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Quote[/b] ]You doubt the ability of our men and women in uniform and question their actions when most of them have no control of being there.Christ, you keep accusing people criticizing USA of talking shit about the soldiers in Iraq...
First of all, I'm sure most people here are aware that US troops probably are well trained, but that doesn't mean they are the best.
Second of all, people don't question US troops actions, people question US leaders actions and decisions...
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*EDIT: Oh a side not to let you think about what's going on. In early November Iran said It "will be announced as an established nuclear state during the 2007 Ten Day Dawn ceremonies." The "Ten Day Dawn Celebrations" is from Feb 1st-11th, which is basically right on the nose of when the USS John C. Stennis arrives. let it be noted than nothing in politics is accidental.And a report by some americans Iran is 10 years away from having nukes...but better rush in now and ask questions later...a bit like Iraq
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I won't hold my breath. Been report that he won't be executed until mid januar or something. Though I hope they just hang him now while they still can. Even though I didn't support the Iraqi war due to the dodgy way it was initiated, there's no doubt that the guy is a bad guy. If he decerves to die...I'm not a fan of death penalty, but that's mainly because you often can't be too sure about the guilt...but in this case...so do it now before he finds a way to kill himself like Slobodan did (dunno if I spelled the guys name right).
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Errm, the minimum specs released on the biki earlier (before ArmA was released), are they still considered the minimum specs, or have it been turned up? Because I suppose the ArmA demo doesn't need a better computer than the whole game (?), and in that case the minimum specs are total bullshit. I've got a better computer than the minimum specs except for my GFX card, which is (AFAIK) the worst GFX card supposed to be able to run ArmA...but I wasn't even close to being able to run the demo. Turned everything down to lowest possible, but the game lagged like a bitch, even in the menu...only time it didn't lag was in briefing...
Though I have to add that I didn't really expect being able to run the demo/game...but I just mean, either BIS must adjust the minimum specs or they will have to do some serious work on the game to make it run on the minimum specs
Guess I'll just have to drop buying ArmA until I'm done with my mandatory military service in a year, when I'll hopefully get my own computer
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BUZZARD @ Dec. 21 2006,14:28)]So, Pinochet, Uncle Slobo, Stroessner and Turkmenbashi kicked the bucket this year. Castro and Saddam are also reaching their end as well. Not a bad year at all. Â Soon to be followed by Ahmadinejad, Bin Laden, Mr Kim, Putin, Blair and Bush?
You're a left wing extremist?
Bush and Blair isn't exactly nice...if Bush points and sends in his army, Blair follows...and Bush is a nutjob.
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look, poloticians are controlled by the people. if the people are largeley religious then there SHOULD NOT BE ANY PROBLEM. There are things that are called "passports" they get you to a differant country. If you dislike the policies set down by the public then leave the public.The people do not controll the goverment. The goverment controll the people. If the people don't like the goverment, they can do jack shit about it until the next election...unless the people decides to use violence...
Quote[/b] ]It's that way because people go to extreemism.Soo...my religion book when I was about 10 years old was 270 pages christianity, and like 30 pages divided on all other religons and stuff, because of extremists? Now that was some nice bullshit.
Quote[/b] ]I'd loose sleep because it's [religion] a big part of US culture.How nice.
Quote[/b] ]A core value in America is the freedom of religion. Mind you that is freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion.So when a nation embraces a religion and acts like this religon being the right one and treats this religion better than other, is that full religious freedom? You only got full religious freedom when a nation doesn't embrace any religious view and treats every religious view equally, may it be Islam, Buddism, Christianity, atheism or any other...
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just a shame that most european goverments don't got the balls to say anything else that "I don't like that so much...but I'm not really gonna do anything about it"
Well...
It's also about economic interests in the US..
If you remove everything like economic etc, I doubt too many goverments here in western europe would have the guts to do much about things with USAs policy that they dislike. Most likely to do it would be Germany and France, possibly Sweden. Of course, my view may be a bit worse than it is, because our last goverment was such a suckup to Mr. Bush...
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1.) The other day I saw a bumper sticker that said "Don't pray in my school and I won't think in your church."Witty, but who is really up in arms worried about religion in schools? Â Other than right-wing fanatics wanting it back in school, or left-wing hippies angry that the Pledge of Alliegence has the word "God" in it...who is losing sleep over this?
Doubt people lose sleep over removing the word god from the pledge. And I doubt people consider is such a big deal, but it's the principle. An atheist probably wants to be able to say the pledge without having to drag some shitty religion into it. Just imagine the outcry in USA if you replaced "god" with "allah". I'd almost bet on that it would result in violent demonstrations.
Quote[/b] ]2.) Why is one Religion something we need to be more "sensitive too," while another Religion is offensive?And that's the problem. In my opinion, all religions should be treated equally, but they're not.
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The patch fix many thinks but the command setunitpos "up" or "down" still doesn't work.I you set an AI in the editor and write in the init line This set unitpos "up" it will lie down when shoot :/
Well if you write "set unitpos" and not "setunitpos" it's no wonder it doesn't work.
Sure, I mean of course SetUnitPos
But all it doesnt work. Like in ofp, if you write it in the init and the AI "hear" shots then it stand and dont go prone.
In arma they are gone prone even if this in init.
Its obstructive to make combat intros/ourtos/cutscenes if you cant set/tell (temporary) the AI that they have to stand and dont go prone
Well then it's hopefully just a little slip from BIS, I'm sure it'll be worked out in a patch.
And if I don't remember too wrong, I think they actually added to the command so you can force units to stay crouched, which have been something the OFP community have wanted almost since OFP was relased
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No offence - but who cares what a real pilot has to say ?? This is NOT a flight sim. ÂWe know what worked in OFP -we have been playing it for years so i think the community knows what was right and what was wrong.
The helo's were one of the things that were near perfect.
Lets say you got a limited knowledge of tanks, and I say that tanks in ArmA is shitty because they can't fly, and then I go talking about how tanks can fly in real life. And then you got the other, more sane people, who say tanks in ArmA at least isn't shitty because they can't fly, because it's impossible for tanks to fly in real life too. So imagine that you knowledge of tanks was low enough for you to wonder what is true. Wouldn't you like a actual tank driver to tell you how it really is to drive a tank?
(this was just an extreme example to show why I want to hear a chopper pilots opinion on the ArmA flight model)
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Guys who cares how a real chopper flies anyway ?? This IS NOT a helo simulator !! This is OFP 1.5
I really am extremely happy with the game but the chopper flying. Maybe BIS should give the player the option for realism ? I understand that maybe i am asking for a lot here but how difficult can it be? Let the player decide if he/she wants rudder controls, let the player decide if they want a simulator or if they want the OFP legendary flying model.It's not that people really want it to be as close to flying a chopper as possible. It's that people say "This and this and that is wrong, because this and this is how it is in real life". People constantly try backing up their opinion on wether the flightmodel sucks or rule with their helicopter "knowledge". Only problem is, if everyone were to be right, a helicopter would be a more amazing machine than it is. The damn thing would almost be able to bake you all your x-mas cakes while travelling back in time doing a hot extraction in vietnam at the same time
That's why it would be nice to have a real chopper pilot to tell how it really is, so the ones backing up opinions with helicopter fantasies could be shut up, and so people would know what's a fact and what's utter BS about choppers. -
does a chopper has this 'ground-effect' irl? You fly to a hill and it 'magically' flies over it??No, the "ground effect" is a air-cushion that make the downwash bounce back up into the rotors giving the aircraft some "free" lift. This only happens at very slow speed. Up to around 5kts I believe.
Its good that the old alt-hold is gone. It always gave me a false sense of security. Flying over a canyon meant the helo would fly down into it and up on the other side. Now you can fly in a straight line.
Quote[/b] ] I just dont get why they had to go and design this wierd way of flying.This "weird" way of flying is pretty close to how a real helicopter works. Helicopters in OFP were cars with a spinning thing ontop.
Quote[/b] ]Rudder Rudder just fix the Rudder! so it stays as a Rudder and does'nt switch to bank (left or right) at speeds of 60+Check your key-settings. Rudder (pedals) is always that at all speeds, they just loose effectiveness around 60-70 km/h which is the same thing as in real life. When a helicopter fly faster than 70km/h the cyclic makes the aircraft handle in the same way as a stick in a fixed wing aircraft.
All I can say is: get used to it (no attitude intended) Â
Problem is, everybody is a helicopter pilot and a helicopter expert. Everybody knows how to fly a helicopter, everybody knows how it should feel to fly every helicopter in existance, and everybody knows how to design a helicopter. Just the same as everybody with a sick kid whines at the doctor because they are, of course, doctors themself
That's why we should have had Mike Beil or some other chopper pilot here to tell us how it really is. Though it would probably not work anyway -
Would be nice to hear old Mike Beils opinion on how choppers are in ArmA. Now where is that bugger when we need him?
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let me pull it back a bit then:Statement 1) "It's GOVT property and controlled by the US Govt"
Statement 2) "why should a private bank force the US population to use currency that invokes the name of a God."
The way I see his statement is, he considers the US currency to be US goverment property, that the US goverment should be the one deciding how their coins and such should look like. Therefor a private bank should not be allowed to put whatever they like on the money.
Quote[/b] ]I'll stop you there. The USD is NOT government property. they may have money in their account but they do NOT own money. If that was true then the US would not be in debt.Do you think its wrong for a store to sell religious items? Noted that i really don't consider the USD as a religious item but that, in a sense, is what you are arguing about.
Quote[/b] ]if currency is to be considered US government propertyI never said I consider it US goverment property. Honestly, I don't give a shit either...
Quote[/b] ]To do what!? I can go around yelling that aliens are from the planet "losafoti" but does that control people to believe that?To do what the fuck they want to have done. A gun can be a way to controll people, but I don't know what the fuck everyone with a gun want to controll other people to do...and I never said religion can be used to controll every religious person. But that still doesn't change the fact that religion can be used to controll people...and just to make sure you got it, that doesn't mean all people, that means some people...
Quote[/b] ]It shows the vanity of everyone saying that they are controlled by the government.
There is this neat thing called power. This power is something people get when in high positions, such as US president. This power can be used to do neat things like...controll people. The higher the position, the more power, the more controll over people.
Quote[/b] ]You control yourself, if your a minor (in the US) your parents/guardians "control you".And if I go out and shoots someone, the police arrests me. Then the police controll me. The police does this because of laws. Laws are again controlled by the goverments and such...a goverment can controll the citizens of a nation if they feel like. There's many ways to do it, some more effective than others. And no way how you put it, you are to some extent controlled by the goverment.
Quote[/b] ]If you don't have common sense you would say yes, but that just shows how stupid you are to allow yourself to be controlled by any other person besides yourself.Ah yes...how stupid a sentence. Laws controll people. I don't make my own laws to follow. I have to follow laws made by others. How fucking stupid I am. I guess I'll just go out and blow the brains out of someone, because I don't want to be controlled by the laws made by others...
Quote[/b] ]My parents are Democrats.How sweet. And that proves? That not everybody votes the same as their parents? Did I ever say so?
Quote[/b] ]What are you saying here? that religion/the government is like a parent?Errr...no?
I am saying "Do you think it's a coincidence that most people have the same religious beliefs as their parents?"
And the point is that a persons choice of religion isn't as free as one would think. The choice is often "made" by peoples parents. If ones parents are christians, the child often ends up a christian too, especially if the parents wants the child to end up a christian.
Quote[/b] ]1) Killing the other guy2) Killing the other guy
3) Killing that one other guy too
4) Yes, we have guns and morals
Oh, I guess that explains why such people had lots of support outside their country
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The patch fix many thinks but the command setunitpos "up" or "down" still doesn't work.I you set an AI in the editor and write in the init line This set unitpos "up" it will lie down when shoot :/
Well if you write "set unitpos" and not "setunitpos" it's no wonder it doesn't work.
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but you did side on taking "God" out of everything. how do you expect to get it out? shouting at random people?But that still doesn't, in any way, mean that he means it's unconstitutional...
Quote[/b] ]anyone else see the contradiction here? but in answer to the first quote... you are not forced to use US currency inside the US, its just convenient for the debtors for you to use it.Not really...if currency is to be considered US goverment property, then a private bank shouldn't be allowed to put any religious signs or anything on money without approval from the US goverment. It would be like making counterfeit money...
Quote[/b] ]2) "one nation under God" has been put into the pledge\And that is exactly the problem...
Quote[/b] ]The whole thing [about the "God"] is used to control people [even though people are controlled by other people].
Aaaaaaaand..."the whole thing" is a mean to controll people. What do "even though people are controlled by other people" prove anyway? Some people have to be on the top, and religion can be used by these "top-people" to controll other people...
Quote[/b] ]Religion is [not] a way to control people [because people have the choice to be atheist or not].Oh come on. Do you think it's just a coincidence that people usually vote the same as their parents? Do you think it's a coincidence that most people have the same religious beliefs as their parents? A persons choice of religion is very much decided by his/her parents and their beliefs. A child with atheist parents is much more likely to end up as an atheist than a child with christian parents. When a child grows up in a religious home, he grows up with the fear of being sent to hell by an angry god. A childs mind is easy to mould, and the threats about hell is enough to make the child follow christianity (or any other religion with similar threats). Yes, the choice of religion is in theory totally free, but in reality your parents often have a big part in deciding it. And if they choose so, a child may grow up being a "good" christian, and thereby being afraid of gods wrath, and therefor easy to controll for the church.
Quote[/b] ]Why would US citizens be apathetic to a country ruled by a man that kills millions of his own countrymen? or a country that has a government that allows it to happen?And how did that goverment get to power? Why did that goverment have support in most countries? Why did that goverment still have support after doing such bad things? Do you actually think that americans are somehow immune to supporting such people?
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The words were put into the pledge to distinguish the US from the Soviet Union. We were rubbing in their face that the US had religion and they didn't. Again culture brings out the contradiction in your quote.Rub it into their face?
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How about the U.S. finds some new allies?
We already love the allies we got including your nation.....
A feeling that's not too mutual currently.
Deep down you get that fuzzy feel for America. So, you can't hate us.
People don't hate americans. People hate the american goverment, and people dislikes (very much) americans that support the american politics blindly...
and allies isn't about wether or not you like the people in the country, it's about wether or not you like the goverments policies...and very few like the US goverments policy...just a shame that most european goverments don't got the balls to say anything else that "I don't like that so much...but I'm not really gonna do anything about it"
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The pledge was originally designed to show patriotism, not to show your belief in any religion. Â The words under god should be removed from the pledge.
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Now that Unreal 3 engine is coming out, the ARMA engine is getting quite obsolete in terms of what it can deliver (other than massive maps, which by the way are useless in MP games since you play in a limited field anyway)Yes and the neat (and one of the most played modes in MP) CTI uses a shitsmall area...how big is the area usually? Yeah, that's right, about the whole island
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<span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'>17 months ago:</span>If I were a terrorist I would spend thousands of dollars buying up cheap hardware store smoke detectors. Â Hell, I'd even steal them from public restrooms and where ever they are easily available. Â Then I'd force open the tiny Americium-241 container from each detector with vice-grips. Â I'd gathering all the impregnated pieces of resin and mix it in with the high explosive of my bomb.Americium-241 emits ~85% alpha particles and ~8% gamma radiation with a 400 year half-life. Â The authorities will easily be able to detect radioactive contamination long long after the explosion.
The interesting part is that nobody has to die and nobody probably ever would die from such low residual radiation. Â But the public would refuse to see the shades of gray. Â For the public, the affected area would either be hot or not.
<span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'>1 month ago:</span>
Quote[/b] ]At a cost of Å70,000, Barot, 34, proposed building a bomb that would cause radiation sickness in about 500 people and produce mass panic....
He suggested in his presentation document to al-Qa'ida leaders that the radiation project should use around 10,000 smoke detectors and either "set them alight" or "place them on top of an explosive device".
You terrorist! Expect to have a CIA agent on your door soon...better take you out now, and then look into if you really are a bad guy later...somewhat like Iraq
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Jimmy Carter apparently says the Israeli ("apartheid"-)policy is worse than the apartheid in South Africa in his new book, and he wants to create a debate on the subject of the USAs Israeli politics, which he means is very much controlled by Israeli oragnizations and such...
Not suprisingly, Israelis have, as they always do when someone critize them, brought out the anti-semitism card. Abraham H. Foxman means it's pretty close to anti-semitism.
Way to go Carter
Something surely have to be done with the US policy conserning Israel & Palestine.
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Ahhh, so what your saying is that UK easily can kick some french ass if they feel like (or the other way around for any frenchmen). All they have to do is get approval from their own country and warn the citizens in the other country, and if the citizens in the other country doesn't take the warning serious (which they probably wouldn't in this case), then UK could nuke Paris, and you wouldn't mind?
You got some neat things called international laws...if US congress says it ok, that still doesn't mean USA can go ahead bombing whoever they want. And if you warn people that a certain place is going to be bombed, be it by a nuke or just regular bombs, that neither means it's ok to go bomb whoever you want.