Re: OT:US don\'t qualify for EU membership, don\'t spank children, WW2 history.
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Maybe, or maybe there would have been another purge, or maybe Stalin would have been fitted for a hemp necktie. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Russia wasn't exactly a smooth running machine prior to the German invasion united the people and government together in a great patroiotic cause.

Geoschmo

Re: OT:US don\'t qualify for EU membership, don\'t spank children, WW2 history.
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The reason may be more subtle. Once US install SDI, France nuclear deterrent will almost disappear. It is China and France who would be most affected by SDI. Russia has too much arsenal and UK, well, we all know http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif I don't know how many missiles France has but I doubt it will be enough if US is serious about SDI.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">France does not need these weapons for protection from the US. And they have to few to be called a superpower these days. The systems they are working on are tactical. These will only have deterrence against people who are somewhat closer to them. They are working on the same types of systems that the US removed some years back. Prior to the removal, they objected to the positioning of the weapons. Now they are deploying their own.

Re: OT:US don\'t qualify for EU membership, don\'t spank children, WW2 history.
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">What do you mean ? (Will read the answer tomorrow)
Our justice system hasn't changed very much since joining EU (I voted against joining though)</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Cmon look at how weak our justice system has become, its laughable, the police are scared of criminals nowadays cos of how light sentencing is and the fact that police cant do anything to criminals incase it 'breaks' their human rights, and EU's human rights is stupid as it tends to protect the criminal instead of the victim.

Re: OT:US don\'t qualify for EU membership, don\'t spank children, WW2 history.
 

the plan failed in 41.... Germany never did secure their left flank.... But Novemember of 41 they had suffered 750000 casualties out of 3.4 million. Their panzer forces were spent.

Russia had 20000 tanks at the start of that war. The Keiv disaster was never repeated. And the 'lightening war' was never effective in the east due to the vast size and horrible roads and weather.

In late 41 the soviet airforce held its own. And Stalin learnt via Kiev that withdrawl was needed to save army Groups and that at Kiev the Field commander was correct and should be allowed to make the judgement call.

Nov 41 the germans also faced the reality that their tanks were outclassed and that they had to attack the 34 from behind. The soviets figured this out very quickly. Hence the long withdrawl battles of 42...

And at the end of 41 the okl and okh were controlled by hitler completely.

But then again this is all what if ? ( which are great books )

P.S. you do not win a war when you have 15 different rifles

Re: OT:US don\'t qualify for EU membership, don\'t spank children, WW2 history.
 

Yes, but the issue was very much in doubt for a while. The Germans could have beaten the Russians with a few breaks and some better decision making. It makes you wonder if the Germans had their full force attacking the Russians, instead of holding much in reserve to defend the Atlantic Wall, and the Russians had not had the support of the lend lease program if they would have been able to hold out.

Geoschmo

Re: OT:US don\'t qualify for EU membership, don\'t spank children, WW2 history.
 

the baltics was a mistake as well.

This was one area that helped start the nails in the coffin as 15 divisions were tied up there.

And 2 panzer Groups were used there. This had grave effects on the equipment in August during the dust storms. Not to mention the troops themselves.

I also believe that the Africa campaign was a mistake as well.

The divisions should have been sent there to finish that theater off as it was very important to capture suez and the middle east.

The war on two fronts could not be avoided as the german navy could not support a landing on english soil. The losses from norway were felt during the build up of Sealion. Germany could only hope for a truce with England.

Also the their was the famous undersizing of the main gun for the iv's which proved to be very costly in experienced panzer tanks during the cruel winter of 41 and the spring of 42.

And also remember that Japan did not declare war on Russia. THis freed up many units from the far east. WHich showed their weight during the December and January battles

A very intersting topic. Indeed. Better with pints. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: OT:US don\'t qualify for EU membership, don\'t spank children, WW2 history.
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, IIRC...
... about 20% of the budget each year goes to paying interest on the national debt.
... annual US Federal budget is about 2.25 trillion dollars.
... current estimated US Federal budget deficit is about 450 billion dollars.

And that puts the deficit as about 20% of the budget. Which is quite a bit more than 3%...

And I don't like that at all... I think the current government of the US is completely incompetent. I would rather have seen no tax cuts, no expansions to medicare, etc., and devote the next several years to making the debt not so big. I don't want to be paying outrageous taxes a few decades from now because some selfish boomers want the Government to pay all their bills for them. I'm not happy about going into the workforce and paying a bunch of money to social security when I know it won't be there when I hit 70. And I don't like all the privitization crap they've thrown around with SS either. If I want to make myself a retirement account, I can make my own damned account, I don't need a bunch of pencil-pushing buerecrats making one for me. And if the "dot com" bust taught us anything, it's the fact that the average person has no ****ing clue on how to invest money wisely, so institutionalizing it in government is definitely a Bad Thing. Of course, eventually all of this will be passed in some sort of legislation, because the baby boomers want it, and they vote.

I guess that was a bit of a rant... I guess I don't like the feeling of virtual indentured servitude at the hands of the US Government if I choose to stay here.

Re: OT:US don\'t qualify for EU membership, don\'t spank children, WW2 history.
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">What do you mean ? (Will read the answer tomorrow)
Our justice system hasn't changed very much since joining EU (I voted against joining though)</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Cmon look at how weak our justice system has become, its laughable, the police are scared of criminals nowadays cos of how light sentencing is and the fact that police cant do anything to criminals incase it 'breaks' their human rights, and EU's human rights is stupid as it tends to protect the criminal instead of the victim.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">EU has not much to do with your justice system becoming weak, EU has nothing to do with criminal law yet, what do you mean that EU has made to it?

I missed a zero in the driving license, it should be $1000-2000, sorry.

About spanking, doing it when your angry is wrong but I can understand why you do it, (I've felt the urge myself from time to time, but never done it), I don't condone it, but understand it.
Doing it when you are calm is worse, then it is planned and executed in cold blod.
Simple learning theory tells you that any punishment (If you must use punishment, sometimes some kind of punishnment is needed (time-out, removing of positive enhancements etc), not often but sometimes), the punishment must come immediatly to the punished act/behaviour. If you must calm down, it won't be immediatly.

If not immidiatly the punishment isn't connected to the act/behaviour but with the punisher, and the next time they do it they make sure they don't get caught. Spanking doesn't show them how they should have handled this situation.
It's a simple stimuli/response thing, you must directly connect act/punishment.

If you discover that they have stolen it's to late to make a direct connection, so how would I handle that?
I'd make the child go back to his friend, return the cards, ask for forgivness, and make them ask their friend how they could make things right again (Buy their friends extra cards from their allowence?).
Try to premiate good behaviour, if they themself tell about bad things they've done, while being angry about what they've done praise them for coming forward aswell.
Encourage all good behaviour, use positive reinforcement, if they give pokemon cards away to their friends of free will, buy them extra cards or praise them for it, vocal praise is a strong positive reinforcer!
And they'll like you better and will be more prone to tell you when they've done something wrong.
If you spank them they sure won't tell you of their misbehavings of free will, and when they get older and starts with alcohol and such you won't know about it.
If they have been given positive reinforcements instead as primary raising method they will come and tell you about it, and then you can discuss the pros and cons of what they've done (There are pros to stealing and drinking, be honest, but also point to the cons wich are larger!)

About the cards, include a discussion about why they stole, was there some special cards they wanted, could they have gotten them some other way? trade? saving? Show altarnate ways to achieve the goal she had when she/he stole.

Read "Don't shoot the dog" by Karen Pryor, an animnal trainer, but animal training techniques work equally good at humans (kids, matess, friends, working collegues, all can be trained http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif )

[ July 26, 2003, 09:18: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

Re: OT:US don\'t qualify for EU membership, don\'t spank children, WW2 history.
 

Unknown_Enemy I believe Oleg was talking about the number of missles vs SDI. Well that is what I read from it. So with not enough missles their program becomes obsolete vs SDI.

Re: OT:US don\'t qualify for EU membership, don\'t spank children, WW2 history.
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">600km's is the range being talked about. With HAVLY warheads that are all the rage these days.

Is it just me, or do some of you worry that very low yield devices will make it more likly that someone will use one?