Looking less and less likely that US Citizens were aboard that flight (Or at least 23 of them). It certainly takes the pressure off the US to lead the retaliation.
It'll also be interesting to see whether the missile was from Russia or Ukraine. I actually believe the sloppiness of the Ukraine...
There's very little upside for them and a huge downside. Would they have started a ground initiative if this didn't happen? Probably. Would it be less aggressive than it otherwise be? Probably.
Thanks for the added context. I wasn't sure if it was analogous to code 187 (police code for murder) where many people know it but generally only police use it.
another translation of that video
Note that 200 is a Russian military slang for dead bodies.
Cargo 200 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Making it likely the speaker is likely current or was in the Russian military.
I wonder if the black box has anything useful. I can't imagine the recording going like, "we're hit, we're going down, wait.. wait... I see out the... window... It's PUTIN RIDING A BEAR HOLDING A RED FLAG"
24/7 cable news and fully written/edited websites are just poor mediums for this kind of news. Their twitter accounts are probably more suited to deploying news. At first you think, "why can't a group of people paid to handle this shit do as well as unpaid internet browsers?". But you have to...
I'm actually not against multi-zone technology, it just needs to be implemented in a way that doesn't ruin the continuity of a zone. I like the way GW2 did it.
Ideally each zone has a tree of possible zones that exist in it. To mirror a zone called Barrens and servers named after...
Astro is just keeping up his rep.
Chuk, if you're going to post in a thread for adults step up your game. If you can't manage that go back to the political thread.
On the spectrum of reaction there's:
sanctions < drone strikes < large scale bombing < troops on the ground < full occupation
I'm thinking a combination of drone and bombing could be justified here once we know the facts.
I don't think Pres. Obama should occupy Eastern Ukraine over this, just air strikes, drone strikes etc on targets they've probably already been watching. Again, that's assuming the separatists did this.
Another part of the problem is that people that don't live in or near a border state don't really understand the situation well and speak from ignorance. People here (in Michigan) knew a few illegal Mexican families and think they're experiencing the same problems as someone in say, Phoenix.
Eh we'll see. Going to war with Russia and going to war with separatists are two different things. I'm not sure what Pres. Obama will do, but if this was indeed perpetrated by separatists then he's a pussy if we don't give involved militarily.
One huge headache with this is how bad the...
You have to be pretty fuck partisan and soulless to use the deaths of hundreds of civilians as some kind of fucked up excuse for the deaths of hundreds of other civs.
I doubt the Russians were directly involved. If they were secretly administering the weapons to shoot down Ukraine planes they probably wouldn't have hit a commercial airliner. Now whether you can give weapons to guerilla factions and claim no involvement to what they do with them is a question...
To be fair to social media, propaganda/messaging is a huge component to terrorism/rebellion. Facebook/twitter/other social media is just the newest version of that.
Yeah I bet they did, lol.
Twitter / KiritRadia: Putin called Malaysias Prime ...
Putin called Malaysia's Prime Minister to express condolences, Kremlin says.
To be fair to that commander, he was assuming it was a military transport and no civs were injured by the debris hitting the ground.
Assuming that he actually was responsible I imagine he's the most wanted man in the world atm. I could see NATO launching military strikes at separatist...
It was probably separatists
Twitter / MiddleEast_BRK: The BUK system that downed ...
The BUK system that downed MH17 was provided to Russians inside Ukraine by the Russian army in the last 48 hrs.
I heard they've been shooting down Ukrainian transports all over. They probably assumed it...
Schedule all holidays with both of them invited, situate them so they are all close together, stealthily bring up topics of dispute, wait for inevitable fallout, end holiday asap, go back to gaming, ???, profit.
This is a good way to go if you can pull it off. It all depends on the families involved. My wifes' and mines' extended families are all out of state, but our close families don't really care when the Christmas / thanksgiving / birthday events happen, so we can be literally weeks from the actual...
The entry barrier is actually easier than on release imo.
1. You get incredible gear easily as you level up. ex level 1-10:
level 60:
Elaborate Defiant Breastplate :: Items :: EverQuest :: ZAM
2. You get all the AAs from all but the last 4 (iirc) expansions for free.
3. There's all...
this is 100% true, but this choice is also a huge reason why people like the Mass Effect franchise so much, especially leading up to ME3 where they assumed their choices mattered. Those options also increase replay-ability for hardcore fans, but most people don't finish games once much less...