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Well, ultra-oppressive serfdom is prosperous to the ruling class, after all. I love how some people claim their country was such a better place during the 18th/19th centuries (we have that here too) as if they would be some kind of noble if they had lived back then. PROTIP: you would've been...

Ok, enough spam. Two very basic things that bother me with the whole "public health care is socialism" thing in the US are: 1. Public health care reforms aren't inherently socialist (in this case they're not). 2. Socialism isn't inherently wrong. But you can't argue that to the people...

True, the suitability of perfection contra redundancy is very dependent on the field. For tanks, I guess the latter is better, simply because you might not be able to do advanced repairs in a warfare situation.

I only get lag when I film with Fraps. I might check this out, could resolve this issue. Any confirmation whether it affects graphics quality?

I hate CDs. I despise them a lot.

I think that's more an issue with the developers and publishers than with Steam. What do you mean with "comfortable DRM"? I've never felt a need to copy any of my games on Steam, I can download and run them from a different computer.

What's wrong with Steam? I've never had any issues with it, and they regularly have sales. Ubisoft's client. Market Darwinism; companies with poor products deserve to fail. It's just like the car industry.

Doesn't matter, they're going to be run over by Steam due to poor product quality.

As soon as big money gets thrown into the mix, it attracts mobsters and other lesser humans such as these.

Don't they do that with some fighter jets? Or at least let you fly along?

So they decide to off the guys behind one of their most successful franchises? I see.

Oh, most of them are going to start and work, I have no doubt about that. But it's not optimum storage conditions, and it significantly lowers certain components' lifetimes. Which led me to believe it was a scrap yard; pretty much my original argument. Also, if they're surplus tanks built simply...

Out in snow --> components degrade --> degraded components do not meet engineering standards --> tanks do not meet army standards --> broken apart for spare parts or scrap metal. Pretty exaggerated, but do you get the principle? Or do I need to make a flowchart? At least this is how it...

It's not really a matter of it starting or not (it would probably start), it's a lot of other things. For instance the insurance that it won't break down in the middle of a battle. Functioning is not the same as functioning well.

They're airplanes, not icebreakers. Even Russia has to obey the laws of nature.

Probably not for three months.

If the tanks had any value, they would be well-guarded. They don't have any, and are guarded accordingly. I was just answering to your original post where you made an inane reply to Ratty's link.

Don't be a fucking idiot. It's called a Boneyard, and that particular one is pretty famous. Many of those planes aren't scrap metal, they're actually put in reserve in case they need to be recomissioned. Note how properly those grey cargo planes (C-130s) are disassembled. Of course they have...

You'd be amazed what duct tape can do. Seriously: I'd think the reason why Russians would do it that way is a lower safety standard. It's entirely possible and even quite safe to repair aircraft with duct tape. Maybe Norwegian helicopter pilots aren't allowed to do it (in peacetime) even...

Right. And how many millions of Russians died? Desperate times call for desperate measures. I'm sure many have done similar things in war. Not excluding the Germans in '45.