Gorgon

Who exactly are 'The West' here. If you mean several countries acting in concert to plan and execute Maidan, I don't buy it. US meddling to increase the likelyhood of a favorable result, I consider that as likely as Russian meddling.

Well the IDF isn't going to be defeated on the home front either. They are very much in it for the duration. If the Palestineans want to undermine confidence in the current administration and eventually turn popular opinion with them they sure are going about it the wrong way.

The EU is not in the business of backing coup detat. Following the first enlargement of the EU eastwards the EU started laying the groundwork for further inclusions, for those who wanted it of course. Ukraine was torn appart by its own indecisvieness about where it wanted to belong geopolitically. Where you see sinister machinations and a joint EU forgein policy I'm afraid all there is is bureaucracy and indecisiveness. Owing to it's construction the EU is perhaps the political entity least capable of unilateral action anywhere in the world.

The difference there is that there is no tactic that is going to win it for them militarily. So one could wonder why they don't start getting smart about it.

They gain popularity by being seen as fighting the IDF, and they're in too deep now, Hamas, they can't stop without a major win or they will lose support over their rocket offensive. IDF is much the same. 60 casualties for little gain, it doesn't take much logistic capacity to keep fireing homemade rockets from the rubble of Palestinean cities so Hamas is likely to run out of rockets before IDF action will prove decisive. Those 60 casualties need to have been 'for' something. Hence the destruction of infrastructure, power plants, 'symbolic' targets like government buidlings.

I'll give you an exanple. During the battle of Helms Deep Legolas says in desperation that he wished he had 200 mirkwood archers to stem the tide. Jackson just decided to include them in the movie, thus changing not only the dramatic context of a desperate defense but also the entire geopolitical situation of the elves leaving and not helping against Sauron (sans Legoas) That's too much artistic license, when it starts to change the underlying political premise of the books.

What, you're just playing, right. The girls definitely get their due, I can think of three mad, badass chicks off the top of my head, Eowyn, Arwen, Galadriel. Tauriel is a welcome addition, not a retcon. Retroactive continuity in LOTR is unpossible since it isn't ongoing serial storytelling. All six movies are essentially personal opinions, no reason to be injured by them. No canon were harmed in the making thereof. I'm saying Jackson retcons female characters into main story characters. I'm ok with that, but not with all the other additions. At some point it just stops being LotR, ot the Hobbit as it were, asnd starts being very expensive fan fiction.

Every retcon Jackson makes feels like a deep personal injury. I don't think I'll even go see it. Only exception I guess is the inclusion of more female characters. Tolkien is pretty behind the times there after all.

I hear they are quite tasty grilled.

High expectations, isn't that kinda by definition the opposite of biggotry.

I kinda wish they had done the effects more old school. There is a certain look you can achieve if you just use stuntmen and no CGI.

In short, you can kill as many civilians as you like as long as it's an 'accident' and you were aiming for something else. I don't believe IDF deliberately targets civilians, what would be the gain after all, but if the method envolves leveling an appartment block if you have spotted enemy activity there the result is much the same. Precision weapons my ass. Naval batteries and artillery strikes used aren't that. They do what they can to reduce civilan casualties, it's just not near enough.

Titanfall is still 550 DDK, same as the day it came out. PC games usually go for around 200-300 DKK once a few months past release. Not only is origin yet another DRM bloat thing you need on your PC it's also overpriced.

I feel like a slug. Covered by a thin film of slime that makes me stick to everything. If I stay too long in one place my arm sticks to the table plate. It's the same sitting inside in my boxers as walking outside. A shower helps for 2 mins. It's been trying to rain for days and the thick laden clouds are just hanging there. keeping in the humidity.

Now I feel like a smoke.

It does cost something. You would have to install Origin. Too steep for me.

I'm surprised the gentlemans carer let's him use the computer. I want to hire him to head up our department.

You don't need very much CPU. expecially with a top end GFX. When you look at overall gains CPUs are a huge potential moneypit.

Nonsense. Not worth spending more than 1000 Euro on a rig anyway, on account of deminishing returns. save the money for another upgrade. Don't you have a monitor that can at least be a placeholder for a nicer one. Spend the whole 1000 on the box. Or ****'s just more expensive in Austria. Austria is more or less the same as Germany and Denmark i would imagine.

Nonsense. Not worth spending more than 1000 Euro on a rig anyway, on account of deminishing returns. save the money for another upgrade. Don't you have a monitor that can at least be a placeholder for a nicer one. Spend the whole 1000 on the box.

So now we are running simulations. What is this, reddit ?

I imagine it's because those countries don't want to get sucked into conflict with Israel. It's not their cause. Egypt is cracking down on militant Ïslam (the muslim brotherhood). Jordan is still ruled by a king. There are tunnels on those borders too though and a black economy.

The ground operations are for the tunnels not the rockets. Also, the fact that it could be worse is hardly an endorsement now is it. It could always be worse.

If the threat from the rockets was that great the IDF would have invaded en masse, like they did when Hezbollah had their rocket offensive. The IDF know air strikes and artillery won't solve the problem which is exactly what makes the strikes punitive rather than decisive. 300+ people have died, if not for nothing then for very little gained in both Hamas capacity and Israli security. I don't understand why they would set out to be punitive in that environment. For the benifit of the voters ? To be seen to be doing something ?