Re: SPAMMERS

[srjjs]

Cheap weapons aren't always innaccurate. A knife for example...
And France DID win the Franco-Prussian war, so they're not all that weak.

[FotoPlasma]

Originally posted by srjjs
...France DID win the Franco-Prussian war, so they're not all that weak.

Uh... more than 100 years ago...

Originally posted by Reed B.
It's all part of their grand plan:

1. Conquer the message board
2. Conquer FIRST
3. Conquer France
4. Conquer THE WORLD
5. Profit!

Just because it's so easy and fun to ridicule France, you could easilly move 3 before 1.

Actually, I have nothing against France. I kinda like it, though I've never been.

[srjjs]

France also won both world wars. (with a little help)

[MRL180YTL2002]

Not the one before World War I where they lost some eastern territory to Germany (Alaciace and Loriane...spelling is wrong but)...that was the Franco-Prussian war. Its 1870-1871...and they were humiliated. The ruler of France was Napoleon the III who hoped to repeat Napoleon I's military success and failed! The Prussians won and then unified Germany even more.

[srjjs]

Oh thanks! I had forgotten all about Napoleon. Even if he did eventually lose. He should have studied the mongols more.

[MRL180YTL2002]

Napoleon the III is like his nephew or something. For you Pre-IB students on S.P.A.M., its in your World History Textbook. Look it up. Now Napoleon...lost in 1814 at Waterloo after escaping from Corsica only to be exiled again on some island off S. America. The first time he was exile was after his retreat from France and his army basically stunk as he lost his best troops. Like Hitler after him, they counted on a quick victory. But they failed to supply proper winter fighting gear and equipment and realize how large Russia is. (Hitler also cancelled four engine long range heavy strategic bombers that could have bombed Russian factories - the Soviets just took the factories apart and moved them east, out on the minimum range of the longest ranged German twin-engined medium bomber....and that my friends was at the extent that they ever got into the Soviet Union)

The French are the first to have the MODERN army were units support one another in corps size opeations...like infantry, cavalary, and artillery (not counting support units) operating together under a unified command. Each element of the French army (each corps) is essentially a fraction of the full French army and can function independently against a foe. Before that an army would be made up of units from all sorts of tyoes of divisions/regiments/brigades assigned to a commander where they were dependent on the higher headquarters. (its out there, find it and read it...don't remember where....naval history is more interesting and the French definately lost at sea a lot...only one victory comes to mind and that deals with Yorktown and the American War for Independence)

Originally posted by LBK Rules

Iraq has enough bios to kill this planet hundreds of times over.

Bush should have taken them by surprise.

Which Bush....

1) George H.W. Bush (41st POTUS 1988-1992)
2) George W. Bush (43rd POTUS 2000-20??)

so is it 1 or 2, or is it a family thing?

[GateRunner]

Originally posted by srjjs
Cheap weapons aren't always innaccurate. A knife for example...

If we want to talk close combat, sure

But throwing one is another matter entirely; even if you do hit your target, you've got maybe a 25% chance of it being at a sharp-end angle,

[Gary Dillard]

Originally posted by George1083
i'm so proud =-] all my little spammers are coming out in force!

now channel this energy! win some spirit awards or something!! heh

and with Warren and Gary and all those great mentors you guys have, i'm sure you'll be an asset to FIRST for many years!

Word

[srjjs]

Of course I meant at close range. Why would you throw a knife when there are som many other options out there that are so much more fun? (like a trebuchet. History channel had a special on medieval siege weapons last weekend)

[Scudzey]

Forget taking over the physical world, take over the cyber world. Google is going down so im going to take up on that....

[GateRunner]

Originally posted by srjjs
Of course I meant at close range. Why would you throw a knife when there are som many other options out there that are so much more fun? (like a trebuchet. History channel had a special on medieval siege weapons last weekend)

I would say an AK-47, or any AK model weapon, fall into a somewhat different catigory for weapons.
Ill clarify: AKs, as guns go, are dirt cheap for the most part, but are highly inaccurate.

knives, no matter how much they cost, still hurt up close.

And if you are unfortunate enough to be under a trebuchet's recently released payload, well, ouch

[srjjs]

Considering how computer-literate Team 180 seems to be compared to other teams, taking over the cyber world doesn't sound too impossible. Easier than taking over France.
PS. France has trebuchets. And knives.

[Scudzey]

LOL, rulling cyberspace would be fun, but watching the french being kicked out of france by robots manned by maniacs, that would be a site to see.

[LBK Rules]

Originally posted by LBK Rules
Bush should have taken them by surprise.

Ok, let me clarifiy this statement.

Not that I don't like Bush Jr. or Sr, I think Bush Sr. should have ousted Saddam in Desert Storm.

In 2002-3, Bush Jr. should have taken them, Iraq, by surprise, rather then going to the <PUKE>UN</PUKE>. (GC for those avid "Left Behind" readers )

[srjjs]

Originally posted by LBK Rules
Not that I don't like Bush Jr. or Sr, I think Bush Sr. should have ousted Saddam in Desert Storm.

In 2002-3, Bush Jr. should have taken them, Iraq, by surprise, rather then going to the <PUKE>UN</PUKE>. (GC for those avid "Left Behind" readers )

I smell a republican.