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Michael, I can commiserate keeping ever present the fact that many of the posters have English as a second language. I thought you'd get a kick out of this graffiti (graffito?) recently discovered on a wall in Pompeii. I'm guessing the original Latin would not be a problem for you. However some clever fellow rendered it in English: When I, Caesar did hear of the name Of Cleopatra, I went to lay claim Ahead of my legions I invaded her regions I saw, I conquered, I (censored).

With a controversial war playing out in real time? Good luck with that, Steve.

Re: 'Moveing': as a rule, when referencing Battlefront jargon simplicity rules. Proper usage suggests the simple capital M construct, but your invention, if a bit idiosyncratic, is certainly acceptable. However some neologisms are to be avoided, for example, 'Fireing' or 'Hideing'. "Dieing'? Beyond the pale, sorry.Hope this doesn't come across as pedantic. Edit: this space reserved.

Impressive post, Womble. And I don't mean the content but the feat of composing- in this tiny font- three paragraphs with zero grammatical errors and only one misspelling ('moveing') which you manfully didn't stoop to correct and thus incur the cursed 'edited' tag. Bravo, buddy. Edit: Damn. There's only one 't' in 'grammatical'. Jeez... 2nd Edit: Softened '****!' to 'damn'. Sorry, moderators...

To the best of my knowledge the dust raised by vehicles is no longer visible to the enemy. Unlike CM1.

On the old boards you had a grace period- a minute or so- to correct these things before getting hit with the 'Edited' tag. The current system is so.... unfair.

I vote for a more exciting poll.

Move for infantry and Slow for vehicles are underutilized modes. The faster you go the less you spot and they more likely you are to get spotted. The CM1 series had the useful Move to Contact option. But the current Move still has its uses,.especially for forming up tanks when time isn't pressing. In the earlier CMs vehicles raised dust that was visible to the enemy. One assumes that's now abstracted.

In the opinion of Military Today: http://www.military-today.com/tanks/top_10_main_battle_tanks.htm Virtually identical to the list on army-technology.com/: http://www.army-technology.com/features/feature-the-worlds-top-10-main-battle-tanks/ Surprise: the South Korean K2 Black Panther is highly rated by both sources.

Mexico a failed state? That's a canard. The GDP per person is 19K, ranking only second to Chile in South/Latin America. It's been classified as a middle class nation for many years. Americans get a false impression due to the hordes of unemployed paisanos who flood over the border. These aren't typical Mexicans. Their major health issue: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2358472/How-Mexico-got-fat-obese-America.html

The eastern rump of Ukraine, composed heavily of ethnic Russians, longs to re-integrate with the mother country. And not just for nationalist reasons. Economic interests play an important role. Ukraine has been in arrears with Russia's natural gas deliveries.

Ukrainians have a legit grievance against Russia as a result of the forced collectivization and subsequent famine that followed. But these events occurred in the 1930s. Russia has since transitioned from a totalitarian to an authoritarian nation.It's economy has taken off, many of its citizens have entered the middle class. Ukraine has remained mired in poverty despite squatting on the most fertile grain fields in the world. Their government is heavily in debt and the ruling class is even more kleptocratic than Russia's. Ukraine is a failed state. Western medias have framed the conflict as the Big Bully picking on the scrappy little guy. I remain unsympathetic with this view.

20 out of 21, sucka.

Hobbes wrote that life is nasty, brutish and short. That appears to characterize, non-insurgency, 21st century warfare and the campaigns fit that description.

Read the article, John. At least one critic has cited the 'floating zero' fallacy in the computations.

Probably. Kicking, punting all that counts is distance. Grip isn't a factor in that aspect of the game, either for passing or ball security.

Deflate-a-ball: The gift that keeps on giving! ESPN: PHOENIX -- Former NFL quarterback Jeff Blake says he oversaw the deflation of footballs on the sideline right before games during his career. Speaking on "The Midday 180" out of Nashville, Blake said the practice was common. [+] Enlarge Bruce Kluckhohn/USA TODAY SportsJeff Blake played for seven NFL teams, including the Bears during his final season (2005). "I'm just going to let the cat of the bag, every team does it, every game, it has been since I played," Blake said. "'Cause when you take the balls out of the bag, they are rock hard. And you can't feel the ball as well. It's too hard. Everybody puts the pin in and lets just enough air out of the ball that you can feel it a little better. But it's not the point to where it's flat. "So I don't know what the big deal is. It's not something that's not been done for 20 years." Many other NFL quarterbacks have said the opposite, that they've never messed with the inflation of a ball or seen anyone do so. The topic has come to the forefront with the New England Patriotsbeing investigated by the NFL due to allegations the team used underinflated footballs in the first half of the AFC Championship Game against theIndianapolis Colts. Asked to be specific about the timing of deflation, Blake said it regularly happened as soon as quarterbacks got the balls before the game. "As soon as they give them the balls," Blake said. "On the sideline before the game. The quarterbacks would come out to warm up in pregame ... I would just say, 'Take a little bit out, it's a little bit hard.' And then they'd take a little bit out and I'd squeeze them and say 'That's perfect.' That's it." Blake played for seven teams in 13 seasons, starting 100 games. His longest tenure was six seasons with Cincinnati. His last year was 2005, so during his career when his team was on the road, Blake would not have handled the footballs until pregame. In 2006, NFL quarterbacks successfully got the NFL to change the rules and allow each team to provide its own balls for games, which would then be turned over to officials before the game. But his one HELPS the Patriots. Everybody does it! My personal take: there was no conspiracy. All QBs are picky about their footballs. Brady's preference for a softer pigskin was well known. Proactive NE ball boys took the initiative to supply the QB with a sympatico product.

My bad. I forgot the pre-awards DVD mailings. Agusto's obviously an Academy member.

Er, the DVD hasn't come out yet, agusto.

Causes? It's pretty simple, John. Scientists estimate that 40 to 60% a person’s risk for addiction is based on genetics. In families where there is addiction present, children are far more likely to have addiction problems as adults. And drugs tend to be fungible: alcohol= nicotine=heroin. The implications are cruelly Darwinian. Those historical groups that had no experience of alcohol lacked genetic resistance. The populations of the various native American cultures were devastated by the introduction of that drug by colonizing Europeans*. The latter had reduced the numbers of those bearing the defective gene through natural selection over the centuries. Wine, already common in the Middle East, followed the northern expansion of the Roman Empire. Thus Southern Europeans (or Jews) are less likely to become alcoholics than their Northern or Eastern neighbors. The Irish and Russians, for example. *- The natives got their revenge with tobacco.

As a former East-coaster I've always admired the Patriots and Tom Brady. And I find the Seahawks' boastfulness and persecution complex uniquely obnoxious.They've also lead the league in penalties for the past two years. I want them to lose. However this article is troubling: http://www.sharpfootballanalysis.com/blog/2015/the-new-england-patriots-prevention-of-fumbles-is-nearly-impossible The author, Warren Sharp, alleges using sabermetrics that the benefits of an under-inflated ball don't lie in the the passing aspect but in other worldly ball control. Beginning in 2007 the Patriots' low rate of fumbles and fumbles lost surpass every non-dome team by a wide margin. The softer ball enables players to grip better. He cites the probability of this statistical occurrence as 1 in 16,0000 plus. The 2014 Patriots were just the 3rd team in the last 25 years to never have lost a fumble at home! The biggest difference between the Patriots and the other 2 teams who did it was that New England ran between 150 and 200 MORE plays this year than those teams did in the years they had zero home fumbles, making the Patriots stand alone in this unique statistic.

Oh, c'mon it's funny... What's really annoying are the Seahawk players. At a certain point, it's hard to listen to their angry "Nobody Believes In Us!" shtick and keep a straight face. Who really doubted them this season? This is a defending Super Bowl champion we're talking about. NFL,com: One thing was certain after the Seattle Seahawks' miraculous comeback victory Sunday: Despite owning a Super Bowl ring, receiver Doug Baldwin still carries around a Lombardi-sized chip on his shoulder. After helping fuel an overtime victory, the wideout, known as "Angry Doug" by teammates, delivered an intense message for the "doubting" media. "When we were 3-3, everyone counted us out. Y'all didn't believe in us," he continued, walking back and forth in front of about 30 reporters. "A whole bunch of people thought we weren't going to make it. At 6-4, it was, 'Ah, that's OK. They have a winning record, but they aren't going to make the playoffs.'"Are you ready for this?" Baldwin screamed outside the team's locker room, per ESPN.com. "Are you? How many of you doubted us? How many of you doubted us when we were 3-3? Y'all, I want you to write this down. Write this down, OK? "At 16-0 at the half (Sunday), how many of y'all counted us out? How many of y'all doubted us?" Nobody underestimated you, Doug! Shut-up! Get a grip! You and the rest of your teammates need to be forcibly sedated.

Yeah! If you do enough research you can cull some interesting battles from the most one-sided or meaningless grand strategic situation. But there's something to be said for making a game in which the action unfolds on a stage where the outcome of the war hangs in the balance. In sales terms: Statingrad> Kursk> Bagration> Berlin.

Inflate-a-Ball from Cialis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y38pZ_xcSGs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTRmyXX6ipU#t=131 Turn on captions!