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BabaYaga

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  1. Giant, lumbering targets carrying large masses of soldiers over a straight that has TWO monsoon seasons. Have fun with that. Then you park that giant hunk of crap on the dunes and reefs that have been bracketed for decades with every piece of ordinance Taiwan owns. No way. These aren't siege towers from LOTR (which is what they remind me of) China's only chance is sabotage from within - Israeli style. They have to both secure the plants, AND more importantly, the select few people that know how to run them. 90% of all the advanced chips going into virtually every modern weapons system has chips in them from Taiwan.
  2. I'm sure they do, but they are spinning up a dozen or so coal plants weekly - cheaper to import oil than produce domestically.
  3. Time to reinvest in old fashioned humint
  4. Kharg Island is Iran's main export terminal. Iran/China really want to FAFO, that island is an easy, easy target.
  5. For the longest time Russia had the most ships. They were shit ships, but they had more of them. Further, China doesn't have the "right" ships to take Taiwan. Taiwan is over a 100 miles away and the straight between them is supposedly very treacherous water. They don't have a way to transport enough troops, get them over the barrier reefs, and into the handful of ports that can sustain such numbers. They don't really have any amphibious capability that can make that 100+ mile straight intact - all the while Taiwanese defenses have been prepping for them for decades. Then if they do, Taiwan just blows up the prize - the chip plants that need to stay intact to support global demand.
  6. Bottom left. Both GSP's are dialed in on whomever is taking the pic. Such great dogs. Then you have pedo-bob on the lower right wondering where his life went wrong.
  7. Didn't last very long. They occupied a few cities, but the outnumbered Vietnamese fought things to a standstill. No naval or air power was used. China's aggression in Vietnam and in Korea was limited to large amounts of infantry thrown into the meat-grinder. What China has shown no capability to do is combined military operations. I'm sure they train on it, but they have no history of efficacy.
  8. No - which is why this notion that they could attack, invade, and occupy Taiwan is problematic on so many levels.
  9. Arrows and knives providing an instant fatality.
  10. Originally I was worried about suicide. Hasn't seen any details on how they found her, specifics, etc.
  11. Also: endless magazines that never need reloading sparking bullets on impact grenades exploding like a 55g barrel of gasoline, throwing people across rooms, etc. shotguns blowing people through windows
  12. Tell me if this passes the smell test: Toyota of Plano So it was a cool grand to fix the wiring harness for the fuel injectors. I paid it. The only other item on the work order was a coolant hose they suggested be replaced. Two things on the work order. Pick up the truck, no error codes, seems fine. The NEXT day the check engine light comes back on so I take it to have the codes checked: P2401 P043E P043F P2402 P2419 All tied to the EVAP system. Replacing the leak detection pump module. The dealership also replaced the fuel pump (recall). I take it back to them and my point being you did all this work with the fuel system, now the EVAP codes are throwing, did the tech mess anything up when installing both new items? Their story is the codes were throwing at the original servicing inspection, but they "forgot" to include the work in the work order and now want another $1,300 for the EVAP system. The timing doesn't add up to me, and I have NEVER had a dealership just forget to add any and everything the vehicle should have work done on. I called corporate, told them my story, dealership called back and still claimed it was an oversight, and offered to shave a few hundred off the bill. From what I have read it's not uncommon when dealing with the fuel system that the sensitive EVAP system can be damaged. Any truth to this? So are my options to get a second opinion? How could they determine if installation issues cause the EVAP failure, or am I the one in a million customer they just forgot to add an expensive solution to the work order?
  13. Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq say hello.... "War is a racket" Smedley D. Butler, 1935
  14. Widowmaker....
  15. 55 is too damn young, they need to be a little more forthcoming on how/why she passed?
  16. FUCK! Loved watching her.
  17. The Survivors is nails. Set in Tasmania. Great show.
  18. Well, he did get both legs chopped off, so......
  19. we're shrinking as the spinal discs start to compress over the decades. I'm still around 6'5 in shoes, but not barefoot like I used to be.
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