"XJDano" (xjdano)
11/06/2019 at 10:48 • Filed to: Notice
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"XJDano" (xjdano)
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Have a Tank!
Also Tank
I imagine this is What the Kinja server room looks like.
jimz
> XJDano
11/06/2019 at 11:00 |
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christ, did the program manager for the NSX get put in charge of Kinja?
ttyymmnn
> XJDano
11/06/2019 at 11:01 |
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farscythe - makin da cawfee!
> XJDano
11/06/2019 at 11:02 |
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that just means next time they wont warn us...
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> XJDano
11/06/2019 at 11:02 |
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Tanks very much!
ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
> jimz
11/06/2019 at 11:03 |
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stars, you need more stars
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ttyymmnn
> XJDano
11/06/2019 at 11:04 |
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I imagine this is What the Kinja server room looks like.
Actually:
zipfuel
> XJDano
11/06/2019 at 11:05 |
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Ding fucking dong!
wafflesnfalafel
> XJDano
11/06/2019 at 11:05 |
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dang - what do those weigh? I’m thinking some of those axles have got to be over weight.
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ttyymmnn
> wafflesnfalafel
11/06/2019 at 11:07 |
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Dat ground clearance doe...
Snuze: Needs another Swede
> XJDano
11/06/2019 at 11:10 |
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I’m gonna be that guy here... that’s not a tank, it’s a self propelled gun, i.e. mobile artillery.
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farscythe - makin da cawfee!
> XJDano
11/06/2019 at 11:11 |
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and....also tank!
vondon302
> farscythe - makin da cawfee!
11/06/2019 at 11:15 |
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Pretty much what I thought. I'd like this unpleasantness to be over but I doubt it is.
DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back
> XJDano
11/06/2019 at 11:18 |
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I think its a reprieve, but I don’t think we’re sticking around long term. Either one day someone will make the decision to nuke it all, or, what I think is more like is that they’ll break everything up and sell off the pieces to the highest bidders.
Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
11/06/2019 at 11:19 |
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Looks like an M109 Paladin howitzer.
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Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> wafflesnfalafel
11/06/2019 at 11:19 |
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27.5t
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Snuze: Needs another Swede
> Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
11/06/2019 at 11:24 |
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I’m not as up-to-date on ground combat equipment as I used to be, so I’m just going to agree.
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wafflesnfalafel
> Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
11/06/2019 at 11:29 |
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interesting - might just be squeaking in under legal weight!
user314
> XJDano
11/06/2019 at 11:33 |
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That’s an M109 howitzer , not a tank.
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user314
> ttyymmnn
11/06/2019 at 11:34 |
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Please, like Kinja runs on anything more modern than punch cards...
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ttyymmnn
> user314
11/06/2019 at 11:35 |
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Comment deletion machine in action.
Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer
> ttyymmnn
11/06/2019 at 11:44 |
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Lowboy trailer is highly low.
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user314
> ttyymmnn
11/06/2019 at 11:47 |
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Have this running in the background for the full effect.
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user314
> wafflesnfalafel
11/06/2019 at 11:53 |
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Wonder where he’s going with that. Usually if they’re being moved en mas they ship them by rail:
Stef Schrader
> user314
11/06/2019 at 12:02 |
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Footage
of Nibbles the Official
Kinja Server Hamster last week:
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Stef Schrader
> XJDano
11/06/2019 at 12:06 |
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I don’t see anything on the changelog, and I don’t see any reason to trust a private equity firm not to do us dirty, but...we might be out of the weeds. Here’s what I got as a response from the Kinja help desk last night
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“ The latest information I received is that user blogs/communities are staying alive. But I registered your questions and I will forward it to the product team, in case of a future action like what is not happening now, these will be very valuable to us, thank you!”
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XJDano
> Stef Schrader
11/06/2019 at 12:21 |
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Thanks Stef, you’re the best.
T5Killer
> XJDano
11/06/2019 at 13:20 |
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Hate to be be that guy but its not a tank. its a M109 Self Propelled howitzer not a tank.
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XJDano
> T5Killer
11/06/2019 at 13:25 |
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Good news!
Your not the only That Guy.
I obviously don’t know much about tanks or tracked cannons. But it was neat to see.
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XJDano
> Snuze: Needs another Swede
11/06/2019 at 13:29 |
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So what’s the difference?
Looked up tank:
2.
a heavy armored fighting vehicle carrying guns and moving on a continuous articulated metal track.
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user314
> XJDano
11/06/2019 at 13:37 |
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Tanks are used to fight other tanks, so they’re armored to take hits from other tank guns at short(er) range and carry direct fire guns. Armored guns are designed for indirect long range fire while protecting their crews from shrapnel NBC hazards .
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T5Killer
> XJDano
11/06/2019 at 13:49 |
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Tanks are heavly armored designed to fight other tanks and support infantry directly in combat. Self propelled artillery is lightly armored and designed to fire at targets miles away (up to 20miles or so) and is not designed to be in direct combat.
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T5Killer
> XJDano
11/06/2019 at 13:55 |
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Its all good. No worries!
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Snuze: Needs another Swede
> XJDano
11/06/2019 at 14:02 |
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Self Propelled Guns (SPGs) lack the heavy armor. I don’t have any specifics on that particular vehicle but the armor on is probably only sufficient to stop small arms rounds (i.e. bullets) and maybe some light weapons (early generation RPGs, etc.) It wouldn’t stand up to things like an armor piercing round from another SPG or tank, a heavy anti-tank missile launched from an aircraft or helicopter, etc.
Additionally the SPG’s gun fires large (~155 mm diameter) shells in a parabolic trajectory, meaning the ordnance falls on it’s target from above . A tank cannon is a direct fire weapon, meaning it shoots a smaller (~100 mm) , higher velocity round in more of a straight line.
A lot of it boils down to the way they are employed in combat. SPGs, like all artillery, are designed to be deployed back behind an army’s front lines and provide suppressing fire or directed fire support (i.e. there’s a building/bunker/whatever full of enemies, or enemies are advancing on our position, drop shells on them to destr o y them, slow or halt their progress, etc.). A tank is a front line combat vehicle designed to work with infantry to support fire and maneuver, and directly counter enemy tanks.
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> ttyymmnn
11/06/2019 at 17:05 |
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Needs more hamsters.
Urambo Tauro
> Stef Schrader
11/06/2019 at 19:04 |
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Speaking of the C hangelog, I noticed the other day that the warning had been posted there too. On one hand, it seems like an obvious “ customer service”-o riented place to post a remi nder for anyone who visits the C hangelog, but on the other hand the Changelog is probably tech ni cally j ust another “user page” that the team posts to, and would be part of the collateral damage if they tried to nuke everything that wasn’t part of the main blogs.
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Stef Schrader
> Urambo Tauro
11/07/2019 at 03:26 |
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LOL, what a tool.