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Donward

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  1. Nah. I've got a few other items on my gotta have list before getting another high capacity semi handgun.
  2. It always surprises me that Glock managed to make an attractive looking pistol. No doubt someone left a gate open and a sneaky CZ or long slide 1911 got in and bred with that Glock's mother.
  3. I recommend getting a radioactive ape to help.
  4. While the rest of the kids in the Middle East are destroying priceless pieces of history, it seems the Egyptian government is eager to expand their monopoly on functioning Ancient Wonders of the World. Alexandria Lighthouse to be reassembled in original location
  5. Alternate Title to this thread. Masonic Fraternal Police Have A Hard Job.
  6. Having had hundreds - if not thousands - of these games where I do incredible amounts of damage and spot the entire enemy team, while your team crumbles about you, the reason you're getting such a great score isn't because you are necessarily the best player ever (although you are good Ulric) it's just that there's no one else on the team to compete with you in farming damage. If you kill 8, 9, 10 enemies in the match its because the rest of your team is terrible and unable to put a cursor on a red tank, wait for the circle to get small and press the mouse button. Having watched replays that guys post on General Discussion, a lot of times (not all) the guys who are doing great damage are the ones who lost the game because they camped to begin the match, aren't supporting a team's push, aren't using their tank's armor and hit points to absorb damage, are off on the wrong part of the map or whatever. With all that, I've come to the conclusion having played 98-99 percent of my games solo-pub, you are guaranteed to lose at least 1/3 of your matches. It's kind of like baseball. The issue is, one doesn't know which 1/3 of those matches they will lose so you have to play them all the same.
  7. It's kind of fascinating reading Colonel O'Leary since the predictions of how the M2 Browning would be used all came to fruition, with its use as an anti-material weapon, ground-based anti-aircraft, air-to-air weapon and a vehicle carried weapon all came to fruition and were viable for at least the next twenty to thirty years.
  8. Part of the problem with marijuana is that we have a lot of highly functional individuals who are able to use it and it doesn't really effect their ability to hold a job or be a grown up human being. Some of my friends smoke pot, hold down higher paying jobs than I'll ever hope to have and are able to manage to get by. Now there are certain unfortunate side effects that I've noticed in their behavior while high (namely they never fucking stop talking about how great pot is and how it's the answer to all of society's ills) but hey, it takes all sorts to make a world. And as I've mentioned, I have no real problem with marijuana possession by grown ups, per say, just so long as they aren't smoking it in public and that they're not doing it in a way that causes them to need society's safety net. But to me there seems to be a bit of projection by individuals who themselves are able to partake of marijuana's benefits and assuming everyone can hold their liquor, so to speak, just like there are highly functioning alcoholics who are able to get along in life in a fairly proficient manner while being constantly drunk. The issue isn't smoking pot. The issue is the criminal activity surrounding the use of pot. Criminals like to smoke pot. Criminals will do all manner of activities in order to get the money necessary to buy or steal pot. And criminals don't want to work a 9 to 5 in order to buy pot, they're going to take the easiest road to do so. Since the legalization of marijuana in Washington state, we have seen a very noticeable uptick in property crimes since the passage of I-502 in November of 2012 and very noticeable changes in neighborhoods where the sort who would smash a car window to steal stuff in order to get high congregate. I'm a local so when I visit Pioneer Square or the International District or Capital Hill and see people who look like extras from the Walking Dead eyeing you up to see what they can get off of you, you know things have changed in your old hometown. So while hipsters and software engineers and rich, old hippies are digging the chance to get high with no consequences, there has been an influx of the criminal element who also are coming to Washington state to steal shit from hipsters, software engineers and old hippies in order to get high with no consequences. In the old days the standard practice would be a pair of police officers respond to a scene where a criminal complaint takes place. Maybe a pimp has beat up his ho. Maybe someone did a smash and grab. Or whatever. While proving criminal intent of a known badguy and gangmember who has beat up his girlfriend and kids is difficult, the fact that he was in possession of drugs or paraphernalia wasn't when he was frisked by the cops isn't. And since police and prosecutors offices don't have the time and money to arrest, indict, prosecute and convict individuals who commit property crime, someone has to come up with a way in order to do so the hard way.
  9. I marvel more at an article that is very dependent on the written word instead of being nothing but a collage of pictures with three paragraphs of writing scattered around.
  10. Hey. I think that 50 percent of what you post is misinformed too Toxn. But since you are so typical of the gregarious, kind and open-hearted South Afrikkan who has touched the hearts of the world for three generations, I just can't help but love you! As all good Internet arguments go, obviously this is a lot of wanking over something that won't happen. The US military isn't going to get rid of manned fighter jets and bombers any time soon. As for drones, I'd say they are with us for a good long while as well although, as I've mentioned, American politics is a strange thing. There is a sizable portion of the population that is anti-drone. Not a majority, I don't think, but they are vocal and have clout and can do things like force the Seattle Police Department to end its drone programs. Now obviously it is a far cry comparing drones in a civilian police force to their use in the US military. But when I see folks on both sides of the political spectrum (usually more fringe types like libertarians and anti-capitalists) and when we have viable presidential candidates making anti-drone noises at times, I'm not comfortable sitting make and making grand pronouncements of what the future of air warfare will look like as I'm clacking away behind my laptop screen drinking coffee and eating leftover cornbread.
  11. No. See. The correct response should be "OHMY FUCKING GOD YOU SCRUB, DONT YOU KNOW ANAKIN WAS NINE YEARS OLD IN PHANTOM MENACE YOU POSER HICK CLOWNSHOW!!!!1!!!1" And yes, the first time we have a blue-on-blue with a drone killing friendly American soldiers or - as I clearly stated in my first post - if American soldiers die because of a decision to only use drones as CAS you will see a media and political shitstorm of the likes that hasn't been seen since The Little Bighorn. If you can't grasp that simple fact of American political life then you really know anything about American politics at all. I mean holy hell, look what a shit storm erupted over the M4 "failing" in Afghanistan. You think a DC is simply going to shrug its collective shoulders? Get with the program man.
  12. Wow. You responded seriously to my joke post about six-year old Anakin. Geesh man, lighten up. And as someone who is intimately familiar with American politics and media, trying to gauge the cost of a pilot's life based on the dollars spent to train him is... let's just say it is a very unique way to view how things are prioritized in this country.
  13. So. The answer is lots of aircraft flown by six-year olds?
  14. This thread has gone far afield since last I responded. But I think some of you are really underestimating the political cost of dead pilots and dead ground pounders. In the aftermath of Desert Storm, the shitstorm in the media and DC with the various friendly fire incidents - including the infamous "this Bud's for you" one - lasted for years. Now multiply that ten times over and add the hot button issue of drones to the equation to a 24 hour news cycle with social media and the Internet and you have the risk of an event that could make Abu Gahrab look like an isolated, one-off bit of horseplay involving a bunch of POGs with poor platoon leadership.
  15. I think that is a passive defense mechanism where in war if you are doing something so patently ridiculous, no reasonable enemy will shoot you since they're laughing too much.
  16. I'll be honest, I haven't really ever had a chance to read much alt-history or academic theories on what-if the Kaiser won? A lot of it is obviously predicated on what year they "won" and how.
  17. Oh, I know. The only reason it lasted as long as it did was because the Brits (and several other European states) needed the Ottomans as a bulwark to keep the Russkies from breaking into Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean. Still. I don't remember anyone calling No-Givesies-Backsies.
  18. Does Russia even have any immediate access to man-eating sharks within its territorial waters? I think the only one that would even come close would be the Salmon Shark (which is an awesome little beasty that makes its way up to Alaska and the Bering Sea). Given this blog, maybe Putin has Man-eating Sturgeon? And since I'm trying to connect dictators and sharks and have them somewhat related to a musical act, I'll share one of my favorite ways of deciding whether a dictator, terrorist group or bunch of bad guys is newsworthy. And that's whether they've killed as many people as a Great White concert.
  19. You know, there are some days when I wonder if things wouldn't have been better if the Germans, Austrians and Ottomans won World War 1 by 1916 or 1917. If the Turks want to recreate the borders of the Ottoman Empire, I'd almost let them.
  20. Oh. Hey! Yet another article about a double-barrel 1911.
  21. Don't be sore, cuz three out of four is nine percent better than Meatloaf's... score. Nah, there are plenty of other rotund singers. I wanted to keep it to best of three with as wide selection of genres, sexes and races as possible. Besides. Fats Domino > Chubby Checker. There. I said it. I was going to post more to backup this claim. But I get distracted by a video of Putin lounge singing. Thus turning what was an upbeat tune into the sound track to a frightening, dystopian future and enshrining once again my belief that Putin gets all of his cues from the best of our Hollywood villains.
  22. Muscovy ducks and Turkeys have flabs of skin on their face too. And they're not carrion eaters.
  23. Soon to be seen on a bumpersticker on the back of a Suburu Outback "You Can't Hug Your Children With Robotic Arms"
  24. And the first time kills some American soldiers get killed in a friendly fire incident or the first time a drone isn't able to get the job done because of a technical glitch, electronic interference or getting hacked will be the last time they are solely used as Close Air Support.
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