>>106339

Patton and LeMay were totally down to keep the war going. Woulda been interesting.

>>106340
>Woulda been interesting.
Well, if you forgot, USSR still has enough power to destroy Japanese occupational forces in the other part of the continent after that (talk about shit nobody cares about). Both sides knew well that they wouldn't gain much more than general population distrust out of that conflict, and the situation would have remained unchanged in the end.

>>106339
Waging an aggressive nuclear war against a former ally because you don't like their economic system? No, thanks. Soviet communism collapsed on its own without the military superpowers needing to wage total war against each other.

>>106343
>ally

I think you mean "tool" or "vassal"

>>106344
No, a very important ally, at least in their effectiveness in fighting Nazi Germany and the Axis powers. Something like 80% of Germany's casualties in WW2 were inflicted by the Soviets.
And if the Soviets were our tools or vassals we would not have had such trouble with them in the post-war period.

>>106245
>Matching the colors took hours and I'm still not perfectly satisfied.
You realise they make software and hardware for colour calibration right?

>>106258
>hardware
yeah I know they make doodads to calibrate the monitors but I'm not going to spend money on a thing I'll use like once

>>105917
> PassMark score

Rant(-ish) time.

I'm always a bit hesitant when using passmark (for GPUs at least - I haven't looked much in to their CPU charts), their scoring is a bit weird imo, and they do some weird groupings of cards, especially with AMD cards (nvidia bias maybe?). A prime example of this is that they've lumped the R9 Fury and Fury X together as if they were the same card with the same performance, which they definitely are not (not to mention they've completely missed the R9 Nano, which is effectively and air cooled Fury X and should be lumped with it instead). It would be like lumping the GTX 980 and GTX 980Ti together. I do understand the grouping of cards that are effectively just refreshes though, that makes a bit more sense(although they aren't even consistent with that).

/

That aside, what I'm getting at is that I highly recommend using more than one source for GPU and CPU performance numbers. There are loads of youtube channels that do reviews these days.

>>106304
Indeed. I just used that to get an idea of what cards to aim at.

I researched more thoroughly the card I wanted to get, comparing power requirement and other benchmarks with the competing cards and also my budget. I'm happy with the GTX960, I've been using it since I got it and it has been fantastic. Very quiet, my computer runs cooler, it has CUDA and has proven more than capable for what I need and even what I might need in the future. Even with two monitors, it has more than enough horsepower for me from what I can tell.

  Terry Crews became interested in PCs after playing Battlefield 1 and decided to take a crack at building one.

Ditto

>>106336

Mah man.

> WHAT IS THE FREEDOM CHALLENGE?

> The Freedom Challenge grassroots campaign was created by Rock Island Auction Company® to raise awareness and financial support for NRA-ILA, an organization that has stalwartly defended the Second Amendment for decades. 2016 is the most important year we’ve seen in a generation or more. The attack on the Second Amendment is clear; many politicians, government officials and members of the media look to destroy our Constitutional rights. The Supreme Court's greatest Second Amendment advocate — Justice Antonin Scalia — has passed away, leaving a vacancy on the Court that the next president will fill. Simply put, our firearm and other freedoms hang in the balance and it will take an army of us to take a stand.

>>106295

It appeared in Corsica now, imported by some Senegalese refugees.

Where's my fortress Europa? :P

>>106309
He's facing the wrong way, thats why you didn't get doubles

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/07/21/we-were-promised-a-riot-in-cleveland-we-got-a-block-party-instead/

>CLEVELAND — Brittany Atterberry was walking down East Fourth Street in her hometown when she encountered a visiting Trump supporter on his guitar. So she unsheathed her soprano sax, fixed a microphone on its bell, and jumped into the blues with him. Then Atterberry’s brother George Fossett, who was holding an END RACISM sign, started dancing with a bare-chested Biker for Trump.

>It was a tableau of can’t-we-all-just-get-along, mere blocks from the site of the fractious Republican National Convention, where each night politicians have done their best to make Americans afraid of each other.

>Said the guitarist, Kraig Moss, 57, of his fellow musician: “The Lord sent her right down here.”

>Said Atterberry, 25, a professional saxophonist who describes herself as anti-war: “Music is something that you feel. You can’t overthink it, like with voting.”

>Said Daryl Rembowski, the Biker for Trump: “The silent majority is showing you we can [get along]. We’ve seen it all week.”

>Said Fossett, his dance partner and fellow Cleveland resident: “Stop all the white against black, black against white. It’s all about love. This is what Cleveland is about. This is what the world should be about.”

>What happened to the tear gas? The cars on fire? The cops digging their knees into people’s necks? Wasn’t Cleveland supposed to explode right alongside the GOP and its volatile nominee?

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>>106318
fukken boring, i wanted a thousand open carriers to have a free-for-all shootout with the last man standing getting the presidential nomination

>>106289
Body pillows?

>>106288
My girlfriend calls her truck Xenia.

>>106291
Nope, body pillows usually cheaper than most good figurines.

Also, that many dakimakuras would pretty much be a waifu harem, and that's heretical. I mean fuck, I don't even have a waifu, so shit just doesn't make sense from the get-go.

Package is confirmed stolen...it was insured but IDK if any of you have dealt with a USPS claim...it will be A LONG time before I get my money back.

Until then I'm going to reorder once I finish moving next month and watch Craigslist/backpage/ebay like a hawk to see if the thief tries to sell them.

Love that USPS leaves the big heavy package on the doorstep but the small package they could have put in my mail box I had to go pickup today...fuckers...

>>106302
I'd suggest calling the comic book/RPG/boardgame shops in your area and asking the owners to keep a eye out.

Look this fucker with his popgun isn't even unholstered, but uzi dude is ready to kill a dozen enemies in half a second.

and then if you remember the republican primaries in 1980, they were a lot like this year's primaries. George Bush was the party insider pick and considered a mortal lock, but then along comes Reagan and Reagan stole the show. That had to have George a little pissed off.

they still used revolvers back in those days. ancient history.

george bush is 92 years old, he will take a lot of secrets to the grave with him.
used to be CIA boss before he was vice president

>gtfo nigger

you tell 'em uzi dude!

anyway it always seemed really strange to me that no media organization even attempted to seriously investigate the issue. they worked on watergate for years before they figured it out and iran contra even more so.
family friends of the VP try to assassinate the president? probably nothing there right?
if there is i guess you can blame bradyshit on george bush, but we'll never know.
its slightly frustrating.

Dat TD.

>>106171
You know the whole gun control movement started in America as a southern technique to keep firearms out of the hands of niggers & poor whites. This all happened during the post civil-war era south, so the police (AKA the government) calling for gun control these days is nothing new, but southern blacks seem to be on the wrong side of the issue if you ask me. They had gun control in Texas back in the day to make sure that the guy getting lynched (& his fam) wouldn't be shooting back.

>>106191
Likewise back in the 60s-70s there were anti-civil rights groups running stuff like this. Ooga Booga the NRA is giving M16s to Farrakhan and Malcolm X! Vote Thurmond!

https://www.thenation.com/article/dallas-shooter-micah-johnson-showed-what-the-nras-insurgency-theory-of-gun-rights-really-looks-like/
>But make no mistake: (Micah) Johnson was acting on one of the central beliefs that animates the gun rights movement. It’s been called the ‘insurgency theory’ of the Second Amendment, and it holds that Americans must have the right to own military-style weapons because a heavily armed populace is the last bulwark against a tyrannical government running amok. The NRA is quite explicit about this.

>>106191
>the whole gun control movement started in America

False.

  Wait. That's his real name?

>>106194
I don't think he's trying to say that America was the first country to try to control it's citizens'/subjects' access to firearms.

  >>106197
>That's his real name?
Nope.

>>106180
I had the opposite problem. I almost couldnt enlist because I was at the bottom end of height/weight because I was a short scrawny mother fucker. I got a 240ish on a pt test before enlisting to prove I could to the recruiter or some shit.

However I did see a lot of guys like you get tape tested and threatened with various punishments because they were just bigger dudes (who could smash pt test).

Im probably the most fit now I have ever been in my life and I probably wouldnt meet height/weight. (Just looked it up, Im over the maximum weight for my height). Thanks muscles.

>>106181

It matters if the paralegal is in an airborne unit.

The bigger issue with a buffet pt test is that scores get lumped together. Promotion scores are buffed or dropped by pt scores in part, as part of the general task in the military as a whole is to remain physically fit. All jobs benefit from it, it's just a significantly more inherent task for infantry, or other direct combat jobs.

But, having looked at it, if you can't do the pullups portion and subsequently transition to pushups, you can't max the test. That, is intelligent. It gives incentive to be able to accomplish the tougher exercise.

I guess we'll all see how it pans out. I know all my Force friends are stoked hearing about everyone being H&W limitation free now.

I like it but I also feel until women are subject to the EXACT same fitness standards as men they need to compete with different cutting scores for promotion.

As it stands right now a woman with a 300 PFT may not necessarily be able to even pass a male PFT but she will get more points towards promotion than a male with a 2nd class PFT. It is fucking bull shit.

Also actual job ability needs to be tested before promotion. Too many "meritorious" Sergeants running around who have no fucking idea how to even do the most basic parts of their MOS.

>>106110
> Also actual job ability needs to be tested before promotion.

>>106189
The promotion system doesn't even work for the Marines really. Right now things are held together with Billet over Rank but it only works sometimes and causes a lot of unnecessary friction/uncertainty.

ex.
>be PFC Fuck-Face
>SSgt Unqualified who just got back to the fleet from MSG tells you to do XYZ
>Cpl Salty who has all of the qualifications he can get at this point (there are no more rank waivers possible) catches you doing XYZ.
>Cpl Salty tells you SSgt Unqualified is a dumbfuck
>Cpl Salty tells you to stop doing XYZ
>What should PFC Fuck-Face do? How does he avoid NJP paperwork and avoid Cpl Salty from dragging him into a dark quadcon and fucking him up?

For those who have finished an enlistment it doesn't seem like a big issue but for the boot it is. All of this could be avoided if promotions required a recommendation, the successful passing of a closed book test about your actual MOS, and standing a no shit actual board relating to your job (just like you have to do to get most qualifications).

>>106079
Just because I enjoy furry porn doesn't mean I want to participate in inter-species erotica

>>106163
It was bait-tier reply of the same quality as your original comment on a post that was meant to illustrate how police dogs are misused and often end up hurting more than doing any good whatsoever.

How you thought that was "edgy" is a leap of logic that I found to be farfetched, so I made one in the same style to mirror the sentiment.

  >>106164
see
>>106024
>At this point if I see a K9 running at me for any reason I'm shooting my own damn self in the fucking head. It'll save everyone the trouble and I'll end up less mutilated. I should probably put some notes explaining why in my pockets because the cops on scene most likely wouldn't understand my actions regardless of the painfully sound logic obviously present.

That is what I was poking fun at. No he wouldn't. Seriously I call "no fucking balls".

You're taking shit WAY to seriously. This is the internet man.

>>106165
See
>>106034

>You're taking shit WAY to seriously. This is the internet man.
The hilarious thing is that "no u" is actually what's happening here

Yeah, they're loads faster than you, but doggos can't jump or climb for shit.

>>105990
Nugget revolver at 15~ yards?

>>105994

Nope. Hand nugget ammo is a bit smaller.

>>105995
The holes make it look like bullets with a flat and fat meplat, not full wadcutter but some 40S&Ws have such tips... I'm not even sure if you have any fohtees.

>>106001

I finally tracked down that cute GM I met last year, after the coffee shop she worked at got shut down I lost track of her, turns out she was working for a friend of mine this whole time and I never showed up when she was on her shift.
She is has a slight muffin top and pudge in all the right places including motherly hips

So I'm going to see if I can't get her to agree to a date