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  1. Sturgeon
    I have found a superb, searchable copy of The Black Rifle, on Scribd. I have uploaded it to Mediafire to share. Those who know me well will know I am not someone who is anti-piracy, but I'd like to take a moment. I am uploading TBR because I think some people will read it and find out that there is a whole rich history of the AR-15 and other weapons locked away behind the covers of great volumes like these Collector Grade books. I do not advocate supporting increasingly obsolete distribution methods often, but please, if you read and get something out of TBR, or any other electronic historical volume, buy a hard copy of one of that publisher's books that interests you. There are absolutely priceless resources of information that are out of print because the demand isn't high enough to re-print them. In an ideal world, the publisher would find that providing a high quality, searchable scan online for a nominal fee would make them extra cash without causing these sorts of bottlenecks, but right now the best way to ensure these books continue being printed and distributed is to buy them. Some of the cheaper volumes are in the $30 range, which is highly affordable even for someone like me. Most of my library is electronic, and unless I get a lot more wealthy, it's going to be that way for a long time. I don't expect anything more from anyone else, but please support these publishers.
  2. Sturgeon
    What's even worse is when you have a scientific subject that gets politicized and co-opted to serve an agenda, and then that happens to it. This is essentially what has happened with environmental conservation.
  3. Sturgeon
    Exactly what it says on the tin.
  4. Sturgeon
    Chris Hernandez really knocked it out of the park. I mean, I don't agree with him or anything, but his argument is pretty watertight. You have to get down to fundamental disagreements in first premises to assail his position.
  5. Sturgeon
    It seems mudfighter enough to me.
  6. Sturgeon
    The Fantan always struck me as one of those Chinese designs incorporating newer technology into older airframes due to being really poor before the '80s. It's a neat bird, though admittedly my strongest feelings about it from from Silent Thunder: A-10 Tank Killer II.
  7. Sturgeon
    Very similar construction to M995 and M993. Both of which, I am given to understand, still have classified penetration characteristics.
  8. Sturgeon
    trudat
  9. Sturgeon
    Why do I get the feeling this wasn't freudian at all?
  10. Sturgeon
    Oh lol, I can into reading comprehension. Let me know how that is. I remember the film got me kind of interested in the books, as so few movies do these days.
  11. Sturgeon
    Actually, yeah, that movie wasn't bad. I liked it just fine. However, this is for books you're reading. I am working on Our Culture, What's Left of It by Theodore Dalrymple, and Basic Writings of Nietzsche, by Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Kaufmann.
  12. Sturgeon
    Right;Theodore Dalrymple talks about this. Essentially, the old moral system of virtues and vices passed from the top down has been replaced by oneupmanship through transgression, and the indiscriminate eradication thereby of any sort of structure of responsibility.
  13. Sturgeon
    That is essentially true. Are you talking about AlDeLarge?
  14. Sturgeon
    I am willing to assist in doing this. I can edit and proofread scripts.
  15. Sturgeon
    I personally think the M14 is crap, but that's just a reflection of my experiences with them.
  16. Sturgeon
    Oh good, we've got an M14 fanboy in the comments.
  17. Sturgeon
    Down and dirty's how we like it. For mudfighters and mudfighter accessories. Let's start with the Vought V-502, an early American "sturmvogel" from the Vietnam era: Looks to me sort of like a weird cross between a Pucara and an A-10.
  18. Sturgeon
    Actually, it kinda looks like there's some sandwich going on there.
  19. Sturgeon
    Yeah, instead of a shitstorm is was more of a sperg-out.
  20. Sturgeon
    I suspect things were quite a bit more complex than that.
  21. Sturgeon
    Doesn't this perspective want for Butterfieldian historiographical standards? The way you say it, it makes the Southern whites sound like orcs or something.
  22. Sturgeon
    For your reading pleasure.
  23. Sturgeon
    Oh could be. Hard to tell from this angle, but it is emplaced somehow in a T-34's bow gun mount.
  24. Sturgeon
    Red dots are great for precision work!
  25. Sturgeon
    I am not the person who needs to make this post, but it needs to be made. The Sherman has received a highly negative reputation in the post-war era, despite being an advanced and effective combat element. This thread is for brushing aside the fog of confusion and setting the record straight.
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