Pushed way too hard on the hardware was not quite ready yet an ironically if the big push came like 2 years later in 2018 when we first got the 2080 the PC market would have been better prepared. Devs also just weren't efficient enough with the available hardware at the time.

What exactly is your plan when that horse needs new shoes?

There are like 1500 varieties of apple in the world and the US is home to most of them?

Which he WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO DO AND WAS ORDERED NOT TO DO! (This is about the company commander who got killed in Grenada.) Story straight from someone in the company. Lemme get a drink first, this one always makes me want to drink.. B/2/325 was the Division Reaction Company. DRC was different than Division Reaction Force. DRF was either an infantry battalion or a task force team. (Grenada they were limited Teams.) Teams had all the attachments and were to be 'wheels up in 18 hours.' Two hour recall and God help you if you missed formation. (For those non-military, battalions/teams are commanded by lieutenant colonels, people with around 18 years of experience. Companies are captains, about 3-4 years. Platoons are guys fresh out of college. more or less zero.) DRC was ONE HOUR recall and NINE HOURS wheels up. Just one company who was supposed to do 'something' on the other end until the full TF got there. You've got to move fast and you don't take vehicles or anything else. Just rucks and whatever you can carry on your body. Because there is much to do to get the rest of the company following, the XO and the First Sergeant stay behind and follow on with the Battalion. Nine hours of a company commander on a more or less independent command. And in this case, that was not a good thing. (Foreshadowing.) Before you go on DRF cycle, you go through Training cycle then ARTEP. (The Army's 'final exam.') During Company Prepared Assault ARTEP the CO of B/2/325 put on his RANGER CAP, chose his senior platoon leader and an E5 RTO and went out on a leader's recon. And walked right into enemy fire and all three were graded as killed. The Executive Officer and First Sergeant took over, sent out a five man fire team, did a classic one-up distraction, two side flanking maneuver and won. 'Company ARTEP passed.' Unit passed Battalion ARTEP and was certified Good To Go for DRF. During the 'hotwash' after action for the whole battalion, the company commander was asked 'Why did you do a leader's recon?' According to 'The Book', a COMPANY COMMANDER is supposed to chose a 5 man fire team to do recon. Company Commanders are too valuable to be lost doing a recon mission. He stood up and proclaimed: 'THAT IS WHAT THEY TAUGHT ME IN RANGER SCHOOOOL!' (I'd digress on my rant about Ranger School which I call 'Active Stupid School.' You have to be active all the time and most of what you do is stupid. It's active stupid school.) His battalion commander then, in front of the entire battalion, replied: 'You're a company commander now, not a Ranger candidate. Send out a five man fire team next time. That's an order.' (Note: That wasn't just 'it's the standard.' The battalion commander gave him a direct legal order.) Fast forward to Grenada. Same company commander is the Division Reaction Company Commander. The company (after alot of other stuff) is tasked with protecting the flank of the Rangers (what's left of them) as they get the 'hostages' out of the medical school. (Another thing to keep in mind in this story is they'd landed at Salinas when they were still pulling out the Ranger dead. They knew they were in a real war and it's unsettling when there is no real ramp up or special training. They were green as grass by even modern 'green' standards. Hell, we were less well trained than modern NG infantry. Seriously.) The company is taking the main road to St. Georges. Right at dusk, the point team spots 'movement on a hill' and 'multiple enemy.' The company goes into perimeter. The company commander PUTS ON HIS RANGER CAP, CHOOSES HIS SENIOR PLATOON LEADER AND AN E5 RTO AND GOES OUT ON A LEADER'S RECON! EXACTLY WHAT HE'D DONE IN TRAINING AND BEEN TOLD NOT TO DO! Some notes here from the well remembered conversation: Me: Was he super good at it? Him: He could not sneak up on a troop of cub scouts on sand. The guy never heard of hand and arm signals. He was the worst guy at recon you've ever seen. Me; Fuuuuck. From his POV: 'So, there we were, spread out around the road. The sun set quick then it was just silent. The sound of the tropic breeze was all you could hear. Then, about fifteen minutes after they went out, the sky filled with green tracers. 'You could hear everything. The RTO was on the radio, talking real quiet. 'Romeo 35, Romeo 35, Sierra 26, over... Romeo 35, Romeo 35, Sierra 26, over...' 'We only had two lieutenants and the one that was senior had gone with him. (Mortars, 1LT, and XO 1LT, along with FSG would have been on birds headed there but they might as well have been on the moon.) 'So, the lieutenant is saying 'Sergeant, what do I do?' (to his platoon sergeant.) And the platoon sergeant is saying 'I dunno, sir. I think you're the CO now. Gimme some orders and we'll follow them.' 'I'm right out of basic! I was told to listen to my platoon sergeant. Wadda I do?' 'I dunno, sir. I think you're the CO...' Now, imagine for just a second that you're in that situation. We were TOLD we were going to be fighting a BRIGADE of Cuban Infantry. You're a company, your CO (a captain) is apparently dead as well as the one half trained LT, your XO and first sergeant might as well be on the moon, and, oh yeah, your short ranged radios right now CANNOT REACH ANYONE! You are entirely on your own, in the dark AND YOUR LEADERSHIP IS HAVING THAT CONVERSATION. (Which is WHY you DO NOT do a LEADER'S RECON if you are a COMPANY COMMANDER!) 'So, all of a sudden we hear this 'HUFF' and one of the staff sergeants gets up. Nobody knew too much about him. Old guy. He'd said he was in the Marines in Vietnam early on. (BTW: The 82nd in those days had several of those Vietnam Era marines who came back in and were basically hanging out for the rest of their 20 to get retirement. Good NCOs.) 'This guy walks over and says 'Sir, I'm going to give you some instructions. You are going to make those orders. And, sir, if you do not, I am going to shoot you in the head.' 😁 Gotta love the vietnam guys. First, send out a five man fire team. Enemy machine gun company in the open on a ridge. 8 PPKs, 12 DhSKas, 1 37mm recoilless. No losses on the recon. All we had were Michelin road maps. Plan was developed to leave the machine guns in a covered position facing the enemy and the rest of the company would swing around by road to the rear and attack at dawn. At dawn, the 60s opened up and distracted them from the front. They were in hard cover, no casualties. 'So, what happened?' 'We walked up the back slope and took them from the rear. They didn't even know we were there til we were putting guns in their faces.' Entire PRA company captured. E5 was found wounded. One PPK round through his chest laterally, punctured both lungs but he survived. The LT had 'dove in some bushes' and hid all night. His career was over but he was alive. The company commander was found at the top of the ridge with his hands tied with commo wire and shot multiple times in the head. The official US Army History has it as 'Company commander was killed in an ambush.' Nothing about the leader's recon. Nothing about him being executed. Nothing about it being his collossal fuck-up. Which means future company commanders, even if they read about it, learn none of the lessons. There are alot of morals to the story but I won't bother. They should be obvious. The 82nds entire response was to get rid of DRC. The LT that took command got a medal. The former Marine did not and was never going to get promoted beyond Staff (for threatening an officer) but there would be waivers for him to stick around as long as he wanted. None of this 'up or out.' He was 'break glass in the event of war.' And that's the true story. PS: 'The Marine'. Went to Vietnam on one tour back in '64. Decided he liked war but not the Marines. Joined the French Foreign Legion. Fought in Bush Wars all over Africa, notably in Rhodesia. After the Bush Wars died down and the State Department started getting weanie about 'mercenaries' he came back to the US, enlisted in the Army and was just hanging out to get retirement. Yeah. Break Glass in Event of War. I was later my battalion commander's driver. He'd been the S3 on the jump and maybe someday I'll write his story about it. That leader's recon was anything BUT textbook.

You added an f to lieutenant, pipe down.

If I recall correctly the average driver puts on like 15,000 miles a year and you're supposed to get it changed every 5,000 miles which means you should be getting an oil change at least 10 or 4 months and this doesn't include brake service

That certainly one way to put it. It's dishonest. but it's certainly one way to put it

Disagree because there shouldn't be any permanence. We should have evolving story lines that occasionally get resolved and then we get a galactic reset so that we can tell more stories.

I mean normally I'd understand however that comes out to $250,000 a house which depending on the size is quite reasonable for a new build.

I can tell you right now just based off in the sheer amount of points in there, that was not the mainstream position. The actual mainstream position stop at but in your statement.

The just warframework is arguably more moral than most of our historic War reasonings. It basically guarantees the maximum amount of suffering throughout the entire process.

They are obsessed wrongly with condemning of the horrors of war. There's nothing that I can say that @planefag's right up didn't communicate more effectively. No one that would actually have to fight is obsessed with trying to go to war.

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Personally I think votes should be subject to a margin of confidence. 50.7% is not it.

You seem to forget that this came to such a head that we literally passed the prohibition which permanently tanked the amounts of alcohol people were drinking..

Many theorems sound fucking stupid until you see them in practice then once you see them you can't unsee them. My favorite is burnt hot dog theory where people confuse personal preference for quality and then attack people on that basis.