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  2. Posted

    Hey Guys.

    This is a true story and its source was the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service in Adelaide. A bloke and his family were on holidays in the United States and went to Mexico for a week.

    An avid cactus fan, the man bought a one-metre high, rare and expensive cactus there.

    On arrival back home, Australian Customs said it must be quarantined for 3 months.

    He finally got his cactus home. Planted it in his backyard, and over time it grew to about 2 metres. One evening while watering his garden after a warm spring day, he gave the cactus a light spray.

    He was amazed to see the plant shiver all over, he gave it another spray and it shivered again. He was puzzled so he rang the council who put him on to the state gardens people. After a few transfers he got the state's foremost cactus expert who asked him many questions. How Tall is it? Has

    it flowered etc. Finally he asked the most disturbing question. "Is your family in the house?"

    The bloke answered yes. The cactus expert said "Get out of the house NOW, get on to the front nature strip and wait for me, I will be there in 20 minutes."

    Fifteen minutes later, 2 fire trucks, 2 police cars and an

    ambulance came screaming around the corner.

    A fireman got out and asked "Are you the bloke with the cactus?" "I am", he said.

    A guy jumped out of the fire truck wearing what looked like a space suit, a breathing cylinder, and mask attached to what looked like a scuba backpack with a large hose attached. He headed for the backyard and turned a flame-thrower on the cactus spraying it up and down.

    After a few minutes the flame-thrower man stopped, the cactus stood smoking and spitting, half the fence was burnt and parts of the gardens were well and truly scorched. Just then the cactus expert appeared and laid a calming hand on the bloke's shoulder. "What the hell's going on?" he says.

    "Let me show you" says the cactus man.

    He went over to the cactus and picked away a crusty bit, the cactus was almost entirely hollow and filled with tiger striped bird-eating tarantula spiders, each about the size of two hand spans.

    The story was that this type of spider lays eggs in this type of cactus and they hatch and live in it as they grow to full size. When full size they release themselves. The cactus just explodes and about 150 dinner plate sized hairy spiders are flung from it, dispersing everywhere. They had been ready to pop.

    The aftermath was that the house and the adjoining houses had to be vacated and fumigated: police tape was put up outside the whole area and no one was allowed in for two weeks.

    And here's what one of them looks like sitting on a full size

    dinner plate.

    Goliath-Spider

    Tim Pink

  3. Posted

    Hi Guys

    I have a Fender Deluxe Jazz Bass V, it has such a nice sound, lots of grunt and a big bottom end.

    I also play Electric guitar, a bit of Drums and i own a Roland xp-30 synth.

    I like to do P.A work here in my town, its pretty good money.

    Ill have to upload some more songs and give the links to you guys so i can get some feedback.

    Thanks

    Tim

  6. Posted

    Thanks, with the voice recording ive tried to get my hands on a couple of Beta SM-58 microphones, those mics are just awesome IMHO but im having no luck, their too expensive for me at the moment.

    Thanks for downloading the song and listening.

    Tim

  7. Posted

    Quote[/b] ]USA/England (France - that is a joke right?)

    Man thats pretty harsh, Just because the French didnt win doesnt mean they didnt fight.

    In part the Allies owe alot to the efforts of the French resistance and many of the French who survived dunkirk went right back into service to fight alongside the british troops, maybe next time you could think about how damaging a comment like that could be.

    @ Albert

    These are the stats i could find.

    70 million soldiers took part in world war 2, 16 million were killed, another 18 million civilians were killed.

    The total of wounded and missing soldiers and civilians will never be known.

    926,000 Aussies went into uniform to fight, 29,437 failed to return, 23,447 returned wounded.

    146,000 New Zealanders joined the war, 11,515 were killed, 15,749 wounded.

    Thats what i manged to find on the ANZAC commitment but i have no idea about other countries.

    Quote[/b] ]Nearly 60 years after the guns fell silent, the nation Saturday saluted 16 million ordinary Americans who stopped a storm of tyranny and changed the world.

    The one thing that does slightly annoy me though is how they say that America stopped the tyranny.

    I have the utmost respect for all the Americans that served, but they always seem to forget how the British stood alone for 3 years against the Germans, they held back the tyranny and suffered horrific homeland losses.

    Yes the Americans were bombed at Pear Harbour but IMHO that is nothing compared to the Battle of Britian and the huge amounts of dammage inflicted by the Luftwaffe.

    It just gets me down sometimes how the Americans seem to forget those things, my grandma served in the british army and helped to organise Operation Overlord and i will always be proud of that.

    Lest We Forget

    Tim Pink

  12. Posted

    Intelligence Agents Encouraged Abuse

    Quote[/b] ]By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer

    WASHINGTON - Several U.S. guards allege they witnessed military intelligence operatives encouraging the abuse of Iraqi prison inmates at four prisons other than Abu Ghraib, investigative documents show

    Court transcripts and Army investigator interviews provide the broadest view of evidence that abuses, from forcing inmates to stand in hoods in 120-degree heat to punching them, occurred at a Marine detention camp and three Army prison sites in Iraq (news - web sites) besides Abu Ghraib.

    That is the prison outside Baghdad that was the site of widely published and televised photographs of abuse of Iraqi detainees by Army troops.

    Testimony about tactics used at a Marine prisoner of war camp near Nasiriyah also raises the question whether coercive techniques were standard procedure for military intelligence units in different service branches and throughout Iraq.

    At the Marines' Camp Whitehorse, the guards were told to keep enemy prisoners of war — EPWs, in military jargon — standing for 50 minutes each hour for up to 10 hours. They would then be interrogated by "human exploitation teams," or HETs, comprising intelligence specialists.

    "The 50/10 technique was used to break down the EPWs and make it easier for the HET member to get information from them," Marine Cpl. Otis Antoine, a guard at Camp Whitehorse, testified at a military court hearing in February.

    U.S. military officials say American troops in Iraq are required to follow the Geneva Conventions on POWs for all detainees in Iraq. Those conventions prohibit "physical or moral coercion" or cruel treatment.

    The Army's intelligence chief told a Senate panel this month that intelligence soldiers are trained to follow Geneva Convention rules strictly.

    "Our training manuals specifically prohibit the abuse of detainees, and we ensure all of our soldiers trained as interrogators receive this training," Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander told the Senate Armed Services Committee (news - web sites).

    The Marine Corps judge hearing the Camp Whitehorse case wrote that forcing hooded, handcuffed prisoners to stand for 50 minutes every hour in the 120-degree desert could be a Geneva Convention violation. Col. William V. Gallo wrote that such actions "could easily form the basis of a law of war violation if committed by an enemy combatant."

    Two Marines face charges in the June 2003 death of Nagem Sadoon Hatab at Camp Whitehorse, although no one is charged with killing him. Military records say Hatab was asphyxiated when a Marine guard grabbed his throat in an attempt to move him, accidentally breaking a bone that cut off his air supply. Another Marine is charged with kicking Hatab in the chest in the hours before his death.

    Army Maj. Gen. George Fay is finishing an investigation into military intelligence management and practices at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in Iraq. Alexander and other top military intelligence officials say they never gave orders that would have encouraged abuses.

    "If we have a problem, if it is an intel oversight problem, if it is an MP (military police) problem, or if it's a leadership problem, we have to get to the bottom of this," Alexander told the Senate panel.

    Most of the seven enlisted soldiers charged in the Abu Ghraib abuses say they were encouraged to "soften up" prisoners for interrogators through humiliation and beatings. Several witnesses also report seeing military intelligence operatives hit Abu Ghraib prisoners, strip them naked and order them to be kept awake for long periods.

    Other accusations against military intelligence troops include:

    _Stuffing an Iraqi general into a sleeping bag, sitting on his chest and covering his mouth during an interrogation at a prison camp at Qaim, near the border with Syria. The general died during that interrogation, although he also had been questioned by CIA (news - web sites) operatives in the days before his death.

    _Choking, beating and pulling the hair of detainees at an Army prison camp near Samarra, north of Baghdad.

      _Hitting prisoners and putting them in painful positions for hours at Camp Cropper, a prison at Baghdad International Airport for prominent former Iraqi officials.

    Military officials say they're investigating all of those incidents.

    One focus of the incident at Qaim is Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshover, an interrogator with the Army's 66th Military Intelligence Group. Welshover told The Associated Press on Friday: "I am not at liberty to discuss any of the details."

    Welshover was part of a two-person interrogation team that questioned former Iraqi Air Force Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush, 57. Military autopsy records say Mowhoush was asphyxiated by chest compression and smothering.

    Army officials say members of a California Army National Guard military intelligence unit are accused of abusing prisoners at a camp near Samarra, north of Baghdad. The New York Times has reported those accusations include pulling prisoners' hair, beating them and choking them to force them to give information.

    The Red Cross complained to the military in July that Camp Cropper inmates had been kept in painful "stress positions" for up to four hours and had been struck by military intelligence soldiers.

    One of the military intelligence soldiers interviewed in the Abu Ghraib probe claimed some prisoners were beaten before they arrived at Camp Cropper.

    Cpl. Robert Bruttomesso of the 325th Military Intelligence Battalion told Army investigators he reported that abuse to his chain of command. The report of his interview, obtained by The Associated Press, does not include details on what action, if any, Bruttomesso's commanders took.

  13. Posted

    Quote[/b] ]well, i think if these guys didn't want to be part of the Iraq war than they shouldn't have joined up in the army in the first place.

    Have you ever thought that people enlist in the army to defend there country, not to get sent overseas to wage an empty hollow war because some power hungry megalomaniac has decided he wants to finish daddy's job.

    Every U.S. soldier that deserts should be awarded a bloody medal, at least they had the guts to stand up and say this war is a heap of bullshit, its not right and they dont want to be part of it.

  15. Posted

    Congrats on your job Placebo, im sure you've earnt it.  smile_o.gif

    Now the Czech replublic can sleep safely knowing that Peter Pan will never bother them again  tounge_o.gif

    J/K

    Congrats biggrin_o.gif

    Tim Pink

  18. Posted

    Hey Guys and Girls

    The 3rd official OFPEC staff and forum members match will be

    held this sunday night at midnight Sydney time. biggrin_o.gif

    This translates roughly into midday sunday in the UK and 7/8 am sunday morning in the states.

    All players will need all BAS addons and mp missions released so far and will need version 1.96.

    ECP is optional but it apparantly causes CTD with BAS missions.

    Please go here for more information and the IP address when it is released.

    And if you have any more queries please feel free to PM me.

    Hope to see you there.

    Tim Pink

    OFPEC Intel Depot

  23. Posted

    @ TJ

    Quote[/b] ]For your list of "Crappy addons", just go to ADDONs & MODS complete.

    Man dont you think thats a bit harsh

    Quote[/b] ]Those that are actually worth downloading and keeping and that have made a difference to the community (FDF, CSLA, WGL, BAS, DKM etc etc) are few and far between
    .

    I mean you find most addons by those mod sites in Addons and Mods Complete so thats a direct contradiction of your self, it just doesnt make sense.

    God i just wasted 20 mins of my life reading 18 pages of crap

    When did the OFP community take such a step backwards?

    Whats the word for today "Immaturity" lets spell it out loud O.F.P.C.O.M.M.U.N.I.T.Y.

    Tim Pink

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