Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Ryan McBeth"
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If they're even half in quantity and quality as his tanks, it'll be the most pedestrian motorcycle force in history.
The orange helps with targeting. A bit of piano wire, trench and tarp, trench and fogas, hell dozens of unpleasant surprises for bikes and well, that cleans up things nicely and Mischief Managed.
A bit OT, The Register had an interesting report on a Navy E-8, now newly minted as an E-7, that hooked up a wireless network aboard her littoral combat ship, hid it, attempted a reprisal on a subordinate that tried to report her and well, things ended epically badly for her and her career.
No clue what the IA team was doing that they didn't spot a rogue device at the get-go...
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Missed was the most important reason for airfield selection for an aircraft in distress. The field most well equipped and prepared to handle that emergency under a worst case scenario.
If one field isn't as well equipped, doesn't have a large and capable hospital nearby, etc, one selects one better suited for the emergency and diverts to it.
Although, one of the more absurd theories I've heard was no engine power at all, so somehow the airplane glided several times over its maximum possible glide, guess Harry Potter was waving feverishly out the rear cabin door or something...
Or maybe a New Jersey drone shootdown went wrong. :P
We'll see, assuming that Russia doesn't try to bury the flight recorders data, as voice recorder and flight data recorder will tell the tale for missile damage.
And if it was a drone interception that went sideways, it was massively sideways, as drones and passenger jets fly quite distinctively differently.
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@chriswheeler6092 to be pedantic, we've not been officially at war since WWII. That was the last time Congress declared war.
That said, one can't find very long periods where military action wasn't engaged upon. Hell, Yemen fired missiles at the Eisenhower just this week, missed, but they fired and they in turn received an unfriendly visit by Ike's jets.
Above, there was a suggestion that only R&D and tooling was all that was needed, so that weapons could be built in time of need.
OK, using that notion, we'd have no aircraft carriers built, so while our merchant vessels are burning and sinking, we'll have to build a supercarrier, combat aircraft, bombs and missiles, train crews, figure five years and we can respond.
So, yeah, we need a standing ready force to respond in a sane amount of time. We also don't need an excessively large force that remains idle, as that's an insane waste of resources and funding. So begins the magical balancing act of well, human existence, balancing military readiness against available resources.
One area Ryan skimmed over a lot on was WWII. That was a time of total war, the entire national economy was dedicated toward winning the war and that was true with all participants. Anyone thinking that remains true today via the mythical MIC, well, please show me a recent model Singer Sewing Machine Company machine gun, how about an International Business Machines machine gun? A pilot lamp company submachine gun company perhaps? All true in WWII, I've fired all three during my military career. Kind of missed that ancient grease gun...
Nope, once the war was over, the demand of their rather novel product lines ceased and they went back to making sewing machines and adding machines and light bulbs for radios.
There is a sizable dedicated defense arms and support corporate presence, there pretty much always was. Think that those ships build themselves? Think those M4's replace themselves sexually or something? No, they only fuck the folks they're aimed at and occasionally, their operators. Think those base showers fix themselves? Nope, they need contractors to electrocute troops in the shower, huh, bad example. Think those troops can run their own networks worth a damn? Trust me, they can't, they get top notch training, then become ComSec custodians and never touch the equipment beyond end user again. I know that last part from firsthand experience, as I offered to train them and give them an opportunity to do their jobs, but their commander declined, despite their desire to train in their actual military jobs and well, frequently, that turned into a retention issue that remains a problem today.
So, we retain what we must to continue to conduct trade, keep our military ready to confront any adversary with current equipment, rather than as we did bloodily in the past, with obsolescent equipment and training, balancing that upon our available resources. It ain't easy. But, a truer thing was never said, "It's never easy".
Otherwise, someone else would've already done it.
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@kittymervine6115 given I've seen lithium battery explosions, yeah, I see her point.
Suffice it to say, I don't store old cell phones or anything with a lithium battery near anything flammable or potentially explosive.
Still, to be sure, I'd not mind getting a code from those folks after they, ahem, tuned my cell phone up a bit. Just for when I've had enough of the damned thing, toss it in the river and send the code, collect some fish for dinner. Total win-win-win.
But then, I've got a rather complex hate-hate relationship with any hell phone...
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And his magical drones would have to fly a wee bit low.
To detect alpha radiation, well, it's got a range in air of around 1.5 - 2 inches, gonna have to get a tiny bit low - inside of homes low, ramming into furniture low. Oh wait, maybe beta radiation, it's got a longer range and some nuclear components are beta emitters - oh crapmuffins, that's a whopping six inches. Plutonium and uranium primarily decay by emitted alpha particles, with plutonium emitting at a 3 - 5% rate gamma, which wouldn't escape the reflectors and tamper of the weapon case.
Nukes don't generate gamma radiation in detectable amounts and again, we're talking a few feet if someone suddenly made a special gamma tagged nuke for no reason.
A mythical nuke that would have unstable high explosives, long defunct tritium and oh, those were strategic missiles, weighed in at at least a half ton to a ton.
And I actually have had my hands literally on a nuclear warhead. I started my military career in Pershing missiles.
Thus far, the overhwelming majority of "drones" shown in videos online have been either passenger aircraft or helicopters. Most, requiring watching the extended video to see the autofocus finally overcome oversaturated sensors to actually focus on the point source that's the navigation lights. Then, one sees a tail stabilizer, skids, a canopy or wingtip beacons and tail logos.
Telling though is the mythical warheads are from Ukraine, not any of the other republics. Who is Russia a bit miffed with this week and looking for an excuse to escalate to literal nuclear weapons - per Putin's own words?
And no, they're also not mythical Soviet suitcase nukes, if they brought those into the US, we'd have done the same to them and we'd both have forests littered with really, really expensive paperweights that are toxic as all hell, with unstable explosives, as radiation and RDX are incompatible. That's one of the reasons for our bomb modernization program, the other being some other components that also have degraded.
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We didn't call them charges on mortars, they're referred to as increments. They're typically smokeless powder, same thing that's in modern small arms cartridges. So, they don't explode, they burn rapidly via deflagration. Detonation results in a mortar tube becoming a pipe bomb.
There are plenty of increment fires on youtube, where improperly disposed of increments catch a spark from the gun firing and catching fire. Fire bad around explosive rounds, says Frankenstein.
Germany vociferously objected to US usage of shotguns during WWI. They cleaned out trenches quite efficiently. Disassembled, not so much, but short barrels equals wide dispersion of pellets, precision aiming just wasn't in the cards in trench warfare when inside of an enemy trench. But, at 100 meters, a shotgun's just weight to lug around. Great master key though.
I don't get the question about ID plates from expended munitions. Does the questioner think that an enemy is going to order that part number for their own usage?
Munitions are tracked by lot numbers and for some systems, serial numbers. It's nice to keep track of ordinance, it's even nicer if one batch is recalled and we have a serial number to say "yep, that goes away, it's recalled". Not worth the effort to remove plates before usage and well, the enemy don't know who fired what serial number bit of ordinance.
Yeah, we didn't just train once and get stuck on a shelf. We trained, returned to unit, cleaned and maintained our equipment we trained on, train with the equipment, use that equipment, rinse and repeat each year in quarter year increments of each phase.
The wider the variety of equipment one fields, the more crap you need to acquire and distribute to maintain and supply it. So, six models of tank means six models of tank parts and specialized munitions for each different type of gun used. It's called what it is, a logistical nightmare, as well as a training nightmare.
As for doctrine, for much of my military career, the world largely concerned itself with two doctrines. NATO fighting doctrine and Warsaw Pact fighting doctrine, with small bits of North Korean to be a distraction. Across dozens of nations, it simplified things a lot and enhanced interoperability. That got honed during the GWOT by a lot.
Warsaw pact is gone, but Russia remains, although to study performance thus far, I don't think that they know or train to any known doctrine...
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@ObiwanNekody well, there were two plebiscite votes on the referendums, the first is as you report, but oddly, there is no reference to those deployed for the second.
There is one section discussing two pro-conscription brothers, who went on to serve and die in the war. Initially, violently (as in engaging in violence at anti-conscription gatherings) pro-conscription, one brother later stated "The boys are pleased it failed & say they would be sorry to see their friends enlist to come over to fight.", suggesting a change in position. A year in the trenches could trivially accomplish that change. Unfortunately, they died in action "James, Ernest, and another brother, Josiah, all served with the 49th Battalion. James and Josiah were killed at Messines on 7 June 1917. Ernest was killed at Villers-Bretonneux on 25 April 1918".
Couldn't find a reference for the referendum voting tallies, which may have further enlightened all. Probably, unfamiliarity with Australian governmental sites on my part.
But, as a US Army soldier who was deployed for the recent wars, I was then, as well as now, entirely against conscription. Wanna conscript, send them to the peace corps or civil projects, not to unwillingly fight and risk death. Some might even end up accidentally learning a useful trade out of that.
Leave war fighting to volunteer professionals.
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Known currently. SecDef has prostate cancer and had an elective procedure that had some issue that became an emergency sufficient to earn an ICU stay.
So, likely to clear, ahem, flow procedure, possibly ablation (several methods for that), possibly expansion, biopsy, etc. So, either obstruction or sprung a leak of red stuff, the stuff that when you run low on does that killing you thing. Or priapism. The latter, I doubt, as that typically won't land you in the ICU. The treatment will just make you think that you will.
Now, you're POTUS, being asked about SecDef's Johnson... Do you really want to discuss Old Blue on your SecDef with the press, for starters?
Now, it was an emergency, ambulance and ICU and all. So, there might've been some brief confusion as his deputy gets staged into position, comms get transported and set up, etc, but later that day, not so much, but you're still getting asked about SecDef's dick. While alluding to contingency matters in the NMCC and line of succession.
Now, consider POTUS' age and faith, I really don't see him willing to have him or his staff discuss another man's salami.
But then, I am a fan of Occam's Razor.
Add in, it sounds like the emergency hand-off turned into a goat screw, yeah, tons of rug sweeping under. Especially considering, who verifies POTUS identity in the nuclear chain again? Major? Champ? Commander? SecDef? The Acting briefly in Puerto Rico without secure comms and judging by some concerned delay, perhaps forgot a certain biscuit during a time of high tension between nuclear armed powers?
Yeah, the pastabilities abound, all reasonable and embarrassing and should've been handled better. And well, when you want to get out of the hole, it's a lot easier if you put down the shovel.
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I've always found it fascinating how one party would choose to try to make a gotya point of "see, candidate X is lying", while both contend for the highest political office in the land, as if nobody in the Oval Office has lied before or something.
"Lemme get this straight, the premier politician in the land is a liar?! The next thing you'll try to tell me is that on a clear day, the sky is blue!"
I mean, their heads must be emptier than a campaign promise!
Especially when they're trying to open a comparison to Trump, Mr 30k lies and climbing... The devil, aka "The Lord of the Lies" ain't got squat on Trump!
At least, when I lie, I say that I lie and that is a lie.
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OMG, I was dealing with radiation all day! The damned bus wouldn't even try to use a radiation rejection system called an air conditioner "because it'd get too cold" as we hit near 90 degrees farhenhot. Seriously, I'm comfortable in 80 - 85, that was a bit warmer, I was actually covered with perspiration and was perfectly comfortable in Djibouti and Qatar.
Enough said. Did get uncomfortable, badly when playing Santa Claus - oddly, largely for Muslim children.
Light, heat, microwaves, radio waves are all electromagnetic radiation.
Neutrons, what are they?
Protons, who?
Beta particles (aka really fast electrons, making grandparents CRT tubes embarrassed), huh?
Alpha who? My skin blocks that shit, might as well verbally insult me, it'll hurt more.
Gamma, no Incredible Hulk here, just, well, dead. Really nasty shit, ranging from knocking electrons up to super knocking them up and an electron and anti-electron get reproduced, totally bad karma for your cells in any way you wanna slice it.
As in, what is that dead thing, Alex?
Bananas, well...
Argon balloon, lighter... OUCH! I was joking, dammit!
An electron from a tritium particle hits a magical phosphor chunk, making it glow, so that you can see it, Ryan missed that.
Can I get some Pu-238? If so, just drop it off with NASA, they're flat out of it.
For personal collection, I'll be satisfied with a small sample of depleted uranium, hopefully encased in a wee bit of plastic to keep it safe from my radiation breath.
While at the urologist, I was reminded oddly of the Davey Crockett missile. Mostly, due to the sample containers...
Sir, you want me to shoot a whatlear whattle, just over there and then *what?!?!?!*, can you kindly urinate in this container, initial and date/time the sample? Because, you must be motherfucking high and I wanna see just what you're stoned on...
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For most, especially IT students, it comes down to what one is comfortable using and also does what you need it to do.
I could do all of the tasks discussed and more with my old Mac, alas, it was stolen during a move and I set some options to brick it.
I keep one Windows system at home for specialty work and to read some medical equipment. Everything else is largely either *BSD or Linux.
Each to its own strengths and abilities, as I'm fluent at the SA level on all. Might get a Chromebook, just for shits and giggles, but well, I can get pretty much anything to do what I need it to do, when I can't, I'll VM or remote into a bridge box I have to reach a machine that does that specialty task.
Oh, for the record, my apartment's smaller. That means, if I shot a video, it'd sound like I'm videoing from the middle of a data center's server room.
And previously, in a many hat role, I was base IASO, mail filter admin, antivirus admin, patch management admin, defacto IAM for the installation, web filter owner (I was the best out of automations at RegEx anyway), as well as requested and issued elevated access tokens. Plus command and staff, a few IA meetings a week and Shell Answer Man (especially when an organization needed assistance with a firewall modification request). Most of my work was conducted by scripts, stage a script to perform the task needed, check the script logs, massage any recalcitrant job(s), smoke cigarettes and drink coffee while the scripts did their jobs. I also owned all of the computer and user logon scripts and was consulted heavily for GPO modifications. I'm that prick that could give an accurate resultant set of policy result before the tool could.
And yes, the sea did indeed part, but honestly, that was due to the DFAC's beans...
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@jakeaurod the largest difference between the EMP types, solar storm vs nuclear EMP is that the nuclear has two components that differ in timing, generating two differing pulses, gamma induced and neutron. Solar would largely be magnetic and protons with minimal to no x-ray or gamma (those, if present would arrive days before).
With thermonuclear weapons, the neutrons don't typically escape the fireball, the primary yield generator determines which effects would predominate, with a fission final stage being rich with neutrons and a fusion being the highest yield contributor, gamma.
Beyond that, loads of moving parts, tons of math, but the inverse square law always applies - it is a law. It's a local concentration that generates the greater effect. One can still have line of sight to the detonation and atmospheric interaction zone, but be distant enough to be out of range of the effects, well, other than radio blackout for long distance radio communications.
Studied the effects in the military. We even had to lay telephone and power cables in specific ways to decrease EMP vulnerability. Ideally, we'd get a nukewarn and have an opportunity to disconnect equipment, install the shorting plugs and hopefully the conductive gaskets were still patent enough to protect the equipment.
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Hell, in NY State, there are 126k LEO's. Meanwhile, the NY National Guard has all of 5500 troops. The entire conspiracy theory is hilarious. Maybe they'll call in the illegal space aliens to help out too.
With heavy maple syrup bombardment support on the pancakes.
As for numbers of forces in Canada, as memory serves, the RCMP actually outnumbers the Canadian Armed Forces, as they're needed, a large standing military isn't currently needed. Hell, as I recall, the US invaded Canada twice, both times their small forces were enough to politely send our now disarmed military forces back to their side of the border. After all, Benedict Arnold was wounded by Canadian forces during one invasion that rather didn't turn out so well.
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@RyanMcBethProgramming tipping my hat on the observation that an attorney couldn't be assed to read a constitution he was speaking about. One expects attorneys to be prepared and well informed on such things if they're speaking on them. Perhaps, you've found one former President's next attorney?
I've noticed that you also do what I have frequently done in in person discussions about the vote, give the history of who was enfranchised first, as many have forgotten their school civics classes and foreigners are confused no end by our federal and state systems, being accustomed to strong central governments.
Still, could Ukraine successfully run an election during this war in particular? Color me dubious, the chances of organized Russian interference and injected false ballots would be quite high. It'd be right up there with expecting a free, fair and valid ballot during Nazi occupation and we know who'd end up getting hailed.
Back to civics lessons, recent online discussions, "Why did they bother to give this guy bail?", "Why is this guy even getting a lawyer for defense?" and worse, displaying pure ignorance on the contents of the Constitution, a document written in plain English and understood trivially by even Elementary school students.
But, cutting school budgets and confiscating dictionaries from libraries are important for our nation's welfare.
But, what would I know, I ain't got no brunging up.
Oh, wasn't only Privates doing stupid stuff, after all, we had the Private of the Officer Corps to also tilt nipple to... ;)
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@willek1335 we don't teach this because it's intelligence school training. Not classified, but intensive and well, teaching reading, writing and arithmetic or intelligence processing and foreign language/cultural proficiency and trust me, that last ain't gonna sell to the far right. Been there, done that, lost the tee shirt.
And da, English is mandatory in Russia, especially close to Moskva. But, the US has always been, well, phobic to anything not US and especially phobic out of habit to Russia after that whole communism thing.
Which is odd, given how common the rest of our cultures are.
Few cultures share mentioning mothers in the company of strangers, both share motherfucker as a common tool of trade in linguistics.
A bit of a joke there, but I'm sure you get the general idea.
Talk about momma anywhere else in the world, you get a knife stuck into you, Russia and the US, it's a starting a fight insult.
Would that we let our militaries fight the way that they want to fight.
Drinking contest, last one wobbling to collapse wins the war.
Only because, cooking would be utterly unfair and I win always. ;)
Although, I really want some black bread, but alas our regular priced ovens don't go down that low in temperature. :/
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