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  1. Re:i-war on The Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 1

    I-war-2 was a bit more limiting as you couldn't really turn off the 2D space assist function. I-war-1 had bad enemy scripts. If you went into free flight mode with inertia and no computer correction to limit you to 2d space very few things could hit you. You could abuse it even more with LDS when a missile or anything was going to hit you hit LDS and instant 1000m/s

  2. Re:Clever idea on Netropolitan Is a Facebook For the Affluent, and It's Only $9000 To Join · · Score: 1

    There is no real scarcity online. Which is why companies utilise artificial scarcity. Things such as some twitch tv live streams make you apply for a code to be able to watch it limiting the number of viewers when theoretically the sky is the limit.

  3. Re:Very wise indeed on China Pulls Plug On Genetically Modified Rice and Corn · · Score: 1

    Is it really paranoid? Consider Kraft and Unilever, they make pretty much everything under different brand names. They are hoovering up other brands and putting them under their labels.

  4. Re:The F35 is a joke: on Long-Wave Radar Can Take the Stealth From Stealth Technology · · Score: 1

    It is in operation yes, in limited numbers. But they aren't making any more and as the costs escalate it seems they might as well make more F-22s than F35s. The the F-22 is tested and operational and mostly does what it was advertised to do. The F35 is still promises a lot of things, for the costs of the F35 you might have been able to replace on a 1:1 basis all the aging F-15s the USAF has.

  5. Re:The F35 is a joke: on Long-Wave Radar Can Take the Stealth From Stealth Technology · · Score: 1

    The F35 is a government subsidy program for Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin were pretty much given a blank cheque to write for as much as they want. The irony is Lockheed Martin had a completed and viable aircraft the F-22 which could have been modified like the F-15 which grew over the years to become the F-15E

  6. It is already being done elsewhere on MIT Considers Whether Courses Are Outdated · · Score: 1

    I remember going into Manchester University / MMU/ Salford. (MA courses) The course I was looking at had 2 out of 8 core modules the other 6(+2 if you wanted) were electives and depending on the combination that you chose your masters qualification would be named differently, it could change from MSc to MA or MEd.

  7. Re:Breaking news on Experiment Shows People Exposed To East German Socialism Cheat More · · Score: 1

    Sure, but similarly calling something capitalist doesn't mean it is capitalist either. The western world is not even remotely capitalist even though it pretends it is. I wouldn't call bail outs capitalist or subsidies like the F35 program capitalist.

  8. Re:Breaking news on Experiment Shows People Exposed To East German Socialism Cheat More · · Score: 1

    Well ever 4-5 years we go through the motions of something called an election. Where the people vote for #1 a puppet of the corporations, #2 a puppet of the corporations # 3 a puppet of the corporations.

  9. Re:Breaking news on Experiment Shows People Exposed To East German Socialism Cheat More · · Score: 2

    IIRC Government spending as a % of GDP in East Germany never went past 35%, in the UK government spending as a % of GDP went well over 50% a few years ago, its 15% in China and we have the gall to call them commies.

  10. Re:let me correct that for you. on Experiment Shows People Exposed To East German Socialism Cheat More · · Score: 1

    Except free markets are like true communism a concept which cannot exist, what we call free markets are anything but, cartels are normal, bribes, I mean lobbying for preferential treatment is normal. Thats not a free market at all.

  11. Re:Protip: on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 1

    But thats OK because NSA = heroes and everything they do is heroic, while everything everyone else does it a terrorist act.

  12. Re:Protip: on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 1

    And what shred of humanity is that? if you look back through history most wars and interventions are fought for profits. Nothing else, dressing it up for humanitarian reasons does not change the fact that wars are fought for profits. Libya for example 'humanitarian action' 'i.e. regime change'

  13. Re:Protip: on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 1

    Sigh you do realise it is 32C at this latitude right? bodies rot, and there are wild animals in this part of the world. I bloody well saw wolves in the Urals not far from the roads. So they move the bodies, oh they are evil, they don't move the bodies bodies rot or get eaten or decay rather quickly (you ever seen how fast dead things rot?) oh they are so disrespectful not moving the bodies.

  14. Re:cause and/or those responsible on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 1

    The UK government has been caught editing wikipedia many times, around 2008/9 when MPs were caught fiddling their expenses a large number of edits on wikipedia occurred to their crimes and disseminate false information. If the UK government does it..

  15. Re:I don't see the problem. on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 1

    WRONG A terrorist fights against our profits, a freedom fighter fights FOR our profits.

  16. Re:I don't see the problem. on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 2

    What like Iran flight 655? where the US government obfuscated and lied about it for years making fake claims that it was heading right for them. Funny enough Regan called the shoot down of Korean flight a crime against humanity. 4 years later the USS Vincennes shoots down Iran flight 655 and it was a regrettable incident. Double standard much?

  17. Re:I don't see the problem. on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 1

    Fascist aggressive country who exactly are you talking about? NATO aggressively invaded a couple of Middle Eastern countries quite recently on a false pretext. We bombed several others as well and affected regime change for OUR PROFITS. While two wrongs don't make a right Pot Kettle black much?

  18. Re:I don't see the problem. on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 1

    I will close Guantanamo bay! jobs for Americans! if you like your medical care plan you can keep it! Obama is a politician anything he says is a lie, anything the state department and the government says is a lie.

  19. Re:I don't see the problem. on Russian Government Edits Wikipedia On Flight MH17 · · Score: 1

    What you mean the conspiracy about associating Saddam with 911 and invading under a false pretext of WMD, this of course did not happen. Oh wait it did! Similarly the chemical weapons attack in Syria which on later analysis was found to be fired from a rebel controlled area, this of course did not happen!

  20. Re:Please dont toss a match in on Giant Crater Appears In Northern Siberia · · Score: 1

    How many times has that pistol been used? Also do you have a high speed camera for a dramatic slow motion shot of running away from the fireball, or a cool pair of sunglasses so you can walk away from the huge fireball? heh

  21. Please dont toss a match in on Giant Crater Appears In Northern Siberia · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Derweze they found large gas deposits, a crane collapsed on-site and caused a rush of natural gas to the surface. USSR scientists thought it was best to burn it to reduce the environmental impact. That was in 1971, it is still burning.

  22. Re:666 on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    Not at all, I am just saying don't keep all your eggs in one basket. I am not stating you should buy this and that (commonly gold/silver/guns/ammo/food) but merely to diversify so that if it does come to a bad situation then you're not the guy at the bottom. Keeping $100-$300 of cash at home it is still cash and a physical representation of electronic money, so while you retain some risks and even gain some new ones (robbery for instance). You reduce your risk in other areas should a Cyprus event occur.
    BTW I would happily note that Cyprus was an experiment by the EU to see how people would react, European states after seeing what happened started quietly writing in Cyprus style bail in agreements. Additionally a whole year before a Cypriot had concerns, a lot of people shouted at him (as much as you can online) about how it will never happen, it can never happen, except it did happen.

  23. Re:Haven't carried cash in like 10 years... on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    See Cyprus March 2013, the cashless were hit REALLY hard.

  24. Re:Why? on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    Yes it can, if those $20s are debased by money printing, the British tried this in the war of independence by making funny money. The US is printing an obscene amount of money right now which is why the price of gas and food is creeping ever higher.

  25. Re:666 on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 2

    It did look up 15th of March 2013 Cyprus, where they froze the banks.