Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.

Messages - webber

Pages: 1 ... 4 5 [6] 7 8
76
General Discussion / Re: Egypt and the world and Libya
« on: October 23, 2011, 05:50:02 am »
Quote from: Luke_Prowler on October 23, 2011, 03:35:06 am
That's suppose to be the UN and NATO's job.

Just UN. NATO`s supposed job is to protect its members from agression, but it seems they think that the best way to protect themselves is to just randomly attack everybody.

No, seriously. I can accept when guys in blue helmets heroically wedge their white tanks between two ready-to-kill-each-other armies, but how can a bombing be peacekeeping? It looks like this: there is a fist fight in your house, a policeman comes in and throws a frag grenade.

77
General Discussion / Re: Egypt and the world and Libya
« on: October 23, 2011, 01:58:09 am »
Quote from: Luke_Prowler on October 23, 2011, 12:12:47 am
And I love how you rant about how Americans tell others how to solve their problem then turn around and do the exact same thing.

There is a difference between an advice and opinionation. At least he didn`t show up near your house with some aircraft carriers.

By the way, great post, Alexhans.

78
General Discussion / Re: Egypt and the world and Libya
« on: October 22, 2011, 11:16:57 am »
Quote from: Sheb on October 22, 2011, 10:37:25 am
Given what the other side was doing at the time, 500 death seems like an okay price to stop that.

Death is never an okay price. By the way, this is

Quote from: webber on October 22, 2011, 09:38:05 am
Civilian casualties during the "Allied Force" operation according to Human Rights Watch.

and you are mentioning the war in 1995. And AF took place in 1999.

So again, I am talking about ~500 innocent people killed by NATO bombings, NOT about all people lost during wars in this region.

79
General Discussion / Re: Egypt and the world and Libya
« on: October 22, 2011, 09:38:05 am »
Quote from: DJ on October 22, 2011, 08:01:39 am
Quote from: webber on October 22, 2011, 12:56:06 am
Yugoslavia: ~500 lives.
Genocide denial?

What.
Civilian casualties during the "Allied Force" operation according to Human Rights Watch.

80
General Discussion / Re: Egypt and the world and Libya
« on: October 22, 2011, 12:56:06 am »
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on October 21, 2011, 06:00:53 pm
Oh give me a break. Gaddafi and Castro both have executed untold numbers of people, and the former started bombing his own populace when it became clear how widespread the rebellion was. They aren't some wonderful saints of the people standing up against the big bad capitalists, they're autocratic mass murderers.
I'm going to lay this to rest now: NATO does not give a shit about Libya's oil. Before this whole thing started, Libya was producing a grand total of 960 barrels of oil for exportation to the US, per month. This is of the 350k total for monthly US oil imports. (Incidentally, the largest exporter of oil for the US remains our good friends up in Canada, who export 70,000 barrels per month.) Of course, that's just the US. The single largest importer of Libyan goods is Italy, but there are no numbers available for the Italian-Libyan oil trade.


Gaddafi and Castro both have executed untold numbers of people
autocratic mass murderers

Lybia: 200-700 lives.
Iraq: 100-200 thousands.
Yugoslavia: ~500 lives.
Iraq-1991: ~2000 lives.

Oh yeah. NATO surely has the right to invade any country where oil interests holy duty of protecting the world from big bad dictators leads them.

stuff that the average Libyan would never see

Oh, what CNN/BBC says is the only truth in the world.
Have you ever tried getting the information from 2-5 independent, preferably hostile to each other, sources? Or even speaking with eyewitnesses, like I did?

started bombing his own populace when it became clear how widespread the rebellion was
The rebels officially confirm that they are being financed from foreigh sources. This is not a revolution. This is something like "proxy civil war". Without this support all discontent of Gadaffi`s goverment would have ended in this: a hundred or two of people are waving flags for two hours, then they get bored and leave, Gadaffi is strictly looking at them from a wall banner.

They aren't some wonderful saints
Nobody said they are. I`m just trying to show you that the whole operation was inhumane and violating all international standards, and everybody who supports it is either a very credulous person or a maniac.

81
General Discussion / Re: Egypt and the world and Libya
« on: October 21, 2011, 04:43:18 pm »
Quote from: New Guy on October 21, 2011, 10:15:36 am
He's a monster. He deserved to die.

Do you still see the world in black and white colors?

"GDP per person— 14 192 $.
Annual dotations per family member - 1 000 $
Unemployment compensation— 730 $.
Nurse`s salary— 1 000 $.
7 000 $ for every newborn baby.
64 000 $ for every newlyweds couple.
One-time aid to open private business - 20 000 $.
Major taxes and levies are prohibited.
Education and medicine are free.
Foreign education is paid by the state.
A network of markets with extremely low prices for families having many children.
A network of pharmacy shops with free medicaments.
Death penalty for counterfeiting of medicines.
No rent.
No electricity charges.
Interest-free loans for cars and houses. If you buy a car, the state will pay 50% of its price; 65% for soldiers.
Petrol is cheaper then the water: 0,14 $ for liter. "

This WAS Gaddafi`s Libya. Until NATO guys just came for some more oil.

Sorry for the lame translation. I should have gone to sleep long ago, but amounts of "LOL WE HEROICALLY DEFEATED ANOTHER SUPERVILLAIN" shit in this thread were too much to ignore.

82
Life Advice / Re: CPU fan needs immediate replacing
« on: October 16, 2011, 01:56:38 am »
Had the same problem long ago with my Pentium 4.

it seems that fans are dirt cheap
No, they aren`t. I mean... The fan, which you are going to buy, is an almost exact copy of one I had in my PC like... 7 years ago. Modern fans usually are being mounted with something more reliable than pegs, and they have some copper heat-transfering pipes in the radiator, and so on. And they are more expensive and, usually, bigger.

I don't need anything fancy
Why? Sure, a cheap fan will cool your CPU enough for not reloading due to overheat. But when your CPU reaches 80-90 Celsius degrees, it begins to "throttle". Throttling actually means stopping itself from executing instructions with normal frequency, and it can (and will) decrease CPU speed dramatically. And a modern fan can keep the CPU temperature near 40 degrees.

I'm not sure what's compatable with a Core 2 Duo
Try finding some documents about your motherboard; a user manual from a box should be fine. Or try to search online. With 90% probability this is LGA 775 socket.

83
Life Advice / Re: I have a centrifuge!
« on: October 04, 2011, 12:18:54 am »
Quote from: kilakan on October 03, 2011, 05:32:20 pm
uranium-hexaflouride, and then wait and see how long it takes for the law enforcement to show up.

You will also need to hide a barrel of oil somewhere in your basement.

84
Life Advice / Re: I just realized something
« on: September 17, 2011, 02:41:12 am »
">>There is suspiciously large number of conflicts including fights, knifing, gunfights in my dreams. <...> Even in school I fought only once, where does it all come from?

So, many of you have previously heard such term as “Libido”, though usually it is associated with sex. Now then, there is another thing called “Mortido”, and we will discuss  these important concepts of our mind.
Let me define both words.
Libido is a desire to create. The highest manifestation of Libido is creation of a child.
Mortido is a desire to destroy. The highest manifestation of Mortido is murder.
But there is an interesting nuance here. Libido and Mortido can be directed both outward (creation of a child/murder of a human) and inward (self-perfection/suicide). There is important to understand that it`s useless to struggle these things. They can be presented as two constantly filling scales in RPG, and it is necessary to drain them off constantly, because if one of the scales is full, the SHIT will happen (severe mental disorders, breakdowns, suicide). Draing of the scales is usually uncounsious and can take the most bizzare forms.
Mortido, directed outward, can be expressed as scandals with family, dirty tricks with friends, unreasonable hatred to something. Directed inward, it takes forms of smoking, alcoholism, not maintaining appearance and hygiene.
Libido, directed outward, can take form of creating something, drawing, art... And inward it will look like self-improvement, for example, visiting the gym.
All this is intertwined with complexes, perception models etc., so it`s important to understand that Libido and Mortido are not something separate, they are parts of a huge and complex mechanism called “human mind”."

85
Life Advice / Re: I just realized something
« on: September 12, 2011, 01:48:59 pm »
Quote from: Nivm on September 11, 2011, 05:49:02 pm
So I would like to see this thread you're talking about; could you post a link, or at least give us a few more keywords to work with?

This was a couple of years ago, I cannot even find the forum itself now :)

BUT

I`ve found nice explanation of Libido and Mortido in a thread, dedicated to lucid dreaming, on an imageboard. The explanation is pretty simple and involves computer games analogy too

BUT

it will take some time for me to translate it :)

86
Life Advice / Re: I just realized something
« on: September 07, 2011, 03:29:34 pm »
Quote from: forsaken1111 on September 07, 2011, 02:57:40 pm
Huh... I guess my life-jar must be super full and my death jar is always empty then because I don't dream or think about death.

Unless... I empty it by playing video games?

I HAVE STUMBLED UPON THE SOLUTION FOR ALL VIOLENCE

Somebody asked that doc about emptying aggression bar with games too, but I don`t remember the answer...
Generally Mortido can appear not only as dreams, but for example in smoking, nails-biting, other self-agression (if directed inside the personality) or yelling at somebody (if directed outside). 
Libido vial can be emptied by creating something - art, etc.
It seems this is all I can recall :)

Quote from: yaklin on September 07, 2011, 03:05:53 pm
While i would love to take martial arts lessons, the navy just keeps me too busy, im not even back in the barracks until 2000 at night and that's if i don't have watch.

Wow. From my experience, military guys usually do not have problems with too full Mortido  :)
I dunno. If you like this theory, try finding some more information about actions that will fulfill your death drive.

87
Life Advice / Re: I just realized something
« on: September 07, 2011, 02:49:39 pm »
Quote from: forsaken1111 on September 07, 2011, 01:53:19 pm
The hell? What are you talking about? Is this some new-age mystic crap?

Quote from: Fenrir on September 07, 2011, 01:54:51 pm
I do not believe a word of it, but I like it. It sounds like it would make an interesting video-game mechanic.

Oh you. It sounds like a game mechanic because I tried to make it simple and imaginable :)  It`s Freudian psychology IIRC, I`ve read this on medical forum... the guy asked something like "why so much violence in my dreams?" too and he got this answer from a doctor.

88
Life Advice / Re: I just realized something
« on: September 07, 2011, 01:48:03 pm »
It is normal.
Imagine that your mind has two, erm, vials, and this vials are being filled constantly. The first of them is Libido(life and love drive), the second is Mortido(death and destruction drive). If one of the vials is full, you`ll go nuts, so your subliminal consciousness tries to empty them in every possible way - and in dreams, too.
It seems you aren`t fulfilling your death instinct IRL enough. Try training martial arts or something like that.

89
Life Advice / Re: Improving mile time
« on: September 03, 2011, 05:06:37 am »
Wow. Expected you to be heavier, you really achieved serious results with your diet :)

So, about my army experience. My height is 173 cm, and I weighted 86 kg at the beginning of a young soldier`s course. And wasn`t really into sports too.
The first obstacle wasn`t even tiredness or low strength or something... Boots! I`ve never worn something like army boots in my life, and they ripped the skin off my feet really fast - literally, 3-4 holes on each foot. Combined with physical weakness, this resulted me being last in every run - even in usual morning jogging with the unit. Just imagine - you are running last, and your formation is farther and farther ahead... Feels bad.
At the end of the course (2 weeks) I weighted 75 kg. My feet were still killing me, but at least I learned to keep with the formation. But the FUN was in future - I was distributed to the batallion with the craziest officers in the whole regiment. For some unknown reasons they ALL liked "march-throws", long speedy crosses with all available equipment.
So one winter morning (approximately after one month of service) we just took everything and ran to nearby forest. And this is where I felt the lungs hurting... After like 3 kms I was breathing so loud that it could be heard in another end of a column, and somebody of the seniors said "Looks like we`ll be carrying his body back soon". He was wrong :)
Soon I realised that running in the head of the formation is more profitable, because of short stops to wait for guys running last, while when you are last you are always chasing the formation and never stop for rest. To make a story short, there were 8 young soldiers running, nobody was specially trained before the army, and one month is obviously not enough to develop some serious stamina and muscles. But we all managed to endure all 15 kms, though one guy almost fainted near halfway and we took part of his equipment.

My advice is still the same - overcome the pain, you can always endure more than you think. In your age and with your constitution it is very hard to be killed with a single mile  :)

90
Life Advice / Re: Where to find iron?
« on: September 02, 2011, 12:12:54 pm »
Quote from: Virex on September 02, 2011, 12:11:33 pm
Wait, since when do batteries come in an AC variant?
He doesn`d need AC for an electromagnet.

Pages: 1 ... 4 5 [6] 7 8