There was another topic in the 50th section where someone asked why Rommel was on the box and not Hitler.  This person pointed out that you saw faces like Churchill and Stalin (world leaders) not Montgomery or Eisenhower (country specific generals) for example.

The answer was that the game would not be legal to market in Germany with Hitler’s face.  I would imagine this would fall under the same school of thought.  Germany doesn’t deny that the war happened but they would like marginalize the bad PR that goes with it.

LT

The best commercial for 2009!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut0WDb-xzks

now you will fall out of your chair on this next one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4k_PG9a30Y

Absolutely.  A person that is given some liberties regarding how they spend their time at work will usually perform better in the long run than somebody that is forced to “work” for the duration.  Granted, this is the case for salaried professionals more so than for menial, minimum wage hourly jobs where the worker is much more replaceable.  A professional that you need to put significant resources into to make them an important, contributing member of the organization should be allowed some freedom in this regard.  If their job is high-stress, they will just get burned out quicker if the stress isn’t relived in some manner.

Happy Easter!

We did the family brunch-lunch thing.

Oh yeah, watched the Masters too,  :-D

Wow, that was just dumb. And that redhead couldn’t dance.  But my oh my…HUMINA HUMINA HUMINA  :evil:

I have copies of most of his articles- at least the ones I thought were the most valuable.  The best I could do is scan them for you.  I’m glad I printed them off.  I don’t think you can find them anywhere.  The articles of most importance:

US shipping- still very good for AA50- a must have!!!
Tactics- also still applicable- also a must have for AA50

about other papers:

the Baltic Papers- 1-4- you can still pick up some ideas here but for the most part they are now useless.

Canadian Shield- pretty much dead in AA50

German turtle- may need this in AA50 for some endgames

India Complex- somewhat useful in the fact that you should ask yourself similar questions when building a complex anywhere.

Z42 Progression- won’t work because Canadian Shield is dead, however the concepts can help you keep your eyes peeled in other places on the new AA50 board.

KJF article by MightyAirforce- can still get some ideas here if your a KJF strategist.

There were a few others but they weren’t as important to me.

I am also making my own “Beginners Strategy” papers like the ones Caspian Sub had- these are really beneficial for starting out.  I still have the printed ones from Revised.

Questioneer
:-D

Man talk about luck.

Good luck to survive both.

Bad luck to be there for both.

Lots of luck involved anyway.

As far as the age thing certain areas in Japan have been known for having people regularly live to 100 or more due to diet and lifestyle.

I’m not informed enough to vote on this issue.

You can find reprints of the story at a reasonable price. Usually around a big anniversary the first issue gets a reprint edition and your local comic shop likely has a couple in their back issue bins.

DC has a terrific line of reprint editions called Archive Editions for most of their books.

They are hardbound with glossy paper. You can usually pick them up on ebay at a discount from MSRP.

@frimmel:

They can’t let the shuttle go uncovered but were they to do any other sort of story the newscasters might be required to learn something about science. And since most Americans don’t really know anything about science anyway you get pablum.

Could be this.

But I think more it has to do with slow news day (i.e. the filler possibility), or my best reason - a writing device to catch the reader’s attention and relate to it.

Space news isn’t exciting anymore, it seems.  Not everyone is an astronaut or interested in the technicalities of the mission or launch.  Put something about Free Bird in the title and it sparks some interest.

Looking at the article only a few sentences even talk about the song.  The rest is about the astronauts and mission.

Nothing to do here.
Infact the funnest thing to do with my friends here is. Walk around and talk.
We can fish but……You can only catch a trout if you are lucky so…Not me I think from 9 years of fishing ive caught mabye 2 trout. The rest probably 14 junk fish.

Well once…I dud somthing fun here. But that was kind of akward…I don’t think I should talk about it. I would probably get this topic messed up…Kinda like me!

Since the depression is global, then I do believe it is hitting China as well as it is us.

The difference, IMHO, is that China has been building up a manufacturing infrastructure while America has been disassembling ours and replacing it with a service industry infrastructure.

It is my personal opinion that a country with a manufacturing base can grow it’s GDP.  In fact, the P in GDP stands for PRODUCT, it does not stand for SERVICE.  I also, personally, determine wealth by not only money, but products owned - but in any case, it is not services received that creates wealth.  I can hire an attorney all day long, but that attorney did not give me wealth, it may have given me knowledge, but not wealth.  If I were to take that knowledge and change raw materials into some PRODUCT then that PRODUCT would give me wealth.

It’s a fine line, and I’m sure some of you will attempt to disagree with me (some because they legitimately don’t understand what I am trying to say, some because they honestly think I am wrong, and some out of pure habit.)

That said, a nation with a manufacturing basis will be able to recover from depression and experience less impact from a depression than a nation who relies on services for it’s economy.

To put it into perspective:

If Nation A makes tanks then they have tanks.
If Nation B cleans Nation A’s tanks, then they have nothing.

A game mocumentary similar to the interfamous Fear of Girls, ABTWV6 chronicles one man’s attempts to get people to play the game he invented.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB9S1XuEwrU&feature=channel_page

http://www.fieldmarshalgames.com/field-marshal-games-accesories/field-marshal-custom-dice-tower/custom-dice-tower.html

I have been enjoying this bloke Peter Heppner. He’s a kraut ripoff of Bryan Ferry early 1980’s style with electro and synths thrown in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmPZVui37cE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5vGOl7nFL4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KctobWLRU6M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWbGk5isCV4&feature=PlayList&p=346E3832E5A418BA&playnext=1&index=3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkGGi_uUaPc&feature=related

Haven’t heard it. Stopped buying U2 albums after Joshua Tree. Don’t really know why because I like U2.

as to the reason of my extended absence I found this game cybernations.net (rather fun) but it was basically eating up all my online gaming time (if you’ve played it, you’ll know being government in an alliance takes some effort the actual game only takes like 5 minutes a day) :P now that i’ve lost a lot of interest in it and no longer involved in my alliance i’m picking this back up. also is it me or are the boards awfully slow?

Well, regardless of who’s in a movie, I prefer that they try to stretch the truth as little as possible in my historical films. That’s one of the reasons that I never watched the movie “Titanic”. That and the fact that they tried to turn a tragedy where 1500+ people lost their lives into a love story.

Another thing that bothers me about WWII movies in particular, is that they associate the Nazis with the German army. The Nazis were a political party running the country and not every German, let alone German soldier was a Nazi. But, at times, the average German soldier seems to be portrayed as someone who not only knew about what was going on in the death camps but also took his turn flipping the switch on the gas chambers so it makes it easy to view them as inhuman monsters deserving to be slaughtered rather than people who were just fighting for their country, albeit misguidedly.