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It wouldn't surprise me if the heart eater guy was from an extremist group. I think Steven Pinker said it best: If you follow an ideology that says that a utopia is at the end of the conflict if you win, then you are fighting for something that can do an infinite amount of good. Therefore, anyone who opposes you is standing in the face of something infinitely good and therefore must be evil. By extension, whatever means you "need" to take justify the infinitely good ends. Mass killings of civilians, executions, and cutting a dude's heart out become justifiable. Pinker theorized that this is a big part of the reason why average people were willing to carry out horrific brutality in the name of say, Mao's Cultural Revolution, or Nazi Germany.
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hazza posted:I think those are just extended elevons. I was talking about  which looks an awful lot like a typical non-LO engine nozzle (aka the "turkey feathers" due to it's appearance):  The un-shaped, unpainted metal surfaces aren't exactly stealthy, which is an odd choice on an aircraft where they went to all the effort to dogtooth the landing gear doors. The only way it really makes sense if it's a one-off aerodynamic demonstrator to experiment with flying wing designs, or it's a stand-in for a different engine currently in development. In the first case, why would they spend a lot of time with low-RCS features when the big can in the back is going to spoil your readings on all non-front-aspect tests? In the second, wouldn't changing the engine and nozzle alter performance enough that testing would have to start from scratch? Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 01:33 on May 16, 2013 |
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May 16, 2013 01:29
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Red Crown posted:It wouldn't surprise me if the heart eater guy was from an extremist group. The guy, Khalid al-Hamad aka Abu Sakkar, was a pretty standard FSA-type, Sunni, until he broke away and started his own crew, mainly fighting near al-Qusayr. From the sounds like it, he's lost a lot of family and has just gone off the deep end, willing to do anything and everything just to make Assad and the Alawites hurt, out of pure retribution. That's my read of it at least.
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May 16, 2013 02:02
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A lot of people out there are sadists and monsters just waiting for permission, and war can offer that permission. Or, just really petty dicks who will make people do extra firewatch. It's a spectrum. Unrelated: 
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May 16, 2013 02:08
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Best Friends posted:A lot of people out there are sadists and monsters just waiting for permission, and war can offer that permission. I can see how this paint scheme would gently caress with old time rangefinders. Jesus.
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May 16, 2013 03:18
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mw1SB5P_FM oh semper fi or something
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May 16, 2013 04:02
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Best recruitment video. Will never be topped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHm8MeNzadQ
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It doesn't beat chess or the lava monster, but I thought this one was kind of cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwY67LYzH7Q Completely unrelated, it's time to repost the Hawg Wild van: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hANySXFKqVg CHAFF!!!!!!
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iyaayas01 posted:It doesn't beat chess or the lava monster, but I thought this one was kind of cool: Twirling rifles across America was lovely.
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May 16, 2013 05:19
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Silent drill team are the pogueist of pogues.
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Best Friends posted:A lot of people out there are sadists and monsters just waiting for permission, and war can offer that permission. We should have kept this around because it looks cool. Did it work? Also what was the crazy polka dot ship camo? Dazzle?
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HATE CURES TRANNYS posted:We should have kept this around because it looks cool. Did it work? Also what was the crazy polka dot ship camo? Dazzle? Dazzle is in the picture quoted. It made identifying different parts of the ship a loving nightmare.
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May 16, 2013 08:10
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:Best recruitment video. Will never be topped. The enlisted version of this commercial ends when the two pawns get their poo poo pushed in by the noble knight.
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May 16, 2013 08:55
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Vasudus posted:Dazzle is in the picture quoted. It made identifying different parts of the ship a loving nightmare. It also really hosed with rangefinders that relied on aligning two half-images.
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Rude. posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mw1SB5P_FM My brother says the hardest part of OCS was the Dragon that replaced the Lava monster but I dunno how I'd make it through the drill tunnel thing
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May 16, 2013 15:02
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 Pretty swank shot of a C-17 getting refueled over ID.
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May 16, 2013 16:20
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Dead Reckoning posted:I was talking about Chinese engine technology is roughly at 1970s Soviet levels. They still can't produce proper engines for their Flankers. Edit: Also, I don't think any of these new jets are particularly low observable in the way we usually think of LO aircraft. There are too many "non-LO" design features on all of them. They may have lower detection ranges than a generic massive Flanker, but they're not particularly stealthy. Godholio fucked around with this message at 16:24 on May 16, 2013 |
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May 16, 2013 16:22
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Godholio posted:Chinese engine technology is roughly at 1970s Soviet levels. They still can't produce proper engines for their Flankers. Yeah, I've read that their J-11s have had unintended flameouts at airshows under 5000 feet
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Oxford Comma posted:I can see how this paint scheme would gently caress with old time rangefinders. Jesus. The bigger issue was with the target motion analysis the guys on submarines had to do prior to firing torpedoes. You need to visually estimate the angle-on-the-bow, and if you can't tell the bow from the stern because of all that dazzle camouflage it makes your job much harder.
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:Best recruitment video. Will never be topped. ahem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJKFNPGS_XM
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onezero posted:
I did not know those markings lit up. That's rad as gently caress looking. I love the part where drinking and driving is encouraged in this military.
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May 16, 2013 18:44
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^ In a BTR no less. That's loving awesome.
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HATE CURES TRANNYS posted:We should have kept this around because it looks cool. Did it work? Also what was the crazy polka dot ship camo? Dazzle? Current paint job on the USS Freedom is a half-assed dazzle, I think. e: Yeah, I looked it up three seconds after I made this post: http://i.imgur.com/aeWhtHN.jpg (linked because it's huge) also "uss freedom" is the stupidest god drat name jesus christ Golden Alzheimer fucked around with this message at 20:23 on May 16, 2013 |
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May 16, 2013 20:20
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USS Good Things are Good.
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USS Buck Oh Five
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still better than politicians or city names e: woops thought this was navy thread 
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May 16, 2013 20:45
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SquirrelyPSU posted:I'm guessing the Vincent Van referenced movie about the Goa infiltration. Do you remember the name of the movie? I tried googling goa infiltration, but it gives me only information about Stargate Goa'ulds...  EDIT, I think I found it. Is this the one? http://mubi.com/films/infiltration
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mokhtar belmokhtar posted:still better than politicians or city names Jimmy Carter was a submariner though, so it's fitting.
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mokhtar belmokhtar posted:still better than politicians or city names We named battleships after landlocked states. We should've done what Britain did and just name them after really cool words. INVINCIBLE! INDEFATIGABLE! AUDACIOUS! edit: lol Ajax
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HATE CURES TRANNYS posted:We named battleships after landlocked states. We should've done what Britain did and just name them after really cool words. yeah a lot of the UK ones own my submarine was named after a town in kansas and the motto was "defender of the heartland" how much dumber can you get really
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HATE CURES TRANNYS posted:We named battleships after landlocked states. We should've done what Britain did and just name them after really cool words. You're missing the best RN name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Gay_Viking
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mokhtar belmokhtar posted:still better than politicians or city names DoktorLoken posted:Jimmy Carter was a submariner though, so it's fitting. People may poo poo on Carter but the sub named after him does some seriously spooky poo poo.
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Carter was the last decent president. And look what happened to him in '80. That's why they'll all be douchebags til the end of time.
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Lobster God posted:You're missing the best RN name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Gay_Viking Counterpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Biter_%28D97%29
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Gay Viking is approximately 26.5 times funnier than that imo
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Lobster God posted:You're missing the best RN name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Gay_Viking "Three of the vessels, Hopewell (No. 2004), Nonsuch (No. 2005) and Gay Viking were deployed on one Moonshine run in early 1945. While making the return voyage on 5 February 1945, Gay Viking and Hopewell collided. The seamen of the Gay Viking were taken off and she subsequently sank." 
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Commoners posted:"Three of the vessels, Hopewell (No. 2004), Nonsuch (No. 2005) and Gay Viking were deployed on one Moonshine run in early 1945. While making the return voyage on 5 February 1945, Gay Viking and Hopewell collided. The seamen of the Gay Viking were taken off and she subsequently sank." I enjoyed that line quite a bit.
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OBi posted:USS Buck Oh Five I would fully support a ship being named that. HATE CURES TRANNYS posted:We named battleships after landlocked states. We should've done what Britain did and just name them after really cool words. I loved how the Graf Spee fought both of the ships Ajax and Achilles at the same time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_River_Plate
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ded posted:People may poo poo on Carter but the sub named after him does some seriously spooky poo poo. That sub is single handed one our most valuable strategic assets and has been worth every penny. Seriously.
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onezero posted:
Have a higher res version handy?
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