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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
I can talk to Flynn. He might be willing
WIP: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=753039
Minnesota Dakota
Looks great, but needs flag or symbol.
Vista Major
Something like this?
https://s30.postimg.org/h6hfr7fqp/yi6u1a_B.png
Minnesota Dakota
Looks good.
Vista Major
Yall's factbooks are so sexy I'm jealous
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
It just takes lots... and lots of practice. And good templates
Snowing like crazy here! Going to get 8-12 inches soon! We PNWers are pussies when it comes to snow, so this is a lot for us :p
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Post self-deleted by Aldaur.
I want to publicly applaud my Vice President ~ Vista Major, for his new program with main focus helping our new citizens around. :)
Aldaur, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Here in Mass, that's called a pleasing amount of snow.
Like, it only gets bad when the snow is dirty :/
Here's hoping to a good day for all.
Aldaur
Nah, I got my own little plans for a base.
RIP Pioneer Cabin Tree
Jaslandia, Vista Major, The United Providences Of Perland, Pirate Kingdoms
Oh?
The United Providences Of Perland
Yep. Ain't telling though, with being classified and all that.
Though in it I'm developing sonic weapons.
Remind me to ally myself with you in any future RPs
Regarding the [B]"Dissolution of the Minister of Engagement Amendment"[/B] (http://s15.zetaboards.com/COFN/topic/10104131/1/) - All I have to say is that I support this bill - exactly as it is. I wish to congratulate the Delegate CC for taking it upon himself to write this bill.
Continental Commonwealths
We've gotten snow only once the entire winter: last week, about an inch overall. This week, temps are in the 80°s and rain's expected... the fück?
Hello friends and foes.
[spoiler=Today are:]
Today are:
- Carmentalia (Ancient Rome)
- Children's Day (Tunisia)
- Eugenio María de Hostos Day (Puerto Rico)
- German Apples Day (Germany)
- Independence Manifesto Day (Morocco)
- Independence Resistance Day (Morocco)
- Kagami biraki (Japan)
- Kosrae Constitution Day (Micronesia)
- Learn Your Name In Morse Code Day
- National Human Trafficking Awareness Day (United States)
- National Milk Day (United States)
- National Step in the Puddle and Splash Your Friends Day (United States)
- Republic Day (Albania)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 532 Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teamsthe Blues and the Greensin the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
- 1055 Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1158 Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia becomes King of Bohemia.
- 1569 First recorded lottery in England.
- 1571 Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion.
- 1693 A powerful earthquake destroys parts of Sicily and Malta.
- 1759 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
- 1779 Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manipur.
- 1787 William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
- 1805 The Michigan Territory is created.
- 1861 Alabama secedes from the United States.
- 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post: General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
- 1863 American Civil War: CSS Alabama encounters and sinks the USS Hatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
- 1879 The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
- 1908 Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
- 1912 Immigrant textile works in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
- 1917 The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
- 1922 First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
- 1923 Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
- 1927 Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
- 1935 Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
- 1942 World War II: The Japanese attack Tarakan in Borneo, Netherlands Indies (Battle of Tarakan)
- 1943 The Republic of China agrees to the Sino-British New Equal Treaty and the Sino-American New Equal Treaty.
- 1943 Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
- 1946 Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.
- 1949 The first "networked" television broadcasts took place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
- 1957 The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
- 1962 Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
- 1962 An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes around 4,000 deaths.
- 1964 Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
- 1972 East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
- 1973 Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.
- 1986 The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is officially opened.
- 1994 The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
- 1996 Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
- 1998 Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
- 2003 Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
- 2013 One French soldier and 17 militants are killed in a failed attempt to free a French hostage in Bulo Marer, Somalia.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 347 Theodosius I, Roman emperor
- 1638 Nicolas Steno, Danish bishop and anatomist
- 1755 Alexander Hamilton, Nevisian-American general, economist and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury
- 1815 John A. Macdonald, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Canada
- 1885 Alice Paul, American activist
- 1895 Laurens Hammond, American engineer and businessman, founded the Hammond Clock Company
- 1906 Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic, discoverer of LSD
- 1923 Ernst Nolte, German historian and philosopher
- 1930 Rod Taylor, Australian-American actor and screenwriter
- 1934 Jean Chrétien, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
- 1954 Kailash Satyarthi, Indian engineer, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1971 Mary J. Blige, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1972 Amanda Peet, American actress and playwright
- 1973 Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketer and captain
- 1974 Jens Nowotny, German footballer
- 1977 Anni Friesinger-Postma, German speed skater
- 1984 Mark Forster, Polish-German singer and songwriter
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Quote of the day
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Jaslandia, Vista Major, Minnesota Dakota, Confederacy Of Free Nations
~ This is pretty accurate. Good job my dear Peng! <3
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
noted.
Good morning everyone!
Jaslandia, Vista Major
Mornin' how are ya?
Vista Major
I'm good. How are you?
Vista Major
never better.
Vista Major
damnit! those are real :-/
I'll have to watch, here's hoping they ain't mounted on airships though, aye? ;P
4° yesterday, 40° today.
You ever just...get the feeling there ain't a god?
Pirate Kingdoms
I just do my job. :)
Jaslandia, Latrovia
Everyday we slip further away from his embrace or he's incredibly schizophrenic :p
Jaslandia, Magnatronia
I don't get that feeling because I never feel there is a god. :3
http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/685/579/544.png
Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms
powerful and silent, too. Enough to make one's head explode.
I just want an army of damn robots to oppress my employees. Is that too much to ask?
And crush denser organs, burst most of your head-based organs and burst your blood vessels
or you could be humane and use it non-lethally, the LRAD has a great many uses :D
And there's always the chance your enemy will be prepared against it, considering that most of the really lethal versions are still in the "Research and Development" stage, so its really only good for public disturbance...Magna :P
Magnatronia
the death threshold of sound is between 185-200 db. the loudest sound possible is at 194 db in 2016, so imagine it in 2020 where it's more advanced.
not to mention that the device will operate on too low of a frequency for humans to hear.
Ohhh, you XD
Andromitus
Good to see that you're a Satan as always. XD
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Magnatronia
Depends on how much of a threat a force is, or my current mood >:)
Here's hoping no one develops an Anti-Materiel rifle for use against it, or uses Indirect fire against it, or a tank against it :P
Seriously though, this is really only good against civilians.
May I interest you a platoon of R107 Non-Lethal Enforcer Drones?
LRAD's can operate at a max range of 2 miles, I doubt that a tank can get close enough to fire accurately without getting blown up by an AT gun.
Certain American tanks can fire 2-3 miles :P
Besides, the most advanced and deadly LRAD's are still under development, so as pointed out with the laWS, you're not going to be having great armies bow to you because of your great sonic capabilities. The only truly active LRAD can kill individuals, but only within the distance of a few hundred meters. And even then, only individuals, not mass crowds just dead on the floor. And on that note, it's totally not as if several companies, both domestic US and international, are finding fun, neat ways to counteract low decibel ultrasound weaponry, such as microcarbon graphene insulation, geometrical anti-sound nano-structures sprayed onto soldiers and vehicle armoring blah blah blah
Same thing with laWS, china is developing a literal spray on mirroring film to reflect high-density lasers, its not even close to completion and information is scarce, but same deal with lasers haha
The lrad was uses to disperse 100 people from a protest.
Freewire
Mile: a unit of linear measure equal to 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards (approximately 1.609 kilometers)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinmetall_120_mm_gun
The max effective firing range with LAHAT is 8,700 Yards, and 4,400 without, so no.
Second, guided missiles are a thing, you know.
Third, indirect fire is a thing used pretty extensively against hardened targets for a reason, whereas dedicated AT guns have massively died off due to irrelevance in the growing world.
http://imgur.com/gallery/Qdp6W
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Continental Commonwealths
Lurv it
Sonic guided missiles, what a good idea!
Actually, according to gizmodo, an lrad 2000x can reach over 5.5 miles. http://gizmodo.com/what-is-the-lrad-sound-cannon-5860592
What?
No that would not work
:/
There's no point or purpose to that.... waste of money and an inability to do anything
No, because even though the RP date is till 2020 the tech level is present day.
How many times am I going to be explaining this.
Kalaron, Freewire
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C-ObB_S_qZo
" In a typical outdoor environment, the device can be heard for 650 meters."
Because those make sense inside of the tech you mentioned, of course.
Might as well just forget about Thermobaric missiles \s
Freewire
The device produces a sound that can be directed in a beam up to 30-degree wide, and the military-grade LRAD 2000X can transmit voice commands at up to 162dB up to 5.5 miles away.
I don't begrudge the participators in these conversations about military capability- by all means, converse your hearts out- but there's something to be said about Unf's comment yesterday about the inbalance of RP-related talk and the amount of RPing we actually do.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Freewire, Yukona, Magnatronia
And your plan againt tanks is?
As a Standoff weapon, this hardly works due to the speed of the "projectile" and capacity for one to decrease the sound by using obstructions or potentially using destructive interference against it.
Furthermore, LAHAT has a maximum effective range of 4.9 miles, which means one tank could still easily fight against the system, and two could destroy a stronger one.
Hell, IF or a Strike plane could break every target.
You really think i would leave something like this unprotected?
:D
Its been the same since forever. RPs just aren't that fun when all the alliances and most of the plot are worked out before it starts.
Jaslandia
I do begrudge my fvcking typos, though.
Jaslandia
You, in all honesty, proved my point...How do you even do that, Im so confused hahaha
I word checked the entire page you sent me, and the there was no MENTION of purposeful in combat death by LRAD. It was used to deter pirates, who as we know are just the BEST ARMED FORCES IN THE WORLD [you can just taste the sarcasm :D] But in that case, it made no mention of any of the pirates dying, in fact, with further research into that pirate deterrence, information regarding how much and how effective the on board LRAD is unknown
And yea, it was used to disperse protesters, as I already said it could so in that matter you just parroted me lol, do you even know what disperse means [To distribute or spread over a wide are]. so no killing, just making unarmed, unarmored protesters run away, and the systems we employed didn't even maim them, they just ran off because it felt like someone was screaming in their ear at max volume from an earbud.
Heck, I admit I was wrong about one single thing, I said and i quote:
But even that was wrong, as far as i've found, no LRAD has killed anyone in combat, and even if it did, it would have been an unprotected protester, and the guy firing the d@mn thing would have gotten hurt too.
So...Yea
By this point, I've read posts of yours stating that water and a laser make a laser shotguns, airships are capable when armed, ICBMs cant mount a payload, ICBMs *are* payload, Sonic Missiles are a thing, enemy nations wouldn't use Bunker Busters to attack you and some other things I'm sure.
By this point, I don't know what you understand about the military.
Yukona
Dafuq is a "Sonic Missile", and why dafuq WOULDN'T I use a bunker buster against a heavily irradiated enemy who totally doesn't survive underground
Jeez guys, if you want me to start an RP where you can test technology, just ask. I'll be more than happy to invade you.
First, presumably a missile meant to make a sonic boom of some strength over the norm, however useless that may be compared to thermobaric missiles.
Second, it was a debate over whether his oil fields are vulnerable to nukes.
Yukona
Following new legislation in Nuremgard, economic output is rising as the chronically depressed are encouraged not to burden society.
Following new legislation in Nuremgard, cancer rates among the rich are rising.
Oops. I did not intend this at all. Nuremgard is turning nasty!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Now since when did I say that an icbm is a payload, or that it can't be loaded with one?
Good luck with that.
If the dude operating it was in front of it yes, but otherwise no.
I'll admit to having misread your post, however, you did try to state that Solla hadn't sent any ICBMs over with the goal of having Bunker Busters on it, and had instead "only launched" ICBMs as though they couldn't use them.
Furthermore, my other points are valid, and I'd argue that it's reasonable for me not to know what exactly you know after all of these things.
thank you
I'm gonna love the next RP where each military-based post is accompanied by 3 pages of debate.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Yukona, Magnatronia
I doubt that, we'd be discussing it here :D
I don't even participate, dude.
However, I will comment on the veracity of anything and everything, including this "Sonic Tech" :P
Yukona
I searched a bit more, have yet to find any deaths by an LRAD...and so the search continues :P
Sorry Nurem. If it isn't military related, it isn't up to snuff nowadays.
How you got cancer to selectively effect the upper classes, though, must be quite the feat for an anti-bourgeois such as yourself.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Shhhh
?
You didn't see nothing!
Wait a second, you're supposed to be dead!
Sinovet
double negative, you´re saying i did see something.
My god, Sino is back?
Sinovet, Yukona
Wait, so he´s a zombie?! QUICK, KILL IT IT FIRE!!
Indeed I am
But there was a big fuss and I woke up
Something about some guy named Drump or something.
well, you gotta lot to catch up on zombie dude.
Is Fallout real yet?
not yet, unfortunately, but there were some close calls, so i got a good feeling it will be real soon.
Good, good.
This power armor is...not great for the spine.
wait, do what now?
Don't worry about it
Fallout 4's out, and the DLC's pretty good if you play in survival
Nuka World was a b111111111tchhhhhhhh
Them scaling enemies though
And them fixed backstories though
Action RPG, more like Radioactive GTA
Andromitus
so wait, you´ve been wearing Power Armor since you ¨died¨ (though i think you were cryogenicly frozen, but i could be wrong), im surprised that your able to even move in that thing!
Sure, something like that
I'm the mad king, I do what I want
well, you came back from the dead, so i guess thats correct. On a side note, is this X-01 series power armor?! I´ve always wanted to tinker with one of these!
Nah, Enclave. Pre-Bethesda pattern.
hmm, i see. i always get those mixed up. though ive alwa- WAIT A MINNIT! How did you get enclave power armor, let alone an entire set!?
Where the hell is Sul when you're trying to suprise a homie
Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answers to
oh but i do want to know.
Sine!
Sinovet, Yukona
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