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Sometimes I see obviously wrong stuff on Wikipedia and wonder if it's a professor laying out a honeypot for lazy undergrads.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Well it was Soviet evidence, obviously it's fake I'm on my phone, somebody find a picture of the model reselling company with Longstreet on the box.
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I would like to thank Patrick Spens and SeanBeansShako for posting on my behalf while I was unavailable today and await the requested First Crusade effortpost with great anticipation.cheerfullydrab posted:Google didn't help because I got my acronym wrong, it's DEF/SEP. HEY GAL posted:never let that die
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The "best" part is how the English wikipedia has such a hardon for online sources, because that way people can check them for themselves. Of course this leads to all sorts of silly poo poo where things that were linked 10 years ago point to dead webpages now, and not just for bullshit anime in popular culture entries. You see it a lot with history, for example. German wikipedia is a lot better about pointing to real sources, at least in my experience (which mostly relates to history so it's applicable to this discussion).
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HEY GAL posted:you were neutral? i thought present day belgium is what it is in part because you liked spain / were reconquered by Farnese. or do you mean that there was no fighting in the spanish netherlands The prince-bishopric of Liège was neutral, I think? The rest of the southern Netherlands was spanish, but the prince-bishopric continued being a more or less indepedent state within the HRE until it got annexed by france in 1795. Here's its pretty borders circa 1350: 
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JaucheCharly posted:Why even bother about this poo poo? It's not like you'll ever convince these degenerates. You know those monkeys from the hear no evil, speak no evil and see no evil parable? imagine them with peaked caps with skulls on and little moustaches.
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The Belgian posted:[Map of Liége] What's the striped territory south of Liége proper? Contested territory? If so, contested by whom?
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Caustic Soda posted:What's the striped territory south of Liége proper? Contested territory? If so, contested by whom? It's Bouillon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouillon quote:The most famous of the Lords of Bouillon was Godfrey of Bouillon, a leader of the First Crusade and the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. He sold Bouillon Castle to the Bishopric of Liège. The bishops started to call themselves dukes of Bouillon, and the town emerged as the capital of a sovereign duchy by 1678, when it was captured from the bishopric by the French army and given to the La Tour d'Auvergne family. The duchy was prized for its strategic location as "the key to the Ardennes" (as Vauban called it) and hence to France itself. It remained a quasi-independent protectorate, like Orange and Monaco, until 1795, when the Republican Army annexed it to France. So I guess the bishop of Liege controlled it, but as duke of Bouillon?
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Jan 8, 2016 00:16
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Oh that's where you're from. Never mind.
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JcDent posted:I wonder how it feels to be a deposed noble these days... Many of them continue to do quite well as hyperrich folks instead of aristos. Napoleon's great great grandnephew or whatever works for Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley or some other fraud-house.  compare to  Deffo some resemblance, although he probably plays it down.
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Until the end of the EU, the collapse of western europe and rise of CYBERPUNK APOCALYPSE BONAPARTISM! A man can dream.
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Jan 8, 2016 00:53
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Was it legally possible for a woman to be Holy Roman Empress? Asking for a friend. (The friend is Angela Merkel.)
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P-Mack posted:Was it legally possible for a woman to be Holy Roman Empress? Asking for a friend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa
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Rodrigo Diaz posted:I can provide commentary on this but couldn't (and can't) be arsed to do the whole post. Well then kindly correct me if and when I gently caress up too badly.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Until the end of the EU, the collapse of western europe and rise of CYBERPUNK APOCALYPSE BONAPARTISM! The band Scar Symmetry is making a triology of albums about that sort of thing right now. They call it the CYBERPOCALYPSE or something. They also made an album about conspiracy theories. It's why I'm now the proud owner of a album cover showing a double-headed eagle holding a sword, surrounding an illuminaty-triangle. 
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That sounds like an awesome but confusing door poster to have.
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P-Mack posted:Was it legally possible for a woman to be Holy Roman Empress? Asking for a friend.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Did someone ask for a First Crusade effortpost while I was tragically unable to poo poo up this thread? I can write a First Crusade effortpost, complete with gratuitous Charlton Heston. I hope I'm not too late for a please please please. When I was in middle school I actually got a history book on the Crusades, not like a rigorous academic text but still a decent enough overview. I'd love to learn more.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Well then kindly correct me if and when I gently caress up too badly. If I live up to my New Year's resolution to post do me a favor and tell me when I'm wrong about ships?
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If I had to be a tanker in WW2 how could I go past this?
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Nice pictures, but that poster seems to be quite the butt.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Nice pictures, but that poster seems to be quite the butt.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Nice pictures, but that poster seems to be quite the butt. Tied is not for everyone.
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LostCosmonaut posted:Tied is not for everyone.
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xthetenth posted:If I live up to my New Year's resolution to post do me a favor and tell me when I'm wrong about ships? No problem.
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LostCosmonaut posted:Tied is not for everyone. If you have communism that lasts for more than 4 hours, seek medical attention.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Well then kindly correct me if and when I gently caress up too badly. well here's your first mistake
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HEY GAL posted:
Shame on a priest who try to run game on a peasant
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Plebs buck wild with the witchcraft I don't know if it's stricktly milhist, but how do they upgrade stuff that gets outdated while the item is in development? I mean, space tech future fighter F-22 had first flight in 1997 and entered service in 2005 - as one example. So how does the process of scooping out old Pentium II's or whatever and replacing them with new poo poo happen? Like, is there a time where a dedicated "let's no build an aircraft that will be instantly obsolete" guys steps his foot down and say "yo grandpa, we have something more than DOS now", and the development grinds to a halt? Or do they persevere and then develop and sell an expensive upgrade package?
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In theory don't they do the electronics last? During early stages of development there's just a 'computer goes here' space on the design.
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JcDent posted:Plebs buck wild with the witchcraft From what I've heard, NASA actually spent a lot of money in the later years of the space shuttle's career just tracking down legacy parts to replace the ones that broke. I imagine it's similar with military aircraft, with maybe a lot of stockpiling beforehand.
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The Lone Badger posted:In theory don't they do the electronics last? During early stages of development there's just a 'computer goes here' space on the design. Well, I figure that at least some of the BVR and whatever other acronymed capability depends on computers, so you can't just leave them out. I'm just waiting for Cyrano to tell me how dead wrong I am about everything. Grand Prize Winner posted:From what I've heard, NASA actually spent a lot of money in the later years of the space shuttle's career just tracking down legacy parts to replace the ones that broke. I imagine it's similar with military aircraft, with maybe a lot of stockpiling beforehand. Oh yeah, I've heard about bits and legacy stuff, like A-10 rewinging stuff. Supposedly the tools to make F-22 have been shelved (instead of scrapped), just in case.
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"No F-22 parts, tooling or related items are being stored for the purpose of preserving the option of restarting F-22 production," Jennifer Cassidy, an Air Force spokeswoman, said in an email.
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JcDent posted:Plebs buck wild with the witchcraft Pentium 2s? Try a 486 or equivalent. Military/aerospace tech tends to be super conservative (and use special radiation-hardened parts and stuff). Also it'll be running an RTOS, something like Integrity for example, not DOS or Windows.
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For most applications, you don't really need a modern processor or anything. Until fairly recently, the most common processor in the world was the 8088 (or something in that neighborhood) because you wouldn't need more than that to run a dishwasher or dryer. Military hardware might have more extensive needs, but nothing that would require a sweet gaming rig-equivalent.
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HEY GAL posted:it's not technically prohibited but since it had never been done before, Maria Theresa became Empress/Archduchess of Austria, her husband was elected Holy Roman Emperor, and even so Europe went to war over whether she could even become the Austrian thing. As I noted previously, Salic law (the law of the Franks back in the early middle ages) was a thing in Germany, which generally holds women can't inherit. It may not be technically prohibited but it would be a bit un-German, much as, I dunno, abolishing juries would be considered a bit off in countries with legal systems derived from English common law - 'But of Salic land no portion of the inheritance shall come to a woman: but the whole inheritance of the land shall come to the male sex' (hence the controversy over Maria Theresa).' (Granted, Holy Roman Emperorship wasn't technically inherited, but I suspect the same thinking would apply)
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The Lone Badger posted:In theory don't they do the electronics last? During early stages of development there's just a 'computer goes here' space on the design. You can't really swap out their 486es with modern parts, the old big transistors are a lot more radiation resistant for instance.
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