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"frags, literally speaking, refer to killings of superior officers.

I do believe sir, that you should use different terminology when marketing it to the military."

No, "fragging" does. "Frags" is the plural of "fragmentation grenades".

http://home.mweb.co.za/re/redcap/vietcrim.htm

FWIW:
"Frag order" is a (WWII vintage at least) military for "Fragmentary Order" that is still in standard current daily use.

Military folks are proficient at dealing with many different acronyms.
One would not mistake a "frag order" for an "order to frag" someone.

We also have MANY officers and enlisted troops who game.

just don't eat the ... the quagga

Actually he could eat a quagga. We've got a few of them wandering around in the mountain reserve in Cape Town. A few years ago DNA analysis showed that they were a variety of zebra rather than a new species, and they were resurrected by selective breeding thanks to The Quagga Project

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Yes

Of course most scholars can be paid to say the TR is corrupt; they are paid by people like Zondervan and other publishing houses that have copyrighted translations that they make a mint from. You have to be aware of the profit motive here, it is not trivial.

That said, the scholarly defense of the TR and KJV is from people like Dean Burgon, D.A. Waite, D.H. Sorenson, D.A. Cloud, and others.

The most useful book I've found is here, though others are more rigorous and detailed, particularly Dr. Waite's works.

As for the English Language, having "ye" vs. "thee" is sufficiently basic a point that I'll leave the elucidation for the reader.

You have some questions about Sinaiticus and Vaticanus. Their names are also given as Aleph and B, respectively. Vaticanus omits 2877 words in the gospels alone. Both Aleph and B omit most of Matthew 16:2 and all of 16:3. Aleph omits 3455 words - I could go on, but the point of their differences even between each other is pretty significant. See Dean Burgon's works if you are interested in vast detail on the topic.

Vaticanus completely omits Revelation. Sinaiticus has 140,000 in Revelation 7:4 and 141,000 in 14:3; the TR correctly has both as 144,000.

Aleph includes occult books as well, such as the shepherd of Hermas and the epistle of Barnabas. Both include the apocryphal books as well, obviously, since they're Catholic manuscripts.

Also note that the "missing" verses of Mark 16:9-20 had space left in both those manuscripts for them; see Aleph and B. Like someone removed them...

ALso missing from B are most of Genesis, Hebrews 9:14 to the end, all the Pastoral epistles, and as mentioned, Revelation.

Now did you want to discuss abiogenesis next?

Of course most scholars can be paid to say the TR is corrupt; they are paid by people like Zondervan and other publishing houses that have copyrighted translations that they make a mint from. You have to be aware of the profit motive here, it is not trivial.

That said, the scholarly defense of the TR and KJV is from people like Dean Burgon, D.A. Waite, D.H. Sorenson, D.A. Cloud, and others.

The most useful book I've found is here, though others are more rigorous and detailed, particularly Dr. Waite's works.

As for the English Language, having "ye" vs. "thee" is sufficiently basic a point that I'll leave the elucidation for the reader.

You have some questions about Sinaiticus and Vaticanus. Their names are also given as Aleph and B, respectively. Vaticanus omits 2877 words in the gospels alone. Both Aleph and B omit most of Matthew 16:2 and all of 16:3. Aleph omits 3455 words - I could go on, but the point of their differences even between each other is pretty significant. See Dean Burgon's works if you are interested in vast detail on the topic.

Vaticanus completely omits Revelation. Sinaiticus has 140,000 in Revelation 7:4 and 141,000 in 14:3; the TR correctly has both as 144,000.

Aleph includes occult books as well, such as the shepherd of Hermas and the epistle of Barnabas. Both include the apocryphal books as well, obviously, since they're Catholic manuscripts.

Also note that the "missing" verses of Mark 16:9-20 had space left in both those manuscripts for them; see Aleph and B. Like someone removed them...

ALso missing from B are most of Genesis, Hebrews 9:14 to the end, all the Pastoral epistles, and as mentioned, Revelation.

Now did you want to discuss abiogenesis next?

No, the german military police was called Feldgendarmerie (Fieldpolice). These soldiers wore a gorget around their necks which earned them the name Kettenhunde (chained dogs). This site contains both historical and reenactment pictures. Here you can find an excellent historical overview.

The SS started out as Hitler's personal bodyguard, but was soon turned into a paramilitary organisation led by Himmler. Special SS units were in charge of the concentration camps and 'cleansed' occupied territory. The SS was declared a criminal organisation at Neurenberg and many of it's leaders were executed.

It has nothing to do with the game?

Check it Out.

"What the scientists believe they found through this rather laborious process was that dopamine production in the brain doubles during video game play."

You know, there IS a reason people get addicted to these games, and it IS physical. We crave certain chemicals, ingested or created internally.

However, he doesn't note the business model that successful FPS games have used to overcome that problem: They open up the level-design specs, and make it possible for anybody to design their own level. That, plus the recent phenomena of near-universal Internet access, means that you can find people out there willing to give their work away for free as long as they get one e-mail's worth of praise for it. Egoboo is a powerful thing.

This puts a pretty radical paradigm shift into the gaming world: Your users determine the game's level design and play pattern. The most obvious example is that they can control the spacing and variety of obstacles (puzzles, enemies, etc.). But there are also people who have used the basic 3D engine at the heart of an FPS and applied them to uses that most people would have never predicted, including:

• Real-time virtual wedding ceremonies
• Animated short films set in the Quake world
• A virtual sysadmin tool that simulates kill -9 with a shotgun

Francis Hwang