The Russians are coming! (pics)

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:55 am

Googly: Lions and Zebras hugging? That is Pax Terra? As realistic as total peace among territorial creatures such as ourselves.

I do think this is a golden age. We have more and better of everything, available for just about everybody. There are certainly conflicts, as always and forever, but certainly not spinning (or spun) out of control.

Our peaceful technologies have never been better (food and medicine and energy) and our military technology is getting finer and sharper so that we can minimize civilian casualties.

And should we stupidly wipe ourselves out? The global warming petri dish that is Earth will surely produce a new species to follow in our footsteps.

ostketten · Post by **ostketten** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:03 pm

The most adaptable species on Earth are humans and cockroaches; the only difference is that cockroaches aren't terrified of change.

Score one for the Cockroaches.

Still.... somehow I don't find the prospect of life as a cockroach very appealing..

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:11 pm

schizuki: My global warming comment was sarcastic but useful in reference to the earth as petri dish. Warmth causes things to grow in the p. d.

Col.Pickle · Post by **Col.Pickle** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:11 pm

While I do agree that for the Western world this IS a golden age: advanced healthcare, instant communication, democracy, tolerance, etc. etc. However try going to Third World Africa and telling the starving people there that they are in a golden age. All the things that I named above are hard to find there... My 2 cents!

dfoos · Post by **dfoos** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:23 pm

The effects of yellow journalism rear their ugly head. As a matter of fact, he said A golden age not THE golden age. I have to agree. Global wars that drag on for years are (at least for the time being) a thing of the past. The average lifespan is increasing, medical advancements are staggering, technical advancements have even broken Moore's law (36 months). In Western society, at least, you can buy a house that would be considered a mansion in third world countries, you can drive to your grocery store and see endless rows of food (ever read about grocery stores in the Soviet Union?) your bathroom is a few feet away from your bedroom, you have running water. The average house not only has 3.5 televisions but also now has multiple computers. Half the people have internet service, Pizza delivery, Malls within driving distance, Walmarts, Targets, Hobby stores. We don't have to worry about our women being abducted or raped while going to the well to get water. We can sit around reading the liberal news and argue points like this and bash the government and no secret police are going to show up on our doorsteps and drag us off to a gulag for our views. I could go on and on, but If you listen to shock journalism and believe it, you will probably disagree with me on principle anyway. But I fail to see where any time in History was as orderly and civilized as is now.

luftpanzer · Post by **luftpanzer** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:35 am

All our modern technology comes from the wars of the last century. Look at the car. The 1st horse less carriage was invinted to tow artillery and supply trains. The computer witch you highly speak of is the great grand child of the super computers from WW2 that where built to break enemy codes and help build the atomic bomb. Our science is devoted to warfare and when there are no wars they find civilian uses for them.

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:54 am

The "Golden Age" in the West would certainly translate to the third world if the governments involved were open to sharing with their populations. Most if not all of those governments are dictatorships of the worst sort, amounting to anarchy for the people while the leaders live high. And the governments that are slightly more enlightened but continue to look away and support the tyrants. Africa is the perfect example of this and we see unrelieved misery hand in hand with miserable arrogant waste on the part of the leaders- and neighboring governments looking away.
It isn't even as it is here in the USA where nearly everyone is in fact wealthy and poverty is the result of individual bad/stupid/selfish choices made by the individuals involved. There poverty results from the nothing trickles down effect.

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:56 am

and War does tend to push technological advance. In the taking and protecting and ultimately improving of lives.

debrito · Post by **debrito** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:38 am

Col.Pickle wrote:Nice! Always wished the major toy companies would expand into the Russian side of the war a bit more.

I second you on this post. Most of the manufactures are not into Eastern Front figurines, they said, they are not popular as Bulge, D-Day and Afrika Korps.....and they don’t sell well...

Cheers

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:11 pm

Probably really due to the great wealth of the Western democracies that fought at the Bulge, on D-day and in North Africa's Western Desert.

MG40K · Post by **MG40K** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:17 pm

ltcbj wrote:Probably really due to the great wealth of the Western democracies that fought at the Bulge, on D-day and in North Africa's Western Desert.

You have a point.

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:21 pm

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:24 pm

You have a point.

Actually that is my hair (not plural).

AlloySkull · Post by **AlloySkull** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:54 am

"One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic." - Josef Stalin.

You know I've been wondering the source of that forever.

Heard it in The Fight Song, slightly altered to

"The death of one is a tragedy, but the death of a million is just a statistic."

I thought it was a very good and easily used quote, and knew it came from somewhere, but didn't know where.

I will now apply that somewhere. I wish graffiti wasn't so lame. I'd put quotes and intellectual things up... although I am guilty of spray painting really dumb things on skate ditches, mainly to slick 'em up... (Speeeeeed)

Over time the spray paint builds up and if it's done enough the surface can become really smooth. Just look at EZ-7. If you live in Houston, you should know just because. (Watonga park) It used to be nothing but a skate ditch. Unknown. Within 10 years of being found by non-skaters, the rough surface was spray painted smooth.

I get sick of peoples names, dumb messages, pot leafs and their ex-girlfriend's phone numbers... If all graffiti had a message, and people didn't paint buildings and stuff, I'd be more okay with it. I kind of just want to make a picture...

On the Russian stuff. Give me a Yak-3!!!

Or an IL-2!

AlloySkull · Post by **AlloySkull** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:53 am

This is what spawned of all the great quotes...

It will now be posted around my area...

Thanks guys. I also chose a thrashed look and that guy from House of a Thousand Corpses to give it appeal to younger kids. Perhaps it won't cause a killing spree. It's kind of like a constructive thought poster. To ummm... make you think.

Maybe I should put a blown up body on the next one? Fangs is also completely not my alias/nickname... <.<

AlloySkull · Post by **AlloySkull** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:55 am

To note, if any of those quotes are off I'll have a bone to pick with you guys...

Panzer_M · Post by **Panzer_M** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:02 am

http://www.myconfinedspace.com/watermar ... oopers.jpg

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:54 am

Picking bones seems somehow appropriate.

AlloySkull · Post by **AlloySkull** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:26 am

I looked at that picture Panzer, nice.

I love that movie. The whole opening scene is glorious.

Panzer_M · Post by **Panzer_M** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:54 pm

yea I tried to get it up in a hurry and failed.

AlloySkull · Post by **AlloySkull** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:56 pm

It's okay.

ltcbj · Post by **ltcbj** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:22 pm

Looks Feeble.

vs

olifant · Post by **olifant** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:05 pm

dfoos wrote:The effects of yellow journalism rear their ugly head. As a matter of fact, he said A golden age not THE golden age. I have to agree. Global wars that drag on for years are (at least for the time being) a thing of the past. The average lifespan is increasing, medical advancements are staggering, technical advancements have even broken Moore's law (36 months). In Western society, at least, you can buy a house that would be considered a mansion in third world countries, you can drive to your grocery store and see endless rows of food (ever read about grocery stores in the Soviet Union?) your bathroom is a few feet away from your bedroom, you have running water. The average house not only has 3.5 televisions but also now has multiple computers. Half the people have internet service, Pizza delivery, Malls within driving distance, Walmarts, Targets, Hobby stores. We don't have to worry about our women being abducted or raped while going to the well to get water. We can sit around reading the liberal news and argue points like this and bash the government and no secret police are going to show up on our doorsteps and drag us off to a gulag for our views. I could go on and on, but If you listen to shock journalism and believe it, you will probably disagree with me on principle anyway. But I fail to see where any time in History was as orderly and civilized as is now.

All that and we can't distribute 1/32 to WMs in an even fashion.

I say I'll pee outside and bring on the Spitfire!