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Like the article says it is just common #2 steel shot, and you usually can't just destroy someone else's property even if it is on or over your land, but I know they feeling when someone flies a drone at below treetop level over your back yard. It is a serious invasion of privacy, noisy (I thought a swarm of bees was coming at me at first), and most of the time you don't even know where the operator is, even if all you want to do is ask them politely to stop. Plus there is something about drones that attracts the most idiotic, self-absorbed, irresponsible people. The guys flying those things over forest fires and blocking the air tankers without realizing it are the most notable examples. R/C airplanes have been around for decades and were never a problem because they took skill to fly. But as soon as drones with autopilot become affordbale, every idiot goes hog wild.

The Hispanic culture was never "prevalent" in California. It was a sparsely populated wilderness, with a few settlements along or near the coast. I doubt Hispanics back then even layed eyes on more than 20% of it, and maps were often wildly incorrect. The fact that a Mexican governor isolated in a small town had an innacurate map in his bookshelf, with present-day California within its boundaries, mostly consisting of wild land no Hispanic person had ever seen, does not make it Hispanic. Mexico was so desperate to colonize the interior that they gave away huge tracts of land to any European who could settle it, and a large percentage of "Mexican" citizens were actually Americans, or non-Hispanic Europeans. Much, maybe most, of the population was non-Hispanic natives. So the connection between the Hispanics in California today, and the Hispanics in isolated settlements 170 years ago, is non-existant. It is like saying Italians have some connection with England because both were part of the Roman Empire. In California today, people from Spain mix musch more readily with English-speaking Americans than Hispanics. People from Spain, and the Hispanics in California, act like they don't even speak the same language. And again, 100% of official business of all kinds conducted in California is English, so I don't know why you continue to bring up that point.

Thanks, it works! I also tried fiddling with the script some to make the rockets somewhat more accurate than the scripts make them. From what I've read and seen, RPGs hit a stationary tank size object at 100 yards about 80% of the time, roughly.

- The U.S.'s official language is English de facto, as there is no federal legal code in any other language (other than Latin legal phrases). There is no need to declare a de jure offical language when 100% of the legal code is in English. It is pedantic to even raise the issue, and not really relevant to the discussion, as we are talking about California specifically, where English was declared the de jure offical language over a hundred years after it was de facto official. - Spanish, obviously - Hispanics don't speak any one language, all it means in terms of these surveys is their ancestors at one point came from a Spanish speaking country. Someone's grandparents could have been born in Japan, then the parents born in Peru, and then the individual born in the U.S., and they could reasonably mark "Hispanic" without knowing a word of Spanish. Roughly half of the Hispanics who grew up in California can not speak the language, so a large portion of those marking "Hispanic" on surveys don't speak Spanish. I already told you which of your points were wrong in my last post. In earlier posts you and others seemed to be implying that the Spanish language/Hispanic culture is simply regaining it's former status. But that is not what is happening. That old Hispanic culture entirely disappeared over a hundred years ago, and has no relevance today other than a few historic artifacts. The Hispanic people immigrating now are a completely different culture from the established culture of California.

First of all, don't try to tell me what's surprising to me. I grew up in California and have lived most of my life here. If by "proclamation" you mean the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the fact that a treaty between two countries speaking different languages, would be written in both languages, would surprise no one. Second, English is the offical language of California. See the California Constitution, Article III, Section 6 b: "English is the official language of the State of California." http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.const/.article_3 Third, Spanish is not the majority lanuage, the article means it is the most numerous ethnicity (not language), but still not a majority. And Spanish is only used as a common language in some ethnic communities, and informal use in some particular professions, such as communicating to agricultural field workers, gardeners, landscapers, housekeepers, by restaurant workers, etc. More recently Spanish appears as a subtitle on English-language signs since there are so many recent immigrants who have not learned English. Again, 99% of the immigrants today who speak Spanish or identify as Latino have no connection whatsoever to the Californios of 1848. They are complete foreigners with a connection no stonger than the people of Spain. These immigrants moved hundreds or thousands of miles north from where they and their ancestors had lived for a thousand or more years. California was a sparsely populated backwater until the Gold Rush of 1848, and a massive influx of Americans and Anglo-Saxon culture relegated the old Hispanic culture to insignificance, and built it into the rich state that now draws so many immigrants.

I just joined this bulletin board to ask a technical question about Flashpoint, and noticed I apparently need more posts to even edit my own profile to give my location (California), and sort of wandered in to here. Anyway... The point Tonci87 made that "Well, techically the Hispanics were there before the americans, and even before that the indians so..... The US is simply a country with no clear ethnic history and it never will be" is not correct. Literally 99%+ of Hispanics/Latinos today came to California long after it because a part of the United States. California and America had a clearly English-derived culture (the language spoken, obviously) which others from Europe seamlessly integrated into after a generation or two. Today, there is more integration than 25 years ago, but most people prefer to self-segregate, even after a few generations, even within a university environment.

Yeah, what's the deal with this? I am apparently allowed to start a new thread, and after that, but before I am able to reply to any posts, THEN I have to check off that I have read the rules, but I am still not able to edit my own profile, and none of this is explained in the rules I just read?

I want to experiment with modifying the accuracy of rocket launchers in Operation Flashpoint, as the game's standard RPG and LAW are unrealistically accurate. I've had success changing the dispersion value in the config for firearms, but have never modified rocket launchers before. When I tried, I noticed the dispersion variable seems to have no effect for rocket launchers. I found a thread on this topic in these forums, where post #5 says that dispersion does not work for rocket launchers, and a script is the only solution. (since this is my first post, the bulletin board won't let me post a direct link, but look up thread # 95796, "Militia rabble RPG´s") I don't know how to implement such a solution--does anyone know of an example of a script that modifies RPG/LAW/other rocket launcher accuracy?