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10 hours ago, Ulric said:

make up some bullshit backstory about the Japanese buying a Panther to go with the Tiger

IIRC the Japanese at least entertained buying one

They also bought a Panzer III

Judging by the bit at the end of the barrel I'm guessing this is just some kind of through-the-motions type drill?

If I hear the word 'bombshell' outside of the context of munitions manufacture or it's associated history, it'll be too soon

Apparently there's a guy on /pol/ claiming he's the one who made the actual gif, but holds that CNN wouldn't report on that because he's a pro-Trump Mexican national

The guy also claims he's not afraid of revealing himself, since he lives alone and has nothing to lose

I've seen "Justin from Canada" described as basically a sock puppet by Canadian youtubers I'm subscribed to, in the near literal sense of the word

33 minutes ago, Donward said:

My Internet access is spotty but I heard this was a 9-0 ruling by the Supreme Court. If so, that is an epic rebuke of the obvious judge shopping tactics by Trump's opponents. 

The official statement was per curiam, so the decision was rendered as a single group

But among the dissenting(partial for, partial against) judges, it was Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch listed. So Sotomayor and RBG apparently did not oppose the action.

3 hours ago, Walter_Sobchak said:

I am going to play devils advocate and say the Pz IV was better.  I do this in part just to irritate Sturgeon who seems to have a hate boner for the Pz IV.  

Well damn, now I'm curious why

EDIT - Referencing Sturgeon's opinion

On 6/7/2017 at 5:17 PM, LostCosmonaut said:

 

 

Interesting form factor on the T2, it has that "brick-gun" look like the AA-12

2 hours ago, Walter_Sobchak said:

At least it was not the treaty of Paris from 1783. It's good to know we are not going back to war with England.

I take it you've seen that one Harvard professor Ted Cruz skewered on Twitter the other day?

21 hours ago, Donward said:

Save yourselves Millennials.

Implying that Millenials are worth saving

Speaking as a '93 baby </innercynic>

1 hour ago, Belesarius said:

On the Trumpcare thing, I think it's going to be interesting to see how it works out. A lot of Trump voting states are going to get bit in the ass by that if it does pass with the current rules in place. I have several friends on FB who are terrified that they are basically going to end up loosing their houses and/or go bankrupt due to loss of coverage for pre-existing conditions, especially those that are struggling even with the ACA in place.

 

I hope t__a is right and it doesn't get past the Senate, for my friends sake anyway.

51 minutes ago, Donward said:

I'm not going to get into details but ObamaCare has been an absolute disaster for me and my family. And it is a situation we (as in my wife) has spent hundreds of man hours online and on the phone to try to rectify. For Mrs. The Captain, she has been forced onto a different health care plan every year. This is after she had - and paid out of pocket - for the same healthcare plan with the same health insurance provider - for almost two decades. So she spent her entire adult life taking responsibility for her own health care, making sacrifices at times to do the responsible adult thing to keep that health care coverage, and for thanks the Federal government throws her to the wolves.

The day they passed the bill in the House, my mother got a call informing her that because our household makes too much money compared to the previous year(A bump from just under $50K to just over it, 75% is based on my father's C&P/SS/retirement funds) she has to pay back to the IRS some subsidy she received to the tune of an amount that exceeds her current annual income as an adjunct professor at the local community college.

Oh, and the escalating premiums will also exceed her annual income in the next year. Violating the individual mandate as an option also happens to exceed her annual income. So staying or going, she's about to be nuked financially unless something changes.

13 hours ago, Bronezhilet said:

 

Just the 21st century? That's some groundbreaking data pool they got there

There was a meeting in early January 1943 where Hitler looked at the upcoming panzers for the summer offensives and demanded even more powerful weapons be explored. Thus the 75mm and 88mm L/100's for the Panther and Ferdinand respectively were "born" and died behind Hitler's back basically.

There was a bit of past history to this decision making process to note however: Hitler had ordered the 5cm L/60 be developed and deployed to Panzer III's prior to the invasion of Russia and threw a real fit when his Generals ignored the order thinking the 5cm L/42 was sufficient. He was informed about the reality of the situation on his birthday review of the Panzerwaffe

17 hours ago, Toxn said:

The thing is, the issue is settled.

 

There is a broad consensus amongst climate scientists that, you know, returning all that carbon from the carboniferous era into the atmosphere is having an effect on our climate. And, as we don't have too many ways to plausibly stuff it back into the ground, most are now talking about mitigation and adaption rather than prevention.

 

I'm an optimist, in that I think that it might be a good thing in the long term to have lots of CO2 around for photosynthesis (so long as we don't end up like Venus). But then I also like the idea of dragonflies the size of eagles.

17 hours ago, Sturgeon said:

The issue is "sort-of-settled". There are a lot of things that are real facts, and a lot of things that are speculation, and a lot of things that are obvious bullshit. That's pretty much "science as usual", though. The problem has come because of the politicization of the issue and the way they've tried to sell the public on it. I mean, sure, there's some culpability to assign to the climate skeptics' equivalents of anti-vaccers (not all climate skeptics qualify as this, though), but a lot of this skepticism was a self-inflicted wound.

I mean, for one thing, the climate change folks' narrative has dramatically changed multiple times within a lot of people's lifetimes. It was an impending ice age, then global warming, then "climate change" (a noncommittal euphemism that sure is perhaps more technically accurate but still sounds like a weaselly copout to literally everyone). Throw in the fact that you can't even ask questions about it anymore* without people jumping down your throat and calling you anti-science, and yeah.

16 hours ago, EnsignExpendable said:

"I fucking love science" has very little to do with actual science and just latches onto whatever headline is the most sensationalist.

Part of what made that article so funny IIRC was that a couple months earlier they were decrying Trump's declared intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Like everyone else was on that train and we were just holding back the saving of the world.

Suddenly there's no hope no matter what we do for the next several centuries. 

40 minutes ago, Sturgeon said:

This video by Nidget is pretty hilarious.

 

I love how describes science as a system of peer review, but then is like "the longer you delay accepting global warming, the longer you delay us doing anything political about it!" Then he decries that back in his day nobody questioned science. Dude, that's because back in your day your side didn't use science as a political bludgeon, which is what you're doing IN THIS VERY VIDEO.

 

Maybe BSM should listen to Dilbertman:
 

 

Reminds me of the time I used to follow the Facebook page of the website "I Fucking Love Science" until about last October. They published an article talking about how we've basically hit the point of no return on climate change. There's no more hope to be had. It's a done deal and we'll all have to live with the consequences.

Since the issue was now "settled", I thought now was a good a time as any to unsub from that page. 

The 3/5/7, 5/10, and 15 flush templates were the highlights, but WG's video implied well over 10 major templates which MM will now pattern itself around to balance teams

We might be getting to Shieldwall mode if Based Stickman becomes a trend

Some of the mid tier LTs also got magic modules that despite sharing the same exact name exist separately from the rest of their researchable counterparts with some improved stats

So the VK 16.02 enjoys the 5cm L/60 firing 100mm pen standard ammo instead of 67 like Panzer III. Or VK 28.01 using the KwK 40 penetrating 132mm with standard ammo instead of 110 on the Panzer IV/StuG family

The M1's on the T21 also got a slight buff to pen

On 4/8/2017 at 1:33 AM, Sturgeon said:

The CMP is getting 86,000 M1 Garand rifles from the Philippines.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Saw one comment that claims that they are warehoused factory fresh stock. If true that means whoever gets to own one could be a first time user in the same category as the GI's that went on march 70 years ago

12 hours ago, Sturgeon said:

 

The Brits tried that in the 1860s, it didn't work.

Georgian senator Richard Russell Jr. tried that in reverse in 1947(on the justification that the UK couldn't replay it's war debt to the US, they should be annexed), it didn't work.

The UK cited that the Confederate State of Georgia had a standing debt with them, suddenly the lines went cold

9 hours ago, T___A said:

A decent  WAPO article for once:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/03/03/why-mike-pences-private-email-account-is-way-different-from-hillary-clintons/

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It's illegal in Indiana for a government official to use her or his official account for political business.

Wait....so what the hell is it for?

4 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

I still confused about new Alien and it's connection to/with Prometheus. Is this a reboot? For some reason they shown several creatures, unrelated to Alien (?). They are trying to overcomplicated rather simple story. 

 

It's a direct sequel apparently. Several characters are supposed to return for this one, Michael Fassbender being the most obvious one(he plays both the android from Prometheus and a "rebuilt" version of it hanging with this new crew)

On 2/28/2017 at 9:34 PM, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

And the award for, "Blowing your load earlier than a freshman on prom night" goes to...

Maybe it's because it's been a while since I saw Prometheus, or maybe because it was godawful, but wasn't there a problem with the trailers for that one holding it in too long that when we went and saw it the collective response was "That's it?!" ?

I'd assume they'd at least try to vote more than some other fringe groups like the AnComs/AnCaps

On top of it all his publisher, after everything prior to this week, canned his book deal