Napoleon captured Moscow. It was a victory, just like Borodino was. Now - the fact that he had stretched his neck out too far, that Kutuzov had retreated and saved his army, and that winter was coming - all of these turned his victory into a logistical nightmare and defeat. However up until Moscow the French were doing just fine. Except for that damned Wellington in Spain...
conquered by the French when the French had explosive based weapons and the locals did not.
Can't that be compared to when someone has well over 2000 all weather 4th generation fighter aircraft deployed in the theatre and the locals do not? Or when someone has recon satellites and AWACS/JSTARS and the others do not? How come the US gets a break and France does not?
America had (has) four times the population, and a fuck-ton more space than Germany.
I'm not so sure. I mean, the weather in the US is much milder than the Russian steppes, even though the Soviet Union had "a fuck-ton more space" and more population that Germany. I mean, once the industrial areas are captured exactly how was Kansas and Nebraska going to fight off the panzer divisions?
How many has France won since 1946?
Quite a few, most of them in Africa. But the French don't brag about it because they were nothing to be proud of. Unlike Grenada.
while the american militia (you guys didn't even have a proper army) ran away like cowards.
Do you think that Canada is the real reason why the US feels it needs to keep a huge standing army - even if it's bankrupting them? Now it all makes sense!
Korea? You won the war with the two countries that are technically still at war? Lol. Gulf war? Yeah, the coalition won that.
Depends how you define won? Ah ok. Well if you define "won" as "not won" or "almost won" or "won" then yeah, the US has won every single war it has been in. I won't bother, the rest of your post is a mine-field.
Also you may have missed the news for the past 10 year or something but the US did defeat 2 countries.
Which two countries? Oh you mean the ISAF destroyed the Afghan military. Yeah ok that's true. Way to forget your allies there, which include France by the way. And yes, the US destroyed Iraq's puny army - the one that was previously destroyed in 1991 and he was not permitted to rebuild but managed to scrape together with ancient equipment? Yeah ok, you got that one too. Next I suppose you will be claiming astounding victories in Grenada and Panama too?
By the way, what is the plan with those countries that you "won"? I mean like you said, it's been 10 years...
No, the long and short of it is that in 1812 while all of Europe and most of North Africa was firmly under the French boot and Napoleon was sitting pretty in Moscow, the US was busy getting it's ass kicked by - Canada. Way to go there, eh? Yeah, I'm Canadian. French Canadian.
our surrender will be so quick the French will call US surrender monkeys.
Sigh. I guess you've never been to Paris, huh? What is the name of that place, ahh yes, Place Charles de Gaulle, there's a big monument there. They call it the arch something. The arch of surrender I think. It symbolizes all the times the French have run away, and all the battles they have lost, around the entire globe, right? Why do they still speak French from the Caribbean, across Africa, to Indo-China, I wonder?
As for "Case Yellow", I doubt very much that the US would have fared much better had it had Germany for a border instead of Mexico and Canada. In fact, the US generally does very badly when at war unless surrounded with a sea of allies it can shoot at (oops sorry hur hur). Please list the wars won by America since 1946. Back to the trailer park with you.
China is only consuming about half as much oil as the US - assuming oil/energy production and consumption play a major role in global warming. On the other hand, most of that consumption is being done to produce goods to be shipped to the US and Europe. Can you really blame someone for bleeding if you're the one that cut them?
Costa Rica. Private parties are ok, but you won't find anyone "trick or treating" out in the streets. I've been here 20 years. In the late 80's it was starting to catch on, when some bishop or other objected and it was "banned" (although no actual law was put on the books). So during the 90's you couldn't find Halloween merchandise anywhere. But consumerism will creep up on every generation and bit by bit it's coming back - especially in areas filled with foreigners - hotels, bars and the like. Nowadays you can find Halloween masks and stuff in any party supply store, and some foreign telephone companies who just got here (we opened up the telecommunication market this year) from Mexico and South America are trying to market it - without having researched first that it's not really celebrated here except by foreigners.
That's not the part I object to. I agree it's possible to walk into somewhere. What I think is unreal is that the guys could go around picking up wallets, cell phones and laptops and walk out of the bank without anyone noticing anything and suspecting them - even if it's the next day. And once people realize that they have been robbed, usually they check a little more to see what else has gone missing or been tampered with. The guy makes it sound like he can do it all the time. I call BS. It's far more likely he's out pushing his book and his security company by making shit up.
Yeah, except none of this happened. The guy is just presenting a different version of the a similar BS story he spat out in an interview with CNN in 2008. Except that time he walked out with a bunch of back up tapes. Of course now that he has been on TV, he's free to make up any bullshit he wants so long as suckers like you keep lapping it up. After all it's entertainment. But you are reading a "work of fiction" that is at least 3 years old.
Bullshit. You mean to say that this guy both steals stuff from bank employees desks AND installs keyboard loggers, and no one at the bank suspects anything like "hey, these guys stole all this stuff from us, maybe they weren't firemen, maybe security has been breached, let's check to see if computers/equipment has been tampered with!"
From TFA:
At that point, my partner's job is to start stealing everything he can steal and start putting it in his bag.
On our way out, we don't want them to know we're done. We want to be able to come back another time.
Too much mission impossible on TV. This is just an attention whore trying to cash in by pretending to be a crook. Typical of a "security consultant", really.
Nah I'll keep my money where it is. People have been screaming "coal" since the 1970's. I should know - I was here. But back in the 70's there was 1,000 years' worth of coal left. Now, 40 years later, mysteriously that figure is down to 200 or so years. That's what happens when people forget to take into account that energy demand is going to continue growing exponentially simply because the amount of mouths we have to feed is growing, exponentially. When I was born this planet had 4 billion people. We are now on our way to 8 billion people, within this decade. So in 50 years there will be 16 billion people in the world, and the US will have roughly the population of India today. In another 50 years - a lifetime and a half from now - the US will have more people than China does today. I don't even want to think how many people will be in India and China. And you say you have how much coal? Don't forget - once it's gone, it's gone forever. There _is_ nothing else.
The trouble is that you see these new techniques as innovation. I see them as desperation. We're going after stuff we wouldn't normally go after because all the good stuff is already gone. The law of diminishing returns is fairly universal. It's going to get harder and harder to get that last bit of fossil fuel - be it oil, gas or coal.
Magma underground, lava above the ground. When you penetrate into the magma chamber, it's magma. But you think that stuff stays underground by magic? Just poking a hole isn't necessarily going to cause the magma to come shooting out like a burst pimple. The reason the volcano is not erupting on its own is that there is not enough pressure behind the magma to send it up. It has to overcome its own weight in order to flow. So while you drill a hole down and remove the weight of the rock, when the magma flows up the flow will cool and stop pretty much near ground level because the stuff on the bottom won't have enough pressure to push the column of cooling magma out of the way.
Yeah I just bought my girlfriend an iPod from the Apple online store because she wanted one. The thing is being shipped directly from Suzhou, China to her door. I'm so glad I supported an American company like Apple./sarcasm, because most appletards won't even get it.
Given the frequency with which remotely exploitable bugs appear in the Linux kernel, leaving a large number of devices with an unpatched two-year-old kernel is just asking for someone to build a botnet out of them.
And you think crude oil is just the same as magma under pressure, huh? Forget the little detail that it's liquid rock, and when it cools you get rock. Not to mention what you plan on lining your little bore-hole with.
Don't worry, gas is going to run out long before then. Oh we'll still be able to synthesize it from other things, but I'm sure the price will limit it to government/official/emergency use only. On the bright side America will be forced to kick its obesity habit since towns are built on such a huge scale - any commute is going to be a long bike ride.
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Napoleon captured Moscow. It was a victory, just like Borodino was. Now - the fact that he had stretched his neck out too far, that Kutuzov had retreated and saved his army, and that winter was coming - all of these turned his victory into a logistical nightmare and defeat. However up until Moscow the French were doing just fine. Except for that damned Wellington in Spain...
Pollution controls increase the cost of manufacturing, which means you wouldn't be using them to outsource production. It's a catch-22.
conquered by the French when the French had explosive based weapons and the locals did not.
Can't that be compared to when someone has well over 2000 all weather 4th generation fighter aircraft deployed in the theatre and the locals do not? Or when someone has recon satellites and AWACS/JSTARS and the others do not? How come the US gets a break and France does not?
America had (has) four times the population, and a fuck-ton more space than Germany.
I'm not so sure. I mean, the weather in the US is much milder than the Russian steppes, even though the Soviet Union had "a fuck-ton more space" and more population that Germany. I mean, once the industrial areas are captured exactly how was Kansas and Nebraska going to fight off the panzer divisions?
How many has France won since 1946?
Quite a few, most of them in Africa. But the French don't brag about it because they were nothing to be proud of. Unlike Grenada.
while the american militia (you guys didn't even have a proper army) ran away like cowards.
Do you think that Canada is the real reason why the US feels it needs to keep a huge standing army - even if it's bankrupting them? Now it all makes sense!
I have French blood, I just couldn't resist such an epic trolling opportunity.
Korea? You won the war with the two countries that are technically still at war? Lol. Gulf war? Yeah, the coalition won that.
Depends how you define won? Ah ok. Well if you define "won" as "not won" or "almost won" or "won" then yeah, the US has won every single war it has been in. I won't bother, the rest of your post is a mine-field.
Also you may have missed the news for the past 10 year or something but the US did defeat 2 countries.
Which two countries? Oh you mean the ISAF destroyed the Afghan military. Yeah ok that's true. Way to forget your allies there, which include France by the way. And yes, the US destroyed Iraq's puny army - the one that was previously destroyed in 1991 and he was not permitted to rebuild but managed to scrape together with ancient equipment? Yeah ok, you got that one too. Next I suppose you will be claiming astounding victories in Grenada and Panama too?
By the way, what is the plan with those countries that you "won"? I mean like you said, it's been 10 years...
No, the long and short of it is that in 1812 while all of Europe and most of North Africa was firmly under the French boot and Napoleon was sitting pretty in Moscow, the US was busy getting it's ass kicked by - Canada. Way to go there, eh? Yeah, I'm Canadian. French Canadian.
our surrender will be so quick the French will call US surrender monkeys.
Sigh. I guess you've never been to Paris, huh? What is the name of that place, ahh yes, Place Charles de Gaulle, there's a big monument there. They call it the arch something. The arch of surrender I think. It symbolizes all the times the French have run away, and all the battles they have lost, around the entire globe, right? Why do they still speak French from the Caribbean, across Africa, to Indo-China, I wonder?
As for "Case Yellow", I doubt very much that the US would have fared much better had it had Germany for a border instead of Mexico and Canada. In fact, the US generally does very badly when at war unless surrounded with a sea of allies it can shoot at (oops sorry hur hur). Please list the wars won by America since 1946. Back to the trailer park with you.
China is only consuming about half as much oil as the US - assuming oil/energy production and consumption play a major role in global warming. On the other hand, most of that consumption is being done to produce goods to be shipped to the US and Europe. Can you really blame someone for bleeding if you're the one that cut them?
Costa Rica. Private parties are ok, but you won't find anyone "trick or treating" out in the streets. I've been here 20 years. In the late 80's it was starting to catch on, when some bishop or other objected and it was "banned" (although no actual law was put on the books). So during the 90's you couldn't find Halloween merchandise anywhere. But consumerism will creep up on every generation and bit by bit it's coming back - especially in areas filled with foreigners - hotels, bars and the like. Nowadays you can find Halloween masks and stuff in any party supply store, and some foreign telephone companies who just got here (we opened up the telecommunication market this year) from Mexico and South America are trying to market it - without having researched first that it's not really celebrated here except by foreigners.
The only douchebag I see here is you.
Halloween is illegal in this country, thanks to the Catholic church. I guess that pedophile union didn't want any competition.
I hope her new boyfriend treats her better than the last one--he was an asshole.
But - you were her last boyfriend. Why were you an asshole?
That's not the part I object to. I agree it's possible to walk into somewhere. What I think is unreal is that the guys could go around picking up wallets, cell phones and laptops and walk out of the bank without anyone noticing anything and suspecting them - even if it's the next day. And once people realize that they have been robbed, usually they check a little more to see what else has gone missing or been tampered with. The guy makes it sound like he can do it all the time. I call BS. It's far more likely he's out pushing his book and his security company by making shit up.
Yeah, except none of this happened. The guy is just presenting a different version of the a similar BS story he spat out in an interview with CNN in 2008. Except that time he walked out with a bunch of back up tapes. Of course now that he has been on TV, he's free to make up any bullshit he wants so long as suckers like you keep lapping it up. After all it's entertainment. But you are reading a "work of fiction" that is at least 3 years old.
Bullshit. You mean to say that this guy both steals stuff from bank employees desks AND installs keyboard loggers, and no one at the bank suspects anything like "hey, these guys stole all this stuff from us, maybe they weren't firemen, maybe security has been breached, let's check to see if computers/equipment has been tampered with!"
From TFA:
At that point, my partner's job is to start stealing everything he can steal and start putting it in his bag.
On our way out, we don't want them to know we're done. We want to be able to come back another time.
Too much mission impossible on TV. This is just an attention whore trying to cash in by pretending to be a crook. Typical of a "security consultant", really.
Nah I'll keep my money where it is. People have been screaming "coal" since the 1970's. I should know - I was here. But back in the 70's there was 1,000 years' worth of coal left. Now, 40 years later, mysteriously that figure is down to 200 or so years. That's what happens when people forget to take into account that energy demand is going to continue growing exponentially simply because the amount of mouths we have to feed is growing, exponentially. When I was born this planet had 4 billion people. We are now on our way to 8 billion people, within this decade. So in 50 years there will be 16 billion people in the world, and the US will have roughly the population of India today. In another 50 years - a lifetime and a half from now - the US will have more people than China does today. I don't even want to think how many people will be in India and China. And you say you have how much coal? Don't forget - once it's gone, it's gone forever. There _is_ nothing else.
The trouble is that you see these new techniques as innovation. I see them as desperation. We're going after stuff we wouldn't normally go after because all the good stuff is already gone. The law of diminishing returns is fairly universal. It's going to get harder and harder to get that last bit of fossil fuel - be it oil, gas or coal.
No you missed it, because I'm saying we'll all be extinct long before the supervolcano erupts.
Magma underground, lava above the ground. When you penetrate into the magma chamber, it's magma. But you think that stuff stays underground by magic? Just poking a hole isn't necessarily going to cause the magma to come shooting out like a burst pimple. The reason the volcano is not erupting on its own is that there is not enough pressure behind the magma to send it up. It has to overcome its own weight in order to flow. So while you drill a hole down and remove the weight of the rock, when the magma flows up the flow will cool and stop pretty much near ground level because the stuff on the bottom won't have enough pressure to push the column of cooling magma out of the way.
Yeah I just bought my girlfriend an iPod from the Apple online store because she wanted one. The thing is being shipped directly from Suzhou, China to her door. I'm so glad I supported an American company like Apple. /sarcasm, because most appletards won't even get it.
Given the frequency with which remotely exploitable bugs appear in the Linux kernel, leaving a large number of devices with an unpatched two-year-old kernel is just asking for someone to build a botnet out of them.
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It's been 30 years for me. No excuse.
And you think crude oil is just the same as magma under pressure, huh? Forget the little detail that it's liquid rock, and when it cools you get rock. Not to mention what you plan on lining your little bore-hole with.
Don't worry, gas is going to run out long before then. Oh we'll still be able to synthesize it from other things, but I'm sure the price will limit it to government/official/emergency use only. On the bright side America will be forced to kick its obesity habit since towns are built on such a huge scale - any commute is going to be a long bike ride.
Mayans in Bolivia? Sigh, no child left behind huh.