This is just bullshit. People have such a dumbass love for the cult of the gun. At one point in Iraq the A10 was grounded because they had 16 A10's out of the battle. It was decided they had to be held out of the fight with any unit that was even remotely cohesive and equipped. Fact of the matter is the A10 was made for battling tanks in the Fulda gap and it has no place or survivability in the modern battlefield.
Sure it works against insurgents without even MANPADS, but thats not really that hard is it? But when it comes to low conflict hammering of under-equipped insurgents you don't need a A10 do you, you could use the A-29, drones or attack choppers.
Boo fucking hoo, somebody inherited something of value, and you didn't. Yeah, it's an imaginary something, but in our system even decades old imaginary ideas are valuable. That's life in capitalist, corporatist America. Why single out the Tolkien trust? Because Tolkien should be free to be adapted and misused by every leach out there, not just the official leaches? You REALLY aren't thinking this through.
Actually, the gloves DO cause brain damage. It's nearly impossible to knock someone our bare handed with a blow to the temple, but easy as hell with gloves. The glove protects the hands, not the face. Notice that in college or olympic boxing they wear protective gear on their heads?
Well, I have professional Muay Thai experience and I'd agree with the gloves causing brain damage. However, as far as the general consensus goes, thats because of the gloves flexing and causing vibrations in your head. As well as that you can get hit a lot in the head, I read that it's better to get a hard blow and get knocked out than lots of small ones.
Interestingly, I know a lot of sparring partners who dont like sparring in head-gear because they often feel more dizzy afterwards than without. They attribute this to the gear giving even more padding for the vibrations.
When it comes to it being nearly impossible to knock someone out bare-handed I gotta disagree. It's got more to do with where you hit, and how prepared the opponent is. As they say, it's the one you dont see that'll knock you out. Obviously there are several other factors as well.
In MMA they wear minimal protection on the hands and people get knocked out just fine.
I played Basternae and Duris(www.durismud.com) and introduced my friends to these wonderful games. Two of them dropped out of high school because of that!
They still mud in fact, every time a new MMO comes out they try it, decide it's too carebear, and end up back at Duris with it's free PK and FULL loot.
I thankfully had my major addiction with quake1(quakeworld).
I've been clean for 7 years and 43 days now.
On their homepage they say that 95% of all artists depend on royalites to make a living. That is a lie.
I've worked with music management, and let me tell you, not so much as 5% live of royalites. To make a decent(liveable) income from being an artist you are touring and playing live acts all the time(The artists get most of the income from playing a gig).
The average band makes maybe roughly 1-2$ per CD sold. FEW artists sell as much as 10,000 of an album. Take those say 20,000 dollars and for conversations sake divide it by the 3-5 band members. Yeah, nice yearly salary. If you are lucky and skilled enough to live of being an artist you play live acts for the "steady" income and your royalites make a bonus.
For royalites to make a liveable income in it self you have to hit superstardom(Gwen stefani, metallica, etc).
You would be suprised at how many of the one-hit-wonders get some bling-bling, a couple of celeb parties and end up with no cash at the end of the 15-minutes of fame.
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This is just bullshit. People have such a dumbass love for the cult of the gun. At one point in Iraq the A10 was grounded because they had 16 A10's out of the battle. It was decided they had to be held out of the fight with any unit that was even remotely cohesive and equipped. Fact of the matter is the A10 was made for battling tanks in the Fulda gap and it has no place or survivability in the modern battlefield. Sure it works against insurgents without even MANPADS, but thats not really that hard is it? But when it comes to low conflict hammering of under-equipped insurgents you don't need a A10 do you, you could use the A-29, drones or attack choppers.
Boo fucking hoo, somebody inherited something of value, and you didn't. Yeah, it's an imaginary something, but in our system even decades old imaginary ideas are valuable. That's life in capitalist, corporatist America. Why single out the Tolkien trust? Because Tolkien should be free to be adapted and misused by every leach out there, not just the official leaches? You REALLY aren't thinking this through.
I for one blame Mickey Mouse.
Actually, the gloves DO cause brain damage. It's nearly impossible to knock someone our bare handed with a blow to the temple, but easy as hell with gloves. The glove protects the hands, not the face. Notice that in college or olympic boxing they wear protective gear on their heads?
Well, I have professional Muay Thai experience and I'd agree with the gloves causing brain damage. However, as far as the general consensus goes, thats because of the gloves flexing and causing vibrations in your head. As well as that you can get hit a lot in the head, I read that it's better to get a hard blow and get knocked out than lots of small ones. Interestingly, I know a lot of sparring partners who dont like sparring in head-gear because they often feel more dizzy afterwards than without. They attribute this to the gear giving even more padding for the vibrations. When it comes to it being nearly impossible to knock someone out bare-handed I gotta disagree. It's got more to do with where you hit, and how prepared the opponent is. As they say, it's the one you dont see that'll knock you out. Obviously there are several other factors as well. In MMA they wear minimal protection on the hands and people get knocked out just fine.
I played Basternae and Duris(www.durismud.com) and introduced my friends to these wonderful games. Two of them dropped out of high school because of that! They still mud in fact, every time a new MMO comes out they try it, decide it's too carebear, and end up back at Duris with it's free PK and FULL loot. I thankfully had my major addiction with quake1(quakeworld). I've been clean for 7 years and 43 days now.
The average band makes maybe roughly 1-2$ per CD sold. FEW artists sell as much as 10,000 of an album. Take those say 20,000 dollars and for conversations sake divide it by the 3-5 band members. Yeah, nice yearly salary. If you are lucky and skilled enough to live of being an artist you play live acts for the "steady" income and your royalites make a bonus.
For royalites to make a liveable income in it self you have to hit superstardom(Gwen stefani, metallica, etc). You would be suprised at how many of the one-hit-wonders get some bling-bling, a couple of celeb parties and end up with no cash at the end of the 15-minutes of fame.