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Oh, that one's easy... intellectual masturbation.

New thread, fresh start. So how's about some challenge information... isn't that what this is supposed to be about? Challenges, games, and gamey updates? Well, speaking of gamey updates: Pondscum, having lost one of his tin lizzie's to my uber-mousen-stuggie-thingy, is failing to send back any turns, forcing me to play a superior opponent, like the AI. AI, you stankin', lazy-arsed computer program. I tried out one of those Rune scenarios, with a bunch of German kitty-toys supposed to halt a big Russkie counter-stroke. You never even made to turn 36, much less the 45+ that it was designed for. And you didn't even advance some of your armor. Your dangly bits and bytes must have shrunk all the way up into your cpu as you watched T-34 after T-34 get turned into scrap metal as they crested the ridge. Your vaunted "Animal Killers" fared no better. Feh! <h1>Joe Squaw</h1> I call you out. Stop this feeble cowering behind Rules and Titles. Knight Champion. Champignon is more like it! Justicar... Drain Commissioner... Founder of the Shaving House... You have rested on your laurels long enough, and they have grown fat and wide in your sloth! I suppose that in all your travels, forclosing on mortgages like some New Age Snidely Whiplash, you take two seats side-by-side. And the last time the airline upgraded you it was to balance out the weight in the 737. Can't have you sitting too close to a wing you know. As a figurehead in this... place, you are old, worn, and full of rot (to put it nicely). Shall we cast you down like a ruined statue of Sham Hussein, or have you got any fight left in you... you... you banker!

Gamey Update Pondscum ... crickets chirping... has failed to return a turn, so I was forced to play a superior opponent, at least to Pondscum. Prokhorovka, as the Axis. Cool scenario, lots of armor and guns and esploding thingies... final score: Mouse 85, Pondscum-stand-in 15. The AI gave up after I lost 12 of mine (almost all light stuff, with a couple of PzIVs thrown in) for 60 of his. Bwahaha. Now it's time for a little nibble of cheese, then bed.

Who's the git that started this thread??? We mice have nothing to do with mold or ants... vile stuff and critters. Those are the things you lot find in your underwear drawer at home. Now, a better topic would have been "Mice and Cheese and Seeds... Oh My!". Yes, that would have been a much better title if you are going to involve mice at all...

who does it address us? Oh Justicar, I demand he be stoned with lemmings! </font>

This might be a long stretch for you, but listen carefully... it's only two words... switch box Yes, two cards installed, two video cables out, from the PC into the switch box. Here's the tricky part... One cable from the switch box to the monitor. Then just pick the video card you want to use to display by turning the little dial (or punching the button depending on your model) on the box. Thank you. That will be $250.000 consulting time, or a setup. Your choice. ThankYouVeryMuch.

Still haven't thrown away those old Dungeons & Dragons yet? But no one here would argue that you're not quite dead yet, and that you smell prety bad... ... well, that would match the results of your last IQ test, wouldn't it? WTF if a loof?

I thought this was supposed to be all about challenges, like Seanachai tying his shoes or sumfink... At any rate... (keep trying Seanachai, you'll get it within a millenium or so, or just invest in some of those velcro strap tennies that all the old geezers are wearing... in the summer... with black socks). Where was I? Oh yes, challenges and the like. Gamey Update It is with great pleasure that my stupendous mousentruppen invite all the 'Poolers to a marshmallow roast. The cooking fire is provided by Pondscum's armored fireplace, if you can tolerate the smell of burning tires and untermenschen and whatever. Should it get too crowded (I know how you are all fascinated with flames), we hope to be providing a second pyre, er fire, in the near future...

Oh Fairest of Ladies...know that all we Dwarfs and Gnomes avoid all use of the 'smurf' word. Strangely enough, back in College one of my best friends one day declared me to be 'A twisted little dwarf'. It was immediately adopted by all who knew me. "Let's see what the twisted dwarf wants to do," etc. Many years later, another close friend with no connection to those times or knowledge of that usage suddenly declared me to be 'an evil little troll'. Then Berli, returning from his first visit, declared me to be a garden gnome. I sense a theme... </font>

No, I simply enjoy being carried from place to place on the shoulders of you, Lars, and Papa Khann. Although for our next trip I may see about having some sort of palanquin knocked together and delivered to Lars' boat. It makes me feel regal, being bourne from place to place on the shoulders of sweating minions, pointing out bathing beauties and shouting "That one there! Bring me that one, the sultry wench with the fire in her eyes!" </font>

ISRT that the Gebirgsjäger troops spent most of the war hunting for Julie Andrews and the vonTrapp family singers...

Yeah, on a large map Boo's forces have a nasty tendency to be surrounded and then cut to pieces. Very messy. He probably couldn't cope with that trauma again. In other news, the Forces of Persiflage overcame once again the Rocket Scientists of Doom, namely chrisl. What's more, we did it with Italian Carabineri... Carbini... cavalry. I dedicate the total victory to mon petite liege, since the Italians are pretty much up there with the French in the wussiness stakes, and I'd never have made it this far if he hadn't forced me to fight every single sodding squirely battle ever as the French. <font size=-2>We hates him, and his pointy rapiers too</font>. </font>

Can you say "hardware firewall", "internet security", "anti-virus software" and "ZoneLabs"? No??? Then go back to being the Soviet conscript cannon fodder for the evil-minded in the world. Real mice secure their own network.

Actually, the question is: how many PC's are running an operating system whose designer's only concern has ever been to saturate the market, offering all sorts of 'interconnective' bells and whistles aimed at convincing the user that they were using the most powerful and useful OS possible, while in fact the result was endless, endless security holes, exploitable errors and a monolithic disregard for consequences to the user? I have a feeling that Microsoft's 'what, me worry?' attitude toward security has even more to do with the problem than the prevalence of their operating system. If their software systems were secure, or even largely secure (nothing can be 100%, after all), then even the fact that they were on every machine in the world wouldn't be a big deal. And your example of writing code that disrupted a Mac is absurd. Obviously anyone can write code that can disrupt a machine and deliver it if they are in the room with it, with full access to insert the code. Not quite the same as an Operating System that is routinely breached remotely from sources too numerous to detail, and which offers so many ways of raising havoc to even the least talented of 'hackers'. Your logic is shoddy, and offends me. Quiver, rodent! I will see your whiskers tremble! BOO! Where is Boo! I have a task for him! </font>

*sigh* If you were an evil, nefarious, diabolical, sadistic, degerate, perverse, corrupt hacker... no wait... let me simplify this to the minimal addition to your person... If you were a hacker... How many PC's are there running Win sumfink? Versus how many Mac/Apple machines? Simple math says you target Windows machines... In school, we wrote a gizmo for a Mac that randomly, but with more chance the earlier in the morning it was, intercepted system commands. We did use the AppleTech manual for the fun stuff. Once it decided to take action, it issued an OS message, first just minor annoyance warnings, but then more major errors. Over its series of instantiations, it walked it's way down the list of system errors, eventually stopping at "Can't find Finder" complete with the little bomb icon. Rather hilarious to watch our friend go from annoyed to panic stricken as his beloved Mac "fell apart" before his eyes in the course of an evening. After receiving the "Can't find Finder" he exploded. We, meanwhile, fell out of our chairs laughing. To turn it off, all he had to do was type in "[name omitted to protect the innocent] is a bonehead". So the Mac/Apple thing can be done. It's just not generally seen as worth the effort. [ August 13, 2003, 09:58 AM: Message edited by: Mouse ]

Please stick to news... note the root word which is new... from what I hear tell, you have always been lame, and we all expect you to remain so, so recounting the fact that you are still limping is like saying "It will get dark this evening." or "Aussies like sheep." So please feel free to save us your commentary on the status quo, and present us the new exciting things that are happening in your life... . . . (crickets chirping) . . . Well, thank you for that update Sean-a-whatever...

well... at least you don't have to spend $$$ on a wedding dress...

So is this a shark-like Jaws, or the big ugly toothed Jaws of James Bond fame???

Aah, the old "looking over the shoulder pose"... most likely to hide the face that from the shoulders down, she has the figure of Curly of Three Stooges fame...

SPOILER ALERT! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . First time, I got massacred... it was not a pretty sight. It started out as "Cool! Look at all the big toys!" It ended like "Damn, look at all the big fires!" It seemed like every corner hid one of those *@#%! Russian things. Second time, I got out of it with 5 losses, although there were a number of times I was very thankful for the thick armor. The keys for me were </font> Multiple Overwatchers (3-4 of them) for each moving group</font>Movement in groups of 3 or 4 with overlapping covered arcs, absolutely no-one went anywhere by himself</font>Gang-tackle each Russian tank as it was encountered</font>Disciplined covered arc usage on everyone, often adjusting arcs each turn</font> It was quite satifying to manage 3-1 local odds or better. Oh, and don't be afraid to do a little urban renovation if you feel the need. I got two of them that way. Great scenario, even when it crushes your heart the first time...

The duplex drive grass is broken??? OMG!

Imagine coming down in a wooded area. The last I'd want is a branch to catch my helmet edge while the helmet was still firmly attached to my neck.

Or a high colonic? </font>

Ever consider that the guys who make it to Veteran status have learned something, and would give them those bonuses? If I bought Crack troops, I would expect more bonuses from its leaders, not just guys with 'better' morale because they are on crack.

If it's a "fire brigade" or ad-hoc Task force where they scraped up what was available, you might see individual tanks and/or mixed units running around to deal with an issue that has sprung up. Depends on what was there at the moment to deal with the threat.