Duck and Cover

sup OTB? Nada , 'xcept me still whoring myself out to the enforcement arm of the capitalists. :D Are you still fighting the good fight, or have you decided to hang up your mantle of punk and settle down? "I know not with what weapons Fallout 4 will be fought..." :lol: And they will be pow...

they will likely change the currency though, as in the notes to prevent such profiteering. If they issue new currency you'll be able to exchange the old stuff for the new, just like with the Deutsch Mark back in the '90s. If you know where to look it's easy to keep abreast of things like that. The ...

To paraphrase a science-related quote:

"Fallout 3 is not only more craptastic that we imagine, it is more craptastic than we can imagine."

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The Iraqi Dinar was worth 3 USD even after Iraq's defeat in the Gulf War. It remained at that rate all the way until the Baathist regime was overthrown in '03. One USD is currently worth nearly 1,500 Iraqi Dinar. An enterprising soul might pick up 1,000 USD worth of Dinar and wait for the country to...

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Do you know when they started flouridating water? 1946. How's that for your post-war communist conspiracy?

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Personally, I'm not convinced that Ralph Nader -- or any third party candidate, for that matter -- is going to pave the way to utopia. I do, however, think that a lot of them offer a better solution to the challenges that face the US of A than either of the ruling parties. If you're going to succumb...

Do you have like the foot place holdlers so your foot doesn't slip? I would find that pretty useful when riding tough terrain or a wet city. I replaced my original metal ones with like super metal grips with metal pegs in it which made it unlikely your foot would slip but if it did you would be in ...

Yes, Nader is running as an Independent. As for the whole "king maker/spoiler effect" logic: 1) I'm from Arizona. McCain is going to take AZ. That's virtually guarantied. So under the electoral college system my vote basically doesn't count. 2) You have to take a long-run view of things. I...

Bicycling is a subject near and dear to my heart since it's my primary mode of transportation. Some guys think it's funny that I'm a Staff Sergeant who doesn't own a car, but I make it a point to stop and laugh at them when I see them refueling at $4.25/gallon (read: getting flensed at the pump). I ...

I believe there was an oversight in this topic, namely Nader/Gonzales. Nader's managed to get on the ballot in NM, AZ and HI and there is still time to get on the ballot in other states. That would be who I'm voting for, even if the Dems manage to embroil his ballot access drive in another legal bat...

:lol: Y'know, I remember when you guys would start threads up about me being gone. This time it took 5 pages for me to be mentioned and it was a simple "OTB?" Is it a case of the mighty having fallen, or just the fact that most of you are too n3wbish to remember me? For those of you that r...

MBT-70 pretty much did everything that the later M1 did. However, the US gov't didn't feel like spending $1 million/copy in 1970 dollars. (So they ended up spending $2.4 million in 1983 dollars...) I recall seeing one of the MBT 70 prototypes on Ft. Knox in a traffic circle back in '90. I wonder if ...

Could be. I'm not sure and my research would be limited going out to the ammo conex and setting them off...

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The M1 also has a system that shoots fuel or oil directly on the engine that creates a LOT of smoke also. It's primarily used to screen "light skinned" vehicles behind the tank. That system is actually disabled these days on both Abrams and Bradleys. The reason being that the US Army uses...

The only Army schools I've been to didn't deal too much with military theory since Sergeants don't really need to know that sort of stuff. I became interested in Machiavelli in college largely because he gets such a bad rap for being a bastard. So I read The Prince and concluded that people were ove...

Machiavellis Dell'arte della guerra is completely absurd. Just though you should know. the guy though guns were useless and impractical, and did not view cavalry as an important part of a modern (aprox. 1600ad) army. Thanks for squaring me away on that one. I really don't feel like scrolling throug...

PSG = Polizei Scharfschützen Gewehr :ehue: Auf deutsch, ja. Aber auf english bedeutet das "Platoon Sergeant". Are you driving a tank now, OTB? No, I'm a Bradley commander. Well, technically I'm a section sergeant, and have two Bradleys at my disposal, but due to manpower shortages I've...

A: Sounds like he commands a tank platoon. Actually you lead a platoon, you don't command it. (Your platoon leader can't give you an Article 15...) That means hed leave the wire regularly. Hold on, I think the PL in our attached tank platoon wants to have a word with you. I don't know what your MOS...

[civil war is] propably a natural reaction after 25 years of sadistic dictatorship. Actually, the Baathists came to power back in '68. I'm not sure what the interrim gov't was that held power between'58 when the monarchy was overthrown and '68 when the Baathists came to power, but IIRC it was a mil...

Where is OTB? He's left the luscious greens of Germany for the rather dreary, dusty streets of Baghdad, I'm afraid. Things aren't so bad here. We just got the barracks wired for internet access, so I've a crappy, 3rd-World broad-band connection at my disposal. I swear it's slower than dial-up half t...