If you want to play the game where we both show videos of one side getting blown up, you're going to have a bad day.

4 Ruzzia aircraft were downed on video yesterday inside Russia lol. Probably by a Patriot battery. Should I post that video? lol u simp

I don't know, but there's a few things that concern me:

1. Underestimating your advisory. We did this with Japan in the lead up to WW2. Great powers always fight the last war they won. In our case, that's WW2. China learned from the war they lost as well: WW2, and they're not going to make the same mistakes twice.

2. Ambiguous defense posture. This is how England got dragged into WW1 due to an uncertain position if Germany invaded France. Germany gambled that England wouldn't get involved because it had no spoken mutual defense agreement with France. Had the defense pact been made readily clear, it's possible Germany wouldn't have invaded.

2. Use it or lose it weapons. In WW1, one of the main issues with the initial invasion was train schedules. Things had to go perfectly to get men and material to the front line and any hiccup could delay a military victory. Once the very first German troop train left the station, there was no way to stop the invasion. Now we've got a situation where a war over Taiwan would be won or lost in about an hour of the first shot. China knows that should the US get involved, China's military assets are going to be blown up and fast. This puts China in a situation where they might choose the launch everything in a maximum impact first strike. Faced with overwhelming damage, the US would be forced to make some hard choices about how to respond. Would it go nuclear? It's according to how much Taiwan means to us.

"It won't happen". Go to Europe and see how many tombstones bear that inscription.

I'd say 50/50.

Oh damn, that's a fucking classic. Have seen this in years!

I'm curious about the "2006" tag - this video is from a talent competition in 2001. The video may have originally blown up in 2006, I suppose...

Reckless for everyone involved. If some of the stuff blown up got sucked into the blades or an air intake there would have been dozens dead. I hope this guy gets his license suspended barring an investigation.

It's not, it's confected...

The alt right don't account for much of the population (although tripe like this is sure to drive more people towards them), but they have been blown up as the current threat to perpetuate the politics of fear.

Long story short, if poking anything is going to result in going to jail or getting dead, we should all keep our fucking hands to ourselves... ; )

And Fox and Trump supporters still don't care... he could admit himself to having directly talked with Putin himself and worked on undermining our democracy, and they would never care, because their hatred of Hillary and the supposed left she represents (she's far from the left IMHO) is so great, they'd excuse anything to avoid her, and to ensure that he won and could appoint his supreme court justice. Anything to win the supreme court so they can overturn the gay rights, and they hope eventually, Roe v Wade... at the very least limit it.

The bigger shock in this case is the fact Don Jr didn't come forward ages ago. He himself called the very idea that anyone in the campaign would collude sickening, then when they got wind the story would break, they denied stuff... then admitted a bit of it... then admitted to more that they previously denied... then released more details... You'd think that after the very first Russia story broke out, or at least after the whole Michael Flynn story broke, they'd have come forward with this, and been honest... instead they hide it... and then deny it... then admit to it... and now try to minimize it... had they been honest at the start, it probably wouldn't have blown up as big. Now it looks like they do have something to hide...

And then they bitch and moan when they get blown up and shot at?
You act like a dick in a foreign country? You'll be treated like dick by locals.

One who follows the guidelines for not getting shot or blown up in an ambush.

i had read about that possibility.that a bomb had blown up a chemical warehouse.

either way,until i see some evidence,i remain skeptical.

I've been playing this... the gameplay is alright, the worlds are great looking, but everything else is lazy and feels like a first pass.

Aside from the horrible head models and lack of character and facial animation, most conversations have an abrupt start... you may have just activated a door, but you are likely to suddenly snap inside and be in a conversation. Dialog feels disjointed, likely from moving lines around instead of in the order of how they were recorded.

There's a few places where the wrong models were used, blown up shuttle is supposed to be the alien one (according to dialog and the scanner description), but it's the alliance one.

I get the impression that the world team cared about their job and had the right people in place, but the designers, writers, and animators either were lacking talent, didn't care, or woefully mismanaged.

I will follow you, Namor! First, let me use my Quantum Bands to wreak havoc and sink the entire west coast of the United States into the Pacific. And with the help of the Fantastic Four and the more agreeable Deviants, shield the land mass from all harm and construct that utopia: Atlantis 5.

Yeah, the other Atlantises were blown up and or phased out of time and space, but i have high hopes for A5. Better than liberal hubs named after Mesopotamian cities! Death to the Night Watch and beware gov't telepaths...

Okay, folks. History is converging here through six degrees of separation.

Long story. I think it is worth your time.

I grew up with a father who said terribly racist things, the n- word, disparaging remarks about all races. There was much screaming and bitter words from me for a lot of my childhood and well into my 20s.

After he died, I got into a short email exchange with someone I didn't know at all. A former co-worker of my father.

My dad's job, as I have said here before, was Range Safety Officer. His job was to blow up missiles that went off course. (No person has blown up more missiles, and no one will ever catch up to him, since they know how to do it now.)

In my email exchanges with "Teddy", I find out slowly that Teddy is a woman. The first woman in the Range Safety Flight arena. She tells me that she was treated horribly in those early days. Except for three of her co-workers, who mentored and helped her.

One of those men was my father.

Oh.

And then she reveals that she is Hispanic.

Dang.

So my dad talked nasty at home, and acted MORE THAN honorably at work. I wish I had known that when he was alive.

Then she tells me that her daughter became an engineer also, and is currently working in Range Safety.

Wow.

Fast forward to last week. I watch Hidden Figures, the movie about black women helping in the first manned space launches. They were in Langley VA, while my dad was stationed in Cape Canaveral, not NASA but the Air Force, working on unmanned missions. But still. It all came flooding back to me -- how my dad was one of the good guys. (It was also cool to see all the actual news footage of people on the beach and parades and what-all -- I was there with my family, doing those things.)

This reminded me of Teddy. I sent her an email, telling her that I was reminded of her story and how touched anew I was.

Then the Falcon 9 launch happened. This launch on this video.

The next day, I got a response from her. Here is her email to me, lightly edited:

Thank you so much for thinking of me. The 60's were a time quite different than today. This morning It came to me just how far we women have come since then.

I stood on the balcony of my house and watched the launch of a Falcon Rocket take off in all its glory from Vandenberg knowing my daughter was the Lead Flight Safety Analyst on that mission. For the last couple of months I have listened to her tell me about all the problems she has had to deal with in preparing all the destruct lines, impact limit lines and all the other things that go into getting the mission package ready for launch and knowing what she was talking about. Boy, was I jealous. I really miss being in the middle of all that. I was/am very PROUD of my little girl being part of the missions leaving out of Vandenberg and knowing I played a small part in making all that happen just like those ladies in Hidden Figures. I have not seen the movie yet but my friends and I are looking forward to it coming to Lompoc so I can see it

Your Dad would be surprised to learn that most of the new Flight Safety Analysts are now all women.

What really scares me is how pranks like those are getting blown up this much. Even in Europe the media is going nuts and causing panic. People are genuinely scared and fear for their lives, because of this panicmongering shit in the media.

Once again they prove how much power they have, and how they use it.

You can just not vote then because it wont change anything.

I just dont get how some of you Americans are so afraid of Trump. Yeah, hes a loudmouth, but thats about it. He talks a lot of crap, but a lot is lied about or blown up by the media. He didnt show yet what he can do. Hillary on the other hand has shown very well what kind of sick despicable stuff she does and how much she cares about it getting public: She just lies more and puts up her creepy disconnected grin when confronted with it.

I think it shows perfectly whats wrong with the USA. Words mean more to you than actions. Fits perfectly into the Americans hypocrite stereotype. You have been lied to so much that you adapted it yourselves and thus hiding behind political correctness gives some kind of protection from the truth that has been going on for decades, not only in your own country, but especially the shit you did in other countries, killing millions of people, causing the mess we are in today. And here comes a guy who doesnt give a shit about it and just speaks his mind. Must be scary for a lot of people, who have been lying to themselves and others for their whole lives, I guess.

Funny, my dad used to say the same thing.
He worked for his dad's insulation company and was blown up in a chemical fire at around 18 while hanging off the side of a chemical hauling truck that exploded.