Gromnir

Hey, its part of my workroom, it is supposed to be dirty! Only a lazy craftsmans workroom is clean. I was thinking more along the lines that it looks like something one might've bought at a CSI:garage sale. Maybe it's the lighting, but there's the one giant, faint-reddish stain.... the discoloration, likely from sweat or water or whatever, were visible and... foul. is another good reason to get a gym membership as there is people who clean up after Gromnir leaves a trail o' sweat that lady crimson's csi folks could no doubt use to track each piece o' equipment or weight Gromnir utilized on recent visits to the gym. we tend to sweat a great deal, and toweling equipment off is always striking us as insufficient... and we can't imagine how revolting such work areas would be if they were carpeted rather than the typical concrete covered with rubberized pads we sees in most gyms work areas. we also were thinking that the thin carpet we saw in the picture were likely insufficient to protect the faux brick tile woldan had, but that is a different issue altogether. HA! Good Fun!

there is some incidents that ain't getting much press that makes such more likely. there were a seeming copycat traveling from tennessee (apprehended... thank goodness) whose social media suggested he were going to try and kill 2 more cops, and there were another seeming randomn ny shooter that were apprehended last night, though he were taken into custody without any injury to the shooting suspect or the arresting cops... apparently he emptied his weapon and did not have more ammo. also, there has been an increase in police-related vandalism... one example were that the lug nuts on one wheel from a cop's personal car were removed resulting in a crash. no doubt the vast majority o' folks find the recent shooting o' two cops to be abhorrent, but the recent protests has likely resulted in significant anti-cop sentiment. also, even back in july, we had similar stuff that national news did not cover. http://www.northjersey.com/news/memorial-to-alleged-jersey-city-cop-killer-removed-1.1051421 the jersey city memorial for the cop killer were substantial larger than those for the dead cops. we live in strange times. as noted elsewhere, violent crime has gone down significantly in recent years, and that is a nationwide trend. unfortunately, the hard economic times brought a good amount o' general and misdirected anger to the surface, and while statistically more people is employed now than before the economic downturn, the black community has not recovered. many black jobs were cut and has not been replaced. regardless, am sadly less suspicious than malcador o' reports such as this one: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/20/sick-cheers-for-cop-killer-in-brooklyn.html hopefully the numbers who see the killings as justified is insignificant, but we don't doubt there is a few such folks in many crowds. HA! Good Fun!

inspired by another thread discussion. HA! Good Fun!

you genuine don't read your own posts. *sigh* repeat that faymann's concern's is related to lost revenue AFTER Gromnir mentioned lost revenue in the west has a point? also, tell us that the overriding strategic concerns for russia is greater than any amount o' economic damage (HA!) makes your comments about common sense o' faymann utter ridiculous. faymann noted that the initial sanctions were a matter o' self-defense. those concerns has not changed whether you think they is valid or not... though you did note that faymann has common sense, so... regardless, if the ukraine situation is "so vital as to trump any economic pressure," then clear you is advocating a tougher stance from the west perspective. even faymann, your common sense guy, sees a genuine self defense concern. you is telling us that no amount o' economic pressure is sufficient to alter putin/russian behavior. so, in point o' fact you is complete refuting faymann position. and we is mighty amused by your dismissal o' the impact o' the current economic crisis on russia. am not thinking you understand just what a desperation move the raising o' interest rate to 17% were, but if you don't get that, then we will have great difficulty explaining just how serious the russian problem is for russians. HA! Good Fun!

ah, that explains it. old dinosaurs such as Gromnir only had 3-5 television channels and none were particularly specialized. nowadays we watch news/financial channels, espn, and a handful o' shows that is unlikely to have a kid's audience. HA! Good Fun!

Common sense really. At least someone in the EU has it. you don't even see what you did there, do you? russian crisis is no big deal, but at least one guy in the west isn't happy about russian collapse and he is the one with common sense. ... ... *shrug* maybe you will figure it out. regardless, as we noted earlier, few folks is happy about a possible russian collapse, even if such a thing were predictable. am not certain why you honestly believe that folks in the west is happy 'bout russia economic collapse. as noted above, food sanctions by russia were a joke as far as hurting the west, but collapse o' russian economy and the plummeting ruble is cause for concern. example: volkswagen does big business in russia. the plummeting russian currency makes it extreme difficult for russians to buy foreign goods such as german autos. volkswagen has taken a serious hit this year, and the russian crisis is partial the cause. russia attempted to halt/slow the slide of the ruble by raising interest rates to SEVENTEEN freaking percent, but not even that slowed the fall. russians will have considerable difficulty buying many foreign goods for the foreseeable future, and a serious and enduring russian recession is now a forgone conclusion. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fault-for-the-rubles-collapse-lies-with-mr-putin/2014/12/16/3f9a8a1a-8548-11e4-a702-fa31ff4ae98e_story.html?tid=gravity_1.0_strip_2 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/15/russias-economy-is-doomed-its-that-simple/ we prefer wsj as the audience o' that periodical is business folks, so the editorializing is kept to a minimum... in spite o' number's amusement. nevertheless, the washington post articles is helpful... even got graphs for those o' you visual learners who clear ain't getting a clear picture from text explanations. the problem with faymann's comments is that he didn't offer an alternative. he made a general appeal for peace negotiations and a neutral role... the stuff that has been attempted with putin many times in the past. putin predation and intransigence has made so that many in the west is no longer willing to waste efforts on faymann pleas. nobody other than a few investors who is waiting for crisis to bottom out before they swoop in to pluck the russian carcass is wanting a russian collapse, but putin miscalculations (stupidity) and earlier western enabling has created a situation in which even tougher sanctions may be the only viable option available. however, we will once again note that Gromnir were never pleased with sanctions as this situation were so complete and utter predictable. HA! Good Fun!

You'd be posting from Folsom Prison if you did! Thanks Gromnir,I'll have that song stuck in my head all day now because of you! we would expect thanks for getting a johnny cash stuck in your head. this time o' year, we almost always had, "i wanna be a toys r us kid" playing in our noggin 24/7. don't see many toys r us commercials no more... which is odd as we still see their stores, so is not as if the internet put them outta business. heck, Gromnir didn't even have tv til the mid 80s, so we can't explain how the toys r us jingle managed to worm its way into our brain. HA! Good Fun!

am not certain we would describe your comments as "truth," but even so, we would be disappointed if you were banned for your comments, which were, at worst, tasteless. you got a warning. is now up to you to decide how to respond. steam's board is steam's board, so they can pretty much ban you for any reason, no matter how ridiculous or inequitable. wanna see how far you can push'em before they make good on the threat? *shrug* is only a message board. HA! Good Fun!

we know very little about poetry, which is embarrassing given we have an mfa in english. we barely passed p-chem in college. we don't play any musical instruments, much to the shame o' our paternal grandmother who tried tirelessly to get us to learn to play music. we will never advise a person 'bout how to raise children. we worked at juvenile hall and there were actual a unit for younger kids... kids younger than 12. the little psychopaths scared the crap outta us. we don't know anything about flower arrangements and apparently our aesthetic notions for home decor is embarrassing... so says numerous past girlfriends. we don't know anything about watch repair. we can build a pc, but we have very little notion as to how they work... when folks on this board discuss technical aspects o' games or pc hardware, we got pretty much 0 to contribute. etc. the things we don't know far out number what we does know. that being said, we have a relative diverse background. our grandfather (maternal) were a carpenter, and we did work in a machine shop for a summer. we also worked roofing and roofing supply. as noted earlier, we worked at a juvenile hall and we were working for the US attorney at one time, so while we don't have much current experience with criminal law, we ain't a complete n00b. our current occupation is as brain surgeon... not literal. we is a attorney who is ultra- specialized in first amendment law. we played college football at the d-1 level, and we had scholarship offers for both swimming and fencing... though the fencing scholarship were partial and we suspect we were offered 'cause we were a minority and the school in question were looking to be more diverse. our father were career military and we took more than a few military history courses at University, but am never gonna pretend to know what actual modern combat is like. we grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and had a horse (pony) before we had a bike. we has experienced winters without enough food to eat or enough fuel to heat our home. we currently own enough real estate such that we could easily retire. we got a bs in physics from Cal, which were a waste, and a bfa from ucsb in english/creative writing... got an mfa too. we taught, briefly in europe and enjoyed spain in particular. while in europe we learned a bit about polish cooking from a woman in gdansk. we got our jd from boalt, which we is actual quite proud of... most o' our accomplishments is stuff we never bother to share, but getting through boalt were the single toughest thing we did during the first 25 years o' our life. our mother died of cancer, and our sister had lupus-- we watched both of them die ugly deaths. our sister had mental health issues and she were sexually assaulted while attending Cal. we has been playing pnp crpgs since the d&d white box edition were first released. we is a moderate competent home cook. ... oh, and 2 (3?) years ago we honest-to-god saved a drowning puppy from a near freezing lake... though we bitched and moaned about the feat before and after doing so. it were monumentally stoopid of us to swim out into that water, but there were a girl crying and, well... we shot a man in reno just to watch him die. mostly, we got the advantage o' being old, so we got lots o' experience in many different things. the things we know nothing about, we typical keep silent 'bout... you might wanna try that more often. HA! Good Fun! ps, we never shot a man in reno, or anyplace else in the continental US. however, we did own a winchester, bolt-action .22 from before we has clear memories and we killed innumerable small mammals with it. we know rifles. perhaps ironically, we is so completely incompetent with handguns that we suspect the average 8-year-old handling a handgun for the first time is a better marksman than is Gromnir with any handgun you care to mention... is one reason we never contribute to the handgun discussions.

“skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. imagination without skill gives us modern art.”-- tom stoppard maybe we messed the quote up slightly, but it looks right. regardless, how you do anything is how you do everything. learning to maintain tools and workplace is always step one. get caught up in the process and leave cleaning for later? sure, that happens, but when done, you clean. virtual every carpenter, welder, and any other competent craftsman we care to mention gots workplaces that you could eat off the floor... not metal shop floors as they always got oil and metal shavings. "Hey, its part of my workroom, it is supposed to be dirty! Only a lazy craftsmans workroom is clean." he forgets what he posts. *shrug* how you do anything... and this guy makes his own ammo? *shudder* HA! Good Fun!

Look who's talking. Before criticizing people you should first learn how to read, then you'd know what the word ''necessary'' in my sentence actually means. we read, and we understand the meaning of necessity. the slovenly and slip-shod craftsman is the one who sees proper maintenance of his workplace and tools as unnecessary. HA! Good Fun!

given such a peculiar attitude, the mystery o' why woldan is so frequently injured no longer strikes us as mysterious. in our experience, first lesson a craftsman is taught is to maintain his equipment and workplace. HA! Good Fun!

at least you wore pants. am suspecting that at least 10% o' Gromnir's Cal graduation class (undergrad) went al fresco. freaking hippies. congrats and all that. HA! Good Fun!

according to at least one report, the suspected shooter also shot his girlfriend, though she appears to have survived. https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=dontrunup as an aside, obama's forthcoming executive order is not so much meant to regulate police brutality as it is directed at regulating military hardware reaching police departments. a US President can do less about perceived or real police excess than many folks realize... set the national agenda is his most vital role. HA! Good Fun!

ridiculous and utterly myopic. how on earth can you even suggest such a thing with any degree o' seriousness? as to your nonsense about "pure necessity..." HA! hell, the same reasoning can be used by folks in the west regarding sanctions. same reasoning has been used, badly, to explain US involvement or non-involvement in any number of foreign debacles. call something "necessary" absolves you o' all sins or stupidity, eh? am understanding why zor is afraid to do so, but drowsy should go back to july and august in this thread. it will be useful to you to see just how utterly predictable this situation were even to a bunch o' geeks posting on a game development board. btw, Gromnir were never a fan o' sanctions as the means to respond to russian actions. we noted that there likely no better option available to the west in 2014, but we didn't like sanctions. the food sanctions imposed by russia were laughable as they were seeming designed to hurt russia more than the west (wacky) but we has always been concerned that the russian economy is too freaking fragile. petroleum is the russian economy. to make matters worse, russian entrepreneurs and investors are notoriously fickle-- they will yank out their money and invest in foreign ventures at the first sign o' trouble. etc. western sanctions were designed to hurt russia, but you got sanctions aimed at a complete bass ackwards economy that were already on the brink o' recession... with a moron at the helm o' the country. the food sanctions were just sorta so over-the-top idiotic that it were near impossible to laugh away putin nonsense any further. but again, the biggest and most obvious fail is 15 years o' allowing the russian economy to be complete driven by a single volatile commodity. in spite o' various booms and busts during putin reign in russia, no genuine attempt has been made to develop the russian economy beyond its singular dependence on petroleum. how you can look at the current russian financial crisis and Not blame much o' the problems on russian stupidity is actual a bit mind-boggling. HA! Good Fun!

*sigh* am understanding your attempt to ignore reality, but as we said, your subjective notions o' right v. wrong regarding russian behavior is wasted. Gromnir ain't referencing right v. wrong. the west reacted predictably to russian actions with sanctions, regardless o' whether you thinks putin were just and right and noble or not. this crisis were all very predictable and very avoidable. 'course the biggest example o' russian stupidity were the one that is gonna take decades to fix. an economy near complete dependent on a single resource is extreme vulnerable. maybe this is the wake-up call the russians needed? dunno. given the recent history o' russian stupidity... HA! Good Fun!

of course you don't wanna touch the predation bit. wsj don't care who were right or wrong regarding crimea, but the western sanctions that followed were predictable. right v. wrong is complete separate from the question o' whether russian actions were stupid. putin stupidity related to malaysian air made it so that even the pro-russian western governments lobbied for harsher sanctions. and your amusement regarding wsj don't change the fact that any yutz with even high school level comprehension o' economics could see just how vulnerable the russian economy were given its near complete dependence on petroleum exports. ... is honestly shocking to see just how hard folks will ignore reality regarding russian economic woes. honestly, all you gotta do is go back six or seven months in this thread and you will see who were being obtuse and who were predicting just what has happened. can go back further than that if you wish. there ain't no big surprises. HA! Good Fun!

amused. yeah, russian stupidity is in large part to blame. there has been little attempt to diversify the russian economy since putin came into power. even putin has finally admitted the need to modernize the economy in light o' the present crisis. 15 years too late to make that change, eh? furthermore, the initial sanctions were the result o' russian intransigence and predation... but no doubt such actions get a different spin in russsia. writers at wsj and nasdaq (the nasdaq article were actually originally printed in wsj, but we couldn't link for those without a subscription) don't care much 'bout politics save for the impact on money... is one reason why wsj is our primary news source. investors don't so much want or need to hear spin. so... back to the topic at hand... following western sanctions, in an act o' unrivaled idiocy, russia attempts sanctions o' their own on western foodstuffs, which predictably made russian problems worse as the typical russian already spends a far greater % o' their income on food than does westerners. this all happened before the tanking o' oil prices btw. the russian economy were already heading towards recession when putin comes up with the brain fart move o' trying to impose sanctions o' his own. the article(s) then observes how putin dealt with pro-russian supporters in the west following the malaysia air incident. moron. etc. yeah, russian stupidity were/is a large part o' the problem. HA! Good Fun! ps please note our post at the top o' this page. you can go back and look at posts from Before tanking oil. what has happened to the russian economy were not unexpected even by the largely clueless posters on these boards.

what on earth did you read? wishful thinking? with some extreme few exceptions, a collapse o' russia would hurt everybody. oh, sure, a functional collapse similar to even 1998 will hurt russia more than the united states or even germany, but a collapse o' russia is bad for business... most everybody's business. major US corporations such as Ford does considerable sales in russia, and more then a few American banks have investments in the ruble or have made loans to russia. financial havoc in russia as wishful thinking? what articles are you reading? where is you getting such a notion? the articles does show that the crisis is more serious than the russians pretend and that the troubles is the result o' misfortune AND russian stupidity. ... is amazing what spin folks add to articles based on their own biases. HA! Good Fun!

http://www.food.com/recipe/ikea-swedish-meatballs-294387 dunno. is hard for us to envision a swedish meatballs recipe w/o nutmeg, but supposedly that is an authentic ikea swedish meatballs recipe. you now know all you need to 'bout scandinavian culture. HA! Good Fun!

larger strategic failures o' Germany in ww2? is a whole different issue from what woldan and Gromnir were discussing. *shrug* invasion o' the ussr were a horrible notion in retrospect, but is one o' those decisions that need be put in context. the soviet had invaded finland and, for the most part, got the snot knocked outta them. nazi germany were supplying and aiding finland at the time, so they got a great first-hand view o' soviet military capabilities. conflict with soviet were deemed to be inevitable, so why not take 'em off the board sooner rather than later? yeah, invade soviet russia were a dumb move, but given what German military commanders had seen o' the soviets during the winter war, the decision to invade were not nearly as suicidal as it gets portrayed. is many german military decisions that get portrayed as the result o' hitler's lunacy that weren't... weren't simple hitler's decisions and weren't near as stoopid as they is described. as an aside, am surprised to see the continued myth o' the me 262 as a game-changer is still being embraced. the jet were a monstrously fast, and surprisingly agile (at high speeds) fighter, but it were a resource and maintenance hog that failed to meet Germany's actual need for a dependable Long-range fighter. Germany had a number o' weapons that woulda' been game changers if the world were made o' cardboard, but wars is not won on paper. http://www.nasdaq.com/article/putins-year-of-defiance-and-miscalculation-20141217-01129 http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/10/03/how-russias-debt-and-currency-markets-could-spiral-into-crisis/ dunno, staying on-topic in off-topic is seeming unnecessary, but we will give it a shot. HA! Good Fun!

What destroyed Germany was the weak Airforce that allowed bombing the infra structure to pieces, not realizing the importance of radar and Allies gaining control over the oil fields, this rendered 1/3 of the mechanized troops useless crippling the supply chain. your conclusions is highly debatable. it is is an interesting if off-topic debate, however. german airpower were were actual very strong, relative speaking. unfortunately, the luftwaffe were built wrong as it had far too few long-range fighters and bombers of its own. it had short-range fighters in abundance, but in spite o' the horrendous toll the luftwaffe were exacting on allied long-range bombing efforts, the allies were able to able to absorb such losses. is the navy that is likely were the biggest weak point for Germany in ww2. there were little naval airpower, and naval losses, particularly the norwegian campaign, forced the battle o' britain to be fought almost completely in the air ... where again, the lack o' long range fighters and bombers proved problematic. in fact, while the battle o' britain is portrayed as a handful o' british (and polish and other expat pilots) fighting off the luftwaffe despite seeming insurmountable odds, the battle for britain were likely won earlier, at sea. the Germans simple didn't have the surface ships to make an invasion o' britain possible. in any event, everybody gots theories. HA! Good Fun!

the only good thing about this thread is that you can actual go back and re-read some o' the nonsense folks posted. the only folks who would be hurt by sanctions were the west? brazil and china would simple be new and more lucrative trade partners for russia? oil export revenue dependence o' russia were being overblown. list goes on and on and on and onandonandonandonandonandon. add in the conspiracy stuff posted by some folks (you know who you are) and this thread is non-stop chuckles... but mostly in retrospect. HA! Good Fun!

conspiracy theory stuff is often having a geographical origin, but am thinking that is hardly shocking. is not so much an internet thing as a cultural phenomenon. http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2013/0222/Was-Chelyabinsk-meteor-actually-a-meteor-Many-Russians-don-t-think-so.-video however, beyond the conspiracy stuff, we do understand some o' the reluctance to believe that this, the hack of sony, is what it appears to be. most international incidents is the result o' a confluence o' accidents and errors in judgment. on the other hand, when some event is the result of intended action, we expect it to be major. george bush sr. vomits on the japanese prime minister? is an accident and only the wackiest conspiracy nut thinks otherwise. nevertheless, there were dozens o' instant theories and it were even reported on cnn that bush had died... and that were 1992, when the internet for private use were still a fledgling. the sony hack were not the result o' an accident or a case o' flu and and too much sushi. somebody planned the hack. have the hack be perpetrated by malcontents with too much free time strikes us initially more plausible than that it were actual planned by the north korean government. based on the damage done to sony and to the movie industry as a whole, we can't see this as being some kinda publicity stunt. nevertheless, while all evidence suggests that north korea were the ultimate cause o' the hack, the whole thing is just so darn silly that we understand why folks might look for other more rational explanations. HA! Good Fun!

The leaks, if not the underlying hack, have reportedly been traced to the network of a fancy hotel in Bangkok. It's a weird sort of mentality all over the web these days that first suspects some kind of false-flag attack for, well, everything. I suspect it originates from the 'chan universe (where such suspicions are usually quite justified), but it is very rarely justified elsewhere. perhaps movies and tv shows has taught folks that such wide publicized computer hacks is a smokescreen or a diversion and typically there is some larger plot at work. also, as far as international incidents are concerned, it is so hard for most folks to take this serious. is not at all like timothy olyphant stealing the totality o' US financial information from a social security computer facility, and there is no threat o' a nuke or dirty bomb being smuggled into ________. aren't we s'posed to be afraid that the chinese can disable the US power grid? don't you realize that we are already living in the Matrix, and there ain't no neo to save your clueless arse from digital Armageddon? where were we? oh, yeah, north korea sponsors a hack o' sony that humiliates some executives and compels 'em to delay the release of a comedy film. ... this isn't what we were promised by movies and tv and conspiracy theory nutters. the sony hack is so ridiculously banal. north korea didn't bring about a financial catastrophe in the west and they didn't have planes crash into iconic US buildings. the endgame were that the haX0rs left a flaming bag of poop on the doorstep of sony? is not a particularly satisfying plot for a tv show or movie, is it? is more like a south park episode scenario, yes? HA! Good Fun!