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Comment on star wars 3d by lastexittonowhere (2010-11-20 18:38:31)
Shitty shop is shitty.
Comment on 100 years ago (2010-11-14 20:37:11)
Ohrly? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle_(R_91)
Comment on Poker (2010-10-25 19:02:12)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_eSwq1ewsU
Comment on window control wallpaper (2010-09-15 05:47:58)
I turn aero off only because it causes slowdowns in certain parts of the Adobe Creative suite due to driver issues with 2d hardware acceleration on both Nvidia and AMD video cards causing serious slowdowns. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/2d-windows-gdi,2539.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/2d-windows-gdi,2547.html Links there if anyone is interested.
Comment on russian carrier (2010-05-01 05:08:57)
I do agree with most of what you say. Let's keep in mind though that there are some pretty clever people in other countries thinking up ways of sinking those floating cities or at least limit their sphere of influence. In the last 20 years there have been huge advances in SAM technology, largely as a result of Desert Storm. The Navy is trying to figure out to stop huge amounts of high speed missiles from reaching their carriers. At the current time, they wouldn't be able to stop them all. Even if the carrier isn't sunk by high speed missiles, submarines or aircraft, there are new SAM systems that pretty damned effective these days, of course only very few countries deploy such advanced systems. This severely limits a carriers sphere of influence either against another navy or land based targets. Some would argue that our aircraft can intercept and engage beyond visual range but this causes all sorts of problems. Number one, without visual confirmation we tend to shoot down friendlies. Number two, Russian electronic warfare confuses our missiles by detecting and duplicating the radar signal and sending back a false one, making those long range missiles ineffective. At this point, unless either side runs away it will come down to a dogfight. You don't want to compare the f-18's to the new 4.5++ Sukhois and Migs. Given equal pilot skills and force ratio the Sukhois and Migs will always win dogfights. Good thing there are very few around the world and we have hundreds of aircraft of our own....but still. This wouldn't change with the JSF or f-22. Stealth was a great idea 20 years ago and worked great but is largely ineffective against modern adversaries today. The f-22 and JSF are both turkeys and can be shot down by countries fielding modern equipment. Admittedly, they were both designed to penetrate enemy airspace but the countermeasures against stealth developed quickly and are cheaper. The US Navy is still the most powerful in the world, no doubt, but complacency will get people killed. Always maintain a healthy amount of paranoia and never underestimate the craftiness of the enemy.
Comment on russian carrier (2010-05-01 02:25:44)
Russia does not have carriers as the USA does, they have aircraft carrying heavy cruisers. This is mainly because, if I remember correctly, an agreement they have with Turkey not to have carriers in the Mediterranean. Russia has a different philosophy on naval warfare than the US and a much smaller budget. Their navy doesn't center around aircraft carriers. The supercarriers of the US Navy are more vulnerable than most people think. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't know enough about foreign militaries. The purpose of the US Navy is to project power, which no one can match. The purpose of the Russian navy is for defense and if push comes to shove they can fulfill that objective.
Comment on eve titan (2009-11-12 06:06:17)
That is a dreadnought. It has a go go gadget Moros button.
Comment on gargoyle (2009-11-09 20:32:12)
And in death his name is Robert Paulson.
Comment on One Nation Under God? (2009-10-18 19:11:19)
Here's a better version. http://i.imgur.com/r4e2C.jpg and on that note, religious people can go fuck themselves.
Comment on Ich Tu Dir Weh (2009-10-16 21:32:05)
Here it is in glorious lossles png format. http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/3020/smith1920.png
Comment on father and daughter funeral (2009-09-23 07:58:30)
This is a good picture. The citizens of the U.S. need to realize that war is a horrendous thing. If they saw the dead and injured that came back maybe they would be more weary of advocating war. This doesn't even count the dead and injured on the other side. That being said, this picture does make me feel sad.
Comment on The Festival of San Fermin, 2009 (2009-07-14 21:20:50)
I've branded and vaccinated many cattle in my time for my job. I have no sympathy for bulls. Cry me a river...million other things wrong in the world and people care about bulls?
Comment on Rusting Tank (2009-05-30 03:31:19)
Where do you get your crap information? The computer systems on that tank are no more advanced than French or German tanks, I'd put my money on them. Just cause it was made in 'Murrica doesn't make it better. Oh and the M1A2 sports a german 120 cause the 105 the US had on it was teh suck.
Comment on Rusting Tank (2009-05-29 07:30:36)
Indeed older Russian auto loader designs were slower and not as reliable as a loader at the time. Modern auto loaders designed by Asian and European companies are just as fast if not faster than a man and it doesn't get tired and doesn't make mistakes. I do have to say though you make a good point on having the extra man for fire-guard and the likes, hadn't taken that into consideration, though given the choice I'd go with the modern auto loaders. What it really comes down to is if you pay for a modern tank you will get a modern tank. Modern Korean, German, French, Russian, American, British tank are all very well designed machines. The training of the crews, the numbers deployed, the quality of the officers(logistics involved and deploying them correctly) will make a bigger impact that the tank itself. The Russians realized that, in the end, tanks are most vulnerable to enemy aircraft and not so much enemy armor. This is why they have cheap and mobile air defense systems such as the s-300 and the very scary s-400 missile defense systems. If they can deny any modern enemy air supremacy in a theater of operation they will most likely win(conventional of course, without tactical nukes and biological warfare.) Tank to tank is something I don't think most colonels are worried about, course they have more war college than me.
Comment on Rusting Tank (2009-05-29 02:14:54)
Oh and the French LeClerc has the biggest gun out of all the NATO tanks.