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3 minutes ago, Haiduk said:
Somebody very want to set huge fire on Middle East, additioanlly to Ukraine to disperse US aid and involvement.
Indeed. That somebody (cough Iran cough cough) has wanted that for decades. Honestly, I just don't see it happening. Iran is the only one that actually wants some kind of war with Israel. Even Iran doesn't want to do it directly they are just another rogue state run by a chaos monkey. All they can do is what they are doing. Sure it will rile things up but no other country is going to join in with an attack on Israel and the bad actors that Iran has been supporting are just going to kick up some dirt and die horrible deaths finally finding out there are no virgins.
Bringing this back on topic - it might spur some members of the US congress to get their **** together and actually pass some funding that will help both Ukraine and Israel.
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23 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
Because these engines can't power a $50m boondoggle.
Now that was funny. Thanks for the laugh
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28 minutes ago, dan/california said:
First round caught them upright and still walking, not really sure they needed to spend the second one...
Second round was already in the air baby
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3 hours ago, Andrew Kulin said:
If this all sounds confusing to someone w/o a Matrix or Slitherine account set up, yes it is
Agreed. Thanks for clarifying.
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On 10/21/2023 at 9:31 AM, kohlenklau said:
Hi sir,
6 years later. Is there a badge (of shame : - ) for necro'ing the oldest thread? Would @kohlenklau win it? I suspect yes
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On 10/21/2023 at 7:26 AM, Andrew Kulin said:
Yes. I did not realize that until someone told me specifically. There is a messaging account under your Slitherine account. And there is a separate messaging system under the Slitherine forums which is the one to use. You have to go into the Slitherine forums and log in from the forums for messaging. I still find that glitchy though.
My bold - did you mean the Matrix forum?
The trouble is that you can have an account to enter the tournament without having a forum account. This means that there are tournament payers who are not on the forums at all. Add to that lots of players either never check or don't respond to DMs. It's pretty easy to have no way to contact opponents at all let alone a reliable way.
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16 hours ago, Yskonyn said:
@IanL I am trying to install WTII , but it won't install unless I download Java 7 JRE from Oracle.
I've migrated to the Adoptium Temurin branch of open source Java, due to the perceived security issues with older Java runtimes, so I was wondering if you can make WTII accept this runtime and stop it from forcing an old JRE download.Yes. The installer might force you to install the old Java. But once it's done you can uninstall it and tweak the launch short cut to use your newer version of the JVM. WTII? is fins with running on a different JVM as long as it's J7 or newer.
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5 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
It's like a badly run big corporation with too many middle management types. Take out 1/3rd of middle management and productivity might actually go up.
Oh man. I have worked at a few companies like that. I have no doubt there are dozens and dozens of them where that would be true. I'd go further 2/3 if you really want a boost - you need to get all of those dopes that hold meetings just to hold meetings and create process just to create process and have people reporting to them just so they have more people than the other dope. Then you need to keep the ones that actually define and stick to requirements and clear obstacles for their people. Come to think of it random death would not work - it would leave too many dopes and not enough good managers.
5 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:Second, they have crap command and control to start with. Bad coms, bad leaders, too few leaders, horrible command climate, etc. Zapping an HQ might actually raise morale, not lower it.
Sigh. Would it though? I mean I get that there are bad leaders etc. and some grunts might get a lift knowing that comrade col that ordered the last idiotic thing is dead but there has to be someone ordering forces shift here and there and counter attack away from the main event to distract the AFU. Otherwise nothing would hold together in a seamless coverage of the defensive line.
Maybe the AFU just hasn't found the effective HQ yet to blow up
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12 hours ago, BFCElvis said:13 hours ago, MeatEtr said:
Yeah my CMBN opponent surrendered his axis defenders and the scores are fine, no issues.
Dang, do you slaughter everyone that you play?
Yeah, its freaking annoying
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I think the default "Recently Updated" is what you are looking for. This system doesn't have a subscribe based system at all so you are not subscribed to anything.
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Same I got one this morning too even though all my games are moving along. Also received at 0903:
QuoteHello Ian,With the Grand tournament underway, You and your fellow fighters should be battling it out in the first round. Some of the games are already completed (well done!), some are ongoing and some are yet to get out of the blocks. For those of you who haven't started, or are yet to complete their round - Can you please make sure you have entered battle before the next round starts on the 25th. Otherwise face forfeit and humiliating defeat!Well I don't want to be humiliated
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3 hours ago, kimbosbread said:3 hours ago, The_Capt said:
Oh and lets not forget the BFF of North Korea - like being best friends with that weird kid who tortures bugs at recess while touching himself, and everyone tries not to notice.
You should really write romance novels, or at least fan fiction.
Yeah, great writing.
This line was the one that really made me laugh out loud:
3 hours ago, The_Capt said:South Korea made it work pretty well and their capital is under gun range of one of the craziest MFs since his Dad.
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6 hours ago, The_Capt said:
Yeesh, can’t we just do one war at a time?
Hey, aren't you the one that says we can walk and chew gum a the same time
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Just to clarify are you playing co op against the AI? If so that's not "using the PBEM system". You can play two vs two (or n vs m) in PBEM using a similar technique though.
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3 minutes ago, MOS:96B2P said:
If the moderates on both sides would work together and sideline the far left and far right extremists the world would be a better place.
They did. They had a deal. McCarthy stabbed everyone in the back and reneged. Why would anyone trust him again?
4 minutes ago, MOS:96B2P said:An opportunity was missed with this ouster. I think its fair to say we are in a worse situation today than we were a few days ago
Yes, McCarthy missed an opportunity to do the right thing. He could have put country before party and got the job done a couple of weeks ago but he deiced not to. He got what he deserved. Frankly it looked obvious that he was not going to survive as the speaker no matter what choice he made. I would have thought that would be motivating to do the right thing but he didn't.
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6 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
Which is to say that McCarthy apparently was up front about not giving the Dems anything of value instead of making promises he never intended to keep.
Well at least he was honest about it. Kinda feels like he just gave up and rolled the dice. That didn't work out for one of our former PMs either he infamously and flippantly said his strategy for negotiating the Meech Lake Accord "come down to last minute negotiations and that a “roll of the dice” would be necessary" : https://parli.ca/roll-dice/
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10 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
He was pragmatic and realized that getting any Dem help would require compromising with the Dems and that would lead to even more GOP knife sharpening.
I'm not saying that is incorrect but I do think it is irrelevant. My guess would be that the Dems looked at McCarthy backing out of the negotiated deal to pass the required spending bills that he himself made with the President and Senate leadership and figured what would be the point in negotiation with McCarthy for anything else?
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2 hours ago, Vacillator said:
There's a thread somewhere which I can find if anyone wants it
This one?
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12 minutes ago, The_Capt said:
I find a lot of this sort of analysis wrt escalation as "easy to say, very hard to do." I do not think people fully understand what is at risk in widening this conflict. The standard justifications are:
- Russia will never go nuclear.
- Russia will back down - they are full of BS.
- We got all the guns, what are they going to do?
Fair enough and valid concerns and good analysis as usual. Andrei Kozyrev was at the head the foreign office of Russia before Putin came to power but he certainly has some creds on how the Kremlin works and what its likely reactions would be. His opinion is the West has been too cautious and could have moved faster. He is speaking from his view of how the Russian government would have reacted / not reacted. Obviously there are other things to consider.
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I just finished listening to a long interview with Andrei Kozyrev, Russia’s first foreign minister from 1990-1996. He was pretty interesting to listen to. Two things that he said are interesting to mention:
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He actually ordered his staff to search the archives from the previous years looking for any evidence for an agreement or treaty or even a discussion about an agreement or treaty with NATO to prevent or restrict its expansion.
No surprise to anyone here, there were none. At the time it was just not seen as a pressing issue to discuss. The story that one existed is made up out of whole cloth. But we knew that.
I know that's boring I just thought it was interesting hearing from an insider.
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He said the West is needlessly tying itself in knots over escalation. Not pushing hard and committing to promises risks escalation. Giving Ukraine what it needs does not. I'm not sure how perfect his analysis of that is but I have to respect his point at least some what.
He said we should not back Ukraine for as long as it takes to win but instead back them so they win as soon as possible! It was a super line. His point is that Putin wants the war to drag on and for Western support to waver. Instead we should get more weapons systems in their hands faster and push harder to give the Ukrainians everything they want and need to get this job done as quick as possible.
You can listen to the interview here:
https://www.aei.org/podcast/the-insiders-perspective-with-minister-andrei-kozyrev/
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He actually ordered his staff to search the archives from the previous years looking for any evidence for an agreement or treaty or even a discussion about an agreement or treaty with NATO to prevent or restrict its expansion.
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2 hours ago, PEB14 said:
Forward, backward... I think I never saw any of my Pixeltruppen fire an AA MG...
Me neither so I created a scenario and check to see if it would happen:
Spoiler alert - the crew do fire the rear MG at targets on the ground.
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17 hours ago, The_Capt said:
If your expectation is for Russia to fold out a la Afghanistan, well that war took 10 years of bleeding.
10 years is the time scale for the '80s in Afghanistan. If you look at the casualty numbers we are likely already past it - by a lot.
Soviet Casualties for all of Afghanistan (The Soviet-Afghan War: Breaking the Hammer and Sickle)
14 453 dead
53 753 wounded
68 206 totalRussian Casualties in Ukraine since Feb 2022 (Troop Deaths and Injuries in Ukraine War Near 500,000, U.S. Officials Say)
120 000 dead
170 000 wounded
290 000 totalSo, in less than two years Putin has managed to get 4 times the number of soldiers killed or wounded than during the whole Afghanistan debacle. It is a tribute the miss information and propaganda campaign that the wheels have not come his regime.
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"act together", I meant "act together" yeah that's it, that's the ticket.
I'm still unclear on why swearing is censored. I mean really, we have videos that show people getting killed for ****s sake and a little colourful language is not allowed. Sheesh.
Oops I did it again