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I may not have stated it correctly, when I was in combat in Vietnam and the war zone around Vietnam we were told by the military that more of us were injured and or killed (casualties) in accidents then in combat. There is a difference in reporting KIA, casualties do to combat and over all casualties. We do have to be careful in reading reports. (Edit: In reports what you read and what you think you read may not be the same thing but may be what the writer of what you read may intent for you to think you read. :))

If you check you'll see that it is not meaningless. The military is worried about it and has been for a long time.

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Just to add to the discussion. Military Suicides Reach Highest Rate Since Record-Keeping Began After 9/11 (Edit: There is no way to tell if any of the non suicide deaths that happen in the military are the equivalent of death by cop or any of the other hidden ways that everyday people kill themselves. Hope not but just no way to tell.)

Edit: I'm not trying to tell you what to think, how to think, what to believe or how to interpret what I have posted. What I'm trying to point out is that training is dangerous and stuff happens. Oh and just being in the military is dangerous and stuff happens. Just being alive is dangerous and stuff happens.
 
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CmptrWz said:
Willingly given fingerprints would be an interesting one to figure out how to accomplish, but she hadn't had any luck figuring it out yet. She wasn't sure how one stole nail clippings without them counting as discarded, short of clipping the nails by force. Not something she thought was happening. Pillowcases that they'd drooled on while sleeping would be easier to obtain if they were away from home, but breaking into their residences was not happening anytime soon. And she had no clue why the thinker had bothered to list things like used condoms, given that the wording seemed to imply a male using them.
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Don't know if anyone is aware of it, but there actually is a condom for women. Likely not used as much as the standard ones, but they do exist.
 
eveakane said:
I didn't know about the sand part. I always knew the salt would help in stopping or slowing down ice forming in roads, but sand apparently helps with traction for vehicles.
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Sand also darkens the snow, allowing more sunlight to be absorbed rather then reflected, and thus heating the snow, causing it to melt faster then it would without. But, yes, the sand is there mostly to "rough up" the surface and provide extra traction. Without it, packed down snow may as well be solid ice.
 
sstabeler said:
Wait...The Fallen are Mastering members of the E88 and ABB? Are they going for Darwin Awards? All they're going to achieve is getting the gangs actively helping the PRT hunt them down.

Also, I see Hookwolf figured out a way to repay Taylor for the help in sorting out Alabaster. (I'm a little bit surprised those protesters had sufficient self-preservation instincts to knock it off, admittedly)
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I'd say it's likely that the lot of them already qualify as 1st class Darwin recipients. Then again, given that they're all fanatics, it's pretty much a given that they lack useful intelligence.
 
Frogs321 said:
I may not have stated it correctly, when I was in combat in Vietnam and the war zone around Vietnam we were told by the military that more of us were injured and or killed (casualties) in accidents then in combat. There is a difference in reporting KIA, casualties do to combat and over all casualties. We do have to be careful in reading reports.

If you check you'll see that it is not meaningless. The military is worried about it and has been for a long time.

www.military.com

Military Daily News

Daily updates of everything that you need know about what is going on in the military community and abroad including military gear and equipment, breaking news, international news and more.
www.military.com www.military.com

www.ozy.com

U.S. Military Training Nearly Four Times Deadlier Than Combat

With fatalities off the battlefield soaring, American armed services training needs a safety upgrade.
www.ozy.com www.ozy.com


Just to add to the discussion. Military Suicides Reach Highest Rate Since Record-Keeping Began After 9/11 (Edit: There is no way to tell if any of the non suicide deaths that happen in the military are the equivalent of death by cop or any of the other hidden ways that everyday people kill themselves. Hope not but just no way to tell.)

Edit: I'm not trying to tell you what to think, how to think, what to believe or how to interpret what I have posted. What I'm trying to point out is that training is dangerous and stuff happens. Oh and just being in the military is dangerous and stuff happens. Just being alive is dangerous and stuff happens.
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Adding to this, in the (US) military (at least) we have the philosophy of "train harder, bleed less" so our training is somewhat expected to be more dangerous than combat. Sometimes this becomes a problem when people think that because it is training that it is inherently LESS dangerous. Yes, there are more controls and injuries are seen to faster than in the field, but if your rope snaps while you are rappelling down a 100ft rock face with a full gear load, you're still gonna go splat.
 
Frogs321 said:
I may not have stated it correctly, when I was in combat in Vietnam and the war zone around Vietnam we were told by the military that more of us were injured and or killed (casualties) in accidents then in combat. There is a difference in reporting KIA, casualties do to combat and over all casualties. We do have to be careful in reading reports.
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No, that's true even today. That's why the military started making everyone wear those stupid reflective belts everywhere despite the neigh-universal loathing of them by soldiers - because they work in reducing accidents.

 
arromdee said:
People don't seem concerned enough about the effect on a five year old of having chopped off someone's arm.
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She has anti-hero branding on her side, plus she's been openly acknowledged by Lung as his daughter. Granted, she probably never got into a case where she was around when he was invoking discipline on his gang, but the implication would be that she's at least more likely to maim in certain situations that a "normal" Ward would be. I'm sure, as others have noted, that there was likely an off-camera meeting about the incident, but you can be pretty sure that she wouldn't have gotten any negative feedback at all from her family for what she did. Knowing Lung, there was probably a head pat involved.
 
Taylor finds, whilst patrolling the upper floors of a Mall, an individual hidden behind a bush. He has an inflatable doll, with a picture of Vista taped the head, and is watching the Wards who are involved in a PR meet n greet.
 
LZB1285 said:
Taylor finds, whilst patrolling the upper floors of a Mall, an individual hidden behind a bush. He has an inflatable doll, with a picture of Vista taped the head, and is watching the Wards who are involved in a PR meet n greet.
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Wow that must have been some beatdown than. Can i have a link to the beatdown?

Edit: nevermind found it and read it, and was suitably disgusted.
 
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jwizard39 said:
Don't know if anyone is aware of it, but there actually is a condom for women. Likely not used as much as the standard ones, but they do exist.
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They exist. They also work the same way as male condoms, by containing male ejaculate to keep it from coming in contact with the woman's reproductive system. While they may be contaminated with some tissue from the woman involved, the same would be true of a male condom, and both would be far more effective at gathering a sample of the male's genetic material.

That said, if an emotional/psychic connection is required..... well, sex is generally an emotionally intense act, so there may be a reasonable connection there......
 
If going shopping in Empire territory was such a hassle, they do have access to how many cities on two Earths? Going to Florida on Earth Aleph would likely mean that there would be an enormous variety of goods available that aren't on Bet thanks to how international transportation had been disrupted by the EBs. How many varieties of fruit/grain/livestock/etc. were wiped out or never developed on Bet, and what kind of ideas might those give the biotinker side of the main pair.

I also find myself wondering if Maul could convince Leviathan to move the tanker----

Dang it, Dragon already did that as a "mother's Day" gift. It would have been quite amusing for Margaret to come move it, when they previously only repaired the damage they caused in a more direct sense, particularly in light of the EBs having left the planet.*

*Publicly, that is. Whether they are sticking around in their original roles, doing whatever it was they were made to do, is something I don't know was ever addressed. Making such a public spectacle of leaving was obviously intended to help people accept that they were gone, but if they're not attacking, there's no need for them to stay gone.
 
Wyrd said:
Going to Florida on Earth Aleph would likely mean that there would be an enormous variety of goods available that aren't on Bet thanks to how international transportation had been disrupted by the EBs. How many varieties of fruit/grain/livestock/etc. were wiped out or never developed on Bet, and what kind of ideas might those give the biotinker side of the main pair.
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Problem with that being, Amy doesn't know of any stores in Florida (Bet or Aleph) that have what she wants, where she knows the store in Empire territory does.
 
rdmcmains said:
Problem with that being, Amy doesn't know of any stores in Florida (Bet or Aleph) that have what she wants, where she knows the store in Empire territory does.
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True. Then again, there's Google. This is also a thing to consider for future purposes, as "hard to get" in Brockton Bay on Earth Bet could be "available in 90% of grocery stores" in Aleph's version.
 
Wyrd said:
True. Then again, there's Google. This is also a thing to consider for future purposes, as "hard to get" in Brockton Bay on Earth Bet could be "available in 90% of grocery stores" in Aleph's version.
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True, as we've already seen with that one pain-reliever that Thinkers go ga-ga for that is an OTCF medication over in Aleph.
 
That's orks, not cartoon physics. In cartoon physics firearms explode with little to no actual damage being caused, although there might be some temporary facial feature rearranging if you're a duck. This explosion is either the gun backfiring (without damaging the gun) or immediately after the projectile leaves the barrel, depending on what is more amusing. If the barrel is plugged, the barrel peals back like a banana due to the explosion, while the object that plugged the barrel is blackened but otherwise undamaged.
 
... Maybe have GR purposefully pinch the end of a 'drawn' gun, pull the trigger a few times so the bullets get 'clogged' and show a bulge in the barrel... then she releases her pinch-hold on the end of the gun so all the bullets fired come out really fast, one at a time, with the bulge very rapidly flattening back out to normal with each bullet basically screaming as they are ejected from the muzzle.
 
sstabeler said:
To be fair, there's not a lot Parian could have done when the tanks hit anyway, so it's probably better she stayed out of things.

It's also hilarious that it seems that Amy accidentally fixed the chemical imbalance causing Mark's issues during the upgrade.
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Wasn't Amy that did that; that sort of thing was part of the basic package that Riley gives to all of those she upgrades. It just wasn't something they were aware of that she did until she mentioned it. Riley is also the one responsible for secure Bluetooth functionality as well, which fits her particular skill set.
 
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