Traditionally, most front line soldiers do not aim their weapons at the enemy. Spray and pray at best. There was a rather contentious study done by S L A Marshal on the subject.
Sounds like you have no reading comprehension.
That depends on how close they area, and if they are trying to kill, or pin down the enemy long enough to make them run out of supplies.
And Hollywood thinks you toss a grenade into the air, (AKA: John Wayne style) instead of throwing it like a shot-put. Toss one like in the movies and it will land within 10 feet of where you were standing when you threw it.
Michael A. Terrell:
Or better sense of humour than you.
Children! Knock it off. Aim your anger at Democrats :-) ...Jim Thompson
You're new here, aren't you?
Jim Thompson:
Democrats are just one form of self-righteous stupidity.
Michael A. Terrell:
Are you really not able to tell?
Sheesh! They want to run the government. The only thing they are capable of operating well is a pillow - they'ed be good at lying on it.
Ed
That was a rhetorical question. I've been here over a decade.
They are good at lying, period. :(
Grenades aren't as heavy as they used to be. The reason people were taught to throw straight arm was that doing a normal throw would wrench your shoulder.
Michael A. Terrell:
Really? I did not realize it. :D
A rhetorical question is not a question, but a suggestion. What did you mean to suggest?
Nice. And so?
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Have you ever thrown live grenades? I have. I had one with a short fuse that went off less than 20 feet from me.
Michael A. Terrell:
I had that suspicion...
Dirk Bruere at NeoPax:
So what? Before they could even think to reach the US per capita income it will take decades. But it won't happen, unless, as probable, the US incomes are going to go below the present ones.
Remember that China's miracle is not a miracle at all, it happened, just to mention few, in England, during the Industrial revolution, In Italy right after WW2, in Japan in the 70es, in Spain at the end of the century.
It's just the enormous amount of work that peasants are used to do for barely survive applied to factories. But China is rapidly depleting his reservoir of desperates, so the wages are due to rise and efficiency decrease, maybe even before five years.
The point is that a single nation will be able to marshal more resources for any given task than the USA within 5 years.
And by the time per capita GDP equals (say) Japan China will be an unequaled superpower by a vast margin.
China has hundreds of millions of "reserves".
Dirk Bruere at NeoPax:
We'll see.
I hope to live that long.
Sure, but at the current "burn rate" they will not last that long.
Beijing's economic plan is to urbanize an additional 400,000,000 people by 2030... that's an extra 20 MILLION people every year that are going to need white/blue collar jobs. It's almost like immigration from another country... but at an absolute rate of about 10x the total of legal and estimated illegal immgration to the US. I don't think they will run short of peasants looking for better wages in the cities in my lifetime, though the quality will likely decrease and wages will likely increase (perhaps not in a straight line).
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
If their GDP increases at 10% pa for the next decade it will be 250% larger than it is now, exceeding that of the USA by quite a margin. Last year, during the worst recession for 70 years, they managed 8.7%. Forecasts for this year are 9.5% according to the World Bank. China was trying to hold it to 8%.
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