DracoPaladore
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Hopefully my employment into the Canadian Forces will be entirely opposite of that.
And from what I hear, it is.
If I wanted to do that, I'd join Microsoft.
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Still gonna have to kick you in the rear one day Hellfish in CM.
One day, some day, I just might.
But thanks.
Donnervogel,
When you sign up for the Canadian military you give them three choices for which trades you want. Mine was Combat Engineer, Signals Operations, or Land Communications and Information Systems Technologist.
LCIS came early, told them I wanted my Sigs choice instead so I waited a tad bit longer.
Sigs is a lot of things. From satellite uplinks, mobile radio vehicles, man-packs, recce, field work, head quarters, logistics, etc. I could be attached to a mechanized unit, to an infantry unit, either in deployment or stationed at home.
Sigs, from what I hear, usually get higher chances of deployments than most trades.
Funny thing is, I get to go back to Kingston. I lived there for about seven years of my life (long story, I moved a lot) and that's where my father graduated from the Royal Military College.
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Just noting that after August 7th I will no longer be lurking in the dark corners of this forum anymore. On July 19th I have my enrollment ceremony (oath and swearing in) and on August 7 I start my basic military qualification (basic training).
I'll be going in for Signal Operations, so I'll be the man running around with the radio on my back or rollin' in my pimpin' radio truck.
Just wondering how many forumers here are actually serving or have served.
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hey what does oc stand for?Open Canvas
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So what's the status of the mod?
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Ever since that OFP video, I've been upsessed with Muse. Music is awsome.
Time Is Running Out
Stockholm Syndrom
Butterflies and Hurricanes
Just burrowed my friends copy. I want to buy it now. Just gotta find a place that sells it.
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And what's up with the Imperial legion? OK, Kvatch has been destroyed... But ehr, all they get in terms of reinforcements are four legion soldiers who saw the town burning on their patrol.Actually, they explain this. I went back to the Imperial City to ask for reinforcements, and the council guy explained it all. The Imperial Legion is spread out over other provinces, meaning that they're all over the place. There's more happening out of Oblivion.
I don't remember much, but the legion is spread out all over the continent and don't have enough to send back to Cyrodill.
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Too bad I don't have any comp modding skills. I would so make a Warhammer Fantasy mod for this. Big arse Orcs and goblins, with stone giants stomping around. Chaos bandits and chaos knights, slaneesh, nurgle, the likes. Elves that kick ass, Dwarves, etc.
Be so awsome.
I wish they made the weapon designs in this game a bit more interesting. The hammers are kinda boring (personally, I'd like a warhammer that Adrian Smith gave these guys.) and the axes are dull. The swords too.
Hopefully some mods come out that spice things up a bit.
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What's cool is that you could pretty much use any of these addons in any sort of enviornment, from an massive battle all over Everon to a small engagment in Ghostland(Unsung Island).
Can't wait to see a Hellhound crunching forward with Cadians or Legion firing at its side.
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You can only really sell stolen goods to your 'fencer' if you're a theif.
What I like doing is stealing from their room when they're still sleeping in it. It's actually safter than doing it while they're up and about down stairs.
Thieving is fun. Being sneaky is fun. But you gotta be careful when doing quests that involve combat (which should be avoided!
. My blade skills are suck, while my marksman and sneaking is excellent. In any case, as a theif myself I like to keep things distant.Gotta be careful though.
Picking pockets is risky, but rewarding. Get quite a few keys to rather rich homes when I pick pocket.
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Game is all fixed and runs great.
Awsome. First game that I've ever lost sleep over.
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Game runs like cold molasses down a tree for me. So freaking slow despite my system.
Pentium 4 2.6Ghz
Geforce 6600GT
1GB of Ram
Things runs like crap. But, strangly, my brother has a slower CPU but the game runs perfectly.
I'm going to see wat I can do to make it faster. I put all options off at 640x480 res, and it still runs like shite.
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Quote[/b] ]Seems like a common US Goverment thing to think of these crazy ideas for giggles.Well, A computer like the one your using seemed stupid to even computer scientists a few decades ago (before Moore's Law)
What would a Victorian think of the notion of a modern computer? Balderdash and piffle methinks.
It's not really the concept, more or less the timeframe. They can barely decide on a new replacement rifle, let alone arm every soldier like a Warhammer Space Marine by 2012.
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Seems like a common US Goverment thing to think of these crazy ideas for giggles. Like the super soldier in 2012, who can jump from building to building and has built in optical equipment that can distinguish between targets.
Hey, it'd cost millions of dollars. But we can still dress a nerd up in this suit and impress the kids, can't we? Might as well get the physics boys up and at em.
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Ah, I see.
Thanks, though.
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Might have missed this in the thread, but does anyone know a way around the fact that the enemy and my buddies are seeing eachother at +200 metres?
While I'm sure in Vietnam alot of fighting was without visual confirmation, I'm sure that they wern't shooting across a bloody forest at eachother
I could barely see anything at 90metres, and even 20 was a stretch.Is there a way around this that I missed earlier?
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Awww, look. In the first pic she's practising throwing a grenade already!
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Look for the option called 'altitude warning'
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Just wanted to say.., "Happy Thanksgiving!"Even if it's not a holiday you celebrate.
I also give thanks for the following!
God!
My son, "Sean" (6 yrs. old.)
My beautiful wife, "Alane."
Family and Friends!
Having a decent job!
A nice townhouse on Martin Lake!
And on the 29th of Nov. my newest member of the family will be born!
My daughter "Alexis" will be her name! She is schedule for a C-Section.
So HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL!
Sincerely, MilitiaSniper
I may be in Canada(earlier for us), but Happy Thanksgiving to you too as well.
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Sorry, forgot that we even had a politics thread
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Quote[/b] ]U.S. blinks on softwoodNov. 23, 2005. 04:36 AM
SUSAN DELACOURT
IN OTTAWA
Canada has gained an important "step forward" from the U.S. in the softwood-lumber dispute, says Prime Minister Paul Martin, but not the complete victory his government is seeking.
Martin spoke to the Toronto Star last night shortly after the U.S. Commerce Department announced it would comply ? theoretically ? with a pro-Canada panel ruling from the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Though the U.S. accepted it should cut the punishing duties on Canadian softwood lumber imports, as the NAFTA panel ruled, it also said it would continue to collect tariffs during a public-comment period that could last as long as 45 days and isn't prepared to return the $5 billion collected so far.
"It's a step forward, but it's clearly a long way from being satisfactory and we're going to continue taking a very tough stand," Martin said. "We're in the right on this and we're going to win out."
The U.S. decision comes just as Martin's government is perched at the edge of collapse and the country at the brink of an election that will probably be unleashed early next week.
On Aug. 10, a panel considering the North American Free Trade Agreement ruled $5 billion in duties levied on softwood lumber sent to the U.S. should be returned to Canada. So far, the U.S. has been ordered to reduce tariffs five times.
The softwood dispute was simmering into a boiling campaign issue here in Canada, with the opposition parties spending all day in the Commons yesterday hammering Martin's government for failing to gain any ground with the U.S. or provide relief to the softwood-lumber industry at home.
It was becoming an especially acute issue in British Columbia, which is shaping up to be make-or-break territory for Liberals, New Democrats and Conservatives in the next campaign.
But then came some unexpected, if limited, relief for Martin yesterday, only days after he publicly took U.S. President George W. Bush to task on softwood during a leaders' summit in South Korea.
In a statement, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said: "We have serious concerns about the panel's decision. However, consistent with our NAFTA obligations, we have complied with the panel's instructions. ... We will continue to enforce our trade laws to ensure that U.S. industry receives relief from unfair imports and we are reviewing all options to do so. We believe that only a durable, negotiated resolution will resolve this dispute permanently."
Still, while Martin welcomed how the U.S. was now acknowledging NAFTA's authority ? as Canada has been demanding with increasing force and even some veiled threats ? the Commerce Department decision will have no immediate practical impact.
And nothing else uttered in Washington yesterday appeared to indicate any caving-in to Canada's demand for an end to the duties.
Yet it may rub a lot of the harsh edges off the opposition's denunciations of the Liberals, since all three federal party leaders had to acknowledge last night that the markers had moved in Canada's ? and Martin's ? favour.
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper welcomed the announcement.
"It's positive news," he said. "It's a funnily worded decision, but it shows some willingness to move. It doesn't obviously deal with the question of the existing duties, and there is a big pool. That is the big issue that has to be resolved. But it gives me some optimism that a future government will be in a good position to move this to resolution."
"This is a small victory for the workers and the communities and everybody that has been calling for action," said NDP Leader Jack Layton, who ascribed little credit to Martin for the Americans' decision.
Layton added that despite this decision, he intends to keep the trade issues surrounding softwood lumber front and centre during the upcoming campaign.
Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe said it was positive news.
"I just hope they don't appeal, and that their first reaction will remain the final one," he told the Star. "I hope so."
Every year, Canada ships $6 billion of softwood lumber to the United States and Canadian exporters have been subject to tariffs since 2002 with the Bush administration claiming Canadians received unfair subsidies.
Yesterday, the U.S. Commerce Department announced it would reduce countervailing duties from 16 per cent to 0.8 per cent. However, John Sullivan, the department's general counsel, said the 16 per cent duty would continue for now and none of the money collected so far will be returned.
Meredith Williams, a Commerce Department spokeswoman, said Washington will now go before a review panel that can hear comment over the next 25 to 45 days, then the panel will either reaffirm the decision or issue new instructions.
During that time, the punitive tariffs will continue to be levied. "Nothing has been resolved," she said. "I'm not going to characterize this as a win or a loss for anyone."
Sullivan also signalled Washington was prepared to appeal any ruling it doesn't like after the consultation period.
"We start off with a premise that Canada subsidizes lumber," he said.
The U.S. lumber industry said it was "deeply disappointed" by the Commerce Department decision, saying the lifting of duties would threaten the domestic industry and its workers.
Steve Swanson, chairman of the Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports, said yesterday's decision does not change the fundamental fact that Canada's lumber industry receives billions of dollars in annual subsidies derived from Canadian taxpayer-owned forest resources.
The coalition also accused Ottawa of flouting U.S. trade law by announcing it will provide an aid package to its lumber industry worth more than $1 billion.
Martin took the unusual step of haranguing Bush about softwood in front of 19 other leaders of Asian-Pacific countries at a summit last week in South Korea.
He essentially told the leaders of the Pacific Rim countries that Washington's commitments to free trade mean nothing if the U.S. treats other countries the way it has treated Canada in the lumber dispute.
Reaction among industry experts leaned toward the cautious, and even provoked some mild cynicism.
Jamie Lim, president and CEO of Ontario Forest Industries Association, said it was "nice to see the U.S. Department of Commerce complying, but if they were in a law-abiding state of mind, why wouldn't they comply with all of NAFTA's Aug. 10th ruling (and require) the return of all of the illegal duties collected so far?"
with files from Graham Fraser, Andrew Mills, Sean Gordon and CANADIAN PRESS
It seems like a good thing to me. But I'm not entirely sure what the whole issue is about since about 2002 I couldn't care less about my universe.
Thoughts?
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That is ENOUGH.
By far you people have gone beyond making a point and are making everything personal.
I was hoping that this forum would allow me to try and understand the viewpoints of people from different nations in a peaceful and respectful manner.
But so far all I've seen is jingoism and patriotic flag waving stuck between the lines to achieve nothing but to piss the other party off. Not in this thread, but in many. The innuendo, the hidden messages, the tiny little inklings of an insult in order to make sure that the other people around you feel smaller.
This thread I ask to be closed and locked away forever. The fact that some of these members cannot discuss a movie without going to personal insults and childish mannerisms  is downright disgusting.
Over and over the only thing that is accomplished in many threads on this forum is to be drag every discussion down to a personal contest over who has the larger vocabularly and internet website links. Everyone should be ashamed of themselves for conducting not in the matter of adults, but children.
Get over it. All of you. Don't like what you see, ignore it. It's a forum, and there is not obligation to throw your own weight around to show who's better or who's the boss. If you FEEL that you have to respond, or have a vendetta against another member, then LEAVE IT out of the threads and use the Personal Message system.
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Ah, I see then. My mistake for misunderstanding.
Fond farewell
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Know I havn't been the most active member of this community; being a lurking king of lurkers and all. I might not be the most popular figure around; but I certainly try
(Ya'll probobly going "Who's that?")
But I start my basic training for the Canadian Forces (RegForce) in a few days; so I'd figure I'd say goodbye to a well put together community. I am saddened by my lack of ability to have another round of Combat Mission with Hellfish, or join Balschow and the crew in another OFP COOP match. Oh, and thanks to Ralph for that "special stuff" he sent in the mail.
So, I bid ya'll a fond farewell; and here's to the best of the OFP future. Hopefully Armed Assault is everything it promises to be; and hopefull I can be there in the future to share it all with ya.
Of course, this is where most people would start a long sappy post of farewells with names and groups being mentioned; but there's far too many of ya OFP folks to list off here. Great group of people we have in the community.
Anyways, here's a pint for the entire community.
And another pint, for drinkings sake.
And Mods; keep doing what ya folks do best
Oh well; it's been fun you goons. Thanks for the ride, thanks for the fun, and thanks for the community. Hopefully not goodbye, but "see you later".
Private (Recruit) Dan Anderson,
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