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NPR (National Public Radio or National People's Radio) reported this week that a Danish Legislator (I think he was Danish..maybe Swedish) was made to apologize to his colleagues after he was discovered playing a wargame on his laptop while the legislative body was debating a possible war in Iraq. He was apparently discovered when he was heard to exclaim something like "G*d D**n worthless Hudson squadron..." (just kidding about this part ) Does anyone have a PBEM game going with a Dane? If you do, you might have to wait a while for your next turn.


In a more general sense, do y'all hide your UV box when non-wargamers come over to visit or have you given up all pretense of normalcy? Anyone have UV installed on the company computer at work? Has your boss noted a decline in work productivity?

i would never play UV at work, i have to pay internet charges and for new games and i need to pay my bills. Its bad enough I've made my wife a UV widow.

Well, your obviously not a government employee, where pay is not a function of productivity.....

Obviously:D When I was 19 I worked for the US Postal Service and that convinced me to work in the private sector.

So you like a large paycheck? Something else that most government employees don't see.

Rich I'm not, but my folks both worked for the government(Air force) so you might say I grew up on a gov't paycheck. I wanted more than that but I ain't complaining about what it provided. In the 50's government pay could still provide you with a decent living and if you were overseas you could live very well( and my Dad was an NCO).

My dad is retiring from the USPS this year. He always says he thinks of the USPS as the government's teat which he has spent his adult life suckling upon.

Originally posted by Drex
Rich I'm not, but my folks both worked for the government(Air force) so you might say I grew up on a gov't paycheck. I wanted more than that but I ain't complaining about what it provided. In the 50's government pay could still provide you with a decent living and if you were overseas you could live very well( and my Dad was an NCO).

Military pay, particular Officers and senior NCOs, was great until the era of double digit inflation, where your salary was +2% and everything's cost went up by +10-12% (I remember my dad buying a new car in 1975 a whole lot cheaper than in 1982).

It has gotten much better for the military over the last few years, although the military seems to be doing a whole lot more these days to earn it...

The Legislator was neither a Dane nor a Swede; He was a Norwegian. I saw it on national TV and he had a hard time explaining what he had done.

The Norwegian Congress was debating Norway's participation in the upcoming (?) war in Iraq

He was playing "Metalion" on his Ipac...

You can see the picture her, the text is written in Norwegian though...

http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=812673

I can see it now: in 100 years all political activity will be reduced to wargames. Instead of the US invading Iraq, Bush will E-mail Saddam a challenge to UV perhaps,and they can play out the war on computer. Of course Saddam would cheat!

Originally posted by Duke71
The Legislator was neither a Dane nor a Swede; He was a Norwegian. I saw it on national TV and he had a hard time explaining what he had done.

The Norwegian Congress was debating Norway's participation in the upcoming (?) war in Iraq

He was playing "Metalion" on his Ipac...

You can see the picture her, the text is written in Norwegian though...

http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=812673

Thanks for the correction on the nationality Duke..at least I got the general geographic region right

That is a million dollar pic! BTW what is "metallion"..sounds like some kind of idiotic robot-killer arcade style shoot-em-up, not a "wargame".

That's not his laptop, that's a handheld.

See, its the bright screen that did him in. A much better plan is to get a monochrome Palm of some sort and just download a couple novels to it. Then you can put the palm on the table, have one hand on the "down" button, and read pulp sci-fi clandestingly.

I zoomed a bit in

Is that actually playable on the handheld?

No.

Marc is having fun with Photoshop.

I work with Mac's at my job. Not a PC in sight. I know I could get away with playing because fortunately my boss is a moron comes to computers. I'm sure I'll have to show him once again how to send an attachment via AOL soon.

Thought about buying a PC laptop...

Nah.

Originally posted by Marc Schwanebeck
I zoomed a bit in

Oh...that is funny...hehehe. The poor guy was just getting into the mood by playing a wargame during a debate about a possible Gulf War II. Maybe he has the Persian Gulf Mod for UV?

If he had been playing the right game he could have voted against the invasion of Iraq on the grounds that he had just conqured it.

Poker is a better method of solving world problems, I see your Iraq and raise you Panama.

My boss called me into his office one time.
"Matt, can you figure out why my computer is running so slow?"

I look at the task bar on the bottom of the screen and MS Outlook is open about 40 times.

"I think I know what the problem might be..."

Snigbert "My boss called me into his office one time.
'Matt, can you figure out why my computer is running so slow?'"

Heh.

I'm telling you, all you have to do is make your files invisible and the man is clueless. You don't even need to password the stuff. I've got the Alpha Centauri demo on here that I play to pass the time occasionaly. I could be so unproductive with UV at the office. I'm so tempted to do that "Company's Computer Guy" character that Jimmy Fallon plays in Saturday Night Live to my boss one day.


"Jay, I'm having a little touble...."
"Yeah."
"...getting this attachment...."
"Yeah."
"...to attach itself to my email..."
"Yeaaahhhh..."
"...so I was hoping you could...."
"MOVE!"

Too funny.