Recent content by joycem10

I was in high school at the time and I remember being in shock. I had just read Red Storm Rising, the media had just completed stuff like Amerika and The Day After (which featured a nuke war beginning over West Berlin and here the Berlin wall comes down 5-6 years later). All of a sudden it was...

My 5 year old POS Dell is just about dead. The hard drive has been slowing dying the last year or so and its bugged to hell. Im pretty illiterate when it comes to hardware and I would appreciate any help. I have no idea what level of processor or memory I need. My current hard drive is...

An interesting article in which the author outlines a number of cultural problems which may contribute to the relative ineffectiveness of arab armies. http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/AD_Issues/amdipl_17/articles/deatkine_arabs2.html On the other side, I've read a number of times (sorry...

Wow, someone defending and giving the benefit of the doubt to a priest on this site? Does ex-marine trump clergy in the realm of your prejudices? Would it be any different if the ex-marine had smacked Ted Haggard in the head with a tire iron? Ex-Marine = Symbol of evil american...

Fruit? Nasty. How do you prepare them? Do they fry pierogies with fruit filling?

Im from western PA which is like Eastern Europe mixed with Ireland. I suggest chedder and mashed potatos. Bag of potatos $2.50 bag of chedder $2. Add a little milk, butter and salt and you're set. Alternatively, kraut and minced kielbassa. Can of kraut $1, pound of kielbassa $2.50.

Yeah, cant imagine any use they'd have for a nuke. Really absurd to even mention Islamic terrorists and nukes in the same sentence. Now the Westboro Baptist Church with nukes...

Ima Big fan of the music from Dragon Quest VIII. Pretty much all Square Enix's music is pretty good.

Good point, most people tend to ignore the fact that cavalry's main role was to serve as the eyes and ears of a field general.

You have to get close enough to the AWACS/Mainstay (do the Russians still use Mainstays?) to get a weapon lock to engage. A fighter has a much smaller radar envelope in which it can lock its weapons, this is expecially true for infrared guided weapons. They need to close. During that time...

Do you need to "Think in Russian!" to fly that plane Major Gant?

Like to gamble? Foxwoods Casino in CN is pretty close to NYC. I would have suggested a trip to the Finger lakes in central NY, but not in Feb. Way too cold. Same goes for the Hamptons. You're about a month too early for the Big East Tournament at the Garden. Thats a blast. Niagara...

The Falls has its good and its bad. The area around Casino Niagara, The Keg, The Oakes and the top of the hill are pretty nice and relatively low on tourist BS. When you get to Ferry Street with the throngs of people, waterparks and Elvis Imaxes you're in the tacky tourist trap part of town...

Hockey Hall of Fame is a killer. I thoroughly enjoyed it when I was in town. When I was there you could call play by play from a game (i got pens caps 4OT '96 playoffs), practice your wrister and have your picture taken with the Cup. Course I like Hockey... If you're a gambler, Casino...

Names have been redacted to protect the annoying and innocent alike. To each his own. The fatigue factor with the same BS from, in some cases, the same people has built over the years. Good point, but thats actually alot better here than on some other sites.