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15 May 2012
What is the difference between an Active Duty Soldier who gets a paycheck to risk his life and a someone freeloading off the fedgov by "making art" or reciting "Cowboy Poetry" I ask in all seriousness. The military produces nothing, the very best that you can get out of military spending is an educated worker who may actually end up putting back into the system more than it took to educate him.
It isn't that I make this nation safer in any meaningful way. Your average concealed carry citizen is doing just as much if not more than I. Morally I'm taking from you, the taxpayer, and providing what exactly in return? Yes I go to war, big deal, more than half of you don't want to waste money in remote hell holes to begin with in the first place.
I'm the guy that makes foreign wars in remote hell holes possible. I'm the guy who signs up to do that job because it is easier than real work. When the economy goes south recruitment goes up, because those who are willing to do violence for money are never in that short of supply to fill the ranks of the big green machine.
Someone told me a long time ago that "When you wake up three days in a row and feel like you can't make a difference in the life of a Soldier you need to get out." And so far that hasn't happened. But for the last few years I've woken up feeling like I can't do a damn thing to help out my Nation.
At least I every morning I can wake up and say, "at least I'm not in the TSA where my job is to sexually molest young children and the disabled" and "at least I'm not in the BATFE where my job is to kill innocent civilians in multiple nations and violate the civil rights of Americans."
At best I'm a benign tumor in a terminally ill patient dieing of parasitic overload.
Yes there are lies we tell ourselves to pretend we are knights in shining armor instead of naked berserkers ripping the very flesh off the slowly dieing Republic. The Romans used Barbarians when they could, and succumbed to them when they no longer had the strength to deal with those who only deal in strength.
The looting has started, and it is in my paycheck that while the number has increased over the years has lost real value over the years. And still, all this spending that has been done on the .mil over the years is nothing to the redistribution of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Those three programs of "getting something for nothing" have done more harm to the American Republic than anything I could do. Loot what you can, while you can, right?
But then I think of my sons. And what future will they have? What can I do to position them in the best possible position of advantage for the circumstances for their life. Not all Republics collapse and rise again as something better. Most collapse into a dictatorship or worse. It is a pressing problem, one that I am exacerbating with every day served. But even if every servicemember chose to not show up tomorrow the fall would still happen, and there is nothing that any of us can do about it now.
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The money spent on you and yours is not squandered. You don't get to pick where you fight or even why, you just go were told. That the missions assigned are almost certainly doomed in the end isn't your responsibility it's ours. Easier than real work, really? You guys do fight for your country or try to, don't get to decide how or where, but that time is coming. There aren't many institutions/mobs that even pay lip service to concepts like honor or duty anymore, even if only honored in the breach that's alot more than most of our culture.
- May 16, 2012 at 12:04 AM
- AM said...
In all seriousness, what is the Return on Investment for what I do for the .gov?
My whole industry is about taking something concrete, ie taxpayer dollars, and turning it into something conceptual, like "deterrent defense" or "safety."
My job is to take something real and turn it into something unreal. Pretty messed up, huh? - May 16, 2012 at 5:28 AM
I remember sweating my ass off in the Honduran sun in 84-87 thinking I was making a difference in the world.
I remember dragging a deuce and a trailer across the desert in 90/91 thinking I was doing some good.
I remember engraving award plates in 91-94 thinking I was touching someone or something that no one else was.
I work at a place I thought would be more noble than all others combined, taking care of the 'us' that we were, as the 'us' we are now.
It wasn't until I got where I am now that I know I was helping no one but myself the entire time.
It IS about you, and will never change unless you get out of it completely. There is nothing to be ashamed of, tho. Each motor drives many moving parts before the wheels see any action. And if one of those parts breaks, or goes missing, nothing moves. I just muddle on, hoping that at least once I touch something or someone that makes it worth THEIR time. - May 16, 2012 at 10:33 AM
Right. I remember sitting on the flight deck, thinking, I'm just a pawn in there game. Ive got it straight now- God, family, country. in that order. we are going down, hard. I don't know when, not to far off in the future though. I don't worry about myself, just my children.
- May 16, 2012 at 12:56 PM
- Badger said...
Soldiers (et al) do not "take" from the citizenry. The perspective is wrong. People have been trying to think in business terms & consider how best to run the military as a "profit center." HORSEHOCKEY! It's a "work center" folks, it will never pay you a profit that goes in your wallet. So ditch the warm/fuzzy/PC Death by Powerpoint and remember that we keep a standing military to PROTECT our interests. The sooner people realize that, the kmore likely they are to be a bit more reticent (hopefully) about how they use this treasured asset.
Stand tall AM. You, I, and zillions more do it for a different reason. We need to be honed, we'd like to come back, but it's a different deal. When the American people get back to being Americans and thinking like them they will be more, not less, hesitant to pull us from the scabbard. I didn't swear & don't keep an oath out of profit and I'm certain you don't either. - May 16, 2012 at 2:40 PM
- AM said...
That is my point, we are drawing a paycheck in order to protect what exactly?
Not the borders, not the civil liberties of American Citizens, not the public.
What are we protecting? What threat is actually cowed by the US Military? - May 16, 2012 at 5:32 PM
I think your feelings on the subject are correct. The problem is that the government has grown so big that there are very few who can say that they do not benifit. Healthcare, education, public service, the military are all feeding from the same trough. Many other businesses profit because of government rules and loopholes rather than productive enterprise. We have a system that rewards taking advantage rather than being a producer.
I strugle with this a lot as a RN. We are far from underpaid at the moment. If i was just helping productive members of society return to work I would feel much better about what I do. Instead I spend most of my time with the disabled, unemployed and uninsured. I enjoy what I do and feel it is a worthwhile profession but I think because of government regulation i take more than I give back to society. I also have amresponsability to take care of my family to the best of my ability so I feel like I a stuck "in the system".
Let me know if you come up with a solution.
Tobias - May 16, 2012 at 5:42 PM
- Shy Wolf said...
"Cowards and sheep sleep well at night knowing rough men stand ready to defend them."
Not much ROI, but a definite one. You can stand proud knowing men like you have courage the detractors only dream of and will weep and cry for when they need you.
And more, your personal family can be proud knowing their father is doing his part to keep them free, despite the cowardly way politicians are useing you. I gladly pay for your services. Much rather pay you than the politicians screwing you over daily.
Just to set your perspective right: you don't work for the .gov, you work for the American citizens.
Bless God, God bless you and yours, Cap'n. And God bless the military. - May 16, 2012 at 5:50 PM
Very refreshing, thank you AM for the honesty. I agree with all points - the money is squandered and you are protecting nothing that is America. Hired hand, American Mercenary.
It is hard for me not being a member of the .mil to say such things even though I feel them intensely.
In all sincereity, I wish you peace as you struggle through this issue and blessings on your family for your integrity.
Seven Tango - May 16, 2012 at 5:56 PM
In all seriousness you're not supposed to show a "return on investment" the military and the rest of the government are "overhead". Other than infrastructure, which the government really only finances, government doesn't produce anything of value. It's not supposed to. Government and the military is supposed to protect existing and maintain an environment for others "return on investment", this is done by protecting our liberties and our right to property. Now if you want to argue government has strayed from these proper tasks, amen brother but don't confuse that with a flaw in the theory. The fact that the military in particular and the government in general isn't protecting "the borders, not the civil liberties of American Citizens, not the public." is the fault of the politicians directing these efforts not the purposes and most of the people these efforts are supposed to fulfill. That the government and the military (affirmative action promotions for instance) has been "retasked" to social justice is the fault of the politicians and the American people who've allowed them to do so.
- May 16, 2012 at 7:14 PM
- CDP said...
"The only thing I fear more than standing armies, is bankers." ~ Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson understood that only corrupt politicians would keep a standing army.
You want to serve the American people but your orders come from corrupt politicians. - May 16, 2012 at 7:16 PM
You are absolutely correct. Gen. Butler recognized the same thing long ago - standing armed forces exist NOT to protect a nation, a state, a citizenry or freedom. They exist solely to project the extreme avarice of those in power, and those in the shadows whom they truly represent.
Those individuals who occasionally enter said forces with the best of intentions and ideals are deluded through appeals to patriotism & courage.
It is all utter bullshit.
Those who disagree & claim there must be a standing armed force to repel furriners bent on mayhem & destruction - please, PROVE IT. Prove that a nation WITH a standing army is immune from invasion. PROVE that a nation without is continually invaded. Use history, ALL of history, to make the point. Please.
ALL government exists solely to control, and part of that control involves destruction of wealth - the wealth of others. Government creates NOTHING, it has NOTHING but what is taken from others.
May i suggest for further consideration "our enemy the state", "discovery of freedom", and "war is a racket" as starting points?
itor - May 16, 2012 at 8:33 PM
"Dieing." For real man? For real?
- May 16, 2012 at 11:36 PM
Yes, Social Security and Medicaid may be a rip off, but of the people who paid into it. I have probably paid in far more than I will ever get back, especially when considering buying power.
- May 17, 2012 at 7:19 AM
With respect, Sir! That Roman Empire lasted 1000 years, not least because of her Soldiers. The Soldiers did not fail her, sleazy ass politicians did.
Countries have no friends, sir, only interests. The Army exists to protect what are SUPPOSED to be the national interests of the American people.
If those people are duped and lied to and don't really believe in the cause, is it the duty of the Chiefs to tell POTUS, "No way, Bozo"? I think so, but this Army has avoided political engagement, in the main, from the beginning.
That greedy, perverted bastards have corrupted Christanity makes it no less viable; that the same is true of this America, makes the old no less true.
Someone has to keep the flame alive, and someone has to be ready to do the hard, dirty shit in the dark to keep that option open.
Can we go back to a legitimate Constitutional Republic after the fall? Not without honorable men of arms who know what;'s right, and who the enemy really is.
Gen Washington and Gen Lee no doubt felt as you do now, but both persevere., One won his country's
independence, the other did not. But in honor and duty, in good conscience, he tried like hell.
We need you and others like you; otherwise the Heinrich Himmlers take over, we need good NCO's to show the Privates the way and good officers for those NCO's to follow.
Remember 'Once an Eagle' and know that it has always been thus, but
in the crux, we need Soldiers.
You are doing something vitally important if you're teaching as well as training your soldiers.
True history is a rare commodity
these days, and the kids don't know . . .
You'll do well at whatever you do if you get out, I'm sure. But I think the future needs you where you are, shoveling shit against the tide with fork, tho that might be for now. - May 17, 2012 at 1:18 PM
Let us disband the military and spend more on the war on poverty. I can say this because I'm leaving for a civilized country where there is no affirmative action nor PC BS. Adios muchachos!
- May 17, 2012 at 11:14 PM
- Disciple of Night said...
Soldiers will always enjoy the respect and admiration of most American people, unlike their counterparts in the federal agencies.
- May 18, 2012 at 9:11 AM
Sorry, I recall any number of recruiter's lies told by all ranks, but I can't recall EVER hearing anyone tell me they signed on because they were told they were going to save the country.
You do your job, you get paid, and you receive ancillary training and experiences that may - or may not - be of any tangible benefit to you in the future.
A distant - measured in decimal places - possibility is that you might, during a hitch or a career, do something uniquely special. A far larger fraction is the possibility that you might die, from anything from enemy fire, friendly stupidity, or to falling off a bridge, to a rubber band breaking in your aircraft some dark and stormy night.
Woe unto the @$$hole whose negligence or self-pity contributed to the friendly stupidity, or who improperly maintained said rubber band.
Go watch "It's A Wonderful Life" to refresh the memory of what impact you and your service make - or fail to - in ways you couldn't imagine in your wildest dreams.
Then take the entire world out of your pack - it's too much gear to pack, trust me on this - and concentrate on just doing the best you can, where you are, with what you've got. Doing just that is more glory and honor than 80% of anyone ever merits given their lackadaisal daily half-assical behavior. Hell, anyone can be a civilian, there isn't even a freakin' required physical!
Oh, and go rest and recreate this weekend.
Aesop - May 19, 2012 at 8:44 AM
- AM said...
"It's a wonderful life" is a work of fiction. Of course their was the guy who saved a young Adolph Hitler from drowning...
So you can't say that the world is a better place for what I do. Heck no one has been able to place one concrete benefit that they gain from what I do.
I could be taking your tax dollars and burning them as an offering to the flying spaghetti monster and you would really get the same benefits. Either way it is putting faith in something and supporting that faith with tax dollars. No concrete benefit at all. No clean water, no new roads, no secure borders, etc. - May 20, 2012 at 8:29 AM
While you are certainly correct that a lot of what the military is tasked to do shouldn't even e done, you and the rest of us who have served do perform one important function. We give notice - or we did before we got a homo C-I-C - to the world not to f*ck with America.
That is more important than most people understand. It is a bit like a robber deciding to ply his trade in Massachusetts vs Florida. He isn't as likely to take the chance of messing with possibly armed citizens who can cap his ass, when he could be holding up liberal wimps who are known to be unarmed. We would have had Russian missiles parked in Cuba if our dickless C-I-C had been in charge then, just as we might when he finishes throwing away our nuclear weapons and giving away our anti-missile technology.
America has never been attacked by a Russian sub, but it just might be because AW's like myself trained and flew in S-2's and P-3 Orions along with American subs and surface ships in HUK groups hunted Russkies in the North Atlantic and elsewhere. If we all hadn't been out there, who knows what could have happened?
If we had a true citizen militia, similar to but better trained and equipped than Switzerland's, perhaps we might be able to do away with a standing army, but we need more than just a National Guard to keep America from being overrun by Russia and/or China.
You can sell our politicians short, and definitely our political flag officers, but don't sell yourself or your brothers-in-arms short. We need you, respect you, and support you. - May 20, 2012 at 6:00 PM
- AM said...
You ever think that some poor Russian Peasant was sitting in his communist underseaboat and thinking "I'm down here only to give purpose to the guy in the plane up there?"
The great lie in the USSR was that America was always a few seconds away from invading to destroy the "worker's paradise" and steal all of Russia's glory and women or something or other.
The great lie in America was that the Russians were always a few seconds away from charging across the Fulda Gap and that is why we needed a quarter of a million Americans on European soil.
The cold war was hot for those fighting proxy wars in Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Rhodesia, El Salvador, Columbia, Afghanistan...
And all of our American might didn't stop 9/11 did it? It was "security theater" of the highest order. Like the TSA we accomplished what in terms of real security?
Hell, since then the FBI has gotten lucky only when they provide a patsy with a bomb before busting them or get lucky when a convenience store clerk calls a la the Fort Dix Six.
I'm still going to go to work tomorrow, and I'm still going to work until they kick me out or I retire. But I'm not so sure that there is any real benefit to the American people from what I do. If all we do is make people feel better about where they live, I guess that is good enough a reason to earn a paycheck? - May 20, 2012 at 8:56 PM
Don't confuse the hash that Carter and the Bushes and Clinton and -especially - Obama have made of our national security with the likelihood that we would be in much worse shape if the more aggressive governments of the world - like Russia and China - thought we would be easy pickings.
This isn't about what Russian peasants think. It isn't about what the average Iranian on the streets of Teheran think. It is all about governments, and what they think they can get away with.
So yes, feel all worthless and full of angst if it makes you feel better to do so, but even though our country continues to worsen our security as a nation by forcing insane rules of engagement upon our troops, gives away our secret military technology (Clinton did it too), and seeks to get rid of our nuclear deterrent, but having a strong military is indeed significant.
I don't know how many of you younger folks had dads who fought during WWII like I did, but I think you can thank them for the fact you don't speak German and that there are still a few Jews and Catholics and gypsies and others living today.
No matter how f*cked up our leaders - including flag rank military leaders - are today, having men and women who are proud to do the best they can is still important. I'm sorry you don't feel that way. Maybe you should quit and find a more pleasing way to earn that paycheck? - May 22, 2012 at 8:43 AM
You're just gainsaying.
Of course "It's A Wonderful Life" is fiction. So are Aesop's Fables. The value lies in the points they teach, not the documentary qualities of talking foxes or racing tortoises.
A sword in a sheath or a pistol in a CCW rig are just as useful as you and your compatriots, even if none of them, or you, are ever utilized in anger or bathed in enemies' blood.
And the Cold War got hot enough for the crew of U.S.S. Scorpion when Comrade Leonid's CCCP navy sunk them in "peacetime"; ditto for the crew of U.S.S. Liberty attacked by allies 10,000 miles from Vietnam in 1973; or guys in an EC-121 the Norks splashed over NorthPac, &c, &c.
One little green snuffy just plugging along on post in the Cold War Fulda Gap was as valueless as you feel - right up until he capped a Baader-Meinhoff p.o.s. caught in the track park one night. (Hey, sometimes you just kill the communist you have, even if it ain't the one you wanted...) So ask the 11Bs (or their parents and families) who DIDN'T get charbroiled by the firebomb Gunther almost placed in their M113 how much SP4 Beetle Bailey's service was worth.
Or that of the never-saw-a-war NCO who taught him Basic 1911 marksmanship. Or the Joe in the armory who maintained the pistol, or delivered the box of .45ACP, or just made the coffee that kept him awake that night. Even at 5, I remember "Army" was a team sport.
Not counting Uncle Sam's loaners, I've only pointed a couple of my numerous weapons at anyone with anything close to malice, and never yet had to fire them in anger. (Yet...)
It's nice that there's a girl unraped because of that, but the lack of similar service doesn't rob the other weapons of value.
The same is true for you and company. Whether you know it or acknowledge it, or not. Thus endeth my lesson. I'd much rather get back to yours.
-Aesop - May 22, 2012 at 2:03 PM
- AM said...
Look fellas, if you are paying me to keep bad things from happening then how do we measure success?
Evidently in this nation a key leader can in front of the national media and claim that .gov spending has "created or saved X gajillion jobs" and they just let it pass because it makes them feel good about the narrative.
Saying "we kept the women unraped and the world free for democracy because the other guy didn't attack" seems a bit shaky in the logic department.
As a leader I am responsible for everything my unit does, or fails to do. I am not responsible for eventualities that don't come to pass because I may or may not have any effect on that potential future.
On the plus side, I'm keeping my New Years resolution to not commit any acts of genocide this year. Think of all the people I saved. - May 22, 2012 at 6:38 PM
- RL said...
Regarding proxy wars; Let me just add that Rhodesians who fought to defend God, country, liberty, and their very livelihoods from the ravenous packs of well-supported commies who terrorized them -with the blessings of the UN apparat and world press to boot- weren't getting fuck-all but embargoes, grief, and hand-wringing angst from the [leftist] bastards calling the shots in both the US and 'Great' Britain at the time...And they stuck with it against all odds for as long as they could until finally succumbing in exhaustion to brokered lies. Sound familiar?
In the face of the global last mile socialist push for hegemony over every aspect of our lives, and the simultaneous PC deconstruction of the national command structure, military men with honor, integrity, and a willingness to abide by the Constitution they pledged to uphold are needed as never before at every level...But FWIW, I wouldn't blame you a whit if you've had it with the whole goatrope clusterfuck.
I don't know you from Adam but please accept my best wishes for success in whatever endeavor you may choose to pursue. - May 22, 2012 at 7:18 PM
You're still stuck on utilization as a metric of success, and thus return on expenditure.
That's fine for a steak, but pretty stupid for the airbags on your car.
If you'd start thinking of yourself more like a Corvette than a cow...
The way to measure success is whether you - and every subordinate in your unit - are as technically and tactically proficient individually and corporately as you and they can be, given X time, until they reach a given level of competence at their designated tasks.
That can be your chosen level, the CGs, or the DoDs, but it by God better be higher than what's demanded by a meeting with Hadji, Abdul, or whoever, come the day.
If you want a metric for douchbaggery, look up General Garrison in Mogadischu 10/1983, or Admiral Kimmel in Pearl Harbor 12/1941.
Follow up with selections from Hamburger Hill, Gallipoli, Verdun, Bull Run, Little Big Horn, and any winter campaign vs. Russia outside of the Finns.
They'll probably be in the unvisited section of any post library.
Meanwhile, I've got to go to the store to buy some canned goods to not eat in case of earthquake, and some buckshot to not shoot when the riots start.
-Aesop - May 23, 2012 at 1:35 PM
You took an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That's the Constitution you're sworn to uphold, not whatever government happens to be in power.
"This is the day in which the federal government hates and fears every one of us and makes few bones about it. We are all guilty until proven innocent — and increasingly not given the opportunity to defend ourselves. Does anyone here doubt that, among all the declared "wars on" this and that, we have become the enemy?" http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/2012/03/02/burning-in-the-camps/ - May 24, 2012 at 5:24 PM
- AM said...
Ok Aesop,
If you are saying that my service is one big insurance policy (like an airbag) then are you getting your money's worth?
If you don't like your insurance company you are free to change, and if you don't like the airbags in your car you are free to switch cars. I guess you are free to lobby to get the .mil changed as well.
But once again we are back to the idea of service as a commodity, and we need some sort of metric for success. Airbags either work or they don't, and airbags have a very specific mission and metric for success.
Let us ask the serious question, what does the American Citizen need in terms of "military insurance?" Because until we can frame the issue in terms of actual citizen needs (like an airbag) you can't show me any metric for success.
Obviously the military isn't their to really stop anything bad from happening (we can't predict the future any more than any other government agency). At best we can respond, and that "threat of response" of a large standing Army does what exactly that a citizen militia can't do?
Oh sure we can drop a brigade of paratroopers anywhere in the world in less than a day, but is that some sort of key capability that is worth the cost? If you argue that the cost of not having that capability is anything but a concrete metric then we are back into the realm of might as well be dancing around a fire making offerings to Flying Spaghetti Monster in terms of return on investment.
Anything that can be measured can be optimized, if it can't be measured is it truly a definition of success or failure? - May 25, 2012 at 1:25 AM


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Losi 1/5th 5ive-T Roller
The Losi 5ive-T 4WD Racing Truck is now available as a Roller. The same great chassis, toughness and driving exhilaration, but this time you get to choose what engine and RC equipment best suits your needs. They have also left the 4-piece bodyset clear so you can finish it up in whatever colours and wild schemes match your personality. Factory-built as a rolling chassis, leaving you to finish it off with your choice of electrics, engine and pipe.
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
Evens & Robert win Belgian SCT Cup Rd1
The first race of the Belgian SCT Cup 2013 has been held on BRTC track last Sunday. The layout of the track has been changed for this year and is now faster than before while still being challenging and offering very low grip. The number of entries is progressing compared to last year, with the participation of some fast buggy 1/10 racers and most importantly, young newcomers. They also had the pleasure to welcome a French driver coming all the way from Paris, Philippe Hautecoeur. The day started under the sun with pastries and coffee available on site. In 2WD qualification, tire choice proved to be pretty complex with drivers changing them each run in search of the best compromise. Martin Vierin put in the fastest run of the first run on his SC10 in front of Nicolas Evens (TLR 22SCT), Jean-François Renard (TLR 22SCT), Philippe Hautecoeur (SC10) and Julian André (SC10). Second run saw Nicolas take the advantage ahead of Jean-François, Philippe and Martin. Last run was decisive for the pole position attribution with Martin and Nicolas with a win each. Nicolas took that leg in front of Martin, Cédric Van De Ginste (SC10) and Jean-François.
Continue reading the report here
Monday, May 6, 2013
Team C TM2SC 2wd Short Course
Following last weekend's teaser image, Team C have shown off more pictures of their new mid motor 2wd Short Course, the TM2SC. The images don't reveal a whole lot more apart from the confirmation that the car will accept a regular stick pack down the right side of the chassis and that there is an all new motor mount developed for this new chassis. Team C also showed off the car's new body shell.
View more images of the truck here
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Team C 2wd SC truck teaser
Team C have released a teaser image of their new 2wd SC truck. The chassis looks to be heavily based on the TM2 buggy which features an inline mounted mid motor configuration that drives a center shaft to the rear drive train. The chassis and top deck are carbon as per the buggy and it also features the aluminium side stiffeners for rigidity. We have no other details currently regarding release date but we will let you know as we find out.
Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Kinwald & Due win Short Course Showdown Rd3
Round 3 of the Short Course Showdown made it's way to Trackside Hobbies located in Brookfield Wisconsin. The new track layout had been down for a week or so. The track was wet and still holding a lot of moisture due to the fact that the outside weather was cold and wet for the last few weeks. On Thursday Drivers started to arrive and get their pit spaces picked out and setting up camp for the weekend.
Continue reading the report here
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
JConcepts Escape body for SC10B
Introducing the Escape body by JConcepts, specifically designed for the newly released Team Associated SC10B vehicle. Breaking into the world of Short Course buggy racing, JConcepts has stepped up with the first aftermarket body designed around the new high-energy vehicle. The first thing noticed on the Escape is its narrowed front-end which tucks nicely against the chassis geometry. The increased front tuck tightens up the large gap in-between the chassis and stock SC10B body making the Escape a superior jumping body with its first heavy detail. Just above the tucked portion, in front of the cock-pit area, rests a reverse scoop giving an area to trim for more air-relief. A small ledge entering the cab guides the air slightly further than the original body while the main side-pods have chiseled ducts which wrap around the bolt-on plastic caging. Just behind the roll-cage area, number plates are built into the body giving the body a slightly raked look and appropriate place for small racing numbers.
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Friday, March 29, 2013
AKA SC tire line gets updated
Seen during our coverage of the recent Cactus Classic, AKA have officially announced that their short course tire line just got wider. After the release of the Handlebar on the new wider carcass, they now have the Enduro 2, Cityblock 2, Handlebar STD and Wishbone 2, all on the wider carcass. Each tire has a bigger footprint to create more traction while staying in spec with the 2.2/3.0 short course tire specifications. The Handlebar STD (Standard Tread Depth) features a taller pin height ideal for hard packed or blue-groove outdoor tracks, while the already released Handlebar tackles the indoor tracks with its Low Tread Depth. The Wishbone 2 has been updated with a denser tread pattern for more traction and longer tire wear, ideal for indoor tracks. The Enduro 2 maintains its bestselling tread pattern and tread density while the Cityblock 2 has been opened up a bit to allow the tire tread to dig in deeper while still having superior wear characteristics. AKA have also updated their short course inserts which feature an asymmetrical core to add additional support to the outer sidewall of SC tires. These have been designed to fit perfectly into the new wider short course tire line but will fit other tires as well. Available in both of AKA's industry standard closed-cell foams, Red (Soft) and Black (Medium).
Source: AKA [raceaka.com]
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Schumacher Stagger Rib SC tire
Schumacher announce the release of the Stagger Rib tread tire for short course trucks. Available in soft yellow compound the tire is designed for the front of 2WD trucks and best suited for EU-style astro turf tracks.
Source: Schumacher [racingcars.com]
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

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I have a theory about this aging vs tech thing. According to a book I'm reading on the adult brain (specifically the middle-aged brain), most people get smarter with age but have a harder time absorbing completely new things. (They can do it, it just takes a little while longer than for younger brains.) The thing is, geeks under about 45 in the Western world have been raised with constantly shifting tech. Think about how fast tech changed between 1950-1970, then look at now. Our brains are trained for quicker changes than our parents'. Combine that with the fact that we get smarter with age when it comes to putting concepts together and gaining expertise, and we're pretty much the smartest generation yet. The generations that come after us will be even smarter, if current trends progress. This is also reflected in the fact that IQ tests have to be recalibrated every couple of years because the average score keeps going up above 100. We as a species are getting smarter, mostly thanks to the fact that we have much better nutrition and better medicine. Our brains have more fuel, and because we don't all die before age 30 we have longer to sharpen our intellects. A lot of people think the past was better, but fuck that shit. I LIKE living in the future.
Reasons the future is better than the past: antibiotics. Reasons the past is better than the future: antibiotic-resistant strains.
That reeks of generational bias. Previous generations pioneered engines, flight, electricity, the automobile, radio, television, computers, rocketry, space travel, satellites, the harnessing of the atom, unassisted advanced mathematics (as in, without computers or calculators), nearly all of the protocols that govern computer networking, global telecommunications, the Archimedes' heart, antibiotics, genetics, cloning, and so on. "Our" generation might be "smarter", and even that is an arguable term, but that in no way makes us more intelligent, faster to react, faster to create, faster to deploy, more creative, more inventive or, simply, better. To claim otherwise, or for anyone to claim vice versa, is generational bias. We don't like it when they do it, I'm sure they don't like it when we do, and I doubt we'll like it anymore when the next generation does it to us despite our pioneering of stem cells, gene therapy (possibly), colonizing of other planets (possibly), curing AIDs and cancer (possibly), and so on.
But I expect the next generation to be smarter than me. I hope they look back on me as being stupider, otherwise I would feel that we as a species have lost our way.
There's a great line in Mad Men, when the firm's long-time secretary Miss Blankenship dies at her desk, a trooper to the very end. Bert Cooper eulogizes her thusly: "She was born in 1898 in a barn. She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. She was an astronaut."
Family members delivering broken computers via other family members to my doorstep because they cannot be bothered to understand the difference between a firewall, and antivirus. I would set this thing on fire if I had a match.
After much whining, I gave my younger niece (who is 21) one of my old laptops on the condition that she never ask me for tech support. Two days later, she asked me for tech support. Last Christmas she gave me a "No, I don't know how to fix your computer" t-shirt. This is a knock off of the actual, "No, I won't fix your computer" t-shirt. It's insulting. Of course I know how to fix your computer, I just refuse to do it. She couldn't even get a condescending t-shirt right.
Amazon fucking customer service. When I log into my account with my correct email and password, it's showing some other person's name. No wishlist. If you do a search for my email address in the "find a wishlist" my correct name and wishlist come up. I've talked to four fucking different people at Amazon about it and I finally, FINALLY got someone to believe me. They just kept saying "Well the name on the account is x" and I was like "I know. That is WRONG. That is what I am telling you." "Well that's the name that's associated with the account!" "No. No it's not. Do a search for a wishlist with that email and my CORRECT name and wishlist come up." So now I'm on hold since finally, FINALLY the guy was like "...oh. Well that is not right." I KNOW! THAT IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO EXPLAIN TO YOU MOTHERFUCKERS FOR A WHOLE GOD DAMN DAY NOW!
Is it still OK to rage against Apple maps? I was using it to estimate how much time I had left in a drive and did not need directions per se, but it showed me that you cannot rely on it. Example 1. Wegmans is not at the pin that is highlighted. It is actually at the other pin on that map. Of course why two pins for the same store? Example 2. If you know enough to select the second pin, these were the directions it provided. Fuck you, Apple, and fuck your hubris.
I was lost on The North Side last week and spent 40 mins. faffing around trying to get Google Maps working on an EDGE connection. It was only when I got home that it occurred to me that I could also have tried Apple Maps.
Yeah, I finally tested this quite by accident. We were looking for a place in Germany where we're going this spring and I was at my inlaws with really terrible connection, and without thinking I just hit the Maps app on the iPad out of old habit - loaded instantly and showed me the place and had instant zoom available. Then I remembered, that I don't use the map app anymore and went and found Google Maps instead - took forever to load even the smallest sliver of the map, and zooming just started the process over. And for what it's worth, they showed the same place. I still don't trust Apple Maps, but now I get what they thought they could bring to the table by doing their own.
Oh, forgotten nerd rage. We stayed at a hotel that had the Dish network or some provider with a similar name. While I applaud it for having it's HD channels right next to the SD channels, so that they were actually easily found, it's 'HD' channels were 'zoomed' in. WTF? This is like selling Blu-ray Pan-and-Scan DVDs. Utterly asinine.
Not sure if it's worse than SD stretched out to 16:9, which I still see approximately everywhere. I mean, do the people setting these things up simply not care that it looks like shit? IDGI.
Dear guy in the lane next to me with the autism haircut rapid-firing his AR-15 with a muzzle brake at a target 15 yards away: FUCK YOU. YOU ARE WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICA.
"I've been calling you people ALL DAY and no one's answering!" Caller ID tells a different story, ma'am.
Oh hell no, you gotta watch a gun nut watch a movie with guns: "You can't silence a revolver!" "SWAT body armor is not going to stop a rifle at 15 feet! That's bullshit!" "He just fired 9 rounds out of that .45, which can only hold 7 rounds. Well, plus one in the chamber." "WHY WOULD YOU COCK YOUR PISTOL JUST NOW? FOR DRAMATIC EFFECT? ARARJADSFKJALKJFA!" Of course, they have regular nerd rage when just hanging out. "You called that a magazine? No, that's a clip. Ugh."
He wrote a book after he was dead? I knew he was a gifted writer, but wow. (Couldn't type that with a straight face. Heeheehee.)
My colleagues who insists on sending me deadlines as calendar appointment instead of tasks in Outlook. I even explained to them how tsks work, and we then had an expensive efficiency consultant visit and amongst other things tell everybody how to use tasks. Yet, today - "here's this meeting that isn't really a meeting, but just you mailing me the article".
Fuck people who can't use Outlook. Fuck them for asking me if I'm available (check my fucking diary). Fuck them for not understanding tasks. Fuck IT for not putting enough information in AD to make the address book even half as useful as it should be. Oh, and an especially big FUCK YOU to IT for not implementing resource mailboxes so we can have a sane meeting room system... oh sorry, they did, but only one per floor so reception need to arrange the rooms. Seriously IT. What. The. Fuck?
I'm not much of a gun nut, and the cocking thing just drives me nuts. Also, the effect where someone gets hit by a bullet and goes flying across the room like they got hit by a SUV.
Pre-raging. Going to see the season two The Next Generation two episode Fathom event tonight. Don't fuck it up, Fathom. Please, not again. Not being able to transmit a simple satellite feed properly, or not having properly trained projectionists on hand to receive the feed, is especially bad during a Star Trek event. I'd like it in high definition and with surround sound too this time. Of course, well played if this is all intentional. Very well played. Edit: It's worth clarifying why this is especially bad. I mean, there's the obvious uber-nerd issue of playing Star Trek and not being able to master late-90s technology, but, OK, I don't care about that, I'll just get my refund and leave; it isn't the poor guy manning the booth's fault that this all went pear-shaped. No, the problem is all of the people who start "cleverly" quoting lines from Star Trek (or Star Wars, to be _ultra_ funny) at the screen. Oh, the screen is dim? Adjust the phase polarity of the... EPM matrix... ... You know, I don't even know, I like the show for the fucking philosophy and the pew pew battles and to see the few good actors act, not the fucking technology. Argh.
The movie stuff never bothered me because duh movies. I've stopped being bothered by the magazine/clip thing and have happily accepted that the meanings of words change, even if mostly through widespread misuse. Hell, my father, who taught me to shoot and gave me most of the guns I own, calls them clips. Then again, I like to think of myself as less gun nut and more gun enthusiast. In my mind, "gun nut" implies things like confederate flags and "obummer takin r guns". Oh, and FrankA. That guy is weird. But I'm probably just playing semantics to make myself feel better.
I do get a little annoyed by all the physics ..defamation, for lack of a better word. It's not just guns, but martial arts as well, to the point where people have really weird and distorted ideas of how guns and fist fights actually work. I don't think most of the public understand why weight classes exist in combative sports. Like one of my Bro-in-Laws, "I could totally take that UFC fighter by fighting dirty". Yeah, I'm sure an attempted eye gouge by someone who's never done an eye gouge, heck, never even fought anyone at all, and is outweighed by fifty pounds of muscle will totally be successful. Or for guns, it's "I'd just shoot the gas tank, and the thing would explode."
Tsks are pretty basic scolding mechanisms, it is a little crazy that they had to bring in a consultant. But hey, it's Daneland. Whatcha gonna do?
iTunes 11 is an improvement in speed and responsiveness on the pc... shame I can't find a damn thing anymore.
Fuck you, you don't know me. I've read every single Gat Fact and I operate operationally on operations with my AK-Glock every single day, and I operate harder than you can even imagine. You've never even seen high speed, low drag like the shit I'm into every day. You can't tell me shit about gats. BRB gotta go buy more of those cop killer gatteries.
You're not elite enough to join the ranks of known underground operating operators, so go clean your semi-automatic assault gat and cry into your GATerade.


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"There isn't anything constant but art and trouble" - Bess Lomax Hawes Bess Lomax Hawes led the establishment of public folklore programs throughout the United States. She did it with a vast knowledge of America's diverse traditions, the discipline of a savvy strategist, an empathy born of experience for cultural work, and a personal reservoir of good grace. Bess was born in 1921 in Austin, Texas, the youngest child of pioneering American folklorist John A. Lomax. Bess joined her father and brother Alan as a researcher at the Library of Congress, where they directed the Archive of American Folk Song. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College, she worked as a research assistant in the New York Public Library for the Columbia School of the Air (CBS). From 1941 to 1952, she was a singer and instrumentalist with the Almanac Singers, a topical song group that would help pave the way for the Folk Revival. With the Almanac Singers, which included Pete Seeger and her future husband Butch Hawes, she recorded the albums Talking Union and Citizen CIO. She also sang on the Folkways Records albums Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs and Spanish Civil War. As a parodist and songwriter, she co-authored the song later made famous by the Kingston Trio, "Charlie on the MTA." During the war years, Bess was an information specialist for the Radio Program Bureau of the Office of War Information. Moving to the West Coast, she and her husband Butch raised three children, and in 1970 Bess received one of the first M.A. degrees in folklore from the University of California, Berkeley, under the guidance of Alan Dundes. She worked as an instructor of guitar, banjo, and folk music at UCLA and a professor of anthropology at San Fernando Valley State, now California State University, Northridge. Her film Pizza Pizza Daddy-O, documenting African-American children's singing games, and her book Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage, co-authored with Georgia Sea Island folk singer Bessie Smith Jones, became seminal publications in American folklore literature. She served as president of the California Folklore Society and vice president of the American Folklore Society. Bess relocated to Washington, D.C., taking a position at the Smithsonian as deputy director for presentation for the 1975 and the summer-long 1976 Bicentennial Festival of American Folklife. She worked with thousands of participants and hundreds of folklorists from across the nation and around the world. This helped create a vast network of people involved in the study and representation of grassroots culture. She later wrote, "Almost every person I know who is active today in the area of public folklore participated at least in some small fashion in the 1976 Festival. Historians will eventually look in wonder at the far-reaching effects of the 1976 Festival of American Folklife." Those effects included her own work. In 1977, she joined the National Endowment for the Arts as director of its Folk Arts Program. Her efforts at the NEA had enormous impact on the folklore field in the United States. She elevated the status of the Folk Arts Program to a full-fledged program on a par with other artistic disciplines. Over the period of her directorship (1977-92), funding grew from around $100,000 to over $4 million, and the staff grew from one to six. Her efforts to create state-based folk arts programs were successful in 50 of the 56 states and territories. Her State Apprenticeship Initiative helped create programs for traditional arts in over 40 states. In 1982, the National Heritage Fellowship awards program was launched with concerts and ceremonies at the Folklife Festival on the Mall. The program went on to achieve national prominence, offering 261 major grant fellowships during its first 20 years of existence. Through her tenure at NEA, Bess continued to advise Smithsonian Festival directors and curators, and others around the nation, on programs and projects. Following her retirement, Bess was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton, gave the Charles Seeger Lecture at the annual conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology, and consulted internationally on issues of folklore, public policy, and cultural continuity. [This biography was generously provided by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.] U.S. Public Folklore: The Watershed YearsThe American Folklore Society's 2006 documentary, "U.S. Public Folklore: The Watershed Years" (funded in part by the NEA), highlights the early efforts of few remarkable folklorists to bring attention to vernacular cultures in the USA. Below is a portion of the segment with Ms. Hawes.
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Tributes Barry Bergey, NEA Dan Sheehy "In the last third of a century, the number of US folklorists working in the public sector--in government arts and cultural agencies at all levels, in the non-profit world, and in private practice--has grown to equal the number of folklorists working in US universities. No one is more responsible for that growth than Bess Lomax Hawes. An entire generation of young folklorists who, like me, began their public careers in the 1970s and 1980s owe at least their initial professional opportunities to her, and were the constant beneficiaries of her leadership, support, critique, and counsel." - Tim Lloyd, Executive Director, American Folklore Society |


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Perched on the edge of New Zealand's second largest lake, the township of Te Anau is the main visitor base for Fiordland National Park. At the Department of Conservation Visitor Centre you can make plans to walk the Milford, Routeburn or Kepler Tracks. There are many places to stay, but you'd be wise to book ahead in the busy season. Restaurants are plentiful. Apart from hiking, popular local activities include lake cruising, kayaking and exploring the Te Ana-au Glowworm caves. The museum has a collection relevant to both the Maori and European history of the area. There's also a wildlife park specialising in native birds.Functional facts: Approx. population 1900, i-SITE Visitor Centre, good range of shops and services.


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According to [Harvey] Weinstein... the "true" director's cut of [The Double Life of] Véronique would be the U.S. version [recut by Weinstein], precisely because he knew or understood Kieślowski's intentions better than the filmmaker did himself. (This is the same argument that was recently made to me by Michael Dawson–an American film technician who has already revised the soundtrack of Welles's Othello and plans to revise the soundtrack of Chimes at Midnight in the near future by adding the sound of neighing horses to one shot "because if Orson were alive today, I'm sure he would have done it himself.")
The article is adapted from a lecture given by Rosenbaum in early 2007, so it's not exactly current, but could this quote presage a possible re-release of "Chimes"? And if so, will its soundtrack have been rejiggered as in the unfortunate "restorations" of "Othello" and "Vertigo"?


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First of all the same can be said of traditional face-to-face meetings. But more specifically to webinars we can see that adding pedagogical value to the webinar not only requires understanding the technology but also more specifically adapted webinar didactics.
ITC-ILO has been launching a series of webinars now with partners at the ILO and UNHCR and will collect for you a series of interesting articles that might give you additional ideas on how to set up engaging webinars: (Feel free to add yours)
Article 1: How to conduct engaging webinars
Article 2: Webinars. Learning Solutions magazine. Beginner guides. Part A and Part B.
Article 3: Conducting a webinar
Article 4: Facilitation techniques to lead effective online webinars.
Article 5 How to create and run winning webinar series
and last but not least these webinar templates.
ITC-ILO is currently delivering tailor-made "How to set up engaging webinar series" for interested groups and institutions. (Feel free to us at email@example.com ). For participants that are looking for an open, longer certified webinar programme we can refer to ASTD's offer on Facilitating synchronous Learning programme.
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To view the toolkit throughout a learning lens is the challenge that we are currently undertaking. We just selected some of the questions that we would like to submit to the IDEO innovative design perspective:
Can we
- bring radical innovation into learning?
- better understand and capture the needs from our learners?
- find alternative methods for monitoring and evaluating learning?
- diversify the set of learning and knowledge sharing methodologies that we are currently using?
- explore whether training is the adequate solution for some of the needs that we identify?
Any other questions you would like to explore? We will keep you updated on the answers we encounter.
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The surprising truth about what motivates us
The power of networks
Changing education paradigms
The divided brain
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- After several years of TED lectures there is a fantastic inventory of 1204 lectures which is made available here.
- The global classroom of the Khan Academy is reaching currently more than 3200 video's with lessons and exercises.
- The Udacity university with professors from Stanford is also expanding in open courses integrating didactic sets of learning resources.
- Academic Earth is steadily growing in its offer and is combing lectures from different top universities
- The University of the People is the last one in line we want to mention with the objective to democratize education.
Any other interesting examples?
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Scenarios provide alternative views of the future. They identify some significant events, main actors and their motivations, and they convey how the world functions. Building and using scenarios can help us explore what the future might look like and the likely changes of living in it.
At Online Educa last year DELTA participated in a learning scenario planning exercise with Hans De Zwart and Willem Manders. During this meeting we mapped out the (corporate) learning environment, the important actors and the driving forces which gave us a solid base to map out different scenarios. Click here for an overview of the used scenario methodology.
The organisers of the workshop have already produced a video where you will see a glimpse of the results of the scenario planning exercise.
For DELTA this exercise was an enrichment in terms of using the scenario methodology as a facilitation method in our strategy workshops. We are currently collecting more background information about the methodology in order to transform it into a easy step by step instructional sheet on how to apply scenario s in your workshops and learning events. Feel free to provide us with additional background links. This is what we have so far:
What is scenario planning?
Scenario planning resources
How to build scenario's (wired)
Scenario's : An explorer guide
Learning Scenario's
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What would be the real added value of Linkedin for learning professionals and institutions? To kickstart this brainstorming session we would like to invite you to read two articles and extract there all possible tips for learning professionals.
10 ways to use Linkedin
Smart ways to use Linkedin
With the background of these two articles in mind we found 10 interesting hings that any ITC-ILO learning professional could engage in:
- the entire staff and resource persons have an updated profile on Linkedin that could serve as yellow pages and reflect quite well what kind of internal expertise is available in the organisation
- all learning events are activated as Linkedin events since they automatically circulate to your professional network and the networks of your networks
- subject matter specialists can engage in technical questions and answer sessions in order to become a recognized expert in a particular field
- be active in thematic and network specific linkedin groups because some professional interest groups really make the difference
- ask advice because the chance that the collective intelligence in your entire network provide you with some good answers is very real
- benchmark with similar institutions and track their Linkedin activity, it might give you inspiration for yours
- ask the resource persons that act in your course/activity to provide you with their Linkedin profile, do the same with your participants (it might be a useful icebreaker)
- post job opportunities, internship possibilities and other available assignments out there
- having consistent links with your insititutional webpage will lead automatically to increased pageranks
- Make sure your company profile is up to date. It will also give you interesting information about the people who follow you
What other arguments could you think of?
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- ITC-ILO is launching its first knowledge lab:"From Knowledge Management to knowledge sharing". A workshop that will walk you through the entire knowledge management cycle address all the necessary tools and techniques to share organisational knowledge in an efficient and effective manner. More information and registration available on this link.
- The World Bank Institute published recently : "The art of knowledge exchange". A step-by-step guide for practitioners with methodological insights on how to set up and manage knowledge exchange activities such as study visists, peer reviews, communities of practice, dialogues and conferences. Download the publication here.
Any other knowledge sharing link, publication or event more than welcome !
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What could we change ?
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- more interviews with external experts in learning, training and knowledge sharing.
- continue with live blogging at important learning events to make the information and knowledge accessible.
- asking more questions to you, the reader, in order to capture more user-generated knowledge that will feed this blog.
- backing up our technological articles with more how-to guides and instructions.
- continue to review interesting articles and books in this specific knowledge domain.
- more reflections, lists, polls, …
What else would you suggest? Ideas welcome !
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If you know of more similar guides that focus on "starting with E-Learning" feel free to add them in the comment section.
E-Learning by Design
Getting Started with E-Learning. Be-ODl
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- Improve understanding of knowledge management and knowledge sharing concepts and their relevance to OHCHR work;
- Enhance participants' expertise and capacity to use knowledge sharing tools and approaches in their work;
- Strengthen a knowledge sharing culture within OHCHR; and
- Validate the OHCHR Knowledge Sharing Toolkit and promote the use of the toolkit within their sections/field presences.
Feel free to have a look at the final version of the on-line toolkit ! Click HERE
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people with mod Controllers for sniping
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We are already running into people with modded controllers. Trying to use the sniper guns as machine guns. I reported them as modders and everything else. BO had a fix for this, and needs to be added to this game. Its sad that i got to put a full clip in to a sniper idiot, and all he has to do is one shot. The snipers are OP and needs aleast 2 shots, instead of one. Fix the auto fire glitch that these kids and adult idoits are using such as mod controllers. They should never be allow to sell anyhow.
Mostly idiots with snipers. Those are single shots, not a clip in a burst...
are you mad???
are you mad?
What the hell are you talking about?
People are using modded controllers to shot sniper rifles, like the Barrett, like a machine gun. It's full auto and they are shooting the whole clip within a second or two.
It's a semi-auto rifle and (in-game) can be shot nearly as fast as you can pull the trigger.
Some are more gifted than others. And most people that have modded controllers probably won't be banned. You can't prove it. Just move on and adapt.
You can prove it... Theather Mode...
exactly, and i saved a few tonight to prove it. Will see if i can get it uploaded. I dont think the you can unload a 20 clip in a split second, and watching the kill cam gives it away. Its modded and clear as day. BO had a fix for this and should be adpated here. Learn to adapt and play the game correctly with moding.. idiot.
Wow. That has got to be the most retarded mod ever. Can't people just play the game normally? Is it really that hard?
Nope, they ONLY care about KD instead of the big W. They think with a High KD they are the best and better than those that have 100 plus wins over them. I may suck in the KD department, but i will damn sure try to win the game. That is what its designed for...
just added more mod vids.
We have been using modded controlers since the first MW. And we have simply used them for every single one afterwards. We still use them in Bullshit Ops, even after they "thought" they fixed it. To be honest, its just a game and all is fare in Love and War. In real life would u fault the guy on the enemy team for being smarter than you?
No its call cheating and goes to show how big of a puss you are. You have to mod a controller to gain a unfair advantage over your enemy. I bet you suck if you didnt have a mod to make you look good. I report those that use it and hope soon that xbox and others will make it harder to do it again.
Just nerf the damn guns would you. If you fire the snipers more than twice in a split second, it should jam up or aleast make the gun nerf out. Its getting very annoying to get sniped by a guy with a mod controller.
the sniper rifles are perfect the way they are. but the modded controllers are the issues along with the aim bot they have out for the game already.


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A local male Brittany spaniel officiallly named "Hits All Jack'd Up" completed a rare repeat last month. The dog, owned by Joe Sikorski and Claire Ricci of Macungie, became just the fourth dog in history to win consecutive ABC National Gun Dog...Tags: Wildlife, Macungie, Slatington, Smithfield, Monroe County (Pennsylvania)
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A grand opening event and ribbon-cutting ceremony is planned to take place at Alyssa Wilmot's new spacious studio at 4 p.m. Feb. 9.
There's some new life, and a little more "movement" in the building commonly referred to as the Lake Erie Screw Factory. Think dance, Zumba and Pilates. Alyssa Wilmot opened up The Movement Factory — a dance and workout studio — in a former office in the massive industrial building on Athens Avenue. Surrounded by artist studios and other independent businesses in the Lake Erie Building, Wilmot said that The Movement Factory fit right in. The spacious studio used to be office space before Wilmot renovated. She stripped the drop ceiling and exposed the industrial brick walls. The area was once the location where Templar automobiles were painted. "It's good energy in here," Wilmot said, pointing to a heart etched into a cement windowsill …
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