Baron Hurlothrumbo IIX
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Are we once AGAIN headed towards a discussion of religion??? I should sincerely hope not.STOP IT NOW! Return to TOPIC!!!
The whole issue of Iraq is inextricably linked with religion, like it or not. I notice you only protest when one particular viewpoint is raised, however.
It IS on topic.
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Ok you've drilled in the point enough in the many thousand posts of this circus.Yes human beings are scum. We are all dirty little fucks that need to be exterminated. How the hell you can judge people you hear about on the news where you most likely have taken drugs and enjoyed the pleasures of the flesh a bit too much for pure reproduction.
Quite honestly, Christian values? What bollocks.
The pope was old and had iron beliefs, that's why he let many people die of AIDs and let a lot many more get infected with HIV.
The cure for AIDs in most of these deprived places is to get the youngest virgin girl you can and have sex with her, not very clever from our western perspective eh? Oh how enlightened we are, praise the lord.
There is no viable way to live your life in my opinion. You either follow religion which was written 2000 years ago and is just wrong when appiled to today's situations. Or you go with science, you objectify everything, people are objects. If someone can't do anything for you they are worthless.
You can try and find an intermediate somewhere but however you live your life someone is suffering on account of it.
As you guessed I am quite quite bored again.
Sir,
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Sincerely
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Made popular culture by the film Swordfish
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I do hope the myth of DU is safe is finaly exploded.It is not true that:
Quote[/b] ]Depleted uranium = depleted of radioactivity (to a large degree.)Its not radiation that does damage, its that its one of the heavy, toxic metals (like mercury or lead - they are just bad for you, especially when inhaled.)
Non Depleted radium puts out lots of Alpha and Gamma radiation. Those as you remember from school physics clases are the radiation that pentrates clothing and in the case gamma even layers of lead.
In Depleted The type of radiation has changed it is beta radiation.
Walker, I certainly am not saying that depleted uranium is safe, nor especially that DU dust is safe. It isn't. Its dangerous and toxic.
But it IS true that depleted uranium = depleted of radioactivity to a large degree
DU is uranium with significantly reduced proportions of the radioactive isotopes of Uranium.
By DEFINITION that is what it is. It is NOT significantly radioactive. If radioactive substances are ingested, they are dangerous. If toxic materials and heavy metals are ingested they are dangerous. But DU is not radioactive in any amount enough to damage anyone if they dont have it inside their body.
All I wanted to point out was that most uneducated people have a severe phobia of radiation. Stories in newspapers go on about radiation as if it were unnatural or a major health risk. Its not, if it is not ingested.
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Good post.
I think there are similar tables out there for tanks and so on as well; combat mission uses some extremely complex maths to calculate such things which they calibrated with real data.
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Depleted uranium = depleted of radioactivity (to a large degree.)
Its not radiation that does damage, its that its one of the heavy, toxic metals (like mercury or lead - they are just bad for you, especially when inhaled.)
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Before anyone takes a hissy fit, I'm not saying you are wrong MLF, the radiation in the nearby area probably does increase. But DU is not significantly radioactive, its that it is a heavy metal that does damage.
People who live on granite/ in granite houses get more radiation than that by a long way.
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Is it actually a simulation yet or is it a pretty car gallery with rubber walls around the track?As in, what happens when you collide with a wall or another car, is it still that arcadey nonsense?
real simulators dont have damage or any realistic crash effect
Look up simulator in the dictionary
"a device that enables the operator to reproduce or represent under test conditions phenomena likely to occur in actual performance"
Real simulators do model crashes and collisions. Thats a load of nonsense. Plane simulators don't model 900 mph crashes into the earth because there is no point, but they do model equipment breakdowns etc.
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Is it actually a simulation yet or is it a pretty car gallery with rubber walls around the track?
As in, what happens when you collide with a wall or another car, is it still that arcadey nonsense?
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I don't understand what you mean.He agrees with you
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Since many people suggested more possible players like 64 or 128 (which is possible now, but lagging much) I don't think that this is really necessary. OFP is a strategic game, and I find it always easier to play with only few people like <10. It's very hard to get more dedicated people together to play coops with, which all listen to the leader and enable team work.Everytime I play on servers with 20+ players it finally degenerates in kill, kill, kill. No-one is following any tactics, no-one listens to anyone, just everybody tries to stay alive and kill as many enemies as possible. But that's not the real fun in OFP IMO. I find it much more fun when you play a coop with a small team, all doing their job and covering each other, forming a perfect base for tactics in a tactical shooter which OFP is.
Well yes, but if you do find a server with more people who WILL cooperate like that, it is better! Try the Zeus server!
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While you bring up some good points I cannot go into them atm as I will be banned (and noone else) if I mention the R word again.
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Speaking as a member, and not a moderator, I find your views on religion extremely offensive and as a member, I would have RTM'ed you a long time ago.Speaking as a member I find Avon's, and the rest of the overtly religious posters posts EXTREMELY offensive and would have simply applied a fair and balanced ban on discussing religious topics. At all.
What I object to is ...well, what I object to. Overtly religious posts and posts claiming, as fact, that religion is universally good, with nothing to back it up. Opinions are fine when they are stated as opinions - noone can disagree with them.
"No one cares if you disagree or not - but you don't just stick to agreeing/disagreeing; you decide that your point of view is universally correct, and that everyone else is a nutcase. That's your line of argument in a nutshell.
"I'm sorry if you feel that way but that is NOT what I have ever done. Its not my point of view that is always correct - I have been wrong in the past and have admitted as much. What IS crazy is insane things like believing wine turns into blood which tastes like wine but is actually literally turning into the blood of a mythical character. That is just crazy, no two ways about it. Or believing that the earth is flat and that the sun orbits it. Thats not that everyone who disagrees with my point of view is a nutcase - thats that anyone who believes in such lunacy is .. a nutcase.
Quote[/b] ]If you can't see where I'm coming from: then too bad for you, you're old enough to know what you're doing and saying.Look in the mirror.
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If this thread continues to go down the route of discussing religion it will also be closed.Baron yes we know your opinion of religion, we've heard it more than enough times in the past, if you continue to flame/flamebait (and I'm talking about the war on terror thread here as well) you'll be post restricted, you know the drill by now, discuss politely without insulting people just because you hold a different opinion or belief with them, if you cannot discuss things politely find another forum, or we'll help you do that.
That's right, I was the one who brought it up... oh wait!! No I wasn't! Yet somehow you ignored that. So its ok for others to INSULT people without religious belief?
Feel free to point out anywhere where I've been rude or deliberately insulted people (bearing in mind that 'mind-virus' is a perfectly reasonable way to describe the way ideas such as religion promulgate through society.)
If anyone finds the simple truth insulting, is that my fault?
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This is more of the same 'oh but religion is always good' BS.Your's is more of the same "the Iraqi War is a religious war" BS. It isn't.
Its not primarily a religious war, no - and nowhere did I say it was. That doesnt change anything - blind faith is always a bad thing. Religion is a form of mental illenss, IMO.
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Since I'm a religious person, I'm feel unqualified to determine whether a life can or cannot be terminated under any given circumstance.However, the testimony I posted definitely points out that Captain Maynulet is not the monster he was made out to be.
Since I dont have the religion 'mind virus' I don't like to see, prolong or cause undue suffering for no good reason.
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. Starting a war and killing thousands of Iraqi civilian can hardly be called a very Christian deed (theoretically speaking of course). So you never know.Why exactly is it that you think that these are not christian deeds? Historically they were.
According to the bible they are (ok, mainly the old testament) - but remember 'I come not to bring peace, but a sword' and the Jesus characters intolerance and prejudice on occasion.
According to some prominent religious leaders they are (Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwel, etc)
This is more of the same 'oh but religion is always good' BS.
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Baron Hurlothrumbo IIX- The meaning of words in the English has not become static, even after the invention of dictionaries, and commie is used often as a broad insult.Well, I think you may be trying too hard to disagree.
Yes, words change over time, but, at the moment, despite what a small proportion of the world population (who think they are a lot larger proportion of the world population) think, that use of 'commie' is incorrect. Maybe you don't like my use of the word incorrect either. For incorrect you could substitute 'misleading,' I suppose, but its not as accurate.
Its 'misleading' to say that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a fair example of democracy and to use 'democratic' as a disparaging term based on the government there.
Its 'misleading' to say that the USSR was a fair example of communism and to use 'commie' as a disparaging term based on the government there.
Quote[/b] ] believe walker is playing on the traditional fear of communism in the US to tar neoconservatism as something disagreeably left wing in some of their defining characteristics (stressing for instance neoplatonic ideals of the primacy of the state).Well, so do I, but that doesn't mean it is reasonable or fair to use the term in that way. Just because something is 'the american way' or just traditional in the US in no way makes it 'right.'
Quote[/b] ]Anyway i broadly agree with you that the word is misplaced (but due to your authoritarian style of expression i find myself compelled to continually question the minutia of your statements).And I never get annoyed at anyone else stating things as if they were facts
Most of my posts which you apparently take a special dislike to are in response to supposedly authorative statements - which I feel, given evidence, are not. Oh - and when I say 'wrong' - I back it up
Quote[/b] ]I think your loathing of religion has blinded you to possibility that walkers assessment may not be entirely without foundation.
And I think the american (and your own) veneration of religion as something which 'just is' good is blinding you to the very real fact that religion is divisive, bad for humanity and one of the main causes of intolerance, hatred and inhumanity. The NeoCons are not subverting religion, they are just using it. Again an incorrect use of language. Subverting religion would mean changing what it is - and they are not doing that, just using different parts than other religious types.
Quote[/b] ]Theavonlady has noted in the past that George Bush is not as religious as he is often made out to be, if this is true it seems to smack of instrumentalism on the part of Bush, and if it is false it may be that others in the administration are maximising the political benefits of George's religiousness.
Its not true.
Bush is an extremely religious man. He is great friends with Pat Robertson - the televangelist lunatic. Watch 'The Jesus Factor.'
Quote[/b] ]Alternatively he might be as religious as he is supposed. But as you will know from having watched The Power of Nightmares, a crucial step in the rise of neoconservatism was their alliance with Americas religious right (born again christians, evangelicals, fundamentalists etc.) .
Yes.... suggesting that he is, indeed, a very religious man and that religion is not being subverted, just expressed 'honestly.'
Quote[/b] ]The idea that all religious thought is equally unintelligent strikes me as a peculiarly unintelligent form of atheism.
Truth hurts sometimes. Any particular reason WHY you think that, or is it just something you don't like?
Quote[/b] ] It is possible to use religious language without engaging in demagoguery and it is quite possible to make a judgement as to what level of sophistication and what degree of intelligence TBA employs in their use of religious language IMO.Of course the speeches are carefully tailored to suit the audience, etc. But that doesnt mean that they are not expressing their own religiousness or applying it in day to day affairs. You seem adamant that religion cannot possibly be a bad thing - but refuse to give any reason why. Can it be that you cant think of any?
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Walker, IsthatyouJohnWayne,
Look; the point is very simple.
The government in the former USSR was not communist. (It was a socialist government which claimed to be preparing the ground for communism)
The way the NeoCons act and behave is slightly similar to that government, but not to 'communism' as a form of politics, sociology or ethos.
Therefore it is WRONG to say that the NeoCons are 'commies.'
You could say they are wannabe totalitarian dictators, (which is not anything to do with communism) or just fascists - but they certainly are not 'commies.'
If one person, or even group of people, is using a word incorrectly (IE McCarthy era US citizen style) -that doesnt change the meaning of the word or make their incorrect usage correct.
Walker, really, what you are describing sounds far more like fascism than communism. Try to see the difference between 'pure' Political systems in theory and claimed political systems in practice.
What I mean here is that you should not say democracy is flawed because many countries (particularly in Africa) call themselves 'The democratic such and such' - but don't act like democracies.
The same thing applies. The government of the USSR had no resemblance to communism.
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I actually agree with the Baron for once. But I think Walker is not using the term in a literal fashion but more as a generic way of referring to people who wish to take away individual freedom from Americans and the rest of the world.Chris G.
aka-Miles Teg<GD>
Then he is using it wrongly, TBH.
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We've all seen OFP-Xbox, right? It looks way much better than the PC version. So wouldnt it be nice if BIS released something like a high defention pack to make the pc version look as good as the Xbox version?Apart from the grass, the PC version looks 10x better than the Xbox version.
Are you mad?
The level of detail is far lower, and the main thing - the resolution is TINY compared to the PC version.
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We've all seen OFP-Xbox, right? It looks way much better than the PC version. So wouldnt it be nice if BIS released something like a high defention pack to make the pc version look as good as the Xbox version?Apart from the grass, the PC version looks 10x better than the Xbox version.
Are you mad?
The level of detail is far lower, and the main thing - the resolution is TINY compared to the PC version.
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We've all seen OFP-Xbox, right? It looks way much better than the PC version. So wouldnt it be nice if BIS released something like a high defention pack to make the pc version look as good as the Xbox version?Apart from the grass, the PC version looks 10x better than the Xbox version.
Are you mad?
The level of detail is far lower, and the main thing - the resolution is TINY compared to the PC version.
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so if somebody writes on a tank for ex " die stupid american" you will probably appreciate and say nothing , just not downloading the addon.If this were on, say, an Iraqi tank addon, for example, I would have no problem downloading, using and promoting such an addon. It reflects the reality of countries at war with each other.
However, I see no reason why the example you gave in the M1A2 thread about "eating pig" should be accepted here by the player community. Whether or not such an inscription existed or not on a real tank, it goes past insulting an enemy country. In this case, it's an insult to 100s of millions of Muslims worldwide. Why should this be tolerated here?
And we better not mention that the world is not flat either, in case we insult Christians!
People get offended at all sorts of things. That is THEIR problem.
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Hi Walker.
Yeah, I saw that 'The power of Nightmares, the rise of the politics of Fear' series too.
I also saw 'Operation Hollywood', 'Mission Accomplished', 'Unprecedented', 'The world According to Bush' and 'The Jesus Factor.'
"So like the commies the NeoConMen hate individual liberty what you and me call freedom and the NeoConMen prefer colectivism which is another word for social cohesion."
Well, not exactly what Communism entails. I would not say that NeoCons would advocate "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." They are strongly into individual ownership and business.
What they dont want is everyone's politics and morality being 'liberal' - liberty.
They certainly do NOT want everyone having equal social and economic status.
Now, I agree with you that the government in the USSR was not communist; but I do not see how you can then say that the NeoCons are communist just because they are a more radical group inside a larger group.
Their politics, social theories and morality are completely different (and usually opposed to) communism.
Quote[/b] ]They have misused people's religion and patriotism to organise groups of Americans into colectivist mindset to make them more easily mannipulated. They have done it using the classic Straussian text. It is NeoConMan philosophy to reduce the inteligence of religious thought in order to make a vast army of worker proles. I know it sounds far fetched but read their philosphy it is there as plane as the nose on your face.I disagree with your conclusion, and especially with the implication that they are somehow subverting religion which you are implying is good.
Blind faith is exactly what allows this kind of thing.
'Intelligence of religious thought'! Ha! Theres an oxymoron.
I think the problem is that you are using the word communist as if the government which presided over the USSR were communist. In everything but name, they were not.
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Actually, you only protest when you dont agree with the beliefs of the people who arent talking about the subject.