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LOL my father used that one a LOT. You're the only other person I've heard use it. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood was another.

They will announce when it is up, they have not done so.

For God's sake man, this is a PG 13 site! Don't let him get started!

partially correct there are ToEs that offer other units the same 3 team tactical flexibility. If you are going up against armor , one of the Mout options would offer a nice flexible unit with a lot of Javelins. When it comes to an infantry fight though those extra 3-4 rifles per Marine squad adds up very quickly to some serious punch. Bradley/Stryker/Infantry squad- 9 men/2 teams Bradley Mout - 9 men/3 teams Stryker MOUT - 10 men/3 teams Marines - 13 men/3 teams

US going after DPRK in UN over illegal oil imports. China and Russia expected to block. This will be an interesting test of Trump's relation to Russia. Will he get as upset at them as he almost certainly will at China? Will Rocket man still get his Elton John CD? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-asks-un-to-cut-off-oil-products-to-north-korea/ar-AAzZ3Pf?ocid=spartanntp

I'll pass along, I don't think BF will see this here. One bit of info, BF does not store credit card info so risk should be low.

LOL c'mon guys focus on Korea. Rocket man is more fun than Pooh.

you need to develop about 25 of these so we can play. We use these at work only we call it BS bingo. Put in the latest catch phrases and then play during conf calls. It makes them worth listening to. And you spelled compatible wrong.

well the child prodigy who could drive at 3 did send a very nice letter to the President last week apparently.

A lot of newer tech is missing from CMSF so you don't have instant reacting tanks to being lased popping smoke and backing up all the time among other things. I am in the same camp of preferring CMSF over CMBS, but I do still enjoy other aspects of CMBS. CMSF can be a somewhat more level playing field, enemy ATGMs for example are harder to spot. I've seen a Syrian ATGM fire off 3 rounds at a Challenger 2 and never be spotted.

Nah that happens every year. https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/photos/7-of-the-coldest-places-in-the-world-to-live/hell-norway

N Korea still testing US https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2018/07/12/North-Korea-didnt-show-up-at-meeting-with-US/1531531386783/

It takes about 15 seconds to target and launch a Javelin. If you keep popping up in the same spot. ......

Thanks Rokko. This will definitely help folks who want to work on the old campaigns and bring them up tp 4.0 standards even on a map level.

You’ve been on this forum since 2002 you should already know the answer to your question

He was on as of a few hours ago. I lean more toward Ken’s view that in his rage he has embedded some keys in his hands and is unable to type for the moment. Baneman “Alexa call Bil. . . . . A whole lot of nasty names. “ Alexa “I have an assortment of names you have previously called Bil.......”

Yes they do - took me a while to find one but yeah still happening.

Yeah doesn't show any of the class of say my hat for example.

No way snickers rule!

I am not sure they would agree with you. While similar to some degree, there are enough differences to appeal to a slightly different core audience. I for example have not and likely will never buy their games. Not that they are bad, they just don’t appeal to me. I expect there are some graviteam fans that feel the same way about CM. There is for sure overlap, but that holds true for quite a few other games as well.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t necessarily see China as going on to rule the world. More it is that the US experienced some unique phenomena over the 20th century. Industrialization, 2 world wars where the US was never physically impacted (bombed etc) and an increase in overall world trade. That unique position was never going to be long term sustainable. it doesn’t mean the US is a necessarily “declining”. As the standard of living rises in other places in the world, manufacturing trends will continue to change To your point as those hundreds of millions of people in China (and India) who have not been part of that general trend get pulled in the pressure increases in those places to change. Change in China over censorship will have to come from within I expect it will. The Berlin Wall took a while to fall, but eventually it did censorship stifles innovation. You can only do so much relying on stealing IP to build your economy. I suspect this has a lot to do with China’s role in Korea, the last thing they want is a border with someone like S Korea Nobody wants to flee China to go to N Korea. I have been to China a number of times, but only Beijing and Shanghai However even in that limited scope I saw nothing like my trip to Chennai and I did get to make some trips well out of city center.

I for one wasn't yakking. I was yammering. I am older, I have moved on to yammering at this point. China is doing the same thing as everyone else, only in their case it is a state run program versus a global business run program. The net result for your average person in China is probably little different than your average person in the US. They want better jobs, a better future for their kids etc. The west exploited China for hundreds of years, maybe it is payback time, I dunno. What I do know is a country of a billion people is gonna have a bigger share of the world's economy one way or another. To expect anything different is just pissing into the wind. The decades of American industrial economic dominance are long gone. The world doesn't function that way anymore. Change sucks and sometimes it is damned disruptive. The world that kids grow up in now is unrecognizable from the one I grew up in. For better or worse is something that we can yak/yammer about in the café. Personally I feel a bit lost trying to understand how this generation views things. The constant immediate connections that are extremely superficial strikes me as really bad, on the other hand they feel connected to the whole world in a way I couldn't imagine. Either way this harping on America lost belies the fact that America and the world have changed permanently. You can smash all the weaving machines you want, they'll just make more. Yeah China is pretty ham fisted in it's approach, but they also have somewhat of a ticking bomb- they need to keep a billion people happy whose expectations are rising as to what they want in a standard of living including social justice and personal freedom. Interestingly the country with potentially the most risk of Chinese expansion is Russia. There is another study I ran across a while back by another think tank that talked about the issues the Russian economy faced and Siberia also focusing on Chinese potential intervention. I'll see if I can dig it up. Ironically Putin may have given them ideas in how he has dealt with Ukraine. https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/07/03/where-do-borders-need-to-be-redrawn/why-china-will-reclaim-siberia

Yep we are responding all right... sort of. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/07/china-trade-war-ivanka-trump-business-shoes-701668 Anyway back on point. I don't even know what the straw man comment means. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pompeo-shrugs-off-nkoreas-gangster-rebuke-cites-progress/ar-AAzJ5YZ?ocid=spartanntp More back and forth and lots of spin by N Korea. Net result though is still lack of clarity as to what if any progress was made. It doesn't appear so, but in the gamesmanship who knows.

not sure. Mine never disappeared to my knowledge but I expected they were going to.