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Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming
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Wisko McBadgerton
Teaching you how to Bucky.
Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming
To further complicate matters politically in this tragedy, it turns out the accused is an El Salvadorean national in the country illegally.
To further complicate matters politically in this tragedy, it turns out the accused is an El Salvadorean national in the country illegally.
ScoobyDoo
NPC
Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming
Seeing reports now that the scumbag raped her in addition to killing her. That's just fantastic.
Seeing reports now that the scumbag raped her in addition to killing her. That's just fantastic.
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They're killers, they're rapists, and some of them I assume are good people...
Can't wait for the tweet
They're killers, they're rapists, and some of them I assume are good people...
Can't wait for the tweet
Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming
Test before you detonate
http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Test before you detonate
http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
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Proud that we're good at more than hockey. He shoots, he scores!
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/canadian-sniper-takes-isis-terrorist-2-miles-away/
Proud that we're good at more than hockey. He shoots, he scores!
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/canadian-sniper-takes-isis-terrorist-2-miles-away/
St. Clown
Liberal Rebel Scum, apparently
Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming
Proud that we're good at more than hockey. He shoots, he scores!
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/canadian-sniper-takes-isis-terrorist-2-miles-away/
Pfft. How do they expect to make it big if they're not willing to be more like Geraldo Rivera?
FlagDUDE08
Banned
Re: Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming
Regardless of your feelings on any administration, this is a step in the right direction. https://www.infowars.com/mattis-us-deconflicting-with-russia-to-avoid-endless-war-in-syria/
Regardless of your feelings on any administration, this is a step in the right direction. https://www.infowars.com/mattis-us-deconflicting-with-russia-to-avoid-endless-war-in-syria/
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Pretty funny (though not at all surprising) that the advertiser on that page is selling snake oil "survival food." And the kind of suckers who get their news from infowars probably buy that elixer by the case so that when Canada invades they have something in their cellars to live on.
Pretty funny (though not at all surprising) that the advertiser on that page is selling snake oil "survival food." And the kind of suckers who get their news from infowars probably buy that elixer by the case so that when Canada invades they have something in their cellars to live on.
EMP that takes out anything electronic.
Hurricanes Sandy and/or Katrina
The Big One
Government will take a while, if at all, to get services back. In the interim, there will be a lot of angry / dispairing people. If I have a 6 month supply of food, I'm ahead of the game (As long as I have enough ammunition to keep the jealous away).
If it's an EMP, you have to replace most everything.
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Did you stock up on expensive elixers through infowars?
I have a feeling you don't rely on them for your news, joe.
Did you stock up on expensive elixers through infowars?
I have a feeling you don't rely on them for your news, joe.
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Nope and if the thit hits the fan, and the food distribution network collapses, we're screwed.
But if somebody wants to be a survivalist, let them.
Wisko McBadgerton
Teaching you how to Bucky.
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It's really all but impossible to do. Just miscalculating the distance to target by 25 yards could cause you to miss by 15 feet long or short at that range. The bullet is coming in more vertical than horizontal which decreases the relative target size by probably half. And even if you calculate every normal thing perfectly, you would have to account for weird things like spin drift, the Eötvös effect, (the change in perceived gravitational force caused by the change in centrifugal acceleration due to eastbound or westbound velocity; or why you weigh slightly less when traveling east vs. traveling west) and the Coriolis effect ( a bullet fired in the northern hemisphere moves to the right, in the southern hemisphere, to the left, regardless of the direction it is shot.)
Just a simple problem is that it's doubtful any scope made has close to enough elevation available, so no matter what, the shooter is probably estimating that. Maxing the elevation and then maybe aiming 20 ft high or something. It's mind boggling that it could even be done in laboratory conditions, let alone in the field.
It's really all but impossible to do. Just miscalculating the distance to target by 25 yards could cause you to miss by 15 feet long or short at that range. The bullet is coming in more vertical than horizontal which decreases the relative target size by probably half. And even if you calculate every normal thing perfectly, you would have to account for weird things like spin drift, the Eötvös effect, (the change in perceived gravitational force caused by the change in centrifugal acceleration due to eastbound or westbound velocity; or why you weigh slightly less when traveling east vs. traveling west) and the Coriolis effect ( a bullet fired in the northern hemisphere moves to the right, in the southern hemisphere, to the left, regardless of the direction it is shot.)
Just a simple problem is that it's doubtful any scope made has close to enough elevation available, so no matter what, the shooter is probably estimating that. Maxing the elevation and then maybe aiming 20 ft high or something. It's mind boggling that it could even be done in laboratory conditions, let alone in the field.
The Sicatoka
Kicizapi Cetan
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Natural or man-made?
Ol' Sol is going into a minimum and we're due for another solar sphincter siren (ala the Carrington Event).
Natural or man-made?
Ol' Sol is going into a minimum and we're due for another solar sphincter siren (ala the Carrington Event).
The Sicatoka
Kicizapi Cetan
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You need to ponder what single failure could ruin your plan. You have the ammunition. What if a magazine fails? Do you have a spare. A semi-automatic handgun becomes a single-shot bolt action paper weight if the spring in your only magazine fails.
You need to ponder what single failure could ruin your plan. You have the ammunition. What if a magazine fails? Do you have a spare. A semi-automatic handgun becomes a single-shot bolt action paper weight if the spring in your only magazine fails.
Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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1. Deconflicting is always good. Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.
2. The opposition to the rush to war for corporate profits, or to deflect from domestic problems, is likewise always good.
3. Contrarian voices that challenge the official line on enemies, the need for arms buildup, the need for domestic surveillance and abridgment of rights, are always good.
On the other hand, InfoWars seems to play into the RT/Sputnik Putin line on many, many issues, and like Wikileaks I think they are probably getting a lot of assistance from them. I don't mean they are actually collaborating with Putin or even that they share any ideological aim with Putin. I do mean that these outlets crave access and legitimacy, and the FSK is feeding them both through selective leaks.
Our own intelligence community is certainly trying to do the same thing, but Infowars and the other Weekly World News crank sites, with a GOP incumbent, know what side their audience is on and they thrive by reinforcing their opinions. I don't think Jones is a traitor. I think he's a businessman and he's found his product. He is selling his conservative audience to his sponsors, so he has to keep that audience, and the way he keeps that audience is by caressing their assumptions and thumping their tubs.
True, if there was more money on the other side Alex Jones would flip in a heartbeat, but there will probably never be given the different ways in which liberals and conservatives apply skepticism to new information. Liberals put consequences first and evaluate information and institutions by instrumentalist criteria. Conservatives place revealed truths first: "My Country / My Faith / My Tribe is the Greatest Ever", theocratic dicta, economic-cultural axioms. Then they accept or reject empirical data based on whether it conflicts with those truths.
That is indeed what makes media like InfoWars, Fox News and Talk Radio so effective in reaching a conservative mind, but why an equivalent liberal delivery mechanism would be rejected. The liberal test of informational validity is an iterative outcome and has too much gradation and self-criticism to be funneled through media less comprehensive than at least a book and typically 6 years of endless grad school discussion. The conservative test is a declarative outcome that comes from a parent's or pastor's authority, and that is easy to ape and exploit. So InfoWars et al will remain the province of the right, and the Russians know how to play that fiddle.
1. Deconflicting is always good. Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.
2. The opposition to the rush to war for corporate profits, or to deflect from domestic problems, is likewise always good.
3. Contrarian voices that challenge the official line on enemies, the need for arms buildup, the need for domestic surveillance and abridgment of rights, are always good.
On the other hand, InfoWars seems to play into the RT/Sputnik Putin line on many, many issues, and like Wikileaks I think they are probably getting a lot of assistance from them. I don't mean they are actually collaborating with Putin or even that they share any ideological aim with Putin. I do mean that these outlets crave access and legitimacy, and the FSK is feeding them both through selective leaks.
Our own intelligence community is certainly trying to do the same thing, but Infowars and the other Weekly World News crank sites, with a GOP incumbent, know what side their audience is on and they thrive by reinforcing their opinions. I don't think Jones is a traitor. I think he's a businessman and he's found his product. He is selling his conservative audience to his sponsors, so he has to keep that audience, and the way he keeps that audience is by caressing their assumptions and thumping their tubs.
True, if there was more money on the other side Alex Jones would flip in a heartbeat, but there will probably never be given the different ways in which liberals and conservatives apply skepticism to new information. Liberals put consequences first and evaluate information and institutions by instrumentalist criteria. Conservatives place revealed truths first: "My Country / My Faith / My Tribe is the Greatest Ever", theocratic dicta, economic-cultural axioms. Then they accept or reject empirical data based on whether it conflicts with those truths.
That is indeed what makes media like InfoWars, Fox News and Talk Radio so effective in reaching a conservative mind, but why an equivalent liberal delivery mechanism would be rejected. The liberal test of informational validity is an iterative outcome and has too much gradation and self-criticism to be funneled through media less comprehensive than at least a book and typically 6 years of endless grad school discussion. The conservative test is a declarative outcome that comes from a parent's or pastor's authority, and that is easy to ape and exploit. So InfoWars et al will remain the province of the right, and the Russians know how to play that fiddle.
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Kepler
Si certus es dubita
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This isn't a plan. It's eschatological cosplay.
Which, to be fair, is more attractive than scatological cosplay.
This isn't a plan. It's eschatological cosplay.
Which, to be fair, is more attractive than scatological cosplay.
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