I dunno, attackers are always smaller guys. They’ve got a low center of gravity and it gets hard to keep up with all their cuts. You’re not going to get many 250lb guys who’re going to get chances to put big hits on 160-170lb attackers. I’m a 6'2" 180-190lb defender and I’ve only had so many opportunities to really…

I dunno, the last time I followed UMD Lax, the middies ranged in the 6'2-6'4" range at 240lbs and... they were middies. So they could certainly do a 4.5 40. I would put most lacrosse players against a lot of guys in NCAA Football for pure speed. A lot of people don’t get how fast the game is because they relate what…

I kinda hope there’s a larger migration to lacrosse in the US. It’s one of the few sports native to the country and has a ton of athletic/physical/exciting play with a LOT fewer injuries. I played for 10 years... the worst injuries I generally suffered were broken ribs from aggressive stick checks or actually whiplash…

For all the hate lacrosse gets as a “rich kids’ sport” and everything, this article is exactly why I love the sport and am glad I got into it after a year of (admittedly sucky) tackle football play. Lacrosse offers plenty of aggressive contact and physicality but has a ton of rules governing body checks to prevent…

I personally never liked V either. Far too over-the-top on the actual “you’re a bad guy” element. Niko was an anti-hero. The characters in V are all dicks. I frankly just couldn’t get into V with the level of moral repugnance I felt towards so much of it. As a sandbox it’s alright, I guess... As an actual story I…

Yep. All my coworkers are Brits. This dude is not a Brit. Most DEFINITELY Australian... The UK’s wild Texan cousins.

Definitely think the 95+ 2nd-gen 3000GT VR-4 should’ve been here in place of the 1st-gen. Sale prices still stay a good bit under the budget on this list, and they’re all-around just a better car than their 1st-gen brethren.

http://archive.defensenews.com/article/201312… no one agrees with you at all. The additional costs are negligible (50%? pssh). these are not the droids you’re looking for.

I’m just saying they took the visual imagery from their concept vehicles and actually carried it to production. I really wasn’t making a value judgement on the actual taste/design of it. Just replying to your OP that Mazda’s been the only company to make a bold/futuristic/edgy design and run with it. Lexus’s design…

I think Lexus has done alright with the current-generation IS...

Umm... Are these displays simply on fixed stands? The Navy couldn’t spring for some desk-mounted articulating arms that... you know... won’t just fall over during heavy seas?

This is pretty much the conclusion I came to with the past month’s events...

I’m with you... It almost looks like they just shoved everything together for a picture. Otherwise you’d think even the TEL’s would obstruct some of the detection angles of the radar.

You know... this incident aside, I’m almost certain Russia *wanted* Turkey to shoot down one of its fighters in order to justify sending S-400’s into Syria. For the longest time they were trying to get S-300’s sent there, but Israel protested/threatened to destroy them with the US/NATO’s tacit blessing. Now,…

Not to be graphic but there are a lot of things on your head that aren’t your brain. Anywhere in the mouth area and the bullet can end up deflected away from your brain or slowed enough to not get much further. Same with cheekbones and all that... Small caliber bullets or slowed bullets can often just end up lodged in…

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/these-russian-…

Lol... It’s as if they looked at the Su-27 and said “great, now can we get a super sized version for a strike aircraft?”

Sure, but we’re talking about France here, really... or GB. Either of them would do it in a heartbeat, I’d wager.

If you’ve ever worked on large-scale computing problems before, you’d know this is honestly pretty simple to do. They don’t need to “identify” the pigeons, lol. Just get pixel paths. Even if the birds were just one pixel, it’d be enough. They’d find the start/end points, and birds with regular paths would be tracked.…

lol you’d be surprised! Hell, I’m surprised. I dunno, I think people like going back to the “glory days” of WW2, and pigeons were used a bunch then. Frankly it’s simply easier to do plaintext encryption like Navajo codetalkers than messing around with complex messaging systems. I’ve read a bunch about military…