shinRaiden

That's nothing more than troll spam. Goes both ways. The fact that the LA Times printed an article about it means that either they had no other news to print, were trying to cover their own rear end for falling for it, or thought they were on to the latest mass mind-melding ever. Same goes for all the seminar callers into talk radio that say "I've been a life-long republican but..." and then can't name their precinct or district chair from any time within that same so-called life. When I buy a newspaper, I'm just paying for some one to deliver a daily fresh roll of paper to line the bird cage or start a fire with. Glossies sometimes even have sparkles.

Hey, I was going to post that... the Seattle Times is not by any stretch of the imagination even a moderate publication, but when their reporter (not a wire service) is allowed to write stuff like you know that there is a serious problem going on. And for giving you a break, I don't presume that it was a bunch of buddists drawing manjas of peace on those signs. Seriously, what do you thing a swastika is supposed to mean, and what message is it trying to convey? Why is it okay to paint one on a political sign for the current sitting legal officers of the land and not okay to go paint one on my neighbor's house? So you plan to excuse it only as voter discouragement, not intimidation? Of course I'm not going to call a civil rights abuse hotline for somebody flipping me off. That's for investigations of serious criminal activity, not casual conversation. Furthermore, I mentioned that actual event as an example of something I had personally experienced, in addition to the more serious charges made elsewhere. What about the hand-wringing Viacom's board of directors had after their CEO said that despite his personal preference for Kerry, he was inclined to vote for bush on the basis of his economic policy and business-friendly attitude? As for the union involvement in rioting and incitement to riot, they stay just clear enough in the grey area to avoid undue exposure, while maintaining their aggressive reputation. As evidenced by the posting I made a few pages back about State Rep. candidate Bob Hasegawa, and further documented elsewhere in the University of Washington's WTO riots historical documentation project (enthusiastically supportive of the obstruction of free speech, free assembly, due process, etc), the unions, Seattle city administration, and Seattle WTO organizers met with many of the anarchists and other protesters and were made aware of their law-breaking intent. The understanding was that as the politicial officials and local leadership were in sympathy with the protesters, that so long as they didn't make too big a scene the city of Seattle would quietly ignore their activities. The sheriff was univited from the planning meetings when he tried to blow the whistle on this incestous behaviour, and the state patrol and national guard was not on backup status. Only when AG Janet Reno called the gov. and demanded to know why SecState Madeline Albright's car was under attack, threatened to cancel Pres. Clinton's visit, and uninvited the gov. and the mayor from the podium and face-time did they get a clue, but due to a lack of supplies and radio breakdowns the police continued to be pushed back. The situation was not reversed until the sheriff rolled into town uninvited, deputized the whole city PD, and started a block-by-block push to secure the downtown corridor. Bob Hasegawa and other influential members of the regional labor leadership still continue to tout that event as one of the greatest labor activities in recent history. Bob Hasegawa also states that what they planned and did was fully known beforehand to AFL-CIO president John Sweeny, the subject of the previously posted fax.

Ah, it's just the old human weakness of not wanting to admit that the authorities are scamming him ignorantly or with intent. The facts that there are two kinds of minor raids, 1) retaliation raids, where after a mortar is fired and and people start dieing, Israel moves in to neutralize the mortar, and 2) arrest raids on individuals with outstanding warrants for previously executed attacks. What AP has done here, ignorantly or deliberately, is to lump all these minor activities together into a single operations under the assumption that solders != police therefore soldiers == occupation, and transfer the 'excuse' of retaliation from the Israelis to the Palestinians. Since combining one raid with another entirely unrelated one, and lumping it all together under a third not indicative to the actual operational organization confuses the relational structure of the calendar of activities, it becomes very easy for the truth to be confused, or distorted.

----------------------------------------------------- We continue to have reports of signs spray painted with swastikas all around the Seattle area, I have been aggressively tailgated and repeatedly flipped off in traffic on several occasions for having one Bush Cheney side in the rear window of my car, and reports continue to come in of illegal business and workplace discrimination and harrassment; and these incidents are spreading out further into the remote and rural areas. While the AFL-CIO and other unions may not be coordinating some of these criminal actions, they and the Democratic party have done nothing to curb, and instead have quietly sympathized with the divisive hate-mongering and rhetoric. But supporting candidates with ties to groups such as the Anti-WTO insurrectionists, encouraging loose cannons like Howard Dean and Al Gore to deliberately polarize the population instead of steering towards even some sense of unifying diplomacy, they are feeding a psycological cancer that will destroy the structure of the United States, regardless of whether Kerry wins or loses. If you witness any such criminal behavior, contact your local police department, then submit a report to the Bush/Cheney victims of voter intimidation hotline at 1-888-303-7125. Racially or culturally or other socially discriminating criminal actions may qualify for additional hate crimes investigation at the determination of the police department. Additional assistance for workplace harrassment can be found by contacting the Equal Opportunity Employment office of your state dept.'s of Labor. If you are experiencing illegal internal union political pressure, contact the Labor Relations board of your state dept. of labor.

BAS was headed down that track, if you notice how the pavies used air_weaps instead of internalizing it like the -47, -6, -58, and -60 packages. The idea I saw in there was why redo the minigun code three or four times, when you can do it once and share it across vehicles. Unfortunately, since the pavies came right at the tail end, we haven't had the opportunity to see the usefulness of this in a recoding of the earlier models. Understandabley, reloading is a far less concern in vehicles in OFP than for grunts, however the advantage really comes home in addon development. Rather than re-invent the wheel each time, just hook into a shared spec.

In testing, I have been able to fragment the cpp as much as I want, so long as it stays inside the pbo. I been unable thus far to #include hpp files that are not inside a pbo where the root cpp file is inside a pbo. When I try to link in external include files, I get a preprocessor error and an updated config.bin, but I can't read suffiecently into the parameters to see what the filesystem path was where it crashed. However, as in the case of my config.cpp and resource.cpp research thus far, if the master cpp is a non-pbo'd file, then you can have all the realspace includes you want. - edit - In seperating the sections of code out I have been experimenting with a number of different ways to split it up. The current itteration splits by caliber size, however in retrospect I think that by target gun model my be better, and I plan to re-split it accordingly. The intent and purpose of JAM as I see it is to allow a wide variety of different gun models of a similar class (all m16's, all ak47's, etc.) to potentially use the same mags. The primary intent was so that for example if the code were updated properly, it would not matter if you were using INQ, BIS, or BAS m60's, the mags would be interchangable. Switching mags between significantly different guns, such as the sa80 / m4 comparison mentioned earlier was imho a far lesser concern, and I think should continue that way. If you want to get creative, I suppose that somebody could make a "refill magazine" script to handle such scenarios, although the usefulness in the scope of OFP operations could be a bit hazy. As soon as I can get the resplit done, I'll send it to Avon for consideration. The potential I feel is that interested parties would then be able to easily disect the sections of code relevant to their interests and mod projects, and make the minute changes to resolve the concerns about inconsistancies and imbalances.

Since we're still at the early stages, lets try rephrasing these a bit: I don't see why not, lets ask about JIP aspects like "Will we be able to change roles/position ingame rather than have to rely on respawn scripts, which only work in backfilling existing groups?" There's any number of ways this could be done, including a workaround of wacky proxy positions, or accurately by integrating inertial effects, which btw could be tied into a health system for g-force blackouts, shellshock, sensory effects (lose your hearing, sight, etc). Once the core system is worked out, then specific class implementation as you described would be relatively straight forward. This would best be handled by an integrated 'class' ranking system. This could have a whole pile of fun effects, such as civilians not being to happy when you wander across their fields etc., without having to resort to complicated trigger and scripting sequences. Basically, you could have a byte or so attached to the object ID in the basic engine array that would give extended attributes such as 'pilot rating', 'tank driver certified', etc, and depending on the addon and mission implementation, you could have a resultant effect of either decreased performance/stability/speed or being hauled out of the cockpit and court martialed for insubordination. This would result from the current structure for leadership morale - shoot your squad and they'll shoot you - system. While this could theoretically be implemented now, it would be a real pain to setup because of all the layers of triggers and scripts needed. I'm thinking more of a class ranking system that would trigger on basic events and collision detection-type scenarios, as well as the ability to use 'intelligent' markers to designate 'civilian areas', and such. With the current animation system that would be a huge pain because of the different size and shape of the vehicles. Mod makers could create that effect currently by using evenhandler scripts that would execute an animation on the vehicle to open the door or hatch, switchmove the entry animation, followed by an instant MoveInX animation to seat them in their place. However, the difficulty of matching all the possible models to all the possible vehicles is not a welcome thought. With a simpler skeletal animation structure however, you could specify a door frame and the animation could theoretically scale to match that, and then you just specify a general class like "ClimbUp" or "TumbleIn", etc.

Hmm, I just remembered that it was mentioned somewhere that content from OFP1 would work 'within reason' in OFP2. So scratch my question (3.2) then. Better question: Note, a reasonable way to do this would be to take the existing selections for different body parts, and add specifc named memory points that would map to the animation skeleton. This would involve a very minimum of work in order to transition current models into a skeletal animation compatible format. This would also simplify the volume of animations and the complexity of transitions, as well as provide a framework for better integrating female, animal, custom static animation, and of course giant mecha models.

Some scraps. DXDLL, 3200x1200 available. All the Combat! vehicles re-released recently on Nogova 2004. Four F-15E's lined up to roll on the main Tonal airport. Click the links for 3200x1200 desktop wallpapers. No preprocessing on DXDLL.

What is the problem is CQB? It is AI pathing and reaction to Geometery LOD's. An excellent question would:

Would it be possible to part out the config.cpp into #include files and stuff those into Amore as well? That could help organizing feedback from the community, if you want to focus on EAST weps you only have to dig through a few small files relating to those specific weps. However, that brings me to my main question. Can the content in Amore be MP validated? If not, what is to prevent someone from replacing the silenced sounds with not-so-quiet ones, eliminating the effect of the silencer client-side? And so on with textures, models, and scripts.

This is because you need to fiddle with your config.cpp file and add lines like <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE"> class ReplaceObjects { class Forest1Triangle { replace="O\Tree\les_nw_trojuhelnik.p3d"; with[]={"O\Tree\les_nw_trojuhelnik.p3d"}; }; }; inside your CfgWorlds definition for RES forests. More information detailed in the WRPtool manual, relevant for all three editors. This is a question better handled in the 'Breathe' Forums here, or in the OFPEC 'Island editing' thread. Thanks. [/code]

This is because you need to fiddle with your config.cpp file and add lines like <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE"> class ReplaceObjects { class Forest1Triangle { replace="O\Tree\les_nw_trojuhelnik.p3d"; with[]={"O\Tree\les_nw_trojuhelnik.p3d"}; }; }; inside your CfgWorlds definition for RES forests. More information detailed in the WRPtool manual, relevant for all three editors. This is a question better handled in the 'Breathe' Forums here, or in the OFPEC 'Island editing' thread. Thanks. [/code]

Well, it sounds like in your case your folks are not trying to mask their troubles with addictions, which is great to hear. We need more people like that. I'm just saying that an attitude that I see very prevalent in my area among smokers and drinkers is that they are using that as a means to run away from their troubles, rather than deal with them head on.

Good to hear. Fresh air does wonders, or so my mom says. Guess I'll have to check it out sometime, though I like my cave.

And if it is a Secret Service monitor they won't admit to it, And if it is a medical device they won't admit to it, Come on, you're grasping at straws again here. As for easing the airport rules, okay, so what else is new? If you go to the TSA website and get the list of can/can't bring items, you'll notice down on the bottom a note saying that the local office can amend those rules for their local area. I flew out of Seattle about a year ago and checked the list before I went. Nothing was said about 4-d mag lights, so since I couldn't find my 2aa pen light I grabber my big one. Plus I had a bunch of weird crap in my bag too. Well, Seattle TSA had decided 3-d's was okay but not 4, so I had to check it. No big deal, because I was 2 hours early, and not trying to 'wing' it.

Your mental discipline is your religion, and the cravings you have evidently impact it as you have stated that the so-called relaxation helps your mental activity. Or it could be rephased as "Despite our self-centeredness expressed in our desire to hand over personal responsibility and self-control to the bottle, society has been lucky to survive in one piece." And of course the response is that you're ignoring half of 'your very real body', but that's not a debateable topic here as there is far too much other OT traffic involved. So the reason people light up and bend the elbow is to pass the buck of dealing with life's problems to something else? Has it ever occured to you that that is only denial of the problems, and that they will still be there? Either you live in a remarkable area or you have a pretty low standard of expectation for life. Every family that I know that has had a family member who drinks or smokes has had it impact their relationship significantly. When people turn to addicting stuff in an effort to drown out their awareness of things that are not just going to go away, that's not being honest and resolving the issues now is it? Religion on the other hand, which you so virilantly dismiss out of hand, expressly focuses on building the personal and societal character needed to deal with and resolve daily life's concerns. True, but you can judge as to what effect it will have. I have no idea what it is like to have killed someone - since I haven't - but does that automatically disqualify me from commenting on it since I have no 'experience' in that area? I have a pellet gun sitting up on a top shelf in the garage. It hasn't moved on it's own volition, nor do I expect that it ever will. It has no consciense, and it is an inanimate object devoid of life or thought. Now if I picked it up and put a pellet in to it and shot something, I would be obligated to deal with the consequences of it, whether picking up a plinked can, or getting rid of a starling body, or going to prison for assualt, depending on what I choose to shoot. On the other hand, if I choose to drink or shoot up before hand, I'd have pretty good odds in this state for getting off as my 'impaired' judgement was clearly 'not' my own volition. A lot of local judges (who have serious drinking problems themselves, a state supreme court justice for example plowed into a couple parked cars and tried to drive off after a party in Seattle a couple years back) are of the opinion that you can just write off personal responsibility so long as you are drunk or high, and that is only indicative of the societal attitudes at large.

So it's the alcohol dictating you and your relaxation then. You have the same thing in Japan, where the culture trains people to be so uptight that they can't effectively communicate with each other until they go get sloshed at the sake-ba afterwards. The problem isn't that they aren't drunk (or even mildly enibriated) more often, it's that they're on the wrong track to begin with in terms of human relations. Now with smokes. Well those of us that don't smoke don't have that craving, and we don't have the mental and physical straightjackets that the addicitions bring with them. While you do have the choice to bend an elbow or not, you do not have the choice to pick and choose which consequences will follow, unless you have Washington State courts to appeal to. The fact that the so-called 'release' is 'needed' is to patch a hole that didn't need to be there in the first place, and the 'solution' actually increases your dependance on the problem. Of course if you don't see it as a problem then it is a totally different arguement. You have your booze, women, and smokes today, we have our faith in tomorrow. You get hangovers, morning-afters, and stinky clothes. We a whole new day to build on, always looking proactively to the future, rather than reactively responding to physical cravings in the here and now.

Uni student travel study abroad. We were in Israel, Jordan, and Egypt for four months. Pope John Paul II stayed next door, about 20~30m from my dorm room, so the IDF commandeered our facility, moved in hundreds of troops, put snipers on all our balconies, etc. Went off to town one day during that and some numbskull kicked what she thought was a rock and turned out to be a live .223 round. "Ooo, looky what I found, I'm going to look at it real close then put it in my purse and forget about it." Climbed Sinai at 1~2am, then helped rescue a guy from Cairo Uni who stepped off the backside into the abyss. Our school had a 'special' understanding with Jordan to travel without having our passports stamped, so we could get back into Israel across the Allenby. We had a guy in our group who looked just like King Abdullah of Jordan and who could really ham it up, and the Hard Rock cafe in Amman just about flipped when we brought that guy in. Flying between Cairo and Luxor and back the airport security was a joke. My bags made all sorts of beeping noises going through security, but as long as they only peeked in the top (and didn't dig to the bottom) that seemed to be good enough for them. That and a whole pile of other crazy stuff. I'd go back right now if I had the money. It's a wonderful place.

Bah, nothing new. Last time I got called a racist here by the usual parties I took it straight to the mod's who only recommended that I use this smilie as my comment was only a retorical jab that was severely misconstrued. Anyway, that Taba/Eliat border is a pain to navigate. Distance wise the two are close, but it's a narrow little road and is bound to be totally jammed with traffic. It's almost like a dead-end ally trying to get in and out of the Israeli side of the border. The Egyptian side has a bit more room, but I imagine it's standing room only right now, which is a security liabilty in and of itself. The Rafa crossing near Gaza has plenty of elbow room, but Taba is shoehorned into the side of the cliff. When I went to Sinai in March of 2000 the Egyptian government provided my group of ~180 with three toyota 'technical' trucks of soldiers as an escort, to try to rebuild their tourist friendly image after the massacure at Queen Hapshepsut's tomb previous. We actually stayed a ways down the road in Nuweiba at the Bel Mar, past a bunch of places called 'bed-o-inns'. After observing and dealing with all the precautions that go into security on the Israeli side of the border, like monitored fences and patrols and armed security, it was quite different, and a bit unsettling wandering around the lax resort complex. Considering that we were being escorted by 2 1/2 truckloads of AK's and I think one or two PK's, as well as a handful of guys with bulging suitcoats who were there for obvious reasons, it's enough to make you question your sanity, unless you have discounted it already. The fact that the Egyptians are allowing the Israeli's to take over the situation is a good sign, if at least in the cooperation sense. For all their faults, Mumbarak's administration has faced the music that as they have little oil, if they lose tourists there won't be bread on the table, so they have been trying to play ball. Just don't drink the water, ever. Trust me, you will regret that for a long time. -- edit -- Reports indicate that a second attack happened at the same time just outside of Nuwieba, casulaties much less due to the dispersed nature of the bungalows at that resort in Ras-al-satan. Somehow I don't think that is going to help the situation. Reports claim that the Egyptians have already arrested three suspects. I expect that it's not going to take long before another wave of crackdowns comes from Cairo. On the other hand, the egyptian army has checkpoints all over the sinai. Unless the guys happen to locals, they won't get far without a sizable baksheesh, and the bedouins aren't itching for a fight either.

There are plenty of people willing to make good tools ala the qeradiant project for quake and all the OFP tools out there today. Does BIS need tools to make content? Of course, but they don't need it translated into a dozen languages and other odds and ends weirdness that the community needs. Give us the specs and we'll take care of ourselves, while you do what you do best, make a great game. Doing this would save a fair amount of potential CPU load from otherwise messy scripts, and would support extended functionality like loading stretchers and people on stretchers into pavehawks. OFP appears to know about these indes points, but we can't read or write them currently. Not to get to ansy or anything... n/m, I believe it was mentioned elsewhere that OFP1 content would be migrateble into OFP2. I think this needs to be clarified like "will we be able to load a server-side file list with md5's and such and get a report back from the clients, as well as stronger IP and ID identification and control methods, also will non-pbo material like Avon's Amore-structured data be monitorable as well?" 'Robust' will result in an answer of "We are considering that", which as we all have learned is neither yea nor nay. Now that I think about it, this question is a bit hazy. Then again, there is far too little translation that goes on in SP/MP missions. I think we the community need to step up to bat on that before we go asking for more.

Why should we be giving them - the dictators - a pass in the first place? Why should we feel bad for promoting peace and liberty? Is it because it is 'inhumane' to burst their little bubbles? Isn't this just classic "some are more equal than others"?

The S. Korean 'sunshine policy' has been fronted by S. Korean business interests who want to use the north as their little Mexico and to jump off into the China market because of the cozy relationship. Some of these guys have been indicted for getting ahead of the game on that as well.

If you're going to do this, you need to also put an entry into your config to remind OFP that your map is 25m, not 50m.

Hmm... while there are a number of irrelevant q's (imho) that more properly should have been answered with "go script it yourself in OFP today", at least BIS claims they 'are considering it'. Part of the problem is that the really useful information at this stage, such dealing with moving stuff out of the engine and into externally scriptable areas, and the netcode nuances relating to JIP etc, is going to be in the minutes of developer brainstorming sessions, and nobody gives or sells those. I like the idea of a community '20' questions interview. While the CS folks could try to stack the voting for questions likely already answered in the various scripting forums, other questions like "Will BIS release file format specs?" could get asked. That's one vote, do I hear a second?