Posts made by MrMalachiCrunch

Thanks Witt!  Always a pleasure to read your factoids on ‘Today’s date’!

I see nothing much has changed in my months of absence.    It is a pretty neat ship.  It’s probably less of a carrier than the US amphibious support ships.  Remember, this US ship is NOT technically an AC….

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/lhx-specs.htm

I saw this movie u-571 where the US navy captured a german submarine.  The movie made a great deal of money.  Obviously, in the movie the US navy was very heroic and therefore it all must be true, cause it was in a movie see……

From wiki on that incident…

U-571 is a 2000 film directed by Jonathan Mostow, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes, and Tom Guiry. In the film, a World War II German submarine is boarded in 1942 by disguised United States Navy submariners seeking to capture her Enigma cipher machine.
The film was financially successful and generally well-received by critics in the USA[1] and won an Academy Award for sound editing.[2] The fictitious plot attracted substantial criticism since, in reality, it was British personnel from HMS Bulldog who first captured a naval Enigma machine (from U-110 in the North Atlantic in May 1941), long before the United States entered the war. A German U-boat crew is portrayed in a negative light (See the U-852 story below.) The anger over the inaccuracies even reached the British Parliament, where Prime Minister Tony Blair stated that the film was an “affront” to British sailors.[3]
The real U-571 was never involved in any such events, was not captured, and was in fact sunk in January 1944, off Ireland, by a Short Sunderland flying boat from No. 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.

Garg, good catch.  Technically he was her cousin but with a great age difference she called him ‘uncle’, I had forgot how the actual blood connection occurred.  His wife is still alive and my mom visits with her at least once per year.  I really ought to go spend some time with her while I still can.

My mom’s uncle flew Lancasters.  He had volunteered to be a tail gunner.  He was young and I guess wasn’t showing the brilliance that later in life allowed him to establish a civil engineering consulting firm and chum around with the premier of our province.  Being an only child his mother was able to convince the recruiter he would be more valuable as a pilot….or so the story was passed down to us that way anyways!

Seventy years ago an RAF bomber raid destroyed important German dams. At the time many argued it was only a propaganda victory. It was much more than that, writes historian Dan Snow.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22510300

America should become North American energy independent in about 5-10 years.  I wonder what the middle east will look like then when the only reason to be there is to keep Israel safe for the second coming of jesus.  Support of mid east oil dictators et al is why many Muslims hate the west.

Garg, you can do a google search on just about anything and get a hit.

If you google aliens impregnated Richard Nixon you get over a 1/4 million hits.  Of course if you put it in quotes for the exact phrase you get no hits.

In WWII, do you think any of the weapons sent to covert agents found there way to the Germany military?  Since that possibility could not be reduced to zero, do you think the logical conclusion was to then offer zero support to covert operations in case the bad guy gets some of your goodies?

I think NATO did the right thing in Libya.  Do I think there was zero chance of support falling into the wrong hands, of course not.  Was the risk worth it?  I think so.

So, if one wants to help anti-Assad forces one will take the risk that some of that support may fall into the wrong hands, I am sure some of it will.  Do you offer zero support because a rifle might end up in the hands of Al-Qaeda?  Yeah, I don’t think flooding the area with stinger missiles is the thing to do either.

Garg, if the current US president is not familiar with the concept of blow-back then god help us all!

Removing the link is way way WAY harder than removing the file via batch delete on a timer.  Removing the link require parsing and editing the files/data that the forum software uses to render the webpages.  Whereas the batch delete of the file is pretty much one line of dos/unix and that is called once per day on a timed basis but this leaves the link broken.  Mind you I am not sure how the forum software stores linked files so perhaps not as easy as I am whiteboarding.

Garg, as far as auto deleting threads, that would be a feature of the forum software that may be in a ‘future’ release.  Sounds like perhaps we just needs more moderators/boots on the ground and use blunt force to fix this problem.

Break out an atari 2600 emulator or better yet, a real 2600 console in a museum and play air-sea battle or ‘Tank’ which I think is the original game that came with the unit or did mine in 1979.  Do I really sound like one of those old guys “Well girls and boys, way back in ……” Yeah, don’t answer that one.  Anyways, I chuckle when people complain about graphics mind you I am stuck in the 90s and my super nintendo and John Madden football…version I if I am correct.

Perhaps a batch file that is called once per day that deletes certain file extensions of a certain age.  This could further be limited to specific sub-directories so that ‘classic games’ could be preserved for reference for new players to a game.  Would break html references to the file but would be a down and dirty solution that works.

I corrected myself long ago on that and you know it.

Actually, I don’t know that.  I’m not sure that you have ever admitted you were wrong.  If you did admit you were wrong it would be something of a record, glad I was the one to finally make you admit you were wrong.

Across the ocean? For somebody to not know the difference between a sea and the ocean says quite alot about you. But i guess we can blame that on that brain injury you have?

Right, you wouldn’t want to troll now would you IL.  Nothing like making fun of peoples appearances like you calling me a fat wife beater and making fun of brain injuries.  But if I have hurt your feelings I am sorry IL.  Do you feel better now?  BTW I did read your email awhile ago where you said sorry for going over the top with personal insults.  I did not get back to you because I felt it was disingenuous.  Gee, I wonder why I would get that impression?

So IL, if you expect me to stop trolling as you ironically claim, then perhaps you can dispense with the attacks on personal appearances and my brain injury.  I must admit tho, you are been a great example of troubled people that are a challenge to communicate with.  The experts I work with examine your exchanges to help me deal with the dicks of the world, I thank you for the mental exercise you provide me and my cognitive rehabilitation team.

LOL, guess I should check to see if somebody else had posted this!  Nice work, going to have to get up a bit earlier me thinks!

Work has begun to raise the only surviving German World War II Dornier 17 bomber from its watery grave at Goodwin Sands, off the Kent coast.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-22411430

and that the whole fighting was like some massive sea battles.

I never once said this.  Quote where I did say this or recant your erroneous claim as to what my claims were.   My claim was that “Carthage was primarily an African power fighting a European power.  That the seat and source of Carthage’s wealth and power was derived from Africa not Europe and that most of the battles were fought on the other side of a large body of water from this source of power and wealth.”  This entire time I am still trying to understand which of my premises you find in error or what part of my conclusion do you respectfully disagree with.

My vote for Hannibal was based on the fact that he was fighting far from home and that is home really was not Spain but Carthage proper across the ocean…ooops, I did it again.  Across the sea.

If nothing else Hannibal has dominated the conversation thread.

IL, if you are saying that your claim that Hannibal was born in Turkey rather than Carthage is the same as me using ocean rather than sea…I would disagree.  I asked you several times to cite your source as to the birth place and you doubled down in a most rude fashion claiming it was common knowledge and trying to brow beat me with your masters degree from Stanford.  If you are finally saying you were wrong and you stuck to your guns to a wrong assertion for days then I accept your weak mea culpa.  But it was not at all the same as quickly typing ocean rather than sea.  At least we can agree that Hannibal was a most interesting person.

Douche is right in that I did use the word ocean incorrectly rather than the term sea.  Amazingly enough I have corrected this a few times but nothing like an old error to bring out and trump as…… well I am not sure what actually.  Luckily I get to blame my brain injury for such slip ups.  I wonder what kind of brain injury IL had when he was insisting that Hannibal was born in Turkey and was taught this by Stanford so no need to cite sources?  Silly me, I was thinking Carthage was primarily an African power fighting a primarily european power and that an ocean sea separated the two.

In any event, I stand by vote.  Hannibal baby!

markdienekes, thanks for schooling me on a subject I thought I knew fairly well, only by comparison to those who don’t it seems!

Quite the tour de force markdienekes.  Welcome to the forums by the way and not just because your viewpoint happens to agree with mine on this topic, but it sure does feel glorious wg.

Fine print is important.  Our patties contain 100% ground beef.  That is in our patties, they contain 10% ground beef and that 10% is 100%!  Or is it 100% ground beef products?  Ie butts and bones are part of a cow so 100% ground beef products.

I do eat McDonalds, like once or twice per month, after two hours in the gym……

Eat meat and veggies and more veggies than meat, limit sugars and carbs (soon to be sugars).

markdienekes,  good luck in your debate with IL on this topic.  IL is well versed in this and every topic, he had a degree in history from Stanford where they teach that Hannibal was born in Turkey.

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It was ( the 1st and 2nd Punic wars) where Hannibal the General born in Turkey ( not Spain or Carthage) commanded an army dispatched from part of the empire in what was to become Spain in an attack against Rome.

IL, you claim Hannibal the General was born in Turkey?  Can you cite your sources please?

My Masters in History from Stanford says it. It is common knowledge and i don’t do your homework.

My assertion always was that Carthage was primarily an African power, that Italy was primarily a European power.  That wars and battles are two different things.  That the war was between two powers separated by a ocean sea and that yes most of the battles occurred between armies that were both on land and in Europe for at least a few days or more before the battle commenced, ie no amphibious assaults.  I still don’t see any of these premises as being false but shrugs.

3……2…1…and…right on cue

The mental image of Justin Bieber playing a wargame is something I have a bit of trouble processing.