Walsingham

I've been thinking about this, and may be about to change my mind. After taking on board all that's been said by the former _actual_ soldiers here. But crystalissed by that last comment. It is in the nature of military life that one has values and standards. Those manifest not as individual events or characteristics but as a whole culture/society. Achieving and maintaining an effective output from this culture/society impacts tactical behaviour, and psychological conditions in the unit. these in turn influence psychological injuries, and actual injuries. They also, you know, kinda impact the survival of the State they are defending. So, while the Army must reflect the social values and standards of the society it defends in order to retain its support, I don't think it necessarily follows that those values and standards are appropriate to combat. More importantly, if we try to socially engineer the Army I'd feel al lot happier if we understood what makes it work now before we start f***ing about with it. ~~ As I say, not sure if I'm changing my mind. But I am beginning to wonder if we're being too simplistic.

Nice garden. And is that actually sundial? Now imagining in satellite imagery quality...

FO3 keeps crashing out on you? Why yes it does! Did my mentioning it on almost every part of the forum catch your eye? Makes me laugh after the way Troika is buried under a headstone saying 'bugs'. Now, some bugs are OK. But this many? I'm not exaggerating when I say it won't work on my machine after 5 minutes. Having said that, New vegas seems to have settled down and works pretty well. Provided I turn all the water effects off. I wonder if the problems are to do with the terrain having two levels? Things like radscorpions get stuck into the lower level and stroll around. Someone said the water is on a hidden lower level in some tiles. Could this be the problem?

I'm not being modest. You should have seen me before I was a has been!

Where else do they get to compete head to head? Other than in salaries and box office takings? Also, how large is your garden? And have you been vaulting the sundial as I imagine?

Does this mean I've finally got an excuse to march on the Federal Reserve, with an angry mob holding torches?

Dozens dead? Unusually high for NZ, isn't it?

I just like the notion of 'smuggling' an aircraft carrier disguised as a novelty casino. Pretty good deal, only 20 million. And good for teh Ukraine who don't have to pay to scrap it.

Somebody sounds like they've met me.

LoF refuses to tell us what his job is! What if he's in charge of the Fed!?

I have decided that the best breakfast ever is chops and oatcakes.

You're missing my point, old son. The fact is that most senior people, and most members of the public look at the graph, not the numbers. Which makes the use of scale critical to the meaning of the information imparted, at least at the surface level. I'm intertested in setting some standard metric for scaling. Could be cool.

Interesting angle. How would this explain the failure of revolts in several places? Does it correlate with the spread of such comms? I've no idea. If so, get a paper out about it, double quick.

Which proves without doubt that Yoda was a troll.

This made me laugh. Hadn't come across it before: Cunning devils.

The only terrifying thing about Titanic was how much money it made.

Good to see you back, sluggo. Remember the mantra: "If only the folks back home could see me now."

Rostere, I don't want to jump all over you with boots here. However, we've seen precisely one regime change thus far. From a force-based* one man state to a military junta. Elsewhere we've seen popular uprisings smacked down like a drunk donkey. The faith certain people - not necessarily you - have in bloodless replacements of dictators is like a faith in miraculous healing in its persistence, lack of any logical reasoning, and paucity of examples. Whereas the notion that regimes can be** changed by invasion is backed by the whole of human history. ~~ BTW, again with kind permission of www.stratfor.com

I have been reading reporst today, all of which include bar charts, and was reminded of the way in which teh scale of a chart can exaggerate or minimise the relative strengths of differences in the data. That is, if you chart, say, horse weights where the horses are all between 270 and 300 kgs, with the maximum being 300 then that will make the heaviest look much heavier than if you took the chart against a maximum theoretic weight for a horse - say 600kgs. It made me stop and wonder if there was some better system of presenting data. A convention, which might reduce the potential for misrepresentation. Maybe something based off standard deviation within the data plus some additional relative constant?

It would seem that the sacred precincts of matrimony are obvious even to toasters.

Console gamers. Or in other words people who burrow into a game like a tick into a dog's neck. HA! Doubt it. I've never witnessed a single desicion like that being made because of a dev team, or console gamers... Usually its some retarded exec going "I'm confused, I don't play games, you need to point this out to me" I think those days are long gone. Probably more likely to be a focus group of morons, or as I now christen it a 'monkey palace' approach.

Idea: Counter-insurgency hero. A game where you and your friends all receive plastic models of infantry weapons and a massive humidifier that makes jungle noises. The game is to be played at the end of long frustrating nights clubbing, when you're all tanked up. You go on pointless patrols during which several of you may stand on boobytraps and die, then you are put into a village where you have to choose the right villagers to execute. Although you will receive points for ALL executions, bullying of team mates, and inventing reconnaissance reports. Well, I find the idea funny.

Ah... imagination.

Console gamers. Or in other words people who burrow into a game like a tick into a dog's neck.

Well lets hope the new patch fixes the issue's they promise it will, especially the performance ones. I'm now playing Fallout Tactics. And good fun it is too.