billytran

Hmm, America has a violence problem? Only in the places with the strictest gun control, like Washington DC, LA, Maryland, etc. The states with lax gun controls have lower crime rates. That link Denoir provided is a bunch of BS. It lists rates of crimes committed with guns, not actual violent crime stats. Did you know that Britain has a higher violent crime rate than the US? The site also says that 10 kids a day are killed by guns... wrong. In order to get 10 kids a day you need to include everyone under 25, and the majority of those 10 are people with a criminal history. The site goes on to say that you're more likely to shoot someone from your family than an intruder. That's wrong again, there are over 2 million defensive gun uses each year in the US. The number of accidental gun deaths is lower than the number of drownings, falls, or poisoning. For an alternative to the anti-gun site listed by Denoir, go to http://www.guncite.com There's nothing wrong with a bank giving away guns, so long as they do background checks and such. No one in their right mind is going to rob a bank that is practically a gun store. That "Brief History of the US" was a whole lot of lies. It basically asserts that all gun owners are racists. Wrong. The 2nd Amendment was put in to protect against a tyrannical government, not to keep the slaves in check. The KKK was formed by a bunch of Confederate officers after the war. The NRA was formed by Union officers. Yeah, I'm sure they liked eachother a whole lot. You can buy fully automatic weapons in the US. It takes a long background check and the approval of your local Chief of Police. Owners of fully automatic weapons are very law abiding. In the past fifty years only one or two people have been killed by legally owned machine guns. And crimes with illegal machineguns are extremely rare since it's hard to convert a gun to full auto.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Ex-RoNiN @ Oct. 17 2002,23:53)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (bn880 @ Oct. 17 2002,20:53)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">ANyway, this is going to make Bush look reealy stupid, or in his case, reealy reealy stupid.<span id='postcolor'> Nope, this is gonna make him feel stupid : <span id='postcolor'> Go here

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Ex-RoNiN @ Oct. 03 2002,02:19)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Bush killed 5000 people in Afghanistan, lets kill him <span id='postcolor'> No he didn't, those studies (and I use that term loosely) were based on articles in Indian and Pakistani newspapers. More accurate studies, using information gathered from the actual sites in Afghanistan, show that the death toll was much lower. Back on the subject, though... I think the arms inspections will be ineffective. They've already negotiated to have Saddam's presidential palaces placed off-limits to the inspectors. Just like last time, the inspectors will be denied access to military bases because they're "presidential palaces."

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Warin @ Sep. 30 2002,21:54)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (billytran @ Sep. 30 2002,21:28)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">America also gave the world the lightbulb, Coca-Cola (how many other soft drinks can be bought in almost every country?), Mcdonalds (cheap, tasty food available almost anywhere in the world), nuclear power, space travel, and electricity (kind of).<span id='postcolor'> First Human Being in Space: Yuri Gagarin As well as other things like longest duration spaceflight, longest lasting space station and a slew of other records for space flight also held by Russia/USSR.<span id='postcolor'> d'oh! I should've put "to the moon"

America also gave the world the lightbulb, Coca-Cola (how many other soft drinks can be bought in almost every country?), Mcdonalds (cheap, tasty food available almost anywhere in the world), nuclear power, space travel, and electricity (kind of).

I think this one will be better. You've got Anthony Hopkins playing Hannibal this time, and he's really good. Plus Edward Norton's in it and he's a great actor too.

Maybe a static F-22 would be cool for sabotage missions where you sneak into the enemy base to destroy their aircraft. But a flying F-22 would be kinda useless.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Badgerboy @ Sep. 25 2002,15:43)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Sadly with Bush putting a blanket ban on stem cell research, his odds of making a good recovery are minimal. He voiced his objections in several papers, it made for good reading.<span id='postcolor'> I don't think it was a blanket ban, I think President Bush just cut Federal funding from it. If you want to do stem cell research, fine, you just can't use taxpayer money.

I've read the new Clancy book, Red Rabbit. I thought it was pretty good but didn't like the way it ended. I won't spoilt it for you though. I'd recommend it. BTW, Jack Ryan never became head of the CIA, he became President of the USA.

Do you know how to make motorcycles? We need a lot more of those. It would need some fast acceleration, since motorcycles get going real quick. As for cars... how about some new cars for stunts: -Dodge Viper -Mazda RX-8 -Ferrari 456M GT And we need some trucks, how about a Ford F-150 or a Toyota Tundra?

I got the 140m distance by ordering one of my men to move one grid box ahead. If it's 128m per square than that would mean 3.2 squares equal a quarter mile, which would definitely make the times more accurate. The way I measure is I line the front of the car up with the start flag. Then I hold down the acceleration key until the car crosses the finish. My times are probably a little skewed because I'm just using the ingame watch... but some of Mehanic's cars are definitely faster than others. Munger, you're probably right about the XJ-220. I had it mistaken for another model. My guess is that it would be on par with the Ferraris.

I used the sub-squares that you see when you zoom in (the ones with double letter, double number coordinates. I found that each of those is approximately 140m, then converted that to imperial and calculated the 1/4 mile distance. I don't know about the rest of the world, but in America most drag races are 1/4 mile.

I did some calculations on distances in OFP, and found that 2.9 map squares on Nogova are equal to a 1/4 mile. So, I set up a flag on the Nogova runway at 1/4 mile, and raced all of the vehicles. Most of them were waaaaaayyyy too fast. On the scale: 10.5 seconds All Ferraris - pretty realistic Aston Martin Vanquish -also realistic BMW Z3 - Way off, should be about 14 seconds Jaguar XJ-220 - Realistic, but really ought to be around 11-12 seconds 11 Seconds BMW M3 - Should be about 13 seconds BMW M5 - Realistic 60's Camaro and Mustang - Should be 15-16 seconds Dodge Challenger - I'd say it's realistic because this car probably has a hemi or something under the hood. Lincoln LS & Boss Hogg - Should be around 16-17 seconds Mazda 6 - Should be around 15 seconds Mehanic's SUV's (Jeep, Tahoe, etc.) - Way, way off, should be around 19-20 seconds. 13 Seconds OFP Cars - These regular old cars run the same time that a brand new Camaro or Mustang runs. That's fast! 15 Seconds The Bus - This is one fast bus, most buses would have 1/4 mile times in the mid to high twenties. 5t Trucks - Also very fast, should be in the twenties. We've got some fast cars in this game!!!

Major Richard Franklin, 101st Airborne, was racing to get his AH-64 Apache into Tora Bora. Just minutes before, the Colonel had ordered him to provide support for some of his fellow Screaming Eagles. When Franklin heard the words, "downed helicopter" his heart nearly stopped. It always hurts to hear about your fellow pilots going down. Franklin had a full load of Hellfires, FFAR's, and of course his trusty 30mm cannon. Franklin's chopper, along with the other two flanking him, screamed in over the hilltops in a wedge formation. "We got smoke up ahead," reported Franklin's gunner, Warrant Officer Dan McClay. The three Apaches made a quick circle of the area. The smoldering UH-60 was surrounded by AQ and Taliban fighters. "McClay, light 'em up with a Hellfire!" ordered Franklin. The missile streaked to the ground and exploded, vaporizing the Black Hawk and the fighters around it. Franklin's wingman, Lieutenant Bell came over the radio, "I can't see any of our boys... wait... there's a lot of guys under that ridge over there... they look like ours but they don't seem to be moving." Bell's chopper swooped over the men before his voice came back over the radio, "They're ours sir, but they're all dead." Franklin felt like a failure, how could he have been late? "Wait a minute, I see a couple guys running down that valley over there, they look like ours sir... SHIT!!! WE GOT AT LEAST A HUNDRED TALIBAN!!! They're about fifty yards up from our boys!!!" "Fire at will gentleman, let's not lose these guys too," ordered Franklin. The other two Apaches fired off salvos of FFAR's as McClay opened up with the 30mm.

How about a Mazda RX-8? Please, Please, Please!?!?!?!?