Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Ryan McBeth"
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My vehicle would get a bit messy when we were mobile and couldn't stop to tidy up, but it's also a risk of creating a trip hazard. As soon as we could stop, I cleaned that crap up.
I was the most senior, but if it had to be done, I pitched right in and expected whoever was not busy and closest to do the same. So, even doing a police call for cigarette butts, I'd be picking them up next to my Privates, both to get it done and to provide a proper example to my subordinates.
And if I, a dedicated smoker, caught you pitching a cigarette butt, you're going to get chewed out hard. Why make it easier to track us and know who we were?
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@ftboomer1 ours never broke, believe it or not, they were still under warranty. Had a unit that did get broken Strykers, IED damage, with one bent in the middle around 2 feet up, but able to be driven.
After I retired, I was contracting in Qatar and GD had a depot rebuild operation going on. The one badly bent was written off, they did have to fire hose out blood and teeth, but the crew survived. The installation commander had them hide the badly bent ones behind cargo containers, claiming it was bad for morale.
Made shit sense, as only Stryker Brigade Combat Teams got those vehicles and there aren't many of those.
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I always loved the "The Military-Industrial Complex" and the knee jerk, "There's no such thing".
No, there is. They're called defense contractors, they specialize in contracting for the DoD. They don't specialize in fast food, they don't specialize in making luxury cars, they don't specialize in a field of medicine, they specialize in areas specific to the DoD.
They're also not some evil villain living under an erupting volcanic lair.
Their business specializes in DoD, just as a plumber specializes in plumbing and not hair dressing.
As for MICE vs RICE, I prefer RICE. Reward isn't always money, it can be possessions, favors, power, hundreds of things that are no or minimal financial cost, but not available to the prospect.
Snowden was ego, I base that upon actually meeting him during a DoD wide response to a compromise throughout the SWA AOR. Wouldn't have remembered him, save for the ego, while possessing only mediocre talent, but was excessively proud of his degree. Stuck in my mind and when his face flashed on the news, yeah, came right back to me.
Agree though, his FSB handler should've been given a medal and promotion.
For the "guests" that appear, well, they gain stature in their niche and hence, Reward rather than money.
Many conflate money with power and influence and they're different things. One can influence with a few casual words. Money can buy some power, but remember the lesson of OJ. OJ went on trial for his life, expending tons of money and ending up the poorer for it in the end. Oliver North lied before Congress, got caught perjuring himself, got his own shows for his trouble. North didn't have much money, but he had power in knowing people and events. He never needed a trial.
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@fatmanfaffing4116 and still not quite universal. For one, I tend to cut up my meat in one session, then set down the now useless knife, as my dominant hand is my right hand.
I then move around my plate, meat, vegetable, other vegetable, etc, in a nearly random order, per my personal preference and social guidance (if the host suggested a part of the dish, it gets a preference).
Well, save with okra, which I'll try, but usually it's a no-go at this station. Too much like eating green beans cooked in snot.
The taste is OK, the texture, just nope.
But, to be polite, I do try them. Found only one way I tolerate okra, in a watered down mixture with zero percent plant snot, one company's tomatoes, okra and corn, tasting like stewed tomatoes, with clean okra and some corn dumped in and I do keep a few cans on my pantry shelf of that.
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From the brief bit of video I've saw (well, here, since I don't do other antisocial media much and here is decreasing), doesn't quite look thermobaric, save if there were secondaries in a depot.
Might've been an ordinance depot going up though, which would match intensity, shockwave pattern and initial cloud rise.
What was decidedly missing, any characteristic of a nuclear detonation beyond "oh, it had a mushroom cloud", which I can generate a mushroom cloud with a barbecue grill and trust me, those are decidedly not nuclear. No characteristic double flash within a specific time interval (part of the physics of a nuclear detonation) for starters and a biggie.
Nope, pure electron recombination event, aka basic chemistry, aka conventional explosives doing their explodey thing.
Indeed, it resembled a certain blast in a certain harbor from a fire that detonated contaminated old Russian nitrate fertilizer that was languishing dangerously in a poorly maintained environment inside of a port warehouse that no longer exists. Lebanon having some intimate familiarity with that tragedy.
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A bit OT, but a nice reminder of history.
The US invaded Canada twice, both to somewhat hilarious result.
Our forces being politely escorted to our border and kindly asked to not return.
Politely enough that Benedict Arnold turned traitor, due to wounds suffered and disabling him sufficiently to not be capable of successfully returning to his farm as to sell out to the British, as we had no veterans or wounded veterans pensions at the time.
Still, I agree to some point, the Canadian Combat Engineers shouldn't have been in Poland, save if training already in Poland. The Ukrainian forces should've mixed training and R&R in Canada. ;)
But yeah, likely a bot, most out of Saint Petersburg, run by some Ruskie cook (some will get that joke). Some, out of an old KGB building that some allies gained access to the network of to observe an attack on the US in 2016.
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@Chuck59ish Boston and Halifax, tied and true forever.
Boston sent help to Halifax after the port explosion in WWI pretty much leveled their waterfront and have exchanged gifts fairly often since. Frequently, it's where Boston's official Christmas Tree comes from.
I served US Army from 1982 - 2019 (end of year). Dealt with a few red book incidents, not a lot of fun, but came with the job. Trained with one East German officer on an exchange program that slipped through the cracks, as he was former Spetsnaz. Recognized by both insignia worn and well, the last time I saw him, he was aiming a Makarov at me. We were patrolling a rifle range firing line, saw each other at 25 meters and mutually froze. I reached for my old low rider holster, he reached for his, neither of us wearing one of those models at the time, due to our mutual duties and uniforms.
I said, "Look, we were both doing our duties, it's over now".
He responded, "Da".
Do my immediate left was one firer, who literally dropped his rifle, rolled over from his prone position and looked at me questioningly. He was our Slavic language interpreter.
"Sorry, but you don't have a need to know".
He shrugged, returned back to his firing position.
Out of all enlisted, he went out with my group for drinks.
True story.
Shit gets weird at times, but we're all doing our jobs and if improbably recalled to duty after retirement, I'd still kill him if I had to.
And no, people. It's still classified. I'll probably get shit saying this much.
But now, I'm old and ill, so life in prison doesn't have that much of a threat to me any longer.
But, experiencing and getting to survive to talk and write about history, as it is written, well, it... sucks.
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First off, as you mentioned, the National Guard is the state militias, so do we actually have some overwhelming need for 50+ territories/possessions Space Guard components that would largely be entirely non-qualified for any space missions whatsoever?
A space reserve force, yes, as you said, specialty units and teams are reserve and they'd just hang off of the USAF reserve component to augment the active duty component. It's not as if we've got space combat troops, most are going to be missile defense, NRO augmentees, comms specialists, etc. No Space Marines need apply. And currently, that would provide an excess of any current or projected need that's ludicrous in numbers.
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Declaring regex, but not giving assertions is damning too. Might as well declare boolean and not include operators.
Way too much is missing for it to even be a shadow of what it's being proclaimed to be, just badly enough to suggest a list of strings was provided to an AI and "define it as a regex" and of course, the AI doesn't know a regex without a context, such as java regex or perl regex, so without that there's no syntax to include, so it helpfully outputs just "regex" with well, no regex.
And the context is where the AI usually gets lost anyway. Used regex in mail filtering, content filtering, arcsight filters and a hell of a lot more, each using slightly different syntax.
But, it'll fool anyone who doesn't know an API from applesauce.
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