shinRaiden

One of the motivating factors of fundamentalists who determine to act as judge, jury, and executioner in place of God, contrary to their own religous texts, is the strong belief that the society, (particularly the US) has been hijacked by those groups and persons seeking to war against God. For example, going back up to the quote from the catechism on self-pleasuring, the catechism states that for orthodox followers of catholicism, that that is a most egregious sin, and perversion of the instituted purpose of life. According to the catholic church and many others, humans being children of God (literal or figurative, depending on your dogma), have an obligation to bring more children into the world and raise them as good people in upright homes. To use sex for personal indulgence is to reject that obligation, hijack the process for your own interest, and seek to prevent the work of God, of making the world a better place for more people. That self-centered attitude is to many believers of many faiths is tanamount to spiritual treason in commiting sedition against God who has given you your life. To attempt to mandate behaviors and practices designed to thwart God's will is to declare open war on heaven. Now if God don't exist or don't care, that's a different story. Where the extremeists jump ship is in "mercy interventions" where they rush to judgement in an attempt to either 'prevent' worse calamities than what they already fear, or to go out as a martyr, regardless of those around them. So A) they're ignoring theur own texts regarding their place and duties, or B) they're thinking only of themselves like their supposed enemies. The real trick though, is in figuring out how to deal with foes who fear retribution for inaction more than potential casualties from action, on both sides.

Spot on. We have the rabble-rousers on all sides hijacking the pulpits and podiums getting folks all riled up, never mind the fact that their holy text looks like the movie ransom notes of all the cutout text pasted on a sheet of paper, compared to the holy writ they claim to cite. Ok, here's a little thought. When I was in Israel a few years back, I noticed some guys peeing on the wall. I don't recall seeing any other human peeing in public at any other time I was there. So can I assume that all palestinians are barbarians who don't know how to use toilets? Of course not, that is rediculous. And so is Baron's attempt to slander all people of faith, including citing Jimmy Swaggart, who publicly admitted to not practicing what he preached. To me, Jimmy Swaggart's idiocy is more a reflection of his personal attitude and commitment, than any reflection on his message. If 1001 monkeys dancing on a keyboard type out a message that says it is important to be compassionate to others, is that message bogus due to the source, or is it still true despite the source?

Obviously the volunteer-supported interdenominational foodbanks of small-town USA (~three in my town of ~15k), the donation of the suborned offerings to humanitarian relief efforts worldwide, the work of Jewish groups like Zaka and Avon's group, true islamic charities working to build hospices and orphanages, are all deviant from the "true" course of religion, as they don't get reported much in the media. If you'd like, I could subjectively post snippets from mother theresa and others who have spent their entire life serving the poor and needy, and ignore all the rest of people who claim to be religious. Wouldn't that be just as representative of the truth?

16 to 1 odds on their hometurf in the mountains? That's not exactly a fair fight for marines. ;)

In Japan, you'll commonly see frieght trains at any hour sitting on a third track split from the 2 mainlines while passenger trains pass or stop at the platforms. Have that in a main station, at a busy time of day, you can have thousands of people within meters of the cars. iirc, several stations in the tokyo core see over a million people a day, with something like 5~20 million commuters transiting daily on a whole. The crappy building construction, poor exit capacity, panic situation, and previously mentioned issues considered, 3k could easily be a low number, considering the potential. Reading between the lines though, it seems as though a lot of folks are trying to hint that it was a botched hit on His Exalted most Glorious Excellency, but it's too early to tell.

so desu you ne... What about William Tecumseh Sherman, and his march from Atlanta to Savannah? Or Andrew Jackson at New Orleans? Wellington was asked to go there, but he refused to fight us on our turf. He sent his bro. in-law Packinham to go, and well over 90% of the british casulaties were officers, sniped at range. Packinham used the classical european formations against kentucky windage and tennasse chaw. But most of all, Gen. Mud. Gen. Mud stopped Napoleon and the Germans in Russia, Gen. Mud ate up all the shells and begged for more in all the US wars, halted WW1 in the trenches, and was only beaten when the cowboys took to the air in their choppers.

cool... In the first screeny, the smoke trail is leading off in a apparently straight vector for some distance, then veers off in a disjointed looking fashion. Is this due to a delayed getnearestobject type function, or is the smoke vector calc'd too far out, or am I not seeing some terrain issues?

Now what would you be using 64bit precision for?, BIS, unlike most other dev shops designed their stuff to scale (rediculously?) far beyond the average machine at time of release. The laggage is a lot from using CPU-heavy DirectX 2, instead of 8 or 9, which off load more to the video cards. Terraingrid is calculated staticly for the whole map, instead of dynamicly inside viewdistance. OFP1 has fixed internal memory limits far below 32bit limits. That would need to be raised and opptimized long before expansion into 64bit addressing.

this requires 2 engine updates: multiple turrets and non-linear plane turrets. Both I believe have been confirmed by BIS.

Since I still live with my folks while going to school and work, they're still nabbing me as a dependent for this last year. Next year that expires. The downside of cheaper living is that I can't deduct myself. Also, the terms were that my folks would advance me the money for each quarter of school, and take chores as interest. The way that works is they pay for school, and I pay them back. They then get the school break, and airline milage on the visa card, and no money out for the deal. I still managed to get a little ~$150 refund out of it. My first job back from Japan was working a call center for a company that made Tax Prep software for CPA's and preparers. We had an informal "10/90" club as ~10% of all users were responsible for ~90% of the calls. One guy asked if he could deduct his girlfriend as a child dependent. Lots of other weird stuff like that. We bounced those calls over to the tax law advisor queue, as we only did tech support. That ~4 months was a huge help in understanding how the paperwork flows.

Yeah, if you want to find the best food, look for the squad cars. I found a good teriyaki place because of there being somany police cars and fire trucks parked there that I couldn't get in. They know where all the good hole-in-the-wall joints are.

The general map issues surrounding extra-large scale maps seem to be working quite nicely. Thanks for the update. However, when you scale larger than the default BIS map size of 12.8km, you start to get the 'shakes' in FirstPersonView. It's barely noticiable in 25.6km maps like tonal, but if you watch closely inside air units or camera shots tracking air units, it stands out more. 51.2km maps are nearly unflyable as you can only fly in 2nd/3rd views. In 102km maps, the shakes become noticeable even in ordianary units, but only as minor tremors. Fortunately it is not open-ended tremors that turn into harmonic resonance cascades, as caused by overlaping p3d components.

The show is COPS, best TV after The Simpsons and A-Team reruns. Yeah that's the *stock* engine in the Vic's, but that's not the way they hit the streets. They get a big boost, and they can really muscle anything short of a semi around.

Well, for Airsim in OFP I generally use very_low, then boost it for boots on the ground. This still leaves the ground cells at 50m x 50m, way too small for what we'd need. Look at the buildings, they're all flat boxes. Not bad by air, but you wouldn't want to stand next to them, and walking in them would be a joke. As for OFP's current scalability, the problem currently is that view detail (terrraingrid) settings are currently map-wide, instead of local dynamic terrain. Object placement is set based on the ground plane somewhat, and the 0-elev plane somewhat. If air units could get a dynamic terraingrid of up to ~200m, and addon makers work their view LOD's out to ~5000m, it would go a long ways to help/

Oh yeah, you guys might remember the WTO battle in seattle in 1999? The mayor and police chief of the city said "Let's be friends, we support your cause" to the out-of-state anarchists. The sheriff was un-invited as he was a 'worry-wart'. Anyway, all heck broke lose, police got run down, car tires slashed communication channels lost, and police on the run. They actually ran out of tear gas in the morning - the stories about the massive gas clouds were the supplies brought in by the sheriff, and were being pushed down to the water edge when the sheriff rolled in with his deputies. They even used the bulk of the county bus fleet as barriers I have a friend who was a SPD beat cop that day, they said that it was chaos until the sheriff showed up and assumed command. The sheriff heard that a RadioShack (store) near his loc was being fire bombed, so he spun around, raced over there, and personally tackled and cuffed the offenders without any riot gear on dodging bricks and rocks, and turned around only to realize that a TV camera had caught the whole thing. ----------------------------------------------- More: (bad referers. ) www.carorama.com/classic_metal/list/wa/images/kingcounty.jpg http://www.anzwers.org/free/calscan/images/kcso1.jpg

Newer, badder Crown Vic' Older Crown Vic' WSP memorial

Ah, that too. 'unmarked' trooper's vehicles are ditching the obvious "XMT" (exempt) tag on their license plate, and switching to plates with *-WSP (Washington State Patrol). But, there are 'undercover' cars too. I was taking my dad to the airport, and we were doing ~10 over with everyone else. Some wank came up fast, rode my tail, then cut around me on the right (wrong side to pass) nearly clipping ~4 cars in the process, and sped away doing ~25~30 over. I eased back to give him some room, and my dad blurted out "Slow down!" A completely blacked-out Impala came out of nowhere and nailed him. The cars hadn't even slowed down when the troopers were out on the run to the car. That guy just got screwed. The windows had full limo tint, no marks on the plates, and all the antennas were plates on the inside of the windows. A few days later I watched a soccer mom in a big SUV swerve in front of two harley-cops and missed them by about ~1~2m while they were doing ~100kmph. They looked at each other and just flipped on their lights. No soccer game for those kids. Here's my sherriff, you may have seen him in the news. He's the guy who's been trailing the Green River Killer - the ~70 count serial killer / rapist - for the last 20 years. Sherriff Dave Reichert King County fallen deputy's memorial page - old, we've lost another 1 or since then,

My locale is still pretty much sticking with the good old Ford Crown Victoria's. That won't be changing anytime soon. Most precients have been getting away from old shotguns and stuff, and switching to heavier take-down guns like AR-15's and M-4's. We've had several bad cases of dopers that would eat whole pistol clips and keep coming. One little ~115lb woman on heroin or something picked up a ~275lb deputy and threw him out a second story window, breaking his back. The only time I spent in one was on a scout trip gone bad. I was driving a vanload of boys and gear home, and we started peeling tread off the right rear tire of a 12-pass ford van coming up I-5 at the south end of Ft. Lewis. So we swapped the tire quick (fast work, lots of scouts) hopped in, and turned the key. Click-click, dead. Fortunately I had a big white tarp and my 44Magnum mega-graffiti marker I got at a hiphop shop in western Japan, so I wrote "Jump Plz" on the tarp, and my brother and I stood in the pouring rain and truck spray for ~2.5 hours until a little car came by. He was of no help, and then another truck came by and looked at it, clipped the jumper cables directly to the solenoid, and confirmed that the starter had died. About this time a bored trooper pulls up, and all he can see is half of a car and a truck sticking out at weird angles from a big van. Looks messy. Anyway, we assured him that everything was reasonably under control, and then he loaned me his cell phone, which I proceeded to rack up a pile of calls on. I called my mom to get somebody to coordinate somebody to come pick up the boys, and to find out why I had not be re-enrolled in the AAA auto club after I got back from Japan. She was busy due to coordinating a veterans service at our church, but gave me my dad's pager number, as he was at work fixing a crane that just fell from the rafters of a factory into either finished parts or the caustic etch tank. Finally I manage to reach one of the boys' mom, who said she was on her way. Fortunately I got the one I did, as I also had her nephew from Japan with me, who only spoke japanese. Anyway, my dad called me on the trooper's cell and asked what was up. I could hear all sorts of alarms and klaxon's in the background. Anyway, I mentioned that I had a bad starter, gave him AAA's number, and asked if he could re-enroll me so I could call for a tow. The trooper meanwhile totally laughing it up at this never-ending farce. (I'm also wearing my massively unwieldy barn boots too). I reached for the door handle to go back to the van, and for some weird reason it didn't work. I mentioned that to the trooper, and said "Oh yeah, let me roll down the window." I said "You know, I appreciate all your help, but could you do something about this rear seat? It's not very comfy." He laughed and said that normally if you're in the back of his car, keeping you comfy is the least of his or your concerns. Meanwhile, his ancient IBM 486/25sx Win311 laptop BSOD'd and died. He said, "Hey you aren't a computer guy by any chance are a computer guy?". He opened the screen and I squeezed an arm and my head through and started banging on the keys. I got it back up into DOS, and started a scandisk. Turns out it had bad sectors in I think emm386.sys and win.ini, of all places. So I said "I think I can hack this, and recode you a basic win.ini from scratch, but you're not going be able to do anything with it. You'll need to talk to your IT shop, as it looks like it had a head crash." Big hint: Don't use the word "Hack" when talking about computers around cops. Anyway, I had to do some real fast explaining as to the difference between hacking and cracking, before I got stuck in the back for good. We ended up getting home something like ~6hrs late, with a $90 towing bill, and soaking wet too. Other than that, not much experience with cops, I keep my nose clean, and I know where they hide. The local ones mainly dress up as ranchers and bust up mexicans for smuggling dope through the dairy farms around here.

Good aim considering t3h B0rdka...

64 nogova's or everons all on one map... not a typo. Tech demo soon...

I think they're talking about the motions of turning the wheels and backing and stuff. Just hit *, look around, and do it right. There's a Cones addon out there, should be listted on Johnnylump.

Ok, here's my 2 worst: FDR and Woodrow Wilson. Suprised? Think about it. Who sat on his rear insisting that the Europeons were welcome to slaughter each other all they wanted, just as long as America got to turn a blind eye to the atrocities of war, and make a buck selling arms? And oh my, the outrage when the Kaiser called him on the carpet for his war-marketing via the Lusitania. Then the farce of Versailles and the League, which were the idealogocal grandfathers to the UN Oil-for-Food kickback and retirement program. Germany was under all sorts of economic pressure, and Hitler took that disgruntlement, ran with it, and made an abominable havoc unleashing all hell across europe with the intial blessing of Iron Iosef. And what did FDR do to the imminent concern of Britain's collapse, the rumors of atrocities, and all the other nonsense? Played the fiddle and hung out with Comrade Iosef. Not until *horrors* american blood filled Pearl was it more than just another economic market to bail out the economy via selling that generation's versions of WMDs. And as long as Iosef kept things under thumb in the east, who cared? Besides, we should feel bad and give them what ever they wanted because of Volgograd, right? And the whole non-participation in unifiying partitioned Germany was a total surprise too.

OFP currently supports large islands up to 102km...

Ok, fine. to do to do, now that I have explained why, the what. 1) What can be done? Nothing. Either he has his personal liberty of thought or no. I can no more compel you to remove the shackles of willful ignorance than you can compel me to deny what I have experienced. You could attempt to degrade our subject as sub-human or similarily mentally deficient, and therefore managable by the society for the greater good, and where would that end? Back at Buchenwald. 2) Now our subject has gone beyond his internal gratification, and seeks others to gratify himself. When it moves into the public arena from internally private, it has an impact on society at large, resulting in the neccessity of a broader strategic plan. Establishing commercial relationships with foriegn aliens without proper legal structuring is going to be illegal, for the purposes of providing for uniform regulation, protection under law of laborers, fair taxation, etc. Societies can also determine that adult-oriented enterprises are a detriment to the society at large, as the vast majority of sexual offenders cite pr0n addictions as a significant motivation factor - encouraging believed deviant behavior would inhumanely jeapodize the safety and liberty of the populace at large. But as it is currently legal in certain jurisdictions for organizations to incorporate as a legal entity for the express purpose of making money of people's misery, those aberritions in law would first need to be corrected and made uniform, before the blight could be purged. For example, The US government sued the Tobacco industry for marketing a deadly product to the populace. That was a frivilous lawsuit, and actually should have been counter-prosecuted under the RICO act. That said, had the DOJ actually been concerned about the health effects to the populace, they could have regulated the product out of existance via the FDA, and criminally prosecuted the corporations, instead of a civil extortion attempt. This case of Alien-babe-o-rama is specific in the example you cited. Most religious denominations do not practice cult incest and supreme-leader-makeout-mania-mudwrestling. Most religious organizations of any size anywhere use the financial contributions in outreach programs, often in non-religous settings like food banks, books for impoverished schools, urban rescue missions, etc. The whole historical development of modern hospitals and associated branches of medical sciences existed under the patronage of Western churches, because of the concious belief in the responsibility and obligation to care for and assist the less-fortunate. Look at East Asia. Hospitals and medicine only recently started to enter there, and it's because the Christian churches took hospitals there, and taught by example that people are to be loved and cared for, not abused like excess chattel. 3) By the time that a practice is used as a elementary foundation of teaching, it has become so pervasive through out the culture at large that it would require a foundational change of individual and societal change of heart and the related follow-through of actions. I can be an example to my friends, support my family, be active in my community, and seek to make a better community, rather than look for opportunities to to seek self-gratification. Direct self-centeredness is like dope, you never stay high and you're always out in orbit compared with those around you. Religions in general tell you to keep your feet on the ground, and look outside yourself. Why should God have to do everything for us lazy ingrates, when we could be doing the work ourselves?

Ok, here's my responses to your Q's Baron. Note that you don't have to believe them to be 'answers', as you were making statements, not actually asking honest seeking questions. 1) In what way is he being benefited in the long term or short term? Nobody else is getting benefitted. The sole focus is "I'm getting laid by hot chicks, every night I get some." Is this wank even concerned about giving some to the aforementioned aliens? No indication is given that he cares at all about them, just as long as they out out for him. 2) Freedom of Speech, Freedom of assembly. People pay good money for porn, if only they'd spend that money on poor starving kids in various places or other social benefits, instead of financing the alien stripper's anti-STD drug cocktails. 3) So he presumes he's the aliens pimp-daddy now does he? Where's the aliens and their death-ray totting mothership when they need it the most? Again, money for joe, and the aliens his slaves. Where is the liberty and compassion and all the other social virtues? --------------------------- I personally feel good when I go help other people. When I waste time engratiaing myself exclusively, or worse at the expense of others, there is a sense of guilt in realizing that I've been a lazy selfish turd. Who here prefers SP over MP game playing? Why do we spend more time arguing religious semantics than playing soliatare? It's because we are social beings, and inherently want to associate with others. Some warped minds think that hurling abuse on others will make them the king of the hill, and that then they will find pleasure in the minions fawning at their feet. You'd have better luck in solitary. Go spend some time in an old folks home, listen to their life's story, help them out, and be their friend. Find the joy of discovery in a child's eyes. Don't knock the love of friends, and He who gave you them. Have a happy Easter everyone, it's happy only because you make it so. And to my Jewish friends, Shabbat Shalom, 'next' year in Jerusalem. And don't forget the upcoming b-day of the much maligned prophet of peace (pbh?) on May 1st.