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Started by Cain, February 21, 2011, 07:42:59 PM

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East Coast Hustle

Quote from: Charley Brown on February 21, 2011, 09:08:33 PM
Forgot about the Jasmine Revolution in China.

Right about now, I'm guessing most of the people participating in the Jasmine Revolution wish they could forget about it as well.
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The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Rip City Hustle on February 22, 2011, 01:30:02 AM
Quote from: Charley Brown on February 21, 2011, 09:08:33 PM
Forgot about the Jasmine Revolution in China.

Right about now, I'm guessing most of the people participating in the Jasmine Revolution wish they could forget about it as well.

Is it just me, or is the international news beginning to look like a giant game of whack-a-mole?
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- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

East Coast Hustle

Fuck if I know, I don't have TV at my apartment.

ECH,
worst kind of heretic
Rabid Colostomy Hole Jammer of the Coming Apocalypse™

The Devil is in the details; God is in the nuance.


Some yahoo yelled at me, saying 'GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH', and I thought, "I'm feeling generous today.  Why not BOTH?"

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Rip City Hustle on February 22, 2011, 01:54:09 AM
Fuck if I know, I don't have TV at my apartment.

ECH,
worst kind of heretic

I haven't watched TV since 1987.  They have these websites, see, where they put news up.  It's a recent innovation out West.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Faust

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 22, 2011, 01:59:09 AM
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on February 22, 2011, 01:54:09 AM
Fuck if I know, I don't have TV at my apartment.

ECH,
worst kind of heretic

I haven't watched TV since 1987.  They have these websites, see, where they put news up.  It's a recent innovation out West.
It'll never catch on.
Sleepless nights at the chateau

BadBeast

Quote from: Faust on February 22, 2011, 09:40:50 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 22, 2011, 01:59:09 AM
Quote from: Rip City Hustle on February 22, 2011, 01:54:09 AM
Fuck if I know, I don't have TV at my apartment.

ECH,
worst kind of heretic

I haven't watched TV since 1987.  They have these websites, see, where they put news up.  It's a recent innovation out West.
It'll never catch on.
My TV only gets X-Box since we went digital. I dont miss it much either.
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NOT JUST A "FAIR WEATHER FIGHTER"!

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Luna

Quote from: Rip City Hustle on February 22, 2011, 01:54:09 AM
Fuck if I know, I don't have TV at my apartment.

ECH,
worst kind of heretic

I have a TV set up for the sole purpose of viewing DVDs.  Since I moved in on 1/1, I believe it's been turned on (other than setting it up and making sure the bloody thing worked) twice.
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Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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Cain

Quote from: Charley Brown on February 21, 2011, 09:08:33 PM
Forgot about the Jasmine Revolution in China.

I dont believe twenty guys on Twitter count as a revolution.

Neither does the Chinese government, really, but that wont stop them from treating them as such.

Suu

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Cain

Going rate for mercenaries in Libya just jumped four-fold.  According to the word on the street in Lagos and Conakry, the governent is now hiring at $2000 a day.  That's also four hundred times the average Libyan daily wage.

Gadhafi is looking desperate.

Bebek Sincap Ratatosk

Quote from: Cain on February 22, 2011, 02:53:31 PM
Going rate for mercenaries in Libya just jumped four-fold.  According to the word on the street in Lagos and Conakry, the governent is now hiring at $2000 a day.  That's also four hundred times the average Libyan daily wage.

Gadhafi is looking desperate.

BBC reported that there are claims of Eastern European mercs in Tripoli now as well.
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Cain


BadBeast

"We need a plane for Bombing, Strafing, Assault and Battery, Interception, Ground Support, and Reconaissance,
NOT JUST A "FAIR WEATHER FIGHTER"!

"I kinda like him. It's like he sees inside my soul" ~ Nigel


Whoever puts their hand on me to govern me, is a usurper, and a tyrant, and I declare them my enemy!

"And when the clouds obscure the moon, and normal service is resumed. It wont. Mean. A. Thing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpkCJDYxH-4

The Good Reverend Roger

I find it interesting that mercenaries are once again a prime mover in international politics.

Jerry Pournelle was right, but for all the wrong reasons.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cain

To be fair, they never really went away in Africa, or the Middle East.  Britain managed to retain an informal empire after the collapse of the actual one in no small part due to a mercenary, namely Col. David Stirling (founder of the SAS).

I'd be interested to find out if a greater proportion of mercenaries nowadays are state-sanctioned/linked (ie Blackwater, DynCorp etc) or true freelancers, and the distribution of payment between those groups, though.