Posts made by Pervavita

no, i am trying to get my map at home to track my moves and yours with the dice roles we made, i am haveing problems with it and i don’t want to make bad moves untell it’s fixed. i have asked in a thread or two hear and am waiting on a responce. i hope to have it today.

Guerrilla Guy is.

on that i don’t know if this would have been better in the Pres debate or not.

ok the cold war was between the Western powers and the Eastern powers. N Korea moved to attack S Korea with it’s USSR and Chines allies. the US steped in to prevent the invasion. ok so we have a war there. the thing is the US got in to oppose the USSR agressions. even though they were not USSR troops but there allies. it’s like saying that when the Allies landed in Italy we still wern’t fighting WWII (as the US) because we wern’t fighting Germans there. if you make a move on the allie of a nation that is supported by it’s allie then you are in fact fighting that nation. we may have never shot Russians (although it’s debated that there were Russian pilots in the area that we did fight) but we did shoot there allies. i think that constatutes that we would have been fighting the USSR the same as attacking Italy was attacking Germany.
no one wanted the big knock out fight with Russia/USA so there was a lot of behind the sceens political stuff to make it not apear to be a war between the two so that nether would take the big gamble of lossing to the other. it was all a bunch of streached out fights to give the illusion of small non related wars.

how do you get it to work with the forum. i have not been able to get it to adsept my moves so i can use the dice roller from the forum or input opponent roles ether. how do you do that?

Chosin Reservour in Korea saw a major conflict between US and Chines troops. i would say that meets your criteria of a conflict between powers.
the war over all was world wide in scope, there were however no major German vs US conflicts. it was many theaters of one war over many years.

dosn’t mean there can’t be a shift in the favor of one of our leaders (also dosn’t mean it can’t shift back). unless it turns to a big lead (10%ish) or over 80% counted with the lead as is now it’s still ethers race. not to be hopfull or down play the lead, i’m just stating that things can shift still.

not quite half counted and the spread just came up to about 3points about 10min ago, before that (with the same % counted) the spread was 1 point. so i’m not holding my breath yet on this.

shouldn’t be listening to the rest of the world IMO.
also wern’t those the same sources that said they had the stuff and were discredited and we were told they were lieing to us before?

i have been trying to get anything from there all day. nota  :cry:

Koria and Vietnam, even the Afgan-USSR conflicts/wars were all part of a larger operation. the USSR or China were spreading and the US with allies support moved to stop the spread of Communism. just because there was no big battles between US/Allied troops and USSR/China troops dosn’t mean that it wasn’t a war (other then there were but history dosn’t play them up enough for the masses to even recongize them). nether force wanted to fully declare war in such a public display as that could lead to nukes getting used. it was a war and it invalved many of the countrys of the world. it’s just not called a “war” in the normal sence of the word because that would look bad to the political powers.

your compairing Unis, i’m talking about public schools, the kind that kids go to for free and must go to. there must be a standard that is unaversal at atleast the high school level. even if it is just 3 years Englash, 2 years math, and 2 years science with a test by the fed OR better then that an indapendent organization on these areas. give the states there room, but give a standard that makes it equal for all states. it’s not right that some schools (even with in the same state) are graduating students who turn around and go to uni and the first thing they have to do is take refresher courses, or after graduation they don’t have basic skills that there class’ on there transcript say they should have.
teachers pass students just to pass them and are not held accountable. a standard that holds them accountable is the only way to fix it. if that standard is a nation wide test that if failed out waighs the passing grade the teacher gave or if it is on open and free market for the schools where parants are given non cash value vouchers that are good for admission into schools that are reconized by the state so that the schools will compeat with other schools for the students by providing the best staff and learning experiance.

i’m done with this part, it’s off topic, i don’t want it to go further on my part off topic. my view is there. if we have a new topic on this subject i will continue though.

i would love the Fed to get out of it, the problem comes in though that we also have diffrent standards state to state. for example if in IL the students in 1st grade learn to count to 100 and can do spelling up to a few simple 4 letter words (not that kind get your mind out of the gutter ppl), well in say SC the standard is count to 50 and spell a lot of 3 letter words. then we perpetuate the problem so that in SC by the time they graduate collage the students can’t do some basic (by IL standards) math or have gooder English skills.
a standard should be set accross the board. if it’s a low standard then thats fine, good teachers should have no problem with it because they can teach the majority of there students to reach that standard with little trouble. this will cause poor teachers to ether step up or get out of the way for new teachers. as the teacher base increases in skill then so will the standard (or should).
now i do think schools need to cut the cr@p spending, with or with out the Fed invalved, there is no need to spend on things that don’t increase the learning.
the act may not be perfect but to me it is better then what was in place before.

the problem though is that schools get fed money and yet the fed has no control untill now. i’m no fan of public schools, i would much rather put my kids in private schools but i can’t afford it. so if i’m stuck with public schools i want there to be a standard of some kind. i don’t think it’s right that teachers get the free pass they got. what makes a buissness good is compatition, but now schools don’t compeat, teachers don’t compeat to be the best ether. i know this is off topic but i can’t see how providing a standard for the teachers to shoot for is a bad thing. bad teachers brought this on them selfs by passing (going to sound bad hear) stupid kids. our Uni’s are having to remediate students at record levels to prepare them for entery lvl collage. you can’t say that the schools are doing there job if the uni’s are having to redo it for them.

it was never declaired, but it did have a few major conflicts. lets see, Koria and Vietnam were quite big conflicts from something that was just a bunch of huff and puff.

No Child Left Behind of all thouse is the only one i like. the reason for it is that it forces schools to have atleast a standard minumum. my oldest son is in school and i have found that teachers don’t like it around hear because they have to step up there teaching. we have schools apealing for more time to meet the critearia. i like it a lot because this is the first big step in holding teachers accountable to some standard instead of sitting back and collecting a pay cheak.

game
i will see about finding the lattest/greatest rules and give you the link.

well that was easy, hear are the  rules

lol, i’m a working student too.
i will get this going today with my first move as USSR today if i can.
i will do my best to get it up and going as it’s my first online as well.

let me try this
Maybe sticky this thread to help new players as well?

Rolls: 3@1; Total Hits: 03@1: (6, 5, 2)
Rolls: 5@2; Total Hits: 15@2: (4, 4, 4, 1, 5)
Rolls: 1@3; Total Hits: 01@3: (6)

edit: not even electronic dice like me  :cry:

edit 2: well just learned, don’t edit after you put in the role  :roll:

what limitations you want?
no NA’s, no bide.
techs? (lets keep it simple and say none).
turn time restriction? (i would say not hear as i can’t always post each day).
rule set? i would like the most resent set of rules (not out of the box but the 3.0 i think it is) as thats what you will see all the time on forum.
with that said, it will be my first game online as well, so i’m willing to give it a try in the most simple game posible.

edit: oh ya, your choice if your Axis or Allies.

i can’t direct people to the speach (i wish i could and i will when i find it on the net) where Bill said something along the lines of “if McCain and Mrs Clinton are the two nominations it will be the nicest presidental race in history as they both get a long so well.” that is not a direct quote as i can’t remember the exact words.
now with that said, i did not get it off line, i was listening to the radio this mornning on my way to work and it was a sound bite played.
now my take on it is that if the Clintions and McCain’s are such good friends, then we have a seriouse problem if we have McCain as the Republican nomination. although it might be funny (if not so sad) to watch the debates. heck we may even get them both running with no VP as they would come to an agreement that the winner take the other as the VP.