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Hello all,

On a whim I thought to poke back in here and was shocked to discover my account still worked. Major kudos to whomever has maintained this forum for so long to keep my account valid for over a decade!

To a more important question though: is anyone from the original crew here?

Yosh

http://www.webwars.com is by Ragnar's company, John Galt Games.

Just been bouncing around Asia. I was in Tokyo for two years, now I'm in Korea for one year. I've been here for nine months now, and from here I'm going to Washington DC for two years (but not the Pentagon, thankfully) and then out of the Air Force. I've thought about getting into EVE again, but I c...

Welp, this makes almost exactly 4 years now that I've been poking my head in every once and a while to see how TTI is doing. Honestly, I'm really surprised you guys are around. After you lost the domain, and then got moved again, I lost track. I happened to be talking about EVE with a friend when I ...

Hey all,

Every few weeks I check up on the Deep Thoughts forum to see if there's anything interesting to comment on. It has been very quiet there lately, so I came out and looked around to notice that the rest of this forum is incredibly quiet now.

What are you guys are up to, anyway?

Regards,
Yosh

M.A.D. doesn't make quite as much sense when you're the only one with nukes and the enemy is only 20km away... seems a bit more masochistic.

Why isn't this in Deep Thoughts?

Before replying to this I decided to refresh myself on Truman's biography. I come away once again astonished at how influential of a President he was. We can thank him for the debacle of Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh wanted to be an ally of the US) and the fact that we are still (sorta) fighting the Korean W...

International Law, UN convention, Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) and the Geneva Conventions are used to initially define the status of an individual. For example, if we capture a "terrorist" in Iraq, he will fall under the Geneva Conventions and applicable UN treaties. US law is not applicab...

Hey ass, how's civilian life? =P Did you re-marry? How's the little-un? The AF's not too bad really, I guess. Our worst enemy isn't Osama, it's the many SNCOs/O6+ who are "running" the place, but that's life. Yokota's a hoot... bad SNCOs and a base commander job guaranteed to get you a Sta...

If Gunny is there, I want in!

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I was having a really in-depth political discussion with another semi-Jewish friend of mine last night over some Jack D. The convo bounced around quite a bit, but ultimately we realized that things were about to get much worse for America and that we may have exprienced the height of American hemoge...

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Desert Shield/Storm were so constrained in mission that it would be impossible for them to fail. Mind that Shield's entire purpose was to defend the Saudi oil fields and Storm was to liberate Kuwait. I don't like that 5th largest military in the world bit. Keep in mind this was the Iraqi's military ...

Well, it's done with, and there will probably be more to come. Awesome. I admire and am indeed glad that DC has at least genuinely attempted real diplomacy with NK and Iran. I commend the foreign policy Realists who manage to stay employed in the the Beltway. But now we're stuck. The problem is, Ira...

It's mostly the extreme that we're at now and the methods and principles being used to explain these programs. I don't necessarily mind secret govt programs per se. Being in the military it's scary the stuff I've seen and some stuff, I admit, should not be made public. There are many, many situation...

Just for some perspective... it seems we've lost it since the 2000 election. "The President and the Press" (April 27, 1961) Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: I appreciate very much your generous invitation to be here tonight. You bear heavy responsibilities these days and an article I r...

To be honest, being in the military in the times we are in has made me re-evaluate a great deal of my politics. I get very nervous when I hear ideology mixed in with politics. You don’t really come to a conclusion on what we should do about Iran/NK, but before you do, let me inject some of my Realis...

If you haven't noticed everyone's forgotten about Israel lately. News that should have been bombshell world shattering news (Israel officially announcing it was going to combine all of the small West Bank settlements into one mega-settlement/extention of East Jerusalem in the West Bank) barely made ...

Agreed, it was unnecessary. Even I get to have my rants occasionally, and if I frequented the forum enough I would have edited it myself earlier. To continue with the discussion, I was pondering on Bush's Union address. I find it terribly ironic that Bush's insane obsession with spreading democracy ...

I have no desire revolutionize the world. The world doesn't want to be revolutionized, it will change on its own slowly with time. Maybe not within my lifetime, but eventually. As for Judaism, my wife was raised Orthodox (she is no longer) and so my views of the various groupings of Judaism tend to ...

I have nothing against Muslims per se, at least the intellectuals. Those who understand where Islam could be in the world seem to be very enlightened on how it seems to be heading in the exact opposite direction. Given its populace and broad unique culture it would be very easy for Islam to create a...

The defeat of the ruling Fatah party to the militant terrorist group Hamas in this week's elections in Palestine has stunned foreign policy experts and dovish Foreign Ministries worldwide. Analysts and experts across the world had expected a marginal victory for the blatantly corrupt Fatah party, wh...

Heya! Where in the world is Tinto now?

A belated Happy Chanukah.