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Thomamelas
Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
So in June of 1967 Isreal and pretty much all of the Middle East had a brawl. It lasted six days and so historians with their love of clever names stuck the moniker of The Six Day war on it. And it's a fairly interesting war but we're not going to talk about it directly today. We're gonna talk about a boat cruise that even Gilligan felt went horribly wrong. When the war broke out, one of the first actions the Egyptians took was to blockade the Suez Canal. They scuttled a number of boats, barges and bridges then mined the water for good measure. Which was really annoying to international shippers but beyond inconvenient for the 15 ships still making the transit.
14 of the 15 ships took anchor in the Great Bitter Lake. The 15th was stuck separate from the other group and effectively cut off. So the Six Day War passes but the tensions between Egypt and Israel do not. And the Suez remains blockaded. By October, the Captains of the 14 vessels realize they aren't going anywhere anytime soon. So they gather together and start figuring out what resources they had. They formed the Great Bitter Lake Association and started a organizing social events to combat the boredom. The British ship MS Port Invercargill had enough space for a jury rigged soccer field to be set up. They set up tournaments between the ships. The Bulgarians gave everyone access to their collections of films and their projector. The Swedes had a pool. They set up a mini-Olypmics in honor of the 1968. And they attended church services on the West German ship. And they used the lifeboats to water ski.
By 1968 things had calmed down enough to allow the crews to be exchanged out, but crews were rotated in and out to keep the ships operational, although over time the ships were abandoned as they became non-functional. Slowly they began to be covered in sand, giving them a yellow appearance that became their name, The Yellow Fleet. By 1975 the canal was finally cleared enough for traffic to resume. Of the Yellow Fleet only the Münsterland and Nordwind made it out under their own power. A trip just a hair over half the length of time the passengers of the S.S. Minnow took.
Some of the stamps produced by the GBLA.
14 of the 15 ships took anchor in the Great Bitter Lake. The 15th was stuck separate from the other group and effectively cut off. So the Six Day War passes but the tensions between Egypt and Israel do not. And the Suez remains blockaded. By October, the Captains of the 14 vessels realize they aren't going anywhere anytime soon. So they gather together and start figuring out what resources they had. They formed the Great Bitter Lake Association and started a organizing social events to combat the boredom. The British ship MS Port Invercargill had enough space for a jury rigged soccer field to be set up. They set up tournaments between the ships. The Bulgarians gave everyone access to their collections of films and their projector. The Swedes had a pool. They set up a mini-Olypmics in honor of the 1968. And they attended church services on the West German ship. And they used the lifeboats to water ski.
By 1968 things had calmed down enough to allow the crews to be exchanged out, but crews were rotated in and out to keep the ships operational, although over time the ships were abandoned as they became non-functional. Slowly they began to be covered in sand, giving them a yellow appearance that became their name, The Yellow Fleet. By 1975 the canal was finally cleared enough for traffic to resume. Of the Yellow Fleet only the Münsterland and Nordwind made it out under their own power. A trip just a hair over half the length of time the passengers of the S.S. Minnow took.
Some of the stamps produced by the GBLA.
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So no one told me sims was gonna be this way
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
CLAP-CLAP-CLAP-CLAP
Most people would have stopped caring and just started enjoying flying around once they got the jet pack. It shows CJ's dedication that the rest of the missions didn't involve just jetpacking all over the world.
Automation, somewhat counterintuitively, facilitates outsourcing. You'd think that replacing workers with robots would make factories less sensitive to labor costs and companies more likely to setup manufacturing in their home country. That's one factor to consider but another is that skilled workers are often hard to find in countries overseas. Workers in outsourced factories are harder to train and much less loyal to the company.
Automation makes factories more like little kits you can just deploy in whatever country is the cheapest in terms of taxes and materials. It lowers labor costs AND outsourcing overhead, often making outsourcing even more attractive.
It's not as intresting as the Yom Kipper War that it sets up but it has it's moments. Demonstration of how the opening minutes of a modern air war can be very important for instance.
there was something really smooth and holistic about it, even when the individual missions (eg, Top Fun) were wonky or dumb
was that the one mission with the remote controlled planes
i think i got to that one and then set the game down, never to pick it up again
No no, after Sweet's free and CJ is a millionaire somebody, Sweet's still worried about his territory.
I'm not sure how anybody beat the goddamn Dodo missions in Vice City with a keyboard.
I played gta:sa on a PC, and switching over to mouse for those missions helped a lot.
They were designed very badly.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Supply Lines was the single worst mission. Followed closely by its predecessor because David Cross.
apparently it was like, literally unfinishable on PS2 originally, and the fixed version is still a pain in the ass
but you don't have to finish it to beat the game, it just lets you own the RC shop which is not that big a deal
Exciting developments ahead!
i mean, i was in college at the time, before i turned 21 and began a genocide against my braincells
so i had a sharp mind and keen hands and tons of time to play videogames
and that fucking mission broke me
I think they failed to understand the same lesson that Facebook had to learn the hard way. People do not want a device that is locked in to one service-based company in so broad a way that the entire experience is corralled by it. ESPECIALLY going so far as to force you into a social network, or suggest you buy stuff all the time based on everything you do. When the user interface is railroaded by branding and ads, it is not a good experience.
Amazon is a website; an app at best. It is most definitely not a hardware platform for me beyond maybe an Ebook reader.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Agreed. I quite liked both as a child but I've not read much recently as the current situation is kind of depressing.
The new topic I want to work on is South East Asia pre Islam
Boy it's too bad this movie isn't real.
i actually uh
didn't realize what day it was today
i actually forgot
until someone online pointed it out to me
sorry, crying bald eagle
i guess 13 years is how long it took
Sounds like cake. Where do I sign up for that trip?
Have you tried rebooting?
am boycotting
they do not get to make me pay $$$$$$ for expansions to get the same functionality of the previous game and expansions.
This one has incest though, which is a plus.
I had forgotten until I turned on MSNBC and saw the terror porn that they do every year at this time.
I mean seriously, MSNBC...
Let's play Mario Kart or something...