I wish nobody gave a sh*t about this thread.
Who’s on first. What’s on second. I Don’t Know is on third.
I wish nobody gave a sh*t about this thread.
I’m going to be completely honest, I can’t complain that an “inconclusive” HIV test disqualifies someone from donating blood. Better safe than sorry. And by the way this is coming from someone who also is barred from donating blood so I know how you feel.
I give blood regularly. Apparently, redcross.org says I’ve donated 42 times.
Finished War and Peace.
[Tolstoy] went on at length about how guerilla warfare screws up the “bigger army = more success in battle” equation, and tries to explain some formulaic method of calculating out the variables guerilla tactics creates.
Book 14, Chapter 2:
"That rule says that an attacker should concentrate his forces in order to be stronger than his opponent at the moment of conflict. Guerrilla war (always successful, as history shows) directly infringes that rule. This contradiction arises from the fact that military science assumes the strength of an army to be identical with its numbers. Military science says that the more troops the greater the strength. Les gros bataillons ont toujours raison. Large battalions are always victorious.
"For military science to say this is like defining momentum in mechanics by reference to the mass only: stating that momenta are equal or unequal to each other simply because the masses involved are equal or unequal.
"Momentum (quantity of motion) is the product of mass and velocity. In military affairs the strength of an army is the product of its mass and some unknown x. The spirit of an army is the factor which multiplied by the mass gives the resulting force. To define and express the significance of this unknown factor—the spirit of an army—is a problem for science.
[…]
“This problem is only solvable if we cease arbitrarily to substitute for the unknown x itself the conditions under which that force becomes apparent—such as the commands of the general, the equipment employed, and so on—mistaking these for the real significance of the factor, and if we recognize this unknown quantity in its entirety as being the greater or lesser desire to fight and to face danger. Only then, expressing known historic facts by equations and comparing the relative significance of this factor, can we hope to define the unknown…”
Jay edit
This will get real confusing real quick.
Looks like it’s time to fire the guy I lactate to
the usefulness of labels.
Finished War and Peace. It was fascinating and entertaining, perhaps in the way that a well-made documentary is.
Tolstoy seems to take great issue with the way historians of his day had portrayed Napoleon, or war in general. He says that they give the people in power credit for certain events occurring, when one’s response to them (the leader and the troops) are just the natural flow of events that should obviously lead one to another. He also went on at length about how guerilla warfare screws up the “bigger army = more success in battle” equation, and tries to explain some formulaic method of calculating out the variables guerilla tactics creates.
I did not read the epilogues, as my understanding is they don’t add to the story.
Just kidding, I can’t read more than a couple sentences at a time.
That’s interesting.
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JEDIT AGAIN: Wait, No. Not really.
JEDIT: HAHAHA, EXCEPT NOT
I agree. Lack of reading comprehension can be a serious problem.
Just kidding, I can’t read more than a couple sentences at a time.
That’s interesting.
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Solomon Grundy,
Slow on a Monday,
Must be on Tuesday,
Busy on Wednesday,
Leaving on Thursday,
Private on Friday,
Topics on Saturday,
Banned on Sunday.
That was the end,
Of HerekittykittyX.
I don’t visit Reddit, but I do browse Imgur’s front page (currently popular images) now and then for humorous things people post.
I tend to stick to postimages.org though they sometimes have domain issues and some of my older posts have been rendered pictureless.
imgur.com. Image-hosting side of reddit.
Huh. I was using imgur but now that I know it’s reddit I think I won’t anymore. 😛
Imgur has identical “/r/” subreddits to Reddit. Images posted on a Reddit subreddit also appear on the corresponding one in Imgur. But Imgur also has a community independent to Reddit, and often makes fun of made-for-Reddit images. For example, if someone posts an upvote or downvote gif in Imgur’s Usersub and the arrow is respectively colored red/blue (Reddit) instead of green/red (Imgur), the Imgur community often mocks it for being the wrong color.
My wife and I have started listening to The Lord of the Rings, sans music, as I have removed or replaced almost all of Rob Inglis’ annoying singing.
War. War never changes. Except when they are stupid tree roots.
By the way I am already in talks with the CW and Producers of The Original
they are interested in my Original Fan-Edit.
So how did that go for you?
Hey thunderclap!
I tend to stick to postimages.org though they sometimes have domain issues and some of my older posts have been rendered pictureless.
imgur.com. Image-hosting side of reddit.
Anime on my need to watch list:
I use a cannon
tick tock…I’ll always be dumber than a phone wearing flippers.
Also don’t say “Donald Trump has good words. The best words.” It’s hard respect anyone who says that. Let’s call that rule # πr².
I’m a lumberjack and I’m…ok.
My second-to-oldest brother’s girlfriend had to move into our house because her parents were moving and she wanted to stay. Now we have all of her many large boxes of stuff cluttering up places in the house. I also feel awkward around her, because of course, she’s living in our house and I don’t know her. I went to plug in my school-issued laptop for the night since it’s a little low on charge, but as I was trying to pull my cord out of the power strip pile, I realized that it wasn’t stuck on something, it was plugged into her laptop. And me being a person who hates unnecessary social confrontation put my computer away, and I will now go to bed. Happy 420 everyone.
She had to?
What about… no.
Drive her away. Be a perv.
That’s not the answer to every problem, Duracell.
It is an answer. It’s just probably not the correct one.
Hello there! What did I miss?
Hi Leo! You picked a fine time to pop in. 😉
Hi Silverwook! haven’t had time to read a lot of posts but I do smell a bit of cordite even in this very thread, am I wrong?
not at all… we lost both warbler and _ender the past few months and tensions are rising with chyron
No, I just needed to cool off. Also been a long say at work so I think I was already irritable.
It seems you do know what I’m talking about then, Frink.
Perhaps I can just bow out of the forum for the rest of the day. Maybe I’m just too on edge.
