There is something I've noticed with internationals and it is that they have ZERO conception for geopolitical strategy... I've seen no indication that you're taught any of this in school or university.
From all outward appearances that strategy was to go in half-arse, with no real plan, go blow shit up and hope everyone sings kumbayah by the campfire at the end.
If that's your version of "geopolitical strategy" then you might want to get your education elsewhere.
We're all aware of what the US is trying to achieve, and a lot of it I agree with, it just seems they are really, really inept at execution.
Vietnam we left because internal political problems not because we lost any battles... same thing in Afghanistan.
That is part of the strategy of waging war. Can't remember the Sun Tzu quote, but when your enemy is long way from home, you drag the conflict on as long as possible so he loses heart. It isn't the first time the Vietnamese and Afghans have defeated foreign invaders this way.
Crap. I've played the game extensively. At high interest sites there are a lot of portals in close proximity, so teams turn them into high level farms to accumulate inventory. You can have team of 10 or 20 people doing circuits, with a 5 minute cool down between hacks and 4 hacks per portal, a farm session generally goes for over half an hour of intensive farming, longer if the opposition shows up and a battle ensues. And this used to happen multiple times a day at the popular sites.
I can only imagine the impact of this at somewhere like Dachau...
I've played it, I know exactly how intrusive it is to the local area. Our local War Memorial hired security guards to keep all the nerds out because it was such a high concentration of portals, there were dozens of people endlessly running around its grounds with their heads buried in their phones, being an obvious nuisance to people there for reflection.
Play your game everywhere else, just show some respect to people who actually gave their lives for your freedom.
And the point of a cemetery is to not desecrate it by playing games there.
I played Ingress for about a year, I know how it works, After the first time you visit a site you learn about it, then you spend the next few months trampling all over it trying outdo the other team and getting your GPS to sync up. You simply bury your face in your phone and wander around blindly mashing your screen. This is fine at a public park, but entirely inappropriate at a holocaust memorial site.
Again from Wikipedia: Ingress portals are placed at:
"The gameplay consists of establishing "portals" at places of cultural significance, such as public art, landmarks, monuments, etc."
It even tells you it's a game in your own citation.
So yes, it sort of IS the university of human learning,
No it isn't and don't even pretend that is it. No matter what you say, it is still a stupid game and has no place at a mass murder site. If I make a new game called 'Wank-to-Porn-at-Dachau', which teaches you all about Dachau while being at Dachau in the nude jerking off to Porn, does that suddenly make it all ok, because there is some learning going on?
Why not? I'm not saying anyone did this time around, but it doesn't take a genius to work out that certain actions have certain results, and if you want those results then you can invest some effort into making those actions happen.
There have been plenty of cases historically of countries attacking other countries via economic means. Not all wars are fought with bullets, and now that everything is done on computer, it has to be included in any battle strategy.
How does this get modded Insightful? Regulation is never an elimination strategy, it's about overall reduction.
Just as gun control has proven to reduce gun violence overall, so too will encryption control reduce casual usage amongst non-experts.
It's the exact same reason you lock your door. Any decent thief can still smash a window and steal your shit, so why do you bother?
How the fuck do these stupid comments get modded Insightful? Ingress is not the University of human learning, it is just a stupid game. If you can't work out what the Holocaust was without Ingress you need serious help.
Not so much historic, but revered, solemn places, where millions of people got murdered, and millions of other people go to reflect on such horrors. I'm not sure if you know, but Ingress is a game, it's hardly the ideal activity at such a place.
I doubt the Chinese plan will work for more then a day, because you can always deconnect the aircraft from it's network and reinstall the software.
This thing has been in development for 20 years, and you think it can all be changed in 1 day? Each day your plane is not in the air you people are being killed. That doesn't sound like such a great defence strategy. At least the F16/18's will still be there to pick up the slack
They are when you play multiplayer:)
But seriously, when they train Marines there is a certain types of people that just isn't up to the task (ie is willing to kill on command). I'm wondering that instead of hiring whoever they are hiring, maybe they should look for a different skill set. There are people out there who will kill without a conscience, instead of regular joe off the street, maybe we should be looking for our next Drone pilots in Supermax or Fortune500 boardrooms?
It boasts a 180 rounds (F-35A internal gun), or 250 rounds (F-35B external mission pod). Given a rate of fire around 3600/min they ought to last even protracted battles.
Is that sarcasm? My math says that's 3-4 seconds of burst. I've never been in a real dogfight, but that doesn't sound like much.
Can you please stop with this $xxx can end world hunger nonsense ?
First of all, people don't eat money. So if there are 10 people and food for 9,
For the record the actual number is closer to 10 people and food for 15. Yet 20,000 people still starve to death each day.
As for war, it may be the most effective way to limit world hunger : war kills and dead people don't need to eat. A nightmarish reasoning that is hopefully flawed but I think not more so than your pipe dream.
Well this rates up there as one of the most stupid comments I've seen in this forum. Starvation is mostly caused by poverty, and poverty is mostly caused by health and education issues. These problems can be fixed, as they have been mostly fixed in western countries.
If we spent as much ($1Trillion!) on building Schools and Hospitals in Iraq as blowing it up, I wonder how different it would be today.
You seem to be confusing war with weapons. You can still have powerful weapons, ie the USAF still has 1200 F-16s amongst it's huge arsenal. So the question really is, could you have spent the $1T on something more constructive AND still maintained the worlds most powerful military arsenal?
If by chance we have a real war with Russia and/or China, then dog fighting superiority will be the least of our worries.
Also, given the geographic size of the territory involved, even an untouchable plane is not going to be much good in a production run of only 100. Much better to have thousands of cheaper aircraft, that are still capable of a decent job. Are there any tests to see how one F35 competes with ten F16's at once? Because that is the numbers we are talking.
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There is something I've noticed with internationals and it is that they have ZERO conception for geopolitical strategy... I've seen no indication that you're taught any of this in school or university.
From all outward appearances that strategy was to go in half-arse, with no real plan, go blow shit up and hope everyone sings kumbayah by the campfire at the end.
If that's your version of "geopolitical strategy" then you might want to get your education elsewhere.
We're all aware of what the US is trying to achieve, and a lot of it I agree with, it just seems they are really, really inept at execution.
Vietnam we left because internal political problems not because we lost any battles... same thing in Afghanistan.
That is part of the strategy of waging war. Can't remember the Sun Tzu quote, but when your enemy is long way from home, you drag the conflict on as long as possible so he loses heart. It isn't the first time the Vietnamese and Afghans have defeated foreign invaders this way.
Third, we did not attack Iraq after 9/11
9/11: 2001
Invasion of Iraq: 2003
Not sure what you definition of after is, but that satisfies mine.
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GP is talking about being a dick, not owning a dick
Crap. I've played the game extensively. At high interest sites there are a lot of portals in close proximity, so teams turn them into high level farms to accumulate inventory. You can have team of 10 or 20 people doing circuits, with a 5 minute cool down between hacks and 4 hacks per portal, a farm session generally goes for over half an hour of intensive farming, longer if the opposition shows up and a battle ensues. And this used to happen multiple times a day at the popular sites.
I can only imagine the impact of this at somewhere like Dachau...
I've played it, I know exactly how intrusive it is to the local area. Our local War Memorial hired security guards to keep all the nerds out because it was such a high concentration of portals, there were dozens of people endlessly running around its grounds with their heads buried in their phones, being an obvious nuisance to people there for reflection.
Play your game everywhere else, just show some respect to people who actually gave their lives for your freedom.
And the point of a cemetery is to not desecrate it by playing games there.
I played Ingress for about a year, I know how it works, After the first time you visit a site you learn about it, then you spend the next few months trampling all over it trying outdo the other team and getting your GPS to sync up. You simply bury your face in your phone and wander around blindly mashing your screen. This is fine at a public park, but entirely inappropriate at a holocaust memorial site.
Again from Wikipedia: Ingress portals are placed at: "The gameplay consists of establishing "portals" at places of cultural significance, such as public art, landmarks, monuments, etc."
It even tells you it's a game in your own citation.
So yes, it sort of IS the university of human learning,
No it isn't and don't even pretend that is it. No matter what you say, it is still a stupid game and has no place at a mass murder site. If I make a new game called 'Wank-to-Porn-at-Dachau', which teaches you all about Dachau while being at Dachau in the nude jerking off to Porn, does that suddenly make it all ok, because there is some learning going on?
Why not? I'm not saying anyone did this time around, but it doesn't take a genius to work out that certain actions have certain results, and if you want those results then you can invest some effort into making those actions happen.
There have been plenty of cases historically of countries attacking other countries via economic means. Not all wars are fought with bullets, and now that everything is done on computer, it has to be included in any battle strategy.
If you want privacy then don't email photos of your cock to Snapchat. It's not rocket science...
How does this get modded Insightful? Regulation is never an elimination strategy, it's about overall reduction.
Just as gun control has proven to reduce gun violence overall, so too will encryption control reduce casual usage amongst non-experts.
It's the exact same reason you lock your door. Any decent thief can still smash a window and steal your shit, so why do you bother?
How the fuck do these stupid comments get modded Insightful? Ingress is not the University of human learning, it is just a stupid game. If you can't work out what the Holocaust was without Ingress you need serious help.
32,000 deaths at Dachau, 30,000 at Sachsenhausen.
How many people have to be murdered before you think playing games on site is inappropriate?
When did learning about history
There is no learning, it's just a game. A stupid game at that.
Not so much historic, but revered, solemn places, where millions of people got murdered, and millions of other people go to reflect on such horrors. I'm not sure if you know, but Ingress is a game, it's hardly the ideal activity at such a place.
I doubt the Chinese plan will work for more then a day, because you can always deconnect the aircraft from it's network and reinstall the software.
This thing has been in development for 20 years, and you think it can all be changed in 1 day? Each day your plane is not in the air you people are being killed. That doesn't sound like such a great defence strategy. At least the F16/18's will still be there to pick up the slack
The F-16 itself could be out-dog-fought by almost any plane built in the 30s,
Citation?
because Biplanes are much more maneuverable then jets
If you believe that a bi-plane could beat an F16 in a real world dogfight then there's no point continuing this...
But it demonstrated that it only takes a little effort focused on the right place, without arms, to get the same result.
They are when you play multiplayer :)
But seriously, when they train Marines there is a certain types of people that just isn't up to the task (ie is willing to kill on command). I'm wondering that instead of hiring whoever they are hiring, maybe they should look for a different skill set. There are people out there who will kill without a conscience, instead of regular joe off the street, maybe we should be looking for our next Drone pilots in Supermax or Fortune500 boardrooms?
Most of the love for the A-10 is just wanking over the gun, and that just gets in the way of reasonable decisions.
The A-10 can go low and slow, take a beating too and still return home, something the F35 won't be able to do.
It boasts a 180 rounds (F-35A internal gun), or 250 rounds (F-35B external mission pod). Given a rate of fire around 3600/min they ought to last even protracted battles.
Is that sarcasm? My math says that's 3-4 seconds of burst. I've never been in a real dogfight, but that doesn't sound like much.
Can you please stop with this $xxx can end world hunger nonsense ? First of all, people don't eat money. So if there are 10 people and food for 9,
For the record the actual number is closer to 10 people and food for 15. Yet 20,000 people still starve to death each day.
As for war, it may be the most effective way to limit world hunger : war kills and dead people don't need to eat. A nightmarish reasoning that is hopefully flawed but I think not more so than your pipe dream.
Well this rates up there as one of the most stupid comments I've seen in this forum. Starvation is mostly caused by poverty, and poverty is mostly caused by health and education issues. These problems can be fixed, as they have been mostly fixed in western countries.
If we spent as much ($1Trillion!) on building Schools and Hospitals in Iraq as blowing it up, I wonder how different it would be today.
You seem to be confusing war with weapons. You can still have powerful weapons, ie the USAF still has 1200 F-16s amongst it's huge arsenal. So the question really is, could you have spent the $1T on something more constructive AND still maintained the worlds most powerful military arsenal?
If by chance we have a real war with Russia and/or China, then dog fighting superiority will be the least of our worries.
Also, given the geographic size of the territory involved, even an untouchable plane is not going to be much good in a production run of only 100. Much better to have thousands of cheaper aircraft, that are still capable of a decent job. Are there any tests to see how one F35 competes with ten F16's at once? Because that is the numbers we are talking.