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  2. 3DS

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    Investors certainly hope the price cut will turn things around. In its first fiscal quarter, Nintendo saw its revenues drop by more than 50 percent compared to a year ago. It also reported a $328 million loss -- it's first ever quarterly loss. The company has further slashed its annual earnings expectations to 35 billion yen, it's lowest since 1985.

    source-Yahoo News

    News is reporting all the CEO's are taking pay cuts as well. Hopefully Nintendo gets it's head out of it's ass soon.

  5. 2011 Resolutions

    in Banter

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    1-Gain Weight: Running operations in the jungle this year caused me to lose a lot of body mass. I'm currently at 168 and want to get up to 190.

    I've got some body mass you can borrow.

    Borrow? So I'll have to give it back? I'm in the market to own, not rent.

  8. Wikileaks

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    I'm pissed about the release of classified information, but I'm more pissed about the release of the names of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan civilians who have worked with US troops. That's the part that negates any freedom of speech or freedom of the press argument because there is strong legal precedence that they do not extend to circumstances in which they put people's lives in danger.

    Even if you generally have no problem with whistle blowers, with the mindset that it helps keep our governments honest, what wikileaks did was hugely irresponsible, and people are going to die or be harmed because of it. But hey, as long as it makes mean old United States look bad, who cares right?

  9. Wikileaks

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    As for Gates, it's hard for me to ever listen to that man after what he did in regards to Sergeant Rafael Peralta.

    However, he does make good points. Will this make life difficult for us? Not really, not at ground level. High ranking officials will have to answer for things and some ROE's may get some modifications, but how many ground level leaders are going to allow ROE to endanger the lives of their members/ Maybe in the Army, not with us. If your ends truely justify the means, then you will be expected to explain yourself. If you constantly do wrong to accomplish right, then your methods are going to be questioned and your actions are required to be justified through that process. However, that depends on who you are trying to justify it to. If it is to your civilian population who has no real idea of what conflict is and what it takes to truly win then we already lost our case even though we are the ones who give them the freedom to condemm us.

    Sorry, we're not Russia, we don't have the luxary of killing who ever we want and then strangling the media to keep our mistakes and actions quiet. We're held to a higher standard, and this is how it happens. Manning crossed the line from hactivism to straight up treason when he sat down with the deliberate intent of searching for stuff to leak. Wikileaks is like communism-fine in concept, but in reality run by a bunch of selfish shits. they serve a useful function for folks who really need to blow a whistle, but they also enjoy the cheap publicity from going and fucking up shit for big players.

    All and all I understand the need to keep some things secret and tucked away, but I also see the importance of transparency of information.

    It's bad that some things in war are safer not discussed, it's worse if they are deliberatly hidden from anyone to cover up mistakes.

    My thoughts are coming off a little jumbled right now, I'll have to try again later. Basically my point is the way the documents were leaked was fucked, just a little kid wanting attention, but in the end I don't fault people for reading them. There are some things that should remain classified, just as some things the American people deserve to know.

  10. Wikileaks

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    I understand the purpose of wikileaks and the access it gives people to information otherwise unattainable. However, my disagreement with this whole issue lies on the head Spc. Bradley Manning, the piece of shit army fuck who called himself a "hactivst" and downloaded 260,000 classified or sensitive State Department cables and transmitted them by computer to the website Wikileaks, and then went on to brag about it.

    Sorry if I sound bad here, but there are some things people are not meant to know, war is not meant for everyone to see. There are things that need to be done that the general population simply cannot handle. We do our jobs better if mothers of america do not know everything that goes on. Last thing we need is every damn person out there interjecting their opinions in matters that they know nothing about. They don't understand that while some of the shit we do may be "fucked up" it HAS to be done. Sometimes we have to do shit for the greater good.

    You know what, that speech that Jack Nicholson made in a Few good Men actually explains it Really well.

    "Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have more responsibility here than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. I know deep down in places you dont talk about at parties, you don't want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then question the manner in which I provide it. I prefer you said gracias, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand to post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to!"

    It takes a different kind of person to kill someone, even if we're doing it for the right reasons. What we need to do to get in that mindset (boot camp and beyond) and what we do when we get in that mindset is not meant to be scrutinized second by second.

    That doesn't mean none of it should be out there. The video of the Reuters journalist being shot, while not as outrageous as everyone makes it, is still damning evidence that we can still do a much better job of following rules of engagement.

  11. The "I need to vent" thread

    in Banter

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    Fuck you Obama.

    I'm a member of the military, and have made peace with the fact that I'll never make the kind of money I used to make before. You don't join the military to make money, that fact is well known, but what Obama is doing now is too much. For those that don't know a presidential council, with backing by Obama, have found a way to help America's deficiet, they're proposing freezing all military pay for the next 3 years, increasing the prices of the food and groceries at the base stores, increasing the payments for our medical, increasing the age you need to be to get retirement benefits, and lowering retirement benefits.

    I was pissed earlier this year when congress decided to cut our raise from 7% to 5%, but now, this is to much. If you took my monthly paycheck, and put it in 40 hour work weeks, which obviously I work much more than that, right now I'm making $7.00 an hour. Military members live below the poverty level, and our elected officials want to hurt us more

  12. 2010 Resolutions

    in Banter

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    -get my three mile run time down to 18 minutes

    Getting there, running 3 miles in 20 minutes, 5 miles in 40-45 minutes

    -hit 350 on the bench

    hitting 250 on the bench press, kind of gave up on this, as I've been more focused on getting my six-pack back, plus haven't had much time to go to the gym.

    -eat the craziest stuff i can find when i go to Asia later this year

    huge fan of horse right now, haven't experienced much wierd food as I've only been in Okinawa. Weird food should hit off when I go to other Asian countries over the next 5 months

  19. Randomness

    in Banter

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    What's the message about, if you don't mind me asking? Basically, is it anything where you'd be socially obligated to respond?

    no, not at all, that's what makes it so random. She basically said hi, said how she was doing, then asked me the same

  21. Randomness

    in Banter

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    so i decided to check my myspace, and i got a message from my ex wife who i haven't talked to in 3 years. The thing is, is i didn't have a myspace when we were together, so she had no way of knowing i had one.

    the question i'm asking myself is should i reply?