Posts made by frimmel

Not drinking the whole SEC is so much better than everyone else koolaid.

@General:

The SEC streak can’t last forever, but the Miami fan in me can’t vote for the 'Noles. I’ll admit FSU ran roughshod over the ACC (including the Canes) but the rigors of the SEC prepare it’s team well for this game. Can FSU take an early punch when they’ve been unchallenged all year? Auburn is certainly used to adversity.

Winning by miracle plays at the end of the game is luck not seeing through against adversity.

I’m going with FSU. I think for once the Heisman Hangover is avoided. Auburn has a tough ground game though. Should be a good game.

@wittmann:

@aequitas:

It says something like that all vessels at sea must maneuver arround vessels at sea who are handicaped in maneuvering.
?? ??
:-D

isn’t that what happens on the road?

No. A semi-truck on the road is obligated to the same set of traffic laws as a passenger car. A naval equivalent of a semi-truck is while required not to sail into things has less obligation to alter course simply because it is physically unable to alter course. Bigger and heavier ships get more ‘slack’ with regards to stopping and turning to avoid collisions.

@aequitas:

@CWO:

All kidding aside, the answer to the question of who has the right of way at sea is provided by the “Colregs”, more formally known as the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, published by the International Maritime Organization.

It says something like that all vessels at sea must maneuver arround vessels at sea who are handicaped in maneuvering.
?? ??
:-D

Right. If you’re a supertanker you’ve got the right of way. If your ship can turn on a dime you face the greater obligation to alter course and avoid collisions.

I agree with Garg. LBJ’s reversal of JFK’s stance on 'Nam more than anything else says conspiracy and coup. I tend to think any suggestion that Oswald is anything other than a fall guy is simply a refusal to look at it as a coup. Straight up denial. (No offense single shooter siders.)

I think back to when I was first learning the outline of the history as a little kid and how confused I was that Oswald was killed so soon after and while in police custody. I remember that just seeming wrong and not the “it’s wrong to hurt people wrong” but the sort of wrong it takes you years to even learn how to ask questions and think about.

@Gargantua:

@frimmel:

Wasn’t there a documentary where they rolled out a bunch of scout snipers and tried to recreate the shot from the book depository and none of them could do it?

It wasn’t “the” shot they recreated, but rather “the shots”, and it was something ridiculous like 5 shots in 6 seconds.  Which is impossible with the rifle that was used.

And then there’s the one bullet theorum which is dubious.

Alright. Then why do I get this picture of someone trying to shoot a watermelon being pulled along by a motor or something from the same distance with the same rifle as Oswald and not even getting close. I seemed to think it was some sort of scaled recreation and that the scaling should favor the shooter. They could barely hit it when stationary with the rifle in question.

Maybe entirely unrelated thing. Getting old I guess with everything just starting to run together.  :|

The jist being you simply can’t make that shot with that gun even if you’re an accomplished marksman.

Wasn’t there a documentary where they rolled out a bunch of scout snipers and tried to recreate the shot from the book depository and none of them could do it?

Big fan of Panzer and Allied General. Pacific General never made it to PS1. Really wish a new or updated version would hit modern consoles.

Strategy seems to have become a lost cause or means RTS. Shame.

thought that this might be a crowd who’d be interested. I was at Pittsburgh Comic-con yesterday and came across the book in this article: The artist at war.

It was a surprising and pretty terrific little find.

My problem is not learning something new per se but learning something new because MS sees all of Apple’s “ap store” cash and wants in on it. Windows 8 and the Xbox One seem to be a “this is our corporate vision and we’re not interested in whether it is really what customers want.”

@BillK:

I need clarification on multi ship surface combat.  If three Allied ships are facing three Axis ships, all having both primary and secondary gunnery, what are my options?  Ihat six separate attacks or could I combine all six attacks into one super attack against one enemy ship?

Thanks

Bill

This is better asked in the naval minis forum.

However. Each ship would conduct a separate attack in each gunnery phase. So six separate attacks against one ship.

I don’t see any reason not to get your current employer to foot the bill for the license if they’re inclined to do so. Particularly if they’ll benefit from it before you leave or if plans change and you decide to stay.

@Lozmoid:

I believe J.J. Abrams is directing and that Mark Hamill, Harrison Foird and Carrie Fisher are all on board. But I could be wrong.

This is correct although it isn’t certain how much they’ll be in it. John Williams is on board to score it and a director of photography has been hired and it will be shot on 35mm but the DP is Abrams’s “guy” so any enthusiasm generated by Williams being on board as well as Luke, Leia, and Han is more or less out the window. I think Abrams is a terrible director and haven’t really been crazy about any of his movies.

Neither this or Bulge are still in print. Guadalcanal was/is according to Krieg over a year ago.

I don’t see the fossil fuel interests allowing this.

@Jermofoot:

@frimmel:

Buckeyes!!!

Wait, you don’t refer to them as THE Ohio State?

Only in a self-deprecating way.

If Braxton Miller and the OL stay healthy and the middle linebacker situation gets sorted out this team should have a pretty decent season.

Buckeyes!!!

Three words seem to be coming up frequently – Dontre Wilson, Electric.

Coach Meyer in answering questions at media day tried to put the brakes on and shrug off the comments of his players that Dontre was the standout of the freshman. To say that they needed to back off the hyperbole cause pretty much everyone asked answered Dontre Wilson and he’s going to play.

By the third day of practice Coach was saying “He’s going to play.”

Usually with a freshman there’s an effort from coaches to tone down expectations and to a certain degree there is but you can tell it is half-hearted or that they don’t really believe it.

I can’t wait to see this kid play.

Same plans as the end of every summer – getting ready for some football by reading every scrap of information from the camp of my favorite team.

Terrific. I like stories where the good guys win.