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  2. Posted

    Israel vs the United States and Iran

    The current opinion in some circles, mostly in the United States, is that at some point in the near future , the growing imposition of devastating economic sanctions on Iran will hopefully convince its radical religious leaders to terminate their pursuit of nuclear weapons. Also, there is the growing hope that the CIA- funded Iranisn Green Movement will overthrow, a la the Ukrainian Orange Revolution’ and replace the Muslim fundamentalist regime, or at the very least find the means to modify and secularize the regime’s ideological extremism. It is also possible that disrupting operations now being implemented by the intelligence agencies of Israel, the United States, Great Britain, and other Western powers—programs designed to subvert the Iranian nuclear effort through physical sabotage and, upon occasion, the carefully engineered disappearances of nuclear scientists—will have derailed Iran’s progress towards achieving the capacity to produce nuclear weapons.

    It is now planned in Tel Aviv that senior Israeli officials, representing both their political and military establishments, will come to Washington for conferences both with their American counterparts and, eventually, with President Obama. These conversations, which have been carefully planned and scripted, will have the Israelis advising their American counterparts that they are planning an attack, nuclear or non-nuclear as the situation develops, on Iran because a nuclear Iran poses the ‘gravest threat since Hitler’ to the physical survival of the Jewish people. The Israelis will also state that they believe that by launching a preemptive strike at all possible Iranian sites suspected of participation in their nuclear program they have a reasonable chance of delaying the Iranian nuclear program for at least three to five years,. Further, talking-point secret Israeli memos state: Israel will inform their American counterparts that Israel has no other choice than to launch this attack. They will not ask for permission for this attack, because it will soon be too late to ask for permission [...]

  4. Posted

    Wonder where the Stug is now.:confused:

    The canadian "Tank overhaul" series featured some WW2 vehicle restorations, among them the restoration of a completely wrecked Panther, recovered from a riverbed in poland. Pretty impressive.

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  6. Posted

    I mostly use GL and handgrenades. Took just a couple of seconds to clear the airfield tower in the first campaign mission, without entering. Otherwise lean and slicing the pie, which is awkward, since A2 is devoid of anything resembling fluid motion. Add low fps and a good chance of getting stuck somewhere, and you have the receipe for failure. I do not bother taking Team AI inside, they tend to just get in the way and react too slow.

  10. Posted

    Yeah flattened buildings are known to cause cancer.

    There are no construction guidelines or rules applying to asbestos usage in Iraq. The destruction of buildings will result in larger quantities of asbestos getting airborne, and subsequently inhaled and/or ingested. Similar with DU, an intact shell lying somewhere is not acute. DU dust particles and corroding shells are the main threat.

    But I guess we should use softer bullets! after all, I'm definitely more worried about the long-term health and comfort of the enemy than the guys I serve with. /Sarcasm The argument against DU is an extension of the argument against wars of any kind.

    DU particles make no distinction between enemy/friendly combatants and civilians. The argument against DU is an argument against this special- and replaceable type of ammunition. Just as an argument against C weapons is just that. With 2 successive wars Iraq had about all the DU-Democracy it can stand.

  11. Posted

    I was going to go on a long winded rant about how since he had the choice to not join the military, but did anyway, his complaints are rendered invalid.

    If you can get over the flamboyant homo-erotic presentation, it's a dramatized reflection on the contradiction of values, and preselected sound bytes "from the front", getting force-fed to an easily deceived public at home, and the sobering reality behind becoming an asset to project Big Oil and Wall Street fantasies onto other nations by force of arms, with impunity.

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    A more prominent example for a change of mind would be Pat Tillman, who also became critical of what he was doing and whose interests he was actually serving. Imagine someone as iconized and with a media presence like him coming home, speaking his mind on prime time. That didn't happen. Among the smokescreen tossed on the circumsstances that led to his death, there was also an effort trying to discredit and silence his family afterwards.

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    Mutiny in the SAS? Bad hair day?

    A few days ago the former MI5 Director General came out with shocking news that the threat assessment for Iraq was generally categorized as low, prior to the invasion. The direct result of the Invasion being an increased terrorist threat and radicalisation of young muslims. Who would have thought of that, I never would have made that connection ...

    Now whether or not we support the cause, the soldiers deserve our respect for what they decided to do (serve their country that is). I'm kind of allergic to accross the board soldier bashing.

    "serving your country" has been long put out of context, and is a misleading term for executing the will of special interest groups within Governments and transnational corporations, which are intrinsically interwovenwith each other. The Bush administration represented Big Oil, Obama and crew serve the interests of Wall Street. Unless you're part of the financial elite; a shareholder or suit working in the higher echolons of the defense-, or oil industry, you are not profiting of their overseas adventures, infact you're footing the bill in more than one regard. The bulk of people joining the military also do not have the luxury of considering ideological sentiments before enlisting. Their reasons are far more practical by nature, infact for many it's the only viable option to get a job/education.

    Because humans are not made for peace. We are conceited, greedy, envious, uncivil and irresponsible, violent. And everybody can become a monster, the Einsatzgruppen are a good example, simple guys who became the dregs of civilization.

    Hannah Arendt, a jewish intellectual said on SS-OStbf Adolf Eichmann that

    the trouble with him was that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgement, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

    Eichmann was responsible for organizing the deportation and killing of millions of jews in europe.

  12. Posted

    but main thing is probably summertime in northern hemisphere equals to hot to play, instead drinking something cool by the waterline.

    Yepp.

    It´s 0145 a.m., outside temp is 24°C, room temp around 28°C (attic apartment). Last couple of weeks we had daytime temps closing 40°C in Germany.

  13. Posted

    Once you accept that it's not possible to recreate "realistic" close up muzzle blasts on your audio setup, it becomes a matter of immersion and balance, of sounding "ok" at variable distances, while trying to maintain some characteristic sound of the original. BI uses dry samples, w/o long trailoffs - adding to the impression of a rather small and "mute" event. Many soundmods do have pronounced treble and mids, partially due to recording source (Youtube, Vimeo etc.). The drawback being that even at long distances it will sound as if the gun was fired in a gigantic tin can right next to the observer. The good thing is you have a choice.

  14. Posted

    aiaiaiaiaiai even if you are in truth you are an anti-american so dont post these things 1 moretime.

    or i'll report you

    ;)

    I´m as much against illegitimate and immoral actions undertaken by the US Gvt. present and past, as i´m against our own. Doesn't make me anti-american or anti-german - i´m just not cheerleading it.

  16. Posted

    Nope. All I want is for extremists to not have access to nuclear (or any other WMD) weapons.

    extremist [ɪkˈstriËmɪst]

    (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a person who favours or resorts to immoderate, uncompromising, or fanatical methods or behaviour, esp in being politically radical

    I don't see a difference. If one would apply the term to western-, in particular US- foreign policies and conduct over the last century, there would be more hits than misses to fit the criteria.

  20. Posted

    2. When using the knife, R buttom becomes a lethal stab when enemy is unaware

    Go for gold - without a hack & slash function it's too girlie-like.

    Real man hack& slash, which would also make the application of upcoming combat shovels DLC look more reasonable:

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  21. Posted

    Congrats to España and a well deserved win, that could have easily turned out higher than it was. No need for hanging the head in shame though. The german team played enjoyable soccer during the cup, and it's a young team, with potential to grow. Hoping for a real thriller on Sunday, which this semi admittedly wasn't. :yay:

  22. Posted

    but remember, we're aiming with a mouse, not a weapon.

    yepp, it will always require a good amount of abstraction from the player .. unless using lightgun peripherals with some sort of physical feedback based on RL calculus. For me, it´s more along the lines of being either difficult or easy, than a matter of realistic and unrealistic. The old system was just too easy, especially on full auto, even more so than in remotely comparable games.

  24. Posted

    Although not much has changed in terms of avg. FPS, Beta 71900 helped somewhat with mouselag and stuttering for me. Changing "HDRprecision" to "8" (i utilized "32" in Arma2), made Zargabad accessible for small scale mission environments during daylight. FPS hit @ Night is still atrocious - compared to 35-40 FPS daytime in an empty Zargabad, it's 25-28 Nighttime FPS w/o NVG´s.

    ~ 30% performance loss, just for better streetlamp lighting is hardly acceptable.

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    Cat. 10.6

    X-Fi Drv. 2.18.0015 (06/2010)

    Dx Ver. 9.29.1962 (06/2010)

    HW:

    C2D E6750 @ 3.2GHz

    2 GB DDR2-800 A-DATA Vitesta Extreme CL4.0 Kit

    GB P35-DS3 Rev. 2 / F14

    X-Fi Music

    HD 5770 1 GB

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    Ingame:

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    TexMemory=1;

    shadingQuality=10;

    shadowQuality=2;

    maxSamplesPlayed=64;

    sceneComplexity=300000;

    viewDistance=2000;

    terrainGrid=25;

    Resolution_Bpp=32;

    Resolution_W=1680;

    Resolution_H=1050;

    refresh=60;

    Render_W=1680;

    Render_H=1050;

    FSAA=0;

    postFX=5;

    GPU_MaxFramesAhead=2;

    GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=2;

    HDRPrecision=8;

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