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Kasich looks to be #2 in NH. The Kasich/Rubio/Bush/Christie 4-headed "establishment" GOP abomination has about 45% in NH at the moment, this is why I still doubt a Trump nomination It is just a matter of time until those 4 combine into a single candidate and get the nomination like a Voltron of old white men. 

"If only they'd fought the battle of Jutland again like we designed for".
 
Poor argument.

Went though my school's virtual library to see if it had anything interesting. It did. It has a the Journal of Slavic Military Studies, which had an article in 2012 by a dude named Gary Dickerson on Soviet Tank Repair Rates in WWII. 
 
Data is mostly based off of Soviet records after 1942. 
 
70% of Soviet Tank losses ended up being repairable with 30% of losses being due to non-battle related reasons. I noticed he used Krivosheev as a source of total losses, who would have guessed? 
 
15-20 days into an operation would result with nearly 80% of the original strength being losses, but not irrecoverable losses.  
 
Here are some graphs and charts.

Right, by looking at who actually does and does not use Arabic, as well as the criteria-fitting users of the Type-59/69/79, I came across it as being a Sudanese vehicle by the name of Al-Zubair 2.  It is a domestic vehicle based off of the Type 59D (I suppose that should have been apparent from the get-go).  It does seem to exist beyond the model.


 
That one was a nice challenge.  After reading up on it a bit, the producers state that it uses a 105mm smoothbore gun.  I was unaware anyone made those, but I'm also wondering if maybe it's a typo, as the Chinese 105mm gun is definitely rifled.
 
 
 

The Kurds will blow one up, and then they will say
 
"Alas, poor Yoruk!"

Similar to Jesse Richman's, that America has tens of thousands of non-citizens voting, but the number still isn't high enough to make any real change to most electoral outcomes or account for millions of votes in the 2016's meaningless popular vote differential. Complaining about voter fraud, to me, is just as banal as when liberals deride gerrymandering or how voter ID laws screw over some trivial percent of the population. 
 
My solution: 

 

The concern is that carbon sinks aren't able to take up that CO2 due to warming and thus accelerate warming. The Ocean is the largest carbon sink and takes in gigatons more CO2 than it emits. The problem is that human activities has thrown the sink/source equilibrium out of whack so now the atmosphere is taking in more of the share of CO2 because as temperatures increase, the oceans lose their properties as good carbon sinks. 
Totally. 
Yeah, it was sorta figured out in 1956. 
 
Carbon 14  and 13 ratios are decreasing and thus the source for the extra carbon in the atmosphere is from an old and organic source. That suggests fossil fuels are driving the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere.  
 
Depends where you live and how bad desertification/deforestation is in whatever region you're living in. 
I can see being skeptical about alarmism, though I can't see how a new climate regime being rapidly changed within a century's time can be harmless. There's plenty of worry about regarding positive feedback loops arising such as permafrost melting that will release methane that will warm the atmosphere even more. I touched on the oceans losing their ability to be carbon sinks earlier which is another feedback loop and you've also touched on the increased temperatures means increased water vapor (another greenhouse gas) feedback loop, the melting of ice is another feedback loop because ice reflects a good bit of solar radiation, but dark substrates such as the ocean or rocks will absorb heat and thus you'll get even more warming. This is what the alarmist sentiment is about, and the science behind how these feedback loops work are solid. 
 
I've tried to look for negative feedback loops associated with CO2 induced warming and I can't find anything.
 
 Many IPCC reports just focus on warming from CO2 emissions and not the warming that caused by these feedback loops as well, and thus there's been plenty of criticism that climate change projections, which often look at the end of the century, only show a rise in temperature of only a couple of degrees. Hell, even the sea level rise projections are just based off of thermal expansion and don't include ice melt.  
 
The powerful individuals and organizations... is an argument that goes both ways. 

 
Plenty of organizations, people, companies, etc are using global warming as a tool for their scams. It's disheartening for me as there's plenty of research papers documenting the potential negative effects of global warming and the most obvious solution is still demonized. 

Even if global warming isn't even real (it is fwiw), I'd still be for replacing fossil fuels with nuclear. The less money falling into the hands of the Saudis, the better. Fuck them. 

Since nobody got it, I'll finish this one off.  It's the Martel "Mechanical Coffin".  Page 47, David Fletcher's book "Mechanized Force: British Tanks Between the Wars".  Martel had created some of the early tankettes in the late 1920's, but after a while, he decided those were too big.  So he created this silly thing.  A soldier was supposed to lay down in it and drive forward.  Once he got close to the enemy, it had a lift up panel he would use as armor and fire his rifle through.

Trump now has a theme song.
 
 

I hope there is another tank in the unit named "Balls of the South"
 
 

Hehe, cock
 

TIL that the 'pitching wunderwaffe to Hitler to stay away from the Eastern front' joke was real:
https://boingboing.net/2018/05/03/secret-nazi-experimental-plane.html
 
Edit: it gets even better when I think about how many people wet themselves over the 'stealth characteristics' of the Horten. I wish my bullshit projects could get such adoration!

https://mobile.twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/991108490356649984
 
So apparently Bibi was talking shit (again).

Develop. Not steal American Nukes still stationed in Asia minor for some God unknown reason. 

The right political establishment's support (along with some left support) for the drug war, which is the cause of most gun crimes, is, in my opinion, to blame for most of the violence we see. Crazed gunmen, wether politically active or not, are a statistical anomaly.  Maybe getting stoned would help a lot of those freaks out too? 
 
Sounds like there are structural problems in the capitalist-controlled silicon valley that is rewarding left-wing views in order to pander to a certain market over another. 
 
The only president that probably never got death threats was Old Tippecanoe because he had the sense to give himself pneumonia and die immediately after winning his election. 

I will agree that the war on drugs, like the war on poverty, has done at best nothing to solve the problem, and realistically has exacerbated it.
 
Most problems in society can be tied directly to the existence of prol scum. We have multiple wars against the symptoms of the problem, but nothing that addresses the problem itself.
 
The a fair number of lefties like to point out how the war on drugs and banning certain substances only creates an unsafe environment for it's consumption and a black market for it's trade, but somehow they think that banning guns isn't going to have the same outcome?

The right political establishment's support (along with some left support) for the drug war, which is the cause of most gun crimes, is, in my opinion, to blame for most of the violence we see. Crazed gunmen, wether politically active or not, are a statistical anomaly.  Maybe getting stoned would help a lot of those freaks out too? 
 
Sounds like there are structural problems in the capitalist-controlled silicon valley that is rewarding left-wing views in order to pander to a certain market over another. 
 
The only president that probably never got death threats was Old Tippecanoe because he had the sense to give himself pneumonia and die immediately after winning his election. 

Part 6 of a multi-part series.
 

Some kind of goofy mutant and an America-mobile.
 

A duck and a ferret.
 

Saracen
 


Ratel 20.
 

Eland 90, aka the Noddy car.
 

Eland 60, sans 60mm mortar.
 


Crazypants Italian armoured car. I honestly have no idea which end is the front and which end is the back.
 


Granddaddy armoured car.
 

Our first attempt at a locally-made armoured car. This is where we caught the wheeled death trap bug.
 


Attempt the second. The Boys anti-tank rifle is missing.
 



Attempt the third. The Brits had finally gotten tired of the 2 pounder, so of course we snapped them up and stuck them into our wheeled death traps.
 



Attempt 4. Now we're really getting into it. I think that that's a 6-pounder, but I could be wrong.
 

The G6. This is what happens if you let us work on the same thing for too long. Eventually you end up with a house-sized monster armed with a howitzer.

Hey, fine, I drop the pedo thing, for now, because frankly I don't feel like going through the trouble it would be to try and prove the point, and you are probably right. Maybe I have delved too far down the identity politics hole, and am peeking into the extremes.  More so, I will drop it since it seems to get the attention when the issues with the First Amendment we should all be concerned about get ignored. 
 
Do I really to explain how? Or will that get me painted as some extremist again? 
 

For the record, the right only probably has like 5 people that still want mass conversion therapy as a govt policy. We like to make strawmen out of our political opponents, it is fun and easy to do. Don't?