Basic_GnR_Fan

The craziest part of that whole thing is if Jermaine O'Neil doesn't slip and fully connects with that punch on that fan, that fan would have been absolutely destroyed.

1 hour ago, downzy said:

20 years and $6 trillion dollars later, here we are.

It seems so long ago but so much of the last twenty years has been defined by what happened on that one day.  The fallout from 9/11 will continue to reverberate and ripple.   It turned the most powerful nation on the planet into one of the most afraid countries out there. 

All of that money spent on chasing a fools errand.  Kind of blows my mind that if the concern was really about saving people's lives, the US could have spent half the money it spent on the "war on terror" on providing every citizen healthcare.  Likely millions of more people would still be living today.  

 

And it could be argued that due to the wars in Iraq in Afghanistan, the US actually created more terrorists than it killed due to all the collateral damage and death caused by them.

On 9/10/2021 at 4:01 PM, -W.A.R- said:

 

This one got a little attention because it was the last act (officially) in Afghanistan. Really makes you wonder how many innocents are killed in this drone murder program.

On 9/10/2021 at 2:39 PM, dontdamnmeuyi2015 said:

I'm not just saying how absured it is that China is making like it cares about human life.  They are just siding with the Taliban because they are against the US and it's allies.

The Chinese CCP is playing geo-politics not morality policy. They aren't going to try and make Afghanistan in it's own image, they're just going to align with rightful rulers of Afghanistan to gain access to resources, markets, and obtain some bases.

2 hours ago, dontdamnmeuyi2015 said:

Yeah, Muslims don't like outsiders on their land. It's a proven face. I feel badly for these people but how can you fight people who think like this. Women have no rights, what can we do but bitch about it. The women in Afganistan are marching in the streets of Kabul and the Taliban are shooting guns in the air. Next they will be shooting them. These women weren't born when the taliban took over, so they don't realize who they are up against. I'm sure they will learn soon enough.

The US shouldn't have thought they could save these countries and make them a democracy. It's not in their nature.

Forget about Iran. Israel will take care of them if need be. It's a losing battle with these countries. It's sucks but it's the truth.

Iran would wreck any Israeli aggression against them and they know it. Israel has the nuclear option, but anything below that would not go well for Israel (it would be like their 2006 war with Lebanon on steroids). Iran has fighters willing to die for their people, I'm not so sure the Jews in Israel can handle the kinds of casualties that a war with Iran would entail. I can imagine a lot of Jewish mothers freaking out over that and causing a societal wide panic.

8 hours ago, DTJ80 said:

The disposable heroes sounds great - I take it the Guitar Hero stems were used or something?

I’m fine with the original productions TBH - that maybe in part due to having listened to them for decades. But some good work by this guy. I know megadeth remixed their albums years ago and that didn’t go down well….I suppose you can’t please everyone. I’d still check out any remix though - nothing wrong with having choice I guess!

Yes I believe he used the stems from guitar hero.

My biggest critique of the Megadeth remixes were the vocals. Apparently they lost some of the original vocal takes and they had to replace them with updated vocals or alt takes, neither of which were nearly as good.

4 hours ago, DTJ80 said:

Gotta say I totally disagree. I have each of the boxes and reckon they have been almost perfect - they should have had a 5.1 mix like the AFD set.

I totally get the Justice argument but never expected to see a remix. And TBH - the rough mix disc in the set has the bass turned up anyways (I’d caveat that a few tracks have missing extra guitars/some vocals).

Check out with this guy has done with old Metallica songs: https://www.youtube.com/user/ahdykhairat

He made them sound so much better but he doesn't have access to some of the songs. I want to hear all the old catalog like this. I just don't think those albums were produced very well.

Funniest part of that 90's rock vid is where he talks about getting into jazz and just flailing in the early 90's. I got a bigger laugh than I should have out of that.

3 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

Yes, but the anniversary release has been announced for Sept. 10, 2021:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/metallica-black-album-anniversary-reissue-covers-1187571/

Thought Metallica really dropped the ball with their 80's reissues (especially And Justice) when they opted for remasters instead of full remix's. Luckily for them the Black Album was produced perfectly so a simple remaster is all that's needed here.

The missile attack by the US continues to get more and more embarrassing, it appears the US killed not only children, but several people who held visas to go to the US because they worked for the US as translators.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58380791

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Another relative, Emal Ahmadi, told the BBC that it was his two-year-old daughter who was killed in the strike.

Mr Ahmadi said he and others in the family had applied for evacuation to the US, and had been waiting for a phone call telling them to go to the airport.

That included one of his relatives, Ahmad Naser, who was killed in the strike and had previously worked as a translator with US forces.

9 hours ago, dontdamnmeuyi2015 said:

The Muslims have been fighting wars for thousands of years. it's what they do with their enemies. they won't ever stop because they aren't afraid to die. What else is there to threaten them with? Nothing. We will keep throwing money at them and they keep going until they get what they want. They've wanted the US out of their land for years and now they've gotten it. As for Iran, let Israel deal with them. My moneies on them taking care of Iran. But as for this part of the world, I doubt any war there will stop. it's all they know how to do and don't care how many of their own people suffer for it. How can you cope with this?

Until the rest of the world learns to deal with them they way they deal with everyone else, we will continue to lose. And as for fighting, they know that land and all the ins and outs. The US and it's allies don't. Until we do there's no winning with them. We need to take care of ourselves and try to keep the wars over there with them. I doubt anyone will ever be able to stop them totally.

There's over 20 million women there. God help them all. And the children too. At this point, I don't know what can be done for them?

What exactly are you saying here? I'm for staying out of these countries and not nation-building because the US is terrible at it. The US is 0-3 in their last 3 big war then nation-building projects, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were all L's for the American Empire.

As far as Iran goes, if the US can't deal with a country like Iraq, then it would be an even bigger disaster in Iran. Iran is far more capable than Iraq or Afghanistan were. The neocons are crazy, but they aren't dumb enough to actually try and invade Iran.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/29/asia/afghanistan-kabul-evacuation-intl/index.html

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Nine members of one family -- including six children -- were killed in a US drone strike targeting a vehicle in a residential neighborhood of Kabul, a relative of the dead told a local journalist working with CNN.

6 kids killed in the attack. The US says it was an imminent threat to the airport. With the amount of innocents that get killed by these drone strikes, it makes you want to 'trust but verify' that claim.

1 hour ago, -W.A.R- said:

It's simple: They wanted to overthrow Saddam and took advantage of the deranged fever pitch America was in post-9/11 to do it. As the towers were crumbling down Rumsfeld was already trying to find an angle to use it to attack Saddam. They would go on to falsely use it against him, as well as systemically lying about WMD.

 

And if Iraq had actually gone better it would have been soon after that Libya (ended up happening), Syria (still trying), and the great white whale for the neocons, Iran.

10 hours ago, -Jaro- said:

Well since Talibans are good guys now, i must trust them when they say that U.S. troops killed child in attack today...

Soo, U.S. are terrorist now or what?

Well based on that whistleblower from the drone program, Daniel Hale, in some cases 90% of the people killed by US drone attacks weren't even the intended target. So to believe the US killed children in it's retaliatory attack isn't all that far fetched.

25 minutes ago, Padme said:

And the U.S. didn't ask Bin Laden to hijack 2 planes and crash the WTC 

The people of Afghanistan didn't fly planes into the WTC. The reasons they gave us for invading was that the Taliban was providing safe-haven for OBL to carry out terrorist attacks (and 15 of the attackers were actually Saudi's and also received funding from the Saudi government). 

35 minutes ago, Padme said:

 Taliban were casualties too? Well, they brought that to themselves. Nobody asked them to take over the country and become the new government. They win nothing if they have to deal with attacks by ISIS.

And no Afghan's asked the US to invade their country and force a new government on them by force 

59 minutes ago, Padme said:

 I agree that westerns need to learn and have to accept it. Oh! And they better stop selling weapons to places like Saudi Arabia

I meant to say the west can't expect Afghanistan to be a new Germany or Japan. It will never happend because western values are not their cup of tea. Iran for example has elections and a parliament. And yet under Sharia law or something somewhat similar. They however condemned these attacks. Do they really mean it?

 

The Taliban gains nothing by bombing the US on it's way out. They had already won and the US was on the way out, the only thing that can draw the US back in is the Taliban breaking the agreement and killing US military or civilians at this time. Taliban people were casualties of this bombing too, so I doubt they bombed themselves for no reason whatsover. ISIS should be destroyed, and if that involves working with the Taliban, so be it.

2 hours ago, Scream of the Butterfly said:

It's insane to me that Afghanistan is being given back to the hands of the Taliban. Makes the sacrifices of the war seem in vain.

Imagine if the Nazis had been allowed back in power 20 years after WW2.

TBH, if WW2 lasted 20 years and the Germans just kept retaking city after city after the allies took them and it just kept going back and forth, the US would have pulled out of that too. The US population isn't a fan of long drawn out wars.

Unless you are advocating for a permanent occupation of Afghanistan to prop up a government that wasn't very popular with the average Afghan on the street?

9 hours ago, Padme said:

I never believed that places like Afghanistan, Irak, Syria, Iran, etc could be the new Germany and Japan. It will never happen. It is naive to believe that somewhere there is a lesser evil or good guys.  And those lesser evil people are willing to be U.S. friends or partners. The Taliban didn't give a shit about anything. They decided to take over. And they were allowed to do so by the former Afghanistan government and army. The Taliban want a stable government? Where is the Constitution, the Prime Minister, the Parliament and the Supreme Court? Iran and Irak have some degree of  stable government. And yet they can't be trasted

 

You just contradicted yourself in the matter of a paragraph. You first stated you weren't expecting Afghanistan to be like Germany or Japan. Then you ask where is their constitution, PM, Parliament, and Supreme Court. People in the west need to check their expectations of what an Islamic country is going to look like, the people over there want Sharia law, not western liberal democracy. Pew polling in Afghanistan showed that 99%(!!) of Afghan's wanted Sharia Law. It is what is, westerners need to learn to accept it.

17 hours ago, jimisbatman said:

More work needed to be done on it.......... what have they been doing since 2016?  And, is this a case where they tinker with it so much, and suck the heart and soul out of the recording like they did with CD (compared with the demo's). 

Hope this information is via an "insider" and turns out to be untrue 😂 

Maybe, maybe not. I think Slash and Duff breathed some life into Absurd, maybe they can do the same for other CD era songs.

2 hours ago, -Jaro- said:

If it wasn't sad it would be funny how overnight Talibans became good guys who protect peoole from ISIS-K...

And they cooperate with U.S. after 20 years of "war"... What a surprise...

Just feel sad for people who live there, and who belived their "american friends"  were there for help... 

I predicted the Taliban and America could someday in the future work together as allies....I just didn't think it would be this soon!

The Taliban at least purports to want to run a stable government, a state run by ISIS would probably just be anarchy. Easy choice for me.

5 minutes ago, GNR 1991 said:

i was the only one in my section rocking out to Absurd 🥳

God bless you sir!

50 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

We don't know if it's real. At the very least whoever made it knew stuff that wasn't generally known at the time. 

I still think Hardschool was a guns song from 96 and was supposed to be on a Jackie Chan movie soundtrack. Duff talks about it on Howard Stern in 1996, he just says they have a song that's supposed to go with the new Jackie Chan movie

11 hours ago, James Bond said:

Indeed. My only real issue with the song at this point is the repetition and the bridge. A more rocking, longer bridge (to have a breather from the riffs) and some differentiating verses could have elevated the song even further.

I actually love the bridge! But yes, repeating the same verse 3 times is way too much. I'd even be fine with repeating it twice, but it needs a 3rd verse in there.

3 hours ago, Orsys said:

There have been reports of Taliban control and seizing allies of the US.  There does seem to be a bit of a settling now, but it did appear the Taliban aggressively took control of the country.  I don't think they have broken the deal but the deal was weak and didn't ask for enough concessions to protect Afghan people. They didn't break the deal, but I do think they acted in bad faith.  I believe a phase 2 was supposed to define a shared power structure between the Taliban and Afghan government. They took power pretty fast so that phase will not materialize.

A few things here, the Afghan army folded in 3 days, and the President fled the country. Who would the Taliban even be sharing power with? They are the legitimate power now in that country. As long as they are keeping to the deal and not killing Americans, we need to just move on. Who knows, years from now we could be allies again. Look at Vietnam, we now have no issue being on friendly terms with them.