IceFire

I looked at that link in that thread, and I yelled when the thing happened. Plus I spent about 5 minutes trying to figure out what the number would be. I just couln't figure it out. Oh well, I tried posting this link on another forum. But I could not copy and paste the link without the whole sabatoge link address showing? How did that guy do it with simply "Color Blind Test" link?

Well my roommate is a teacher of Brazilian JuiJuitzu I have taken some lessons as a kid. Â But to me the "art" part of Martial Parts is where the discipline is less effective as an actual combat technique. Â It is not as effective to do in a real fight unless you are very proficcient in it, especially with all the high kicks. There are other "hand to hand combat systems" that are specifically used for combat. Â 2 that I am very aware of that are also used by militaries are "Krav Maga", and "Systema". Still, while fighting may be necessary to protect yourself or for whatever reason, care should always be taken. Â I do believe that violence is more often necessary than most people are willing to admit. Never fight because of "pride" or to show off that you are tough. Â There are alot of different factors out there. Â There is the emotional factor. Â You never know someone else's mind and emotional/psychological state. Â Some people are prone to rage and lose all control at a certain point, and these people can lose all control. Â Yes, even that nice guy you see every day at work. Â There are reports of people losing it in simple bar fights and pulling out a pistol and going on a shooting spree killing anyone in the vicinity. There was this guy in my highschool who I knew also. Â He was a normal popular kid. Â Funny, nice guy. Â Apparently something happened at home, his stepdad told him to turn off the TV at night. Â He didn't. Â His dad got mad and pulled him off the couch and pushed him away. Â This guy then lost it. Â He picked up a fireplace poker and tried to beat his step dad to death with it. Â His mom called the police. Later he said he just lost it. You just have to be careful. Â Some people take fights very seriously and wind up doing things they will later regret. Â I know I am a hothead sometimes. Â And if certain things set me off, I often regret what I do. That doesn't happen to me often though.

Well, I am never clicking on some random link in this forum again. I had my headphones on and that scared the hell out of me.

What are you talking about? Howabout OFP2?

Heh I think the majority or even all of the claims of encounters with spirits or the supernatural are caused by other scientific explanations. There have been people who swear that they saw a ghost walk right past them, or even speak to them, as clear as reality. Â They sometimes even recognise the "spirit" as some person or even a relative who died many years ago. Â Not just some faint figure made from smoke or fog. Â Â So some scientists decided to conduct tests of the locations where these ghosts where sighted. What they found in most of these cases was there was some extremely low(or high, I forget) frequency sound waves coming from some source nearby(like in certain rooms with certain acoustic qualities, or like near a large church bell). Â The sound waves at that particular frequency could trigger vivid hallucinations and bring about powerful emotive responses in some people. They then took a random test group, and devised a test. Â They took these people and put them in a sound lab and hooked them up with electrodes measuring their brain waves. Â They then started exposing the volunteers to the sound waves. Â After about 15 minutes the test would finish. Â Every volunteer came out in various states of emotions describing vivid encounters with spirits of loved ones(such as miscarriaged babies, grandparents, spouses,), angels, evil spirits, etc. Â They almost all claimed that it was a life changing event, and some felt they had contact with some divine force, even god. Â Some claimed it was a soothing and loving experience and would love to do it again, other said it was the most terrifying experience they ever had. These sound wave test results were consistent with a wide variety of volunteers. Just another explanation for alot of these ghost encouters.

There is alot of myth, legend and other stories of ghosts here in the US. Personally I don't believe you are really conducting a study of any kind. I don't see why you would say that you cannot divulge any information about your study and then turn around and tell us a story about an experience of yours. As a good researcher you must be impersonal and objective. There is alot of information on the paranormal and existence of spirits and ghosts out there in libraries, and even on science shows on television that I am sure you could find with some effort. Some of it supporting the existence of "spirits" and other disproving them. I have my own experience with the paranormal since as a child I went to a boarding school where there was alot of legend of ghosts. Notably the ghost of the founder of the boarding school(who died, and body remains on the school grounds). The legend ran so deep in the lore of the school, the school library had it's own section on it devoted to the school and other topics of the paranormal and occult. To this day I am still undecided on the idea of the existence of ghosts, spirits, and the paranormal. I will not go into detail of my personal perceptions of encounters with any "spirits" at my old boarding school unless I am absolutely convinced of the seriousness of your study.

Holy cow. Judging from the thread and the first post in this thread, the ICC is called the "Inter County Connector". It is NOT a part of the "metro" as the thread started suggested in his first post. It is a new highway that the Maryland Governor wants to build in a quiet community in Longmeade close to Aspen Hill. I don't care really what they do to that area, but I know some people who live close by and MANY people are against this new highway idea since it will be going straight through that living community. There has been alot of controversy about this for like 10 years now. They are finally making the final decision on whether to actually build this new highway this summer. Many people are still protesting this new highway. Who knows what will happen. I don't think it will be built though. They have been discussing this for the past 10 years now but it would suck if it does get built.

Hey Reconmercs, you pretty much read my mind on this issue. I couln't have stated it clearer myself. Most of the problems over there now are entirely their own fault. We freed them, gave them control of their own destiny. And instead of building anew and forming a new liberated society like they easily could have, they instead decided to embrace blind meaningless violence against us and themselves for no other reason than religion and some stupid sense of that they are "smiting the americans". Whatever. They are digging their own hole, they should get themselves out of it. If we left Iraq right now, they would probably be puzzled over the new problem of having noone to murder and scream about. They would probably then just randomly shoot themselves out of stupidity and bewilderment.

See, this is what happens when they release Oxygen. Everyone creates some new crazy mod or addon and it gets confusing. All I can say is I TOLD YOU SO!

NO. Terrorism is completely NOT a part of modern warfare. Terrorism is a way for angry fanatics to vent their frustration on the innocent. Â It is meant to shock and get attention. It doesn't lead to military victories. Â It is like the Oklahoma City Bomber, he did it because he hated technology and was angry. 9/11 didn't gain the terrorists any strategic advantage, or do anything for them other than to kill Americans and vent their frustrations about their own inability to create peace in their own countries. It is nothing more than mass murder and anyone who disagrees with that is either sick and should have the sense beaten into them, or are of questionable character and intentions(terrorist sympathisers) and should be watched by the government.

Imagine if they did succeede at developing teleportation at a significant level. Sorry geeks, but I dont think that the first thing this technology is applied to will be upgrading your precious computers. It would DEFINITELY be commited to military use. Imagine the ability to immediately simultaniously teleport hundreds of tanks to positions directly behind large enemy formations, let them all fire for a good 3-5 seconds, then teleporting them out. Assasinations could occur in the blink of the eye. Teleport a sniper into position, he takes his shot, and then he disappears again. Any small weak nation(like Belgium for example) with this technology would immediately have an advantage so great as to be able to beat any other nation on the globe decisively. Just something to think about.

Oh. I didn't see that topic.

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.(May 6, 2004) -- Marine Capt. Brian R. Chontosh received the Navy Cross Medal from the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, Gen. Michael W. Hagee, during an awards ceremony Thursday at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Training Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif. Three other Marines received medals for valor at the same ceremony. Chontosh, 29, from Rochester, N.Y. , received the naval service's second highest award for extraordinary heroism while serving as Combined Anti-Armor Platoon Commander, Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom March 25, 2003. The Medal of Honor is the highest military award. While leading his platoon north on Highway 1 toward Ad Diwaniyah, Chontosh's platoon moved into a coordinated ambush of mortars, rocket propelled grenades and automatic weapons fire. With coalitions tanks blocking the road ahead, he realized his platoon was caught in a kill zone. He had his driver move the vehicle through a breach along his flank, where he was immediately taken under fire from an entrenched machine gun. Without hesitation, Chontosh ordered the driver to advanced directly at the enemy position enabling his .50 caliber machine gunner to silence the enemy. He then directed his driver into the enemy trench, where he exited his vehicle and began to clear the trench with an M16A2 service rifle and 9 millimeter pistol. His ammunition depleted, Chontosh, with complete disregard for his safety, twice picked up discarded enemy rifles and continued his ferocious attack. When a Marine following him found an enemy rocket propelled grenade launcher, Chontosh used it to destroy yet another group of enemy soldiers. When his audacious attack ended, he had cleared over 200 meters of the enemy trench, killing more than 20 enemy soldiers and wounding several others. "They are the reflection of the Marine Corps type who's service to the Marine Corps and country is held above their own safety and lives," said Gen. Hagee, commenting on the four Marines who received medals during the ceremony. "I'm proud to be here awarding the second highest and third highest awards for bravery to these great Marines." "These four Marines are a reflection of every Marine and sailor in this great battalion," said Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Sgt. Maj. John L. Estrada. "I was just doing my job, I did the same thing every other Marine would have done, it was just a passion and love for my Marines, the experience put a lot into perspective," said Chontosh. In effect since April 1917, and established by an Act of Congress on Feb. 4, 1919, the Navy Cross may be awarded to any person who, while serving with the Navy or Marine Corps, distinguishes himself/herself in action by extraordinary heroism not justifying an award of the Medal of Honor. The action must take place under one of three circumstances: while engaged in action against an enemy of the United States; while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; or, while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict in which the United States is not a belligerent party. To earn a Navy Cross the act to be commended must be performed in the presence of great danger or at great personal risk and must be performed in such a manner as to render the individual highly conspicuous among others of equal grade, rate, experience, or position of responsibility. More than 6,000 Navy Crosses have been awarded since World War I. http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookupstoryref/200456162723

It's called "Guess the Dictator". It is a computerized game where at first you pick the role of any dictator or telivision actor star. Â The computer will then ask you several questions and will then guess you who are. Â It is VERY amazing. I randomly picked the following people, and it correctly guessed them after about 20 questions. Raymond from Everybody Loves Raymond Jerry Seinfeld from Seinfeld. Colonel Blake from M.A.S.H The Tick from that old Cartoon "The Tick". Red Green from the Red Green Show That gay guy from that British show "Are you being served".(I never even remembered his name. Â But the computer did when it finally asked me if I was him) Here is a link http://www.smalltime.com/dictator.html

Hello all, I am IceFire. I currently have a NIVIDIA GeForce2MX graphics card in my computer machine. The rest of my machine is pretty good, Pentium 4 and everything. Â But people keep telling me that my graphics card is the one really lousy thing that messes games up, and I get killed alot in AA because it gets choppy sometimes. Â If anyone has a spare graphics card that is of good quality, can you send it to me? Â Thank you. IceFire

? There must be some misunderstanding. I don't think I requested this thread to be locked. I hope someone hasn't hacked my forum account. Nevertheless, I will lock this thread within the next few days. Until then, or unless a moderator wants to close it, it should still be considered by all to be open.

When I clicked on either link, it said "Page cannot be displayed". This happens to me every time someone on this forum tries to show a video.

Really? I should try that. And what is your AA ingame name? Mine is SeatCushion.

I'm sure all of you(atleast Americans) have heard someone jokingly say the expression "I've fallen and I can't get up". Does anyone know where this expression came from? Where it originally came from? I am trying to find out.

YESS, I think you are correct. The reason I asked this is I vaguely remember from my childhood seeing a commercial where an old person was on the floor and said this. It was about something that you wear, and when you press a button an ambulance responds. I was/am not fully sure, the memory is faint. But it is definitely noteworthy if a random commercial that I remember from when I was little was made famous over such a trivial comment, and I even vaguely remember it. Anyone else know?

I heard about this a few hours ago. And as one could imagine my reaction was that of utter disbelief and feelings of shock. It was the same reaction I had when I learned that Fred Rogers died. And although I was not old enough to know him as a president when he was one. From what I do know about him and have learned through parents and growing up, absolute reverence and respect cannot descripe my view of this man. He was a great man, and I have always thought that he was one of the few men born on this earth to be one of the handful of great men of our time. Noone else can compare to him, ever. This is a very very sad day.

It wasn't a B-movie. It was a first class satire of B-movies.. or regular Hollywood productions and American culture. It's one of my all-time favourites. I remember when I watched it the first time... after the first 10 minutes I was pissed off at what kind of crap I was watching.. Then after a while, I started noticing things like ..hmm..those insignias look a bit Nazi don't they... and more and more.. After 20 minutes I was really enjoing the movie. It's superb satire and the most amusing part is that so many people completely missed the point of the movie and watched it like it was just another crappy Hollywood action/teen movie. There's a good part on the DVD extras where the director Paul Verhoeven tells with amusement how he chose the actors because they didn't see the undertext of the movie. They thought they were doing an action movie. They didn't get the fascist undertones and that the movie was a big foot up the ass to mainstream "patriotic" Hollywood movies. What are you talking about?? Starship Troopers was exactly that. Â A simple summer action flick. Â What undertexts? And what the hell is a "B movie"? Oh boy. Well. Remember at the end when the Doogie Hooser comes out and starts talkin' crap about how they got the mother bug or some shit....any how...take a real close look at what he's wearing. Looks awful SS don't ya think? Remember all the cuts to the News style reels in the movie? Awful lot like the Movie-Tone news from WW2 don't ya think? Propoganda? Notice how they always talk about winning and doing everything you can for the fight (ie showing kids squishing bugs)? And then how the movie would always cut to a battle in which half the people got massacred? Gotta read into things... Also notice how the bugs are refered to as just that..."bugs"? In the book it is made clear that they are intelligent, with a sophisticated social strata, while still being dismissed by the Federation as "just bugs". Intelligent enough for colonization. (Japs? Krauts?) And most importantly, remember the important (but brief) lecture in the school? The jist is, that if you don't serve in the military or government type position, you don't get to vote. Period. Heinlen never really said he was advocating such a system, and when the book was written, he was all but accused of being a communist. One thing that is missing from the movie that is in the book is the emphasis on "equal opportunity". That is to say, he makes quite a deal in the book that females that enlist or almost always picked to be pilots because women tend to grasp math and abstract theories better than males. Males like to blow shit up. Also I don't remember the dumb ass romance between Denise Richards character and the dork on the ship. I do remember the Roger Young getting the shit blown out of it in the book though. ASIDE: Heinlen purposely chose the name Robert Young for the ship, as that is a soldier (WW1 or 2...can't remember) that charged a machine gun nest to save his comrades, dove tailing nicely into his theme of self sacrifice for the good of the many. I also heard he picked the main actors because they were "pretty". Kinda fitting in to the mindless mentality that Verhoevan was trying to go against. The acting was horrible, but surprisingly that fit nicely in with the message. In any case read the book. It will become quite clear. Oh yeah. And it was really unclear if Heinlen advocated such a system. On one hand he seemed to say the people that sacrificed should be the only ones that should get to politically chose, but then show the process of sacrifice as almost a waste. That the "government" chose the battles, and it was the "commoners" that suffered the consequences, usually under false pretenses (patriotism, national safety, etc, etc.) Fits nicely in today time wouldn't you say? Hmm, I think I need to watch that movie again. It seemed like a good action packed alien killing movie when I saw it. But alot of what you mentioned is a common theme in any futuristic movie. Like movies where the Brave New World where everything is regulated and democracy and free thought is old fashioned and technology and government control is everywhere. You can see that same theme in any movie about some time in the year 2050whatever. It's just a joke there to provide amusement to the viewer. Little references to our own time in the far future. Like that scene in "Demolition Man" where Stallone is told that Taco Bell is the major fancy restaurant, and Arnold Shortsinegger was president. That's all it is. I think you all are reading too deep into some little jokes that the writer snuck into the movie.

It wasn't a B-movie. It was a first class satire of B-movies.. or regular Hollywood productions and American culture. It's one of my all-time favourites. I remember when I watched it the first time... after the first 10 minutes I was pissed off at what kind of crap I was watching.. Then after a while, I started noticing things like ..hmm..those insignias look a bit Nazi don't they... and more and more.. After 20 minutes I was really enjoing the movie. It's superb satire and the most amusing part is that so many people completely missed the point of the movie and watched it like it was just another crappy Hollywood action/teen movie. There's a good part on the DVD extras where the director Paul Verhoeven tells with amusement how he chose the actors because they didn't see the undertext of the movie. They thought they were doing an action movie. They didn't get the fascist undertones and that the movie was a big foot up the ass to mainstream "patriotic" Hollywood movies. What are you talking about?? Starship Troopers was exactly that. Â A simple summer action flick. Â What undertexts? And what the hell is a "B movie"?

I understand exactly what you mean drow. The single key to OPFs success is its REALISM. It is not a realistic game. More of a real life battlefield soldier physics simulator. The most important thing to realism in a game is realistic physics and human movements. No other game has tried to match realism the way OPF has. That physical realism to the real life battlefield has made it a very versatile game since real life is itself versatile. Most any combat scenario that happens in real life can be duplicated in the game. The only thing that hinders this games possibilities is one of its most important. The Mission Editor. It is so difficult to use. I have been using it to create my own combat/battlefield situations and I still have alot of problems knowing how to make certain things happen. I have no idea what a script or anything like that is. The only thing I know how to do is spawn units and give them waypoints(you can do some really interesting stuff like that such as having a squad board a truck and be dropped off on another part of the map to attack a village). But it is as if you need to be a computer programmer to really use the editor. I hope this is simplified in the next game.

Hahaha. Craptop. Man, what a great title.