A Picture Says 1,000 Words - Page 33

Ah. The beauty of art.

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Grillat Sweden. May 12 2011 22:01. Posts 7

How do you vandalize a swimming pool? -Tony Soprano

Omega.763 France. May 12 2011 22:05. Posts 34

On February 13 2011 08:36 LittLeD wrote:
http://www.sacbee.com/static/newsroom/swf/april07/mother/
Pretty strong

I just cried.

My wife for Aiur

ToxNub Canada. May 14 2011 01:50. Posts 805

On May 12 2011 09:27 Qzy wrote:
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In one game, Chinook, playing with white pieces, made a mistake on the tenth move. Tinsley remarked, "You're going to regret that." Chinook resigned after move 36, fully 26 moves later

Marion Tinsley plays chinook (Checker AI)

Why is this a greater picture than Deepblue beating Garry Kasparov? In 1992 Marion Tinsley beat Chinook, and since Chinook won 1990, Chinook would be allowed to challenge the 1st place for national title - but was REFUSED by American Checkers Federation and English Draughts Association, since it was non-human. Tinsley resigned his WORLD champion title in order to be allowed to play Chinook. After 6 games of draws, Tinsley had to withdraw due to health reasons... 7 months later he died, still the best checker player ever to live in many peoples eyes.

Huge respect to Tinsley.

The other man in that picture is Jonathan Schaeffer. He used to be the chair of my computer science department, now he's vice provost. You should seriously considering reading his book. It's an incredible and heartbreaking story, when you hear it in full. (And chinook actually defeated tinsley a few times). When Schaeffer solved checkers a few years ago, he gave us a lecture and told the story.

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mr_tolkien France. May 14 2011 01:57. Posts 3324

On May 12 2011 07:59 travis wrote:

I think it depends on the situation. It could be that in some situations a picture does more than helping the individual could do.

I, personally, don't agree. I just think that saying the picture says "lets suck the last piece of money that we can get out of this shit girl like the good capitalist we are" isn't entirely fair. We don't even know if those journalists helped the girl or not. We don't even know what they thought about the situation. If he says that none of those people care about human life and that they only care about money, then it's based on very very little and it's an unfair statement.

I'm entirely with Travis on this one. My picture was there to remember us how nearly all those pictures came to life, and to learn to have some distance with them.

French Caster - http://www.youtube.com/user/mrtolkien

staxringold United States. May 17 2011 06:39. Posts 173

Selth United States. May 17 2011 08:32. Posts 463

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Trizz Netherlands. May 17 2011 10:33. Posts 1147

On May 17 2011 06:39 staxringold wrote:
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This one is amazing, can look at it for hours and wander off.

nope

Legit74 United States. May 17 2011 16:45. Posts 32

On April 28 2011 15:24 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:

Those Polish men were extremely brave, marching with horses and pole arms against German tanks..

SOB_Maj_Brian United States. May 17 2011 18:43. Posts 507

On May 17 2011 16:45 Legit74 wrote:

Those Polish men were extremely brave, marching with horses and pole arms against German tanks..

That is a common myth, Polish cavalry mainly fought as dragoons (dismounted). Of the the few cavalry charges they did commit to, most we actually successful.

Read more here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland(under myths)

And here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_cavalry#World_War_II

thoradycus Malaysia. May 17 2011 19:08. Posts 3212

On May 17 2011 08:32 Selth wrote:
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reminds me of those NPCs in WoW who are at one place all the time..,with exact/same pathing scripts all the time

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NEWater Singapore. May 17 2011 19:54. Posts 178

As a former soldier and now student of international relations focusing on terrorism and warfare, I constantly temper my enthusiasm for such academia by constantly reminding myself that war is hell, and I study it so that I may help avert further conflicts.

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Libyan Rebels

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IDF abusing an unarmed Palestinian

101998 United States. May 18 2011 04:02. Posts 316

A couple I have always liked:

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staxringold United States. May 18 2011 08:51. Posts 173

Someone I know had a friend who took this photo of Endeavor taking off for it's final mission.

http://www.space.com/11689-shuttle-launch-photos-airplane-window.html

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jello_biafra United Kingdom. May 18 2011 08:55. Posts 5812

On May 17 2011 16:45 Legit74 wrote:

Those Polish men were extremely brave, marching with horses and pole arms against German tanks..

That's actually a myth, yes they used horses in the war but they didn't attempt to take on heavy armour with them, that would just be straight up suicidal.

During the German Invasion of Poland in 1939, there is no evidence of Polish Cavalry mounting a brave but futile charge against German tanks using lances and sabres. This seems to have its origins in German propaganda efforts following the Charge at Krojanty in which a Polish cavalry brigade surprised German infantry in the open and charged with sabres until driven off by armoured cars. While Polish cavalry still carried the sabre for such opportunities, they were trained to fight as highly mobile, dismounted infantry and issued with light anti-tank weapons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions#Modern_history

Anyway, some pics:

British troops going over the top during WW1.

US Forces in the Pacific Campaign during WW2.

View from one of the landing craft on D-Day.

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"I found the Crown of France lying in the gutter and I picked it up with my sword" - Napoleon Bonaparte

simme123 Sweden. May 18 2011 08:59. Posts 810

Probably a repost but if this picture doesn't say more than a 1000 words I don't know what does.

Steveh United States. May 18 2011 09:46. Posts 112

MacArthur's promised return to the Philippines.

Also, my wallpaper (a higher quality picture obviously)

Kolvacs Canada. May 18 2011 10:08. Posts 1198

On May 03 2011 20:54 DarthXX wrote:

Damnit every time this video gets linked somewhere I always watched the whole thing and end up crying ... Although it is nice to see the family's whose loved ones come back as opposed to the depressing stories which dominate the media these days.

I think that is my fifth time watching, I cry every time.

LMPeaches United States. May 18 2011 10:50. Posts 155

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Wow i like those pictures a lot.. really intrigues me. Anyone know where i can get more info on them? Specifically the Man and boy with syringes and the man with all the guns pointed towards him.

Running is the only real sport, everything else is just a game

arQ May 18 2011 11:01. Posts 1033