Tovarish

No I understood...but it still dosen't make sense. Do you mean if I go into the street and start shooting people indiscriminately "just cause", that I should be shown more leniency than someone who targeted someone because of hatred?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Red Oct @ Mar. 18 2002,23:32)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">2. did the act w/ prejudace<span id='postcolor'> I guess I'll just go kill someone i'm not prejudiced against then....man that really dosen't make much sense

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Well if you say so, I just thought it looked neat. Really now, I'm a college student, most of my e-mail I get from fellow college students with similar twisted senses of humor. I could post some really funny stuff I get sent, some of it taken by these same fellow college students with their digital cameras, but it would be only to the benefit of the few people who stumble across the thread before the first moderator shows up and then it misteriously dissapears along with me

Yep...that's the way to go, conduct a flame war in a language you know most people here don't understand and call them illiterate for not understanding it. I'm not saying you started it and from a couple of comments made above, yeah you've got a right to be pissed, but the way you're acting dosen't make much sense either

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (advocatexxx @ Mar. 18 2002,17:39)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Ever considered that it's maybe because they hit you through the glass ?<span id='postcolor'> Not bloody likely when you're flying over it and it happens every time. There's a difference between Machine guns and a Shilka or Vulcan. If you run into those with a Cobra I guarantee you you won't last long unless you take it out quickly, no matter which way you're facing

in the "Under Orders" mission in Red Hammer, the one where your Spetz Natz team ends up slaughtering civilians, my teamate with the RPG disabled the M113 but didn't destroy it (The threads were black). I decided to try it anyway and to my surprize it still moved!! But the rest of my team refused to get in because apparently they sensed the thing was so shot up it could blow at any minute . So I said "Fuck them they can walk if they want" and started driving it towards the village...as I was driving I realized a few things: 1. The brakes didn't work at all 2. I could only turn while moving forwards 3. with the threads damaged I could not go uphill at all. This really impressed me with how vehicle damage was simulated. The M113 was still useful, but in a very limited way (I managed to get that nasty NATO squad patroling the forest)

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Espectro @ Mar. 18 2002,08:37)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Guy, if 1 single infantry with an AA weapon in OFP isnt able to take out a plane, its gonna be a tough call<span id='postcolor'> Agreed, but the "titanium tub" both these planes have, which are rated to withstand direct hits by projectiles of over 20mm caliber, should definitely protect the pilots better against AAA. Most of the time when I am hit by an enemy Shilka or Vulcan I am killed while the plane is still flyable.

The first time I saw someone attach a mortar round to an M-16 in a coop game .

swhile reading the game manual for the first time "Single shot-mode on an assault rifle? who would be so stupid?!?" you report the following "bug" to BIS: "Every time someone waves at me I blow up!! "

You still try to use the tried-and-true Quake and Half-Life tactic of "Rocket Jumping"

You wonder why "IDKFA" and "IDDQD" no longer seem to work.....and where did your chainsaw go anyway?

Searched the net for "survivability features" of both the A-10 and the Su-25. Here's what I came up with: First the A-10: "Containing built-in survivability features, the USAF/Fairchild A-10 Close Air Support aircraft is harneded like no other fighter or attack plane. The pilot is surrounded by a "bathtub" of titanium which has been successfully tested to defeat 23mm armor-piercing projectiles. In addition, the aircraft features armor plating of vital elements, redundant flight controls, redundant shielded subsystems and a "manual" reversion system which permits the pilot to fly and land the aircraft if all hydraulic power is lost. " Su-25: "the Su25 series (Frogfoots? Frogfeet?) feature a 24mm welded titanium cockpit armor tub, an air mixing duct system to cool engine exhaust, and other survivability features like foam-filled fuel tanks and pushrod-actuated control surfaces. In addition, 256 flares or chaff packets are carried near the rear of the aircraft in the tailcone and above the engine exhausts." Also found this very interesting excerpt on how Sukhoi strived to defeat the threat posed by Stingers in Afghanistan: "First time VVS encountered Stinger, they lost four Su-25 in one or two days (two pilots were killed). The defense and ECM were specialized for Red Eye and the Soviet first generation shoulder launched missile (SA-7 Grail). Sukhoi figured that upon impact Stinger shreds the rear fuel tank which is located right above the jet exhaust. This starts fire which kills both engines eventually. They installed few millimeters thick steel plate below fuel cell to give an extra protection. Another modification was a steel plate (I think 10 or 15 mm thick) between engine bays. After this modification no Su-25 were lost to Stinger according to Sukhoi team. Only 22 Su-25s were lost in nine(! years of combat operations in Afghanistan."

Of course they are, and Soviet Tu-95's were allowed in Egypt as long as that government wanted them there, but the Soviets didn't want to admit that those planes were under their control...that was the USS Liberty's main mission, to intercept radio signals sent by the pilots of Tu-95's stationed in Egypt to Moscow to confirm that those were Soviet planes. It's how the Cold War was, neither side wanted the other to know what they had, were or how many. The presence of the subs was parfectly legal, but the US didn't want Russia to know they were there.

Yep, I've heard the Su-25's cockpit being described like this many times. It makes sense that the A-10 would use something similar though. BTW the first aircraft to introduce such an "Armour tub" cockpit was the Il-2

Its true, considering the Su-25 and the A-10 are two very well armoured attack aircraft, they should at least have a good chance of surviving a shoulder-launched SAM. The Su-25 for one holds the pilot in a titanium "bathtub" and the canopy is armoured glass. This gives the pilot excellent protection against AAA. The A-10 for it's part, as well as being heavily armoured, has a triple-redundant control system (2 hydraulic, one manual). I searched the net and found the following examples of Su-25's taking heavy punishment during the Soviet-Afghan war: Here are few more stories highlighting Su-25 roughness: -Major Rubalov's Su-25 was hit in the engine which surged and flooded an engine bay with fuel, the cockpit was shattered, buster controls are gone and major's face covered with blood. None of the dials in the cockpit worked and his wingman guided him to the final approach. After belly landing, major rushed away from the Su-25 fearing that plane going to explode. After figuring that this is not going to happen, he got back to the aircraft and cut the engine. -Another Su-25 was on fire which burned out most of the wiring and 95% of horizontal tail controls. In few moments before the landing, fire short cut the gear release wires and Su-25 made "conventional" landing. -Lieutenant Golubtsov's Su-25 lost half of its rudder along with breaks. After landing his a/c ended up off runaway and rolled into adjacent mine field. He was forced to wait in the cockpit till mine squad cleared his way out. -One Su-25 brought a missile in the engine which failed to detonate. (SAM?) -Rutskoi's Su-25 was hit by AAA (ZGU) when a missile (Blowpipe) hit right engine (head on - it "turned off" the engine though the intake). Second AAA finally managed to shot it down. This is a second Frogfoot he flew (not the preproduction T-8-15 Blue 15 which was damaged twice). Rutskoi spent some time as Pakistani POW and was shortly exchanged. I also remember reading about an Su-25 which took 2 sidewinders from a Pakistani fighter and made it back to base, and an A-10 which survived an Iraqi SAM hit in Desert Storm.

LOL my roomate just sent this to me Two weeks ago was my 44th birthday, and I wasn't feeling too hot that morning. I went down to breakfast, knowing my wife would be pleasant and say "Happy Birthday" and probably have a present for me. She didn't even say "Good Morning", let alone any "Happy Birthday." I thought, "Well, that's wives for you. The children will remember. The children came down to breakfast and didn't say a word. When I started to the office, I was feeling pretty low and despondent. As I walked into my office, my Secretary, Janet said, "Good Morning, Boss, Happy Birthday." I felt a little better. Someone had remembered! I worked until noon, then Janet knocked on my door and said, "You know it is such a beautiful day outside and it is your birthday, let's go to lunch, just you and me." I said, "By George, that's the greatest thing I've heard all day. Let's go." We went to lunch. We didn't go where we normally go. We went out into the country to a little private place. We had two martinis and enjoyed lunch tremendously. On the way back to the office, she said, "You know, it is such a beautiful day, we don't need to go back to the office, do we?" I said, "No, I guess not." She said, "Let's go to my apartment." After arriving at her apartment she said, "Boss, if you don't mind, I think I'll go into the bedroom and slip into something more comfortable." "Sure", I excitedly replied. She went into the bedroom and, in about six minutes, she came out carrying a big birthday cake, followed by my wife, children and dozens of our friends. They were all singing happy birthday... and there I sat on the couch...completely naked.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Wobble @ Mar. 17 2002,11:44)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">on a side note lobbiests are demanding the prisoners at camp x-ray be give cold drinks including gatorade or other sports drinks at least every 3 hours insted of the "cruel room temperature tap water" Â <span id='postcolor'> You mean the same "cruel room temperature tap water" I mostly drank for the first 11 years of my life? Or that many fellow Cubans without working refrigerators drink every day?. Jesus fucking Christ, din't get me started, these are some of the last fucking human beings in Cuba who deserve cold water, and it looks like they're about the only one's living there who get the Western media's attention these days. What the fuck?!?

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sloth = Tovarish

Easter Bunny = Mall Rats (yep so it's two words, sue me )

Easter = Easter Bunny

Tovarish=confused *edit* gets it

Tovarish

Yep course 4 of term (2 year) in the High School. Learned not much, was it a free course and if it comes to the high Tech, which you really paid which you for 24 people begun, 7 terminated received (incluiding even). 3 received their CCNA (not me). Bah, each way I am more interested to program on that, mostly am, which I do in the university (C++, ASSembly... this somebody ANALE, Linux Shell).