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DnD Central / Re: Upcoming Server Move
Paypal seems to be the obvious choice, otherwise wire transfer fees will cost more than what you try to send. At least for those of us outside the EU. Also, wire transfers are a pain in the arse.
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DnD Central / Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful
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Not really an aircraft, even if it kinda looks like one.

The Ekranoplan flies with ground effect a few meters above both water or land.

Exactly, more like a hovercraft on crack.

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They stopped it because it scared the camels at the big Mongolia's plains. Stupid camels.

Smaller ones are still in use.
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DnD Central / Re: The American 2016 Presidential Elections & The Ongoing American Saga
Quote from: mjmsprt40 on

Problem: One of these unfit candidates is going to win. We're in an awful lot of trouble.

Maybe it is time to split up the country. Let Texas, Louisiana, Alabama etc. secede under the condition that they take everyone who would seriously vote for someone like Santorum, offer instant citizenship to the three or four sane people trapped on the wrong side of the new border.
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DnD Central / Re: Doctors
Quote from: Jimbro3738 on

* A while back my doctor told me to limit the amount of Coke I drank because of the potassium in it. I asked what it could do to me. Her answer? It can kill you.

Methinks she was exaggerating.

Pretty much anything can kill you if you take enough of it.
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DnD Central / Re: Infinite Energy
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Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

Also, whenever you think you made something idiot proof, nature will make a better idiot.

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b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.

Whenever you think you've seen it all, nature will turn around and prove you wrong.
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DnD Central / Re: Putin the Magnificent: Series 2 - Putin's Russia
Quote from: Sanguinemoon on

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so from the bear's perspective not a whole lot would change

On thing would. The eagle couldn't fly in as quickly to respond to what the bear's doing.

Hardly matters, the bear would be in for way more ass kicking than he can afford, and he knows it.

Quote from: Sanguinemoon on

But I wonder what it would mean for small fraction of the costs of the American bases that Germany and other countries pay that Krake complains about. The German military would keep at least the major ones of strategic importance,  but now would be paying the entire costs.  Folks like him don't seem to understand that the European get to spend so little of their GDP on the military because America has to spend so much.

Has to? Who or what makes the US spend ridiculous amounts of money on its military?
And those US bases don't have much to do with defending Europe against the evil russians anymore anyway. Half are run by the NSA, the rest is logistics for operations elsewhere.

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Get it Krake? America leave, Germany pays more not less.

Do you seriously think those american bases are what keeps russia from invading .de? Have you lost your mind? :left:
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DnD Central / Re: Putin the Magnificent: Series 2 - Putin's Russia
Quote from: mjmsprt40 on

I wonder. If the United States were to unilaterally decide that we've had enough, pull ALL of our boys home from Europe and anywhere else we've got foreign bases for that matter, and concentrate on beefing up a serious home defense--- how long would it take for a certain bear to move in. How long after that would it take for certain posters--- we won't mention any names, will we--to ask that somebody PLEASE come in and save them from this bear--- provided the bear lets them ask of course? I wonder if we should do anything about it next time--- or should we just stay home and let them figure this out for themselves.

These prospective bear caves would still be NATO members, so from the bear's perspective not a whole lot would change.
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DnD Central / Re: The American 2016 Presidential Elections & The Ongoing American Saga
Quote from: mjmsprt40 on

This may work on folk who live in places-- like Australia, the United States and New Zealand, just to name a few--where intermarriage between different people groups has probably happened if the person you're calling out because of ancestry has relatives who have been there long enough.

Absolutely nobody of european descent can seriously claim pure anything ( whatever 'pure' is supposed to mean here ). There were quite a few factors that mixed things up. A lot. Even Billy-Bob might have heard of some of them.