "yellow monkeys" and "yellow apes".
Speaking of anachronisms, there was a scene where blowjobs were mentioned. I would have thought that was right out of the wildest imaginations of most 18 year old virgins of the time.
As for war crimes, ask any veteran of the Pacific how many Japanese prisoners his unit took. It was no Old Etonian tea party.
1930's US prostitute slang apparently.. which I doubt would be something the marine corp would not pick up on.
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Just as I said, you blame the hammer for breaking things, not the person wielding it. Who decides policy? Who sends the military to do "nationbuilding"? In all your posts, not one word about the accountability of those who misuse military force, and those who vote for them. I find that very telling.
The military did not decide to go to Iraq, they don't get to define the overall mission, and they don't get to decide when to come back.
"Hearts and minds," is a crock. It's political nonsense. It's the argument that the same hammer that wins battles can be used for every other job. It's fundamental misuse of power that gets innocent people killed. No "hearts and minds" campaign in history has ever worked in the way the post-WWII U.S. has repeatedly tried and failed to do it.
You - and others on this thread - are willfully blind to the accountability of any other decisionmakers besides the soldiers themselves, including, of course, yourself.
When someone owns a dog that's trained to fight, like a guard dog, and it gets out of its owner's backyard and kills a neighborhood kid, who's to blame - the dog, the owner, or both?
In the U.S., it's been a long struggle, with much still to do, to get laws passed holding dog owners criminally responsible for harm done by their dogs, and to get police and courts to take the cases seriously. The dog gets put to sleep or shot, but the owner gets a slap on the wrist if anything. I understand why now - it's really the same mentality at work.
We're using attack dogs - mech inf with air support - to do a sheepdog's job in Iraq, and we sure don't want to be blamed if anyone gets hurt. It's the dog's fault! Prosecute him!
i think you may be onto something here but where it leads is disturbing
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I was stationed at FOB Rustamiyah in SE Baghdad at the time this incident happened and I can tell you that East Baghdad especially the area just south of Sadr City was a completely hostile area for US forces at the time, I'm not trying to justify any killing of civilians, but very few people in that area were anything even remotely resembling friendly to us. I have been on more than a few missions with units from 1/8 Cav and although there is a cowboy mentality in that unit, they are far from out of control psychopaths. Finally at the time the RoE stated that ANYONE carrying a RPG was fair game and could be engaged regardless of whether they appeared to be a threat or not.
I was assigned to the 46th MP Co, 759th MP Bn and our AoR was all of East Baghdad.
you could claim the RoE worked and saved lives in the long run as the surge did suppress insurgent activity....OTOH the fact the RoE have manifested themselves in this video plastered over the interwebs undermines the future those guys were supposedly killed for
when is the end effect?
if we argue end justified the means ..which is the defense in this case then what is that end?
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Don't stand near the guy with the RPG.
or the guy with a camera
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By the way, is it not interesting that the gunner does not seem to have any problems shooting into a crowd of 90 % unarmed persons, but hesitates to shoot a lone crawling survivor, waiting for him to "pick up a weapon"? How does that make sense?
Best regards,
Thomm
weird thinking
recovering alive insurgent could be one reason i guess but the impression the guys give is thy want to kill them
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Those Apache jockey's IFF evaluation isn't much better then this guy's:
They saw what they wanted to see. The second attack in particular is indicative of an unsuitable mindset.
As per usual though, I'm more offended by the cover-up then the incident itself. This kinda stuff, though bad, happens. But lying about it, no, that just sends the wrong signals about what the organization condones.
Counter productive too. I bet anyone living near that location took note of what they know had happened, what was said by the US to have happened and drawn their conclusions from that.
what this guy said
they saw what they wanted to see
interested to know if it has been established whether the armed guys were insurgents or hired guards?
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Ironically, despite his multiple personality issues which ought to have had him banned yonks ago, it wasn't. It was for pretending to be someone else, or rather, posting a review of a CM game pretending to be someone else. At least, that's the way I remember it. If I'm wrong, feel free to correct me.
so being micheal dorash then...
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Wasn't the bren tripod threads from before the forum wipe out? I think I was thirteen or fourteen back then. I could also remember Mr.Dorosh as being a mainstay of the forums, what got him banned?
being Mr.Dorosh I guess
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localised meta meme
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"you see Marlon I'm the only man in Mega city 1 who can head eggs into a Bucket"
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a sunderland downed two JU 88's
that's quite a feat
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Nobody survived. They were all taken out and shot in the last GF purge. Except Emrys.
because he ratted out everyone else?
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turing's bike and gas mask
use to tell people he wore the gas mask due to hay fever despite the fact the rides he went on seemed "pointless"
truth stranger than fiction.
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What bollocks. It was the Australians who captured U-110 and won the whole war.
actually it was a British Homosexual auto asphyxiation perv into riding a bike with a gas mask on who won the war
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If the figure of 500 fields/sq. mile you then quote is accurate, that works out to about 1.28 acres per field. That sounds a bit too small. Could it be that the true figure for average falls somewhere in between? The 200 X 400 meters would surely have been the largest encountered. Could Doubler have intended feet instead of meters? That sounds more consistent with the other figures you mention.
Michael
the average size i know not
the fields were tiny at times
stems from a local medieval custom/law of dividing the land equally between all the sons on death.. lead to the atmosiation of plot sizes
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True. The fundamental problem was the idea of starting wars with your neighbors. Especially if you treat them badly when you win. It does tend to put people's backs up.
Michael
+1 as they say...
the whole Third Reich concept was not going to fly...
short of an absolute miracle they were never going to pull it off
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Then perhaps the question should be "Could the Nazis have prepared better for Normandy?"
it was an organizational mess of there own and specifically Hitlers creation.
getting exercised about the Elan of Wehrmacht small unit leaders or this or tha relative strengths of equiment or doctrine is not where the problem was...
CM:BM for MAC
in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
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will the GMA 950 mac mini graphics be enough (bootcamp or not)?