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  1. 2 hours ago, Pimphand said:

    Do we need to put out an APB on PhD?

    When/why did he chunk up the deuces?

    He met some guy who asked him to develop his app, so we might get phdhorn Weather 1.0 for our phones around March.

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    That and he gets out on parole in March.

  2. Those of you interested in this stuff, there's a digital effects studio that puts out YouTube videos on why certain effects are good or bad.  Even though they are younger guys, they have a reverence for the old-school in-camera stuff, as well as things like Jackson's Lord of the Rings (which has a lot more practical sets than I thought).

    Yeah, it's mostly a reaction channel, but they actually will go in and do new effects to show how it could have been done, and because they are effects artists themselves, they get really in-depth on behind-the-scenes stuff.   They also do deep fakes, and they have stuntmen come in and discuss their stunts and how they are actually done.

    Warning:  Poorly-done CGI lips are like one of their biggest pet peeves.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSpFnDQr88xCZ80N-X7t0nQ

    They have a massive amount of videos:

    https://www.youtube.com/user/samandniko/videos

     

  3. 1 hour ago, Iceman said:

    HEB is coming to Lubbock this year and word is that 2 stores are coming to Amarillo in the future. Bring it the fuck on...

    Wow, that's going to shake things up in Lubbock.  I remember when I lived there, it was pretty much United or Albertsons, and both sucked.

  4. 43 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

    somebody posted some photos upthread of some shrapnel holes.  Yep

    And they looked external (as in shrapnel punching into the fuselage/wings, instead of exploding outward).

    The fact that the Iranian government was so quick to say they wouldn't be sharing the blackbox with Boeing/etc. was a sign as well.

  5. 6 minutes ago, Iconoclast Texan said:

    3 days of official state sanctioned mourning for a terrorist scumbag but let's see if the Iranian government will admit to the truth or continue their brazen lying about the cause. What an embarrassing display. 60 people die in a stampede at the funeral of the scumbag and now they shoot down a passenger jet. The value the Islamic government has for ordinary lives is nil.

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  6. 52 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

    was this actually confirmed?  

    The US government didn't come out and say it, but a bunch of reporters with sources in the Iraqi government stated so, and the fact that the bases were completely in lockdown within 4 minutes of launch tends to give credence to that.

    Rough math says that the main missiles launched at Al Asad (Fateh-110) travel at Mach 3.5, with a range of 300km, so at max they were in the air for 4-5 minutes. That's not a long time to get 1,500 troops, plenty of whom were asleep, completely under serious protection at 1:45am.

    Interesting note: If the DOD is correct (yeah, I know), the four missiles that failed were fired at Erbil and were the Qiams (longer-range scuds), and the 6-10 fired at Al Asad were the Fatehs, shorter-range, truck-launched, and homegrown, and all hit Al Asad.

  7. 38 minutes ago, Grade of D as in David said:

    donald trump i pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes GIF by Election 2016

    Thread has been open almost a full day and no mention of the stable genius that's so smart for not paying taxes? 

    Well the obvious answer is more tax cuts for the 1% and large American companies.

  8. 8 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I haven't kept up -- are the structures that were hit ones that were previously occupied by US soldiers?  In other words, can we assume that the advanced warning was the primary reason we didn't lose anyone?

    They tipped the Iraqi government off in advance, who naturally tipped us off (but I'm sure we had systems watching Iran as well).  Given the location of those buildings, including the hangars that were hit, and that we have around, 1,500 troops there, there were definitely areas that were hit that, during the day, would probably have Americans in them.

    This is one of the bases that Trump visited last month.  

    We didn't/don't have Patriot/Avenger systems there.

  9.  

    1 hour ago, Newy25 said:

    Just to sum up the Iranian response:

    1. Fire on US bases, either miss entirely or cause no damage

    2. Shoot down one of their own passenger jets killing their own citizens

    Their military seems like it kind of sucks. 

    Did you not bother looking at the satellite photos?   Most of their missiles hit actual structures.

    If Iran's missile attack was as shitty as everybody makes it out to be, there should be a string of impact craters dotting the countryside between Iraq and that airbase (and the wreckage we've seen pictures of are the early stage(s) of that missile and not the actual warheads that impacted the airbase), and there should be plenty of craters in runways and open areas.  Instead, there's plenty of destroyed buildings.

  10. 1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Here's a question I have.  CNN has stuff other than news.  Anthony Bourdain, documentaries about culture (movies, music, the decades, etc), and various other human interest programs.  Does Fox have ANYTHING like that?  Or is it just 24/7 old person propaganda?  I can't imagine their demographic is much interested in anything other than yelling at clouds.

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  11. 1 hour ago, Jive Turkey said:

     

    Everybody I know that is still in, and most who are out (there's a few Trumpkins, but abandoning the Kurds took the wind out of their sails) does not think this way at all - they do not want a war with Iran.   

    I'm going to take a wild guess that Banks was an officer. Maybe even Air Force or Navy.

    It's nothing against many officers, or the AF or Navy, but you're typical soldier or Marine has a far different take on many different topics than officers.  When I saw that poll showing that only 42% of service members are happy with Trump, I fully believe it.  People try to make your typical 18-25 year-olds who are doing the shit jobs, and who will be in the shit, as 100% loyal to the President.  They are not.  For every few that are happy about going to war or whatever, there's a bunch who judge the chain-of-command up to, and including the President, by how hard they make their lives.

    I was in under Clinton.  We didn't give a shit about him getting blowjobs or being impeached, outside of a chuckle about his choice of interns.  It was about getting paid and getting laid, and doing what we needed to do to avoid getting shit duties or whatever.  9/11 moved the needle for plenty of service members, and they were actually gung ho and proud to serve and willing to take on shit assignments, but Iraq really soured a lot of these folks on things.

    And regardless of whether Banks was an officer or not, he's a Representative, so I'm fairly certain he's at least knowledgable enough to know that Iran of 2020 is far superior to Iraq of 2003.  If he's not, he should be at least intelligent enough to know that Iran had far too many direct hits on that base with what is supposed to be their lesser missiles to make folks comfortable.

     

  12. 1 hour ago, Okie State said:

    And yet I know people who actively choose Kroger or Randall's over HEB. Don't ask me why.

    Put a Whataburger in next to a McDonalds, and those people will still choose McDonalds.  It's conditioning - for the longest time in the Sugar Land area, it was basically Randalls or Krogers, and it was like a sports team thing - people who went to one, wouldn't acknowledge the other.

    1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    Rating WMT above Publix is ridiculous.  The only thing WMT has over Publix is their online pickup is pretty extensive at this point but otherwise, Publix is far superior.

    WMT is everywhere though, and plenty running into Wally World for a small item end up grabbing a few groceries.  Still, it's cool that some local/regional chains are able to adapt and are beating them.  Hell, I've seen some HEBs and Krogers that are damn near adding a mini-Walmart to their store.  Weird seeing clothing in a Krogers.

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