Oligo
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My friend used to listen to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds when playing Steel Panthers II. He said it was because the Iraqis were always firing Sagger AT missiles at his tanks, so it was really satisfying to hear old Nick singing: "Motherfucking Saggerly"...
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Ahh, the joyous joy of pushing the 500kg heavy mortar to positions. The best fun I had was as follows:
We were having exercises in a hilly area. It had been raining for weeks (luckily we hadn't been in the exercise for weeks but a few days), so the ground was getting really muddy. One of the positions we were told to use was located on the bank of an old sand-extraction area and the road to the positions went over one really steep hill.
So we placed the mortars with great effort, because we had to manually push them up the bank a little. Then we sat around for a long time like the mortar troops often do, had some food and fired some mock shots. Eventually the order to move out was droned.
We loaded the mortars on the wheeled racks and connected them to the back of the trucks. Everybody hopped into the back of the trucks and off we went. Except that the middle one of our three trucks got stuck, when it was trying to clear the muddy hill. The wheels sank axle deep into the mud.
After the officers had determined that getting the two trucks out without a some kind of recovery vehicle was impossible, two backup trucks were sent for us. We were told to get our stuff and the mortars and load it all on the new trucks.
It was impossible to push the mortars in the knee deep mud, although we tried it. The goddamn things just sank in deeper. So what we had to do was to disassemble the mortars in knee-deep mud (they break into three 100+ kg pieces) and haul them up the hill manually in knee-deep mud.
Needless to say, when we were half-way through with the job, several people were in a state where they would have shot the officers, their friends and themselves if only they had been issued live ammo to their rifles.
When we were finished, we were completely covered in stinking mud, totally exhausted beyond any belief and demoralized as much as you can get demoralized.
AND then we arrived to the next position and everything had to be set up in a minute... BLAH Blah blah... Such it is in the army. Â
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It would probably be easy to device a protective method against the shit-wand. Like wrapping a wide belt around your torso tightly. That kind of squeezing should be enough to alter the resonance frequency of your bowels.
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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Wobble @ Mar. 25 2002,06:09)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Well..maby the US shouldent help anyone.. drop out of NATO.. the UN..<span id='postcolor'>
You know Wobble, these organizations U.S. is funding with such a heap of money (like you always say) are actually much more beneficial if you ARE a member.
U.S. would never want to disband NATO, because it is for you such a nice way of controlling the military power of Europe. Any talks of an european union army have always been shot down by U.S. with furious commentary. Hell, even when we wanted to have out own GPS system called Galileo or something (which we would have paid for), U.S. gave unbelievable resistance. I don't know what became of that project since.
So the reason you are paying for NATO is because you really really want the organization to remain as it is. And U.S. is the member who gains the most from the alliance, contrary to what you are always claiming.
But if you still think like that, please contact your congressman and tell him that you want to disband that bloodsucking NATO. Better yet, start a national movement to lobby that to your leaders. As I understand, you have the time for that. I for one don't have anything against seeing the NATO go. Maybe we can have a EU military then.
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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Wobble @ Mar. 22 2002,11:20)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">A. Debris prevents people from realizing nobody was there to die
get shot at by nothing alot do ya?<span id='postcolor'>
Nope. You see a mudhut and ask for an airstrike. Boom! A shitload of debris left. Now how many baddies were there? Awsshiit, let's say twenty, ok?
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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Pete @ Mar. 22 2002,11:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">but as far it goes to experience, always the enemy bodycount has been OVERestimated...lies are usual, propaganda reasons...normal, not only usa does it, so dont turn it into a flame usa thread please (goes to wobble as well as others).<span id='postcolor'>
Of course everybody does it. Definitely no U.S. bashing involved.
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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Wobble @ Mar. 22 2002,11:03)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">problems are:
A: bodies get carrie doff by survivers
B: bodies get blown to smitherenes
C: bodies are buried by debris
D: bodies are buired in snow<span id='postcolor'>
Yes. There are also these problems:
A. Debris prevents people from realizing nobody was there to die (=no casualties)
B. Snow covers areas and thus makes it impossible to discover that the enemy had slipped away before bombardment/assault
C. Dust can be many bodies disintegrated or no bodies disintegrated (lot of dust in Afganistan)
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Some points:
If a bomb hits my house, there isn't any way of telling whether I was in it or not. Even if you find my boots in the rubble. Thus it is totally unproductive to debate this issue, since we all seem to agree that it is impossible to keep a tally.
I'd really like to see the news items about afgans 'not showing up'. All I have seen in reports about Anaconda are these words: 'U.S. and allied Afghan troops have killed a lot of Al-Qaeda again today.' Good times were had by all.
If the Afghans were indeed guarding the back doors, I think they have excellent first hand knowledge about how many Al-Qaeda they let slip through.
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I'm glad we have such an unbiased and reliable source as Wobble to sort out all of our U.S. questions. I knew I just needed to ask.
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I wonder. The U.S. is claiming a success in operation Anaconda, yet the allied afgans are saying the enemy casualty tally given by the yanks is too high.
Which source is closer to the truth? Is this another case of U.S. lying to make their ops look better like in Yugoslavia or is it the allied afgans who are mistaken?
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My russian friend told me that the russians call their ships 'he'. Also, at least germans and finns call their country 'fatherland', when russians call their country 'motherland'. Or, so I have been told. Those russians have to do everything backwards.
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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Assault (CAN) @ Mar. 21 2002,07:28)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Don't you guys get issued thermal canteens?<span id='postcolor'>
Man, if you spend two weeks in -30 degrees Celcius temperatures, no thermal canteen (lest it have some kind of active heating) is going to keep your drink liquid. The only way to do it is to wear your canteen directly against your body, in which case it is very good if it's just a piece of plastic.
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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Albert Schweizer @ Mar. 20 2002,15:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">But that is of course rubbish to list a genetical code (DNS) in Amino-acids, the logical way of course is the old code of Nukleotids (U,C,A,G) like we learned it at school. Of course to describe the code of a protein you could list up the amino-acids, but then again you could simply call the protein by its name.<span id='postcolor'>
Nobody of course lists protein sequences like that. They list them using the one letter codes for different amino acids. But there exists a convention on naming chemical compounds and serinylalanine etc. style naming is how you would do it according to the convention.
Nucleotide initials T,C,A,G come from thymine, cytocine, adenine and guanine. And DNA is just a string of these four different nucleic acids. So in theory you could name the whole human genome like this, if you wanted to do it by the convention: thyminidylthyminidyladeninylcytocinyl.... etc. to make quite a word.
All of this is of course completely irrelevant... Wait! Does that make this spam?
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This tip is from a U.S. canteen:
"For water only. Do not apply this (plastic) canteen on open flame or burner plates."
I always wondered why is it that they are assuming that a person who would apply a plastic bottle to open flame is actually capable of such feat as reading?
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A phrase that's going to be on your mind a lot: "Man, this sucks more than anything has ever sucked before." At least during the basic training, which contains the most 'fun'.
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Happened to stumble upon this neat site. It has transcripts of some bloke screwing people over with ICQ messenger. Oh, the pranks are just loaded with sarcasm (which is good).
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But this supposedly longest word is constructed as follows:
We have a different compounds (amino acids) that are called serine, alanine, arginine, threonine. If you have a compound which has alanine and serine linked together it is named alanylserine. A compound having arginine, alanine and threonine connected would be arginylalanylthreonine. And so forth.
So that supposedly longest word is just the name for a molecule consisting of n number of different amino acids. But it is entirely chemically possible to have a molecule with n+20 or n+100 amino acids combined, so the name of those molecules would be longer than the name of the molecule mentioned here. Thus there is actually no longest word, just as you can't say that some number is the biggest number there is.
So there.
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Ahh! Just wait when the drill instructors start yelling at you for the first time. Nothing quite beats that feeling... Innocence lost for good.
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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Pete @ Mar. 20 2002,09:51)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">i read that 1/4th of the money spent each year on making commercials would feed the whole world for a year
<span id='postcolor'>"Advertising makes us work the jobs we hate so that we can buy shit that we don't need." -Tyler Durden
So yes, advertising is important to preserve the status quo in society.
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The word there is an extremely stupid way of writing the sequence of a protein. And I'm pretty sure that it would be a much bigger word, if somebody bothered writing down the human genome DNA sequence in such a manner... So actually what you have there is probably the longest word some moron has bothered to write down. Â
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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Warin @ Mar. 19 2002,20:20)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Scary stuff. Â And considering that hardly any money is spent on monitoring the skies, perhaps such a near miss will spur more investment in making sure it isnt a big rock that kills us, just each other.
<span id='postcolor'>Did you all know that with the money put on the making of 'Armageddon', we could easily fund a scientific program to chart the skies for threats? But of course entertainment is always more important than survival...
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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (placebo @ Mar. 18 2002,16:25)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Perhaps you need to address that point to the Finnish media, when the attack on the Indian parliament happened I saw a hell of a lot of coverage of it on the English news programs
<span id='postcolor'>I don't much follow the Finnish media, because they have a lot of reporting on the actions of our dear politicians. This totally makes me sick. As long as I don't actually see our leaders making retarded comments and opinions, I can IMAGINE that there is still some common sense in our leaders.
Funny. Once I watched a live broadcast from the meeting of our parliament for 20 minutes. Then I had to turn off the telly and contemplate whether I should make a little armed assault to OUR parliament.
But I must admit I relied on our media to report the Indian parliament incident. So I either missed all the coverage (entirely possible if I was having a drinking spree
) except the one footnote I saw on the news OR they just didn't broadcast anything except the one footnote (a video clip of some people with guns and the commentator saying that by the way the parliament of India got attacked by some dudes). -
The world is frustrating more often than it is not...
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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (nordin dk @ Mar. 18 2002,13:49)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">That is the sort of attitude that causes problems, more than anything else in the world.<span id='postcolor'>
I'd have to agree that this sort of attitude is not the best thing in the world. The important thing is not to get provoked when faced with such attitude: The whole exchange will just deterioriate into a screaming war.
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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (second_draw @ Mar. 25 2002,11:27)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. Minefields - Prodigy?<span id='postcolor'>
The song is called Mindfields, not minefields... The dupe is screaming: "I'm walking through the mindfields... Raaargh" It's a drug use thing, mindfields is.