Charles Lindsey

Cool. Thanks all. Cruis.In is due to check in and didn't Rampsite check in a while back? Have to see how many numbers we can get up. This is fresh, new, exciting, and totally alien to me. We'll see what happens.

Whoops, march blew me a little farther than expected. But April is here so shower me with check ins.

I normally don't like British humor but this was good. Sounds like something The Onion would do. One of my local stations plays The Onion Radio News. Hilarious stuff.

Eh, Freedom Fighter, traitor. Depends on who's talking and who ya beleive. However Civilian targets are off limits. At least to the human players. I have no idea how the AI Insurgents act if you are playing as Galcom.

Sheesh it's like putting a hunk of meat in a pirhana filled river. Get ready for laurels and dead chickens sacrificed at your feet. Consider Insurgents. Fighting to free the Earth from the grip of the UFN.

quote:Grayfox securing the oil fields first "to keep them from getting set on fire" is a bunch of horsepoo. a blindman in a phone booth can see why we secured the oilfields first. anyone notice gas prices have gone down in most places??? I still have my reservations about the whole thing but could it be that's where we crossed the border, that's where those fields were, and it was a no brainer to secure them as they rolled past? Just thinking out loud.

quote:Do they really think that putting a flag they bought from frigging Wal-Mart, on thier car constitutes support?Yup. At least moral support. Well it's started. Russia is heavily condemning US actions. I figured it would start before now and be like that China spy plane incident. A big stink for a while then die down. While I realize it won't be a "short" war I hope it doesn't get extended. That would allow the condemnations to continue far longer than they need to.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/war.tracker/index.html For what it's worth. I found this link clicking through AOL links. Every so often they come up with a true link instead of something within their own intranet. I did the AOL write (e mail) a soldier thing as well.

quote:Tyrn At first, I used to wonder if my copy of the test was missing pages.I'm not THAT good. I'm jealous of you Tyrn.

quote:Tyrn Personally, I hate accounting math...it's black magic if you ask me. Just ask Enron! hehe. Shame on me.

Aww hell. Let's talk math for a bit. I'm tired of solving the world's problems anyway. The antifreeze question was a real problem I had in seventh grade. Once again I do not remember the answer or the procedure to calculate the answer. I guesstimate and I get real darn close. If that's doing math in my head it's on such a subconscious level I'm not aware of it. The "funny" (strange) thing about the antifreeze problem is that while it may be technically and mathematically correct it just don't work that way. Engines tend to form pockets of "vacuum" and you can never drain all that antifreeze. Just for fun: Derek threw out some figures and I calculated the diameter of Galcom. I bought a new tractor. Well... riding lawn mower. It has a 42" cut. My old one has a 38" cut. My father was calculating 10 passes = 420" vs 380". Screw that. I went for the fuzzy math. The new tractor has a 4" greater cut than the old one. 10 passes with the new tractor would equal 40" greater cut than the old one. That's 40" = 38" + 2" compared to the old one = one pass across the yard. That's equivalent to I can do in ten passes with the new mower (plus 2") than what I could do with the old one. Which is about equal to I can do in ten passes with the new mower whereas it would take me 11 passes with the old mower. I calculate my MPG (mile per gallon) every week just to see how the car is doing. How would ya'll solve for MPH? quote:Overmind I was the only one in the class with them all correct. Now what I am getting at is, can I join any of you?Do you frighten your friends or people in general? That is something I have noticed when you are smart.

Then he launched into an anti war rant and got booed.

My dad can do math in his head. Drives me crazy because sadly I did not inherit that ability. I can do it in the air though. I used to amuse myself on long trips by calculating the speed of the vehicle by using a watch to time mile markers then algebra to solve for the mph. The bad thing about word problems is they are so stupid. You look at them and sometimes wonder what they were smoking when they thought them up. The absolutely terrible thing about word problems is that they everywhere in real life. How much more will you bring home after that 3% raise? Out of that 3% they keep 1.5% for insurance. Then you have to figure taxes and withholdings. Ughh. It's gonna get extra cold and your antifreeze isn't stout enough. How much of your 30% mixture do you drain from your 4 gal system to add pure antifreeze resulting in a proper 50% mixture? Consider word problems as what you would ask yourself if you were in that situation. They are rough but they do help you out later in life.

That was neat. I love the internet. I used to be good at math. http://www.fool.com/fribble/2001/fribble010718.htm I like the way this formula is written better. --------------------- From article------------ The formula simply states that the amount of money you will realize from a compounding investment (otherwise known as the Future Value or "FV") is equal to the number 1 plus your periodic interest rate raised to the number of time periods you invest the money. For example, if you put $1,000 into a bond at 8% interest rate for 30 years, then the amount of money you would receive would be $1,000 times 1.08 to the 30th power. Mathematically, it looks like this: FV = $1,000 * (1 + .08) ^30 -------------- The article goes on and explains how to calculate for periodic additions of money. I have forgotten (if I ever knew) how to sovle for powers. I think Friez12 explained it well.

Just use "quote" marks. "I do know I saw a very disturbing picture of young boys (18-20) resting in holes in the desert surounded by trucks and tanks, and I got really PO'd at these lame college protesters walking out of classes and blocking city streets." I think it would be dangerous (? searching for a word ?) if one allowed one's self to get polarized to that extent.

quote:The only thing that sucks about this whole thing is the constant misinformation the media news is spewing 'cause they dont know a bloomin' thing. So they keep repeat the same stuff over and over and over - which amounts to nothing ... geez, this is worse than that pink bunny.Like I said; they couldn't have done a better job of faking out the media if they HAD planned it. But I have also read that this is part of the plan. So apparently it hasn't really begun yet like I said. When it begins "we'll know"; which is a reference to the massive bombing being planned. That Shock and Awe thing I have heard about. I've been under a rock as well. The ground forces started moving a while back. Like I really need to be the BCM board's own Ted Koppel with up to the minute news. Frightening enough for this poor civilian. So you can bet I am glued to the news. May take my casio 1.5" TV to work tomorrow.

Wow. ----------------------------------------- WEB TRAFFIC EXPLODES AS MISSILES FALL WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- When the missiles started dropping on Baghdad, visits to Web sites soared. Online news portals in the United States and China reported that their traffic tripled as people sought out information about the war. ComScore Media Metrix, a firm that monitors Web traffic, reported that traffic at the top 15 news sites Wednesday was 62 percent ahead of the average for the previous four weeks. "Our page views went through the roof," said Caroline Straathof, a spokeswoman for Sohu.com (http://www.sohu.com/), a Chinese language site. She said 20,000 people signed up for the portal's $3 a month text messaging service to receive news on their mobile phones, Reuters reported. Three times more traffic also hit Yahoo's (YHOO) news site in the hour after President Bush reported the initial attack on Iraq. MSNBC.com also said its visits nearly tripled normal levels. Dean Wright, MSNBC.com's editor in chief, said the site expects to begin offering a live video stream in the next few days. Some U.S. military Web sites have buckled under the strain of Web users. The U.S Army's (http://www.army.mil/) and Marine Corps' (http://www.usmc.mil/) official sites were taking as long as 80 seconds to load and only 70 percent of people trying to connect were able to do so, according to a spokesman for Keynote Systems (KEYN), a Web performance testing company.

Now it's on for real. The radio has switched to news and a news conference.

Didn't know whether to post again or edit. So I'll take my chances. Saw on a news story a couple days ago the media is being given almost unfettered access to this war. They don't want Saddam pulling any dirty tricks and blaming it on us. So just to be fair I'll give the Admin and/or the mil credit for doing this. Give me facts and I'll decide for myself. To be even more fair if the poor guys are giving up before any shots are fired perhaps this is the right thing to do regardless. However I am reminded of a discussion on this very board about two years ago. It was pertaining the gun rights, this, that, and the other and one person stated if a populace really wanted to be free that they would be free. I don't remember participating in that debate but I do remember thinking that that statement was a load of hooey. Odd that it took two years to prove "whoever it was" wrong. An oppressed people can't always defend themselves. No Jaguar, it wasn't you. Hope not at least . It was someone else I can't remember who.

You been under a rock? I had been watching this for an hour when you first posted. Been watching CBS just because I tried to watch Survivor. It was one little batch of explosions they have been rehashing for almost three hours now. A single target of opportunity from what I can gather. Supposedly ( according to best estimates by the news) several tomahawks and two bombers dropping a pair of 2,000 lb bunker buster bombs each. Not the big bunker buster which is the 5,000 lb one right? Also supposedly targeting gov't officials. Now we will have 24 hours of analysis for this one little strike becasue it's already daylight over there. If the admin or the mil had wanted to put one over on the media they couldn't have done a better job. hehe. This will be interesting watching the media report on news that isn't there yet.

Some of ya'll might like this. So many war threads around I just decided to stick it here. Feel free to copy. I'm sure word will get around soon enough so don't think there is too much "copyright" issue here. From a CBS newsletter. REUTERS STARTS WAR NEWS WEBCAST NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Reuters launched an Internet service Wednesday to offer unnarrated war-related video footage and live news conferences, government briefings and other events. The service is free but is expected to become a paid offering in the future, the company said. The new offering (http://reuters.feedroom.com/frameset.jsp?s...0373&rdm=530161) "captures the scale of Reuters editorial operation and unrivaled expertise of our reporting team in and around Iraq," said Rich Sabreen, an executive vice president at Reuters (RTRSY). He said the news service has 150 journalists in the Middle East covering the Iraq story. Reuters does not plan to make the channel a fulltime venture after an Iraq conflict's end. The "raw video" service is expected to be made available "from time to time in conjunction with specific activities and world events," the company said.

I think it was inevitable since Bush took Oath. But really, they gotta make sure they have enough for when it hits the fan. Done the leaf thing. Not nice. Not much water in the desert so a bidet is out. I don't suppose scrubbing yourself clean with sand is much of an option either. Now if they used the wipes they'd have a nice fresh scent and that oh so ever refreshed feeling.

Well, that was a rather nasty piece of sarcasm.

Seems baby wipes and extra toilet paper have been issued to troops. That's too funny.

Well, if you don't mind an old Insurgent creeping out of the woodwork... Welcome back. Glad to hear the good news.