Hunters had a bag slot wasted, as did Warlocks and were the only class that had to spend money to kill. Oh and warlocks had to go farm mobs before a dungeon or raid so they could cast important spells. It was a great farking mechanic.
Wood? Fire? It was pointless when you could cook in any town or camp. Oh that buff from a camp fire was a make or break.
Yes, you have to go out to the middle of nowhere if you wanted to queue for a BG, and you had to commit to that BG. So like if AV had a 3 hour queue you just waited and waited and hoped it didn't crash you out when you zoned.
Again, it was awesome to travel all the way to Strath, or better yet Dire Maul and then find out someone dropped group.
Spells, abilities, professions are still only available at certain trainers, or are you that one guy who liked having weapon trainers spread across three cities?
All your points are things that needed to be fixed.
The wars in Iraq (which is all but over for the US, good luck with that INA) and Afghanistan are very different from World War Two. If the US had fought Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan with the same disregard for civilian casualties and overwhelming firepower there wouldn't be a problem.
Modern Mindset - Isolate Fallujah, tell the civilians to get out, then go house to house to secure the city with Marines and Army.
World War Two Mindset - Mass on one side of Fallujah, carpet bomb the far side of the city for a couple days, then send infantry in supported by artillery while blowing blocks up, block by block until no one is left to resist. Or, firebomb the city with incendiaries, or bombard with artillery for days before going in, like Casino. Any one that flees, harass with airpower and/or chase down with armored cavalry units
Right now if a shooting war broke out between the United States and today's Germany or today's Japan, it'd be no contest, although Japan has a better military right now, the US would win.
The last time the US really went all out was the ground war to take Kuwait at the end of Desert Storm, and even that was just about 1/3rd of the total air and naval power and about 1/2 of the ground forces. The US military has become much more lethal in the 20 years since Desert Shield started.
And in the 1800s it took 45 years of constant warfare to defeat 10-12,000 armed Plains Indians.
The Colonial and Regular Armies didn't have JDAMs, Hellfires, Reapers, F-22s, Abrams and Strykers.
Funny you should mention Wyoming as a place with nothing to eat. It and all the Great Plains and western states in the lower 48 are net exporters of food.
Canada, while it has a great martial tradition in the World Wars and Afghanistan, really doesn't have that insurgency mindset that Iraqis who are allowed a full auto AK-47/74 per adult male or Afghanis have.
Strategically Canada would be easy to take, control the big cities, take out what armor and infantry units they have and it ceases to be a country.
I've driven through the wilds of western Canada, it'd be trivial to insert troops from Alaska to control the Canadian natural gas lines in BC and armor sent across the border in Montana and North Dakota could take the oil sand regions in two days.
Look at the invasion of Iraq, it was relatively easy for the US/UK to take and then control the energy production. 172 dead vs 15-45,000 enemies killed. Even if the number of US dead in taking Canada tripled, 15,000 Canadian combatants would be the bulk of the Canadian military, there wouldn't be alot of well armed and well trained people left to fire up a resistance.
Even during the darkest days of the Iraqi Civil War and Resistance, the oil never really stopped flowing.
Yes, if it came down to serious competing for energy, the US wouldn't have any problem with Canada.
The Stryker brigades at Fort Lewis would roll up I-5 and take Vancouver, the Army out of Colorado and Kansas could take the prairie provinces while 101st, 82nd and 10th Mountain took Toronto, Quebec, Montreal and Ottawa.
Canada has 35,000 troops in the Land Forces and only 100 fighter/interceptors, it would be trivial for F-15C and F-22s to take out the CF-18Cs Canada has.
Yes the US has used up much of it's oil and can't ever support itself, but there are unexplored areas (Pacific Northwest coast, Arctic Ocean, Bering Straights, Chukchi Sea and untapped regions like ANWR.
The US also has alot of Uranium, Natural Gas, Coalbed methane and shale oil (for when that becomes economically viable to exploit).
I'm on my third one, have an Elite from December '09 right now.
HD format for disks, you know so you can have more content on a disk and higher resolution images.
Blu-ray support or hell if the 360 had supported HD-DVD, for watching HD videos.
Bluetooth support, you know so one can use their bluetooth headset to game with, rather than sending Microsoft another 50 dollars.
Wifi would have been really nice to have on the original 360 models, but again they stick buyers with another 50-100 dollars for something that came standard in the Wii and PS3
Yes, the people who built the bomb and the people that did the bomb damage assessments for the two atomic bombs have no farking idea what the bombs would do to a Japanese city.
Why? An atomic bomb had never been detonated near any structures or anything flammable. Remember that Trinity was simply detonated on a steel tower in the middle of the desert.
It wasn't until Hiroshima and Nagasaki that they had any idea of what one does, and then Tumbler-Snapper and Upshot Knothole gave the US the data to really figure out how to effectively use atomic weapons for destruction.
Israel and the US had samples (allegedly) of Syria's plant, and the US got samples of North Korea's fallout, so I expect the Israelis have smuggled samples out of Iran's plants.
So if a nuke, say by Hezbollah, goes off, the US and Israelis will know that it came from Iran.
The problem with thinking the DPRK or Iran will be rational like the other nuclear powers have been assumes that their leadership is rational.
Remember that the Iranian leadership believes that a giant conflagration has to happen, unlike Christian Revelationists who wait for the Rapture, Twelvers who follow the reappearance of the Mahdi feel that chaos and civil war are good things that'll bring about the End Times
For shipping, most high tech stuff goes by air and a lot of Pacific Rim high tech goes to Anchorage where it gets put on another plane for the next leg.
Detroit to Anchorage - 2973 miles
San Francisco to Anchorage - 2016
Anchorage to Tokyo - 3496
Anchorage to Hong Kong - 5093
So Detroit adds almost a thousand air miles to moving crap to the other side of the Pacific Rim
They used to do that level of customization, it led to crappy build quality and problems with maintenance and service because so many different options were one or three offs.
Like my truck, you could pick between 7 transmissions, 5 engines, 4 chassis, 2 drive layouts (2WD, 4WD), 6 different gear ratios, 3 or 4 suspensions and I think 3 different levels of interior.
I custom ordered it in the spring of '91 and still drive it, although with third party seats, new wheels and engine mods I installed in 2004.
Busiest ports in the US: Port of South Louisiana Port of Houston, Texas Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, New Jersey Port of Beaumont, Texas Port of Long Beach, California . . . Port of Los Angeles, California - 14th
Combined Long Beach and LA are above Beaumont, but still 4th over all.
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Hunters had a bag slot wasted, as did Warlocks and were the only class that had to spend money to kill. Oh and warlocks had to go farm mobs before a dungeon or raid so they could cast important spells. It was a great farking mechanic.
Wood? Fire? It was pointless when you could cook in any town or camp. Oh that buff from a camp fire was a make or break.
Yes, you have to go out to the middle of nowhere if you wanted to queue for a BG, and you had to commit to that BG. So like if AV had a 3 hour queue you just waited and waited and hoped it didn't crash you out when you zoned.
Again, it was awesome to travel all the way to Strath, or better yet Dire Maul and then find out someone dropped group.
Spells, abilities, professions are still only available at certain trainers, or are you that one guy who liked having weapon trainers spread across three cities?
All your points are things that needed to be fixed.
The wars in Iraq (which is all but over for the US, good luck with that INA) and Afghanistan are very different from World War Two. If the US had fought Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan with the same disregard for civilian casualties and overwhelming firepower there wouldn't be a problem.
Modern Mindset - Isolate Fallujah, tell the civilians to get out, then go house to house to secure the city with Marines and Army.
World War Two Mindset - Mass on one side of Fallujah, carpet bomb the far side of the city for a couple days, then send infantry in supported by artillery while blowing blocks up, block by block until no one is left to resist. Or, firebomb the city with incendiaries, or bombard with artillery for days before going in, like Casino. Any one that flees, harass with airpower and/or chase down with armored cavalry units
Right now if a shooting war broke out between the United States and today's Germany or today's Japan, it'd be no contest, although Japan has a better military right now, the US would win.
The last time the US really went all out was the ground war to take Kuwait at the end of Desert Storm, and even that was just about 1/3rd of the total air and naval power and about 1/2 of the ground forces. The US military has become much more lethal in the 20 years since Desert Shield started.
And in the 1800s it took 45 years of constant warfare to defeat 10-12,000 armed Plains Indians.
The Colonial and Regular Armies didn't have JDAMs, Hellfires, Reapers, F-22s, Abrams and Strykers.
Funny you should mention Wyoming as a place with nothing to eat. It and all the Great Plains and western states in the lower 48 are net exporters of food.
http://www.smallgrains.org/WHFACTS/growreg.htm
http://www.agclassroom.org/kids/stats/wyoming.pdf
Canada, while it has a great martial tradition in the World Wars and Afghanistan, really doesn't have that insurgency mindset that Iraqis who are allowed a full auto AK-47/74 per adult male or Afghanis have.
Strategically Canada would be easy to take, control the big cities, take out what armor and infantry units they have and it ceases to be a country.
I've driven through the wilds of western Canada, it'd be trivial to insert troops from Alaska to control the Canadian natural gas lines in BC and armor sent across the border in Montana and North Dakota could take the oil sand regions in two days.
Look at the invasion of Iraq, it was relatively easy for the US/UK to take and then control the energy production. 172 dead vs 15-45,000 enemies killed. Even if the number of US dead in taking Canada tripled, 15,000 Canadian combatants would be the bulk of the Canadian military, there wouldn't be alot of well armed and well trained people left to fire up a resistance.
Even during the darkest days of the Iraqi Civil War and Resistance, the oil never really stopped flowing.
Even during the "Dark Ages", Europe was publishing more literary works and maps than the Islamic world was.
Islam's carrying the torch was simply translating Greek works they captured when the Byzantine Empire fell.
Yes, if it came down to serious competing for energy, the US wouldn't have any problem with Canada.
The Stryker brigades at Fort Lewis would roll up I-5 and take Vancouver, the Army out of Colorado and Kansas could take the prairie provinces while 101st, 82nd and 10th Mountain took Toronto, Quebec, Montreal and Ottawa.
Canada has 35,000 troops in the Land Forces and only 100 fighter/interceptors, it would be trivial for F-15C and F-22s to take out the CF-18Cs Canada has.
The US has gigatons of coal left, about 27-29% of the world's coal (Alaska is largely unexplored for coal) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal#World_coal_reserves
Yes the US has used up much of it's oil and can't ever support itself, but there are unexplored areas (Pacific Northwest coast, Arctic Ocean, Bering Straights, Chukchi Sea and untapped regions like ANWR.
The US also has alot of Uranium, Natural Gas, Coalbed methane and shale oil (for when that becomes economically viable to exploit).
Not to mention the renewables, wind and solar.
I'm on my third one, have an Elite from December '09 right now.
HD format for disks, you know so you can have more content on a disk and higher resolution images.
Blu-ray support or hell if the 360 had supported HD-DVD, for watching HD videos.
Bluetooth support, you know so one can use their bluetooth headset to game with, rather than sending Microsoft another 50 dollars.
Wifi would have been really nice to have on the original 360 models, but again they stick buyers with another 50-100 dollars for something that came standard in the Wii and PS3
You didn't even read the summary did you?
Peer-to-peer for "dumb" devices, like of a high power, long range Bluetooth.
The Xbox 360 is a fantastic product? So you've never owned one have you?
RROD pops to mind and the overall 16.1% failure rate over 6 to 10 months use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems
http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-entertainment-features/36070-report-xbox-360-failure-rate-above-15
Plus the fact that it didn't support an HD format for games, no Blu-ray support now, no Bluetooth support, it's not that fantastic of a device.
Yea, I feel for you diabetics.
Little needles like a finger prick don't bother me, IVs of any type make me twitch.
Kept me from trying heroin though ;)
I have a needle phobia and have to get regular tests for RBC/WBC/platelets and hormone levels.
I'd love a solution to my levels that doesn't require a stick into my crappy veins and three to four vials of blood.
Yes, the people who built the bomb and the people that did the bomb damage assessments for the two atomic bombs have no farking idea what the bombs would do to a Japanese city.
Why? An atomic bomb had never been detonated near any structures or anything flammable. Remember that Trinity was simply detonated on a steel tower in the middle of the desert.
It wasn't until Hiroshima and Nagasaki that they had any idea of what one does, and then Tumbler-Snapper and Upshot Knothole gave the US the data to really figure out how to effectively use atomic weapons for destruction.
That is "new here" to me.
Sometimes ideology and religion trump "wealth and power".
It does happen.
Israel and the US had samples (allegedly) of Syria's plant, and the US got samples of North Korea's fallout, so I expect the Israelis have smuggled samples out of Iran's plants.
So if a nuke, say by Hezbollah, goes off, the US and Israelis will know that it came from Iran.
The problem with thinking the DPRK or Iran will be rational like the other nuclear powers have been assumes that their leadership is rational.
Remember that the Iranian leadership believes that a giant conflagration has to happen, unlike Christian Revelationists who wait for the Rapture, Twelvers who follow the reappearance of the Mahdi feel that chaos and civil war are good things that'll bring about the End Times
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_imam#Reappearance
They expected more cancer and a raging firestorm that'd burn the rest of the city.
They were hoping for a Dresden or Tokyo with a single device, they got something like it, but it wasn't the same sort of firestorm.
Trade with the US
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_partners_of_the_United_States
Jhttp://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/top/top1008yr.html
Oil, oil and more oil for the Gulf ports. Alot of oil going into the refineries in SoCal too.
For shipping, most high tech stuff goes by air and a lot of Pacific Rim high tech goes to Anchorage where it gets put on another plane for the next leg.
Detroit to Anchorage - 2973 miles
San Francisco to Anchorage - 2016
Anchorage to Tokyo - 3496
Anchorage to Hong Kong - 5093
So Detroit adds almost a thousand air miles to moving crap to the other side of the Pacific Rim
The rising car companies are Korean, they are going to eat the Big Three and the Japanese industry's lunch in the Americas.
They used to do that level of customization, it led to crappy build quality and problems with maintenance and service because so many different options were one or three offs.
Like my truck, you could pick between 7 transmissions, 5 engines, 4 chassis, 2 drive layouts (2WD, 4WD), 6 different gear ratios, 3 or 4 suspensions and I think 3 different levels of interior.
I custom ordered it in the spring of '91 and still drive it, although with third party seats, new wheels and engine mods I installed in 2004.
80,000 original miles.
Busiest ports in the US:
Port of South Louisiana
Port of Houston, Texas
Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, New Jersey
Port of Beaumont, Texas
Port of Long Beach, California
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Port of Los Angeles, California - 14th
Combined Long Beach and LA are above Beaumont, but still 4th over all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ports_in_the_United_States
Number one employer in the US is the Federal Government.
Fark the Walmart and CostCo price points for office suites.
And no to an Office Home Power Point. If they have to make a lower end suite, Excel and Word.