Ulric

I decided that bigger rockets are impractical from a game engine stand point, on account of the fact that I am getting at best 1 fps with my larger vessels. This lead me to building half scale versions of my larger cruisers. Undoubtedly, this will eventually result in me using the full scale ones as a mother ship for the half scale ones.
 






 
Katyusha and Kulaco rendezvous.
 

 
Kulaco is 916 tons, ~12,375 delta v, and ~3m/s^2 acceleration while Katyusha is 255 tons, ~11,000 delta v, and ~5.3m/s^2 acceleration.
 
 

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?

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?

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?

Not all rectangles are squares, but all squares are rectangles, you know?
 
Not all Muslims are terrorists, but quite a bit of terrorism is perpetrated by radical Islamists.
 
Not all lefties are crazed gunmen, but a fair number of crazed gunmen happen to be on the left side of the spectrum. The shootings are usually not politically motivated, either. The issue that comes into play here is that every time there is a shooting, the vast majority of main stream media comes out with conjecture and misinformation as to the perpetrators political alignment and affiliations. After the theater shooting in Aurora, the media went digging through Tea Party records and found someone with a similar name to the shooter, picked it up and ran with it. Turns out, it was some fucked up college kid who went off his meds (which is a trait that shows up more than once, by the way). Then they play the blame game and go on parade pointing fingers at every conservative and pro gun organization that they can find. The left leaning media paints anyone who disagrees with them on gun control with the broad brush of things such being complicit with or even guilty by association of murdering children on national TV. If you want to talk about intellectual dishonesty and blanket discrimination, start there.
 
PS, more examples.
 Ebay, Google, and other major players on the online world harassing, banning, blocking, demonetizing, censoring or in other ways suppressing opinions that dissent from their left leaning world view. I know of businesses that have had their Ebay account frozen because there we selling slings that could be used on AR-15s. That was the day that I learned that, according to Ebay's customer service department, it is AGAINST THE LAW!!!! to sell slings for "Assault Rifle 15s" on Ebay. Dating sites have shadow banned people who have pictures of firearms in their profile. Google suppresses search results that are against their ideology. Twitter is confirmed to be shadow banning conservatives based on certain algorithms. YouTube constantly goes after conservatives, and they have started shutting down channels that feature firearms. These are companies that have no business bringing up politics, but it seems to be at the very core of their modus operandi. Do you need more examples? The right has some bad apples for sure, but the left has orders of magnitude more, and they hold influential positions in society.
 
Also, do we know how many death threats Trump and his family have received?

Not all rectangles are squares, but all squares are rectangles, you know?
 
Not all Muslims are terrorists, but quite a bit of terrorism is perpetrated by radical Islamists.
 
Not all lefties are crazed gunmen, but a fair number of crazed gunmen happen to be on the left side of the spectrum. The shootings are usually not politically motivated, either. The issue that comes into play here is that every time there is a shooting, the vast majority of main stream media comes out with conjecture and misinformation as to the perpetrators political alignment and affiliations. After the theater shooting in Aurora, the media went digging through Tea Party records and found someone with a similar name to the shooter, picked it up and ran with it. Turns out, it was some fucked up college kid who went off his meds (which is a trait that shows up more than once, by the way). Then they play the blame game and go on parade pointing fingers at every conservative and pro gun organization that they can find. The left leaning media paints anyone who disagrees with them on gun control with the broad brush of things such being complicit with or even guilty by association of murdering children on national TV. If you want to talk about intellectual dishonesty and blanket discrimination, start there.
 
PS, more examples.
 Ebay, Google, and other major players on the online world harassing, banning, blocking, demonetizing, censoring or in other ways suppressing opinions that dissent from their left leaning world view. I know of businesses that have had their Ebay account frozen because there we selling slings that could be used on AR-15s. That was the day that I learned that, according to Ebay's customer service department, it is AGAINST THE LAW!!!! to sell slings for "Assault Rifle 15s" on Ebay. Dating sites have shadow banned people who have pictures of firearms in their profile. Google suppresses search results that are against their ideology. Twitter is confirmed to be shadow banning conservatives based on certain algorithms. YouTube constantly goes after conservatives, and they have started shutting down channels that feature firearms. These are companies that have no business bringing up politics, but it seems to be at the very core of their modus operandi. Do you need more examples? The right has some bad apples for sure, but the left has orders of magnitude more, and they hold influential positions in society.
 
Also, do we know how many death threats Trump and his family have received?

Not all rectangles are squares, but all squares are rectangles, you know?
 
Not all Muslims are terrorists, but quite a bit of terrorism is perpetrated by radical Islamists.
 
Not all lefties are crazed gunmen, but a fair number of crazed gunmen happen to be on the left side of the spectrum. The shootings are usually not politically motivated, either. The issue that comes into play here is that every time there is a shooting, the vast majority of main stream media comes out with conjecture and misinformation as to the perpetrators political alignment and affiliations. After the theater shooting in Aurora, the media went digging through Tea Party records and found someone with a similar name to the shooter, picked it up and ran with it. Turns out, it was some fucked up college kid who went off his meds (which is a trait that shows up more than once, by the way). Then they play the blame game and go on parade pointing fingers at every conservative and pro gun organization that they can find. The left leaning media paints anyone who disagrees with them on gun control with the broad brush of things such being complicit with or even guilty by association of murdering children on national TV. If you want to talk about intellectual dishonesty and blanket discrimination, start there.
 
PS, more examples.
 Ebay, Google, and other major players on the online world harassing, banning, blocking, demonetizing, censoring or in other ways suppressing opinions that dissent from their left leaning world view. I know of businesses that have had their Ebay account frozen because there we selling slings that could be used on AR-15s. That was the day that I learned that, according to Ebay's customer service department, it is AGAINST THE LAW!!!! to sell slings for "Assault Rifle 15s" on Ebay. Dating sites have shadow banned people who have pictures of firearms in their profile. Google suppresses search results that are against their ideology. Twitter is confirmed to be shadow banning conservatives based on certain algorithms. YouTube constantly goes after conservatives, and they have started shutting down channels that feature firearms. These are companies that have no business bringing up politics, but it seems to be at the very core of their modus operandi. Do you need more examples? The right has some bad apples for sure, but the left has orders of magnitude more, and they hold influential positions in society.
 
Also, do we know how many death threats Trump and his family have received?

Not all rectangles are squares, but all squares are rectangles, you know?
 
Not all Muslims are terrorists, but quite a bit of terrorism is perpetrated by radical Islamists.
 
Not all lefties are crazed gunmen, but a fair number of crazed gunmen happen to be on the left side of the spectrum. The shootings are usually not politically motivated, either. The issue that comes into play here is that every time there is a shooting, the vast majority of main stream media comes out with conjecture and misinformation as to the perpetrators political alignment and affiliations. After the theater shooting in Aurora, the media went digging through Tea Party records and found someone with a similar name to the shooter, picked it up and ran with it. Turns out, it was some fucked up college kid who went off his meds (which is a trait that shows up more than once, by the way). Then they play the blame game and go on parade pointing fingers at every conservative and pro gun organization that they can find. The left leaning media paints anyone who disagrees with them on gun control with the broad brush of things such being complicit with or even guilty by association of murdering children on national TV. If you want to talk about intellectual dishonesty and blanket discrimination, start there.
 
PS, more examples.
 Ebay, Google, and other major players on the online world harassing, banning, blocking, demonetizing, censoring or in other ways suppressing opinions that dissent from their left leaning world view. I know of businesses that have had their Ebay account frozen because there we selling slings that could be used on AR-15s. That was the day that I learned that, according to Ebay's customer service department, it is AGAINST THE LAW!!!! to sell slings for "Assault Rifle 15s" on Ebay. Dating sites have shadow banned people who have pictures of firearms in their profile. Google suppresses search results that are against their ideology. Twitter is confirmed to be shadow banning conservatives based on certain algorithms. YouTube constantly goes after conservatives, and they have started shutting down channels that feature firearms. These are companies that have no business bringing up politics, but it seems to be at the very core of their modus operandi. Do you need more examples? The right has some bad apples for sure, but the left has orders of magnitude more, and they hold influential positions in society.
 
Also, do we know how many death threats Trump and his family have received?

To come to Jeeps' defense a bit, there are of course extremists on both sides of the political divide. Part of the frustration that law-abiding Conservatives feel is that the general media and cultural narrative is that the extremism is coming SOLELY from our side.
 
A Bernie bro stabs a bunch of people in Portland and all of a sudden it's the fault of Trump voters.
 
A mosque burns down (twice) in Bellevue, WA and it's Trump's fault that he's "created an environment where extremism can flourish. Well, no, it was a homeless dude (and a teenage squatter the second time) who lit the match. 
 
A guy shoots up a congressional baseball practice and clearly it is a right-winger... oops... no, it was another lefty. 
 
Now don't get me wrong, Conservatives have their own Jump to Conclusions mat that we hop on. But other than a few blogs, websites, talk radio and Fox News (which I'm not a fan of and which is staffed by people faking being a Conservative for financial gain) the preponderance of the media consisting of network news, newspapers, blogs, YouTube/Facebook/Twitter, Hollywood and the music industry, and even sports leagues are pretty far on the Left of the spectrum. 
 
So if Conservatives act like we've been put upon, it's because we have. Particularly when we manage to get "OUR" guy elected and he's being thwarted in ways previous Presidents have been immune to such as the confirmation process where EVERY single cabinet appointment has been "Borked". Or how every single Executive action taken by the President - even though it is clearly Constitutional - has been challenged in court via a campaign of blatant judge shopping. 
 
This stuff did not happen in the previous Administration. 

"Everything has gone wrong, the asteroid redirect mission fucked up."
-@RobotMinisterofTrueKorea
 

The downside of this vessel.
 

 
14 of my 32 gigs of RAM is going to KSP
 

The Sovetsky Kerbania, my newest cruiser designed to provide logistical and long range support to Kulako and Kerbinov
 


 
Vertical Launch System
 




 
One of the two Goliath Class Heavy Mining Landers.
 

 
Nose Mounted R-7 escape system.

 
The 9MN of thrust that will accelerate this 2880 ton vessel.

 
 
 

The downside of this vessel.
 

 
14 of my 32 gigs of RAM is going to KSP
 

The Sovetsky Kerbania, my newest cruiser designed to provide logistical and long range support to Kulako and Kerbinov
 


 
Vertical Launch System
 




 
One of the two Goliath Class Heavy Mining Landers.
 

 
Nose Mounted R-7 escape system.

 
The 9MN of thrust that will accelerate this 2880 ton vessel.

 
 
 

I've done that with T-34s. I think the only ones I don't have are the T-34-100 and the German captured T-34 that inexplicably has all the best parts of their different T-34-76s in a single tank. It has the STZ hull with a '42 turret, the extra tracks from about 3 other T-34s draped all over it, and the widest selection of ammo possible. Of course the Germans would get a better T-34-76 than the Soviets would, that makes total sense.

Ok, so the phrase may have been in use with white supremacist organizations for a while, but I still don't get how the phrase "It's OK to be white." is inherently racist or discriminatory. Everyone reacts to that phrase as if it were on the same level as "gas the jews", though.
 
I guess I must be a racist.

The problem with the gun issue is that the left projects harder than an Imax. When you read articles from anti-gun people who decided to go the a shooting range and see what the "fully semiautomatic assault rifle fifteen" is all about and the describe how they were imagining bodies piling up in front of them as they fired, you have to wonder what the fuck is wrong with those people. They don't trust other people with weapons because they don't trust themselves with weapons. To top it off, they consider themselves to be paragons of virtue and intellectualism, and thus if this weapon is too dangerous for them, then why in [Obama's] name would we let paint huffing, overall clad, toothless bumpkins have them?

WTF is this even. My sides.
 
 
 

However, Donward, the solutions that we have to the problems of suicide and mass shooters involves actually addressing the problem instead of feel good measures. And since we don't have the same solution to the problems as the leftists do, then we obviously don't want to solve the problem. This is why there is gridlock on any type of reforms in the firearms world. The left is so self absorbed and has a sense of moral superiority that they are convinced that their answer is the only correct answer, and any deviation from that cannot be tolerated. This is why they resort to ad hominem attacks and straw man arguments when they are confronted with different view points. They cannot defend their ideas on a rational basis, because they didn't arrive at their conclusions on a rational basis. They are convinced that they are so much smarter than the knuckle dragging, gun toting, bible thumping, backwoods yokels that they automatically categorize anything said by such sub human scum that does not align with the divine words of Chomsky is wrong think, and must be mocked and ridiculed to the maximum extent possible.
 
The long and short of it is, they are learning resistant because they are so convinced of their intellectual superiority. Why is it that the only solution that the left has to this problem is to ban and confiscate inanimate objects? I have yet to hear anything else from that side of the isle, and it is entirely incompatible with my side of the isle. Instead of attempting to find solutions that both sides of the isle can live with, the left continues to try and brow beat dissenters into submission through social stigmas and discrimination. Any solutions that come from the right side of the isle are entirely incompatible with the left side, because the solutions from the right involve people being able to keep and bear arms.

They should all be replaced by AI at this point. 

Short fisk.
 
1) This reads like a rehash of every anti-Second Amendment op-ed, newspaper column, letter to the editor, or blog post that has ever been written. There is absolutely nothing new or novel this writer brings up that hasn't been vomited out tens of thousands of times before. It's like there is a form letter the Left uses when they write these. Hell, I could write one of these opinion pieces, and do a better and more convincing job.
 
2) Has this writer ever considered that a sizable portion of the Firearms Community actually really, REALLY dislike the NRA. And that's because they're seen as not doing enough to protect our freedom and actually being just a money making scheme for the lobbyists that make up the staff. The only reason we tolerate it is because the NRA is so ubiquitous. 
 
3) Oh, it's the same old gun statistics. And they come from... The Centers of Disease Control? But I thought the anti-gunners said the CDC didn't study gun violence? I hear it over, and over, and over again that gun violence needs to be studied by the CDC. Well, I guess we solved that issue!
 
4) No, gun owners want the entirely separate issue of suicide to be addressed. Suicide is a mental health issue.  But we don't want it folded in and usurped by a group of political opportunists who use the tragedy of suicide as a stick to beat their opponents over the head with.
 
5) We're also concerned about veteran suicides and - particularly - how the VA has fallen down on the job with our vets. I guess that's why we elected a US President who campaigned aggressively on this issue and not the gun control candidate who ignored it.
 
6) Second Amendment advocates have led the way on Hard Crime for Armed Crime legislation. Here in Washington State, a local conservative talk show host led a statewide Initiative to pass a Three Strikes and You're Out law for instance. The Left in the state wants to repeal this legislation.
 
7) As for the "Dead Kids", I dare say that the majority of gun owners would favor tougher penalties for mass shooters, including the death penalty as a way to deter shooters. Unfortunately the Left will come up with a thousand excuses to oppose this sensible measure.
 
8) And finally, Your Feelz and Ignorance on the Subject don't trump my Constitutional Rights, rights that have been handed down not since the founding of this country, but are Natural Rights that go back a millennium with English common law.  

You will always be able to make yourself a shiv, though.
 
The UK having already banned pointed language now turns it's eye to banning all things pointy.

Unfortunately for those dipshits, we aren't a democracy. I love how these "news" outlets always talk about "our democracy".

You will always be able to make yourself a shiv, though.
 
The UK having already banned pointed language now turns it's eye to banning all things pointy.

It's a bit of a culture shock and alien concept here in the Midwest and West regions of the US. Out here, a knife is like your wallet or keys; it's part of your every day kit. The joke is that the cops will look at you funny if you tell them that you are NOT carrying a knife. They are not seen so much as weapons as a universal tool. I couldn't even begin to count how many times I use mine every day. Now that I think about it, it would be interesting to track that.