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  1. You can rip every single texture, sculpt map, etc. in an entire sim in about 60 seconds. Yeah, even skins. And have it saved on your hard drive for reuploading with yourself as the creator. Any tard can do it, and it has nothing to do with "trojans or viruses" in your graphics card, nor copybot.

  2. Thanks for the almost-wrist slapping. I almost felt like I was underage and back in high school there for a second. B)

    Of course innocent civilians shouldnt HAVE to die... that's just common sense.

    And obviously, I"d choose a strategic one. Unfortunately, the Japanese government made the decision for the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for them by refusing to surrender beforehand.

    Also, do you think generals are just born with stars on their collars? They come up through the ranks like everyone else, and many of them are veterans of previous conflicts. Just because they're controlling things from a distance now doesnt mean they didnt do it at one time, so your argument about "Heroic General" being an oxymoron doesn't really make sense. *shrugs*

  3. Keystone Gray wrote:

    Aside from the conceited sort, the only soldiers I refuse to even consider calling heroes are those who willingly bomb or attack civilian targets. It's quite simple to say "no" to missions such as those. Yes, someone else takes your place, but if everyone decided to not harm innocents, it wouldn't happen. Ever since WWI, it has been seen as "legitimate" by Western governments to have certain measures of collateral damage. Hiroshima/Nagasaki were prime examples of the United States blatantly killing civilians in order to end a war. Not a pretty sight. People still suffer from the radiation.

    Very well thought out, except this part. There are no "missions such as those" to bomb or attack civilian targets, at least not in modern warfare. Do civilians die? Of

    course they do. And 9.9 times out of 10, it's a pure and simple accident. It's a war,

    mistakes happen, and unfortunately civilians sometimes get caught in the middle.

    Every single thing that can be done to prevent this from happening is done, but

    people aren't perfect and sometimes mistakes are made. It's easy for the media

    and the long haired, tree hugging hippies to sit back and play armchair general,

    but until you've seen it first hand for yourself in the real world, you don't know

    both sides of the story.

    As to Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Casualty estimates in 1945 for an invasion of the

    Japanese homeland were slated at 500,000 American lives, conservatively.

    Total number of Japanese killed in both bombings combined was roughly 220,000.

    Was saving 500,000 American lives worth sacrificing 220,000 Japanese ones? I say

    of course it was, but that's me. *shrugs* If I was Japanese, probably not so much.

  4. Last time I checked, Direct2Drive wasnt accepting Paypal payments for Warhammer at this time. Might want to check D2D before doing this! I just remember seeing that when I went to check out, they might have changed it by now, that was a few days ago.

  5. I had just gotten home from a 5 month routine deployment to Cuba and was on leave in Florida visiting my girlfriend.... she was at work, and I was sitting in Fort Lauderdale in the waiting room of some car detailing place getting my car washed. Watched the entire thing happen on live TV. It was less than 20 minutes before my phone rang and my vacation was over. Less than two days later I was sitting in New York harbor, guarding the USNS Comfort which was a Navy hospital ship brought in to assist. Today was the day that my life and the lives of most of my friends in the military were changed forever. We went from a peacetime military to a wartime military pretty much overnight, and nothing was ever the same again. Afghanistan, Iraq, and everything else we did from that point on all stemmed from 7 years ago today.

  6. Running a magnet all over the inside of your computer can significantly improve performance in all aspects. Pop the cover, run a magnet over everything you see several times, put the cover back on and BAM you're done. The more powerful the

    magnet, the better your performance gains will be. I recommend those really heavy

    duty ones they use in garages and workshops.

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