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@Tommy1marg that's the hardest lesson to learn or teach, to mentally take a step back and analyze what's going on and to then take the proper steps to get out of the problem one is unexpectedly confronted with.
I've been caught by rip currents, while merrily heading out to sea, evaluating what was happening and cut across the current to get out of it. I've also caught an offshore current, which was marked on nautical maps of the area that I just happened to blunder into (Coast Guard station was near the beach I was at), noticed I was quite distant from the shore and moving around 4 knots toward NYC from NJ. Seeing that and remembering the current marked on the map, I cut across the current and eventually waded back to the beach I was at.
Fighting the current is the recipe for disaster, as water's a hell of a lot stronger than we are!
Laughably, what brought my attention to the problem was, a shark swam between my legs, brushing against my inner thigh. As sand sharks tend to be in deeper water, when I turned toward shore, well, whoopsie that doesn't look good... The lifeguard looked quite alarmed, until he saw me cut the current and start wading back.
First failure, losing situational awareness. Lesson learned.
He who panics drowns.
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Back when I was working a long gig at TUH, a radiology department "Case of the week" image of a neonate was posted on the board.
Classic gassy abdomen. The department head noticed my looking at the image, a few comments back and forth and I asked if the child survived beyond 12 hours. Pretty much 12 hours precisely.
I suggested imperforate anus. None of his residents recognized what was going on in the image, so doctor asked me to give a presentation on that case, as I was correct. Thanks to insurance companies requirements for rapid discharge, the infant had never passed a stool and was incapable of doing so, obstructing the bowel, resulting in ruptured intestines.
What captured doctor's attention was my sad shaking of my head when examining the simple x-ray.
Totally preventable, still haunts my many nightmares.
The irony is, I was there as an IT guy. But, I was also a military medic and trained in basic x-ray reading and that particular case was one I bumped into during study.
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I dunno, we've not had any problems of note in the hands of the US Navy.
But, as a retiree from the Army, remembering our history with nuclear reactors, never*, ever, *ever give the US Army a nuclear reactor to run! We contaminated a chunk of Canada, we contaminated a chunk of Greenland, we blew up a reactor in Idaho.
But, we never misplaced a half dozen warheads, that took the US Air Force to do that in 2007... :/
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I was denied housing by a realtor who relied upon some commercial background check service that entirely fails in due diligence. Worse, she decided to tell me of the denial at high volume, across a crowded busy office, then when I objected, continue her justification at high volume, attempting for maximum embarrassment.
The reason, "You have a record". My objection, "I hold a security clearance, the US government isn't in the habit of issuing security clearances to criminals". The crime, I inherited property from my father, who hoarded construction supplies and right after inheriting the property, I was fined over it. The court immediately dismissed the charge and that was the end of it.
By the time I left, I was quite irritated. So, it being a military town and I being retired military, expressed a grave concern with the local base command over the risk to our service members morale and welfare, due to that business' practices. The business was promptly blacklisted by post housing and the business declared off limits to military personnel.
For some odd reason, said business had grave difficulties in finding rental customers, what with losing 85% of their clientele.
To morons, a dismissed case is equal to a conviction, "because you were accused". Sorry, by McCarthy is long dead, he drank himself to death after losing office, after losing faith and trust with his unamerican activities.
And I do willingly admit to a character flaw. I am a very, very, very vindictive man.
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Had some junior soldiers decide to mess with my constantly present thermos of coffee. I pretended to not notice the hot pepper sauce dumped into my coffee.
So, I picked up some indicatorless OC spray, bathed the thermos with it, allowed the solvent to evaporate, leaving a fine film of OC over the thermos and only handled it with gloves on. The next time they messed with it, well finger oils are solvents, the OC adhered to their fingers and people love to touch their faces and especially eyes.
Getting the crap off of the thermos was annoying, but the lesson was learned not to screw with Sarge's shit.
Instead, got comms cables switched around, they got batteries disconnected, just regular pranks.
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I lost my wife of over 41 years to sepsis, rapidly advancing from a dental infection on a weekend. Within around 6 hours of initial pain, she had died while I was outside having a cigarette. Initiated CPR to no avail, while on the phone with 911. Brief interruption to open the door for law enforcement, who ran and retrieved his AED to no avail. EMT's arrived, took over compressions to no avail when the paramedics arrived and plugged in the monitor. No pattern, not even pulseless electrical activity and I recommended discontinuing CPR (old military medic here, I know those monitors and treatments intimately). They continued for another 20 minutes, then called the hospital for the code to be called.
Four hours earlier, she'd helped me carry in $400 in groceries.
Couldn't eat for a week, as every time I saw that food, I saw her carrying it inside for me.
Two weeks of nightmares of her ribs fracturing under my compressions.
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Well, he also gave us McNamara's Morons.
With predictable results in casualties.
He also believed that videos could teach anyone to perform any task. Leading to tapes that featured, for one example, Magic Medic, who carried the tiny M3 aid bag, but would suddenly produce a two foot long erector set of a Thomas Leg splint and a full box of cravats to secure the infernal contraption that was obsolete during the Vietnam war... He also apparently concealed quite effectively, a full litter, Stokes litter, M113 APC and probably had a nuclear reactor inside of that bottomless bag.
Earlier in my career, similar tapes on the original Pershing, long replaced by the 1A and then 2 was in progress, with tools being used we'd never even heard of or could find a use for...
Highly effective at being inept and utterly incompetent. The only thing he seemed effective at was fucking up wet dreams.
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I've changed careers more than a few times myself, did a full military career as well. Lost everything a few times as well, losing a paid for house due to it being stripped of every ounce of copper in the building, walls and floors damaged to get to the copper, all furniture stolen, all electronics stolen, even family pictures strewn about while I was deployed. Some thank you for your service.
Had expensive property stolen during two moves.
Lost my wife coming up on three years ago after over 41 years together to sepsis that advanced fatally in only a few hours. My last memory of her was performing CPR on her when the police arrived and took over, then the EMT's arrived and well, I've done CPR before, but it's different when you feel your wife's ribs breaking under your compressions...
Even ended up homeless for a bit after that, just totally losing all drive for a period of time.
Oddly, never felt like driving a car through a crowd of people, trying to bomb a hotel or shoot some CEO. Maybe tie some shoelaces together around a chair... ;)
I'm also rather accustomed to being the best in each field I've been in, so if I'm not careful, I could go onto an ego trip and that never works out well.
And I walk on water. But, only when it's been really, really cold for quite a while...
But, I'm a perfect 10 - alas, on the Richter scale.
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Yeah, they melt quickly.
Had one tell me, "I'm loading my AR15".
I replied, "Fine, my M1A can is good beyond 1 kilometer, come and get it".
I fire competition with both an M4 and M1A and am a veteran that's lugged both ludicrous distances before I retired. Little snowflake wasn't ready to take heat being returned coldly.
Although, that thing wouldn't need to leave the safe, the streak of yellow down their back is long and thick.
And firearms discussion belongs on firearms forums, ranges and gun shops, not in a political forum. But, when they can't make a point, they resort to terroristic threats.
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Nonsense! Woke up dreaming of eating a cat from a Penthouse Pet. Thankfully, it was just a nightmare involving a needy model, don't want to relive that waking nightmare again!
Had feline in my mouth before, damned cat actually stepped in my loudly snoring mouth. Why and how mystified us both, both of us equally grossed out. Me, got litterbox du foot, cat got a mouth full of saliva, so we were tied on that debacle. Well, except that the foot couldn't digest my mouth, the same couldn't be said of the poor cat's foot, who was utterly unwilling to lick that foot clean for good reason.
Yeah, had an interesting life. Did I ever mention that I really hate interesting and prefer boring?
Oh, shall I discuss that this blood libel is over a century old and barely retread over anti-Chinese immigration from the railroad construction era? I've not heard a new idea come out of the GOP in decades, everything is a century old or older. Literally, just changed a few stickers, apply the same libel to a new group.
"They're stealing our jobs!"
Yet, oddly not a single one of them wants to sign up for minimum wage and muck out the industrial henhouse the size of a large warehouse full of chicken shit. Not. A. One.
Did it with my own small henhouse. Which is why I don't have chickens now.
Next up, Nativist Riots requiring artillery to suppress them.*
*Two incidents, Philadelphia Nativist Riots resulted in a number of dead, including responding militia and involved rioters stealing artillery to destroy Roman Catholic churches (Irish Catholic immigration wave at the time). The other, Big Army shelled the Bowery to suppress rioting.
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The clock offset and sampling rate set up an ideal race condition, which resulted in the error that caused all of the computers to fail out.
One problem with "it's so one off, it'll never happen" is, with enough flights, it will inevitably happen.
Thankfully, the safety pilot justified their duties by catching what got overloooked and was key to understanding what was going on.
Concerning is, with dual engine failure, the recorders lose power. So, get surprised by an event in Iceland, lose all recorders really doesn't sound like a grand idea. There should be some standby power to them and their inputs for at least long enough for the RAT and/or APU to come online and provide power.
This one could never be properly conveyed in "Seconds from Disaster", it could only be well covered in milliseconds from disaster!
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@themidsouthcyclist8880 not totally garbage, we still see people getting arrested for trying to trade nuclear weapons designs.
But, the onus is great before the court will countenance prior restraint beyond matters of national security.
Here, there's a different issue and given the accused declined to appear before the court, a summary judgement was issued for violations of the Copyright Act, as well as several communications and computer crime acts.
But, the court exceeded jurisdiction into international realms when ordering the take-down of any .tv domain, which belongs to the sovereign nation of Tuvulu. I'm also dubious of a national order, as well as the significant onus of requiring significant labor and equipment being provided with no compensation of the independent ISP businesses, as well as the order going far beyond the jurist's district and circuit.
Or we could go to war with Tuvulu and have the US Navy report back that they couldn't find the island. ;)
That last is a joke, as courts cannot order us to go to war, that belongs to Congress or an emergency use of force declaration by the POTUS and authorized by Congress under the War Powers Act.
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My very first military EMS patient was an advanced hypothermia patient. Conventional wisdom at the time was, he'd have zero memory of when his body was locked rigid in a continuous shiver.
He remembered me, what I did, an argument with some senior NCO's that I won, a MacGuyverism to warm him during nonstandard emergency transport and more.
As I learned when he thanked me at a unit Christmas party some years later.
Kind of embarrassing, as I was just doing my job. But, good to see he was not only OK, but still serving and his family had grown.
Had only mild hypothermia once, had severe hypoxia a few times, once to tunnel vision and gray out before I recognized what was going on and mitigated it. Neither was pleasant, to put it mildly.
The last hypoxia event being due to a form of CHF, due to a thyroid crisis - during the first big peak of COVID.
Uttered by me to the ED doctor, "Oh, thank God it's only CHF! Wait, did I just utter those words?"
Doctor gave a great belly laugh, hard won, "Yeah, but I understand".
A few days later, I rebounded due to new treatment, despite one endocrinologist considering iodine to shut down my thyroid. Driving the poor nursing staff to distraction. I am, by nature, a rather energetic person, so idleness isn't really in my nature.
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One biggie in aerospace is, they demand and use a hard realtime OS. A delayed response is a wrong response, as we're talking about critical systems.
If the entertainment system, which is not integrated with the critical flight systems decides to circle itself around in swapland, it's not a big deal, so the passengers don't get their e-mail, game or movie. With the flight controls, that becomes a huge, lethal deal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_operating_system
The entirety of design is essentially opposite what Linux was designed to do. One would have to write an entirely new kernel, the time sharing would have to be entirely redesigned, swap goes away and timing tightened way up.
All of which is doable, really, as one is able to change out any part of the sourcecode. Hence, why there is RTLinux. Microkernel, scheduling, all already done, as someone needed a realtime OS and they developed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTLinux
And this was typed on a Ubuntu 22.04 Linux system. I only keep one Windows machine around, largely for medical applications that don't have Linux equivalents. I usually keep one *BSD box around as well, although currently I don't.
Each OS to its strengths and purpose.
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Hydrogen flames tend red-orange, which is decidedly within the human visual spectrum. If optimally mixed with air in a burner, they're blue flamed like a natural gas flame and well, still visible to the human eye - especially at night.
But yeah, the sealant and protective coatings of the Hindenburg were aluminum oxide paint, nitrate based sealant and basically, add in rubber and you've got the basic ingredients for a modern solid fuel rocket.
Still, balloons tend to be flammable anyway and somewhat delicate, a bit of WP dispensed by a few small dedicated drones, it's raining ruptured compartments balloons and netting, which I'm sure would do wonders for both the target and power grid. Might as well attack their protected target themselves, save some trouble and expense and end up with less damage.
Whenever possible, turn the enemy's defenses against that enemy.
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I will happily be impressed if China or well, anyone makes a probe that lasts even half of that time on Venus.
Still, surviving that long, first through space, then landing and operating on Mars is impressive.
It's a royal PIA to design things to survive such environments, but actually getting there and even briefly operating is a major accomplishment!
I'd suggest collaborating with JPL for the next probe, with no sides hiding any efforts and methods.
Likely gaining a probe that lasts far longer than anything humanity has yet launched.
And if one selected Venus, one might actually learn a hell of a lot more, given a supercritical near atmosphere, temperature and pressure. We have a preference for STP, that isn't present for either other planet under study.
Still, only a suggestion.
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Heh, they started with "the sniper system, an AR" and have since been all over the map.
Thus far, the only thing missing in the mist is, no space aliens being invoked yet.
Well, beyond my "The Grand Conspiracy of the Space Aliens", which is my default label for any conspiracy theory, all of which are outlandish. And entirely have no space aliens involved, save when fancifully invoked for the purpose of hyperbole that even Helen Keller could see.
In a way though, I am thankful that a minimal skill idiot used the least appropriate common weapon. As much as I may loathe Trump, that ain't how we select candidates and leaders.
And the reality of it was, by the third shot, it was really over. By then, Trump figured out that wasp sting wasn't a wasp, Secret Service yelled for him to get down and for a change, he did what he was told to and agents had covered him with their bodies as they're supposed to do, buying time for the Secret Service snipers to neutralize the threat.
Still, what a goat screw!
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@firstresponderren9546 ah, so you altered the laws of physics and chemistry while my attention was diverted!
Previously, phospholipid membranes were attacked by detergents, killing microorganisms. So, how do we extract DNA in this novel universe?
Feel better, my scrotal contents! Modern soaps and even legacy soaps are detergents and destroy phospholipid compounds, which pathogens require to do that living thing. Alcohol does a similar function, but both work quite well and soap actually works a bit better, which is why surgeons still scrub down with detergents, rather than alcohol. And sanitize skin with an oxidizer that destroys said phospholipid membranes.
Do you really want to go into biochemistry with me on this? Bad hill to die on.
My medical education was... A bit more advanced, due to specific duties in specific types of units. Actually understanding pharmacology and chemistry was part and parcel of said education and experience.
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That's a nothingburger. He got grazed on the tip of his earlobe, giving him what we called in the Army, a boo-boo.
What really saved him was that the kid was such a lousy shot that he was asked to leave his school gun club and thankfully, he never developed any amount of skill. Anyone who graduated from any branch of service's basic training just don't manage to miss a 150 meter target.
Frankly, if it was me, I'd call it a boo-boo from someone that, thankfully due to dumb luck in turning the right way and his being a shit shot, gave me little more than a minor scratch.
But, he is a showman, so he was shot in the head and being a superzero, lived.
Or struck in the head by a sword and did not die, for the fundies out there...
Although, what I noticed with his speech wasn't sober, deliberate, heroic, it was tranquilized, complete with slurring and difficulty tracking even with a teleprompter.
Something I've been gaining some familiarity with, not due to tranquilizers, but new BP meds that keep dropping me hypotensive and requiring much more effort to read fairly simple signs. I'll be discussing that with doctor, complete with BP logs this coming week.
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@Linguaholic23 your example reminds me of an automobile insurance company argument for denying a claim.
"The accident is half your fault, as if you had only stayed home, he accident would have never happened."
Interestingly, the courts eventually dismissed that nonsensical claim.
The tire was chopped by the Continental aircraft's engine cowl fragment, tire fragment impact caused fuel tank #5 to rupture. The fuel from tank #5 then flowed into engines 1 &2, producing asymmetric thrust that began at V1, the fuel igniting appearing to ignite in the damaged landing gear's well.
The quantity of fuel isn't exceptionally relevant, post V1, aborting takeoff is unsafe with that aircraft. One can debate until proton decay if the tank would've remained patent if it was filled to 75%. Given that 5 out of 6 prior tire failures resulted in tank ruptures, one being a severe rupture, the amount of fuel isn't exceptionally relevant, especially given one side of the aircraft being plumb out of engines. Being 810 kg overweight was relevant, given the loss of thrust and damage, once past V1, the flight was doomed.
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Yep and it was still quite new. Remember, one way of properly writing the chemical compound of water is HOH, hydrogen hydroxide, it's both a base and an acid, heating it only makes things uglier on metals. The main control rod was what was pulled to hook up to a pulley, it got pulled out over a foot too far and here's the fun part.
A mass of cold water inside of the reactor, around 3x10 feet, instantly vaporized from the insanely high amount of heat added faster than the eye can blink.
The reactor sharing a design flaw with Chernobyl, a positive void coefficient, which meant steam made the reaction even more intense. The root cause of each accident was the same, prompt criticality, the base reason being massively different, but both were shit designs that never should have even been prototyped as too unsafe.
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I left the GOP when those who dote on stupidity and tea could see Russia from their home's window. Had to leave, as idiocy was embraced, rather than commonsense and actual campaigns and platforms, turning campaigns into early versions of the current three ring circus that this is.
Still, I didn't vote straight tickets, but followed platforms and positions, voting according to views that more closely aligned with my views on which way our nation should go.
This election went straight party line, as a message had to be sent and well, all campaigns reflected one value, vote for a god-emperor wannabe, one man being more important than the nation I spent over 28 years of my life and two wars in military defense of. Had no choice, as I've met Trump back around y2k at a tri-state Chamber of Commerce function. Where he lied like the proverbial rug, was flush with his successes of five years before in bankrupting casinos multiple times, causing so many eyerolls in a room full of business owners that I wondered that the planet kept on its axis! A boor of the party so severe, the following year experienced a 95% attrition rate for that same function and the Chambers had to spend that following year apologizing continuously in order to regain attendance.
And devout loyalty to a single man, nation be damned, party be damned, to a petty tyrant wannabe, whose main campaign plank is to discard the very Constitution and laws I swore for so many decades to give my life in defense of, while he denigrated the sacrifices of those who fell defending those very things. Someone noted in the election of 2016 having kept a book of Hitler's speeches on his nightstand, who proved beyond a reasonable doubt his unsuitability to even be within the District of Columbia, let alone the Oval Office, who considered "his numbers" of superior worth to the lives of the population of this nation. To a man, so flawed as to kowtow to communist strong man leaders and the thug running Russia into the ground deeper.
Nope, it is my intent to hand over to my grandchildren a thriving nation, not a fascist police state with death camps. Because, my family does enjoy one fine tradition, grinding fascists and fascism to dust and an utter intolerance that extends back to the Revolution of utter intolerance for having a king.
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Actually, to my ear, his accent was always a bit flat. Never entirely dead on for one region being part, but inflection slightly off on occasion to have had me wondering since the first episode and it was between second and third episode that I did learn he was British. Largely, because I honestly don't go running to see where some actor or actress came from as a matter of course.
Once I learned, I had to admit that he did an exceptionally fine job of it and well, one does have to work with what speech impediments one is stuck with.*
*The fun part of that statement, it being pronounced with a southwest Philly accent. Excuse me while I take my breakfast of pills, lemme grab my worder boddle, gonna haveta fill this at the zink laedder on...
Suffice it to say, I've quite a number of friends from the UK, most being from London and my accent actually is rather variable, as I tend to pick up idioms and accents rapidly during conversations. The result being sounding at times like I'm northern midlands in part fairly frequently, although missing the mark on idioms often enough due to lack of practice. That said, I sincerely doubt that I'll ever come close to speaking whatever language it is that spoken in Liverpool. ;)
The US and UK, two people separated by a common language. It's their own fault though, they never bothered documenting the language until after that little tiff we had in 1776 and they ended up losing the war. We further diverged after much exposure after we rescued them from two world wars, the wars going quite terribly for the war...
Actually, the original UK accent in received English was closer to the US mid-Atlantic accent, which oddly has decreased to near-extinction in the US since the 1950's. Makes sense, as the mid-Atlantic had the last great wave of immigration from the UK before that bit of unpleasantness in the late 1700's and that general trade disagreement in 1812.
You should hear me go on about US tourism of Canada during said conflicts and their rather humorous conclusion of an honor guard escort to our borders, when their arms were finally returned... A spoiler, Benedict Arnold was seriously wounded during that brief vacation abroad, resulting in disability and inability to work his farm, resulting in his contracting to earn a living in the UK... As a result, we created the precursor to the VA.
Yeah, history actually is pretty cool. Right until one survives having actually made some of it, then it's damned tedious and unpleasant.
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@Sartre_Existentialist the courts said otherwise, that it was never legal, as it can never be legal for a mere law or Act to overturn the Constitution.
Otherwise, we'd literally no longer have a Constitution or government. Laws are empowered under the Constitution, not the converse.
If a state passed a summary execution law and immediately enforced police extrajudicial executions in the street, the state would still end up liable for the violations of citizens rights when challenged for damages by the executed parties families and estates. Your claim of an affirmative defense is, "well, despite it being unconstitutional and hence invalid, it was legal" and being invalid, it's by definition born unlawful due to its unconstitutionality.
When considering rights, it's sometimes easier to substitute another right in the place of the one one is arguing over. In the above example, substituting property for life, both being inherent right to possess things.
I've used it in second amendment arguments, where some insist that that right, "like all rights" is unrestricted, so I substituted free speech and showed a half dozen common limitations upon the right of free speech, including no right to engage in sedition, conspiracy, fraud and defamation, to name a few I'd start out with.
They usually depart the field with "your a commie". Apparently, Constitutionalists being communists in their odd world view.
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It'd be viable for a business where I am, the Middle District of Pennsylvania, to write the judge and politely tell him to pound sand, as we're not under his or her jurisdiction and hence, the order is null and void in our circuit.
It comes down to jurisdiction, this only holds for those under the jurisdiction of the 2nd circuit at best, SDNY at minimum.
Even if they were under the jurisdiction, the costs in man hours would be fairly significant and they don't control the top level domain controllers, of which there are currently 1589, most of which are foreign or in the US, still outside of that circuit and district. So, there are several options available to someone under the jurisdiction of the court. Comply as they can and risk contempt, shut down operations or refuse to comply due to the labor cost being insanely high, as they'd need to build their own Great Firewall of China to block the traffic ordered blocked. Even backbone providers couldn't quite manage compliance with that order without literally breaking the internet and putting thousands of man hours and millions of dollars in equipment in place just to comply with that order.
Which means, next month, as today, I can easily still access that site that I've never heard of.
And despite multiple national courts orders, Pirate Bay still is around, under at least a dozen top level domains that are outside of the authority of those courts.
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These children would be unlikely to care for me and I most certainly was not a Trump voter.
But, we have laws and our most supreme set of laws is our Constitution, which places ratified treaties being "the law of the land" and we did ratify the refugee and asylum treaties.
Which we're feloniously ignoring. Both, by ignoring the ratified treaties, which are subordinate only to the Constitution itself and the accompanying Acts of Congress, which are codified laws.
So, either we have a Constitutional system that we follow or we don't. If we do, these children and parents should be rushed through the asylum process yesterday. If we don't, we don't have a President or Congress, so why is anyone listening to anything they say?
For then, our Constitution has no power to enforce treaties or laws and as such, we're an anarchy, no laws at all.
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@andersjjensen well, the bulk carrier is small, only 188.5 meters long, around half the size of the Truman, so it obviously darted out in front of the Truman from between parked ships...
This is also the same carrier that had an F/A 18 shot down in a friendly fire incident.
Ensign Helen Keller being recently promoted from air defense aboard the USS Gettysburg to conning the USS Truman.
In other news, the US department of irresponsibility, also known of as D.O.G.E. has announced a really, really sweet deal on a slightly used Nimitz class aircraft carrier with low mileage. No comment yet on the name of said vessel, as officials look up how to spell Truman.
Moving on, I still remain a hazard to navigation and refuse to leave the water citing safety concerns. If anyone's seen my Speedo, do let me know, it should appear as a kilometer long oil slick...
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Me: Activated charcoal to the esophageal region and stomach, then gastric lavage, while also intubation and supportive therapy.
And 1e^77 Our Fathers and Hail Mary's, of whatever faith that you follow equivalent.
Surfactants and oxidants are nasty species. Nasty, as in, better to get into naked polar bear wrestling in the polar bear's habitat, while it's hungry and has young to guard and provide for.
It's nearly as bad as the worst chemical exposure possible for humans, HF exposure being worse and that stratified field is rather rare, overall, for the average populace (HF can be found with "Halon" fire extinguishers, once it meets a fire and as most operators will forget proximity warnings, be fired into the fire and sit there to breathe in a very nasty chemical).
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One thing in common with influenza and COVID is, both utilized the same general method of infection, via different receptors.
Both invaded phagocytes, essentially infecting the very alert and first response system of the immune system. Both resulted in eventual cytokine storms that were triggered essentially by the body "noticing" that the infection wasn't being properly addressed and switching to a cytokine storm based "scorched earth" attack on the infected cells, which by then were fairly ubiquitous and beyond just phagocytes.
Initially missed, in part due to some faulty reporting, cytokine storms were initially denied and hence, went unaddressed, causing the worst and most lethal of the infection's symptoms. Once realized, the storms were blunted with steroids and that became the first route of intervention.
In the 1918 influenza pandemic, the mere existence of the virus was theorized and considered a wild theory that had absolutely no evidence in support of it. Cytokines were utterly unknown. We'd barely managed to develop vaccines against h. influenzae, a bacterial infection and those were actually developed in some physicians own personal laboratories! One researcher that was well respected had authored a paper proclaiming h. influenzae was the cause of the 1918 pandemic, which lead many researchers down the merry path to nowhere, but it wouldn't have helped had they been aware of the actual cause, as viral research didn't exist, there was no way to visualize the virus, no means of comprehending viral replication, it wasn't until 1931 that the electron microscope was invented, It wasn't until 1933 that influenza A was finally isolated from swine!
So close, yet so far!
Interestingly, in 1910, Dr Wu Lien-teh had been dispatched to manage and treat an outbreak of pneumonic plague in Manchuria and Mongolia, which ultimately claimed 60000 lives. He'd performed, unusual at the time and location, an autopsy and ascertained that it was indeed airborne and developed a filter mask, the first in use to prevent infection of its kind, which was highly successful. A French physician was dispatched to replace him and refused to use the mask, compounding that with some ethnic slurs and died within days of pneumonic plague. The doctor then insisted upon cremation of the bodies to halt the plague's spread, which was adopted and the plague swiftly ended. It took quite a lot of additional time to eventually trace the animal vector of the infection.
Reports of his filter mask were widely distributed and by the 1918 influenza pandemic, were well known and most of the arguments against surrounding COVID and masking, well heard and disproved at that time, with liberty and freedom arguments, etc long exhausted and well, a hell of a lot of folks just went with masking and kept doing that not dying thing. Yet, we still managed to turn an argument over well established medical science on filtering droplets out with a simple mask into a political argument, to the detriment of all.
But, it's been said, the two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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When you work in a hazardous environment, it's just the norm to do whatever you have to do to pull someone out of the shit. After all, the next time, it just might be you.
Hence, it's not a big deal, it's literally business as usual. Although, if it was preventable, all manner of hell gets raised over the excessive risk imposed.
And well, I'd be moving heaven and earth to help out too. Might be an old army dude, but long ago I learned, although we are mostly water, water vs human, water normally wins, so help a brotha out.
And the most infamous and common last words heard on radio typically are, "aw shit" and I'm damned tired of hearing those final words.
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There were problems with metallurgy, non-chromed rifling, tolerances, political interference that resulted in precisely the prohibited type of smokeless powder being in the rounds and more. If you want something fucked up, ask the Army to handle it, want it mangled beyond recognition, give it to a politician.
But, don't forget, not all USAF were zoomie and missile guards. Some did run CSAR missions.
One thing though, how'd you get cleaning kits? The early '16's shipped without cleaning kits, resulting in men thinking that they never needed cleaning. At least, per everyone I knew that served in Nam when the M16 was introduced.
Loved my M4 in the sandbox, although I really loved the reintroduced M14, brought back updated as an M1A as a DMR.
Although, the best things we had beside our Strykers was Kevlar and radios to call for air or indirect.
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It is a shame that airlines and even other employers have no way in which to track the age of their employees and potentially predict the utterly unpredictable, completely random age in which employees may retire.
Maybe we should ask governments to suggest a retirement age, which could make predicting such things possible.
Oh wait, that would require management to jump off of the just in time bandwagon and anticipate predictable things, prepare in advance for them and retain a certain level of excess personnel to act as a buffer should there be a sudden loss and that is definitely not lean six sigma!
Decades of promoting just in time ordering and lean philosophy has gone as we predicted, disruptions in supply chains and traffic flow have disrupted everything up and downstream and retirements are adding to the hot mess.
Again, as predicted when we took that training that is only ever effective in an undisturbed steady state environment. But, people that were in the field for 20 - 30+ years didn't know what they were talking about and needed to have a positive attitude.
I was quite positive it'd blow up in their faces.
So, we're short flight crews, infant formula due to one plant going offline out of a dozen and a tampon shortage, that due to hand wave cotton and plastic shortages...
And the ones that need to be shown the door for such business harming shortsightedness will retain their platinum parachutes, while everyone else gets lead parachutes.
</0.01% spleen venting completed, detonation averted>
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Fellow veteran and retiree here, glad to see a fellow like minded vet! My wife had an ectopic pregnancy that had to be aborted, with some difficulty due to a Roman Catholic hospital wanting my permission to perform the procedure while I was away on a field problem. Mailed my ballot on the 4th, it was received on the 6th and will be counted Nov 5, per state law. For a vanishingly rare change, I didn't vote per candidate's platform, due to GOP side MAGA worship, so it went straight Democratic party line. Despite being bit by voting for Nick Miccarelli, who is a GOP type and veteran, but alas, also a walking turd.
And I have a gun and know how to not grab the end the glue comes out of! Only took three tries... ;)
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@813laker especially when he complained in that speech, right after the beauty of Gettysburg's battlefield results of unburied Confederate soldiers, their loss and how poor Robert E. Lee isn't looked upon in a good light any longer.
Yeah, for that matter, then either, as Congress issued a writ of attainder and seized his plantation in punishment for his treason. His family, paid after a court battle years after his death. It's now Arlington National Cemetery.
Lee was also well known to whip his slaves mercilessly for even mild "offenses", at times taking over himself if his employees were deemed "too gentle".
And that us and US thing, wow, just wow. He realized it just recently - I realized it when I was 4.
But, he does deliver the irony. It's coming up on 45 years now since I've last saw someone earn an F- in US history.
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So, the defense attorney is still in prison? Nobody did anything about it, so there won't be a trial that Steve talked about, right?
Or do you mean that nobody showed up with a militia and machine gunned everyone concerned down?
Here's a life lesson for you. You can do things a fast and easy way and they'll fall apart every time or one can do things the right way, which takes time and effort and those things will be lasting.
And things with courts take time. First, the trial of the accused has to be completed, then the defense attorney has to have his trial, then if acquitted in the latter, the misbehavior of the jurist then is reported up to the superior courts as appropriate for disciplinary action.
No magical thunder from above, no Harry Potter waving his fuck stick, but a step by step legal process that is properly followed at every step, in deliberate and sober actions.
Otherwise, we don't have the rule of law, we have the lawlessness of the mob.
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Deuterium doesn't have a half life, it's stable. Tritium half life is 12.3 years and usually is in a pressurized tank inside the warhead that can be swapped out, with only a small amount used, as both nations use lithium deuteride for the fusion stage, which neutrons from the boosted fission primary fission the lithium into tritium. Lithium is a weird element...
There are a number of common failure modes for nuclear weapons. The high explosives degrade over time, especially in the presence of ionizing radiation. The same is true of the electronics. Tritium does need replacement fairly often to maintain purity. Helium and hydrogen embrittlement is a problem in both the fission stage and the storage container for the tritium. Corrosion, yeah, but that's why the plutonium and uranium are plated with gold (typically).
When the Soviet Union fell, only one military portion received adequate funding, the Strategic Rocket Forces and their boomers (sort of, on a highly limited basis for fully operational boats). The stockpile dedicated for anything beyond limited tactical strikes likely did atrophy though, both due to corruption and lack of funding, as maintaining nuclear anything is damnably expensive.
And was a high priority for the US to maintain, as proved by the saga of fogbank. Code name for a polystyrene foam that the DoD literally forgot how to make and needed to replace, as it was crumbing over time. It was to be replaced with a more modern aerogel component, but that component wasn't functioning at all, so a crash project ensued to figure out how to make the old component, see what made it work and replicate it in the modernized version. That mushroomed into a 200 million dollar program and eventually, the issue was traced to a contaminant that made the x-ray laser actually work, as that was critical to the ablation system (this is all open source information). The laser is hugely inefficient, bad enough that Teller hung his hat on it being made efficient for his SDI contribution and destroying his and LLNL's reputation at the time, but was sufficient for inside of a confined, excited warhead and was eventually replicated in the new aerogel and now being actively incorporated in updated warheads.
Very important, utterly critical, entirely forgotten, it was so critical for us, Russia suffering economically fared worse, I'm certain.
So yeah, it's an open question on how many lower priority warheads would actually function, rather than splatter a few pounds of plutonium at the impact site and maybe a half ton of depleted uranium as well, the enriched stuff not weighing in all that much and still fairly long half life anyway (seriously, if you enjoy mineral water, it comes from wells that frequently have uranium leeching into them from the granite bedrock, folks, welcome to earth, didn't like that fact, maybe your ancestors should've stayed inside of the battlestar).
So, where we stand now is China vs Russia some years ago, where Russia laughed at "China's Final Warning", thousands of which being issued without action, we're getting dozens now of "Russia's Final Warning", while observing their paper tiger burst into flames in action. Paper tiger also being a term Russia used about China's military.
And Putin is an egomaniac, but not stupid, he's not about to launch and accept his family and nation glowing in the dark.
Like me, he has a gun and knows not to grab the end the hot glue comes out of.
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Nope, it all depends upon the pressure gradient.
Explosive or gradual decompression at 30000 feet, fairly quick, not as fugly. A nine atmosphere environment and a two foot crescent hatch, fugly occurs, those inside get body wide hickies and blood that's pink from degraded lipids in the blood.
No clue what idiots are going on about nitrogen, that happens on a small pressure differential, large, like atmosphere to zero or 9 atmosphere to atmosphere, minimal, the gas exchange processes work in reverse quite efficiently.
All gas exchanges from the lungs are atmospheric gases - all of them. Oxygen, nitrogen, CO2, even frigging Argon.
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Worse, many refusing to come back as civil service, but as contractors at five times the price.
BTW, our enduring stockpile and some unspecified assembled warhead systems in our nuclear arsenal apparently went unmonitored when all security staff were summarily dismissed by DOGE. After an unspecified time, minimum a day, possibly up to three, the agency went essentially unstaffed.
So, for all we know, someone's cat is rolling a plutonium core around their house. Because DOGE didn't know what the NNSA was, despite feeding all of the classified data into their unauthorized AI.
They're not only shuttering our entire government, they're scuttling the entire ship and trying to take the planet with it.
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Remember, the VA budget was cut every year I served, from 1982 through the first year and a half of our GWOT. Hence, they ration sparse tax dollars and it's now purely reflexive actions from the privations of those decades.
So, put the blame on Congress and the taxpayers, who whined about their tax rates, to hell with the veterans.
Whenever you hear how "The troops are #1", realize that it's the third digit being raised.
Around a decade before the GWOT began, I had a clinical rotation through a VA hospital. Most of my time was spent on the oncology ward, with every patient being on the DNR board. Some were so ill that they required a flotation bed to prevent pressure ulcers, but had to be authorized by a board, as there wasn't enough money to get the number of those specialized beds for all of the patients that needed them.
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Got slammed with a debit card fraud ring when I hit the Harrisburg area. Turned out the tools went and got keys to all the gas station dispensers and installed their own card readers inside.
They now have a nice place to stay, three squares a day and secure sleeping quarters with fine steel bars.
Took two weeks and spare change to fix my account, went a bit hungry for a bit.
As for getting carded, been there, done that. I'm 61, so I'm, erm, turning blonde. ;)
Getting carded is rather comical now. Never got carded when I was 16, so go figure.
But, fines are real and stores are sensitive about self inflicted injuries.
Annoyances happen in life. Just talk to your kids. :P
Can't talk to my wife, she died last year after 41+ years of CMH winning duty.
Yeah, I'm a veteran, who isn't of our generations?
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@Nasheepoo ugh, that just made me nauseous. Granted, I'll enjoy an occasional hot dog, but that's maybe a pack in six months, same with mac and cheese (usually with some ham and leftover veggies tossed in), but veggies are a must. They keep me regular... ;)
And my diet is varied enough that, despite being diagnosed with Crohn's severe enough to really foul up my electrolytes (specifically salt and magnesium), all other micro and macronutrient levels tested smack dead center of normal, despite damage to the colon.
As for dishes, I tend to cuss a bit, but that's more in objection to gravity. Blown disc and all... :/
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Although, I think with this one, the bots have set a new record in speedy response. The shooter's remains weren't even cooled down and they were stirring the pot.
I'm now fully on with the Obama Doctrine, consider any computer based attack by a nation state to be a WMD attack on the US and reply in kind with the only WMD we field. For some reasons, that makes the Ruskies nervous...
The other side view, also interesting though. One side is currently stirring in some mythical CIA operative being well, less competent than Maxwell Smart and the Secret Service was magicing it along, ignoring that the suspect experienced high velocity lead poisoning by the Secret Service.
And a nascent, but growing "The Shooter Was a RePuBlIcAn!!!" and well, Christ knows where they're going with that, got too dizzy watching all of the hand waves.
Sigh, I don't drink enough.
I do know that the governor of Pennsylvania didn't get a lot of sleep last night. I know that because his mansion is 3 blocks from me, well lit and way too much traffic for a building that normally has pretty much no traffic.
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In her favor, when did she lie under oath? That is what perjury is, so when was she sworn in and lied to a court of law?
As an attorney, she can misguide, mislead and do whatever she has to, within some boundaries, to defend her client and that's demanded of attorneys under our laws, rightfully so. That she did the worst possible job, under the worst possible conditions - courtesy of her client and made serious blunders in court still don't count as perjury.
Only incompetence.
There's an old joke. "She passed the bar, alas, she didn't stop in and learn anything".
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There is one instrument system that I'll rarely trust, my organic sensory system. I've been fooled once by a false horizon, once fooled, twice shy.
The Captain got an "this is odd" moment, which swiftly turned into "I'm about to become a submarine captain" moment, reacted properly and recovered. In some instances, the proper reaction was delayed by continued analysis, resulting in a lesson written in blood, rather than elevated blood pressure and pulse.
To err is human, what one does once one realizes the error reveals the quality of the person.
In this case, recovery, uneventful flight, brushing it under the rug by filing a detailed, honest report for all to eventually learn from. That reveals a top notch person in my book.
Because, three words have gotten me out many troublesome resultant situations, "I fucked up". Lying by omission or commission only reveals someone unworthy of any trust or position of trust. Admitting to an error, documenting it and thereby training others to avoid that error marks one as worthy of a position of trust.
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Pheochromocytoma is usually found inside or on the adrenal gland(s), but occasionally, one will be present pretty much anywhere in the body and flood the body with adrenal hormones, such as adrenaline.
Yeah, things can get lost and set up shop in the wrong place or a mutation causes a tumor that produces things it shouldn't in the wrong place.
Or in my case, I've long had a mass on my adrenal gland that does nothing whatsoever, so, no harm, no foul, leave the dog alone. ;)
Meanwhile, my immune system took a dislike to my TSH receptors in my thyroid gland, turning it on full tilt. Hypertension, tachycardia, extreme rapid weight loss, Hulk level "irritability", heart failure, abdominal aortic aneurysm all came to visit. The last time I had a thyroid storm, it was right at the first peak of COVID and my pulse oximeter read 85, well, that and I was gasping like a fish out of water, convincing me to have my wife call an ambulance (I hate hospitals, they're full of sick people!).
Doctor came in after testing and said, "I have good news, you don't have COVID".
"Oh? What do I have then?"
"A type of heart failure from your hyperthyroidism."
"Oh, thank God it's only heart failure... <blink> Did I just say those words?"
Doctor laughed with a bit of a hysterical tinge, "Yeah, but I understand".
At the time, hospital beds lined the hallways and were double stacked in the elevator lobbies, with one floor overflowing with COVID patients.
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I'd have gone with clean room environment and vacuum chamber assembly to avoid gas pockets. But then, I'd also not have used expired carbon fiber or a viewport that was rated for 2/3 of the intended depth.
Worse, no xray inspections, ultrasound, etc after each mission. Just acoustic monitoring for popping, which if that happened, it was already beginning to fail and one won't make it to a safe depth.
Way too many corners cut, turned a cube into a sphere and the ocean dutifully refined the size of that sphere.
What should have been done is proper environmental control for assembly, proper selection of components and then, use the damned thing as an ROV for a hundred missions minimum, cut it apart to examine everything and build a new one based upon lessons learned from the first one. On the third, then consider carrying passengers.
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There is only one caveat against that view.
If the parent purchased the firearm and properly secured it in a safe storage device (secure gun locker or safe) that the minor child lacked access to, they cannot be held at fault.
We know, however, that was not the case, so this multiple firearm owner says to not throw the book at them, throw the entire law library.
When our children were growing up, I kept a number of firearms about, some within easy access, due to the neighborhood that we lived in. Handguns were secured, save for two, which were in open storage and would be missed instantly. I wasn't especially concerned about my hunting rifle, as someone trying to conceal a hunting rifle in 45-70 is a laughable exercise.
The kids never had access to the secured firearms, the open storage was in constant view of us and as said, would be instantly noticed due to how they were stored (a bright background was concealed by the firearm, think safety orange in a dark woodtone background) and plenty of paranoia was observed.
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@Fidel5555 I've always said, I'll stop learning maybe, just maybe three days after I'm dead. ;)
No reason to not study various things, as knowledge is power.
Back when I was in the Army (retired in 2010), I ran into not one, but two cases of pheochromocytoma. One was recognized late, the soldier was to begin treatment after field training, but expired from a ruptured AAA. The other, I pieced together what was going on, asked doctor to do me a favor and run a couple extra tests and there it was, he had pheochromocytoma. His problem was quickly addressed and he returned to duty. So, that trivia can and does save lives. Diagnosing things, just Boolean flow really.
I do Boolean algebra and regular expressions in my head as part of my job. :)
Annoyingly, basic math tends to give me trouble, but that's what calculators or if I had to, fall back to a slide rule is for.
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The funny thing is, everyone gets their panties in a twist over radiation from a thermonuclear warhead and that isn't the greatest threat. Most of the radiation is in the fireball and well, if you're inside of the fireball, you've got a whole hell of a lot else to worry about - like being incinerated.
Fallout from a modern warhead is typically fairly low as well, as most are set for air burst to maximize destruction by heat and overpressure, figure around a half ton, most of which will decay in around 12 days, most a lot sooner.
But, that overpressure and heat, that is the destructive parts, think concrete wall moving at the speed of sound, with negative pressure between pulses, plus the fireball that well, is hotter than the surface of the sun. That's one hell of a pee-pee smack! Broken gas pipes, which the pulverized buildings help by adding fuel, the word being firestorm. Firestorms aren't any fun, we're talking about getting pulled into the fire from more than two blocks away.
Most deaths will occur from carbon monoxide poisoning from the firestorm, well, those who weren't ground into dogfood when their building collapsed on them or had their window glass shred their body.
Suffice it to say, I have intimate knowledge of how a nuclear warhead works, as I worked on nuclear missiles as my first MOS. I call them what they are, products of the insanity factory.
The problem is, if one country has them, well, we'd damned well better have them too, lest oh, nuclear blackmail occur, which is precisely what's being attempted.
Trust me, trying to blackmail me is a really shitty idea, not known for enhancing one's chances of survival. And realistically, I'm old, banged up, not in the best of health, so life in prison or the death penalty aren't exactly a deterrent.
So, what does it take to launch any part of our nuclear arsenal? One telephone call from POTUS, his identity confirmed by someone in the line of succession and in possession of "the biscuit", the magical boom-boom code phrase of the day that POTUS and others in the line of succession possess (typically, it'd be SecDef). Target selection via the SIOP.
No magic buttons, no red phones, a secure telephone is all that's needed. The "Football" being only used while traveling. If traveling, the Football comes along for between times, like while they're setting up the portable SCIF (yeah, they have one that converts a room into a full grown SCIF in kit form, pretty cool, looks like a royal gonad crusher to set up.
Apparently, Dick Nixon was drunk a lot toward the end of his Presidency and had actually ordered North Korea nuked. His Chief of Staff sat the orders on his desk and said, "We'll see if he still wants to do it in the morning, after he sobers up".
Yeah.
Oh, for the record, I actually hate nuclear weapons with a passion. But, we don't live in an ideal world, so we're not going to have ideal solutions to our problems.
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I took my wife to a clothing optional beach, of course having her agree first.
First day, she insisted on wearing her shorts, a bit of hesitation in removing her top, but seeing her own minority and well, the whole "nothing to see here" thing, that went away.
The next day, we arrived, she looked right, then left, didn't bother looking behind and everything came off and we had a good day, like the day before.
Some time later, we were again on leave and enjoying the beach and I was annoyed at crabs trying to nibble my toes, so I treaded water farther out. I can tread water for hours, purely out of entertainment and just enjoying the freedom of movement and quiet.
I noticed some boats not too far away, but figured they got daring, googling at the clothing optional beach, as is the local perv custom (along with guys in shorts with binoculars).
Then, I felt sandpaper slide between my legs - a sand shark. Hmm, might want to move before he confuses worms...
Turned around to look at the beach, it was a quarter mile away and moving laterally. I had consulted shipping charts at the Coast Guard station earlier, largely out of curiosity and noted my speed matched the offshore current at that distance. I'm sans attire and literally, per the current chart, headed in a few hours (no sweat, but concerning for other reasons) toward Battery Park.
Oh, the federal Life Guard was having conniptions to try to get my attention. I waved to acknowledge, yeah, I know I'm in the middle of shit creek, lemme paddle...
He calmed as I cut across the current toward shore.
Fight the current, die. Water's more powerful than you, Hulk, you'll drown and you ain't green.
Got out of the current and into wading depth, waded along, as I was in the "textile beach", aka clothed beach right next to the undivided clothing optional beach, back to our beach, then waded ashore and apologized to the lifeguard. "Lost situational awareness, my bad and apologies, won't happen again".
We've all had our intracranial flatulence outbursts, apologizing and not allowing that to occur is a biggie in a successful life.
No life is survivable, but that doesn't mean we need to make it unsustainable until the ticketbook of chances runs out.
Although, even then, I was dearth in taking chance tickets. ;)
Got another 20 years with her before she died, still one of both of our fondest memories.
And I miss her a year and change on like I'd miss air.
Lost her to another US metric of disgrace, a dental infection. 41 years, now gone. 6 hours after feeling poorly and right after helping me move $450 in groceries into home, she laid down and died.
Civilized nations have universal health care and dental care. Only third world nations don't, well, them and their peer, the US.
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@AnymMusic well, there is Mercury the planet, Mercury the old space program and ethylmercury, as well as dimethylmercury. The ethyl variety was known as Merthiolate or the preservative thiomersal, which is rapidly removed from the body.
If you're into art, remember the shade vermilion? Mercury oxide, which is also fairly toxic. Don't get me started on how often as kids, we played with regular mercury metal. Back then, nobody thought it could be harmful.
Of course, that's back at the beginning of the ice age... As near as I can tell, it was an absolute miracle we didn't manage to kill ourselves back then! The only times I came really close was in the Army and that was during a war, where some really unpleasant people objected strenuously to our very existence. They're quite placid now.
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I'm reminded of well, a press debacle and actually, a high quality paper on superluminal neutrinos. The press billing it at times as faster than light particles being discovered, largely because reading wasn't the correspondent's forte.
The actual paper basically said, to paraphrase, "We know that the results are nonsensical and erroneous, but we cannot find what is wrong with our experimental setup and configuration. HELP!"
A butt ton of researchers examined the setup, some figured out what was defective and suggested checking and the problem was resolved and everyone pretty much forgot about it. Pity, because that was one of the great successes of science. Not some epic new discovery, collaboration to overcome a problem that one team couldn't resolve and collectively, science resolved.
Then, we get the cold fusion dweebs...
Yep, as Sabine mentioned, lukewarm fusion in the form of neutron generators abound, hell, they're reasonably affordable for fairly small physics labs. I can build a more expensive type without the titanium by ginning up a fusor and generate tremendous amounts of electricity bills. Both will produce a fair amount of neutrons though.
Alas, electricity bills are not energy generation. If they were, my computers would be making me tons of money. Instead, I get to twirl my electric meter and watch Debbie Does Donuts in the parking lot on TV.
And there is a non-zero chance I could wrangle plain actual cold fusion, just on plain probability alone, one or two atoms over a long amount of time, just based on random chance. Still ain't generating power, only bills.
Just once, I'd love to see one of these announcements and papers be released with a "Folks, this isn't making a damned lick of sense to me, but here is my apparatus, these are the conditions and observations, please pop by and see what I fouled up". Added kudos if they'd throw in lunch.
That makes science look credible, rather than some other fly by night idiot blathering about how they discovered Harry bleeding Potter's magical screw stick.
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@mina-xt1mj chuckles remembering SPO2 83 - 85 on room air, tachycardia, severe hypertension, lungs with minor collapsed pockets and pockets with fluid.
When notified of my thyroid storm, I said, "Thank God it's only a form of CHF!", words I never thought I'd ever utter. Our youngest was hospitalized at the time for COVID-19 and due to metabolic issues associated with her PCOS, wasn't doing well. All, because the COVID floor she worked on became lax on protocols.
Convalescent serum quickly put her on the mend.
Addressing my thyroid storm sent me on the mend.
COVID-19 would kill me and my wife, so mask up and avoid being tripped with my cane - repeatedly, folks.
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And in EMS, the now current saying, based upon that entire practice and former ordeal, "Nobody is dead until they're warm and oxygenated".
Ironically, my very first military EMS patient was an advanced hypothermia patient. At a stage where consciousness is largely considered absent.
Dude remembered me and my efforts, some involving some MacGuyverisms. Shocked the shit out of me and well, embarrassed me, "Just doing my job, man". Got a medal for it too, never wore the fucking thing. Didn't wear medals awarded for just doing my damned duty.
Besides, in peacetime, it's doubleplus ungood to wear more medals than one's commander has. ;)
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@redf7209 non-compliance opens their forces up for reprisals, up to and including summary execution, as the SS learned in France.
And having interviewed a former Soviet soldier some years back, even the Soviets trained their officers on the Conventions.
The closest that anyone ever got to getting away with not following the Conventions was Japan during WWII, as they were non-signatories to the Conventions, but had agreed at the onset to follow them - then didn't. Then, things got ugly and they started to follow the Conventions.
Japan committed atrocities against the Conventions, suddenly some of our service members were wearing Japanese body parts... They got with the program quickly enough.
One of my team was blowing off steam talking about non-compliance, I suggested that "when I can't tell you from the other guys by behavior, you're both getting killed". He remembered seeing our team in action and my marksmanship and tactical movements, he decided to nip that crap in the bud.
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Cans will go up, both for canned groceries and soft drinks and the price of cars, depending upon how much crosses the border repeatedly for various processing, potentially as high as a 400% increase, realistically, at least nearly doubling in price. Gonna kill Detroit.
Frankly, can't think of an industry that isn't gonna get punished badly.
Even my old Army unit, 56 SBCT is due 300 Stryker combat vehicles, which are made in Canada, due for arrival and oops, subject to tariff. So much for defense spending! Last contract was for $712.3 million for 300 vehicles, that's $890,375,000 because he was so stupid that he didn't bake in a DoD or general government exemption.
Way to go, Stinkie!
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Only slightly flammable.
But, it does get nasty in the presence of fire, producing hydrofluoric acid, which can etch glass and a highly toxic gas. It's low on the greenhouse gas scale, but still breaks down to phytotoxic acids.
Still, not as nasty as FM-200, another freon based compound used in fire extinguishers.
Laughably, both butane and propane make excellent refrigerants, but idiots go on about their being flammable in an accident. I guess gasoline stops being flammable in an accident and simply becomes inflammable... ;)
Seriously, there's a shit ton more thermal energy available from gasoline than from a kg or so of butane or propane. But, gotta keep DuPont happy.
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I've tossed illegible tickets, looked them up and responded as needed.
No need to use force, the courts have their own force, their first escalation being by mail, the next, a constable.
Only met one officially once, apparently, the ticket blew away or otherwise wasn't under my wiper, an apology and quick response halted anything untoward, as it was a valid complaint and fine.
Oddly, no pepper spray, tasers, firearms or thermonuclear weapons needed to be involved.
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Once, I was talking to one of these braintrusts, they started going on against Jews at great length and increasing volume.
I observed that Jesus Christ was a Jew, to which they objected that Jesus was a Christian. "No wonder he got into trouble, worshiping himself!"
Show me one place where Jesus identified as Christian, you cannot, as he identified as a Jew and not a single thing he preached wasn't in the Old Testament. He just gave it a Cliff's Notes intro to it.
Just as the same people invent all manner of religious objections to abortion, which is never mentioned in the bible, despite it being practiced for thousands of years. So, they're essentially saying that they know better than their God on something, which is pretty much what got Lucifer into trouble.
Basically, their pride is making them literally follow the other guy, not their God. But, that's OK, they're big on Prosperity Gospel, which is the antithesis of every bit of Christ's teachings, since it's worshiping Mammon.
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No, their signature is no more a guilty plea than one's gun in an armed robbery attempt is. Both are evidence against you, your plea comes from your lips, evidence comes from the totality of the case.
As an example, I see armed men preparing to enter the bank, with the fairly obvious intent to rob it. So, I grab my BFG 9000 and enter before the group can. I halt the robbery attempt, but the DA and police in confusion, charge me with attempted bank robbery.
The evidence could appear I was part of the robbery, save for my testimony and the bank video, which shows me rushing in and stopping the robbery.
Evidence against their crimes is lacking, but it's their right to plea not guilty and have the absolute defense possible, as our Constitution demands.
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That's the joy of sugar alcohols, they're laxatives. The EU placed limits on content due to that. The US says, "Oh, eat as much as you want, while you're proving how full of shit you are, run for office".
I was oddly lactose intolerant for around 9 months, right after I had my gallbladder removed. Given it's the brush cells at the entry to the small intestine that generates lactase, neither doctor or I ever figured that one out.
But, boy was it an interesting time, I'd forget and have butter or well, anything milk related, off to the races!
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Only those who weren't beaten to death by the former prisoners. Something surprising, given how poor the prisoner's condition was!
My uncle took part in liberating one camp, he only spoke in whispers on rare occasions of what he saw, but he had an absolute hatred of the SS. He liked the rest of the German people, just the SS were hated by him and honestly, from what little I overheard and learned later from camp survivors, that hatred was quite well and hard earned.
Also remember, Waffen SS were summarily executed at times in reprisal for war crimes, which is allowed under the Geneva Conventions. They executed prisoners, members of that command also got executed in reprisal, ordered by the commanding general, so as to keep the reprisal within the scope of the crime.
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@Gangsta1168 the only time I carry a gun or guns is going to the gunsmith or range, although occasionally I'll lug one around the woods in deer season (typically, not chambering a round, as the deer seem to outwit me).
I am known to teach about what's in the bible, reciting entire chapter and verse, as I can and have done with the Quran, largely to correct misquotes and misconceptions. In that, I do tend to judge the speaker by the standards that they profess to abide by, as documented within their favored texts.
Jesus, I like, I don't like those who profess to follow him, while profaning his teachings all that much.
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Titanium is just another metal, midway in general strength to weight between aluminum and iron.
And just as plain aluminum or iron isn't exceptionally strong overall, with our most desired characteristics, that's true of titanium as well. That's why we have alloys.
Love my high carbon steel for many uses, as one example, great for many tools. But, want a high heat steel for cutters, the alloy needs to change, with cobalt being a great addition to the alloy. One can go on and on on alloys, but I'm not a metallurgist. That's voodoo or something. ;)
And when I need high shearing strength, with tensile strength as well, yeah, I call in an engineer. I'll do medical things, I'll do electronics technician things, I'll do IT and IT security things, but when it comes to designing things, I'll leave that to the subject matter experts in engineering. Otherwise my diodes will be smoke emitting, not light emitting.
Oh crap, those were supposed to be rectifiers... ;)
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Three words have always gotten me out of trouble over the decades. Just three magical words.
I fucked up.
Think about it, no matter what jackpot one found oneself, when someone in a superior position of power, be it a supervisor, manager, jurist, superior officer is getting ready to read one the riot act and one admits to fucking up freely, the wind vanishes from their sails.
Because most of the incipient tirade is designed to get one to admit to that which one just admitted to freely. That leads to the most common response, "Just don't do that again!".
Had one lead complain to my training officer at a job I was new in, in an environment I'd never functioned in before, "He keeps making mistakes!".
The training officer patiently replied, "Yes, he does, but he never makes the same mistake twice, he makes new mistakes and that shows he's learning fast".
And to make new mistakes means, one's learning and more importantly, one is still trying to accomplish something.
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@Slizzo82 most of the problems, other than wear and tear that should be caught at the armorer level and sent to depot for rebuild, was PMCS.
I had the distinction of giving the class in my battalion when we switched over from light infantry to mechanized (and later, Stryker) on the M2. Distinction, as I was a medic. Wasn't always a medic, knew the gun inside and out, so being one of a few who knew the gun well, got to lead the instruction team.
We're on the range after class, I'm BSing with some of the other NCO's and I hear a gun's firing rate becoming erratic and varying in volume. Before I could get the word Fire from CEASE FIRE out, the barrel was launched 25 meters downrange. We went to check fire, I approached the position and asked, "OK, you remember class, so who didn't perform their PMCS?". Assorted excuses and bewildered looks, "Remember I mentioned checking your detent spring? How the barrel could unscrew when firing? That could've send the feed dawgs and tray into your faces, which is why it's so high on the list, the correct answer to my question is, "we all failed to perform our PMCS, as PMCS done partially is PMCS conducted not at all. Now, get this weapon off of my firing line and checked by the armorer and fixed and I'll see you in retraining".
Recycled them to retraining, never had to mention it in class, but they did follow the standard the best of all classes afterward.
Irritating was, I had actually harped on that issue in the first class, as it's a fairly common problem.
Used to blow their minds by placing the gun from the M113 deck into the pintle alone. They'd work as a group of two or three to get the gun into position. I'd lift it handles down, lever the barrel up to cantilever it to the roof and lower the base onto the pintle. Basic body mechanics. Work smart, not hard.
They also went nuts trying to learn to outshoot me, that never worked out, but at least we got plenty of experts in their weapons in the attempts!
Never got to fire the mk-19 or Barrett, the latter by refusal, as my spine wouldn't forgive me for that much of a shove. Did get to be AI in the TOW missile school, given I was present at Redstone when it was introduced.
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IBM made one of the best M2 .50 BMG machine guns I ever fired!
I'm literally not joking. In that era, IBM did calculating machines, the old crank calculators you see in ancient B&W movies. So, having the capability to cast thick sheet metal, IBM did have the contract for the outer cast casing of the M2 .50 BMG machine gun, aka Ma Deuce.
Welcome to history! :)
Many of those guns, albeit modified, are still in service!
Singer Sewing Machine Company also made many, fired a few of those as well.
And in basic training, back in early 1982, I handled handguards of an original M16, modded to A1 model, with original Mattel handgrips and still had the open front, tri-slot flash suppressor.
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The bear of it is, fresh water drowning is actually easier on the body when recovering. Fresh water is hypotonic, so gets absorbed by the tissues and diffused into the bloodstream. Salt water is isotonic and harder to absorb.
Had the same training as he did. First, pause for a moment to clear the "holy shit" factor, failure to do so can get you killed.
Orient to the seat, I used the seat back. Once grasped, don't release and release the harness. Feel for exit, in that case, the emergency exit windows. Remember the entire time that you float naturally, jettison crap that'll weight you down before moving.
I also have a trick that usually works, exhaling a little into my hands, feel which way the bubbles are going, that's up.
Once one breaks the surface, give thanks for gravity. You're kind of screwed if you're submerged in microgravity.
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The worst thing is, blinky isn't just a "responsible gun owner", he claims to be a firearms instructor.
Given that I'm a responsible multiple firearm owner that retains not only all ten thumbs, but both eyes and an unperforated home, I can only assume that he provides the proverbial bad example to not follow...
If I'd been there, I'd have summoned the Capitol Police, identified him for them, then kindly asked them to remove the trash from the hallway.
If he objected in the wrong way to my call for assistance, he'd swiftly learn just what I did in the US Army for over 28 years - briefly.
I'm happily retired from that now, but I remain tagged REF.
Retired, Extremely Flatulent.
But, I'd be kind enough to return the remaining eye once I was done playing pool with it.
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@terranhealer an AED doesn't start anything. Chest compressions should be initiated immediately, applying the AED, which will automagically determine if a shock is needed to defibrillate the heart.
First lesson, whenever you see a medical scene on TV and they shock a flatline, turn if off, that's bullshit. Only fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia are shockable events, nothing else gets a shock.
Second lesson, compressions, compressions, compressions. Can't repeat that enough.
Third lesson, if you're doing the compressions right, ribs will be broken. If you have someone available to help, they can monitor the quality of compressions by feeling for a carotid pulse, which would match the compressions until the heart beats on its own and compressions should cease.
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@DerSteppenwolfe careful, your hyperbole is showing. There has never been a WMD inside of our schools. Guns, yes, but as a hint, name one school that had every single student killed. No nerve agents, blister agents, choking agents or nuclear weapons have been used.
In the early 20th century, there was the Bath schoolhouse disaster, a former school board treasurer blew up a school full of children, but that' still not a WMD. The next worse was in Texas, where a natural gas that'd normally e flared off was used to heat a school and due to that source, had no stench of mercaptans that we add to natural gas to detect a leak. A pipe began to leak badly, a spark set off the gas/air mixture and pretty much picked up the occupied school and gravity took over. Walter Cronkite was a cub reporter that went to the scene and when asked to, he put down his notepad and started helping dig through the rubble.
You also missed the mark on Nazism, they're simply vanilla flavored fascists. Some neo-nazis are supporting him, just as the Nazi party supported Mussolini's fascist regime.
Trump being a weakling and imbecile, well, that's spot on target. Trump has only one real skill, he's a different form of WMD, weapon of mass distraction. Whenever something especially vile gets released/leaked, take a look at the Senate to see what he's distracting you from noticing.
Still, I've had Trumpettes go on and on about how I shouldn't be allowed to do that. I simply remind them of the golden rule.
My gold, my rules and try to interfere, well, I've firearms as well and our chief difference is, I served for nearly 28 years in the army. I know how to use mine effectively.
Shut the idiot down. It isn't what you will do that counts, it's what the other idiot believes that you might do that counts and if I use the damned thing, then I have to clean it and frankly, they're not worth that much trouble.
We have one critical advantage against Trumpettes, they're only around 28 - 31% of the population, so they're a minority. Go out and vote for somebody!
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In those days, one paid to be commissioned in the British military forces. US forces commissioned directly early on, but began to add educational requirements for one to be commissioned.
Although, WWII did kind of knock that into a cocked hat with battlefield commissions and one of my uncles was offered a direct commission had he remained in the Army, which he declined.
Still, you'd have had to pay for your own uniforms and that swill you ate in the chow hole would be paid for by you as well.
Something I frequently reminded my commissioned officers of when our cooks yet again outdid their infamous best, "Well Sir, they pay me to eat this shit, alas, you get to pay for that privilege".
Yeah, the reply, regardless of rank was predictable.
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Investigation underway in Colorado for a dozen ballots that were "intercepted", which means either fraudulently re-registered by an unauthorized party or stolen from the recipient's mailbox. That alone is 20 years per offense max plus $200k fine per offense - and the mailing of a fraudulent ballot is another 20 years per offense max and $200k fine per offense. Suffice it to say, Colorado's officially pissed off.
Now, this in Lancaster County, PA. Per mailing of fraudulent application, same penalties as above.
Those are just the federal charges, the state can also get their stripe of hide. The feds might need to build a new prison, given the rate this crap is starting to happen!
Thankfully, clerks are alert, performing their duties and catching these things. And questioning iffy signatures, contacting voters to cure their ballot so that it can be counted.
Dauphin County already sent me a receipt of my mail in ballot, it'll be counted on Nov 5, per state law.
So, a special thanks to our nation's county elections clerks for their tireless, thankless hard work! This retired military veteran salutes all who faithfully perform their duties to their county, state and nation!
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"He went to see the pope", the heart of the nativist movement, which merged into the "Native American Party", aka the Know Nothing Party, which brought religious warfare to Philadelphia city streets - complete with artillery fired at churches and insurrection against the militia that the governor summoned.
And eventually, bringing us a civil war when some new Republican Party candidate won the presidency, some Lincoln guy.
I'm also trying to figure out how Biden is a dictator, when he's allegedly being dictated to.
And what the crapping himself is all about, given it was Trump walking up the stairs to board Air Force One that had toilet paper stuck to his shoe. And needed help walking up a ramp by an aging General...
And how Biden took up arms against his nation or gave aid and comfort to an enemy of our nation (which implies a formal declaration of war or de facto state of war exists), while being incapable of doing so in their very statements...
Or how my vote is stealing a vote, yet their vote is OK. Oh, I know, veterans aren't allowed to vote, maybe?
And the pandemic was released to stop the vote that already happened, I guess via the primary attack vector of the Obama time machine. And biological weapons being a WMD attack, why didn't we nuke back, given tough boy Trump having the nuke controls?
The mountains of evidence of stolen votes made entirely out of the same stuff Wonder Woman's invisible airplane is made of.
And the penalty for treason is life in prison, we did away with the death penalty for treason for civilians over 60 years ago. Trump isn't facing the death penalty for anything, life in prison and tons of fines, yes and given the charges are in both state and federal courts, being filed by two sovereign entities - state and federal.
Nope, I think she overbaked her brain, along with her skin.
And that, coming from a guy who tans decidedly darker, due to genetics.
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The literal argument is, "Hitler was popular, so the UK should've surrendered and worked with him to exterminate all of the Jews". Yeah, no. History has prove that wrong on multiple levels, one of which resulted in Mr Popular chomping a cyanide capsule and shooting himself before the cyanide could do its good work.
And Musk did just leave our nuclear enduring stockpile unstaffed and unguarded and can't find the people he unconstitutionally, illegally fired, from his unconstitutional, unfunded, illegal non-agency that's stolen public records and misused them in dozens of felonious ways.
I mean, if the devil becomes popular, we go to war against God? Popular isn't right, it's popular error, that's why we have a representational democracy and not a total democracy.
Meanwhile, I'm looking at some fascinating strategies from the Offal Office. Mobilizing the military for immigration enforcement and potential unrest, while simultarneously sending Musk and his Merry Band of Misfits to the DoD with the Trump stated goal of cutting the DoD budget by 50%. Dunno how that'll be accomplished when one's cut that budget by half.
But then, we're talking Trump, who thinks that magnets stop working if they get wet. Which is a shocking thing, given my military issue compass is fluid filled and works quite well.
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Yes, the endless expansion of economies, the bane of every empire that ever was. Once they reached their maximum expansion, conditions stagnated, then decayed. Every time.
The stress of agriculture properly applied would be minimal, but that means adapting to drought and relying upon areas not experiencing drought, not wasting pesticides and fertilizers, for every ounce in the river is wasted and harmful downstream.
But, we can and will hit resource bottlenecks and stops, where, for example, copper mines become exhausted and new sources have to be discovered and recycling geared up a lot more. Most of what we say we recycle ends up collected and dumped in a landfill. Most plastics - landfill. Paper, mixed. Metals, again, mixed and most exported and reimported once recycled. Glass, poor to mixed, although the chances of our running out of silicon is next to nil. Oil, don't get my laughing, we're going through that like a teen on their first job's payday.
Don't get me started on solar panels pollution and energy requirements to manufacture, let alone our new high energy density batteries and efficient motors that rely upon rare earth minerals.
Food isn't much of a problem yet, mostly we have distribution issues that we refuse to resolve, as "it isn't our nation's problem", so we in the US literally dump good food to keep pricing stable for the farmers. Well, until a few disasters, droughts and disruptions hit us...
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@danielleriley2796 it'd have to fly a hell of a lot higher while hypersonic. Even at the notionally high 30000 feet, the air is pretty damned dense for such travel, even our space capsules have slowed to subsonic by that altitude due to the density of the lower atmosphere. Think 100k feet, you'd be more on target and avoid essentially impossible stresses on the airframe and obscene temperatures generated by the denser lower atmosphere.
Also, the story is bullshit as to radiation, it didn't spew reactor fuel, it did release a lot of gamma, x-ray and neutrons though, along with some daughter isotopes from the fission. Stay away from its exhaust, it'd be fairly safe, given its cruise altitude. It'd only come down for its terminal maneuver into its final target.
Oh, NERVA did actually fly - without fuel, only ballast, just to see if the aircraft would be stable. Thankfully, they never lit off either for actual full power flight testing, not too sure if any might have or not have flown at low power, although I think that any benefit would be dubious at best. Low power doesn't equal producing usable thrust and the damned things were so radioactively hot, survival of a flight crew was questionable at best.
Still, regardless of who would actually release such a product from the insanity factory, they'd most likely be suborbital single stage to suborbital altitude, then skip for range, then penetrate the upper atmosphere for the remainder of Mr Toad's Wild Ride.
All, while ICBM's and SLBM's passed one another in their own suborbital pathways into oblivion.
Still survivable, in a way. The Bikini Atoll is now habitable - as long as one doesn't eat the food or drink the water, lest one get a hell of a dose of cesium-137 and strontium-90 (mostly). Safe to stay there to visit and even spend a week there, if you bring your own food and drink. So, we'd be safe enough, just bring a century or so worth of food and water.
I'll wait. ;)
And yeah, I worked on them long ago. A stupider weapon I have yet to discover. Nukes are like having a handful of thermite grenades, while standing on top of a refinery tank full of gasoline. There won't be any winners in that game of chicken.
So, go toward the light, my children! Go toward the light!
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@miah5040 yeah, as an Army medic, I've had to administer morphine, then clean the vomit from my boots.
If that was the worst that got on my that day, it was a slow day.
Wouldn't have minded getting amniotic fluid on me, I'd have been helping deliver an infant.
Instead, I was half-expecting to next get hemolymph on me and have to get on the radio and declare, "Zed, we have a bug"...
Yeah, we develop a bit of an interesting sense of humor in EMS, especially military EMS.
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OK, I've been shopping for food pretty much since food was invented.
At least, it feels that way in the morning.
$300? Let's see, prepared foods, pre-baked rolls and breads, those expensive small package pre-prepared containers of what looked like yogurt and a ridiculous number of salad dressings.
I push a folding cart with twice that mass in quality foods home monthly, albeit I do bake my own bread and mix my own dressings. I get my veggies frozen to save some $$$, just as nutritious as fresh and my nutrient levels have been tested to determine if I needed supplementation when my Crohn's was diagnosed. Only nutrients I was low on was magnesium and salt. Despite having significant erosion of the colon where many nutrients are absorbed.
And as a hint, my folding cart has ball bearing wheels that I've now replaced after a year, so my loads aren't light with $292 in food expenses via food stamps.
So, I suggest a home economics class for the poor dear, she's got zero clue.
Interestingly, the breads flour, the broccoli and other cold loving greens are imported from Canada. Leafy greens, fruits (including tomatoes) tend to be imported from Mexico, most of our foods grown in the US are export only.
The breads themselves, a major cost right there, not a one being under $3.00 for the quantity shown - for each bread bag/package. I have rye flour, make my own, lasts longer than the crap at the stupidmarket too. Swap some of the water for oil, it stabilizes the bread and lowers the moisture content, while mouth feeling moist, but the lower moisture inhibits mold growth.
Raw milk, so wasting money to travel to get raw milk and risk getting everyone sick, brilliant! Here's a hint, we've been pasteurizing milk for a century and a half, we're not extinct, we also have a lot more kids surviving to adulthood than before that came to pass.
Still, might have some raw milk - if the cow that produced that milk is witnessing me try it. After an hour, I'd toss it. Before that, I'd pasteurize it. Waking up dead really wreaks havoc on my weekend plans and I've got plans to go bull tipping this weekend.
As for crunchy mom, thanks, but no thanks. Medically, I'm highly conservative by nature, the minimum intervention for the maximum benefit being my mantra. That said, without modern medicine, I'd have my weekend plans wrecked forever. Got an abdominal aorta bigger than your fist, a blow mitral valve from COVID, osteoarthritis from over 28 years in the Army, Crohn's disease because my immune system's a traitor, autoimmune damage to my thyroid and all of the crunchy bullshit in the universe would make all of those fatally worse. The aorta part due to the thyroid raising my blood pressure to unsurvivable levels and requiring two BP meds and a thyroid blocker to keep my BP and pulse at a survivable level. The mitral damage is low, as without it, well our youngest had long COVID from the first wave, took her two years and change to recover reasonably.
So, screw RFK Jr and his brain rotting worms. Ha! Am watching the video as I comment and called that one in advance. Yeah, I know the type.
Then, thrilled about Trump, yet griping about inflation that he caused. I was an SF medic, I've no sympathy for anyone who shoots their own goddamned foot. Here's a hint, should the griper actually read this: I've met the man personally, he's profoundly ignorant, the boor of every party, obnoxious, full of himself to the point where all conversations must praise him and clueless about everything - as evidenced by his tremendous business losses and incessant bankruptcies. He'd not know a bag of groceries from a gross of sandstone. I mean, the fucking guy thinks that apples are sold in the stupidmarket in the refrigerated section, for crying out loud!
He's a con man, he lied, you got conned, get over it and get with the program.
While you're trying to figure that out, if you want tips on healthy and sustainable feeding of your family, ask away. While I might be inclined to let you hang, I never could stand the thought of kids going hungry and going without.
On $292 in food stamps, I eat like a veritable king and am generous with needy neighbors, who I allow to "shop" on my pantry shelves and tightly packed freezer. I do buy about a gallon per week of 1% milk, that percentage, as the higher fat gives me indigestion, eggs typically last a month for a dozen. Well, unless I'm baking, then all bets are off.
I get canola oil in 2.5 gallon jugs and refill the smaller containers, it's cheaper that way, olive oil is in the large tin and smaller containers refilled from that.
Evangelicals, well they swiftly learn that I know the bible better than most of their ministers. I also am quite conversant with several other faiths religious texts. I'm the maniac that will happily converse with knocking Jehovah Witnesses and they end up converting to something mainstream and far less overcontrolling and wrong per the scriptures.
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It's good for qualitative measurements, that radiation is present and an approximate level, but when looking for health physics level measurements, well the counters are orders of magnitude higher and require annual calibration and recertification.
The last military base I worked at had a health physics professional. He had detection gear I've never seen or heard of before and I began my military career working on boosted nuclear weapons. Most of which had price tags that well, one could drive around town in style on that kind of bread laid out on a new car.
And the reality of it is, if there is an actually imminently hazardous level of radiation present, the Radiacode detectors would be saturated and essentially worthless.
Basically, they're good for radiation spectrometry to determine what is emitting what, even a general idea as to level, but for occupational or residential hazards, one needs the really expensive equipment to ascertain the actual risk.
Note that they had to put the detector onto the sample, because by the time one moves an inch, the beta radiation is being intercepted by air, reach two inches it's undetectable, the gamma is blocked by the glazing due to its low energy level from uranium and alpha particles are blocked by one's epidermis or even a plain sheet of paper.
Real risks in that environment are for the cleanup and demolition crews, as it's crushed tiles and cumulative exposure to the dust that has traces of the uranium oxide in it, creating an ingestion and inhalation hazard. For residents, it'd be a trace and likely not easily measured, given the granite that originated the soil remaining present and the natural presence of uranium/uranium decay chain and potassium-40 in the granite.
Oh, for entertainment value, get a Radiacode unit, go up to a friend's granite countertop in their kitchen and put the detector down on it. It'll prove the existence of that trace amount of uranium and uranium decay chain, as well as potassium-40 in the granite. Both also being present in most ceramics in trace amounts.
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Nobody has waged war against the US, we're also not at war, since Congress hasn't declared war since WWII, so there is no enemy to give aid and comfort to.
And since treason is the only crime enumerated in the US Constitution, narrowly and precisely being defined there, there is no treason.
They're both too cowardly to ever consider picking up a gun and attacking anyone.
Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
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Biden was stuck with the withdrawal plans negotiated by Trump's maladministration. So, it's on his hands for the entire debacle.
Some equipment was left, routers, switches, some crypto devices, all configurations erased, crypto zapped, rendering that equipment useless to the Taliban. Would've cost more to pull it and send it to the US than it was worth by a factor of three.
Actual military equipment was thermited. So, if it's proof against molten steel boiling its way through, I've yet to find that kind of equipment - despite over 28 years of military service.
But then, serial business failure Trump, who turned $20 billion into $300 million and serial bankrupted more businesses than Carter has little liver pills knows better. Spend $10 million to take up $3 million in old network equipment and slagged vehicles and worn out, melted weapons.
As for the GOP, always claiming our military is weak, pitiful, useless, cut the VA budget from 1982 to the second year of the war, only stopping when the public became outraged that men and women were redeploying home to receive no VA care because they tanked the VA budget. Yeah, they only care for the photos, then they screw the veterans and never, ever offered a reach around.
And their maniac faction threatens to take up arms and expects that repeatedly beaten down military to join them? No, deliver white phosphorus to them, merrily smoking and burning, the only way we'd join them is if we bayonet charged their remnants once they did take up arms.
But, what would I know? Only served for over 28 years and contracted with them daily, they know more than I do, based upon their vast experience acquired on their Twinkie encrusted sofas.
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I've been through the Wyoming Valley and frankly, never even realized it.
Which makes it my kind of place. Noteworthy places, well, look at Philadelphia. Need I say more?*
*I was born in Philly, raised in Philly, then Delaware County. We boo our own teams, we throw rocks at people we *like*. People we don't like, well, we don't talk about that.
Although, my company is sponsoring a contest. First prize is a week in Philadelphia. Second prize is two weeks in Philadelphia.
Thank you, W.C. Fields.
But then, it's easy to pick on Pennsylvania's only first class city. Why pick on Pittsburgh when Philly's lower hanging fruit?
I'd insult Dauphin county, but containing Harrisburg, my current residence, that's insult enough.
Did I miss anybody? :P
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Amazon Prime drivers frequently make deliveries for apartments and other large multi-tennant buildings in large fabric bin bags, which they'll typically drag into the building.
One driver left the bin in our mailroom, which was left there for weeks, then relocated next to the main lobby door and well, everywhere Helen Keller could've found it. It wasn't removed until someone carped loudly to another Amazon Prime driver and he finally removed the damned thing, remarking of a similar case at a large business.
If it slows them down even slightly, all caution is to the wind and I've literally had trouble getting to the wall of mailboxes for all of the packages, mostly Amazon, scattered all over the floor - despite our having delivery lockers and prominent signage insisting upon the usage of said lockers.
On a typical day, I'll see at least 4 Amazon Prime trucks make deliveries here. UPS is nearly as bad, FedEx not quite as bad about scattering packages and USPS is good at using the lockers and mailboxes. Although, with USPS, I frequently see the postal workers out delivering until at least 7:00 PM, sometimes even later.
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No, bonkers was, he retained his clearance to access any hazardous radiological devices.
I'm intimately familiar many instances of men and women of well documented off duty intemperate habits that worked with special radiological devices. Still, safe enough on duty, as not sober got ejected, reported and access curtailed.
Of course, the devices were innocuous enough, they were only boosted fission nuclear warheads. Trivial to arm without authorization - as trivial as performing a root canal on a patient safely and effectively via the rectum.
But, they did and still do contain some of our most powerful high explosives.
For the fission challenged, a boosted fission device is basically a baby version of a hydrogen bomb, too small to be called that, whose neutron radiation fissions the rest of the plutonium core and in some cases, the depleted uranium tamper that's frequently mislabeled a "jacket" (a tamper isn't a jacket, it has a purpose of confinement, ablation and focusing of energy).
Oh, iridium isn't anything special, it's the specific isotope with a 78 day half-life that's special. The shorter half-life, the nastier it is.
I intentionally exposed myself to a dose of a radioisotope that had only an 8 day half-life. It was one of two very similar ways to achieve a successful completion of a thyroid scan.
Turned out to be Grave's disease, one form of hyperthyroidism. My immune system attacked my thyroid, it retaliated and damned near killed me. That was a good thing, as it confirmed a diagnosis, a thyroid hormone formation medication blocked most of my thyroid output and I was able to be tapered back from a literal LD50 dosage of hypertension medication to something more age appropriate. LD50 being half taking that dosage does from toxicity of the drug.
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Well, we came close - in a way unimaginable.
India and Pakistan were literally getting ready to slug it out, possibly with their mobilized nukes. At the peak of tensions, an airburst meteor was detected over the Med. A few hours earlier, it'd have detonated above the region of near-conflict.
Thankfully, when they realized how close they were and how that airburst could've triggered a war, they grew a bit of sanity and put their nukes on standby and peace prevailed.
Upside, updated modeling shows that nuclear winter lasting decades is a myth, but a few years is possible with a truly massive dust event, such as a supervolcano. A meteor or comet wouldn't have enough dust if it was of a mass sufficient to airburst, rather than impact.
The dinosaur extinction rain of fire was disproved as well, as they couldn't explain how birds and frogs survived oven temperatures globally. Dust for a few years, yes, fire, just nope.
Nature isn't good at instant death, but she's a cast iron bitch when it comes to a lingering death by starvation.
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Heh, got a few of those in my day. My usual response is, "Funny, you'd think that they would've mentioned the warrant when I was in the agency's building working".
Nearly as bad, getting a call from someone with an Indian accent, "I am Microsoft". I keep a keyboard onhand, not connected to anything so I can be heard tapping away their suggested commands, "Nope, isn't working. Nope, command not found. Nope, syntax error. Are you sure these commands work on a Cray?" I really love to waste their time.
No, I don't own a Cray supercomputer, couldn't afford that kind of electric bill. ;)
But, everything here runs Linux, so I'd be quite impressed if any of their Windows commands worked on my systems!
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Well, the upside is that there are several options besides US or Russian birds for position information.
Still, an out of band method, like VOR is always a good idea, just in case orbital conditions are insanely too noisy, such as from solar activity.
The propeller hat community goes nuts over EMP, never realizing or accepting that Sol, our own treasured sun hits our planet with radiation that makes an EMP look like a cheap firecracker next to a nuke.
I've known that for decades, as I had to rely upon satellite communications and on occasion, things got tricky, to put it mildly. I also tend to have to reboot devices whenever a geomagnetic storm hits, likely from ground currents in the local geology. :/
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@chrisbudesa given the Pacific Fleet's fine new tradition of running aground and playing bumper cars with their warships, plus a history of the admiralty covering each other's asses and trying their level best to foist their command irrresponsibility upon their enlisted, they've lost faith and credit in this veteran's book.
And physicians haven't been patrolling their ranks, as they're entrusted to police since they're entrusted to license, essentially forever, so the legislature really needs to address that deficiency.
Circling back to the OP, great president? Not so much, adequate President, absolutely. Orders of magnitude superior to Trump's non-performance in office, where he sucked up the paycheck he promised to never deposit, yet entirely refused to perform 99% of his duties.
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@miketheskepticalone6285 I'm a marksman, expert shot actually. Bow, rifle, pistol, flatulence.
OK, maybe not accurate with flatulence. The CEP is murderous.
Bow is good for one thing, it's silent. Firearms tend to have supersonic shockwaves for each round fired (well, save for some, such as 45 ACP, which is pretty much always subsonic), giving a very distinctive crack when the round goes overhead.
Hollywood enjoyed that a lot and ran with it.
Now, with something like, oh say The Avengers movie, fighting the incoming army with a rifle would deplete even my 2200 - 2500 rounds in pack and magazines quickly, his quiver would be depleted in a minute or two. Then, he'd be somehow climbing down the building, running about frantically to recover arrows, then shit out arrowheads.
Trust me, they hurt when shat out.
As a hint, I'm 100% up to 50 meters with a .45 ACP out of a stock M1911A1. Equal with an M9, equal with an M4 or M16 and well, devastating with an M249 or M240. We'll not even talk about an M2, which has absolutely zero survivability level at that range with me.
And my recurve bow will put an arrow through a vital area around 90% of the time.
For me, a Bear 55 lb recurve.
So, for The Avengers, I'd dust off to orbit, then nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
The site being their launch site. I'm kind of a dick that way.
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@Elora445 I actually was lactose intolerant at birth, that went away, then returned after my gallbladder was removed (that's a complete mystery here, as lactose is produced in the intestine, so totally weird). Long and short, I'd give laban or kefir a shot, as the bacteria consume the lactose completely and I've yet to see a lactose intolerant person have a problem with either.
Your mileage will likely vary, as individuals are different.
One upside to the 9 months that I was intolerant after surgery, got to fall in love with goat milk. I'll treat myself to some around once a year. One warning there, it's fatty as all get out. Cow milk is around 4% fat, goat and sheep milk is much higher in fat.
Oh, I also use kefir in place of buttermilk, as both have lactic acid from bacteria and impart quite similar flavors with a bit less fat.
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Was in the same boat in S. Central Pennsylvania. Thankfully, a YWCA veterans support program scooped me out of the shelter I'd landed in after my wife of over 41 years had died and I was wheel spinning in a rut. Now under a VA&HUD program to at least get onto my knees, while some serious health issues are addressed before they kill me.
And oddly, no substance abuse, I'd just lost direction and motivation to continue and ignored an aneurysm, one eye starting to go blind from a cataract and an out of control thyroid, to name a few things medically wrong. Plus assorted dings and dents from over 28 years in the Army...
But, when I'm in a shopping area and see the cut them in half benches and similar antics like spikes on steps where I might want to sit to rest angry knees and back, I just pack up and shop where conditions are more friendly to the disabled and elders. I don't need those specific businesses products, but they sure need my money. And I remember who voted for what idiocy, to ensure they never get my vote.
And I only missed one election in my life, when I was deployed and hopping between multiple FOBs, making it difficult for a ballot to find me on time.
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@SouthSideLadyWright right now, I'm not working, the virus hit the jobs hard. Was to start just before this all kicked up, that went into file 13.
Did without, it sucked.
My point is, money is not the root of any evil at all, a person's intentions are the root of their evil or good. Money is an object, it's no more inherently good or evil than a roll of toilet paper or a hammer.
So, for platitudes, I'd go with, a person is only as good as their intentions and deeds. A person with good intention that performs a deed that causes harm swiftly rectifies that harm, due to their good intentions. A person with bad intentions cannot be counted upon to rectify harm that they caused.
But, corporations aren't individuals, they're large groups of people and large groups of people frequently will lose their moral center, due to the statutory requirement that a company makes a profit to reward its investors.
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And a closing rate of close to 300 knots. Not a lot of reaction time to ascertain actual range, hence threat and maneuver. Given the radar, that looks to be a bit over a mile separation at first collision alert, so maybe 10 seconds, with ATC also querying. Decision time to ascertain if it's spurious or actual, that's an awfully short amount of time to avoid collision.
Especially for the UH-60, where the aircraft may well have been visually passing through the rotor plane.
Unfortunately, we'll be receiving an aviation safety lesson once the investigation has been completed.
Unfortunate, for those unfamiliar with transportation safety and aviation safety in particular, as such lessons are extremely expensive, as they're most often paid for in blood.
A handful of years ago, there was a somewhat similar crash involving a small airplane and helicopter over bay at NYC. Bad angles and high closure rate resulted in a mid-air collision in a clear daylight sky, with minimal congestion. Just a bad angle for each aircraft to identify one another easily and ascertain closure rate and one the danger was appreciated, it was too late to do anything about it and it was all captured on video.
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Now, if Zelensky could unite the old Kievan Rus' peoples and region, he'd give Putin a heart attack.
As a hint, Moscow used to belong to the Kievan Rus', who were Vikings that united the entire region under their empire for nearly a thousand years. As a hint, Russia's name originated from Kievan Rus' name, Rus'. Literally. So, by right of historical memory, Russia belongs to Ukraine, where Kiev is, the former capital is.
And such memories live long and well in that part of the world.
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In the early '80's, I was working in our nuclear deterrent forces.
Today, I literally live basically on ground zero, due to my living in a state capitol, surrounded by a bunch of DoD depots.
Suffice it to say, she's not making me perspire in championing our unconditional surrender to Stalin-lite.
Stalin was far more competent and well, the treaties give us more nukes than Russia has towns and cities, the converse is not true - we've more cities and towns than Russia has nukes. The end result in a countervalue exchange is, our economy and industrial base would be badly mangled, but Russia would quite literally become extinct.
And after decades of Cold War training and experience, I do know that Russians aren't suicidal idiots, they're typically quite bright.
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+John Driver in the states I operated in, none permitted an emergency vehicle to exceed the speed limit. Getting there slow beats not being able to get there due to wrecking an ambulance.
That said, it was a five state sparse sample around this nation.
I was military at the time.
Common courtesy does not extend to addressing criminal necessity. If I'm in the left lane, it's for a reason, I'm passing or avoiding an onramp/intersection. I also move back into the speed limit traffic and let the maniacs wreck their vehicles and halt my progress and really hate their selfishness that has halted my travel. And that has happened in my lifetime on more than a few occasions.
The times I actually checked, the maniac survived, others did not. I stopped checking, lest I lose faith in humanity altogether.
As for common courtesy, after I redeployed home in military retirement, I noticed that a lot. Both in daily activities and civil discourse. It had also entered into political discourse in a similar manner before my return to this nation.
To be honest, I'm sorry to return to such a failed nation, it pains me each and every day to see such a societal failure and worse, a societal embracing of criminal behavior (well, criminal before I deployed away to defend the nation).
Today, we have security theater to comedic proportions accepted as the norm, permitting the terrorists to win by changing our society.
We also have people suggesting all manner of mayhem upon those law abiding.
The land of the free and home of the brave turned into the land of the restrained and the home of the craven.
Before I redeployed home, craven was only used in regard to individuals, now it's used in regard to a social acceptance.
But then, common courtesy is extinct here. People do what they want to do.
If I did what I wanted to do, this nation would have a lot less people living in it. I refrain from that because I'm civilized. I use the left lane to pass, then move into traffic. I don't yield to speeding maniacs that won't let me pass or speed insanely and swiftly and unsafely change lanes to flip the bird at me to prove insanity, only to lose control in their uncivilized excess of insanity to lose control after.
Fuck him and fuck any other asshole that thinks that is acceptable, with a 40mm bore brush.
Twice.
I saw similar behavior at home before, the driver ended up causing six fatal wrecks avoiding such reckless driving.
That's colored my viewpoint in this matter.
Fortunately, in some ways, the driver was eventually arrested and convicted. Now, his family goes without his income and suffers. Fuck all if I can figure out how to equalize that problem.
But, in road rage, I have an ROE, force against force, in level. Punch, I'll punch back, dearly. Draw a weapon, all bets are off, I go lethal. Super-escalation works toward survival.
I'm nice enough of a guy who has repeatedly brought up religion and politics on three continents, in general discussion and in good favor.
I've also explained to Wheaton where his law of "Don't be a dick" has limits that he has since learned the limits of.
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First off, to possess a suppressor, you have to undergo a background investigation that is exhaustive, think Top Secret clearance kind of investigation.
Second, when you fire that thing, everyone knows where the shot came from, if unsuppressed and likely even suppressed. If you're in a school area, you're in a residential area, which is populated enough to hear the suppressed shot (it isn't a muffler, it simply changes the characteristics of the sound, it's still gunshot loud). The standard Barrett kicks up a lot of debris over ten meters around, so even Helen Keller could tell where a shot came from.
Add in the thing weighs between 25 and 45 pounds, plus optics and magazine (figure 10 pounds for both), add in around $10K - 15K for weapon, ammunition and optics, it's not getting used in any crimes.
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Well, an upside is, for the dining ware, if the glaze remains intact, it's still safe to eat off of.
As for military sources, there was a changeover to tritium for self-illuminated devices. It shares the failure of phosphor with the old radium types though, the phosphor will fail before the tritium has decayed away. Had to replace one compass that I served with for my entire career for that reason. In theory, I could've had it serviced, but given some internal improvements in the current model and minimal cost difference, I just replaced it.
Had a laugh and gave a lesson in a different forum, where people were freaking out over Florida authorizing phosphogypsum usage in highway construction. It was used in construction and roofing tiles for decades, but "it's radioactive" freak-outs got it restricted. It's around as radioactive as an average granite kitchen counter - for much the same reason.
So apparently, phosphogypsum is evil, but granite is cool or something. Complete with a promise of driving down a Florida highway and contracting acute radiation syndrome, talk about overreaction and failed risk analysis.
I guess they should've stayed on the battlestar, as earth's way too hostile for them.
Actually examining the risk would be to look for dust liberated for potential exposure for sensitive individuals, form the isotope is in chemically, as in bioavailability or ability to become lodged in tissues such as lungs, etc. Nope, anything radioactive is evil, so excuse me while I go turn off the sun and all of the stars and put all the black holes into shoeboxes.
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Interestingly, quite a few of those who worked in the plutonium lab became "plutonium pissers", literally having plutonium present in their urine for the remainder of their lives. With the majority dying of advanced old age.
Those exposed to prompt critical radiation, especially neutrons, weren't so fortunate. But, most of those were in a team where a lab accident killed the physicist performing the experiment and many of those farther away got sick and later, various cancers associated with radiation.
The radiation from the bomb itself, not so much to worry about, as by the time you're close enough that it's seriously dangerous, you've got a whole difference concern, that whole being instantly incinerated thing going on.
But, they were utterly clueless about fallout at that time, so yeah, plenty present got fallout from the tamper and core dumped all over them and being fresh from the oven, that was some seriously hot shit. Two weeks later, not that hot at all, but immediately after, downright evil kind of hot.
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First, it's one judge, not multiple judges. Second, it's a state court matter and hence, "citizens of the USA" is irrelevant, it's "citizens of Georgia".
So, we'll let things play out, as the state supreme court has been informed and found sufficiently for the defense counsel to release him pending trial and that will quite annoy those jurists, as appearances of impropriety smears their bench as much as the offending jurist's bench is smeared.
I wise old police sergeant was issuing police badges and credentials at the police academy graduation. Before he did, he advised all of the rookies, "Whenever you do something wrong, you not only smear your own badge with shit, you dip mine into shit as well. Please don't dip my badge in shit".
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A bit of trivia, when I was growing up, a cheaper method was used on our community roads. Rather than asphalt roads that we know today, the township extensively used "tar and chip" roads, which was asphalt poured onto the old surface, small gravel then dumped unto that and a top coat of asphalt poured over the stones.
Made for an unholy mess when I came into the house, eventually moving to taking off my shoes before coming in the door and using lighter fluid to dissolve the asphalt stuck to my soles, rather than coating our linoleum floor.
Yeah, gave away my age there...
Didn't last anywhere as long as asphalt roads and the stones would kick up and scratch the paint on cars, making the political leadership ever so popular with the public. Leading to the slightly more expensive at the time asphalt roads that remain today. Longer lasting and as a side effect, easier to plow. The road ain't worth much if one plows up the aggregate along with the ice and snow.
I also learned during my global travels in the military that there are different mixtures, depending upon the environmental conditions. Hot vs cold being predominant, so Germany would utilize a different mixture of asphalt than a tropical nation. Use the wrong mixture for the application environment, it won't last very long, maybe a season.
And I've yet to find a surface that can survive the desert for long, well, save for my skin. ;)
One benefit of pure Sicilian genetics, having enough variety due to historic, erm, interactions to tolerate the African and Arabian deserts and the frigid wastes of a northern winter. Although personally, I prefer my climate like I prefer my women - hot, which is why I always tell them how much I enjoy the meatloaf.
I'll just get my coat...
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Yeah, but it was one of those iridescent sharks from a tropical fish tank that's managed by a child.
IRBM's are ancient news, MIRV type warheads, well, the dispersion and inaccuracies involved suggest a failure in the warhead dispensing bus guidance, with good fortune allowing one city to get a warhead on one house, rather than an actual military target in Kiev, some 200 km from where one warhead hit that house and precisely zero government targets struck.
Which is embarrassingly far off the mark for a Russian MIRV!
We're talking, aiming at Honolulu and hitting Johnston Island instead, just a wee bit off target, Johnston being where we did launch nukes to test them from and Honolulu feeling one EMP from an EMP test from Johnston (and it was way off course and still far from Hawaii.).
This is more like a kid playing with daddy's loaded pistol, albeit with only one or two rounds loaded and the gun's a cheap Saturday Night Special, infamous for either not firing or hitting anything except what it was aimed at.
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I had discomfort, with burning at times, right in the area consistent with gallbladder obstruction from stones. An ultrasound verified an assortment of large economy size stones and the gallbladder and stones removed, the common bile duct verified as clear.
Still had the discomfort, which eventually turned out to be from oddly referenced GERD symptoms. :/
A decade and change later, one night, I had severe pain in the solar plexus region, with rebound in the right quadrant, severe nausea, was soaked with sweat and spiking a mild fever. An episode of vomiting resulted in a sensation of something solid impacting my lower stomach and the symptoms resolved.
Everything consistent with obstruction at the sphincter of Oddi, which is where the common bile duct empties into the stomach. Interestingly, the press reported that Ruth Bader-Ginsburg had a stent in that very location.
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The layout design can be copyrighted, novel construction components can as well, although they also have to comply with the standards you mentioned, as well as local and state building codes.
But, the blueprint being denied to the homeowner, that's novel enough that if I were facing that, I'd have a bulldozer to remove the offending construction, then sue the living shit out of the builder and design firm for having to redo their deficient work, as with no knowledge on what I required to complete my home, as stipulated prior to purchase, the work is deficient by lack of appropriate documentation and had to be replaced at their cost - plus punitive damages.
Seriously, the design plans of the home are more secret than the construction of a frigging hydrogen bomb, what an absurdity!
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John Grit so, I should have quit being a soldier and went into real estate. Gotya!
All soldiers, sailors, Marines and Airmen are criminals on drugs, gotya!
Those laborers that build those McMansions are all criminals on drugs, gotya!
Those EMT's that are coming to your car wreck or heart attack are criminals on drugs, gotya!
Those cops coming to your rescue, don't forget to tell them that they're criminals on drugs.
And those who collect the Social Security that they paid their entire working lives are "leaches" (sic) (for the record, it's spelled leeches, after the parasite and as such, you are saying those who collect on any insurance that they pay for are parasites).
Indeed, you are part and parcel, indeed exemplar as to the problem that exists in this nation.
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John Grit one thing I learned over again, all wars are political, it's a design, not a defect.
I volunteered, as I joined in early 1982, retired in 2010 (some complexities over end term of service and retirement nonsense).
Warfare is decided by the leadership, which is guided harshly by the populace.
Dad joined the USMC under forged documents, my grandmother managed to get the paperwork to stop him on the embarkation dock and get him discharged.
He attempted to, after reaching agreement, to join the US Army, get selected to join the 82nd Airborne, train and VE and VJ arrived and he was assigned to fight the battle of Fort Dix.
Trust me, returned home and simply said, "You didn't miss anything wonderful".
That all said, I have zero interest in real estate, I do have interest in having a home that we can retire and eventually die in. It isn't a damned McMansion estate, it's a chunk of land for a large garden, what we don't reap, whoever needs it is welcome to, just leave us alone. Due to joint issues, we prefer single story, so if a split is offered, we want an escalator.
Our property is also sanctuary, I am an ordained minister and I'm extremely old fashioned that way.
We've always been, protect those without defense, the widow, the orphan, the indigent, who cannot arise out of their situation, due to malfeasance.
Side against that, meet wrath that one will swear is the wrath of the almighty.
You seem to abandon them, an incorrect path for the survival, long term, of the society.
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@Idlewyld I know where they're going down the merry path through. They confuse a civil matter and a criminal matter, with their substantially different standards of evidence required, then fail to realize that this is an entirely different beast from either, as it's largely procedural in nature and the court needs only establish fact of actions performed.
Ignoring history, where we didn't give every Confederate a trial that was denied public office after the civil war's treason. As liberty and property are not at stake, the standards are much lower.
Although, if they really, really want criminal charges, given Trump was Commander in Chief of our military while in office, when he committed sedition and ordered an insurrection, he could be charged with sedition, insurrection and mutiny, all capital offenses for the military...
And attempted hijack of a federal emergency response vehicle and attempted kidnapping of his Secret Service detail members inside of his vehicle when he tried to wrest control of the vehicle from the driver.
Can we say needle in the arm of the final kind?
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Well, all of the TPS tiles have been silica based. The earliest, so delicate that one could, with a badly sprained hand, crush them easily by accident and were about as waterproof as the Titanic currently isn't. Later versions improved greatly on strength, which even now remains not much to write home about and waterproofing - which has improved tremendously.
Discussing the things, as Scott mentioned, ITAR can be a royal pain in the gonads, with prosecution being quite aggressive and the regulations being so nebulous in some areas as to literally leave it open enough that one could cite someone for an ITAR violation for discussing the chemical formula for pure water.
And given my military background initially involved intimate involvement in nuclear weapons, suffice it to say, we had a keen idea on ITAR regulations. That dated back to when even PGP encryption was considered a weapon.*
*Entertainingly, an allied foreign nation had ordained that encryption, especially VPN's were unlawful within their nation as they considered the technologies weapons. Citizens and residents were rather stuffed, but banks explained patiently that there were three chances that they'd engage in unencrypted financial transactions, slim chance, fat chance and no chance and that they'd cease doing business within said country.
Policies swiftly changed for some odd reason.
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In those earlier days, key splitting wasn't a thing yet. Remember, RSA encryption was the biggie and remained unbroken, still shiny and new. Now, we use AES, as RSA was easily enough broken.
Meanwhile, under ITAR, encryption beyond 40 bits was considered a munition, right up there next to artillery rounds. At that time, opening the source math was considered the ultimate evil and RSA's being broken opened that up, as the more eyes looking at the math and source, the tighter and less easily broken things became and even better, those eyes are free.
I do disagree with one thing, that the key, once revealed would've been exploited in three days. Nope, it'd have been exploited same day.
Then or now.
The biggest part of NSAKEY was it's also part of the NSAHOOKS system, where one can insert strong crypto DLL's at will. That was done at the behest of the NSA and other strong crypto users, so that their high end crypto could be loaded in without herculean labor.
There was one other Microsoft carve out for one government agency, service pack 7 was paid for by NASA, as upgrading and ensuring that all of their custom software wasn't exactly workable at the time, so they commissioned the last service pack and paid for it. Never did manage to get a copy of it, but I can't gripe about not getting that which I didn't purchase.
Oh, China bought the source code for NT4. At one point, I did have the source code, but those systems were lost in a move. :/
NT4 was a hell of a lot better than the initial release of W2k, which issued a busted to hell and gone LDAP system initially. Of course, Microsoft just claimed that's a new standard, just as they tried with Java with the msjava, which lost in court to the owner of Java, Sun... LDAP won in the end, as it's standard and eventually, Microsoft conformed to the damned standard.
Who knows? They may yet get quality control dialed in in a reliable fashion. ;)
On second thought, hopefully not. Job security and all!
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I've an odd pica effect.
Wanting to rotate diet incessantly. So, I've still Thanksgiving dinner in the fridge and clams and linguine sitting happily alongside, each in rotation with other dinners.
And a hint on rotation, ranging from veggie burgers to a love of fish.
If it ain't moving, I'll eat it, if it is, I'll get a bite on the run.
For ramen, some green beans in a can and drained works, an egg adds to wealth.
Rice and everything in the leftover tray works great.
Been poor, won the title, survived is the real title.
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@IllustriousCrocoduck the laugh is, vacuum welding is a very real problem with metals in a vacuum. So, store those weapons in a vacuum, go to use them and find the metals welded together.
As for weapons modified to work on the moon, easy enough, just modify the sights to not account for earth gravity bullet drop or atmospheric density. Now, you poke tiny holes in space suits, blood then seals the holes and one has to hope that the still leaking cosmonaut runs out of red stuff before killing you.
As a hint, on one shuttle mission, an astronaut tore a hole in his space suit glove. The hole was sealed by the blood from the small cut that the tension bar gave him on his hand and went entirely unnoticed until he got back inside the shuttle after the EVA work was done.
So, to disable someone, one's going to have to poke a hell of a lot of holes or really large holes through the micrometeor barrier overgarment and through the suit proper. That overgarment being what you see when you see someone wearing a space suit and it's designed to stop small objects from piercing suit and astronaut that are moving a hell of a lot faster than a bullet.
Better to use a laser or maser to try to soften plastics, causing seals to breach and the faceplate to soften and fail.
Or have a few cases of vodka handy...
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@southwestxnorthwest nope. No double flash, no radiation spike that's always present on nuclear detonations, no barometric disturbance that accompanied every other nuclear detonation. Hydrogen explosion plus water hammer of the coolant instantly vaporizing blew the reactor top off, the hydrogen ignited on contact with air, blew the flammable roof apart and ignited it and air rushing into a superheated, melting core ignited components and graphite in the core.
That spread reactor contents all over the city and well, much, much farther.
Unlike Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the bombs detonated and what was irradiated was irradiated and stayed in place since they were air bursted nuclear warheads. They actually recovered sizable chunks of both bombs cores from ground zero in both cities. The black rain, soot from incomplete combustion of the city remnants at ground zero. The fires, largely from gas mains and overturned stoves igniting wood and paper buildings. Around two weeks post-detonation, most of the harmful radioisotopes had decayed to safe levels at ground zero (unlike Castle Bravo, which dispersed ridiculous amounts of irradiated reef components over thousands of square miles, but also had spared the shot cab the worst, with standard fallout lasting around 12 hours for the worst, 12 days for the harmful, then cleanup crews were able to come in with minimal protection).
Started my military career in nukes.
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No self-hatred needed. Major depressive disorder or severe bipolar disorder can and has lead to some pretty horrendous deaths by suicide.
I worked military EMS. The very first lesson in dealing with suicidal patients is, don't let anything whatsoever ever, ever get between you and the door. If they've decided, have the means and perceive you an obstacle to their goal, they very well and in the past, have taken EMS personnel and police with them. A great rule to abide by, given some of us are trained to be able to end someone's existence before that person even realizes they're in danger.
A corollary is, if the dog is out upon arrival at a scene, close the fucking door unless you really enjoy getting bitten by Cujo.
Not a lick of self-hatred, only assured death of a suicidal person, who seems to have taken great care not to involve others in their path to self-destruction. Self-hatred, in my experience, was the realm of terrorists, who enjoy taking others down with themselves. Common themes being "I'm a sinner and can do no better or worse" and similar nonsense. Yeah, I dealt with terrorists and conversed with them. A fine experience only rivaled by the joys of masturbating with a cheese grater.
Note for full disclosure, I have no idea, nor inclination of finding just where I put my cheese grater, nor since retiring, dealing with terrorists. But, I've come to understand all too well depression since my wife of 40+ years died in March. It's a pernicious thing I'm working on shaking and have no intention of self-harm beyond enjoying that can of chili I bought today.
That last requiring my sending an NBC-1 report first, so that a NUKEWARN flash can be sent. ;)
Even more seriously, that notion of self-loathing is a condition of its very own that does require a mental health professional intervening, but attributing that to a suicide or suicide attempt is harmful to those in desperate need of protection. Kindly stop it and learn about such conditions before harming others with such bullshit.
I never, ever claimed to be a diplomat, but I'm infamous for my candor.
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Clowns are entertainers, not always funny, depends upon the act.
But, Trump is an unreality TV entertainer, who cannot tell the difference between unreality TV and actual reality.
But, he did bring us news of a super duper missile, two words strung together I never expected to hear uttered consecutively by a President of the United States of America.
Which, to hear him was in production, but had a less than 10% successful launch rate, was cancelled.
Because, Trump has one other skill, the precise inverse of the Midas touch, where Midas touched something, it turned into gold, Trump touches something and it turns straight into shit. Well evidenced in his business failures and implosions of the lives of those dedicated to serving him.
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@richardross7219 M821 were mortar carriages. M812 was the 5 ton. My DA form 348 had "5 ton and below", SEE Combat Engineer (Small Emplacement Excavator, basically a Case front loader in front and backhoe in the rear deck of a Benz small truck), M113, Stryker, a few other odds and ends.
We started with two models of 5 ton, one with a manual transmission, the other with automatic. Licensed on both.
We had skid resistant tape on top of the bumpers to prevent slipping off on dew. That CARC paint is slicker than snot with the morning dew on it!
Your M821 was part of the M809 series, which were replaced with the M939 series. Did see one get stuck in 1992, blizzard dropped 3 feet of snow, one inattentive driver got the floorboards hung up on the snow bank on the side of a road. Thankfully, a friendly civilian with a wrecker helped pull him out, shaking his head the whole time.
Oh, both used the same spec Cummins engine. Wikipedia has a nice article on each, the M809 and M939 series.
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Shilahfaith Diaz, whatever is a SNIPER rifle? I know of sniper systems, which a rifle is part of one. But, when one is close to a threat, a sniper system is worthless, beyond being used to blindly fire and hope to disable or even hit the target or a simple club.
Kara, the law is set that one defends oneself in a court of law. But, the law allows defense of life, sight or limb. I would, under that context, suggest a martial arts self defense course.
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Too late. Google's search quality has been declining for half a year, with many errors that look suspiciously like chatbot AI induced errors.
While all are eager to latch onto "hallucination" for the term, the closest medical term is a common thing in those with dementia, confabulation. It's precisely the same issue in a human that happens with the AI. Never happened, but was ginned up by a badly confused brain that looked for a memory, couldn't find it, so invented it for the occasion, unknown to the owner of said brain.
Although, in this case, it was like the attorney handed a 9 year old the case, then asked the 9 year old if their work was good, then vouched for it unseen. The court cannot accept the excuse, as the attorney is an officer of the court and accepting such a bogus excuse would undermine the credibility of the court itself and by extension, all courts.
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@happ-hobby so, saying someone is guilty after they plea guilty is unconstitutional?
With that last sentence, that's literally an end result of a guilty plea.
Just as finding someone guilty of fraudulently signing a document would be unconstitutional under that argument, legalizing fraud and counterfeiting money.
Perhaps, a rephrasing of that last sentence is in order?
Such as, "Saying someone is guilty without a guilty verdict is unconstitutional"?
After all, if I sign a document stating that I'm God and hence, via that document, requiring specific funding be paid by the receiving party, that remains fraud or I am indeed God. And if I become God, I'll be forced to become an atheist.
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What she missed was feral honeybees and she glossed right over production hive collapses, "Oh, you can buy more". With many, their budget's as stressed as the rest of us, so it'd be like telling a physicist that an accident that drops CERN off for a decade is OK, because they can just go build another one.
But, she did brush on one thing I've been harping on for ages: Monoculture is bad in agriculture. One crop, one source of failure when a pathogen it's sensitive to arrives, as Florida is finding out, as are the Cavendish banana plantation owners are as well.
As for cheese, might have a bit each day or every other day, but I rotate what I eat quite often, from fish to chicken to pork, all meat servings being palm sized or smaller, had asparagus and green beans tonight, was planning on sliced beets tomorrow, but I've depleted my supply, so it'll be pickled beets instead and spinach sauteed with garlic, onion and chili in a chicken bouillon stock. Given the heat wave we're starting here, I'll also be adding salt to some of my foods.
I'll probably also boil up another cup of barley in chicken bouillon, with garlic and onion and add some stewed prunes into it again. That made for a wonderful breakfast or lunch!
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@MA2-o2l it seems as if you're thinking that their primary weapons would be neutron bomb class weapons, but one doesn't require gaseous tritium to boost the primary, cryogenic tritium also would more than suffice. Especially true given the use of neutron generators to time a neutron pulse to accelerate fission initially.
For neutron bomb class, one simply substitutes the tamper casing, changing over from depleted uranium to aluminum, lead or even plain iron to provide tamper ablation and pressure, while being less neutron absorbing to an extent. The fireball itself and the explosives would absorb a fair amount of the primary neutrons anyway, hence why an EMP infrequently (especially in "super EMP" class) as the fireball essentially eats the neutrons.
The weapon core is a bit like Las Vegas, what happens in the core stays in the core, at least radiation wise. The weapon's primary purpose is basically a supreme air heater, so the heat and shockwave do all of the dirty work, save with EMP devices that utilize the gamma pulse and neutron bombs, which bombard the local area with fast neutrons to neutron activate and penetrate armor.
As gamma doesn't travel well through the air, oxygen especially ionizing easily and blocking it, that leaves neutrons which have limited range and activated metals tend to be short lived isotopes, which finally leaves the old fashioned nuclear and thermonuclear effects of shockwave and thermal pulse. Since the primary is of a limited low yield device, boosting provides much of the energy to help complete fission of the primary core and it again, is of limited yield, basically enough to compress the secondary that has the higher yield, up to half of the yield of the weapon, the tamper being the final stage and providing the final half yield, at a cost of making the bomb dirtier.
Regardless, as I recall, the typical size maximum I've seen in tritium dewars and flasks was only in the 100 - 500 ml size.
As for Russian functional devices, I'd anticipate moderate degradation of their functional stocks. Their strategic, high priority warheads being the highest in reliability, their countervalue designated, moderately degraded in reliability. Adding in attrition of malfunctions that are normal in missiles, I'd estimate around a 50% failure rate at most, minimum of 35 - 40%.
After all, everyone wants their dacha in the woods...
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Well, there still is fresh pig's feet and when you can find them, fresh pork hocks.
Use both, prefer the hocks when I can find them for my pasta sauce. When I can't get either, I'll grab goat meat, which is not quite as expensive as oxtails and plentiful in my current neighborhood.
Upside, in my neighborhood, largely Caribbean, fish and chicken leg quarters are also plentiful (and hence, also goat meat).
Also used to use oxtails in my pasta sauce, whichever was on special when the kids were growing up. Not any longer, stupidly expensive.
At the rate peasant foods are growing into wealthy designer foods, soon I just might become vegan. Or cannibal...
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@William.Driscoll I've had someone blather that to me, "You think you're better than me??"
"Absolutely, you are capable of only having a simplex, you're giving me a complex and when I return as a manager, I'll remember your team wrecking today."
The nail moron, I remind them that the manager wants a promotion, hence would require a replacement - with a business degree.
The reality being, once I'm degree in hand, I'd be as gone as the previous winter from such a toxic environment, as those workers will eventually cause the business to fail. My usual practice, when the business fails, I return for the equipment sale and buy their servers, high end printers and newest office equipment for pennies on the thousands of dollars mark. Done that a half dozen times now.
Giving those employees a pinkie wave on my way back out the door.
I'm fairly accustomed to being the smartest guy in the room, I prefer not to be, as then I have a chance to learn something. I figure I'll stop learning a week or two after I'm dead. ;)
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No, I didn't survive. I couldn't possibly survive.
I'm an American, I thrived by fighting, not laying on my back like DonOLD and his fine family tradition of fleeing the draft or whoring opposition. We've been a land of second opportunities, giving a chance to whoever arrives to thrive if they've got the guts to try. Trump's family arrived fleeing a common draft to military service. We said, "Fine, but show us what you've got".
Yeah, met the seventh fleet in fine familial virtue.
We don't guarantee success, we only offer the opportunity to try. And DonOLD has repeatedly shown moral and financial bankruptcy.
A hurricane pummeled an important US possession, he threw paper towels into the ring. A pandemic scarred and wounded us, he stayed on the field - a golf course, playing with his balls.
Another term of this uncommon prostitute? I'd rather screw a wood chipper.
Because, I didn't dodge a draft. I served for over 28 years and I'm in my 60's and still slugging on after I retired. I'm far too busy to be playing with my balls or hiring the disgrace to the US Marine Corps.
Oh, for the record, I met him in person at a tri-state Chamber of Commerce function around the year 2000. He was the guest of honor. Said function experienced a 95% attrition rate, stated by the attendees, when invited the following year and refusing to attend, their refusal to attend was exclusively due to his fine attention. He was the boor of the party, ruining an otherwise pleasant networking experience for all and their spouses. He trumpeted his wondrous successes, speaking expansively about the great bankruptcies as successes to a room full of business owners.
I'm astonished that the planet stayed on its axis, given the phenomenal number of ubiquitous eyerolls.
His "success" method is easy, call every failure a success.
No, DonOLD, a failure is an opportunity to try again, not give up and call it a success.
We're Americans, we fight on, even when we initially fail, we keep going until we succeed.
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Donald Trump can't read a single page that doesn't have bullet points and pictures to lower the word content. So, reading an entire file is beyond out of the question, his Adderall habit won't permit it. Oh, ya forgot that candid photo of him behind his desk and the drawer open that was full of European generic Adderall?
Then, we hear idiots go on about Deep State, which in Trumpese is the Civil Service. He hates an independent Civil Service, as he can't staff it with flunkies to divert every tax dollar into his empty bank accounts for him to lose.
So, we segue into "It's the CIA", largely because most people don't understand what the CIA is and does, so obviously patriots are evil. And since patriots are evil, those actively working to destroy our government and nation are good - because they wear a red hat.
Sorry, the good guys got white hats.
What all of this tells me is, our educational systems are an embarrassing shambles, our lead paint abatement programs are a disgraceful debacle and that the insane rule the asylum.
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Had more than a few wheelchair bound individuals who insisted on doing it themselves.
Pissed them off when I got the door for them, to no end.
Then, I explained, someday, it'll be me and I'll appreciate the effort.
Nearing that now, literally. So, I do appreciate the door holding and still hold the door for those less fortunate.
Park in my space, do enjoy finding your valve stems beside your tire.
I'm a nice guy, just not all that nice.
Do wonder how your spare got flattened as well. Picking locks is a hobby...
And being a Dad, I know, sometimes one has to be a dick.
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@Richard Cranium that'd be my wife and I. Our kids are grown and have homes of their own. So, we don't need 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, den, mud room, rec room, separate laundry room, main engineering, auxiliary engineering, photon torpedo room, electron microscope room, 50 shades of plaid room and my guns don't need their own damned room.
So, tell me I need to essentially build a McMansion, enjoy the nation's newest cobalt-60 repository. With many open sources to deter trespassers.
For those ignorant of cobalt-60, it's a rather hard gamma radiation emitter. If any leaks into the water table, guess they'll need a majority of residents well over 50% complaining about the blue glowing water. Or put up with a town full of large green angry residents... ;)
If I can't get the NRC permit, which is iffy, storing and composting castor bean mash from the castor oil companies would suffice.
I'm sure that one of the most toxic biotoxins around would degrade quickly...
In short, be a dick and a damned nightmare for the town.
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The Army used to have the arms room access control list posted on the vault door, complete with the CO's social security number. I had a word with someone at division, since there was no real interest at the union level and I had ran into that person one day and mentioned it. They talked to someone upstairs, who called Big Army, who changed the guidance. What should have been used is the EDIPI, aka their "serial number", which is prominent on the ID card, as well as in their digital signatures.
A couple of years later, I took a civilian job overseas on one of our bases and became the IASO for our base (information assurance security officer). Managed to keep us out of a major network mess from a foreign APT (advanced persistent threat), all from just ensuring everything was properly configured, the laws and policies being followed. Ugly mess, glad to not get jammed up by Buckshot Yankee. Those afflicted got tons of work and additional hours cleaning it up, I went home on time and a normal workload, all from doing a little bit more work initially.
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@nancymarquis3943 they care only about the laws and Constitution, as is established in their own oaths. That is how it should be, because while it's not a perfect system, it's hands down better than any other system that's been utilized throughout human history and gradually improves.
For the preamble of our Constitution said it all and still proudly says, "We the People of the United States, in order to establish a more perfect union". It doesn't say establish a perfect union, it by suggesting establishing a more perfect union admits to imperfection and the Constitution itself allows itself to be amendmended for that purpose.
Such objections as above and other extremist speech and suggested actions are giving me grave reservations as to the viability of our continued union, which bodes ill for the nation, for how would nuclear armed powers interpret widespread domestic unrest or even civil warfare in a nuclear armed nation? I know from my own military experience, a first strike would be strongly recommended to neutralize a growing threat.
Turning a disastrous wreck into a wreck upon a wreck.
And fear drives civilians mad, always. Military learn to suppress fear and make rational decisions, lest things fall into chaos and death, civilians never had that terrible privilege.
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The overpressure isn't a fixed magical figure, it depends upon context of what one is protecting against.
A 3 PSI overpressure from a shockwave is enough to collapse many residential structures that aren't reinforced concrete, at 5 PSI, everything but reinforced concrete, 10 PSI most concrete buildings are destroyed or demolished and at 20 PSI, utter destruction - from the outside, upon the entire structure.
Inside, it becomes a different matter, as one is essentially talking about one flat or in this case, one room in one flat.
That said, failure of the flat itself shouldn't have allowed the entire structure to experience a progressive collapse of that segment. One flaw is a lack of design to protect against progressive collapse. No building codes existed to mitigate against it at the time, no effort was made to design protection in, frankly, it was a rubbish practice and protection needed to be codified.
But, corner cutting of such a degree, with bloody newspapers used in place of concrete, that stinks to high heaven of corruption somewhere, as inspectors should've spotted that a mile off during construction! It's not as if only one man pours concrete to join segments!
In this case, I'd have looked for a design with nonstructural panels designed to blow out without compromising the structural integrity of the entire building or segment of the building. I'd also want the fucking thing put together properly. And in this case, I'm forced to question the quality of all construction in the borough at the time, as obviously inspection was either absent or badly lacking, allowing heaven knows what to get built at grave risk to the populace.
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Heh, I'm 62 and still walk to and back for my shopping, it's only a couple of miles or so. If I have something that I want from the larger supermarkets, I'll take a bus.
Got a nice riverside park right across the street from me, complete with a running trail.
One big difference, in the towns, the roads in Germany are much narrower. Makes sense, as many such streets and roads were originally made for horse and horse carts (we shared that in downtown Philly and a few other older cities in the US).
Pennsylvania has always been an open carry state (save in Philadelphia, where it's concealed carry with permit only). Few ever bothered. Louisiana was also open carry, the only time I did was when there was a cottonmouth moccasin in the yard - a highly aggressive venomous snake. Thankfully, never needed my gun, just being around 10 feet from the snake and not leaving convinced it to move off of the property. Found a molted skin from it in the garage, so I secured that a bit better afterward.
A pro tip, if you want a more balanced diet or at least your greens and well, more than chicken or burgers, go to a diner. If you see one with plenty of elderly folks there, the prices and good are typically good. Before my wife died, we used to go to a local diner that had a wonderful fruit and salad bar, I terrorized the poor staff at that, as I can graze a *lot*. ;)
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@Censorthisbananahamock true. Many don't realize that a substantial portion of the population is military trained as well.
Which means an escalation framework of our own.
Escalate, be ready for insane escalation. Going for gun, well, that's when it's time to inflict harm and actually resist, with lethal intent.
Then, radio in for more officers, as I'm running low on ammunition.
I've never been accused of being a diplomat. But, oddly, I've wrangled diplomatic solutions quickly.
And in the film, Rambo did screw up repeatedly.
In the book, Troutman shot Rambo with the sheriff's shotgun.
Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent, it does remain a course of action in extreme circumstances and I excel in special circumstances.
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I most decidedly am not The God, which is the literal translation of Allah, nor could I be misconstrued as a god, but I most certainly did direct what can only be properly described as the wrath of an angry god via radio commands.
Still, I and my team did actually try to not interrupt their worship services, largely explaining to the populace that we'd not want our worship services interrupted.
The weird part is, overall, that worked out rather well. But then, things military are weird by nature. Proof: The WWI Christmas Truce, never officially declared, save by the participants.
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At first, the UltraFan seemed to basically be a dusting off of some rather older designs and in some ways, it is. With the twist of variable pitch. Initially, I was confused as to the lack of an outer ring to both duct and spread out stresses, but the variable pitch would render that idea impractical.
Then, I pondered stresses involved and the next item listed was gear reduction, lowering RPM's and hence, those stresses.
So, overall, intriguing designs and may result in the reintroduction of gull wing designs as well. A greater advantage is, now we've got excellent computer modeling, which was impossible when such things were briefly experimented with in the past.
And given we've gotten a helicopter to fly on Mars, this should be much easier!
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Phage research is moving up, globally and in the US. Antibiotic resistance is really starting to get them worried.
Phage resistance happens, but it's brief as the phage quickly evolves. Been a half dozen reports in the past two weeks on the PROMED mailing list on phage research in multiple countries, including the US.
Was a bit puzzled though about the time needed, as either way you're waiting for a bacterial culture to grow. Then, see if an antibiotic halts growth or if a phage halts growth.
Although, if I was going to go for research, I'd probably be engineering phages, first remove toxins, then adding a major reproductive advantage while inside of a host, while narrowing species specificity. Most don't have all that many excess genes to begin with, so shouldn't be the hardest thing around. Not like oh, engineering a new antibiotic...
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@ronfullerton3162 it's a standing family joke, not only do I have a green thumb, but it's likely that were anyone to plant a pebble, it'd grow in soil that I prepared into a boulder.
In the Persian gulf, I moved into a villa that had a nice large garden. Well, it would, were it not just a hole in the ground with a curb in place to contain the hole - I mean garden.
Got local "soil" from the livestock market, mostly with sheep, goat and camel droppings heavily present. Mixed in peat moss and cat litter until it became a real soil, even if the "sand" was fairly high in calcium carbonate. Despite the insane desert sun, that garden looked like the garden of eden!
I also learned then, never, ever, ever put basil and mint where pollinators can find both at once or, being closely related, you'll get a mint flavored basil or vice versa. Made for an interesting spice with mutton, with injected tomato sauce to cut the gamey taste out (acids marinade, even while cooking and remove any gamey flavors from meat).
The watermelon grew near the pool, watered a bit more by the splashes from the pool, the cucumbers near the wall, so that the concrete blocks and mortar would hold and slowly release the moisture into the soil.
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I've failed more times than Carter had Little Liver Pills, learned, moved on.
One lead, a team trainer that trained the FBI on IT security things said to my lead, "He keeps making mistakes, but they're new mistakes, he doesn't repeat mistakes".
You succeed or fail, fail, learn and advance or well, continue failing, ala many HP execs converting the company from engineering centric to venture capital centric.
And why I won't buy their products beyond the LP5 series.
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Yeah, that's on my to-do list, keeps getting knocked off of the schedule by life events.
But, something's gotta give. I've become a bit anemic, d-dimer is up enough to suggest bleeding somewhere, magnesium is low suggesting clotting cascade is elevated, so it's either the abdominal aortic aneurysm or something else occult leaking. First patient I ever lost, a 28 year old female soldier with a dissected AAA. She was dead before she hit the ground, my only hint in the field, CPR being performed, while verifying compressions efficacy, the pulse fell off with each compression rapidly. She had pheochromocytoma, adrenaline producing tumor on the adrenal gland, shot her BP up way past tilt. Got to see two such cases, the other was successfully treated and was only mentioned in the patient history.
Oh well, one upside from doctor's visit today, A1C lower, courtesy of my dropping 20 pounds, lowering insulin resistance, as that's a familial trait. I get to retain the family title of eldest by far to not be diabetic throughout my father's side of the family. Pisses my cousins off massively, as they all are and keep going with their failing mantra "It's in the genes, why fight it?". Simple, they'll be on dialysis in a decade at most, I won't. I'll still be kicking strong, walking with my cane, going deaf as a post, but still sharp as a tack.
Well, back to designing a refrigeration unit that uses butane to cool a Wilson cloud chamber for my Amerecium source I rescued from a deceased smoke detector, then improve on a design from CERN for a radiation spectrometer that uses photodiodes retasked for the purpose...
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@viator1987 so, it's an affirmative defense to say "I was tired".
So, one can then reasonably infer that a plaintiff or defendant that claims fatigue is utterly justified in pulling out a machine gun and killing all of the attorneys in the room.
Both are unlawful acts, both are equally sanctionable, regardless of the length of proceedings.
And for the record, I have given depositions in the past, so I'm well cognizant on how long they can take - especially in federal cases. There are breaks and even multiple sessions in depositions, just to avoid fatigue being claimed in a later claimed erroneous statement being given.
As ShinmaWa1 said, a one off gets overlooked, habitual times becomes at least malfeasance, obstruction and the judge will be getting a phone call that will annoy them.
@SlinkyTWF, that name is a character in a video game series. As one who has had some rather unpleasant interactions with very real terrorists and terrorist organizations, I suggest you acquaint yourself with the rather modest difference between fiction and reality.
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Bucks County, PA, around 30 years ago or so, a farm and some homes were eminent domained by the county for a shopping mall. Litigation ensued, the land was taken, the homeowners and farmer SOL.
So, not exactly a novel practice. This simply made it to the SCOTUS, who found that a man's castle belongs to whoever the municipality, county or state damned well fells like giving it to to turn a buck.
One remaining farm was under threat and matters went slightly different, as residents of multiple counties finally became outraged. It seems, that the general public consensus was that the courts were worthless, but a few remarked how inexpensive lead was and the farm remains there to this day. It would seem that the officers who made the decision to apply eminent domain to benefit private real estate developers decided to not potentially share Louis XVI's fate.
Or maybe it was the ghost of Christmas Future...
Never underestimate the folks around Philly. To my knowledge, we're the only US city to have artillery used by the populace against other members of the populace and also got away with killing members of the militia sent in to restore order during the Philadelphia Nativist Riots.
Although, the Bronx has the distinction of having US Army artillery used against it during Bowery rioting over the Civil War conscription (wealthy bought their way out of conscription, which triggered the rioting).
Although, I do wonder about how much of a part whisky played in starting the whiskey rebellion, which took no less than George Washington riding out of the capitol to meet the responding militia from other states to suppress.
History is a rather interesting thing! It can be entertaining or downright horrifying.
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Born in 1961. It wasn't unusual for either mom or dad to shower with me as a small child. Today, that's eeeeeebbbbbiiiiiiiiiiiiiillllll!
As for the kids telling you that "your generation's shower habits were gay", I'd have calmly and quietly asked, in lower tones, "Are you trying to tell this US Army decorated war veteran that the entire US Army war veteran community is gay? Do you realize how inadvisable that is to tell someone who is perfectly capable of killing you in an instant that they're what they largely are not is?".
Never was a diplomat. Otherwise, we'd likely have far fewer wars.
What this is is an extension and recycling of the tepid bathwater of the lost satanic cult wars, when schools had buried children under them and were excavated to find precisely nothing, no missing kids on rolls, no missing children on birth records, no witnesses of missing children and certainly no parents missing children, but entire schools got excavated anyway, the amoral panic dispersed and recycled.
Hell, most of their gays in the military, then transsexuals arguments are anti-segregation arguments being badly recycled.
It's a conservative control mechanism, controlled by the unimaginative, as they think nobody can figure out the magical man behind the curtain bit. It's also PsyOps 101. And only used educationally. Then, the next course illustrates its many, many, many failure modes.
Still, never interrupt an adversary when he's making a mistake.
~Attributed to Sun Tzu, historically, it's highly likely he wished he had that accumulated wisdom, a fair bit now outdated.
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Back in the '80's, the TOW-2 was introduced as well. Improved in a number of areas, but still wire guided, optically tracked by the operator. The only way to blind the missile is to blind the operator through the filtered optics.
A challenge was a helicopter at 5 km, ducking for a hill. Other challenges were same range, tracked vehicle ducking behind a hill. With a bit of practice, one could nail them reliably.
On a tripod, one had only one round at a time, but from a vehicle station, one had a minimum of two shots to take. M2 Bradleys had them, Strykers have them, M113's have them, so they're plentiful enough.
Although, to our surprise, we were knocking turrets off of T-72 and T-80 MBT's reliably with just the Bradley's chaingun during Gulf War I.
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@davestang5454 there are two modes to consider in such a combat situation.
Adrenaline ridden mode, uncompensated and makes one tunnel visioned, shaky and foggy thinking and trained to compensate for it, where one is, for a lack of a better word, "reptilian thinking", cold, calculating and engaging with precision.
The US Army recognized that difference and engaged in a training plan to experience soldiers with adrenaline effects. This lowered ammunition spew somewhat late in the wars and increased accuracy.
The training, derived from US Army Ranger training.
One learns to put emotion aside briefly, during a firefight and engage with precision and lethality, to end the fight as quickly as possible.
Or one fails and washes out.
Wasn't a Ranger, but did other work at a somewhat similar level, under the same operational command.
And well, didn't even know I was injured twice while engaging and neutralizing the SOB that injured me.
Spray and pray is for amateurs and is telling due to their fatality rate. I kept my weapon usually on semi.
Because, nothing sucks more than running out of ammunition in the middle of an active firefight and nothing felt better than neutralizing some SOB with a shot or two and nearing that firefight closer to its end.
And another reason I'm glad to be now happily Retired, Extremely Flatulent.
I do, however, support the open carry of howitzers.
If one can lug that around, even for an minute, one can have whatever Superman wants. ;)
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Nope.
First, treason is narrowly and precisely and indeed, is the only crime defined within the US Constitution.
Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
So, the individual must have taken up arms against officers of the US government to make war. The portion regarding enemies is irrelevant, as Congress has declared no war, hence the US has no enemies and adversaries are not mentioned, so also irrelevant. Such a charge would be invalid and indeed, attempting to prosecute such knowingly is a crime.
Still, for giggles, the penalties:
Article III, Section 3, Clause 2:
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
18 USC Ch. 115: TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES
From Title 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
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§2381. Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(2)(J), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §§1, 2 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, §§1, 2, 35 Stat. 1088).
Section consolidates sections 1 and 2 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed.
The language referring to collection of the fine was omitted as obsolete and repugnant to the more humane policy of modern law which does not impose criminal consequences on the innocent.
The words "every person so convicted of treason" were omitted as redundant.
Minor change was made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 inserted "under this title but" before "not less than $10,000".
§2382. Misprision of treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §3 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, §3, 35 Stat. 1088).
Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted "fined under this title" for "fined not more than $1,000".
There's more for insurrection, sedition, etc.
There's a bunch more, but these sections covered Trump and his all girl band.
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter115&edition=prelim
Our laws aren't hard to find, the US Constitution trivial to find and everything is in plain English.
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@Rita Jo what an interesting perspective! So, when a woman accosted me to perform some service for her, despite my being a fellow customer in that business, what should I call her when she fulfills the stereotype, bitch from hell, insulting fine honorable female canines? That's actually happened to me, me being an irritable individual that day, when she demanded my manager, I gave her directions to the closest church, advising her that I'm the earthly representative of the Almighty's Wrath and more than willing to demonstrate that to her should she continue without reporting to the aforementioned church and demanding she speak to the pastor's boss.
Thankfully, she in true karen fashion, then accosted the business manager, who got a chuckle over my response and she directed the individual to depart the business property immediately or be trespassed.
It rather helped that I have a well honed US Army NCO glare and can project my voice well enough to address 1200 men of a battalion without the need of technology, as well as having many junior enlisted swear that my parents were never wed...
So, what do we call this distinctive creature? Harpy would only set the actual harpies upon us, nudge is a lot of weak tea, so what shall we identify that type of person?
Although, zero target would work for me, some might consider that excessively violent, but then I graduated from the George Patton school of diplomacy.
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MrJamesIkanov , as you said, criminals use concealable firearms first, gangbangers might try a drive-by with a semi-auto AK or something.
Long range, precision marksmanship firearms are beyond their class.
That said, I've heard of some who did manage to acquire unlawfully converted fully automatic firearms and even one who had a full blown Ma Deuce guarding his drug distribution facility (a house in Allentown, PA area). Those are vanishingly rare.
As for your description of an SSBI (that is what is performed for ownership of NFA firearms), "anal probing" is rather appropriate.
Everyone you've worked with, neighbors, former neighbors, etc, for the past decade are interviewed.
I know, I've passed such investigations a number of times for the military.
In the middle of the initiation of yet another, again for the government.
Interest in full automatic, despite my military proficiency with them?
Zero, I'd have to triple my income to be able to afford to fire in such abandon as recreation. Something I also have very little interest in doing anyway.
Dirties the weapon too much and wears the barrel.
Worse, there are three chances of my firing full automatic out of any of my national match barrels.
Slim, fat and none.
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Jar-Jar Binks , while I personally lack interest in competing in this class, I know men and women who to compete in one mile and longer competition precision shooting.
Indeed, this rifle is short, compared to other competition models that have longer barrels.
I'm not into it due to the weight and punishment to the shoulder and spine it delivers, too many years in the Army.
I'll stick with .308 long range and 5.56 intermediate and short range competition.
Then, there are those who want to own one because our military uses them. Frankly, to me, it's a waste of money, but I'm not one to tell another person how to spend their hard earned money.
The final type who would want one is the one who earnestly believes that they can fight "tyranny", a ridiculous notion, as one puny rifle against artillery, MLRS, B-52's, various fighter aircraft, tanks, smart bombs, dumb (iron) bombs, AC-130 gunships, helicopter gunships and Special Operations, plus infantry, just isn't happening.
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MrJamesIkanov , actually, I've researched it. As one who argues with both militant pro-second amendment types and anti-firearms types, getting facts straight is super important if I don't want to lose my point by making an ass of myself.
There have been no civilian crimes committed with a .50 BMG in living memory. There has been one case I am personally aware of (and verified via restricted means) of a DEA raid in Allentown, PA where the drug dealer (senior type) had a fully functioning and loaded M2 .50 BMG machinegun that was stolen from the military some time before.
Zip otherwise.
For myself, that rifle would be a waste. I'm unwilling to lug it around, my osteoarthritis prohibits it. Firing it? Thanks, but no thanks. Did so earlier in my military career, now, I'm retired from that after damned near 28 years. Now, my back would hate me and I'd hate life after that much torque would be thrust into my spine.
Still, I know people who do compete with them and admire their precision.
I'd love to join them, but today, I've acquired way too many dings and dents to race in that particular class of race.
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OK, so those scars I've had for 40 years will go away any day now.
First, this targets mastectomy patients, so one cannot get a nipple tattooed on. Sounds like an ADA violation to me, good job Kentucky!
Add in, scars or moles, that outlawed tattoos for the majority of the human population of this planet, everyone has moles and scars all over the place. So, it's a law essentially outlawing tattoos, save for very, very few, resulting in a law that'll be ignored by the populace, as prohibition was.
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@sean..L blackout drunk and bipolar or some depressive disorders can trivially account for that.
But, we could get a six sigma certainty, 99.99966% certainty, all we need to do is learn how to read the blankness of the human mind. ;)
More seriously, their nuclear security office should've alarmed on him, his behavior and likely predictable action upon deleterious personnel action.
It'd the only reason I refuse to support actions against Manning's intentional spill of classified data, for the same reason. Deleterious personnel action is, per federal regulation on nuclear material or classified information is an automatic revocation of access.
I'd only support Manning's punishment if Manning's entire senior chain of command suffered a similar fate. In this case, the signs were present and repeated, but access was continued to make a buck.
That isn't damning, it's displaying a prejudice that could harm security overall and in his case, essentially proved. At the time of exposure, memory or not irrelevant, he ensured a fatal exposure, a successful suicide. One upside is, he didn't allow others even the slightest chance of exposure.
And Kyle pulled a lot of punches, death by that level of exposure is far uglier, nightmare fodder kind of ugly.
As in, given a choice of that way or beating off using a cheese grater, then ride a 10 foot razor blade to then drown in a pool of iodine sounds far more pleasant.
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@mshotz1 if they're identical and built from the battleships, show me the citadel within them, which would render them incapable of serving as an aircraft carrier.
Nothing was built from a Montana class, as that class was never laid down at all. Recycling part of a design on paper does not mean it was built upon that which was never built. Battleships were planned around their armored citadel, carriers were planned entirely on their own. What you were saying basically makes a modern supertanker a battleship, as both have keels or some other such nonsense. They share common items of design and those get recycled in future designs, but the carrier is no more a battleship than a dingy is.
Now, escort carriers, those were commercial hulls that they slapped a carrier deck onto, largely out of desperation to get well, anything that could launch aircraft out there to fight the war.
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The New Covenant was promised, not in Hebrews, but in Jeremiah 31. None of Christ's teachings were new, they were all from the Old Testament and alas, most self-proclaimed Christians consider the Old Testament "no longer counting", but oddly cannot explain then why that part of the Word is still included in their Bible.
Indeed, most of their objections to abortion and claims that it's against God's will, yet oddly is entirely absent from the Bible and the only entries on mother and fetus are regarding battery against the mother that claims the fetus' life being a property crime against the father.
So, they're essentially stating bluntly, they know far better than their God. Something exclusively previously said only by Satan.
Their prosperity gospel, the very antithesis of the teachings of Christ.
So, of course they'll choose a god-king wannabe that worships only Mammon, as they both share a subject of worship - Mammon.
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Article III Judicial Branch
Section 3 Treason
Clause 1 Meaning
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Clause 2 Punishment
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
OK, where in that did Trump take up arms and levy war against the US? We have no enemy, as an enemy would only exist if Congress declared war.
Sedition, yes, absolutely.
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A proper wave would've done well.
A thumb in both ears, fingers wave, while tongue cheers.
Or, if not feeling so energetic, thumb to nose and wave away...
We Americans hate when the monkeys mock us, it makes us self-conscious and being conscious is a novel experience for most.
Although, I did tend to wear the towel until inside the sauna, then drape it on my seat.
Rarely used one though, as where the most saunas were, they were the least necessary, as it was in Persian Gulf nations, which are saunas by nature.
Deployed on 1 August, when it was 100 degrees outside, boiling literally (OK, it was F, 37.8 or so C), 5 million percent humidity due to the shallow sea - I felt like Aquaman. OK, 100% humidity, work with the humor. It looked like it was raining at night, as the triple pane thermal windows had condensation running down.
One Arab complained about how sparse water was, while standing next to an air conditioner that was taking quite a brisk pee, which I pointed to. Thought for a minute that I'd have to explain to an Arab what distillation was, which would just be embarrassing, as an Arab invented it.
Then explained an anhydrous ammonia based system that uses a standard utility type cooling tower to condense water from humid air and generate electricity, as it's solar based.
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Night attack on the legion's supply train, destroying their logistical support. Nothing like a 03:00 wakeup call of rifle fire well within one's perimeter to render a unit panic stricken. Then, on the way out, leave some claymores with tripwires around important areas, like command tents and watering points.
Marines also would avoid flat, open terrain, as that's a danger zone where they can be easily seen at a distance and in this scenario, archers could simply saturation fire at the area that the platoon is operating within, although the platoon would break off into fire teams immediately.
If the unit has light mortars, that'd really break the legion's back, again, useful night or day and WP rounds to ignite tentage and supplies would raise merry hell with their supplies. Even legions traveled on their stomachs, even if foraging locally.
Primary targets, the same as today. Logistical points, C3 points, being primary targets. And anyone dressed differently and fairly prominent in apparel, obviously a commander.
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The guns as they were displayed, yes.
I've driven with two rifles, a pistol, my vest, but the firearms were in cases, unloaded, the ammunition inside of a locked ammunition box and away from the firearms and my range pass kept with the weapons, safely stored so it couldn't get blown away when I opened the vehicle at the range.
And of course, a handful of paper targets.
The difference, I don't have mental health issues, am a competition shooter and safely store my equipment properly, as it's expensive, an investment and hence, is protected accordingly.
And the only guns belonging in the front seats might be a glue gun or grease gun, should I ever find a grease fitting in a modern motor vehicle.
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So, 40 Wall Street, mortgaged for $122.6 million, bought for $8 million in 1995 and allegedly invested $100 million, so let's go with double the mortgage value and the state gets that half, the mortgage company has to get their money - now from the state.
Well, there's always Trump Tower and Mar a Lago...
As for his comments on Jewish voters, give him time, he'll eventually suggest special camps. No? I've met him socially, trust me. I'm extremely rarely wrong about what people will do, if allowed the chance.
The boor of the party.
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The ironic part is, the father was Lot, "the only good man of Sodom and Gomorrah". The issue, Moab, who settled in what's now Jordan.
The bible teaches field sanitation and moral stories. Rather than learn the origin and reason, they simply lock into tradition and the word of the law, rather than the spirit it was intended. Then, enjoy the buffet line, picking and choosing what they like, ignoring what they don't like.
One test for such people, ask them why they're allowed to eat pork, when Jesus would've refused. If they don't quote Acts 10:15, they're ignoring Leviticus out of convenience and tradition, rather than by justification. Hence, damn themselves by their own willful ignorance of the laws of their faith, per their own faith.
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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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Well, it's not as if we've got a monolithic accent here. We've a fair bit of regional variance, albeit nowhere as wide as in the UK, which is four countries to begin with, all packed into an area between the sizes of Minnesota and Michigan and having a number of languages spoken besides English. Yep, England, Wales, the Land of Scots, the northern part of the Land of Ire. No, you can't slap me, shit splatters. :P
They do pack in the regional accents in the UK though, actually quite varied from what we're most accustomed to hearing on TV, which is largely a London-ish accent to whateverinhell they speak in Liverpool. ;)
An in joke, had a friend from Liverpool, at times I had absolutely no clue in the universe what he was saying. The rest of the time, the universal translator, after much smoke and sparking, belched out a transliteration.
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Most automobile insurance policies that I've had (yeah, I actually read them before I'd sign for them) insure against events that occur in relation to injuries or illness that arise from the proper usage of the insured motor vehicle.
I honestly could not consider screwing part of the normal operation of a motor vehicle.
If I'm sitting in a car and have a heart attack, that isn't covered, given sitting isn't operation of the vehicle or under other covered circumstances. Otherwise, it opens up even no fault insurance to become basic health insurance! Kid gets strep throat, just show a study that bacteria exist in cars and it's covered? If she became pregnant, does prenatal care, labor, delivery, child support and college for the car fall to the automobile insurer?
If a jealous spouse caught their spouse in flagrante in the car and shoots the lover, does the spouse's automobile insurance have to cover that too?
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@z-beeblebrox well, getting a 100% efficient engine is easy. First, you take your perpetual motion machine...
Then, you wish in one hand and crap in the other, most of us will know which hand will get filled first and as a hint, nobody will want to shake that hand. ;)
But, useful for engineering theoretical studies, ideal solutions and whatnot, then if all of the math works out, see if one can do so in a practical, you know, real way.
I've an old joke, "I was the theoretical consult to creation. Alas, theory and practice being two entirely different entities, the real universe is a complete mystery to me".
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It's a bit uglier than that.
The bibles in question were sold previously and poorly by Lee Greenwood, with some alt-right crap tacked inside them as well. Reviews of sales were, "Pages were sticky and stuck together", "formatting is off of the page, where can I get a replacement?". "I bought this for my elderly father and he can't read the print" and "it's been nine months, where is my bible?".
Originally offered in King James and NIV versions, the NIV people sent a cease and desist letter and that version was disposed of, leaving only the old poorly transliterated King James Middle English version available.
I'm not joking about any of that. I'm being as serious as COVID in a cancer patient.
BTW, Trump also criticized the Almighty for incompetence, because he'd never allow his son to get killed for anybody. Nope, still not making things up.
Will Rogers famously said, "I never met a man that I didn't like". Obviously, he'd have had to withdraw that statement had he had the misfortune of meeting Trump. Yes, misfortune, I met him back around 2000 when he was guest of honor at a Chamber of Commerce function for the PenJerDel region. He was such an effective and wonderful guest, the following year suffered a 95% attrition rate. He was the boor of the party. Genghis Khan would've been more welcome.
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@Guidus125 indeed! We've yet to fully understand many neuromodulators and still occasionally discover new ones, so embryonic is indeed spot on.
Neurology is insanely complex, compared to something as simple as a thyroid gland!
A few years back, I had a somewhat condescending pharmacist, turned out she was that way with every patient. The "I know it all" attitude, lording that knowledge, rather than sharing it with those interested. When I filled my first prescriptions with her, I declined discussing the medications, as I'm intimately familiar with the drugs, their pharmacology and mechanism of action. Beta blocker, calcium channel inhibitor and a drug that inhibits thyroperoxidase. She even got to the point of trying a spot quiz.
Bad idea for her ego! She was far more respectful afterward.
But, that's grade school level, compared to neurochemistry!
When I see that a drug's mechanism of action being ill understood or not elucidated, I know that some soul out there will eventually find that understanding and make their mark upon science in indelible ink!
Just don't look my way to do that, totally not my field. I largely dealt with communicable disease, body and fender work on humans and the plumbing leaks in humans under military conditions. ;)
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PoliceManHat nope, both were precisely the same, which is why both sites looked precisely the same.
After all, every Empire State Building construction worker saw double images on holiday weekends or something! ;)
Endoskeleton and exoskeleton are the same too, after all, PoliceManHat's old lady has bony tits or something.
Yeah, that shit's gotten seriously old, way back in 2001. Especially with anyone who's worked with explosive demolitions. Listen to the bozo brigade, molten iron is antigravity and goes sideways or even up.
No, only fucks go up, hence, fuck up. :P
I'll not even go into high octane rating fuels burn colder than low octane fuels, like Jet-A kerosene, vs 130 octane antique bomber fuel.
Low octane brains produce low octane flashes in the pan notions.
I'll not even go into how leaky our government is, as to juicy classified events...Well, save the mythical event, which literally would require at least 10k participants, none of whom ever talked...
Maybe give them a beanie with a propeller to go away?
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When did SDNY gain authority over every other district in the land? Does that mean that all of the other districts can just shutter their courts and go home? There are 11 districts total, so this being a national blanket is decidedly odd! The SDNY is ordering businesses and individuals in DND to perform some action is far beyond their jurisdiction, as they're not the SCOTUS. Guess the SCOTUS can now go home too!
For that matter, when did people become slaves to the court, to perform significant labor for no charge, merely by caveat of the whimsy of one district's court? Work performed by order without compensation is, by definition, slavery.
We're talking 1589 top level domains, a fair number being foreign, plus any secondary redirects, guess we need to build the Great Firewall of China here now and block all foreign traffic for the godly judge.
More like the story got blurred by that press outlet and honestly, it wouldn't be the first time that's happened. Technical journalists get jurisdiction and legal orders sideways often enough, as that's not what they normally cover. Case in point, I'm in the jurisdiction of the Middle District of Pennsylvania, which is under the 3rd circuit, SDNY is 2nd circuit. No jurisdiction, period.
Given a choice of what's most likely, a district court judge lost his mind and thinks he's Napoleon or a reporter fouled up a story out of ignorance, well, never attribute malice to that with which could be more easily explained by incompetence.
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Much of the cultural bit behind alcohol forgets US history. Completely forgetting, the US was settled by religious extremists, extreme fundamentalists, who essentially rejected anything pleasurable as distracting from their religious practices.
That's retained in some current sects, such as Seventh Day Adventists, who still prefer unspiced foods and no ethanol. For those wanting to dispute, do look them up and the origin of corn flakes. I only put up with them because of Desmond Doss (I strongly encourage you to look him up!) and that is, of course, a joke.
The problem with prohibition is, it's been repeatedly proved utterly ineffective. Prohibition of sex out of marriage, yeah, totally doesn't happy, they're all virginal pregnancies and ignore the ancient US joke about shotgun marriages. Prohibition of alcohol, helped spawn organized crime. Prohibition of many drugs, see what happened with alcohol. Prohibition of fully automatic weapons, see the North Hollywood shootout - they obeyed the law on buying machine guns, they made their own by converting legal rifles. I'll not even go into ban evading that goes on just in firearms and designer drugs.
As a child, when my parents had wine or a drink, curiosity was satisfied and I participated in a bit of wine with the meal (usually, undiluted in small quantities in an cordial glass) or was offered a sip only of a mixed drink and I do mean sip, Mom or Dad held the glass.
Later, well, I can consume legendary amounts of ethanol, think Marvel superhero levels, something weird in my physiology and exceptionally high liver enzyme performance. I also don't go howling at the winds and moon, for garnering attention gets entirely undesirable attention, so I limit consumption and intoxication by a lot. I can also walk through a raging fire - I've done that as well, doesn't mean that's my first or even second desired course of travel. I can drink that 1.75 liters of vodka and be fine the next morning, I hydrate, so I don't get hangovers, again, not my first or second desired course of travel.
And let's face it, nobody likes someone getting drunk and acting like a smacked ass.
All because I was taught balance and moderation, not total and unrealistic abstinence. You know, education. In matters of sex, my parents gave the basics in appropriate educational detail, the schools actually gave quality instruction back in the late 70's and early 80's, until the amoral majority hijacked things and turned the classes into their political pawns and teen pregnancies and STD's skyrocketed - then they fell from grace, courtesy of all of their own sexual scandals.
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I note zero citations in support of the claim of liberals attacking children (I'm assuming children are being discussed and not baby goats). And by indoctrination, schools should stop teaching reading, arithmetic, civics, history, the Constitution and science?
Guess medicine, engineering, electronics, networking, computers and all vehicular repair will end fairly soon then.
I'm really starting to agree with the ancient Athenians. They refused to allow the idios to vote, which would leave the majority of the MAGA crowd out, as they are idios, uneducated being the meaning of the word.
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I'm curious though, how many days of mandatory fasting is required of a governor after an attack on people in a city in his state?
The rest of the MAGA antics, I'm entirely with you on. But, bitching that he went out for dinner is way too close to using those bastards playbook.
The most he could do and should have done was visiting the victims and their families to show that the state has their backs. Beyond that, he's utterly useless at this point, as there are ample investigators on scene that are doing their jobs and anything he'd manage would only hamper their efforts.
And having handled disasters myself, the absolute last thing in the damned universe that I wanted was some VIP's stomping around, getting in the way and generally being a distraction.
And I'd have countered their border nonsensical antics with, "Wow, MAGA has kicked Texas out of the Union, along with Colorado!". It's always good to turn their own weapons against them, so by the time I'd be done, people would actually wonder if those states are being ejected from the union by President Musk and Vice President Trump.
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Well, I'm big on zero tolerance for abuse of any system. Period, end of story.
And I'm largely zero tolerance on zero tolerance, typically.
And was an EMT-P.
The lights and siren are for a purpose, abuse that purpose, dilute the immediacy of response required by them, sort of dipping one's badge into shit, then wearing the shit encrusted badge.
And all peers also now having to wear that shit encrusted badge.
The lights and siren are a hugely visible badge of a Public Trust, a special place given by society to protect and guard said society. Abuse of that trust is an especially egregious offense.
By the same token, if you're on lunch and I'm bleeding out, I'll wait for a response. While I have a necessity, you do as well. I'm an asshole, but I am an honest asshole and have plenty of blood.
Seriously, enjoy your sandwich! Been there, done that, under rather austere conditions. Necessities of life are rights.
You volunteer your rights when you choose to in support of others.
And I've met only once a medic that wouldn't sacrifice a meal to save a life, that one didn't last long. By consensus.
That said, any medic losing a meal on a call for me, your next three is on me, somehow. Preferred, bring the family and I'll cook.
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The director of Top Gun said it honestly, when real pilots complained to him.
"I make films for general audiences, not fighter pilots". In short, screw you, those who actually do it, I make what you do look cool (or something).
To then prove pure, distilled ignorance and incompetence in the field of endeavor that's being displayed.
""I was only below the hard deck for a few seconds..." The hard deck is the ground for the exercise, so he was saying, I was only flying underground for a few seconds. Apparently, Maverick flew a fighter subterrene. And these films all used Magic Metal, which can forge weld cold, temper by mere whim and can be worked with the gentlest stroke of a feather.
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Actually needed a bit more, despite the more temperate climate, to hold moisture and gelatin from bones. Then, grind the dogshit outta the hard tack to hold moisture, like a good meatloaf or furburger.
Hey, was an old SF medic, ya know?
Gotta retain the moisture, both ways.
And did run low on salt around four months ago, undiagnosed at the time Crohn's, shitting my literal brains out for four months, then doctor paid attention.
Salt, both as sodium and chloride molecules, critically low. Quack ordered I eat highly processed meals, I excavated my salt shaker.
Balanced beautifully, greens, now some salt, lot of cussing over the salt.
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Save for the slurring, which increases as time went on during the event. That isn't sundowning, it's CNS depressant related, possibly ethanol, which there is a family history of the abuse of ethanol.
So, either that or potentially coming off of a stimulant, from which he also has a known habituation.
The Robert E. Lee bit, not in favor anymore. Yeah, one could say that, having Congress issue a writ of attainder for his plantation and seizing it, not paying for it until after his death, per the Constitution, yeah, kinda out of favor. You'd know his plantation, it's now Arlington National Cemetery. Who would ever expect him to suddenly fall out favor over a minor infraction like treason and three quarters of a million soldiers dead?
That's definitely not all cylinders firing at top dead center, to put things mildly. The rapid progression, obesity and odd skin colorant usage suggests paler, delicate skin and possible poorly controlled diabetes, rapid progression suggesting vascular dementia, which unlike Alzheimer's, has a stair step progression.
So, could flip either way with that or coming down from a stimulant dose. Given the incessant lost thought trains and word salad servings, I'm leaning toward dementia, possibly vascular. Cared for my father through that mess, wasn't pleasant for anyone.
Of course, this remains in part the same Trump that wanted terrorists that were captured summarily executed, along with their families and children. Give him time, I'm sure he'll suggest special "work camps" with big ovens, as his impulse control flags further.
Upside, even if he somehow won the election, our nukes are safe from his hands, as he'd never successfully authenticate, let alone be capable of selecting target packages from the SIOP menu book.
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One wee problem with the turnings theory is, what was WWI, which oddly gets skipped over?
The entire mess reminds me of the Foundation series of books. Laughably, written under pressure, as his publisher wanted some new books written and Asimov, in desperation for ideas looked at his bookshelf and saw "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire", giving him an idea for a series story line. Complete with a whole new (and actually incessantly attempted in the real world) field of psychohistory.
Where a real largely pseudoscience field does now exist, with a predictive value of between crap and poop.
Largely due to the failing here, cherrypicking wars as a crisis point, much as do religious fundamentalists "wars and rumors of wars", which sets me to open laughter. "Name some period, any period in history when there weren't wars and rumors of wars?"
So, let's look at the most probable outcome of intentionally tanking civilization. Richie Rich hides out in his gilded bunker, sipping champagne and munching caviar. Eventually, enough time passes and supplies run low, they exist, anticipating people will follow them - because of hand wave reasons.
Waiting for them, a brand spanking new National Razor.
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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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Those ribs would also impart additional linear strength to the tank, which at the time were problematic when depressurized. A few early missiles would collapse from their own mass if depressurized.
I do wonder though, how much hydrogen was retained in the foam, as hydrogen is infamous for infiltrating pretty much anything. Still, better inside than outside to slam into the stack as it's speeding through the atmosphere!
Rockets are easy. Make a bomb, have it explode slowly in one direction, add steering components, there you go. Making one that doesn't explode in all directions, that part's hard. ;)
Space is easy, surviving in space, tricky. There's a reason it takes an hour to open a hatch and the checklist is heinous, for good reason!
Getting back alive, trickiest of all. The Russians do it by making a spacegoing tank - I can't think of any US spacecraft that could enter the atmosphere inverted, but the Russians survived multiple times of service module failed separation resulting in inverted entry.
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John Grit why? Do you mean that million dollar plus homes are being built in preference over housing for the poverty stricken, who couldn't get a home loan to cover the cost of a cheap modern home?!
See my face? This is me being utterly unsurprised.
The average home being built does not reflect the average Flordian income level.
It means, business as usual in the US, the wealthy get what they want, the poor eventually get gentrified into the swamp and trespassed from there.
Then, the wealthy gripe about a lack of cheap labor, undocumented workers accumulate and when ICE tries to move in, ICE gets met by a militia.
Or would you prefer it written up as an intelligence analysis instead?
The synopsis being, SSDD, the rich get catered to, the poor get kicked underfoot and that is now destabilizing vast swaths of the nation.
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And some wonder why I let my EMT-P lapse.
Honestly, when I've had to use an ambulance, now twice in as many years, I remain surprised.
Firstmost in life in the USSA is God-Cops, last, support. Not in that chain, you're fish food.
The fun begins with, my primary job was counterterrorism, so closely dealt with real terrorists.
Find common ground is a mantra in that business.
Not liking this trail at all.
Not trusting those anointed to guide us out of this path at all, given both parties get paid by the same interests.
Yeah, not a clue, anyone?
Hopefully, before we start burning "defective" citizens, like another fascist nation did?
One lead complained about my many mistakes in learning in a novel for me environment. The man he complained to was a senior instructor in actual federal course work on said subjects.
The instructor gently advised him, "He makes mistakes, but doesn't repeat them and adjusts according to his mistakes".
I'm a dummy, but Dad didn't raise no fool.
In short, I play dumb, ain't any dumber than you, and I'm usually the smartest idiot in the room.
Sorry about your drink.
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No, it's within reason to enforce copyright law and issue a default judgement for refusal to appear before the court, assuming that the operators of the offending site were properly served.
I suspect it got a journalist's wash, the journalist being a tech correspondent and hence, lousy at reporting legal cases. It's about as bad when legal correspondents write a story about tech stuff, it gets all muddled and mangy, when the actual orders of the court were fairly straightforward.
The providers can report back, they do not control the .tv domain, which belongs to the sovereign nation of Tuvulu. Verisign owns the .com top level domain and they're out of Reston, Virginia. As I recall, even if not under the jurisdiction of a court, their TOS was to delete such an offending entry under their corporate policy, so that'll likely go away anyway. Likely, to reappear under a foreign top level domain like Tuvulu, just as what happened with Pirate Bay, which is still out there. It then turns into a whack a mole thing, which the ISP's would then complain to the court over the excessive costs involved in compliance...
Being internet and international, the best the courts can do is to become a pain in the balls to the offender and have them keep switching domains to those outside of the court's jurisdiction. Given that there are 1589 top level domains and most are foreign, yeah. But, the court did what it could do, which is all anyone can ask of the court.
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@petersayatshkin7454 you obviously failed to learn the tradition and cultural requirement of hospitality.
If you're feeding someone, they're a guest, to be fed, given proper accommodations, even if you and your family are put out a fair amount, allowed to bathe (that's actually pretty much #2, #1 being giving them water, then food, doing without to feed them if necessary) and the best sleeping arrangements possible, even if you sleep on the floor as master of the house.
Understanding the cultural foundation is actually important to understanding biblical requirements. And all of the above are part of the 613 commandments. Indeed, interwoven among them.
Which is why I'll always feel safer in a Jewish or Muslim home as a guest than in your home and I abide by neither faith, but find honorable traditions and points of behavioral requirements that I find peer worthy.
You, not so much, per your own written words, odd, as you qualify them by calling yourself disgusting. Why?
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Can't act like you're in pain when pretending to be a tough guy. It's one way to know the poseur from the real tough guy, as someone that is tough will be continuing on while obviously experiencing pain.
I've got no real doubt that he got grazed on the tip of his ear by a round. First lesson, bullets aren't explosive devices, they're not phasers, they're not death rays, they're projectiles that fly while spinning and not tumbling at that range. Hell, it wouldn't even be precessing at that range. So, a 0.22 inch chunk of metal essentially sliced the outer edge of the top of one ear lobe slightly, otherwise it'd have torn the lobe significantly due to the round's characteristics on any impact and low mass.
There's a term for that type of injury. It's a boo-boo. Doesn't really need a cover, as is evident when he's golfing without a dressing.
Although, to give him credit, I'd still need to wear a cone on my neck, he doesn't...
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Having actually met him around y2k at a tri-state Chamber of Commerce function, where he was the invited speaker of honor, what you see is what you get IRL. Reality TV didn't create him at all, he's always been this way and well, he was the boor of the party.
It literally was so bad that the following year, the Chambers experienced a 95% attrition in attendance and nearly cancelled the function. They then spent an entire year apologizing incessantly to their entire membership to reacquire attendance to the function.
Everything had to be about him, his perfection, everything he did was self-assessed as a success - including serial bankruptcies of his casinos, generating so many eye rolls that I was astonished that the planet stayed on its axis.
I did get a laugh out of a few of his more recent appearances though, where he was complaining and shooing off flies. The Lord of the Flies and the Lord of the Lies, all rolled up into one. How biblical!
And people self-professing to be Christians follow that lord, the antithesis of everything Jesus of Nazareth preached about.
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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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I occasionally have fun with the chemtrail crowd. I'll start off and agree that there were chemtrails, then move forward to qualify that with U-2 additives to stabilize the literal charcoal lighter fluid fuel to keep it from boiling at altitude and move into the more serious additive in the SR-71 fuel, other than a similar additive for the same reason as the U-2's fuel, in a fuel you could put a road flare out in, it also had a cesium additive - to obscure the exhaust plume of a fairly stealthy aircraft, rather than having a gigantic proctologist's finger from hell pointing up the aircraft's ass end.
All quite true. It also royally pisses them off, as it's true, no nefarious nonsense is involved and I provide citations.
The climate denier crowd, I have fun with. After all, greenhouse gases are natural, CO2 is part of a plant's daytime respiration and well, CO2 made Venus the paradise it is today, assuming that molten lead temperatures is your idea of paradise.
Loads of electricity and magnetism in the sun, well, its upper layers and corona, anyway. Deeper in, way too hot for such silly things to work, too busy fusing or convecting. Neutron stars, especially young ones are magnetic madhouses, accretion discs a magnetic madhouse of their own, fortunately for the neighbors, the inverse square law rides in to save their day and night and especially weekends.
But, those strong, but range limited magnetic fields are handy for detection, they polarize electromagnetic energy going past them, providing a measurement tool for their strength.
For the magnetic gravity crowd, I offer a quality insulated sole set of boots and invite them to step off of a tall building and demonstrate flotation. No takers yet.
The most entertaining was an antivaxer who doxed me, then threatened graphically to invade my home, rape and kill my wife, then kill everyone else in the home, saving my death for last.
When I was done laughing, I patiently explained that invading my home was both foolhardy and suicidal, as it'd be unlikely that I'd be very conciliatory as to end matters swiftly with a firearm against an armed intruder, he'd instead learn precisely what I did in the Army, what vivisection was, after being immobilized by bludgeon, his demise would likely take 16 hours and before we began, would he kindly advise me as to how he wished his sparse remains disposed of, or should I simply dump them into a pig feeding trough?
Radio silence was observed ever since from that enterprising individual. I guess it was mission accomplished and I was utterly cowed or something.
Or saw the error of his ways. Don't know, don't care, but he at least did save me the trouble of having to resharpen my fighting knife.
Well, at least until the next time I was out gardening and it needed resharpening again. Unused tools are clutter, used tools require and deserve maintenance.
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@alisonwilson9749 had one commercial client, they used a lot of aluminum and occasionally steel frames for the strength, durability and rigidity (for the steel on certain specialized jobs). Don't know the specifics though, I was the IT guy.
Did hear something about rare times using steel mesh, most of the time though it was polyester mesh.
Dunno, that stuff's magic to me, my wife was the artist, I only was half decent with wet on wet oils. Well, that and drafting with pen and pencil, which I always chuckled at, as my standing truism is that I can't draw a straight line with a ruler.
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@michelleaugust9958 given that the virus was already well spread, as has been found by testing older cases, it was a case of closing the barn door after the horses escaped straight into the flood.
The virus was spreading quite rapidly in December, alas, undetected and late being detected in China by local leaders who only wanted to report good news to the central government.
Now, shall we discuss sending public health workers who had no training in contagious disease, without equipment, to evacuate civilians that were flown from a cruise ship where the epidemic was rampant? His championing workers going to work while ill? His claiming that 50 sick people were actually 15, repeatedly? His inventing shit as he goes along, proclaiming he's more proficient at anything and everything he's ever heard of than people with PhD's in the field?
Not to mention his contradicting his own public health care experts in telling elders to fly, when those experts said it'd be insanely dangerous for them to do so.
Of course, my wife and I aren't fans of the wannabe God-king Emperor, but we met him in person long before unreality TV became a thing and he was an obnoxious idiot then.
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@Eralen00 when I lived in Philly, the composted sludge was made available for free to city residents, the remainder being divided into what was sold for use as fertilizer, what went unsold, dumped.
I picked up quite a bit for my small backyard garden, grew shit tons of veggies in the mixture of soil and composted sludge. Pathogens get killed off by the composting organisms and the culture is actually measured to ensure pathogens are killed off.
Downside, occasionally in summer, the compost piles would spontaneously combust, as composting does generate heat.
No, not joking about using it as fertilizer, it's a practice as old as farming.
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Nope, he left the kid a horrifying 10 feet behind him. Who knows what evil might've befallen him had he gotten 11 feet behind? Why, some evil pizza parlor basementless building basement dweller might've recycled his eyelashes into a fountain of youth drug or something!
Yeah, it's a nothingburger.
I loathe the SOB, as a human, he's subhuman. His only true talents are as a mediocre businessman, excellent showman and excels at hiring great managers and company CEO's. Whenever he runs a company himself, he destroys it by micromanaging it and turning it into a fiefdom, rather than allowing the competent staff to run it.
But, the kid lagging behind during a public appearance, it's not as if the pod born body snatchers are gonna grab the kid, the stairs ain't gonna gobble him up and the Biden Under the Bed ain't gonna snatch him up and replace him with a changeling.
As for the Oval Office thing, that's Musk showing everyone that he's the boss. Nobody brings a small child to a major meeting with one's boss, it's inappropriate, distracting and disrespectful to that boss.
But then, most of us haven't had the good fortune of inheriting an emerald mine with which to jump start one's "genius in business, self made man" career. And he and Trump did make their money the old fashioned way - they inherited it.
I inherited a pocket watch and bills, the watch getting stolen during a move. For some odd reason, nobody bothered to steal the bills.
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My apartment building is quite diverse, nearly UN kind of diverse. As in, I quite have fun sharing recipes with neighbors, as I enjoy a widely varied diet.
Out of an entire 13 story tall building, there is precisely one Black neighbor who is a Trumpite and thinks that he's the neatest thing to come around since sliced bread. The rest, well, suffice it to say that he's generally loathed.
Having actually met that turd around 2000 at a Chamber of Commerce event, where he was an invited speaker, well the Chamber suffered a 90+% attrition rate for the following year's event, for he was the boor of the party.
Will Rogers said, "I never met a man that I didn't like", he obviously was unable to have ever met Trump. Good for Will! I'm just glad that my parents didn't live long enough to see this specimen of inhumanity.
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They really don't have to tell you even now. The network provider, aka your cell phone company should have told you, it's their responsibility to do so.
The NSA reported it to the FBI, the FBI investigated the US side, informed the cell phone companies and awaited any voluntary reporting, as there is no mandated reporting in the US. Anything beyond that is gratis and you're complaining.
Their primary focus is to hope that the company accepts help and help them end the breach, once it's fully understood and properly blocked.
And finding all of that out, even from the company side is a royal pain in the balls. I've handled a few, a few minutes worth of an attack can take hours to analyze and reconstruct from individual network packets in the tens of thousands at a minimum. The server administrator responsible for the specific compromised server(s) then has to be contacted and their management, reporting on precisely what was done to their server shared, incident responders then track the responses at each level and report back to senior management.
Reporting to end users in up to the senior corporate management, by law.
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It looks like there's some HF noise in the lab. Judging by the spikes on the oscilloscope, I suspect either light switching spikes or more likely cellular phone interference nearby, around a few meters away.
Also looks like the 'scope leads might be near a transformer or they're growing resistive in the shielding, as there is a LF ripple apparent.
You covered etching of the foil nicely, many classes on electrolytic capacitors omit that critical fact.
I'd probably have gone lightly into inductance in capacitors, especially electrolytic capacitors, just to be thorough on design considerations and a small ceramic or mylar cap to counter ringing.
Haven't worked in electronic circuit design in decades, nearly forgot about frozen electrolyte. Good to remember if I ever design something for arctic, high altitude or space usage. Unlikely, but in my life, the unlikely occurs far too frequently.
Back when I was working as an electronics technician, I worked on everything from vacuum tube analog, germanium transistor analog, silicon transistor analog, discrete IC analog, VLSI analog and digital circuits. I work in IT now, but still remember my electronic theory well, which has saved my bacon on more than a few occasions.
Knowledge is power! And equally important, useful.
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So, we need to rake out the forests, like countries that don't have these fires (or deserts that are artificially propped up by irrigation until droughts cut off the water supply) don't do?
The severity of wildfires is due to mismanagement, due to insufficient knowledge and good intentions initially. Wildfires are natural occurrences and the ecosystem evolved around them. What we did for generations was to fight every fire as if it's something we could always prevent and control, adding to the mat of decaying fuel by literal yards in some places, so that when fires became intense enough, the fire traveled beneath the surface of that mat of fuel.
Then, some heretic came along and linked studies, conducted some of his own and found that allowing controlled burns lessened the severity of wildfires. Much resistance for much of a remaining generation and we're at today and trying to figure out how to decock that cannon we accidentally aimed at ourselves - while still building in wildfire prone areas.
And no, raking out the goddamned forests is a non-starter, get a sense of reality, rather than what some failed businessman turned unreality TV star turned politician says, he's also the guy who thinks we can nuke hurricanes to blow them out and apples are in supermarket refrigerators. Aerating the fuel isn't a solution, it's in invitation to a worse disaster.
If you're inside of the cylinder and survived the compression cycle, it's not time to light a match to look around.
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@terryowen6759 the problem also is, there's federal land that he can't control or manage and state/county land that can be managed. For what can be managed, before things get too dry, controlled burns over time would help, as that ecosystem originally was subject to both natural uncontrolled and natives controlled burns that limited vegetable matter that was dead and just waiting for lightning or other ignition sources to light it off.
But, budgets and the ignorant fighting such control measures conspired against all to result in this mess, so all are stuck with trying to control a wildfire in high winds instead. Thankfully, the weather reports are saying that the winds are falling off, giving responders a break in trying to control the mess.
Gonna take a huge amount of muscle and sweat, plus tanker aircraft to wrangle the mess! Wish I was younger and still able to offer to help, but those days are long gone now.
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@kn4cc755 how can the federal government pay awards it cannot have to pay, per your explanation?
Because, the government would first have to give permission for litigation to continue, waiving its immunity due to misconduct (typically, when an agency was caught dead to rights misbehaving).
Indeed, Steve actually glossed over the defense argument and judge tossing it, as the state was attempting to enforce, rather late in the game, immunity. One exerts immunity at the onset of litigation, not in mid-stream, when it's implied by accepting proceedings that one has waived said immunity in many jurisdictions.
I've had foreigners massively confused with federal, state and local laws, as they're unaccustomed to a weak central government. Easiest explanation is "treat it like 50 nations under one federating weak government, rather like the EU". The confusion evaporated.
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I'd have covered the work surface. Largely, to avoid the problem with exposed horizontal work surfaces getting used for non-designed purposes and necessitating a moving project in order to utilize that surface for its intended usage.
Like the machine, although the table is kind of tiny. Alas, can't use one myself, as a proper table to go with the machine would be larger than my apartment.
Although, with a few mods to the table and one for the bed frame... ;)
As for memorizing a basic chain stitch machine's general design, given the state of the art of the time and metallurgy knowledge and capabilities of the time, not really all that exceptional. Getting a modern machine right, that'd be a major accomplishment for many, but we're talking about entirely different beasts here.
But then, I'm a bit biased, as I disassembled and successfully reassembled mom's Singer when I was 8. Did the same with dad's Baby Ben alarm clock, which kept better time after I was done with it.
And I was decidedly never mystified about bleeding brakes, it's one of the simplest possible hydraulic systems.
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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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@richardross7219 overused M designations is an understatement at times.
What they did was branch the M designation out, so one buys an M<whatever> truck chassis, then has a specialty device attached, be it a hut, bridge, wrecker, flatulence containment unit, etc.
OK, nothing retains my flatulence, I've been tagged REF. Retired, Extremely Flatulent.
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Surviving on medicaid as well, been way too sick to work, with an absurd number of issues popping up to annoy me.
Well, issues that have tried to kill me, which is positively annoying. Cataracts nearly blinded me, could literally only see six inches and closer. Thyroid nearly blew out my abdominal aorta. Crohn's is the latest saga and oh, for fun, the hyperthyroid is now turning hypothyroid because my immune system got bored.
Yeah, ya need a sense of humor...
Keep on slugging, although as he shreds and burns the government, things are going to start to get really dicey.
And I'm certain he'll eventually destroy my VA pension and my sole income, as well as Social Security and then, people are gonna get pissed when granny is tossed onto the street.
At least my shelves are stocked. Even managed to get a dozen eggs, despite the expense of the armed guards... ;)
Damned bird flu and congested conditions in battery farms.
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There is are concepts, wage being irrelevant, of due care and due diligence. You touched on them without realizing it.
Due care being actually rendering care that is appropriate for that which one has taken responsibility for. So, the bags were brought into a room to be stored, rather than out in the elements, where they could be damaged or stolen. That was rendered - right until they let the man go shopping without even identifying him.
Due diligence, in this case, no due diligence was applied, as they ignored the baggage check ticket being absent, didn't bother positively identifying the man claiming the bags and allowed him to take whatever baggage he desired.
Ignored security procedures are no security procedures, since if they're not followed, they really don't exist.
The amount ordered was beyond low and the legislature should address that, before businesses and individuals refuse to do business within the state due to risk of losses via uncompensated thefts. Remember, some businesses don't practice best practices, so some could literally have their entire company' business papers, documents, contracts and more on the portable data equipment and the loss would literally obliterate the business.
The ludicrous thing is, the hotel likely spent $150k to save a couple of thousand dollars, netting a much greater loss. I can't think of a single business school that would teach that that was a good idea!
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And to create a nearly impenetrable barrier to interstate commerce.
Consider a diamond courier, cops feel like diamonds, the jewelers will just have to do without while the cops fence, erm, auction the diamonds off eventually.
Now, entertaining is, if they decided to grab computers and packets of diplomats or classified documents couriers... For one, a major diplomatic incident, for the other, theft of US government property and unlawful distribution of classified information.
And couriers do get stopped on a regular basis, they present their credentials, courier card and placarded item(s) that have an outer cover over the placard. Open the outer, see the placard and if you proceed, Here Be Dragons.
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Electricity is not sustainable, given this level of a standard. Lead-acid batteries have phenomenally toxic lead in them, wires use copper which is mined in environmentally destructive ways, dams are made of concrete that's energy intensive to make and more.
And can't extinguish batteries is bullshit. They're routinely extinguished, pain in the ass to do it, gotta keep them cool and O2 deprived until what remains discharges, but they can and are extinguished. Just more Luddite bullshit.
Now, wanna talk about wasting lithium, one of the rarest elements in the universe? Poor standards in quality and storage? I'll be right there with you and nailing factual points home.
But this is like condemning gasoline as impossible to extinguish after its introduction. Oddly, despite some dire predictions, we're still here and cars only burst routinely into flames in Hollywood.
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Everything becomes contentious for two reasons, both intertwined.
Attorneys and money.
I'm aware of one case that was portrayed in the press of one business using their surname as the business name and the press reporting it as litigation to force another unrelated person with the same surname to change their surname and business name. Obviously, it was far more complex and simple than that, but that's what you get when only journalism majors cover a story, rather than seeking advice from professionals involved in the story - half-baked coverage.
Otherwise, the Johnson family would all lose their surname because of Howard Johnson's and obviously that never happened, as that was my wife's maiden name.
For that matter, we'd have to change terms in various card games, as Donald Trump owns a trademark on "Trump", again, were that true, chaos would ensue.
That's why descriptiveness is usually included in a trademark and "German girl living in America" is descriptive of literally hundreds of thousands of people, for just those with German citizenship, of which I doubt that the conceded trademark is.
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Trump basically had offered his defense, the defense of Charles I, "the King can do no wrong".
Charles I was convicted of treason against the UK and beheaded. It was not good to be the king that day, but it effectively did end the English Civil War.
The Founders of this nation remembered those events, as a result the chief executive had defined powers and limitations, checks and balances on each of the three branches of government imposed, a bill of rights that included the right to confront witnesses against oneself and at the time, a precisely and narrowly defined definition within the Constitution, of the only crime listed within the Constitution, of what treason was and how it my be prosecuted.
In many ways, Trump seeks to upend both the results of the English Civil War and our own Constitution entirely. But, as worrisome is how many people wish to upend our own Constitution in their zeal to prosecute Trump at all costs, even at the cost of our own Constitution by redefining treason to mere sedition.
Treason being defined in the US as the levying war against the United States or giving aid and comfort to an enemy. We have no enemies, as Congress has not declared war since WWII and nobody has yet organized and made war against their own nation in the US, with only individuals joining a foreign enemy against us during the GWOT, when we remained without an enemy due to a lack of a declaration of war.
Such people forgetting the first rule of parenting, one does not discard the baby with the bathwater.
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Heavy metals, CO, CN, but the worst is the hypertension that damages the blood vessel walls.
Now, excuse me while I get a cup of coffee, then have a smoke for a double whammy on my BP.
Oh, the single greatest cause of failed back surgery? Smoking. It's a vasoconstrictor. Slows healing.
My biggest health issue is BP related, but not to smoking. Hyperthyroidism and a few thyroid storms, which have done far more damage than my coffee and smokes ever could.
I know the risks, I understand the pathophysiology, it's my choice. But, if it's any consolation, as much as I loathe my own secondhand smoke, I loathe exposing others to it even more.
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I've got something that just outright kills people. It's called space and I don't even need to make it, it already is and isn't there. ;)
Second place in killing astronauts goes to their own space suits. One astronaut nearly drowned, courtesy of his own space suit during an EVA. The source of the leak never identified and likely, given the stony silence on the matter, likely operator error.
Once, I donned an M17 series protective mask for a military training exercise. Operator PM for that, upon receipt and regularly after being a series of checks, such as running a finger along the outlet valve and inlet valves.
I skipped the outlet valve, due to intracranial flatulence. That valve got stuck closed.
So, in the dark middle of the night during a training exercise, I get called for an emergency. I came running, fogged over lenses obscuring vision (a big hint of air flow obstruction) and I started to gray out, tunnel vision began and I realized I was being asphyxiated.
Just shy of blackout, I realized in a flash what was going on and literally tore that buytl rubber mask in half - literally. The NBC NCO never saw one torn in half before, adrenaline is a strange thing. He kept apologizing for not checking the mask first, I wave him off, as it's an operator duty that I missed. I paid closer attention to operator checks after that debacle, as I damned near killed my dumb ass.
Likely, a mis-seated connector caused the same for that astronaut. And he didn't have an option to tear off that helmet that was drowning him. Remove the helmet, get about 10 seconds of useful consciousness and a total of about 90 seconds before fatal v-fib that can't be resuscitated from. No experimental animal survived beyond 90 seconds of hard vacuum exposure. The few decompression events experienced by humans revealed only 10 seconds of consciousness.
And in one case, cost a pressure chamber its window, as the supervisor broke out the window to rescue a technician whose faceplate failed under hard vacuum.
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@Bob5mith if it's a self-inflating raft, the charges could be useful - not on the moon, but in spaaaaaaace.
You know, a real life iron man and far less well guided. Brief bursts could work - maybe. Sustained, x=rnd movement.
For that example though, that's a lot dicey. When giving a class, I try to smooth such wide variables out to prove a point, then employ socratic methods to discuss why it was smoothed. One SME or even experienced STEM person now is the SME and the rest, bozos. Bozos win clown games, not real life situations.
But, can have bursts of brilliant insight, which is the value of a group that otherwise is going to spout useless nonsense.
Leading to the adage, committees - no one is as dumb as all of us combined.
A not so gentle reminder that while we might blunder as a group to a solution, it's just as likely we'll come up with the bonehead award for the decade, proceed accordingly, leader. Included in my class, "admit when you fucked up, everyone does and accepts that, they mistrust the 'perfect, dear leader' accordingly, whereas they forgive a fuck up".
And listen to, "This is going to sound dumb", that might just lead to an idea that'll get you out of the shit. It has for me. And I've been in far too many "in the shit" situations over the decades than I care to count. Boy, am I glad to be retired from the military!
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Same here, though the population of our city was 4208000 and no tunnel or gas station, plenty of stores though. But then, that was in a strange exotic land called 1960's Philadelphia.
In the 1970's, we moved out to the suburbs, with a longer walk to and from elementary and later, high school of a couple of miles and around 2 3/4 miles.
Oddly, no need for an armored escort or something, no need for mom or dad to escort my every damned step. Only now, when they now want electronic monitoring and perhaps, a telescreen to the thought police.
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The laugh is, one went on about Allah, which in Arabic literally means "The God", the God of Abraham. So, they hate the God of Abraham, love the God Mammon of the Prosperity Gospel, which is the antithesis of Christ's Gospels.
And using their faith to support anti-abortion laws, something the Bible is silent upon, despite several thousands of years of practice of abortion, states that they know far better than their God - something previously only Satan ever considered a valid thing, is not only telling, it's quite literally damning under that very Biblical framework.
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Well, TBH, I'd probably have forwarded that one up the chain of command as well, just so that command knows what an idiot that individual is.
And BCC my buddies in the office, minus any PII.
Although, if you were to drive back from Alaska to the rest of CONUS, you'd need a citizen ID card as a minimum to pass through that corner of Canada, depending upon tensions. At one point, Trump riled Canada up enough to require that passport card. That's saying a lot, as even both times we invaded Canada, they weren't that irritated.
They simply politely escorted our defeated troops back and showed them their side of the border.
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Or worse, execute one's desired goals non-interactively, not forming the outbound connection at all until one's goal, say data exfiltration, is achieved. Now, one's only potential warning is the outbound - oh crap, data's already gone.
Often enough, many are caught and halted by catching the bidirectional connection, regardless of which end initiated said connection. I've actually done it, captured the entire session in full packet captures, including the malicious software of the week, which was immediately submitted for inclusion in the IPS and antivirus and novel aspects of the attack fully documented and submitted to FBI intelligence, as it was a foreign nation-state actor and known APT.
One such attack involved lateral spread that I'd gotten a sniff of, began packet capturing and captured an RDP session in progress, attacker opened notepad, did a buffer dump of binary data into notepad, saved it and used it to assemble their tools on the target system. Got not only their binary tool signature, but the latest PXE padding for their known tool. Outlined the remainder of their attack, then their session experienced a mysterious termination before the data that remained safe on the victim system could be exfiltrated...
The system was then immediately isolated pending full file pulls and forensics.
Two more attacks and we found their point of entry into the corporate, global network. One forgotten test server on one DMZ, prompting a full review on every DMZ in the corporate network. Yeah, as well received as the plague, but necessary after two golden ticket attacks, one of which was successful and boy, you don't want that kind of aggravation!
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John Ronkainen , as I said, thanks, but no thanks. I had more medals than my previous commanders and hence, declined wearing them, out of courtesy of the commander.
So, yeah, I really do have a drawer full of them and a few in a safe at a location I cannot discuss.
BTW, for the original posting query, yes, indeed, I've been personally present to witness the sale of an M2 .50 BMG machinegun, via class 3 procedures and requirements.
I also know of one locally for sale. While the notion of shooting a jackhammer and hitting a target is cool and a fine memory, I'll decline. The cost of ammunition is far too high to engage in that spine traumatizing sport of lugging that thing around.
I helped light infantry learn armored infantry, and hence, had to teach a large number of infantry how to handle Ma Deuce and attach her to her pintle. Wasn't a lot of fun, as I was beginning to age.
I'm retired now, with 27 years, eight months of service.
My knees are gone, my lower back is lojacked by itself away from my abuses, I don't have a single joint without osteoarthritis. So, no, I'd not want to lug that chunk of pig iron around.
Well, save if I were permitted to "present" the weapon to a village idiot, by dropping it carelessly upon his lap.
But then, I'd be obligated to call 911 for the femoral fractures.
Thankfully, the number of people I've barely considered doing that do are numbered on a single hand, with plenty of fingers left over to continue the daily activities of life.
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R3v0LuT1oNpRo , .50 BMG rifles have been on the civilian market for decades, zero crimes have been committed with them due to their incredible bulk and the expense of the ammunition.
As for fully automatic rifles and even submachine guns, one can legally purchase those, but the background investigation is the same as the investigation to acquire a top secret security clearance. To date, three crimes have been committed with NFA firearms, one committed by a law enforcement officer who shot up a drug house.
I'd say that out of the thousands of NFA firearms (what fully automatic is, as well as disguised firearms and destructive weapons (bombs, artillery, rockets (military type), that's exceptionally low.
Now, semi-automatic weapons are a different story. The overwhelming majority of those weapons are for sporting purposes, although the more portable models are indeed used in the commission of a crime, especially so for pistols.
I personally advocate for firearms to be stored in firearms safes, they're expensive, so treat them like the expensive investment that they are. I do.
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S Justice, actually, that picture is to reveal who are assholes, which you've just done.
My Google, Facebook profiles both give a nice history about me, my near 28 year military career and where I was deployed.
As you're incapable of using facts, laws or Constitutional information to prove your point, but stoop to ad hominem attacks, do enjoy the brush.
Because, to be honest, I've killed badder than you wiping my ass.
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***** , OK, I'll play your game.
Want to meet in person and discuss this honestly? Even if it goes physical?
I promise to be blunt, lousy with candor and honest, if candor is outside of the vocabulary of those reading. I'm certain you know what the word means, just for readers.
I'm for equal rights means equal rights, not that some are more equal than others and I'd even commit to forcing the issue.
But, telling someone to STFU is out of bounds. Indeed, it's tea party in nature, no other my speak!
Debate proves facts in the end. It might taking flailing it to death for a decade, it beats the shit out of where things are now.
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Alex Friday , well, it's true.
Amazingly, I've been married for 33+ years. Amazing, as the marriage has outlasted a 27 year, 8 month military career.
In that career, well, my knees hurt when moving, my back hurts to the point where I only write to it to communicate with it and it's taken to letting my right leg collapse without warning. My ribs on my right side hurt, about a hand width below the nipple, then take half of that down, due to an RPG sending something into my side ESAPI plate and it twisted.
That's a good thing, I ended up with a few broken ribs, but not a flail chest, which does really bad things to you, had the ESAPI plate not twisted. Things like sliced up lung, dead, trying to breathe through a lung full of blood that is now filling the operational lung thing, well, it gets unpleasant.
Hurting can be fixed when injured, dead, not so much.
Arthritis in the left shoulder as well, courtesy of a bad landing.
It's been 20 years since I could take a blood pressure, while holding the stethoscope with my fingers, without hearing "Earthquake in Sensoround", so I've had to palm it.
That is the short list.
Here's the funny part.
My wife doesn't have a problem with my purchasing a firearm to compete with or a couple for general recreational shooting.
She's never objected to my phenomenal number of field knives, combat knives, etc I've acquired over the decades.
Let's suffice it to say, many peers who served under SOCOM rather liked my collection, some surprised over choices of edged weapons until I demonstrated them.
So, yeah.
She'd leave me if I brought one of those home.
But then, I'd leave me too, leaving that big, heavy rifle lonely.
So, might as well leave it lonely at the gun shop and pick up something I might want to use.
Currently, that is an M1911, GI specification. Mine is actually worn down on the frame. Time for a new one to dress up slightly.
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+Amanda Calvert kiddo, tailgating is a crime in every state I know of. Reckless driving is also a crime that he committed, resulting in his loss of control, crossing two oncoming lanes that for the good fortune of other drivers, did not result in a head-on collision.
She was driving the speed limit, he wanted to break the law and speed. She did not facilitate his desire to break the law.
He could have moved into the empty right lane and pass her, he didn't until much later when he then drove next to her for an extended period, then recklessly drove in a passing maneuver that resulted in his loss of control and potential disaster for other drivers and pedestrians.
So, you, by your statements condone speeding, reckless driving and tailgating.
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@Brother_Pugz they'd be quite bright, but even without goofy goggles, they'd be brilliant - in a veritable sea of other lights and beacons, with one descending and possibly partially obscured by the length of the rotor disc and only maybe a mile off at 300 knots.
At the first collision alert, that'd be a maximum of maybe 10 seconds to determine the threat, is it actually on a collision course or close, take evasive action and remember that neither craft is a fighter aircraft, so at the speeds they were going, wouldn't be exceptionally nimble.
Then, consider that depth perception in the dark sucks in humans. Most of the hoopla about drones recently illustrated that quite well with people thinking things were SUV or bus sized and were just civilian helicopters or heavy passenger aircraft or even constellations of stars. Human vision at night is rife with optical illusions.
What I am surprised at is that the ATC software didn't identify a potential conflict much, much, much earlier on - at at least 3 miles apart. Usually, when a near miss is reported, the aircraft were just nearing a mile apart after evasive measures were employed.
We'll know the answers eventually, after the NTSB has gone over all of the available data with a fine tooth comb and offers recommendations on avoiding such a possible event in the future.
Because, "the holes in the Swiss cheese lined up" isn't an epitaph anyone wants to read or write.
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Yes, it is. ICE can ask if she'd voluntarily deport, rather than spend government money in incarcerating her, taking her to immigration court, prosecuting her there, paying the trial and yeah, all of that costs real money.
Oh well, there are already warning notices worldwide in various nations state departments against the US, this will help lower tourism and the income that brings to our tourist attractions.
So, a double Trumpian win, lost money in her deportation process instead of suggesting voluntary deportation and lowering tourism income.
But, Trump wants to save money - by spending more.
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@tenzinnordron9836 I know. Unlike Q-anon, I actually did hold a Q clearance.
Harry was a physicist, despite today's knowledge, based upon that era's knowledge.
He was repeatedly warned as to the risk.
And being an honest man, he fucked up, he mitigated his fuckup.
We lost three to prompt criticality. Harry Daghlian, Louis Slotin and Cecil Kelly.
More to less critical incidents.
I blame none, as at the time, safety was uncertain in all ways.
I suggest tipping a hat, dipping a drink or otherwise saluting the memory of them, even while loathing the product that they produced.
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There is one thing Elon invented, himself. He inherited an emerald mine, leveraged that modest income from the partially played out mine by buying into what became Paypal. Bought the rest of his companies too.
He is good at one thing only, beyond promoting himself, he is good at the rare skill in hiring good managers for his companies, rather than bullshitters, so a fair number succeed.
Well, other than Hyperloop, Boring, Neuralink (it's success? Literally producing tech that was introduced in the 1970's, as I remember seeing the mind moved around computer mouse back in the mid-70's on a Saturday morning cartoon break). We'll not even go into the collapse to penny stock that followed his wonderfully skillful leadership of Twitter.
The only reason he came to the US was to literally dodge the South African draft. Entertainingly, something he's freely and publicly admitted to.
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Came onto the property, destroyed private property without a warrant apparently, then told him "We're not here for you".
"OK, then get the fuck off of my property, as I now consider you armed men unlawfully trespassing upon my property." Conversation over, I reenter my domicile. Unlawful entry will then be greeted with double tap zero reflex shots and my training exceeds SWAT training, courtesy of the US taxpayer.
"Oh, so you're here with a warrant for someone else?"
No warrant, again, "Well, I don't give a flying fuck if you're here for Jesus, no warrant, no service, but you sure accumulated a bill for destroyed private property and be advised, we're a castle doctrine state".
You can and you can't, because god-cops.
"Officer, what is the effective range of your MP5?"
"200 meters. Know the maximum effective range of an excuse is? The same as for bullshit, zero meters".
I'd not let them inside of my home. Currently, it's heating greater Erie at his expense, while his camera is happily living in the snow, as apparently, wall mounted devices are illegal under decree of god-cops, who legislate by MP5 fiat.
I'd also not be conversing with local yokels or state police, but with the US Marshal. At least with them in charge, things should go by the numbers.
Obey the law and Constitution, we'll have a fine time discussing technical points of breach to entry, cordon and search, ballistics and an invitation to the range the next time I'm going. Only one cop ever outshot me and he was my unit's sniper. Guy always took me by one point, which is fine. He loved my competition pistol and rifle.
One point that our host got wrong. The curtilage isn't protected, per the SCOTUS, save if a secure fence is around the entire property line, preventing access to the curtilage. UNITED STATES, Petitioner v. Ronald Dale DUNN.
It literally temps me to get a Silent Warrior sensor system.
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I can use read-only to copy from now until the aurochs come home and they're the extinct ancestors of cattle.
Among my many careers, I'm also a senior systems and IT security admin.
Read to buffer, dump buffer to that with which I am authorized to write to and if console, you're totally screwed, as I can redirect console to anywhere I want to.
Hell, because I was bored, a couple of weeks ago, I encrypted a life filesystem on the fly and am using it right now, fully encrypted to "military grade" which is basically industry standard, as that was released to the public ages ago when AES first came out. My random number generator being my home built radiation spectrometer. I don't build something complex for a single reason. Especially when it cost my cheap ass a whopping $40 in parts and two hours of labor time assembling and calibrating it.
Oh, thank you, CERN for the design!
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@solarindependentutilitysystems I'm thinking of getting an online UPS. We've been getting annoyingly common brief outages. Don't care about setting a clock, but I do care about my electronics and computers. Given the price these days for an online UPS, they're seriously worth the tiny premium for that (used to be a lot more expensive for an online vs offline or line-interactive).
Apartment building, so solar or well, most other options just aren't present.
Although, they don't bill for natural gas, only electricity, so there is a bit of temptation for a small NG generator...
Or maybe a small water based generator, just to make friends.*
*they don't charge for water, but we did just have an ongoing plumbing problem - right before it was time to start dinner that killed most of the water to the building. Got me pondering with horror as to what amount of hydraulic head it took to supply the 13 floors of building. Ongoing problem, as the building shutoff valve failed on the plumbers, necessitating that being repaired before they can dig the regulator up out front.
Some time back, I toured the USS New Jersey, everyone wanted to see guns, I wanted to see every inch of engineering space... Although, dismantling and rebuilding the main guns mechanical computer would've also been entertaining for me.
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@MetroidChild what? You don't need heat for propulsion, only a free lunch. ;)
Seriously though, yeah, heat and pressure, get NOx and ozone. But, heat regeneration adds to the efficiency of the processes at that cost paying for the additional efficiency and costing a bit on the compression stage. Like all engineering, it's a balancing act.
Catalytic conversion costs gas speeds for two reasons, one being restriction to allow contact with the catalyst, the other being time for the catalyst to react the gases to be converted. Yet another balancing act, which is far easier when one isn't using the combusted gases for propulsion, such as with a generator or ground vehicle power plant, spectacularly shitty for an aircraft, even with a high bypass engine.
And don't get my started on heat regeneration and high bypass tradeoffs...
Still, the OP made an erroneous statement, that one cannot do that which has been done at a cost in efficiency in output. Engineering isn't about ideal anything, it's tradeoffs to balance desired outcomes and achieving a specific goal. Hence, why we use neither an APU turbine, nor a 767 turbine to drive an M1 Abrams tank and vice versa, each is designed for specific task and purpose.
All, while wishing for magic, which only exists in a baby's smile, which is tempered by the baby's diaper.
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Hypertension isn't more prevalent in those infected, it's those who are sicker had hypertension. So, self-isolating themselves may lower the risk of infection, it would lower the risk for a part of that population only.
So, if only say 1/3 of those infected badly enough to go to the hospital have hypertension and of those, around 1/4 - 1/3 die, the benefit for 2/3 of those infected is minimal, worse, one then has to consider the hospitalization rate, rather than discharged home and how many go to intensive care.
What should be done is isolation for all, obviously with family groups self-isolating together, which would interrupt the infection chain. That was done in 1918, but then political will weakened and the second wave met loads of people no longer isolated and in the US, more people died of influenza than died from the US in WWI.
Which seriously injured the economy, as if a business owner and all of the employees are sick or dead, that's kind of bad for business. Especially that dead part, for who is now going to employ those recovering workers?
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@joehamill6743 which one is the "real original bible"?
As for his placing his hand on the bible, there is no Constitutional requirement for him to do so, one swears not on a book, but on one's own word of honor and if invoking a deity, then before that deity as witness of their word. But, the religious portions are not required by our laws and Constitution, that whole first amendment thing and all.
Then, it also comes to, which bible, as there are a few different versions, depending upon sect, as well as which transliteration was utilized.
As an example:
Catholic and Protestant Bibles both include 27 books in the New Testament. Protestant Bibles have only 39 books in the Old Testament, however, while Catholic Bibles have 46. The seven books included in Catholic Bibles are Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, and Baruch.
Which is fascinating, given that Protestantism sprang from Roman Catholicism, so one would think they'd share the same religious text.
But, history is always more complicated than that and the victors get to become the editors.
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@Ryan_DeWitt is what you think relevant to what the algorithm "thinks"?
Here's the answer, nope. It's part AI, you know, Artificial Idiocy, it goes off of keywords and whatever defective voodoo of the week is being utilized for its illogic.
Of those not directly involved, as in victims, witnesses, etc, I've literally got one neighbor that I feel badly for. Have yet to ever see him, don't anticipate seeing him, but I do feel badly for the governor of Pennsylvania. The governor's mansion literally being three blocks from my home.
You know for sure, he got very little sleep last night as law enforcement investigates and reports.
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Indeed, who knew that I was carrying around a thermonuclear weapon in Iraq? After all, he directly called an AR/M4/M16 a weapon of mass destruction.
And that bazookas are used in mass shootings as well.
Hyperbole like that does no cause any good, for it discredits the speaker instantly.
Nearly as bad as the perjury in one case, where a former BATFE agent claimed that a 5.56x45mm NATO round was more destructive to tissue than a 30-06 rifle round. Hint, the 30-06 is around twice as powerful. In most states, the AR round isn't permitted for deer hunting, as it's not likely to kill the deer, hence it's considered inhumane to use. Thankfully, in my state, using even an AR-10, the 7.62x51mm NATO/.308 rifle is also not permitted, due to it having a larger magazine than is allowed in our state. You know, the damned deer ain't shooting back, so one doesn't need that many rounds to suppress deer gunfire...
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@Magicpete1 and what experiences that they had! ;)
Every new technology has its growing pains, but few had audible growing pains if things went wildly wrong. I'd suggesting asking one of the workers in the reactor building at Chernobyl, but they've been gone for quite some time. Steam explosions are loud.
Still, at least in the west, we want our operators to understand reactor theory and what does precisely what. So, if one's reactor got stuck in an xenon pit situation, they recognize it and don't just keep pulling control rods out until the power increases again. We can't say that of Chernobyl, where precisely that happened and once the xenon decayed, the reaction rate spiked and a steam hammer dismantled the reactor. When the xenon pit problem wasn't recognized, they kept pulling control rods until power increased to where they wanted it, but at that level, the xenon was transmutated by the neutron flux, the reactor resumed behaving normally - but with the rods insanely far withdrawn.
Amazing what a lot of knowledge can prevent!
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My parents and I was born in 1961, told me and every other child they met, regardless of color or "race", they need to learn all that they can and advance.
My first memory was of JFK being shot and killed and mom crying and dad badly distressed, in sequence. At an age when I "shouldn't have memories", given I was born in late 1961, literally a week before Czar Bomba was detonated.
Had teachers incessantly tell my stubborn, dyslexic ass that, ignored them.
Oddly, at the time, such artwork was considered worthy. Even in the south.
It became porn when their satanic cult battles were repeatedly proved vaporware, schools excavated looking for bodies that never existed on the rolls or underground or anywhere.
It's mutated repeatedly.
Being one trick ponies, they try renaming the trick and failing, while flailing for new "causes" to embrace and continue trying to acquire what they want - political and lawmaking power, Constitution be damned.
Which we see daily, when laws get passed, to be rejected out of hand by the courts, then they blame those suing for their rights for wasting tax dollars.
Because insisting upon rights is bad, so the Declaration of Independence and Constitution are evil or something.
No, they just want to hijack our life flight to Afghanistan, for Taliban rule.
They literally have the same playing field and mantras. Their only strife is some Jesus dude and likely, they'll fully abandon him before long, since he never supported them in the first place.
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I heard all about the same things 15 years ago, when the NSA was testing a quantum processor/computer.
As near as I can see, they're right alongside fusion power, a few more years, take out, rinse and repeat promise a few years later. Always, with the same promises, rinse and repeat.
Maybe, just maybe in a decade. New bleeding edge things are like that. We started our space program in in earnest 1957, JFK promised a lunar landing in 1961, we landed, with massive expenses from 1961 through the program's first lunar landing in 1969 and that, only because it became national priority #1.
Quantum computing's a far, far, far back burner priority.
I figure we'll get quantum computing at a production machine level around when we get fusion power.
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I'm reminded of a US Army reactor with a similar positive void coefficient design error, the SL-1.
One could walk on top of that a well, didn't end out well for the operator who manually lifted the primary control rod a couple of feet too far, leaving him pinned to the containment ceiling by a control rod plug.
Then, there was Windscale, where ill understood Wigner energy release during annealing the moderator and insufficient instrumentation lead to an initially unrecognized fire and a veritable comedy of errors in putting the fire out. Oh well, no sense in crying over spilled into the North Sea milk... (Ungh that was bad)
One acquires a certain type of humor, when one began one's military career in nuclear intermediate range ballistic missiles and currently lives in an area I used to orient myself by viewing TMI's remaining unit's coolant tower plume (shuttered in 2019 and I was in high school for the TMI meltdown around 90 minutes of driving away).
Oh, the footage shown from the helicopter was an initial airborne survey of the accident. The fire was long out when drops into the reactor building began.
Nobody worries about further collapse of the sarcophagus, as it's contained by the New Safe Confinement structure. I imagine that'll eventually get a newer, safer confinement structure...
The "elephant's foot" corium is now decayed down enough that one could safely, if briefly, sit on it. I'd not recommend it, as decontamination would be a true Russian bear.
Small trivia, got a full body count a few times over the decades, both due to an incident and later, for medical purposes for my background rate for imaging. I'm a touch more "hot" than your students, but I was born a week after Tsar Bomba was detonated and things were decidedly warm (some silly little fallout thingie) globally due to stupidity.
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Well, the viewed video starts off with anti-immigrant tropes that were dispelled nonsense nearly a decade ago, we know which political groups are pushing it. Especially when the second and third claims are also uber-right tropes that were similarly proved bullshit claims. the "unauthorized use of another person's body " being a very distinctive fingerprint, attacking "PC" and youtube policies "abrogating free speech" (meaning they really want to push the triggers, but aren't allowed to).
I'm going to bet that somewhere gunz will come in, since they already blew the rape dogwhistle and refugee dogwhistle (evil dark hordes nonsense). "You can't track people down", wow, just wow, that's anti-German and anti-American and basically Russian in origin, where you need to track the movement of every member of the population, needing essentially passports to move within your own frigging country! Maybe we'll get luck and Roma will also get mentioned...
Another tell is, combine a valid number with one that has been rectally procured and claim it to be a fact. I'm sure tell a lie, make it big and repeat it often enough will come into play, given how on a wrong roll he is.
Graffiti, the scourge of the Soviet empire! Obviously, slave labor should be employed to clean it up! Next come gulags... A hint for the wise, no major addressing of a claimed problem means there isn't a problem and the rare events being never shown examples of are, you guessed it, rare. Expression must be strictly regulated in far right views, just ask Joe Stalin! And again, communal punishment, the hallmark of commies and fascists, since rule and justice by law is bad for them.
Oh, the evil of pay toilets! I remember having those in the 1970's, oddly that was never given to avoid the US! Oh, Russia, the lost opportunity...
Water Closet, a term formerly used in the US, from back when indoor plumbing was a novel thing. Unknown in Russia for the most part, due to Soviet era prefab projects, erm, I mean homes that came with that new fangled indoor plumbing. Retrofitting plumbing into old homes is a bit of a bitch...
A gripe about compound words in German, one of the root languages of English. Everything I've written, literally in every sentence are compound words when you look up the history of those words. So, complex languages that adapt by compounding words to form the concept are bad, simple languages that do without describing something are good, that's why Neanderthals are still running about at the top of society, right? No, the speaker is simply admitting to being an idiot. OK, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, English medical word for silicosis. The idiot had to use an acronym as a word, because we in the US have a word for ACLU, NAACP, FBI, ASPCA, etc. Totally words to idiots. Parents, don't let people poke baby in the fontanelle (yeah, that big word will defeat the far right flung idiot), it can lead to idiocy from the brain damage. Seriously FUBAR (oh! another acronym and not a frigging word)!
Taxes, another far right trope, they hate "entitlements". Want to know what American entitlements actually are? Constitutionally guaranteed rights. Literally and legally. But, far right hates any laws that aren't exclusively used to oppress, rather than support.
I was raised Roman Catholic, my wife was raised Protestant. The Roman Catholic church required her to convert to a faith I don't follow if we were to get married in their church. We went to a justice of the peace instead, lasted 40+ years until she died at the end of this past March. Church taxes, yeah, a real thing dating back to mandatory tithing that even was practiced in the US for well unto our Constitutional era.
Side note, when deployed to Germany in the US Army, if all of one's required documentation of a NATO deployment wasn't completed, one would end up paying US and German taxes. That'd eventually get sorted, but getting the paperwork taken care of up front was far easier, given unfucking something involving two central governments is always going to be a royal PIA.
Interestingly, in the US, the farther right leaning a state is, the more it suckles from the taxpayer's teat, while bitching about paying taxes to support their demanded programs.
Cultural difference in paying for daily things, EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See? I can do a far right abuse of punctuation. I also love to mangle my own language for entertainment purposes... ;)
German weather, bitching about weather in a place never warmed by the Gulf Stream, uh huh. Given the Russian tilt in the diatribe video, that's rather fascinating! I mean really, snow = Russia in the winter, fall and spring, which converts instantly to mud once the nearly summer thaw hits.
Sailors love their rum? Most sailors I've ever known in a near half-century of DoD work loved their beer more. Maybe the griper was really yearning for his wodka, da?
Springfield, Delaware County, PA has a golden mile of businesses, most were closed until the last decade on Sunday by law. Obviously, evil religious whatever, whatever, blather...
Oh, be loud when I'm trying to sleep, ever watch a Marvel Comics movie? Big green guy wanting peace and quiet? He's gentle. Given my looks, obviously I need my beauty sleep!
Quoting Nazi era books, link it to a 30 year old living at home without a job to suddenly have support removed from, yeah, classic far right blaming others for their own failures.
Here's a secret that the far right hate and actually do try to suppress in the land of free speech, the Republican party actively tried to import fascism into the US to "unify us", that failed when we entered into a World War against fascist nations, but they bring back tons of shit from the '40's, including anti-desegregation arguments being dusted off and used against women's rights, gay rights, civil rights, BLM, name it and they trot out the same shit with the thinnest retread job ever witnessed. It's almost as if it is originating from MINITRU, which was literally a warning against Soviet communism written by more devout communist George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four. A book that was required reading back during the Ice Age, when I was in school. Now, it's being used by far right as an instruction manual on governance.
Violent right wing extremists are a problem in Germany, but them attacking the US capitol is OK, gotya, Tovarich!
I do miss when Nazi anything was purely illegal in Germany, but the nation chose to not oppress their own people, while keeping hate speech unlawful. Oddly, hate speech was verboten in the US, but the far right keeps trying to promote, see MINITRU again?
Oh, circling back to the unaddressed Oktoberfest, come for the bier, realize to your horror, the harvest festival food filled you up too much to enjoy excess of the brew. Especially in Bavaria, where a lot of farmer's foods remains a big thing, dumplings, beets and spuds, baby!
Germany retains something we're quickly losing, the local butcher. We went with McMeat, cheap high production chop cuts of meat, requiring little skill to remove from a carcass, Germans love their local, trusted butcher. Idiots will then point at German raw meat sausages, I point to Italian raw meat cured sausages and to the inadvisability of insulting Italians so near Little Italy... ;)
Note my family name, 100% Sicilian-American, so I can get away with mafia jokes. ;)
Well, off to figure out breakfast. Might go with ham and pickled beets, since I have an excess of both, might just go with ham and some chicken broth boiled barley... Dinner's still in a pre-preplanning stage, either way a center being spinach sauteed with garlic, onion and chili pepper in olive oil, the main being mac&cheese with the aforementioned ham or linguini and olive oil based clam sauce. Yeah, I cook in multiple languages, including bastard American near-cuisine. :P
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@ParkrosePermaculture well, in many ways, both have similarities. In landscape architecture of say, a park, one can lay out the finest paths in the history of pathways, looks wonderful on paper. Then, one finds erosion from desire paths... Whereas if one's planning such, one incorporates a compromise path, the compromise pathway frequently is embraced. One controls for such behavior in one's design.
The only problem is when one is confronted by a parasite, one entirely dedicated upon its own goals and desires, one then must provide a pathway to containment, lest one fine everything damaged.
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@Grandizer8989 it's all largely logs, call logs, IP traffic metadata, etc. So, finding if a threat was domestic vs foreign is the first part, as there is no jurisdiction in foreign lands.
If domestic, that's for the domestic threat investigation and response teams, if foreign, it's handed off to those who investigate and handle foreign threats.
And with federal investigations, not soon is a mantra. Better an investigation and any prosecution (if deemed appropriate) be conducted properly and "air tight", which takes time, rather than quickly and haphazardly, falling apart in court. Most cases will likely result in an interview, where the conversation is decidedly one way and a through explanation of precisely how horribly one's life can go if the threat is repeated or any attempt to act upon it is made. Credible threats, well, they get the full treatment and have an extremely high conviction rate.
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If you're close enough to feel it, you're safe. Otherwise, you'd not even realize that you've got a problem. Before the signal from your eyes can hit the brain, the blast wave would've obliterated your organs. You'd have to be nearly inside of the fireball for a 9 kiloton nuclear blast, thermonuclear blast, you'd have to be inside of the fireball for the radiation to impact you and well, inside of the fireball, suffocation isn't your problem. Being hotter than the surface of the sun might be a bit more concerning.
This is just another OpEd that was funded by Russia to encourage our surrender and allow their conquest of whoever they want to invade.
The laugh, I live a couple of miles from Three Mile Island, which is also ringed with DoD depots, so I'm literally living on ground zero.
And I used to work on nuclear weapons in the military at the beginning of my military career. Retired from the war zone, managing to duck at the right times often enough.
Nobody's going to use these phenomenally expensive to maintain and deploy money wasters, they'll just keep maintaining them, not aiming them at anyone because it looks good and well, aiming them takes a minute or so at most. Takes about 15 - 20 minutes to launch them, half hour to fly to target as the other side's party favors pass in return and just enough to basically level each other's society and government fatally, while leaving the population to scrape things together to get back to third world living standards. So yeah, nobody's about to essentially do that to themselves.
But, it sure is a sign that Russia is losing badly. Otherwise, they'd not be nuclear saber rattling and going to the trouble of such massive PR propaganda campaigns, which are also expensive and they're already insanely beyond over budget in their war efforts.
The term for any Russian victory now is Pyrrhic victory, one more like it would destroy them. Pyrrhus won the battle, but lost his army in doing so, ending the war.
Pyrrhus was later wounded in battle, then struck in the head by a tile thrown by an angry woman, which killed him at the age of 46. Life expectancy for his cohort typically being around 30 years beyond...
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End up with lamb more than mutton, as was mentioned in the video, it's harder to find. If the mutton flavor is way too strong, which is rare for my preferences, an acid marinade that marinades mostly while cooking does the job. Lemon, even injected tomato sauce will do the job. I always cook it to medium-rare, to keep it reasonably tender and I've also minced it down for a stew, with one favorite thickened with barley and filling popover pastries and baked in large bowl quantities and left on the counter for coworkers and day workers to grab and enjoy. Garlic and onion being obligatory, but then, my standing joke is, "Just be happy I don't garlic and onion the damned cookies" (which would basically make them dog treats).
I'm fortunate currently in that the neighborhood I'm living in is largely Caribbean and hence, fish and goat meat are commonly available. Made four gallons of pasta sauce a few days back, with goat meat as a marinara, then pressure canned it up in quart jars. Last batch lasted me a year, as I prefer to constantly rotate my diet. Can't for the life of me figure out how anyone can eat the same thing day in and day out! So, I rotate around my greens, roots, fruits, etc and with that, meats and fowl. Even squab, aka pigeon, although US prices are obscene... Makes me half tempted to poach the birds...
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Don't forget, HAARP belongs to the University of Alaska, so they're also saying that the state of Alaska is allegedly controlling tropical weather systems using their Harry Potter magical marital aid stick...
Well, maybe that's true and Alaska really is the master of the world, after all, they've got enough volcanoes that they could have a lair inside of one. And putting a lair inside of something that has more explosive power than all of the 2000+ nukes ever detonated is always both rewarded with survival and a smart idea, as proved by Saturday morning cartoons from the '70's. Lead, of course, by Professor Bumbler, obeying the Heisenberg Inanity Principle, being simultaneously incompetent and supremely omnipotent. And all while remaining souper seekrit, with tens of thousands of workers, all sworn to seekricy and magic-magic screw stick enforced by Harry Potter's wooden dildo.
And further guided with radar from sites so well documented as to render the notion of being a secret beyond absurd.
Pick a lane, I'd be happy if these dweebs could pick a frigging highway!
And ever so much, lead by information supposedly from some kiddie porn purveyor out of the Philippines, who somehow still holds a Q clearance, meaning he'd have knowledge of parts of how to build parts of a nuclear weapon, which gives all knowledge of all special operations operations worldwide, because the two are so intricately linked as to both be in continuous simultaneous usage. Yet oddly, nothing manages to glow in the dark. There is no power like the power of Sven. At least, not according to the mighty Arctic penguins.
With secure communications provided by the mercurochrome metronome, gently stirred using Harry Potter's magical fuck stick.
Sigh, I really don't drink enough, but alas, the local galactic group can't make enough ethanol to supply enough to drink... Obviously also a part of the Grand Conspiracy of the Space Aliens.
But, here's another souper seekrit, the seerit air shield code is 1-2-3-4-5. Now, excuse me while I change the code on my luggage.
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There are two types of breach of contract, material breach and fundamental breach. A material breach would be, the hotel has a meal included with the room and doesn't have sufficient food for all rooms. A fundamental breach is, the hotel books say 100 rooms, then tells the travel agency to go pound sand, you'll not honor the contract.
The difference is, most of the contract was fulfilled vs one has no hope that any of the contract will be honored. Of the two, a fundamental breach is fully recoverable with punitive damages added. If the loss of $30k is awarded and the judge assigns punitive damages as well, the agency may well be made whole. Unlikely, but occasionally courts sensibilities are so offended by such blatant objectionable behavior as to award punitive damages to discourage repetition.
Personally, I say clean their clocks in court, then while dining with a judge, a Tesla in self-drive has an accident involving the building's cornerstone... But, that's my Sicilian side talking.
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One critical advance in first aid being the reintroduction of the tourniquet. Initially, service members were trained that the use of a tourniquet doomed the limb it was utilized on, thus its use should be avoided in favor of pressure dressings. One new lieutenant, a physician just out of residency, mentioned how orthopedic surgeons use tourniquets for the better part of a day during surgeries and obviously don't lose the limb, so WTH were we training people in? Needless to say, that swiftly changed policies and procedures.
Then, we moved into the 20th century and put coolers with blood on the MEDEVAC flights. Another odd hint needed to be made, blood replaces blood better than salt water replaces blood, what with all of that necessary red stuff inside of the blood, clotting factors, proteins, etc.
Next thing you knew, we got nearly into the 21st century!
For a chuckle, for some specific injuries, we still use leeches for the only effective treatment and maggot debridement of really stubborn wounds has been reintroduced. Sometimes, old is the new new.
And sometimes, new treatments are ignored, like when we flew a specialist team from Germany to train treatment staff in treating injuries from RPG's striking the FM-200 fire extinguishing system on the mine resistant vehicles, causing hydrogen fluoride inhalation injuries and death. The treatment was highly successful, with a powdered inhalation agent administered on scene before evacuation to limit injury. Said entire protocol was rejected by the medical command in Afghanistan. With predictable results in deceased service members. I'm sure that Colonel got promoted...
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@JKiler1 they'd hate me, the city would now be the proud owner of the nation's newest cobalt-60 storage site.
Inspect to your heart's content, at your own risk. The upside, no need for street lighting, cobalt-60 glows in the dark.
I actually did lose a house. I had gotten called away, some war thing and all, so I deployed and while gone, some enterprising individuals stripped out every inch of copper in the building. Wires, pipes, all gone. Redeployed home to find a shell. I let the city take the house, as there was no way to recover the damages for less than the property value.
The city of Filthadelphia then assessed my payroll tax at thrice what was declared in my tax filings, compounding the amount "due" while I was deployed.
Just another fuck you for your service to an ungrateful nation.
And I refuse to do business with anyone within those shitty limits. The Commonwealth's singular shitty of the worst class.
Yeah, still feel a bit salty over that mess.
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Aw, come on now, those dashboards are nice and safely padded with the finest steel!
Lost a buddy in Iraq. Not to enemy fire, but due to vehicle rollover, after the edge of the road crumbled and caused the vehicle to go down an embankment. An armored vehicle, of course, totally forgiving interior...
Although, another leading cause of US military deaths is suicide.
And lightning is high on the list, because when one's putting up an antenna mast, that's precisely when the thunderstorm will pop up.
And then, one has to recall, one's vehicle, weapon and ammunition were all made by the absolute lowest bidder...
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In the US, we have, literally, multiple governments. We have community governments, county governments, state governments and a fairly weak federal government. All subordinate to the higher level constitution, so federal is primary, state next, the same with laws, with significant limitations on what the federal government can regulate.
So, my local street is both a local road and county route, so both can regulate the speed driven on it. If the state or federal government tried to regulate that speed limit, they'd rightfully be told to go pound sand by the courts.
I've enjoyed many a fine evening discussing our commonalities and differences in governments with subjects of the UK. Complicating things, well, add the Commonwealth Nations in, boy things can get interesting!
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I've been watching ever since he descended that gold plated escalator in NYC. With growing trepidation, watched him infest the office, converting it into an Offal Office.
Then, out of touch at the time, as I was shopping and my wife was feeling under the weather, I got through the checkout line at the stupidmarket and finally looked at the headline news and was forced to sit down and choke back tears of both rage and angst on 1/6. Angst both over an attack upon our very government and over my thoughts of a response, full air burst shake and bake over the bastards.
Yeah, US Army veteran too and all combat units after I got out of nukes. The only election I missed a vote on was between FOBs, when the mail had trouble keeping up with us during the GWOT. Once and felt guilty over that.
On 4 Oct, my mail in ballot was dropped into the mailbox, as making it to the polling place is now problematic for me due to osteoarthritis and some other medical issues. 6 Oct, it was received by the county and accepted. It'll be counted on my birthday.
Hoping the nation gives me a good birthday present, no more Trump, rather than its usual fuck you for your service behind my back, while thanking me to my face. Not much faith though, as I watched our VA budget get slashed each and every year of my service to the nation - including the first year of our GWOT, when good service members were being sent home missing pieces.
Retired from that now, 28+ years, packed it in when it just started to hurt too much to put on all of that equipment that kept me and my teams alive. And don't miss lubing the Stryker. Even at my rank, I still maintained and operated my own vehicle, taking turns with driver as TC/driver. Didn't ask anyone to do anything I wasn't gonna do right alongside them. Including ducking, besides, I was the second best shot in the unit, best being our senior sniper.
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The biggest reason is, experimental UAV's and aircraft are failure prone and tend to crash far more often than production models. There are around a dozen crashed A-12 and SR-71 hulks buried around Groom Lake, to give one example.
Roswell is another infamous example, as the documentation has been declassified, but the hand waving crowd ignore them in favor of space aliens. What crashed was a sample capturing unit to capture fallout from Soviet nuclear testing. Remnants of the thing still get shown around as some magical exotic substance, while failing to recognize what was a classified material at the time is mundane and in common use today - honeycomb aluminum.
I and my unit tested quite a few devices and technologies, ranging from at the time, classified UAV's that are common knowledge now to portable computing devices that gave squad level communication and personnel location tracking, with point and click artillery being experimentally available. Guess what? Each of those technologies had their own project code name, even for the team developing the primary software didn't know those names or capabilities, as it was all compartmented.
Which long ago lead to a standing joke that remains alive today, "My job is so secret, I'm not allowed to know what I'm doing" and in some cases, one's boss isn't allowed to know what you are doing.
So, what is really here is an SAP nothingburger.
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I can't find Canada, as it's far too cold in the winter. ;)
Obviously, I can't find Maine or well, anything north of my home state of Pennsylvania and I'm not terribly fond of its winters.
But yeah, asking most in the US to point out Mississippi, they'd probably point to Utah.
Of course, at one point, everywhere was Alabama, well, to one POTUS and his devotees... At that time, I was seriously tempted to copy that map with the sharpie marks and relabel every state as AL
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@timmoles9259 because, 200 MPH bomber, much lighter than a jumbo jet flying 400 - 500 MPH carrying kerosene are precisely the same, exact thing.
After all, throw a feather at you and an anvil, both will go clean through you, right?
Oh, hint, the higher the octane rating, the cooler the flame is.
Nope, it was thermite or thermate, to listen to the moron militia, antigravity iron or other heavy metal burning went sideways, rather than down, precisely as a brick dropped goes up every time on days ending in Z.
Or some other fucktard notion.
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Some of the old Iowa class battleships remain intact and are museum ships, which per contract and as required by law, may not be modified, so that the Navy can return the ships to service if the need ever arises. Given the estimate of $2 billion each to get seaworthy and battleworthy, yeah, that ain't gonna happen, but a contract is a contract.
The New Jersey's curator suspect that the boiler system would require a massive, nearly complete replacement type of overhaul just to hold steam and literally not blow up. Armor is intact though, she's in dry dock now for much needed painting to protect her hull, the wooden deck replacement being completed as the the hull is painted below the waterline, the plumbing system, a shambles.
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The proper term is seditionist. Had he been part of a group that was armed, it'd have been treason.
But, with no due respect, harassment is their game, why are you joining them in their methods?
Prisons are for punishment, not the populace, for in the latter case lies the pathway to anarchy.
As for the retribution guy, I'd gently remind him that I've long served with the Department of Smite. The Department of Forgiveness is down the hall and to the left.
But, courtesy of Trump, sedition is now apparently legal. One can now plot, plan and move toward the violent overthrow of the US government, as well as recruit, train and encourage the same. That used to be illegal, but due to his actions, now is effectively the law of the land under his regime. Within, should he have his way, a Constitution free nation, under god-king, where imperial decrees abound.
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Whenever the doomsayers go on about something this early in the campaign and well, it is early, it's the last months that count the most, I shoot them a picture of Truman holding aloft a newspaper with the headline, "Dewey Wins!".
For the historically challenged, we never had a President Dewey, we did have an elected President Truman.
That said, I know who I voted for in the primary, want to yank my candidate that I and the majority of the party chose, enjoy my vote for a party candidate I never heard of and is decidedly not a Democrat, as a return of the respect that was shown to my fucking vote. Don't be surprised then though, if my next Democratic Party vote is cast when the sun goes white dwarf.
I myself have a prediction, that the GOP will go the way of the Whig party before it - for precisely the same reason and in pretty much the same way.
The GOP's only strength currently is, "We have a Trump". To which I reply, "Oh? I thought the mindless beast wandered off".
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@realaudioreviews they're seeking asylum, following a ratified treaty that the US ratified, swearing to honor and now is no longer doing so.
FYI, the US Constitution states clearly, "Ratified treaties are the law of the land", meaning such treaties are equal and even superior to Acts of Congress and subordinate only to the Constitution itself, which is supreme and may not be overridden ever, by anyone, save via a Constitutional amendment, agreed to by 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of the states.
So, you argue for lawlessness, ignoring the Constitution, laws, treaties, customs, mores, just to satisfy some atavistic notion that you're superior to what I flushed down the toilet this morning.
No, you're only equal and should also be flushed.
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It's really hard to tell, given airplane turbine engines run on bird blood.
Oh wait, they don't, they run on kerosene.
Bird blood and feathers were found inside of the engines, the source could only be the birds committed bloody suicide while nesting inside of the engines or the birds were ingested and wrecked the engines.
Had the pilots continued their initial landing attempt, they'd have had manual hydraulic brakes, no hydraulic boosting beyond any residual pressure that'd bleed off quickly, but full flaps, spoilers and landing gear.
Instead, they went TOGA, had no thrust to climb high enough to gain time to spool up the APU and basically ran out of hands, altitude, speed and ideas, so did the only thing possible - reciprocal landing, a 180 degree turn, trading what little altitude they had for airspeed to stay aloft.
Basically, the bird strike that killed the engines happened at literally the worst possible time, over the threshold, seconds from landing.
Because, I've seen the damage that large birds can do to an aircraft and more importantly, a jet engine and fan. They'll take that marvel of modern engineering and turn it straight and instantly into modern art.
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Honestly, it'd be a shorter list to count the BSL-2 labs not working with monkeypox. It's a slightly elevated concern virus that's an incessant annoyance. It spikes somewhat randomly, then falls to a low noise level, but thankfully, it's BSL-2 for a reason, it doesn't spread easily to humans and it's even worse at spreading between humans that aren't closely cohabitating.
More exciting is the newer vaccines, which have lowered vaccine related illnesses from the 1% of vaccinia to something more along the lines of modern vaccines, which is so low as to have most physicians never see any significant events. Given that I suffered from a thankfully aborted progressive vaccinia as an infant, I take great relief in the new vaccines!
One upside is, orthopox viruses tend to tightly conserve their genome, they are lousy at jumping species due to the nature of its tight conservation of its genome.
That the lab doesn't have the virus available isn't surprising, as they may well not be a BSL-2 lab for that research and hence, the virus wouldn't be available to them any more than their remaining samples of variola would be available. Fragments that are assembled and installed into yeast, that's not anything that one needs be concerned with from a biosafety perspective. But, if they're configured at most for BSL-1 and monkeypox is BSL-2, yeah, not gonna happen. A fragment does not a virus make, reassortment or recombination be damned, given it's in yeast or are unpackaged DNA and hence, non-viable.
But, if virologists working with viruses is bad, we should close all virology labs throughout the world, destroy their work and call it a good thing when the next pandemic kills in wholesale numbers.
Of course, one can carry that illogic throughout technology until we're back in the stone age.
BTW, what virology lab had the last outbreak of smallpox, after it was rendered extinct in the wild again? Janet Parker was the last fatality and because of that mess, proper oversight and planning for all BSL-4 facilities in the world followed. The University of Birmingham Medical School does win prizes for the rapid response, isolation and ascertaining root causes and leading the discussion on how to properly create such facilities!
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Dilaudid is legal in every state, as it's medically necessary for treatment of severe pain, such as post-operative pain.
Narcotics are like guns, legal in every state and just as potentially dangerous and just as useful on occasion.
The biggest difference being, a firearm can get me meat for dinner, a narcotic can't get me a damned thing to eat, but can keep me from having a stroke or heart attack from pain (or even limit damage from pain from a heart attack (yes, pain can actually kill you)).
I don't know if it's fortunate or not, but I've a legendary tolerance for ethanol. Despite drinking enough to rival a Marvel comic book god, no liver dings or pancreatitis. No hangovers either.
Fortunately for me, drinking so tends to bore me and I'll just toss the bottle into a closet to be forgotten for months on end.
But, I do know quite a few substance abusers and can emphasize the pain. Best wishes on your recovery, which is its own agony, day by day.
But, I did learn one thing in the military above all other things, pain is nature's way of telling you that you ain't dead yet, keep on living and thriving. Fight for life and if you feel the need too badly, contact me immediately.
For the record, I love narcotics. Can't tolerate them, but love them for their utility medically. I tend to flood with histamine when dosed, so literally go into shock from vasodilation (blood vessels open up wide, due to histamine, dropping blood pressure into the basement). And I'm chronic GERD, so booze isn't quite so fun either.
And blew a disc in my lumbar region, courtesy of not observing something I literally trained thousands against - never catch a patient, help lowering them to the floor and summon help. Wife collapsed hours post-op from gallbladder removal, I caught her and 440 went down both cheeks to the balls of my feet.
Hence, my near-addiction for NSAIDs. ;)
My thoughts when the disc failed?
You. Dumb. Mother. Fucker.
Couldn't even manage to express an exclamation point at the time. Too busy not dropping her, out of concern for mutual damage.
Hilariously, she regained consciousness once I did get her to the floor, so she was able to help me to the bed in the next room.
Lost her a year and a half ago, after 41 years.
Excuse me while I crawl into my bowl of spinach. Really. Made a really nice batch last night, got some leftover and well, I do need to eat.
Shit happens, you learn how to deal with it by remaining conscious. My trick, learning how to cook well, but then one other qualification I've got is, I'm a reformed chef.
Reformed, as really, the pay vs labor ratio totally sucks.
Now, excuse me, I really want to enjoy that spinach. Garlic, onion sauteed, a dab of chicken bouillon, dump in some spinach, cook and enjoy.
Like many recipes, simplicity itself, my recipes even more so, as quantities of spices are entirely to taste - yours, not mine, dammit.
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My first question is, WTF are you doing patrolling in front of the police department? Waiting for shift change, rather than performing your duty?
I think we'll approach dealing with this abuse of taxpayer dollars via the budgetary process... Especially, given forfeiture came into abuse.
I quite like my local PD. Instead of escalating and "ensuring control" via any means, they resolve problems, at times with some significant effort on their part for all parties in non-violent events.
Their response time, despite that, is phenomenally fast. When my wife of over 40 years died, after my first cycle of CPR, I called 911 and resumed CPR. I got to my fourth and had to stop to let the officer in, who checked and at a dead run, ran to his cruiser for an AED.
EMS was a touch less responsive, since they're volunteer and have to come from home to collect equipment and respond, but she was down too long.
I know AED's, I've received provider level ACLS training in the military, if an AED doesn't suggest a shock in a couple of cycles of CPR, it's very much not good. When the EMT-P finally arrived, around 20 minutes after the ambulance arrived, the scope told the story.
I managed to not get sick until most had departed and only the officers remained.
But, I've watched them help the homeless, even to the point of bringing food and water to them.
And I'm damned sure they'd be calling parents, rather than confiscating cars for something like this. Which is tax money very well invested, rather than simply spent.
The Chief is simply justifying his revenue generation.
I'm known to rev my engine to warm the car up a touch faster, so I can melt ice coating my glass. Cite me, enjoy me turning the thing into a federal case level defense and litigation that'll tie up legal for decades, just on spite.
I did do donuts on snow as a kid. I also did donuts on a street once, the damned accelerator dropped to the floor and stayed there, donuting the way and literally burning out the brakes, while shutting off the engine ended that mess. It was a company vehicle and the mechanic and I had quite an exchange that took the shop steward to break up before I bent a tire iron around his empty head...
I went over the vehicle with a fine tooth comb every time that idiot touched the vehicle after that!
@Steve, I defy you to make a Yugo tires smoke. :P:p:P:p:P:p
Even at 18, if you want my tires to smoke, you'd have to set fire to them. Tires never have been cheap!
Wanna interest me, show me power and acceleration. I'm more into power, tow the Grand Coulee Dam and I'll be impressed. ;)
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"Shut up and mind your own business".
Well, OK, but my spokesgun here isn't in the mood to shut up, so perhaps you should explain yourself before it speaks up?
Your choice and all, it is a free country, after all and lead just really wants to be free.
Oh, so now you want to identify yourself and show your work order. Very, very good, now you'll listen to my spokesgun's advice to await the nice officer, who will make a report on your willful destruction of the wrong property, its contents and its finished value at prime value. Have a great care though, lead poisoning mitigation in the US has long been well documented to have been an abject failure.
Then, if the company wants to fight in court, a demolition crew gets dispatched to the owner's home - daily, until the courts instruct me to stop.
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@@Fern00352 Hope is indeed thoroughly lost. So, someone kindly give her a map! ;)
Every generation says much the same about some shiny trinket of technology, oddly, we still keep slogging onward.
I suggest one adopt my terminology for AI.
Artificial Idiocy.
Or stay with The Croods, it's new, avoid it...
And remember, regardless of technology predictions, we remain singularly and uniquely incompetent in predicting the frigging future.
You know, household nuclear reactors, flying cars (good Lord, but they can't drive worth a shit on the ground...), voice controlled computing (we got kitten videos instead), need I continue?
Artificial Idiocy meets Organic Idiocy, a match made in hell. :P
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@kinderdm not really. If you saw the part where he kept shifting and halving dirt piles around and taking readings, can you picture doing that with lungs? You'd be cutting out lobes, halving them, halving them again, things don't go back together very well that way.
And precision detectors rely upon time exposures of a non-moving sample and lungs, well, if they stop moving, the heart does too and that dead thing ensues, rather ruining one's weekend plans.
Meanwhile, microsample exposures occurred during the Manhattan Project, where workers were exposed and for the remainder of their lives, their urine contained plutonium. Their lives notably not involving cancer or radiation poisoning. Do a search on "plutonium pissers", their unofficial title.
People survive amazing things, a radiation example being an Iranian city notable for its naturally high radiation levels, Ramsar. All, courtesy of thorium deposits in the ground elevating the background to what everywhere else would be thought harmful, potentially fatal. 20 mSv/year is the maximum for radiation workers, Ramsar residents receive 260 mSv/year and that's been for hundreds of years.*
*Finding the history of Ramsar's been problematic, all of the search engines default strictly to the Ramsar Convention on wetlands, regardless of how you phrase the search, due to their Artificial Idiocy implementation.
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Pennsylvania has always been an open carry state. So few ever bothered to that it's beyond unusual to see anyone openly carrying. The only exception is in cities of the first class, which is based upon population numbers and the Commonwealth having only one - Philadelphia, where only concealed carry with a permit to do so is permitted.
That said, polling places are just one out of a number of locations where carrying a firearm is absolutely prohibited.
Bullets and ballots make for poor bedfellows. The only gun that might belong in a polling place is a glue gun or maybe a screw gun, OK, maybe even a soldering gun, firearms, that's just a great big nope. Firearms belong on ranges or in the woods during hunting season.
I could see my making such a mistake and wearing a campaign related hat in, get asked to remove it, realize my error and ask if the floor of my car is acceptable. "OK, sorry about that, please save a place for me at the back of the line, I'll be right back!", mischief managed and no charges pending. Unless someone wanted to charge my exclaiming "shit for brains me", which is unlikely. Toss the crapmuffin hat on the floor of the car, secure the car, get back in line to cast my ballot. It's called being civilized.
By the same token, if I were to witness that misbehavior at a poll, especially the battery, I'd be in need of a replacement cane, as my cane would be up his ass sideways.
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Nope, an exculpatory answer would be, "The lid fell off of a couple of boxes, saw shampoo and hairspray in one, a bunch of papers in the other, put their lids on, as it's his personal shit".
Bullshitting and outright lying just are shitty ideas, the former is even believable, as going through an employer's personal effects while moving them is really a bad career move.
Now, do I believe him at all? I might, if I was on a jury and not presented evidence supporting his viewing the contents in detail of multiple boxes, have to accept him at his word. But, I do, in my heart of hearts believe that he's more full of shit than a Christmas goose.
That all said, I'd obviously never work for Trump, as I like actually always getting paid. I also won't work for crooks, too bad for one's reputation in the end. That said, if somehow I fouled up and had his job and was moving shit tons of boxes and I saw marked classified folders or worse, the documents themselves, I'd have to make a telephone call to report the finding, as I still do hold a security clearance and rather value doing so.
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The roadster, the bot, the tunnel and train, all coming soon, like fusion is.
Musk was repeatedly warned, officially warned about stock manipulation via his Twitter blasts, now there's an active investigation getting ready to go to grand jury. Don't get me started on the neural crap, where his animals died of infections the type and source not seen since those were defeated in the 1970's. It was so bad, the university labs he was partnered with withdrew due to those infections, as one can't get much neural interface results with an animal dying of encephalitis.
I'm amazed he literally isn't also trying to sell snake oil.
He did finally get his rockets going, by hiring all of the talent he could get, given he's no engineer, let alone a rocket scientist.
His other promised products? I'm expecting to see cold fusion first and hot fusion that has gain isn't something I'm expecting during my lifetime.
He's just another huckster, albeit this one has only one product actually on the market and that's a captive market, as NASA loathes riding on Russian rockets.
His robot buzzwords speech, sounds suspiciously and nearly verbatim what the character Daniel Graystone said on the series Caprica about his Cylons.
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Nope. NSAKEY is still used as part of the NSAHOOKS system to incorporate proprietary strong PKI crypto, maintaining a standard entry for legacy and even newer systems to be dropped in without reintroducing the labors of Hercules.
Hooking into 3.51, yeah, that was a major science project, 4.0 onward, lick and stick. Yeah, I go back that far and remember the joys of getting 3.11 to sing a song of TCP... OK, maybe not a song, one was doing opera, 3.11 was doing chopsticks.
Don't get me started on sanity checking and ping of death! Ant the flagship NT4 servers that suddenly got replaced by slowlaris "because the PC based servers couldn't handle the load", yeah, the load of illegal sized ICMP ping packets, as Microsoft was busily denying the problem and threatening to sue anyone who confirmed it..
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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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Our youngest, finally recovered from long COVID from his first turn at navigating aground, now has it again. But, it's now illegal, per god-king decree, to track or report on the virus spread and severity.
But, he's happily promoting pogroms, golfing, cutting off food to the US, raising prices for everything insanely, but ammunition prices seem to remain stable.
No, I just track prices normally, actually. The government does as well, don't know if they correlate ammunition to food prices though, I do know that they track firearms and ammunition sales figures though.
Pre-Trump, the GOP would reel things back in when the ammo and firearms sales spiked. Now, they seem to lean in.
Maybe scare the hell out of the Powers That Be, buy a gun (doesn't have to work), buy a shit ton of ammunition (if you're not big on target shooting, get whatever doesn't fit, but is cheap), see if they start to scramble throttling and distracting him.
I'm trying to figure out what works for Elvis and the Beatles and Trump, given Elvis and most of the Beatles are really long dead and he's only long brain dead.
Oh wait, Nvidia, great branding, good security, China blew their stock out of the water with their AI, but the US company Nvidia has their chips made in Taiwan, so he just fucked a major US company harder.
Maybe he'll nuke our own cities next, to Make America Groan Again.
And with the food tariffs, Make America Gaunt Again.
Now, excuse me while I buy a gun - a mini-grease gun. Need to repack some bearings I'd just replace, but this jackass just fucked that market and supply up as well.
And some grease, lithium is generally recommended, going with moly instead though, a little better longevity.
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One difference is, an elder would usually accompany and supervise the first excursion. Keep the kid out of trouble and able to control themselves, while still having a good time.
Did the same with my soldiers, if they were old enough to fight and die for their country, they're old enough to have a few brain grenades with their peers, regulations be damned, it's on me. My only requirement, if one gets into trouble, I expected to have to bail out the entire squad or the ones not getting caught were on the top of my shit list. Needless to say, never had to bail anyone out, although I did get a few calls to pick up an entire squad from time to time. Well, except when I was with them, kind of hard to call myself and I wrangled things under control or at least got everyone out the back door in time.
Those guys would also shovel shit with a rusty spoon for me, both because I took care of them and they knew I'd be using the rustiest spoon right next to them.
And if one got out of control, his entire squad let him know about it, correcting that behavior early on and reinforcing the lesson.
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Got caught outside in a couple of microbursts, literally went from 60 MPH to 0 in seconds, with the chassis pushed against the rubber stops. Felt like the hand of an angry god pushing the vehicle down. One was a station wagon, the other a full size Ford service van. The latter requiring my unthreading a tree from the grille and driveshaft.
Basically, it's a cloud falling on you, bringing the air with it.
Had a tornado chase me out of Huntsville, AL back in the early '80's, one trying to form over my head at Ft Indiantown Gap (strong winds blowing through the gap in the three mountains disrupted it, after it drifted north past the three mountains, it touched down and wiped out a farm) and some touching down in our parish, one touching down after we left a town in Texas.
Frankly, I think our ancestors fouled up when they stepped off of the battlestar... ;)
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But, tellingly, they can never indicate what law allegedly banned the miracle perpetual motion machine.
Still, there is such a thing as solid hydrogen, there are two forms. Hydrogen ice, which is hard to keep that cold and metallic hydrogen, think Jupiter's core pressures. The last, very very efficient, if you happen to have a Jupiter in your back pocket.
In which case, we'll not speak about how huge one's ass is...
Hydrogen from the air is doable, but I didn't realize they were making these for people living inside of gas giants or the sun itself. Given their living conditions, they can have anything that they want, as I really don't want to piss off Kryptonians.
Hydrogen stored on disc like music, so hydrogen is stored as data? Then you don't need to fill it, just play it again. Yay! Perpetual motion again, third one this week.
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@freeculture Soyuz I, far more impressive. It actually made its flight before incinerating its occupant.
The parachute got stuck, due to paint and the capsule hit the ground at 300 mph and burned the capsule and cosmonaut into oblivion.
The cosmonaut had put in his will that the generals that ordered the unready flight to launch had to be photographed with his remains and they actually did do so, photographed with a charcoal mass that didn't at all look like it was once a human. Good for him!
Pity that they launched the damned thing though.
Soyuz 11, valve dislodged, venting the atmosphere into space, killing all 3 crew. The valve, right under a cosmonaut's seat, where it couldn't be reached in time.
Still, we're ahead in fatalities, courtesy of the space shuttle.
Because, complacency kills.
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I'm beyond astonished that there was no descriptiveness, I guess we now only allow one German girl at a time into the US, for at least two generations or so? I'm sure other immigrant groups would welcome that change to the Green Card lottery!
They used to be a lot more selective than allowing such a broad brush destroying innovation and competition. I think you see two avenues of attack I'd explore, were I in her shoes...
I would find it interesting had our host been a German ambassador's daughter, I think we know how that would turn out! That's some really ugly PR, although in reality, it's ugly PR any way in which you slice it.
If it were to have happened with me, the young lady from California would run smack into someone derived from original "Hessian" stock, with Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution part of my family line and a branch off of the Reynolds family to make her claim a more significant uphill battle, given first generation vs originating the nation stock. Keeping things tangled enough, for long enough, for them to finally offer some settlement where we'd both keep our brands or we'd keep low billable hours tanglefoot actions and PR disasters running for as long as amuses me and given my age, I can be trivially and easily amused for a very, very long time.
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@MrJDFallon there is no entire world.
START treaties limited how many deployable nukes the US and Russia have. The current numbers could at maximum destroy a maximum of 1/3 US cities and towns, if they ignored our military and utility infrastructure, which isn't likely and not ignoring those lessens how many cities get struck, as it takes a minimum of six warheads to destroy a military base.
Meanwhile, a full countervalue, same conditions, would utterly depopulate Russia of cities and towns, as well as degrade their military capabilities significantly. Nuclear winter was a myth dispelled in the 1990's by Gulf War I and subsequent improved modeling, with some mild summers causing some degradation of crop yields, but nothing extinction level at all.
End of the day, Russia would become literally extinct, the US heavily degraded and the winner would basically be China - ish, our fleets would still be afloat, just short a lot of national infrastructure to support them, but plenty abroad to still do so, national leadership on aircraft or in bunkers for a couple of weeks necessary for what fallout there is to decay.
I started my military career in nukes, I know the field and doctrines well, as well as the actual results of nuclear weapons.
Putin's desperate, but he's not stupid, nor is he suicidal. Nor is the Russian military, political and economic leadership types. Were he to even come close to considering using nuclear weapons, he'd suddenly "retire for health reasons" to his dacha in the woods, not to be heard from again.
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Odd preaching, given his trumpeting a Pax Romana, which was Roman imperial conquest of much of Europe and the Mediterranean.
And what he all said was closer to what was described in Revelation. So, he wants the US to take over the world, then force their "kings" to cede to Trump's holiness, despite his being the most unholy man alive.
All based upon "Jesus told me", when the bible says the Holy Ghost would speak, not Jesus, not the Father, not my unholy boot socks and most certainly not a dog named Sam.
But, I'm also willing to bet that he also preaches the blasphemous prosperity gospel as well.
And Jesus is concerned about the Panama canal, which we do use on a regular basis, like everyone else and somehow, the only holy land canal, the Suez is A-OK.
Dud's nearly enough to make me consider day drinking. If only I wasn't so damned cheap...
Well, I'm off to do something important, spice up the chicken and stuff it into the oven. The rest of dinner's leftovers to clear some fridge space.
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And so, every attorney that's had a client lie to them is disbarred and the nation no longer has defense attorneys, only prosecutors. That'll work out well.
The attorneys in this case offered an affirmative defense in stating that they were misinformed by their clients and presented their clients statements as factual until their due diligence uncovered the fact that the information they were provided and provided to the court was incorrect.
Now, you have to prove mens rea, that they knowingly did so vs their claim of being misinformed.
That said, it also means that the jurist is certainly justified in looking at anything presented by those attorneys with a highly jaundiced eye.
It essentially violating the very first rule of the court - never piss off the judge.
Last week, I estimated it at 80% probable, now we're exceeding 90% probable that this is all literally going to end in gunfire. Emperor Musk and Empress Trump have gone so far off of the reservation that it's most probable that that is the only way that the US will retain a Constitution and laws. And alas, the courts lack armed personnel, that is defectively exclusively under the executive branch.
And somehow, I don't see Melania grabbing Washington's portrait from a burning White House.
But, I do know what my oath was sworn to uphold and protect.
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No, she has a great idea, cut off New York from federal money, New York can and will reciprocate and the federal government loses $361.8 billion per year in taxes.
Then, after putting that bullet through her own foot, we can all hear her moan about the limp.
As for Laken Riley, I'd ask MTG what color Laken's eyes were. She cares ever so much, she should be able to describe her, since she's invoking her name to try to invalidate state rights.
Oh, I forgot, Trumpites have an inverse Burger King menu, "Have it our way or not at all, have it our way or fucking else".
She really needs to return to her old job, as a harpy.
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Soon, he'll issue an EO to fire Congress and assume control of legislation and budget.
Since he's already EO'd Marbury v. Madison away.
Long live Emperor Elon Musk and Empress Donna Trump, long may they wane!
Somehow, were this 1812, I suspect that Melania would allow Washington's portrait to either be captured or burned...
An interesting thing, the USPS. Trusted not only with our mail, but also to courier classified documentation and parcels up to secret via registered mail, implemented to reduce the need for special couriers to carry such sensitive items to their destinations. Without the USPS, there'd be no trusted authority that could convey such parcels and messages, save for couriers, of which the government would literally require tens of thousands of. As an example, if I decommissioned a computer that's used to process secret information, the memory and hard drive would be removed and sent to the NSA for destruction via registered mail, inside of a properly packaged parcel (there are strict instructions on packaging and inner labels). Without the USPS, such would have to be hand carried by a courier, likely by air, then via rental car, uninterrupted to the destination for delivery of the sensitive contents.
Additionally, the USPS post offices and post roads are both only to be controlled, created and funded by Congress, per Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution.
So, the Emperor and Empress are strongly advised to just sod off and kick a rock.
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I dunno, I vote for Trump for Sheol.
I may be pure Sicilian-American, but well, I grew up in a neighborhood where I was able to pick up a bit of Hebrew and a fair amount of Yiddish.
Was always great eating on the holidays too!
As I tell many truthfully, I eat in many languages and I love my leafy greens, they keep me regular and taste great to me.
Epidemiology, my condolences on the pandemic, burned a lot of professionals out. Our eldest is an RN and was fried badly, between the virus, a teen burn victim and one teen suicide, she had to take time off and was doing the begging insurance companies to do the right thing regarding patient RX's... She's back taking care of patients again.
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@pap4539 after many overflights, there was a sudden interest in dropping certain balloons not all that long ago.
Wouldn't be all that surprised if, were these foreign, which isn't exceptionally likely, that would happen in this case.
More likely, well, officially, there were never any aircraft launched from Groom Lake. Need I say more?
And who would you bird dog, as a military drone, a fishing vessel, a pleasure craft or a military vessel and overfly military reservations, where you have full control over with only a telephone call?
While operating inside of FAA regulated congested airspace, using FAA approved anticollision beacons, to avoid losing some really expensive drones.
But, what would I know, I've only worked with a number of programs of record over the decades.
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@Edax_Royeaux without that case, it'd have been a ball of explosives, reflectors and fissionables, with batteries and electronics tearing loose and hence, not detonating, right?
And we're talking about bombs that weighed in at 10000 pounds, so a ton and a quarter less isn't much to cut off and risk damage during handling and dropping.
Of course, had they waited around 5 years, they could've used boosted fission bombs instead, as long as we're going into the realm of unreality. Personally, I never went into a combat zone counting on the enemy not shooting at me, just call me weird.
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@Edax_Royeaux so, your hatred is so great for the aircraft that your answer is a kamikaze mission?
There is out of the box thinking, then there's psychotic thinking, this is rubber room land thinking.
And no, drone would be out of the question, as loss of remote control of our most powerful and expensive weapon is beyond the call of out of the question.
BTW, you do realize that a bomber descending to burst altitude would be bigger than the bomb, hence a much, much, much easier target? The reason accuracy of flak against the bombers was so bad was due to the bombers being at high altitude, the bombs were detonated at low altitude, where AAA accuracy was rather good.
But, a bomb on a parachute wouldn't be engaged, as that would risk having the bomb drop at high speed, causing greater damage, from the defender's perspective.
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A better case could be made between Africa and India discovering iron working first. Given the timeline between India working iron before Persia, I suspect India learned how to work iron and the knowledge spread via trade routes, with Europe being last, as they were still recovering from Volcanic disasters in the Med. China was also certainly working iron long before Europe, again making sense if India had been trading and that knowledge followed trade routes.
Alas, any evidence for Africa has likely been long lost due to colonization and the destruction that wrought.
As for the difficulties working iron, much was based upon the color of the iron being worked to determine temperature. Furnace temperatures can be assessed crudely either by experience or even by behavior of clay placed in the furnace, as overheated clay has its own distinct behavior. Mastering carburizing, that's pretty much pure experience.
But, people then were as smart as people today are, our only advantage is greater knowledge of chemistry, metallurgy and physics.
Now, one to really bake your noodle: How advanced would humanity have been had there been no plagues?
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Sadly, after multiple deployments and finally retiring, contracted in the Persian Gulf region and a handful of years in, forgot to bring water on the commute to base. Got stuck in traffic, AC was inop, got a heat stroke. Hit the gate, at first they thought I was drunk. At the MP station, while being questioned and given a half dozen bottles of water, stopped slurring and a look of horrified realization appeared on their faces and an offer of transportation to clinic was given.
A bit late now, it's over. I was a medic.
Elevated liver enzymes, BUN high, high creatine and protein in urine. All resolved, save for mild protein in urine and ECG analyzer cries out digitalis effect due to QT anomaly.
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So, in California, if the legislature writes a defective law, the bench may re-legislate the law.
Besides, a bee is obviously a crustacean. Well, there are land crustaceans...
California can send the legislature home, jurists have matters in hand.
Otherwise, elephants are snakes, rocks are water and up and down are the same by law. Such can only result in the populace holding such laws and eventually, as they accumulate, all laws in contempt.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all i for protecting endangered species, but defective laws are fixed by the legislature or we just pack it up and let the bench rule by fiat.
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Then, there's HHV-3, varicella. Aka, chickenpox/shingles.
Thankfully, declining as use of the vaccine expands in the covered population. Our kids helped test the vaccine candidate. One, apparently receiving a placebo, as she later contracted the virus some years later.
Had it as a kid, pure misery. Had a 1 cm lesion of shingles as an adult, miserable enough, but could've been worse, as I've seen peers with worse cases. Got the shot as soon as I could!
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I'm 61, I'm the guy that pisses a lot of folks off with one question.
What's a hangover?
I'm capable of drinking lordly amounts of booze, my preferred weapon being liquor. I also hydrate heavily when drinking and don't do blackout drunk.
And when it starts to get boring, I put the bottles in the back of the closest and just forget about them for months on end.
Moderation is the watchword, assuming one doesn't already have an addiction, in the latter case, only abstinence works.
I also am known, when I can get a good deal on them, to suspend vanilla from beans in vodka, making my own vanilla extract in bulk. It's literally the original method of extracting vanilla. The booze boils off while cooking, which is good, as I loathe booze in my food, but have cooked with various alcohol products, from wine to liquors.
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Nah, cite her with contempt of court, due to the weakness of her arguments at that specific level, order she sleep on a concrete floor, with a mylar blanket, lights on, prison AC set to cool, if she complains, make it colder, release to her home, to appear within the hour of release, during morning rush hour traffic and guards are ordered to deny her sleep for the three days confinement.
All perfectly legal for a superior court to order, so that the attorney arguing such weak tea to prove personally to the court. Also, essentially a death sentence.
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If there's a civil war reenactment, a confederate flag is appropriate, the same in a museum exhibit on the civil war. Over a state capitol, then there's a need to send the US Army in and explain matters to them - again.
Over one's house or one's vehicle, treated as an insurrectionist. That's cultural as well, ask any German.
Removal from a reenactment, you've changed it into something else and just ban reenactments and education on the war entirely, as you wish to destroy the lessons imparted by the entire hot mess and hence, we'll repeat those harsh lessons until we learn and remember properly.
Personally, I want to replace and again fly my Serapis flag, one authorized to be flown by my old historic unit and at one point, the only US flag recognized in Europe, despite it being incorrect.
Something that I find rather humorous, that our language is so deficient that a letter explaining what our flag looks like could be interpreted so utterly wrong. A humor that recognizes how easily miscommunication can have either humorous effects or as easily, tragic effects.
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Wow, you already screwed up in your opening statement!
"Trump's going to screw up in 1000 ways", no, more like 100000 ways. ;)
I am confused as to why you're covering last week's news though.
I've been calling this either "Biden in the Basement" or "The Biden Under the Bed", as apparently, there's a Biden haunting the god-king's White House and sabotaging him at night and his almighty cannot locate him, despite his infinite impotence, I mean omniscience and omnipotence, no I was right the first time.
Amazingly, you could see inflation coming, I could see inflation coming, Helen Keller could see inflation coming.
And egg prices are predicted to continue to rise, likely by at least 20%, per the USDA, as bird flu continues to ravage "farms".
Using quotes, as we're talking mega warehouses full of battery cages with around 6 million laying hens, one gets sick, they all get sick and bird flu is 90 - 100% fatal in them currently. Canada doesn't get these problems, as their "farms" only hold around 28k birds per farm and are more geographically scattered, so are a bit more infection impact resistant.
Yeah, education is shocking, of all people to be shortsighted on the matter, educators.
Pasteurized eggs are just rinsed with a high temperature water bath briefly, so that the egg doesn't cook. Downside is, the membrane that protects the egg is degraded, upside is less chance of salmonella that farmers reject vaccinating their hens against. Dunno, I get the cheapest store brand or whatever's on special eggs at the store and a dozen lasts me around a month or so unless I go on a baking binge. But, one thing I can't blame on Trump is both the egg laying factory "farms" or avian influenza. Not reporting on it now, not reporting on COVID spread, trying to hide a measles epidemic I can blame on him. Oh, bird flu was also detected in milk from cows in Nevada and Arizona. Less of an impact with them, it's not highly lethal in bovines yet and pasteurization destroys the virus and yeah, you can't give me raw milk unless the cow's right next to the glass and it just came from Betsy and good luck then - I don't tolerate anything above 2% and prefer 1% fat milk, higher gives me indigestion. And parasites and pathogens, I've enough fun with Crohn's, no need to try to make me shit myself more often, thank you. Matter of fact, get my final induction dose of biologic treatment for the Crohn's this week, unless I get DOGEfucked.
I'm mystified as to why the State Department always rejects my job applications... ;)
OK, total number of applications for State = 0.
But, to be serious, Trump has, ahem, reliably informed us that the steel and aluminum tariffs will help farmers. The rationale behind that was apparently accordion hands.
That man's a super gen- no, can't finish that one with a straight face. He's about as brilliant as a 10 foot tall stack of anvils.
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The British need a sense of humor, given that the last human case of smallpox was in a UK university biolab, killing a photographer on another floor.
Thankfully, the school recognized that things were awry and isolated, investigated and lead the charge to new, modern standards of BSL labs.
Which, given monkeypox virus is a BSL-2 virus, if the researchers labs were lower, they'd only be able to work with fragments that they ginned up in the lab or ordered.
Given that the PRC has their own samples of smallpox, including the oldest samples of the virus in the world, as the virus did originate in the region thousands of years ago, it's consistent with BSL protocols prohibiting monkeying about with viable monkeypox virus outside of necessary work in BSL-2 labs.
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Even worse, with his blathering on Gettysburg, he blathered some nonsense about Robert E. Lee being looked at in a negative light recently. He's been to Lee's old plantation multiple times for official POTUS appearances, as Lee's plantation was seized under a Congressional writ of attainder over Lee's treason. His family paid only after his death and a protracted court fight.
Today, it's Arlington National Cemetery.
And Gettysburg, so beautiful after the battle, with the Union soldiers graves and the Confederate soldiers left all strewn around farmers chewed up, now stinking fields for local farmers to bury. And mourning the Confederate loss in that same speech!
In a suburb of Allentown.
BTW, in longer speech excerpts, he's far, far worse. He literally sounds like he was three sheets to the wind, not unlike his brother, whose death was attributed to cardiac issues secondary to alcoholism.
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Lead pipes haven't been used in new construction for many decades. Lead containing pipes, typically via lead soldered joints remains an issue, but was phased out of new construction quite some time ago as well. That leave old work still in place, which can generate problems like was shown in Flint.
Had a lead drain pipe in my old house, it eroded through and dropped my kitchen ceiling. Pulled what was left of that pipe and installed PVC.
I live in Harrisburg, PA and the city has been pushing plastic pipes inside the old work, which will isolate any leaded joints in the system once they're completed all of the work. That'll just leave the service lines to homes and old plumbing, which will gradually be replaced by attrition with modern plastic piping installed as replacements for the old leaded soldered pipes.
Philly also had a lead pipe abatement program, although the city never used lead pipes, they did used lead soldered lines that they're gradually replacing. That's been an ongoing saga, as the city even had ancient terracotta water mains that literally date back to the civil war era.
Frankly, 12 years is an ambitious time frame for all of the lead that's out there, but it's a start. Well, it was a start until it got god-kinged away...
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Yet another privatization success story, where all of the skills needed to maintain the rails for well over a century got stripped away and discarded, leaving managers that didn't now a rail from a quail in charge.
Who could predict a failure under such a system, they're all qualified managers?!
Meanwhile, we still don't fully understand the processes involved in such metallurgical failures and such remain a field of highly active study as a matter of critical importance in multiple fields. That solid steel isn't quite as solid as you think it is, with carbon and manganese grains migrating on stress, electrical shot, mechanical shock, vibration, heat or simple repeated impacts. It's nothing new, look up the term work hardening for just one example of changes just from repeated loads and impacts upon steel - it's causing migration of grains inside of that steel. At the mid-life of a rail, it'd make quite literally, one hell of an anvil. Toward its end, great for recycling. Wait too long, it shatters and we get this. A few light fines, look the other way, ignore the dead people. But, those managers get to go back and Krazy glue rails back together...
Keep on privatizing, soon we'll end up with DIY brain surgery and we can all become royalty!
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PCOS is a complex issue that medicine has finally found the root of, if not an ultimate solution to cure for.
Confounding diagnosis is age of onset for significant signs, which can range from adolescence for a few, through successful childbearing and multiple pregnancies, then the hormones finally are decompensated against and full onset occurs.
It's also a topic of interest for me, as my wife had the latter version, having two live births, out of 16 pregnancies, one abortion induced by a motor vehicle accident, the rest spontaneous abortions.
As well as being diagnosed in our youngest and our eldest has suggestions of it.
Lord, I hate endocrine problems! Other than extremely common OB/GYN, all I usually dealt with were structural damage, plumbing leaks and various infections.
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I'm wondering if his goal is to get multiple states to finally move to secession.
Not a brilliant move, given a USMC logistics center and a US Navy submarine base being in Georgia.
I'm sure that "nobody's ever seen anything like that" either.
Cut steel, cut fiber, hell, I'll let them keep control of the highways. The first two already devolved operations to chaos.
Worse, he's pissed off 16.2 million veterans, who know how things work and can seriously gum up the works. A little solvent here, concrete there, sand elsewhere, water in the wrong places, missing steel...
There's a popular misconception about warfare. Warfare isn't about destroying property or killing people, it's about destroying the will to continue fighting by causing sufficient injury to the other side sufficient that continuing the fight will so degrade their society as to make any benefit of conflict nonexistent. In short, make it as expensive for the other side socioeconomically as humanly possible and any victories that they do manage to achieve will be by nature Pyrrhic.
And the best battle one can have is the one one never has to fight.
And if your phones and e-mail don't work, your supplies can't get through, you've already more than half lost.
And military logistical centers are distributed, their distribution methods are quite channelized. The same is true with communications, if one knows where the nodes are and pretty much everyone in signal knows those. No need to attack anyone, when some solvent down a manhole would do. No need to damage a rail, when every signal can simply turn red. That, in the first hour or two.
And oddly, he seems to be specifically pissing off states where those weak points are. I have some suspicions as to why.
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The shame of it is, had she worn an N95 filter mask, she'd have likely avoided infection.
It's one of over a dozen hemorrhagic fevers that afflict humanity, with other forms of infection having a much lower morbidity and mortality rate than HPS.
The thyroid medication, difficult to say if it contributed. I take methimazole for Graves disease, a form of hyperthyroidism that itself nearly killed me thrice. Soon, I'll be tapered off, as my immune system, being bored with just attacking receptors has decided to attack the entire gland and Hashimoto's eventually destroys the entire thyroid gland - so, I'll eventually be taking thyroid hormones instead. As much as I loathe taking pills, I more intensely waking up dead, it being ruinous to my weekend plans.
Methimazole is beyond difficult to overdose on, similar with thyroid hormone tablets. So, self-harm isn't likely and I've spilled my pills a few times just this year.
HPS patients are known to suffer sudden collapse, typically having the lungs infected and systemic hemorrhagic fever, literally damaging the epithelial cell lining of their blood vessels, causing them to leak. Headline capturing hemorrhagic fevers being Marburg or Ebola, with an actually similar fatality rate, they're far from as spectacular as Hollywood makes them out to be and far more common and endemic within the SE US being dengue fever. Marburg and Ebola being zoonotic, aka spread by animals like hantavirus, in their case, largely via infected bats, dengue being spread by mosquitos and four strains infect humans. With dengue, if one's infected by one strain, then infected after recovery by the other, the effects are dire, as immune response fails to be effective against the second strain. That said, such dire infections are a rarity, recovery is typically within days and fairly uneventful, well, save for its nickname requiring significant pain relief - break bone fever, because it feels like one's bones are being broken.
So, masks and mosquito repellent, people! The biggest killer of man isn't man, it isn't rats or mice, it's the humble mosquito.
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My abdomen was pulsing like something from an Aliens movie. Abdominal aorta has an aneurysm, still at watchful waiting stage.
Ironically, the very first patient I lost was a 28 year old female soldier with a dissected abdominal aortic aneurysm. She had a adrenaline producing tumor on her adrenal glands, her family doctor had cleared her to go to the field. She collapsed suddenly while talking with friends and her unit, having no organic medics, ran across the road straight into my medical platoon for help.
We tried CPR, but while confirming effective compressions, I also felt the pulse fall off, telling me that she had a major leak somewhere. We transported her to air evac, to no avail.
Needless to say, I'm watching mine closely, as well as my blood pressure, as my thyroid occasionally decides to feel its Wheaties and shoot my BP up to TILT.
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@Zariel_999 yeah, had both. Now, have a retiree card that needs to be updated, as the new-new-new one is like the CAC card, minus the chip (dammit).
After retiring (we were long on CAC cards by then), I contracted off and on, so got CAC cards each time. All have DOB on them and always did.
But yeah, too complicated for some. They have date issued, date expired, DOB, benefits number and EDIPI number (boy, that throws them for a loop). Didn't have the heart to mention to them the Geneva Convention status on the card too.
Oh, all are considered RealID compliant.
It was funny though, I could sign out nuclear weapons with my active duty ID card, but some places wouldn't allow me to have a drink. Go figure.
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That's the tip of the iceberg from hell. One venture capitalist bought the rights to the most effective anti-TB drug on the market, boosted the price to the point that mere mortals couldn't afford it and live.
As for Ozempic, doctor would have to make one hell of a case with me to consider taking it. For one, despite a massive family history of diabetes, I'm only currently running at diabetic numbers due to taking a steroid for an immune issue and that's temporary. If I needed a drug to control the glucose, I'd want other more conservative drugs first, leave that for those who actually have a medical need for the more extreme and expensive drug. My mantra being, minimal intervention for the greatest benefit. I keep my sugar under control, albeit slightly in the pre-diabetic region by diet, exercise and body mass control.
Which also saves me on clothing, I've literally got pants that are over 20 years old and in good condition and fit well. Did have a bit of a moment last winter when the scale complained about maximum occupancy, dropped the extra 25 pounds I'd let accumulate. Just self-control and moderation helps a lot. And a spring chicken, I ain't.
I also don't hop into the car to go to the store, it's only two miles, just a stretch of the legs and keeps the arthritis in check. Pisses off a disc, but it needs exercise too or it'll get even worse.
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Actually, some telephoto lenses were and remain classified. I am not joking, they're used in crap like satellites and U-2 spy planes.
Had one idiot try that question with me, I introduced them to a brand new substance called reinforced concrete and offered them the opportunity for an extremely close and intensive examination of the substance.
Interesting bit of history, Akiko Takakura was 300 meters from the hypocenter of the Hiroshima blast, inside of the bank vault of the bank she worked at. Survived unscathed - well, physically. Mentally, not so much. Went into the vault at work as a ho-hum business as usual day, bright flash, rude noise and shaking building, come out to find insta-cooked people, yeah, that'd mess anyone up.
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Depends on when exposure occurred. Many isotopes were short lived, largely those neutron activated within the core, but radioiodine was an early concern - especially among children and precisely why they were evacuated first. Then, cesium-137 and strontium-90 were of concern, both loving bones to settle down in.
Long story short though, if you're still around and don't have cancer already, your chances are damned good to well, you'll never make it out of life alive, but likely have a normal lifespan.
If you're really concerned though, there are plenty of radiation health physicists online that can consult with you.
Had a few conversations socially with some, since I was born a week after Tsar Bomba and do emit gamma at a higher rate than my children and grandchildren, made for quite a good conversation that was lighthearted. Even money, I got greater exposure from Nevada test site tests during their testing era and being from Pennsylvania, that's an extremely low dosage due to the path of the jet stream.
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And the source of a $200 million saga on updating hydrogen bombs. A small change in a component tagged "FOGBANK" during its production yielded reproducible results decades later, when that component had to be replaced and oh, while we're at it, upgraded technologically.
The change, a contaminant in the original was important, but never documented and when the aerogel version was tried, wouldn't work, nor could they replicate the original component. So, a rather extended and massively overrun in cost R&D program was needed to rebuild the aging weapons. It only took nearly a decade.
Because, guns are easy, compared to thermonuclear warheads. Actually, rocket science is easier as well.
Or maybe some things just shouldn't be built... ;)
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I'm reminded of the invasion of Italy during WWII. A pair of German officers were captured and being escorted down a valley to be turned over for transportation to a POW camp. Within the valley, of which there are many films and photographs, was the dunnage and tubes from artillery rounds, as far as the eye could see and barely visible ground. It was only then that the German senior officers realized just how badly screwed Germany was.
But, for a stationary front, yeah, trash is bad. Worse is, if I can see that trash, I've got a good bearing on where to drop something unpleasant on and if I suddenly see 10 times as much trash, I know someone's got enough company to be worth a few HE rounds.
If exceptionally egregious, I'd not be above ordering "repeat" a few times to help bury all of the rubbish.
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Just like the VA, to demand him call and notify them as to his sudden loss of consciousness, secondary to a myocardial infarction.
The last time I looked though, the NIH defines an MI as an emergency, that whole dropping dead thing being a real risk.
But, the VA tremendously improves one's sex life, because every time you turn around, you get screwed.
Over the course of a 28 year long military career, I watched the VA budget get slashed by Congress, each and every year - including the first year of our GWOT, when men were coming back home missing pieces. Someone clued in the press that there was a shooting war and the VA budget was cut yet again and all hell broke loose and that funding was increased a bit.
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Many years ago, I was working on the testing line for a broadcast quality reel to reel video tape recorder, with all manner of bells and whistles, including bleeding edge digital processing.
I was assigned to test power supplies as they came off of the assembly line. Hipot testing, visual inspect, etc, then live and load testing on our custom jig made for that purpose. It was an early SMPS, no biggie.
Everything checked, just like the drawing, plus out testing sailed through, connected, powered it up, BANG and a mushroom cloud erupted from the Teflon insulated wiring, breaker tripped for my section of the floor. Visual inspection revealed nothing different from the drawings. Set it aside, checked another, exact same problem, as did a third to be sure we had a production problem.
Time to earn my money and justify the cost of electronics school! Ended up tracing the schematic, comparing it to the drawings, line by line, from AC input through... the output of the fullwave bridge rectifier, which the drawing had the positive and negative connected to the same filter capacitor terminal, creating a short circuit in a high current circuit.
They followed the drawing, alas, the drawing was wrong. Over 100 power supplies ended up going back through the assembly line, once change manglement was done mangling the process sufficiently.
And no, I actually like change management. Not having change management leads to pure frigging chaos.
They ended up fixing a little over 200 power supplies, as power supply assembly wasn't halted, so by the time change management gave approval, yeah, the number of wrongly wired units had more than doubled.
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During the blizzard of 96, my wife, I and our daughters were stranded. A nice officer picked us up at the hospital ED and drove us to my parents home, well, a block short, as it was outside of his jurisdiction.
Profusely thankful we were, a block wasn't a big deal considering the alternative.
Same department a few years later, rookie fidgeting with his weapon...
Even his backup and he was backup backed away from him, wanting nothing of what might come.
Thankfully, nothing came of the non-event, just some dread memories, got my citation from the original officer, called it a day once I got the car out of impound.
Lugged around a sidearm and primary arm for decades, never had some odd urge to wield the damned thing. Had to in extremis, but never wanted to haul the damned thing out and launch lead.
That said, if we kissed bumpers, I'd be "what in the actual fuck, over?!". It'd get settled quickly at the roadside peacefully, whoopsie is good enough. We all have brain farts.
Never pulled that one, but had enough others over 62 years to cover that ground. No need for the Keystone Cops.
Most cops experiences have been positive, including when cops got called on me for assault - by someone that actually committed battery upon my person and well, rightfully so, given what I called her mother.
Cops actually laughed at that, already viewed the Walmart video and were as unwilling as I was to prosecute. Got that home health aide fired instead, as I was accompanying someone to the store and haven't done so since.
Laughable, she called the police on me after engaging in aggravated battery (aggravated due to local statute in exceeding charges), while all I did was literally raise my cane.
And due to military training, I could've taken her head clean off, but was simply blocking further blows. Got two brain cells competing for third, don't need one killed.
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Well, there is a very real effort of a fringe of a political party to make the US a Constitution Free Zone.
I wish I was joking, but it's a very real fascist effort.
My only explanation is, the WWII veterans are dying off, so they think recycling eugenics and fascism will work now, being forgotten.
I've a solution from their playbook, double tap to the head.
Because, summary execution is precisely how amused as I am and I never miss a shot. Wasn't in our unit budget.
Don't want rights, don't get rights, double down and your family is toast.
But then, I fought terrorists and they feared me. It ain't what you will do, it's what they perceive that they fear that you may do that counts.
Although, I do have few limits now.
Preserve the nation, intact.
As contentious as we can and are.
And leave things a little better for our grandkids.
Judge should be disbarred and impeached, with damages awarded sufficient to leave judge homeless.
Literally.
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@drunkbillygoat alas, some think that'd be grounds to ignore the fourth amendment and search your property without reasonable suspicion or a warrant. Which would of course, stress the snake, potentially lethally.
I miss the good old days, back when we had a Constitution to protect us!
Personally, I'm not into snakes as pets, but do have friends who are. For me, snakes are better off patrolling for vermin and making that vermin a fine meal. ;)
Well, except for one cottonmouth, who became a nuisance in my yard when we lived in Louisiana. I annoyed it enough that it decided to relocate. While holding a rifle, just in case, their temperament is infamously lousy.
It went back to the bayou behind the property and only came back on occasion to molt.
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There is one point that the narrator, in sheer ignorance, just glossed over, ever in a hurry to condemn the seaworthy vessels as death traps.
Concrete weights in around three times heavier and spare change than steel. That incurs significant costs, as in propulsion, as in everything else, there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
They also lacked the flexibility of a steel hull. So, if there was a collision or grounding, the concrete vessel would fare poorer than the steel vessel and well, even the steel vessel's gonna go through hell.
Still, I'd happily own one for recreation. I'd just have to watch out for the shallow rocks in the river nearby.
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Well, we do!
Out of many, one hot mess. ;)
What's been forgotten, again, is consensus, not total agreement, compromise, not obstruction until one gets one's way like a three year old having a tantrum.
We did have similar in the past - all the way down to platforms, the Native American Party, aka the Know Nothing Party, who so obstructed and hijacked things in the Whig party that it disbanded and a new Republican Party was formed to get around their antics.
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BTW, USDA predicts that eggs will go up another 20% by the end of the year. With millions of hens culled in the immense warehouse battery cage egg laying "farms", it takes around 8 - 9 months to raise from egg to hen a laying hen. So, there's no relief in sight currently or well, likely.
Compared to Canada and Mexico, where they literally don't have millions of hens in a laying house, maybe 28k or so per farm.
Once the tariffs bite, we'll see car prices go insane, with layoffs following as hundred thousand dollar family cars don't sell to unemployed Americans.
And if I was a farmer, I'd not bother planting, since nobody's going to be there to harvest the crops, so either way one gets foreclosed on, but at least one still will have slightly lower debt. Compared to having a seed and fertilizer bill on top of one's already mortgaged farm. :/
No clue why he's sending a campaign e-mail to his faithful congregants, given elections were promised to go away. Per his promise...
Honestly, I'd be unsurprised to hear the idiot shriek, "DETONATE THE REALITY BOMB!!!". And expect to hear "EXTERMINATE", he's just as rational as that fictitious character.
Given his insanity of rights being illegal.
Screw it, grew up in the '60's, BURN, BABY, BURN!
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@nomore6167 as a wise SCOTUS judge said, "I cannot properly describe pornography, but I know it when I see it", leaving the window wide open, when previously prurient interest was a key qualifier.
So, some literally consider anatomy books for physician students pornography and should be destroyed, so doctors can treat things that they literally are prohibited from knowing about. Saw that in other countries and suggested here.
And if the body is obscene, then God obviously fucked up, which declaring so by declaring a body obscene is heresy.
I tangle preachers in their socks always. Despite somewhat coarse language, I am an ordained minister.
One preaches to the audience in their language, not some foreign tongue.
And speaking in tongues was plainly, in all biblical versions, described as being understood by the listener as spoken in their language, not interpreted by their ventriloquist.
Yeah, the State Department has repeatedly declined my job applications, which is an utter mystery to me.
For those whose sarcasmometers burned out, I have a pallet of them, let me know and I'll shoot a replacement along.
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Well, Hitler learned from the GOP in the US, eugenics, media control via propaganda, repression of rights, along with the named groups, you forgot the other victims of Aktion T4, the physically disabled, mentally ill and infirm elders that couldn't work, all under the excuse of "sapping the war effort's resources". While acknowledging in writing before the war that he needed a war to justify his eugenics efforts.
One plan Hitler didn't get to begin, suppression of Christianity in favor of worshiping Woden. Even his inner circle realized that was one step too far.
One advantage we have over Germany or Hungary, our second amendment protects the entirety of our now defunct Constitution.
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@jackieow well, we had run-flat tires on our vehicles, available for civilians at an absurdly high price. :/
But, I do recall one incident, where we were looking for a potentially damaged nuclear warhead. But, the detectors we had to search for potential tritium or even plutonium leaking or burning were G-M tube based, hence rather useless for the latter (with the window open, we could detect beta). Fortunately, the warhead was still intact within its carrier.
The old saying is a good saying, "The right tool for the right job"! But, with more advanced tools, one requires training or well, there are a number of effects that can lead the untrained astray badly. Things like dead time with G-M, pandemonium in scintillators, yeah, without training, the tools are like handing a brain surgeon's instruments to someone off of the street.
Hell, it's been so long, I've forgotten through disuse a great deal.
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Our eldest daughter beat down an ex-boyfriend in high school while on a school trip. She was found at fault by the school, as she shouldn't have been fighting. He, after all, was only trying to rape her.
I showed up in my full Army dress uniform, wearing medals I usually didn't wear (I basically never wore all of my medals, as it tended to embarrass commanders to have less medals than their soldiers) and quietly explained to the principal, his safety was predicated upon my children's safety and from that point onward, whatever happens to them would happen to him. She got a one day suspension, he got one day detention, I took both kids to the zoo on that day.
Oddly, there was no repetition of the offense and the school took oddly great pains to avoid their being together. Maybe it was that emerald beret that was convincing...
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That's only a small part. We go silver bullet high tech, then try to pack bleeding edge technologies, forgetting that bleeding edge means it's bloody.
Your example of the Army's attempt to Star Trek a rifle is an excellent example, as they added a smart grenade that wasn't even a prototype initially and never really got out of alpha test prototype stage at the end. They wanted to replace and update the rifle, they then tried to turn it into a Star Trek version of a Swiss army knife, with all of the attendant failures and overruns, forgetting the base rifle in the process.
They lose sight of the overall purpose of the original project, each segment becomes a process queen, turning the whole nine yards into a hanger queen and the damned thing isn't even an aircraft.
Build the ship, build the rifle, get it working as a baseline, basic unit, subprojects have to get their components up and interoperating or else they're cancelled. Then integrate the frigging things.
Because, what good is ship with photon torpedoes if the propulsion system doesn't work? What good is the rifle is the grenade launcher computer is great, but the rifle can't hit the broad side of a barn from the inside?
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I'm more than familiar with the phenomenon, for me, it's accompanied with a hovering sensation in a situation where hovering is impossible and late symptoms is an urge to void, absent anything to void.
In a crew situation, I learned to ask my crew to cover me as I "reset my mental chips after having my mind blown".
Alone, it's a challenge, but first and always ensure I'm not about to select an action that'll be deleterious to going back to a stable situation. Once that's ascertained, take a deep mental breath and step back and while examining something that has nothing whatsoever to confusion, such as a cabin pressure reading or engine efficiency reading, go back to mental square one and evaluate where, what and desired goal.
The effect is basically, like looking out of the windscreen to view a runway and instead are treated to a low altitude view of the moon.
And landing an aircraft on the moon is an exercise in impossibility, no lift or air to feed the cabin compressors, let alone the engines and provide lift.
Essentially, one develops control loops and something happens that's arriving at the moon disruption happens and the mind, losing its reference loops goes gonzo in trying to get a grip unguided.
Hence, the distraction trick and taking a mental step back and an "ignore the mind blown event and see where we are and what's needed and stabilize that approach first".
Because, waking up dead is really, really hard on one's weekend plans.
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@annoyedaussie3942 well, the Lincoln Project are lead by Republican Party members, who are in open revolt against Trump and his Trumpettes, which gives a hint what the heart of the party is thinking. Trump relies upon a minority of the population raising a lot of noise and pretending to be even 1/3 of the population and they're not, they're around 31% at best and quite a few of them are disillusioned by him and his antics. That's especially true when he jumps right over the Constitution and misallocation laws, as only Congress can reallocate money, not the imPOTUS stealing from DoD installation construction and repair budgets to build a wall that Congress refuses to fund.
Trump doesn't even seem to realize that two highly advanced, apparently, secret to him, technologies render his wall useless. The LADDER and a TUNNEL, both of which have breached our border barriers in the past. But, he even counted the border wall section that was blown down as additional new construction.
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Hopefully soon, you'll make an episode on our "second brain", aka the enteric nervous system.
Amazing how many functions are managed so well by so few cells!
Oh, one other malfunction moment, moderate to severe diarrhea. Had an episode strike right after rest rooms reopened during the first spring wave of COVID, where by the time I got to the necessary in the store, well, that toilet area needed some very serious cleaning - despite my efforts to lower that requirement. I did, of course, report it to the store manager and apologized for the god awful mess.
Absolutely zero control once I began to sit down. Never did figure out what so irritated my bowel so greatly. :/
Oh, emergency field hydration, when one is out of IV catheter insertion units or even plain large bore needles, one can use just the tubing (lubricated, of course) rectally and the colon will scavenge the fluid and rehydrate the patient.
Given the choice of rectal rehydration and an intraosseous device, yeah, I'll take the lesser invasive method when AAOx3!
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@ZincoDrone nope, frankly, I'm thinking it's AI inflammatory BS. It calls regex, that's regular expressions, gives a string list, but gives no assertions that would be absolutely necessary in any regular expression.
It's like giving the AI a list of users to be listed as strings, tell it to include regex, but without instructions on what the pattern expressions are to be. So, it gives a list of users, the word regex and of course, no filters or assertions to apply, making the file meaningless to any software, but appear to those who wouldn't know an API from asparagus to be inflammatory.
That stood out to me the first time I saw the BS, as I worked with regex constantly on a daily basis for years, for firewall filters, mail filters, log filters, general content filters, search filters and well, a lot more. I'd bat off a regex statement that was several scrolled lines long like I was typing a quickly jotted off e-mail.
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I asked doctor for a prescription for 600 mg ibuprofen, typically for once a day. Doctor revolted, exclaiming, "Do you know what that can do to your kidneys?!".
I replied, well, most other drugs go through the liver, inflicting their own havoc in your extreme view and I have hepatitis A damage, as well as heat stroke damage to my kidneys (trace of protein) and liver, so instead, how about an opioid?
Got my ibuprofen, 30 day supply lasted a year.
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Unlimited, unrestricted, uncorrected free speech is the favorite tool of Joseph Goebbels.
Unopposed, well, history speaks for itself and since we've not learned from WWII, we'll get to experience WWIII and even bigger and better camps.
We'll all give a wonderful, glowing review of the results, a totally Cerenkov glow.
Your choice, folks. I grew up hearing about that war and its destruction and costs from those directly involved in the fighting, although one uncle that liberated one of the camps never would speak about the experience. I heard about it from a few neighbors and later, other elders that had the camp tattoos. Suffice it to say, I'll fight fascists to the last drop of their blood, as I am also a wartime combat veteran.
My earliest memory, other than being pricked with a diaper pin, was of JFK being assassinated and watched the civil rights movement gain traction and now, appearing to be reversing.
My Twaddle account is long closed, my FB account is now disabled and if he wants to retain a fact free site, in June my charter membership will be deleted. I only kept my account to keep touch with my kids and later, grandkids while deployed.
I've long ceased calling these sites social media, they're antisocial media and frankly, they need my eyes and input for the advertisers to spew advertisements at, I really don't need them.
Always remember, old truckers never die, they just get a new Peterbilt.
Hey, I was only 5 tons and below, as well as armored vehicles of a wee bit more tonnage than that, semis, those I never learned how to operate, although had the opportunity for training been offered, of course I'd have accepted it. I've never declined any form of training. I'll still not decline training, even in my 60's.
I've done everything from shoveling, swinging a 10 pound sledgehammer, finishing concrete, electrical work, plumbing work, sawn more wood than I care to think about, refinished furniture, am a certified electronics technician to component level repair service, worked on nuclear weapons, was an SF medic, worked with explosive demolitions and later, evacuation and medical NCO, operations NCO and beyond, IT engineer and IT security. I've taught electronics theory and practical, complete with tutoring flagging students in algebra and trigonometry, land navigation, basic and advanced marksmanship, advanced medical and intravenous and drug therapies in a field environment, field sanitation and hygiene (with special attention to water purification and waste management) and even some nuclear weapons physics.
Entertainingly, I was highly proficient in every one of those occupations and activities. My favorites, teaching and running clinics. Next place, cooking.
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First, stop politicizing a monitoring warning, lest we lose the entire warning chain. Trump's still got a hard-on for them over COVID making him look bad.
The chance of infection magically appearing in milk cows that somehow incubate H5N1 into a human form is around the same as being hit by lightning while being hit by a meteorite.
Literally. The probability of mutation is fairly remote to begin with within a year, which is millions of generations of virus. The probability of mutation to human form in a bovine, beyond remote, due to a difference in the proteins and the inability of the damned virus to infect a cow if it can infect a human (loads of technical there, but it's remote, a pig would be more probable).
Their cause du jour is "Oh, the Amish that they're oppressing" over some Amish farmers in PA that were raided for unlawfully selling raw milk. Then, how they carried the state on the Amish vote, which is nonsense, due to their tiny population (which is a fairly high number compared to most states) and how few vote for religious reasons.
The actual risk being raw milk being infected with Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium, E. coli, Listeria, Brucella, or Salmonella and unpaid hospital bills and unnecessary deaths in children and elders. The unpaid hospital bills passing on the expense to patients and/or being defrayed via medicaid funds to prevent the bankruptcy of the hospital.
It'd be more fun and trivial for someone to maneuver RFK into championing the return and deregulation of Radithor - triple distilled water with radium added for health bonuses.
That way, he's championing everyone being allowed to drink literal cancer water.
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Oh, but we've got high speed data now. And a half second and change lag round trip...
Used geosynch birds in the military at times, typical lag ranged from 550 ms - 650 ms round trip.
Maybe they'd prefer a cooler locale than earth orbit, say, Mars, where lag ranges from 4.3 minutes to 24 minutes. Ignore that sunny thing getting in the way on occasion or when the planet's facing the wrong way, Harry Potter's magical cue stick will fix that.
Hey, I'm feeling nice, usually I call it Harry's marital aid, in somewhat less family friendly terms.
There are around a thousand things I can think would go well in space, a data center for earth is decidedly not one of them - not even in LEO, where it'd need to be boosted back up fairly frequently or that data center would get decidedly toasty briefly, then go offline in chunks.
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I'm actually an ordained minister, you'd be dismayed as to how many professed Christians cannot identify any part of the teachings that they parrot mindlessly, not by book, chapter, even testament and well, get what they're parroting wrong - this includes many lay preachers and even many ordained ministers.
Ask about the New Covenant, they'll rarely identify Hebrews as one mention, but it was originally mentioned in Jeremiah. But then, I've so frequently heard "Oh, that's Old Testament, it doesn't count", to which I ask, "Oh? Then why did God want it included in the Bible since his Word no longer counts?".
You attack a defective framework by showing its foundation is missing, removing what few props support it a little at a time until it tumbles to the ground. Try to do so rapidly, that collapse then falls upon one's own head.
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@ealswytheangelicrealms lately, I've been getting forecasts that generate much jocularity. As an example, 35% chance of rain means in reality, 100% chance of heavy rain.
And as is typical of late, today it is going to have a high of 66 degrees and it's currently 67 and climbing, was five degrees higher yesterday than forecast.
Yeah, the models are knocked straight into a cocked hat, but the climate isn't warming, the God-king Emperor said so.
Of course, he also says that sick people should still go to work, elderly people should still fly and everyone should fly and stay in hotels at various gatherings, as the hospitality and travel industries are suffering losses. I guess having population losses is better than any loss of income over the short term for stockholders!
Welcome to 1918, mark 2!
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I'll have to take your word for that, as I've only limited experience with the Meridian SL-100, which was configured to only handle a maximum of 10000 callers.
Operable here is, regulations say that if the offending party wants to be masked in, they have to be registered with the FCC with a valid mitigation plan. If not, their traffic is to be prohibited.
What you miss is that foreign companies can connect and use masking via their local provider and leverage their provider's contracts. No, it's always the greedy US company, well, when it's not the space aliens or something.
But, the US carriers do know the origin of the traffic and could block it, but that takes man hours of work to perform and that work would be essentially slave labor, since the company's now enslaved to perform labor for the government for free.
So, what free labor have you provided for the US government this year?
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@@stevenstrain283 appointed by Obama, who followed tradition of maintaining political balance on the commission by seeking Mitch McConnell's advice. Elevated to Chairman by Trump, who didn't bother with balance in anything.
At Verizon, he was there for two years as an in house lawyer. Hardly a full insider, given his being basically a staff lawyer.
Indeed, more telling is that he's a Harvard alumni. That school isn't exactly a budget college, to put it mildly.
Try using all of the facts, not cherry picking shit to support a failed theory. You want someone familiar with regulatory issues in at least telecommunications on the commission, rather than an engineer or tradesman with no knowledge of communications at all. And it's supremely helpful for such regulators to be attorneys, that way at least regulations and rules will be lawful and not something to be overturned on the first challenge, destabilizing the entire telecom industry.
That all said, he screwed the pooch on backtracking on net neutrality, which has finally been undone, but didn't break things as badly as some other Trump appointees have. Like the VA director being directed in what to do by a couple with absolutely zero health care or veterans issues calling the shots behind the scenes, all because of campaign donations to Trump and membership in his club.
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People, stop with the treason crap. Nobody has committed treason, as our Constitution narrowly and precisely defines treason. That was done due to abuses throughout Europe and the UK within their own living memories and to prevent such abuses, they narrowly defined treason.
Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Jan 6 wasn't even treason, as nobody levied war, which by definition requires the use of arms. We lack a declared war, so we're quite absent enemies. Hence, why seditious conspiracy charges were so rarely applied against the insurrectionists and they were instead charged with insurrection.
You do the cause no good when speaking out of ignorance and well, the Constitution isn't all that long, doesn't use complex terminologies, it's in plain English for all to be able to read and comprehend.
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The real question is, what's the policy for a bird strike and possible dual engine loss on final and especially once inside the inner marker and essentially at landing?
That might be something worthy of examining and addressing, as the strike essentially took out both engines at literally the worst possible moment in a landing sequence.
The usual inclination would be to TOGA, climb, go around while evaluating what damage has occurred and run checklists. But, with both engines out at that point, the amount of energy available for a climb is tiny and the amount of time to clean up configuration to lower drag and try both restart and bring the APU online is vanishingly small, given the APU would likely become available to provide power a few seconds after touchdown on that only option available under those conditions, a reciprocal landing.
Training might also be worthy of addressing, as I'm unaware of any training that has a dual engine bird strike induced thrust loss that late in the approach to landing. And one's basically stuck under those conditions entirely with memory items, no time to run any checklists, hell, barely enough time to even pull the appropriate checklist out.
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I know that weapon well enough, we got one full auto and later brand new DMR semiautomatic only models for designated marksman rifles.
Great semiautomatic long range rifle. Fired three rounds in auto and well, I was dubious before and I'm quite proficient at full auto fire, three rounds convinced me it was rubbish. One round on target, the other two shooting butterflies and birds, in damned near any direction save the intended target. Way too light, uncompensated and rubbish in auto. Full auto in .308/7.62x51 NATO needs around 24 - 30 pounds of rifle to remain even an area fire weapon, anything lighter and it's a danger to everyone save the enemy.
Semi, rated to 800 meters, I hit reliably at 1 km. A sniper system it wasn't, but it was close enough for a DMR.
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Well, it'd have to be staged. At the final stages of an election, both candidates receive full presidential level Secret Service security. That means that nobody in proximity to the candidate or POTUS without having a Yankee White clearance. Suffice it to say, that's not an easy clearance to acquire.
So, they'd have to close and have ringers for their photo ops.
Still, I could respect that much effort had he done more than drop one fryer load of fries, manage to set the timer, respond to the timer by removing the baskets from the oil to drain, then dump the baskets into the hopper and get the salt into the hopper, rather than the floor. Say, oh rotate stations and work them as well and at least work one part time shift entirely.
In his favor though, he did follow instructions well enough to not injure himself or set the water on fire. That's more than some of my neighbors can say, given how many fire department calls this apartment building gets... :/
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Don't feel like editing...
Transgender Day of Visibility started in 2009, so I'm guessing that Biden used Obama's time machine again. Because 24 hours in a day aren't enough, one needs to time travel to add to one's workload...
The GOP has a wonderful single plank platform, the fear plank. That's it, they've turned into a one trick pony and can't even manage to properly perform that trick. MAGA has successfully done what the nativists did to the previous conservative Whig party - killed it. But, never fear, that minority will likely try to start a civil war, to learn that the military won't join them and that modern weapons neutralize their myth of the super patriot with an AR or commie AK.
Yeah, had to go there, since they're so in love with calling everyone commies, while embracing the bastards.
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While some of the ANTIFA protests I at heart agree with, violence as a matter of first resort is the hallmark of the incompetent. Violence in defense is acceptable, at an equal measure, you don't shoot someone for punching you, as an example, block and hit back, is a measure in kind.
Using tear gas and in one charge, a lethal weapon, big bad karma on that one, enjoy being reborn as a slug or something.
Still, 11 out of such a crowd is a very small number to be trying to make international news out of. Deflecting from the 1/6 insurrection with 750+ arrests and hundreds so far convictions, including for sedition?
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Probably is, the trick is sufficient cross checking and auditing to try to trip that up.
The biggest plus in open source is, tens of thousands of eyes on all of the code. Maybe George didn't spot the makefile change, but Bob had an odd command he needed plugged in to compile the thing for his specific needs and ran into the unauthorized change. Bob asks about it, none of the devs know what's going on and start prying, then the lid pops off of that jar. All for free, whereas in closed source, all have to be paid, so are lesser in numbers or odd one-off cases that would cause them to go into a makefile.
Welcome to engineering 101, where everything is a tradeoff. You've taken your first baby step into adulthood. Beware, there be dragons!
No, that wasn't a dragon, I'm just not used to eating beans that much anymore... Sorry!
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Nerve disruption kills an electocution victim? Good thing, that means we can toss the defibrillators into the trashcan!
Given that the heart's conduction system is not based at all on nerves. By the standards stated here, that 100KV shock you get in winter from walking across the carpet is 100% lethal, every time!
And yes, it is the current that kills. The current overwhelms signalling in both muscles and myocytes in the heart, leaving both contracted for the duration of the current flow. Disrupt the cardiac conduction enough, fibrillation occurs and the person does that dead thing.
I've gotten hit by 45 KV, still around, as the current was low, so it was only painful. A taser delivers 50 KV, only a couple of hundred deaths are accounted for by taser. An electric chair delivered 2KV - 2.5KV at 7 - 12 amperes of current, both cooking the prisoner and fibrillating the heart, resulting in death. A short duration jolt may or may not cause fibrillation, as then it becomes a matter of timing, with around a 50 ms window within the QRS complex to trigger ventricular fibrillation. I drew around 3 amperes, as verified by the circuit designer, when insulation failed and I drew a 1.5 KV AC arc that had 130 V DC riding under it, the 130 V being the high current carrier. Blew the regulator, I survived after an escape beat restored normal heartbeat. Couldn't use my hands for much for a day, was sore for a week, still here. A longer, worse timed jolt, we'd not be communicating without a seance and since I don't believe in those, I'd not bother showing up.
Draw around a half ampere of current and your muscles contract strong enough that you cannot release any grasped conductor.
But, what would this old Army medic and certified electronics technician know about electrocution?
Shall we discuss sodium vs calcium channels? The sodium-potassium pump?
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@psjesse117 ironically, he was best in his career as a logistics man, not a combatant commander. So, a surface combatant is now named after a land logistician, ironic, but true. One upside is, he had combatant commanders report to him and a battle staff to do the heavy lifting and understood his limitations enough to choose good leaders under him and listen to their input.
All good things, as he excelled in politics, which is what is needed at the level of leadership he was appointed to during the war. Could you see Patton in his place? The Allies would have been fighting one another and the Germans. ;)
And Omar Bradley said it best, "Amateurs talk about tactics, professionals talk about logistics". Something Patton learned the hard way, when his armor outstripped their fuel supply and sat empty right in the middle of the road. Something recently observed in Ukraine, for much the same reason.
Still, they're welcome to name a ship after me, call it the USS Boobyprize.
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Ah, but is that burger still in your mind?
Poor soul, have some of my brunch, spinach, sauteed with garlic, a bit of chili pepper and chicken bullion. Leftovers from last night's junk food dinner of mac and cheese with some ham added, comfort food.
Tonight will be clams and linguini in white sauce. Preparation time, maybe a half hour, consumption time, mere minutes. ;)
Recipe is simple, olive oil, garlic to taste (there's no such thing as too much garlic for me), onion, a bit of basil, saute till onions and garlic are cooked, add clam juice and clams, cook the pasta, drain pasta (yeah, some need to be reminded), add sauce, enjoy.
And there's also no such thing as too much onion. ;P
Red sauce is similar, garlic, onion in copious quantities, want it sweeter, add more onion, tomatoes (canned crushed or feel free to blanch and peel fresh tomatoes, some whole tomatoes to preference, loads more basil (I tend to use fresh frozen, sectioned off in a quart container and wax paper separating leaf layers, but dried works too), chili pepper to taste, add meat with fat and hopefully bones to thicken and flavor, cook until the meat falls off of the bones and the oil and fat puddles, foam being now gone, sauce is done.
I make the red sauce in two gallon batches for home, all stored in quart containers, frozen or canned in my pressure cooker. Preparation time, well, pretty much all day. The stove does most of the work, I just have to stir occasionally. ;)
Most good recipes are fairly simple, preparation and cooking tend to be the greater pain in the ass.
But, like any relationship, well worth the effort.
Sponsors be doubly damned.
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Erm, first off, the Pentagon is the headquarters of the DoD, the NSA is part of the DoD.
Second, all communications, digital, video or telephonic are subject to monitoring and all devices are placarded with that notice.
https://www.dami.army.pentagon.mil/site/sso/docs/infosec/dd%20form%202056.pdf
Finally, direct, rather than the usual automated monitoring can be ordered by the commander of the unit in question, be it an individual unit or the entire office complex communications of the Pentagon, that in military circles constitutes a warrant.
Hell, when preparing an information security report and gathering numbers and reports to annotate information in my report, I blundered into a directory of text files, one of which contained an automated transcript of my morale call home to my wife. Reported the access allocation error on that directory and it was promptly rectified, as I shouldn't have had access to that directory and files - not part of my job and what I did have access to normally was.
Here's a notice for an information system:
https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/dps/consent
Now, the question is, did Hegseth forget when he got his drunk on that he signed the authorization or didn't he check into his predecessor's authorizations?
Because, the Pentagon is DoD, not a civilian office and handles our most guarded of secrets, so we kind of like to know if those secrets are being spoken about on the wrong security domain communication channels, like oh, Signal.
So, the only questionable thing is that the SecDef was unaware of what his assets were authorized to do.
And NSA monitored all of our communications channels when I was working on various US and overseas bases, they also would schedule a red and blue team to evaluate our network's security, blue team to document our configurations and deficits, red team to breach in. Had fun with the red team, both sides learned new tricks.
And DISA records all network traffic, that's how Manning got caught siphoning classified information off to removable media, the logs also stored.
Although, with Manning, while Manning was rightfully imprisoned, that service member shouldn't have been alone, as the S1, S2, section officer all should've been as well for dereliction of duty. Once flagged for deleterious personnel action, access is to be immediately terminated. Had to do that once to a coworker I was friends with, all due to a suspended security clearance due to not paying overdue child support.
So, I'm confused that someone who served in the USMC didn't notice all of those stickers. Too busy chewing crayons to notice? Not criticizing, my Army ass ate all the green ones out of the box before the Marines could get to them. :P
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@JamieSommerfeldt and can make for some interesting and dense conversations with other faiths, such as with a rabbi. Where some interpret that avatar for the evils of human nature, as Judaism doesn't do Original Sin and inherited guilt. That innovation was a European thing, which was practiced until quite recently by governments via corruption of blood and writ of attainder.
I grew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, learned all kinds of interesting things. Alas, one thing I never learned was how to properly knot challah. Maybe I should make friends at the synagogue nextdoor to my apartment building and see if anyone wants to teach this old guy how to make some, make regular bread all the time...
Last week, there was some ceremony going on and I was shocked to see that they felt the need to have an armed guard on premises. No house of worship on this continent should ever have to feel that need! But, some zanies think only they deserve rights and will deny everyone else their rights, by main force if they're ineffective in any other way. History has proved that true, with actual artillery being used by Protestants against Roman Catholics in Philadelphia in the 1850's, took the militia to quell that, after losing some men, the militia brought their own artillery and surrounded the idiots with the port's stolen cannon and made them put it back and patrolled city streets with fixed bayonets.
Which was about what it took to keep the same idiocy from happening in areas I was deployed to in the wars...
No need for a devil, when people can be assholes all on their own. Then, one reminds them that the Almighty isn't on call that week, but you are and have plenty of white phosphorus.
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Now, now. He did admit that he doesn't want to show off his body, with the sun and beach and all, "it's not a pretty sight".
A feeling that I'm intimately familiar with, given the EPA prohibition for my wearing a Speedo. No idea why, only 50 people turned into stone!
But, let's seriously examine public events that were televised live. At the D-Day memorial, every world leader walked to the venue, Trump rode a golf cart. Biden rides a bicycle, trump rides a reinforced golf cart. Trump needed a General to help him ascend a ramp.
Still, Chris Christy is rather rotund. And I've room to talk, as Weebles Wobble but we don't fall down.
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Well, there are videos of after of both prompt criticality accident victims, thankfully, they'll remain classified indefinitely.
What that level of radiation did to those men was beyond what a horror film could ever show.
I do seem to recall a 6 ton design yield test, can't recall the test name and I doubt there'd be a video released on that silly design.
Still, were I asked to fire a Davey Crockett device, "Sir, did you just say that you want me to toss a whatlear whathead close to hand grenade distance?! Sir, I really need you to urinate into this specimen container for analysis, because you have to be fucking high".
We jokingly called them what they were, nuclear hand grenades.
The test, obscene. Fired the damned thing, had men run right into ground zero's fallout.
Actually met some of those veterans, studied for life through the VA.
Ignored for life - those downwind of above ground nuclear testing. Properly named Downwinders, there's a Wikipedia article on them.
I was born a week after Czar Bomba detonated. I still have a higher background gamma count than my children and grandchildren.
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Perposterown , what you are speaking of is an NFA firearm (National Firearms Act), which covers fully automatic weapons, disguised firearms and destructive weapons (bombs, artillery, etc).
A Single Scope Background Investigation is performed before a tax stamp is issued so that one can possess an NFA weapon.
It's literally the same background investigation used to acquire a top secret or special compartmentalized intelligence clearance.
Neighbors, former neighbors, coworkers, former coworkers, family, employers, former employers are all interviewed about the one seeking the tax stamp (or security clearance).
Once one is cleared, there is no waiting period. What you think is a waiting period is due to the length, depth and scope of the background check.
BTW, one of the other authorities that can sign the application form is a judge. All that signature does is state to the BATFE that the community or county has not outlawed NFA weapons.
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Grammer Nazi , why stoop to ad hominem attacks, when well established facts are trivially available?
Such as, there have been precisely zero crimes committed with these rifles, partly due to their cost and largely due to their mass and length.
This particular behemoth weighs in around 25 pounds, without optics and magazine. Loaded and with the appropriate scope, it's around 40 pounds.
Its bolt action cousins start out at 45 pounds, adding 15 pounds for the scope an magazine.
Criminals want concealability, lightness, inexpensive ammunition and well, anything other than this shoulder pounder.
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While it's potentially useful against endangered rhinos, elephants and
tyrannosaurs, OK, the last is a joke, realistically, it's a useless
rifle for most.
It is useful for those inclined for super long distance marksmanship
and for the military, in niche positions.
As for the 5 foot tall woman, my wife is entirely 5 foot 1 inch tall
as is as inclined to abuse her shoulder as I am with that behemoth.
We'll stick with gentler weapons, like a 7.62x51 round.
Seriously, using that thing is akin to being jerked off by an elephant.
OK, not quite that bad, but, close enough for government work.
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Noliving , let's keep it apples to crabapples, shall we? The firearm vs car argument is a strawman.
So, let's see how many people in the US are killed by .50 BMG rifles in a violent crime or suicide vs how many people in the US are killed by violent crime or suicide with a handgun?
So, that would be zero vs thousands.
Meanwhile, there are hundreds of these rifles in use in competition every year, with hundreds more from other companies that make similar products.
You did make one error, these rifles were originally anti-tank rifles, until tank armor improved enough that they became anti-equipment rifles. It's only recently that they've been used as anti-personnel, save in highly limited special operations usage.
Of course, when an unlawful combatant (read; non-military, non-uniformed forces fighter) shoots at you with an RPG, protection under the Geneva conventions and the Hauge conventions is not present.
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Harri v'Jah , I know people who own one of these. Personally, not my cup of tea, the shove it gives is significant (thankfully, not as bad as it could be, due to the muzzle break).
None would consider shooting at anything other than paper targets, far, far away.
That said, you betray your ignorance, as shooting down an aircraft is extremely hard - even with a machine gun. For an example, look at WWII footage and see how many rounds are fired and most miss the aircraft, even when it's flying low or straight at the gun position.
Shooting at aircraft was trained in the military, where we estimated the velocity of the approaching aircraft and aimed football fields ahead of its projected path. We were also told that we'd likely not hit the aircraft anyway, but a small chance was better than no chance at all of surviving.
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And this is how our own nation has taught one and all to eat their own.
Especially when this retired Army guy managed to Google the answers in under two seconds.
I've also served with reformed Marines, aka ETS'd and went to a softer MOS, such as US Army infantry.
Actually, most were infantry, one was injured LOD and went admin MOS in the Army.
In moments of inter-service rivalry, I remind every Marine that their paycheck has Department of the Navy stamped upon it. ;)
Those overlapped with are always welcome for a free drink and vice versa.
Interoperation is the rule since 9/11, but already planned.
So, if you really feel like challenging, try Marine slang, terms unofficially in use in a specific time period, etc.
Otherwise, I suggest slack until you meet face to face and can show a DD2A or CAC card or similar US DoD identification cards.
Or more simply, stop trying to eat our own in our zeal to uncover some piece of shit unworthy of such an effort online, but well worthy of doing so in person.
Where the suspect can attempt to stand at parade rest.
Or recite a specific manual of arms within a set amount of time.
Or even the specifics of clearing a jam in a specific weapon.
General orders?! WTF, over?! Did you not advance beyond Lance?
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FenderSchonJPX , "This is the BS of the elitist rulers over us who are supposed to be OUR servants."
It's hard to not comprehend that as, in this context, your claiming that our police are our leaders.
Our problems are multiple. First, we have an annoying habituation of electing police officials and district attorneys that are "tough on crime", resulting in this mess.
Second, our governments, local, state and federal, are bought and paid for. Those campaigns don't pay for themselves. The last two Congressional elections had 8 billion dollars spent on them.
You can be quite certain that both parties campaigns received funding from the same wealthy patrons, being then beholden for their office to the generous contributors.
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bringitonTV , is it not what the food tastes like that really matters?
I've suffered through beautiful meals that were bland and tasted like pureed cardboard, but looked like a work of art.
I've personally prepared "puke stew", designed to be revolting in appearance (hence, its name), but was an absolute delight to the palate.
The presentation isn't nearly as important to a discerning consumer of the food as the taste, it's secondary.
For, sushi that looked like it was rolled in dirty sock would be rejected, but the best presented and bland sushi would be rejected upon the first bite.
The former may be forgiven if the presentation improved or the taste was beyond exceptional, the latter is an unforgivable offense and few would repeat that experience.
Still, from this, I learned a couple of things.
I'll still place the ginger on the sushi, but it's the last part in my mouth anyway. I rather enjoy it that way, rather than having a ginger chaser.
But, I'll agree. Shaking it is for the bathroom, not for over one's table or sauce.
Would that I could spend three months with the good chef to learn a few things and pass along some of my knowledge and experience.
For, I'd learn a lot about Japanese culture, culinary matters and especially making sushi. He'd learn quite a bit of various dishes, from all over the world, personally acquired, as well as some personal recipes that are qualitative, rather than quantitative in nature (the recipe varies based upon the desired usage, such as more onion over garlic for a sweeter flavor with certain meats (such as crab) and more garlic over onion for various stronger flavored meats (such as goat or mutton).
While he's likely intimately aware of that set of facts, the difference is one of regional cuisine and welcome to many people who enjoy food.
He'd also love my lentil-lamb stew, I'm sure.
And meet with a fine dish of his own.
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OK, first, not every firearm is for hunting or self-defense. There are firearms designed for competition, some are also used by the military as sniper systems.
In this instance, the rifle is used by certain military units for long range sniper operations.
It's also used by civilians for 1/4 and 1/2 mile precision shooting competitions.
As for the suppressor, do learn a little about US firearms laws before you make an ass of yourself again. Suppressors, fully automatic weapons, destructive weapons (missiles, bombs, etc) and disguised firearms are NFA (National Firearms Act) weapons, alongside of short barreled rifles and shotguns. To be authorized to possess the tax stamp and hence, the device that stamp corresponds to, you have to go through the same background investigation as is used to acquire a Top Secret or Special Compartmentalized Intelligence clearance.
Needless to say, many will not meet the stringent requirements to be permitted to possess such devices.
Leaving them with a rather expensive rifle, optics and it should be noted, really heavy rifle, 25 - 45 pounds of rifle, plus optics and loaded magazine (figure 10 - 15 pounds there).
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@georgewallot7739 the early Nike were conventional warheads, from Ajax through Zeus were nukes, with the B model Zeus carrying a neutron bomb to fizzle incoming warhead electronics and fissile mass in the warheads.
Also, that same company brought us nationwide fiber optic cables, much of which the US government leased from them and only recently handed back the control of (well, what they weren't using, as upgrades over time made the links a lot faster).
WWII saw pretty much every company producing military products, from a pilot lamp company producing submachine guns to IBM and Singer (to name just two out of many) producing M2 .50 cal machine guns. After the war ended, quite a few kept parts of their military products divisions and contributed to the Cold War efforts. Companies do, after all, exist in order to make money.
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evolvedtg , quite cute disinformation. An IQ of 20 - 27 would result in someone incapable of operating a motor vehicle, safely handle a firearm or even hit a target. Indeed, at that IQ level, literacy is absent.
Indeed, just to be able to perform domestic work requires an IQ of 50.
So, let's look at psychological and legal definitions:
IQ below 30 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot
IQ of 26 - 50 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbecile
IQ of 0 - 25 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moron_%28psychology%29
Meanwhile, I am aware of a study that is closed source, where the US Army attempted to use the mentally retarded as soldiers. It was found that none of the "recruits" would endanger themselves in simulated combat conditions, as they feared becoming injured. It was determined that above average intelligence is required to override one's survival instinct.
That is why SF will only accept a GT score of 110 or greater, with the mean being around 120.
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Robert B , it still ends up around as loud as a .308 or so.
But, at the distance involved, well, the supersonic bullet impacts before the sound of the round firing arrives.
From a mile or more away.
What is greatly reduced is the 25 meter around and behind region of dust, leaves, dirt, sand, whatever isn't nailed down flying around for two meters or so around the firer.
Add in the reduced overall signature and add in "special" rounds available for the military, let's call this pretty much the silent wrath of an angry god.
Such as APDP and AP-I as sparse examples.
Or more simply, this veteran wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of a military sniper from our nation firing at him.
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Amy Johnson , erm, ion pulse engines did begine to become practical back then, but the strongest ion pulse engine put out a whopping 88 newtons. You're not moving an aircraft with that thrust!
Now, pulse detonation engines also were coming out around then, R&D on the Air Force's space plane was ongoing at that time as well, with a test flight only recently completed (with an extended period in orbit). Drones were being developed as well during that time.
That all said, test pilots cooked onto seats? Not happening, they'd eject before they'd get killed by any heat, save during a crash. Ejecting engines, for safety reasons? By the time you'd realize that a high power engine was getting ready to come apart, it'd be too late to eject it, as the first hint is a RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly).
Still, one never knows what "isn't" sitting in a hangar at Dreamland.
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+jooper99 , go for it. I know for a pure fact, I'll take you down, along with 20 of your peers before you get a round actually in my area.
I'm former SF, retired military and feared by our enemies in our recent wars.
I'll let anyone talk smack. I'll not let anyone threaten life over liberty of freedom of speech.
Our very first amendment.
Or have you gotten even that wrong?
Or is free speech, the very fucking first amendment wrong in your fucked up world?
For me, I have an M1A, M14A4, assorted other equipment, including my favored M1911A1, largely uncustomized.
So, idiot may speak, others can educate, none may threaten, without reprisal.
The Constitution is my bible, none ever may force their nonsense against it, lest main force of military arms be brought against that.
For, my oath of enlistment lacked an expiration, only the term of service in the contract did.
jooper99
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+Caleb Whittington first, a drone can pretty much take out one target, Hellfire missiles are quite heavy. Let's say it's a single house, with a family in it.
That isn't genocide, genocide is an entire group targeted and killed off. The Jews in WWII, the Native Americans in the past century, those were attempted genocides.
A .50 BMG rifle or machinegun can take down a drone or even an aircraft, it's improbable as hell. Watch a WWII naval battle film some time and note how many hundreds of rounds were fired at Japanese "Zeros" and never damaged the aircraft, taking thousands of rounds to down a single aircraft.
The only way a Barrett or similar rifle could take out a drone is if its on the ground, once it's moving, you'd need a machinegun and a hell of a lot of cans of ammunition.
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sʞɔıʍ ǝʌǝʇs, gee, I always thought religion was the opiate of the masses.
"...yet they are told they have the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", that is from the declaration of independance, a document with no legal standing in the US. It was a declaration of war and the Constitution supersedes it.
But, you are correct about "patriotic" chest thumping, winning is first, everything for a buck and a spectacularly failing school system.
When I went to school, we had an observatory that was donated and used by the students, we had donated electron microscopes that were used by the students, nineteen eighty four was required reading, as was Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The latter, to teach us warnings and about the uglier part of our past.
Those are all gone, chemistry classes use M&M's in place of reagents, no required reading and nothing whatsoever on critical thinking.
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Craig Blast, I'll have you know that I'm a happily married man, my wife and I have been married for going on 34 years. Our children are grown and we now have grandchildren.
I'll also have you know that that is not an apron, it's a tablecloth from an Italian restaurant.
OK, it's not that either. But, it beat the shit out of those shitty dust masks issued to us by the Army and it helped us remain covert by mixing in with the local populace. Sandstorms suck, majorly. Sand is the minority component of a sandstorm, there's a fuck ton more dust that's about as fine as portland cement and worse, acts like it when that shit gets in your nose, mouth and hair. My wife captured that image when I returned to quarters while I was deployed.
And to be nice about it, I've killed badder than you wiping my ass in the morning.
So, why don't you go away, before I have your woman take your cute little bike away from you. To judge by your behavior, we know that the woman wears the pants in your house.
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Michael Coulter , at my stage of life, having served for nearly 28 years in the US Army and having fired an M82, along with pretty much every small arms and crew served field arms, thanks, but no thanks, not even for your .300wsm.
I'd prefer to avoid such abuse and will stick with .308, 30-06, 30-30, 45-70, etc.
But, I'll admit some surprise in the range you offered. For that round, the drop is predictable to 600 meters and frankly, I've long fired over that range with 5.56mm and 7.65, .50BMG was a bit longer, but not as well as the unit sniper.
I've even qualified with a non-zeroed, first met M-16, "Kentucky windageing like a motherfucker. Still qualified expert. It came down to a long range miss, shorter range off center hit and knowing the trajectory of the round/sight/mass and propellant load.
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Harriscandoit , first, your linked article provided nothing more than the fact hat US arms controls works. All were ar DEA agent paused whitest passing.
Now, I"ll provide one entry that has sensitive sources. A drug dealer that had DoD owned M2 .50 BMG machine gun aimed at the door. Each and every DEA agent paused, whilst passing the stolen military weapon.
Frankly, as one who has handle and used this particular class of weapon, it's not happening.
Foremost is, that of protected politicians, a range greater than a mile.
The precise range isn't even available to me, but, it's in excess of two miles.
Lacking is the experience in firing over long distances.
The reality of it is, firing over such an insane amount of landscape to exterminate a political leader is absurd. I couldn't manage that, none of my team snipers could dot that.
The target is, in the few scopes that work without being shaken apart leave that target a dot. Literally.
But, remove every threat, the US would starve to death, for US humanity couldn't even be allowed to cut a slice of meat.
For, humanity has turned everything into a weapon.
So, the "proper" course would be to ban humanity.
Or prohibit metallurgy and plastics.
The "Founding fathers" had a notion that thew populace could remove a soffllaw government.
Their intent was a populace equally armed to the scope of the3 military.
That desire is satisfied via the militia act of 1903 and our draft system..
I could go on at great length and great volume;
I'll; not, due to a dire NDA.
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Sam King , first, as a firearms owner with a full dozen firearms, I'll call bullshit on your strawman. A hammer, anvil or sledghammer do not operate over distance of hundreds, or even kilometers.
That said, precisely zero .50 BMG firearms have ever been used in a crime.
That is due to the incredible mass of the weapon.
I'll add a politician's argument that "you could shoot down an airplane" insults WWII veterans, who knew firsthand how hard it was to shoot down an aircraft aimed at them, with a hosing ammunition weapon.
The reliable fact that zero offenses have ever happened with a weapon that has peers going back to WWI will suffice, without calling peers with this weapon and a .22 or a household item that was also quite rare in use as a murder weapon, a knife was the most common household weapon.
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*****, first of all, are we a people of law or are we a people of rule by force?
When I deployed, we didn't have lawless enforcement officers kicking and choking minor children. Law enforcement officers were firm and calm. Force was based upon an escalation chain.
Not choke, then kick a minor child.
I've returned home to a land of summary execution, be it "justice" or life.
Now, about me. I served for nearly 30 years in the US Army. The picture is one snuck by my wife, during a skype call to her when in theater.
We also lived in SW Philadelphia, which is most certainly not the garden spot of the world, but Philadelphia has greater horrors as well. I spent time home, during the early and middle period being a one man townwatch. In a police disciplinary district. Other districts got real cops, we got F-Troop, the ones on the way out for misconduct. A man I personally knew, who suffered from dementia, was bounced on his head down cement steps, resulting in the loss of his life. Of course, the F-Troop officers ended up fired. Gotta protect against liability.
The method I used to remove crime from my non-bulletproof house will not be discussed, which should give you a hint.
I will admit to ambushing an ambush against my patrols of my neighborhood, via taking my Dutch shepherd for a walk. That dog, a rescue from drug dealers, hated the smell of smokeless powder.
He was also fond of "eating" hands. I'll not go on further on that event that marked the retreat of the hardened drug dealers.
Personal friends: Many law enforcement officers, one a turnkey in my district. Many, many service members. A significant number of civilians.
Today, I've redeployed home in retirement from the Army and wondering whatinhell happened to this nation. It's very, very fascist in nature.
That was absent when I departed to defend this nation.
So, what in the hell did you people do to my country? If I knew it was going to go this far south, I'd have stayed home and let airplane after airplane or whatever the demented minds threw at office towers with personal friends and family in them!
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rstevewarmorycom , you've failed in your critical thinking then. There have been precisely zero attempts in any flight originating in the US.
Every attempt has been inbound flights, with such brilliant things like a shoe bomb (silly, everyone knows shoes are telephones from Get Smart), diaper bomb and not a one detonated, although the diaper did burn the idiot badly.
I used the search home and papers for a reason, one paranoid claim was made that the fourth amendment is no longer in effect, when obviously it still is.
On a political question, why communism? Thus far, every communist state has failed, switching into a mixed capitalistic system?
Effective states mix capitalism and socialism, blended as their culture and society prefers to create a stable society.
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rstevewarmorycom all we have is security theater and TSA agents overstepping their authority. All on the taxpayers dime.
Meanwhile, a fundamental right we do possess is the right to travel. So, we should walk across the Atlantic or Pacific oceans?! Should we walk between Los Angeles and Philadelphia?
I spent nearly 30 years of my life defending this nation and our Constitution in the military. I didn't defend it so that pussies at home could fuck the place up.
The 9/11 hijackers carried their weapons onboard because the FAA stated that those weapons were allowed. The contractors then were castigated because they did what the FAA told them to do and lost their jobs, to be replaced by taxpayer funded Keystone Kops!
Zero hijack attempts have been made since 9/11. No bombs have been brought onto aircraft since 9/11, no attempts have been made since the 1970's! What was attempted was attempts to bring in things not looked for, shoe bombs, diaper bombs from abroad. High explosives aren't easily acquired in this country, but in developing nations, they're easily acquired.
So, stop with security theater, taxpayer boondoggles and institute that which is effective.
Which sure as fuck isn't the bullshit the TSA has been claiming is security and it sure as hell ain't fashion police.
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+Vegan Dutchess, is that fragile or brittle? While something may be fragile and break in half, brittle comes to pieces when stressed.
+DragonDyce, odd, as I've found no such documentation, not on NIPRnet, SIPRnet or JWICS. So, where are these mythical documents to be found, the Harry Potter wand vault? Oddly though, your random and likely Russian originated rant had precisely shit to do with the video.
And unlike you, do have access to those networks.
And more importantly, I have access to reality, which is obviously far outside of your grasp.
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ikeknights free speech does not fully exist on a job.
When you're on employer time, your speech is your employers, when off work, if you associate via uniform, voluntary admission, ID card, etc your speech is your employer's, as any and all could associate the speech with the employer's views.
The case law on that is older than I am and I'm far from young. As in having grandchildren and am a bit over a decade from retirement.
One does have full free-ish spech when off the clock, non-identifialbe as an employee, barely.
Facebook posts have gotten people fired.
Where speech is far from free is, sedition, enacting treason, revealing contracted secrets, hate speech (such as dropping the N bomb at an NAACP convention when not black. i.e.; speech designed to cause a breech of the peace).
Meanwhile, the case law does not prohibit "crying out fire in a crowded movie theater", it was an example of protected free speech that was a bad idea and ended up actionable in a civil court.
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+Shinji Hirako which facts do you wish evidence for, child? The .50 BMG round? the SVD performance? Afghans and their apparently infinite supplies of RPG's? Russia Today being more full of shit than a Christmas Goose, embarrassing the US government through putting out more bullshit than the US government, already infamous for phenomenal output, being outpaced by RT?
Or infowars being bullshit on rye, calling itself a Reuben sandwich? No rye, no beef, no cheese, no sauerkraut, only shit.
So, which? I am perfectly capable of burying you with respected source links.
Which do you wish evidence for, child?
For, that is my real face and white beard, child.
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@lloydmckay3241 that's blasphemy! One needs to have a priest read such holy documents to you and explain how white is black and down is really up!
Or something.
Then, we'll learn that the Declaration of Independence is part of the Constitution (it isn't) and well, anything else others decide is right, not what's truly written there.
OK, seriously though, that's the very first thing that I advise. For crying out loud, it's in plain English for all to comprehend! It's not as if it's in Latin!
It doesn't start with e plebnista, it starts with We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Not that we started with a perfect Union, but to establish and grow a more perfect Union, a process that should continue forever, for perfection can never be truly obtained, only approached more and more closely.
The heart of the founders intent is right there in the preamble.
Yet people incessantly get even the preamble wrong, then advance on to include all other documents that fits their distorted views into the Constitution, hammering away fruitlessly their square peg into a round hole.
Nope, if we need to improve that Constitution, we don't redefine words or insert notions not present, we amend it and it is and should be an onerous process.
And it's been good enough that since 1789, we only fouled up once, with prohibition. And promptly, when we realized that made things far less perfect, repealed it with a new amendment.
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@Jordan-vg5hp they were nearly head on when the alert was triggered and ATC queried if visual was achieved. Per the included radar, around a mile of separation, which at a mutual closure of around 300 knots, around maybe 10 seconds from each other. Not a hell of a lot of time to decide if the alert is spurious, which isn't uncommon in congested airspace and low altitudes, what range and in the dark, well depth perception is fairly well lost due to few to no visual references, so is that a commuter, a heavy, a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier, OK, the last obviously doesn't exist, but yeah. A lot of information, on top of going through a landing checklist and maybe one has the right aircraft in view, maybe the helicopter could fully see it and not have it partially obscured by the blur of the rotor disc as it descends that 100 fateful feet.
And if actually recognized and realizing one's seconds from deep poop, neither aircraft is a fighter aircraft, one's landing and about as nimble as an overfed cow, the UH-60 is a utility bird, not the most nimble thing on the planet either.
Both fine aircraft, just not things that can go darting around like their jet fighters.
My only question is how the ATC software didn't catch the conflict after registering the final turn of the fixed wing.
Well, we'll have to await the NTSB on this one, like most and see what recommendations they can offer to prevent it from happening again.
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The VA finally, after a literal decade and spare change of begging, finally got permission for experimental research in psychedelics in conjunction and alone in their patients, especially PTSD patients.
Mild to moderate efficacy in psychedelics alone, highly effective but not a panacea when psychedelics and therapy were combined in a session, individual or group.
Which makes sense, as one's basically discussing the triggers and guiding rebuilding the memory circuit in a less harmful configuration. Memory being a bit weird, it essentially gets erased during recall, then stored again, so altering the perspective alerts how that specific network configures itself, with proper guidance, less stressors reinforcing the trauma already recorded.
Of course, the prohibitionists, who want to prohibit pretty much anything that ameliorates misery hate it and want it banned again. But, some of their more extreme end also want all anesthetics banned. Something I didn't believe until I heard some openly discussing just that, apparently agony builds character.
Took all of my self control to not build their character into godhood of agony...
They're also at the heart of the "veterans get too much" crowd, wanting to curtail pretty much all VA benefits, even for quadriplegics. But, they oddly demur from having their character improved via their own preaching for some odd reason.
Just a bit of a sore subject and a bit fresher in memory, as I just got done with a meeting with my VA social worker.
And reminded me of one of my men, who suffered from a mental breakdown, resulting in discharge and homelessness. Caught him sneaking into the unit to sleep, the leadership wanted law enforcement to remove him. I guided him out and took him to the VA hospital for treatment, with the stern NCO's admonition, "Don't release him until he's stabilized fully and functional or I'll be back to discuss the matter in detail", while in my duty uniform.
Last I'd heard, he's been years without incident, holding down a decent enough job and has his own place to lay his head at night.
That was before the GWOT, where the VA budget got slashed again, for the 30th time I counted, after the first year of the war and men were coming back missing pieces.
Another fine reminder, "Veterans are #1", but when one looks, the third digit is usually the one raised.
Circling back from the tangent, psychedelics alone are at best moderately useful alone, with therapy, are proven by multiple peer reviewed studies to be much more effective than other more conventional treatments - but, like anything that's actually effective, they take time to implement and become fully effective, there's no quick fix for anything.
And the naysayers in the video, who questioned psychedelics usage, "Why would these be effective in so many...", Bupropion (aka Wellbutrin), an atypical antidepressant, obviously used to treat clinical depression, also used in smoking cessation. I can name a half dozen other drugs that similarly are used in similar multi-purpose roles, some entirely off label due to FDA resistance that's largely political. Altering signal processing in the brain causes alternative circuits and networks to form, which can be, if effectively guided, effect permanent beneficial effects.
And I've got no dog in this fight, as I was not involved in any of the studies, nor have I required treatment. My only area of concern is of helping others, which is far more than some that proclaim to adhere to Christian values, but effectively ignore their own savior's messages about healing the sick, housing the homeless and helping the helpless.
And two things I dearly loathe being, anything that messes with my perceptions of reality and hypocrites.
So, for mushrooms, I'll personally stick with my portobello mushrooms, typically with some lentils in a few dishes that I've ginned up and quite enjoy. Still perfecting a lentil/portobello meatloaf substitute for when I want a change of pace from a meat dish. Working out some texture issues, taste is dialed in nicely.
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The plants are expensive, concrete is expensive for a reason. Look up what it takes to make concrete, tons of baking rock...
Then, it takes around 60 days for concrete to cure. Concrete doesn't dry, it hydrates and forms carbonate rods to form its matrix, that takes time to do.
And I actually do like nuclear power. A lot. But, construction takes a long time, due to complexity and well, curing of concrete.
Although, I am a bigger fan of thorium power. Alas, the leader of the world, the US isn't leading, as usual, India is leading that push. We'll continue leading by defaulting, as usual, we trailed Europe in germ theory, physics and well, everything social. Now, we've eroded our industrial base, so we'll continue to lead in the only way we've ever done, leading in mediocrity.
Off of the political front, it'll take around 5 years to build a nuclear power plant. With significant effort and minimal time to cure concrete and put the massive erector set from hell together. Think royal pain in the gonads to build properly, yeah, that's it. Doesn't make it worthless, just a pain in the gonads to build.
Look at how long it takes to build a sizable dam, pretty much the same thing, with a bit less complexity.
Oh, we've established gainful fusion at the National Ignition Facility. When I was done laughing and giving a mental pat on the back, yeah, not useful, just gainful.
I live only a couple of miles from the now shuttered TMI power plant, of infamy claim for their massively non-destructive meltdown. Watched it live at 5 in high school, with some significant interest, as at the time, well, two hours drive time to TMI, yeah, kind of important to us. Everything worked as designed, save for a human factors engineering error, which made things get really, really, really expensive and well, zero casualties.
Miss the cooling tower plume though, the plant was shuttered because burning natural gas makes the world more like Venus, erm, is cheaper. Some think we'll get sex goddesses from Venus, we'll just get a baked penis. But, it's cheaper to die and all.
Here's a fossil fuel slogan that's a winner, "BAKED BABIES IS THE WAY TO GO!".
And Two and a quarter mile island is still there. A pet joke from the region among engineers.
Chernobyl's decontamination, Fukushima's as well, bioremediation and vitrification. Oh wait, plants are expensive, totally impossible to grow.
For those with blown sarcasometers, I've got a pallet full of them.
Oh, there is a leading injury common in nuclear power. The most significant number of injuries in nuclear power plant injuries, a paper cut.
Go paperless!
I'll just get my coat...
Oh, Fukushima had two volunteers to open valves, who are casualties. Selection criteria was over 50. I'd have volunteered too, both on age, exposure and it was the right damned thing to do. Much the same happened at Chernobyl.
Both plants built out of specification, Chernobyl, entirely with a flammable roof, Fukushima, updates not applied that'd have prevented the hydrogen explosion.
And I'm worse on my own failures than the scathing review of others failures.
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@strangereyes9594 I'm reminded of when it was suggested that the US patent office be closed, as new patents were down and "everything possible had already been invented" - back in the mid-1800's.
Innovations come in fits and starts, with lengthy pauses between. It's always been that way and likely to continue in that way.
And grants are a form of investment, which in and of themselves are cyclical, physics one decade, biology another, medicine yet another with some overlaps and outliers. Not a hell of a lot of novel physics of late, but I just recently learned of some promising antiinflammatory modulators that are showing promise in the treatment of Crohn's disease. Ran into that after being recently diagnosed with it and brushing up, as gastroenterology isn't exactly my bailiwick. I was more trauma, infectious disease and emergency OB/GYN stabilization in medicine, IT and electronics in my primary jobs and being a general "Shell Answer Man" the rest of the time.
I suspect that I've rather dated myself with that last bit...
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Well, it wasn't that Bragg was a Civil War general, after all, were that only the case, renaming it Fort Grant should be acceptable.
It was that Bragg was a Confederate general, who had betrayed his oath to the US Army to join the Confederate forces and made war against the United States and that is the only crime described in the US Constitution - treason. That's kind of considered a big deal. Might as well, along with Fort Lee and some others, had named them all Fort Treason.
Indeed, why don't we have a Fort Benedict Arnold?
Now, it's at least face saving renamed to someone that actually did serve with honor.
Hegseth's take on the Russian fleet, well I still have trouble recognizing him without his usual lampshade on his head. He recently had conducted a European interview and was seen drinking from multiple tumblers of what certainly looked to be whiskey. Guess his word to Jesus before Congress had a short expiration date.
Still, Russian equipment isn't fully depleted, I'm sure that they still have some lend-lease equipment knocking about, to keep their jackasses company on the ground. Oh wait, if their fleet had rusting problems after the Soviet collapse, their WWII vessels are probably just rust held together loosely by paint. Obviously, our guns and missiles are no match for rust!
More interesting, the peace talks, the US, Russia and oh, Ukraine isn't invited to discuss divvying up the carcass of Ukraine. Trump wants those rare earths and even money, some farmland for corporate US farming firms. Russia wants the same for Russian usage, don't see those talks going far and I suspect Ukraine still has quite a bit to say.
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Not to mention that the Iranian drone carrier has been observed by our NRO and Navy operating in training off the coast of Iran, which is just a few miles away from New Jersey, around 6400 miles or so, so right next door.
The Iranian drone carrier basically being a converted merchantman, converted to a WWII escort carrier grade vessel and well, I suspect that someone in the NRO and USCG might just notice someone's fucking jeep carrier loitering off of the US coast.
There's another possibility, one ham fisted as the exercise theory - some agency testing a drone swarm. Not that we have any bases in the area since Monmouth shut down, the labs beamed off into deep space or dumped off into a Lakehurst or something. Or a Picaninny...
Or more likely, most being misidentified, hysteria over the invading Martians and all amplifying reports.
Or worse, disinformation amplified by erroneous sightings and the entire hot mess is the full scale Martian Invasion of 1938.
Mom told me about the broadcast, having listened to it and her also hearing panic ridden conversations of adults visiting or calling her mother to talk about the "invasion". Were she still alive, she'd likely be shaking her head too.
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It's uglier than that.
One state's forces invading another state is already unconstitutional, as a lawful government's state rights are being abrogated by imperial fiat by a lawless emperor, who was only elected to be president.
It'd be a violation of the Posse Comitatus act for any troops to be used in any manner of law enforcement while the courts are still capable of holding session and actions by the executive branch to cause the courts to close would be utterly lawless and without lawful basis.
Worse, the invaded state's governor would be within his rights to then deploy his own national and state guard forces against the invading national guard, perfecting a civil war initiated by an imperious leader, who is acting from far outside of the laws and Constitution.
Meanwhile, the invading national guard would become criminals under our laws and Constitution for obeying a clearly unlawful series of orders and committing treason against the United States and the invaded state.
And that's without civilians getting involved, it's a shaken bag of cats at that point and now adding civilians in, an even more immense shaken bag of angry cats.
That all said, Trump's said a hell of a lot of shit, back when he was in office and now, before he's actually entered office again, rarely has he tried to do even 1/3 of the insane bullshit that he's said, as such actions were clearly unlawful and the impacted agencies, including the military flat out said that any such orders were unlawful and would be ignored.
More interestingly, something few have considered. How would the nuclear armed nations react to a civil war within a nuclear armed nation, once the control of the nuclear weapons came under threat? I know, based upon over 28 years of military service what my decision would be, neutralize those weapons with our own and our allies arsenals, lest heaven know who get control of them and do heaven knows what with them. Which would trigger a retaliatory strike by what remains of our forces, a thermonuclear war amidst a civil war.
I really need to take up drinking!
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@BrandiDonald not always, as occasionally, there will be a clearly superior product. Then, what's to con?
An example being, older HP printers. Canon print engine inside, but HP electronics driving it that placed their products head and shoulders above the rest in their price range. Fluke 77 digital meters, cutting edge for their time, technically inferior to my Beckman 310 due to a lower input impedance, but autoranging and hold functions putting it head and shoulders above the rest and actually a product that I personally sold. Didn't con anyone to do it, gave a tech the meter, a few lose components to measure and let him or her try it out and well, I was a tech and bought two, the meter sold itself.
Today, many being pretty much the same as their competitor and yeah, basically needing a confidence game. Save an actual con, one gets nothing of value in return for one's payment.
That different looking burger king burger, does it still taste like a flame cooked burger? Much of the additional grease incinerated off by the flame exposure, rather than allowed to collect from cooking on the flattop?
Personally, on the rare occasion I have that kind of crap food, I go with the greasy burger, as the chef's dirtiest secret is that fat tastes good. Yeah, was a chef at one point in prehistory as well. Suffice it to say, change doesn't trouble me excessively, adapt to change, one has greater flexibility in how one proceeds forward.
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@BrandiDonald usually, in the overwhelming number of cases. But, sometimes, things are sold at a loss, either for a public good rationale and the company accepting that loss and balancing it against their other profits or at a loss to bring in additional business.
But, in the vast majority of cases, the company exists to generate a profit and corporate officers actually, by law, have a fiduciary responsibility to investors to generate that profit. I had quite a bit to learn when I went into information security about business calculations, as one calculates how much one spends to protect what level of investment. One doesn't spend a million to protect a thousand, but instead one calculates the value of that to be protected, how often one can expect a loss, the risk exposure and well, a handful of other things to assess how much one spends to protect that asset.
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Huh, those "images" that claim to depict plasma they blather about reminds me of what I see through one eye when looking at a point source of light, such as a streetlight at night.
Guess I'd better get that cataract removed, looks like it's plenty ripe enough now. :/
Oh well, if I get a similar IOL to the other one, I'll be seeing into UV reasonably well with both eyes afterward. According to a biologist I discussed it with and demonstrated it to, likely fluorescing proteins downconvert the UV to something visible, which explains its lack of focus quite well.
Magnetic fields can effect electromagnetic radiation, as evidenced by polarization when light and microwaves pass through strong magnetic fields, such as around youngish neutron stars. That's pretty much it.
Cold plasma is a thing, but we're into Bose-Einstein kind of physics there, very special case and conditions that are difficult to achieve and maintain.
The rest is well documented and understood real plasma, finger incinerating hot and quite a good conductor of electric currents under some conditions of density. Gravity's something entirely else and fusion is very, very real.
Fleeing tyranny, a ragtag fugitive fleet seeks a shining planet called Dirt.
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@EricSalazar-re9qt yep, USAID was heavily into influence operations against apartheid and Elon's made enough comments that strongly suggest support of both apartheid returning and some Nazi sympathies. I'm sure that the end of apartheid impacted the emerald mine he inherited.
Yeah, that's how he got started, earned his money the old fashioned way - he inherited it.
You let him become a citizen while I was busily defending this failed nation, way to keep the homefront safe! Next time, learn how to pray five times a day.
Assuming the god-king doesn't turn things into a death cult, where when he pops off, everyone gets executed.
My opinion of Trump being so low due to the horrific experience of actually meeting him around 2000 at a tri-state Chamber of Commerce Do. He was the invited guest speaker of honor and it took the Chambers an entire year to overcome a 95% (literally, he was the boor of the party) attrition rate for the next year's event. They literally spent an entire year apologizing to the entire membership for that massive foul-up. Everything had to be about Him and his perfection, crowing at his massive previous successes in bankrupting his casinos six times and honestly, I'm astonished that the planet didn't tilt off of its axis from all of the eyerolls of major business owners.
Other invited guests didn't even get to speak and refused to attend again.
I will give Musk due credit though, while in business showmanship, he's gifted as Liberace was (medium to good pianist and I am a pianist as well, although only middling), he does excel in hiring exceptionally proficient business and project managers. That really isn't easy, one has to be capable of seeing through fluff and outright bullshit. Trust me, I've had that odious task myself, was reasonably OK at it, but I've had my moments...
Then again, there are his exceptional micromanaged successes, like the Boring company, which accomplished a major goal of boring a railway tunnel under one Vegas parking lot and Neuralink, which has successfully achieved the technological mastery achieved in the 1970's. We'll not even go into Twaddle. SpaceX, well, I can land a booster as well, rocketry being one of my hobbies. How deep do you want it landed? On the ground or stand? Out of the question, I've only the ability to make my mark on the world - deeply.
And even money, the project manager I'd choose would be the individual behind Deep Impact... :/
Worse, can't even hire Musk to hire my manager, he's too busy being the Doge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(title)
I'm certain that name was his brainchild, he is about as literate as I am and I'm infamous for my literacy and wide, eclectic range.
And a rarely exercised collegiate vocabulary, to be better underestimated.
"I'm smarter than the average bear! Hey, hey, hey, hey!"
"Good, enjoy the claymore mine inside of my picnic basket."
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@neuralmute OK, we'll dig him up and charge him with suicide.
Laws against suicide need to be properly targeted. Now, given what was presented here, beyond ethanol intoxication into duty hours, just which suicide attempt was one to curtail his access?
I do have an answer - his first exposure.
I also noted, he was a loner, which is a potential exposure to risk source. Nowhere a clincher, but one needing to be examined and alas, was ignored instead.
That's a major oversight failure, the company wants to keep a worker on duty to make money, which is the company's purpose and its officers duty. Oversight ensures that insulation gets removed and action taken. Missed, after deleterious personnel actions began, access remained and worse, if access got denied, he'd be abandoned while in need.
Some years ago, we were assigned a medic that had discharged after a tour in South Korea.
SSDD, we were assigned a hell of a lot of reassuring numbers of personnel, diluting some deleterious personnel issues that plagued our organization since the inception of this nation.
Long story abridged, the man exhibited outward charm, interacted well with the team. But, when alone, he would argue with someone not present and even strike his own face during a violent altercation. He also made gestures, during a motor movement that I replaced one of my privates in as driver (not suspicion at all, the private was ill and lacking other licensed drivers beyond one new driver, I've never asked that which I wouldn't do, so I drove. Passing a well placarded elementary school, he made gestures, after calling my attention to him, of shooting at the school.
He passed one psych eval, he failed a second one after other, thankfully innocuous incidents.
After he was discharged under compassionate grounds, he was found sleeping in our armory. The XO of the battalion wanted him arrested for trespass. I managed to divert that and personally drove him to a VA hospital and stayed there, he was refused treatment due to budget, now he's got God and an NCO behind him.
NCO prevailed, News at Six or take care of someone we owe, decide now, well and properly.
A few months later, I ran into him in town. Working, for a change, sane enough to survive in the presence of insanity of the populace, eating well.
He did better than I've done after losing my wife of over 40 years. Took me a week just to be able to eat once a day. Nearly a month before I could tolerate two meals a day.
I've only recently been tempted for three meals a day, the "requirement" also being nonsense.
Last I heard before moving halfway across the country, he's finally fully functional. Given our knowledge and ability, that's the best outcome.
Me vs the loss of my wife, the jury's still deliberating. :/
Add in BS wage lowering, not suicidal, I'd call it homicidal, save for the cidal bit, destroying a dishonorable business that bitches over turnover that's their fault, yeah.
It'll even out, learned that from hard won experience.
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In the US, we're fortunate, as we fortify milk with vitamin A and D.
I'd be quite guarded with megadosing vitamin D, fat soluble vitamins can get into all manner of trouble when one overdoses, compared to water soluble vitamins, which essentially get urinated out. I get that impression from doctor here as well. Blind dosing isn't a good idea, as doctor well knows.
The US fortifies milk, most yogurts, breakfast candy, erm, cereals and margarine. Fairly commonly consumed, eggs (not a great source, but it adds up), various meats, Virtually extinct in the US diet, cod liver oil. Some orange juices are also fortified, but not all and orange juice is the number 1 consumed breakfast juice.
Doctor, is there any definitive test(s) to diagnose a cytokine storm? Or is it a constellation of results that lead to the educated opinion that that is the only bloody thing going on?
This was in my e-mail this evening from the county where I grew up and most of my family lives in.
This week Delaware County reported a high number of positive COVID-19 cases and COVID-19 deaths.
On Monday, April 13-
117 new cases and 1 death was reported.
On Tuesday, April 14-
101 new cases and 5 deaths were reported.
On Wednesday, April 15-
84 new cases and 15 deaths were reported.
On Thursday, April 16-
120 new cases and 11 deaths were reported.
On Friday, April 17-
226 new cases and 3 deaths were reported.
This brings the total number of cases in Delaware County to 2281 and the total number of deaths to 74.
When I hear deniers, I get angry that their parents would've poked them so hard and so often in their fontanelle.
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That gets a bit... Complicated. Beyond Russian, there are bot accounts from pretty much every nation save Yemen and Somalia.
So, you're trying to pick out linguistic and cultural clues from dozens of cultures, from dozens of nations.
Military intelligence training is lengthy and intensive. Those who gather intelligence, more so, especially for those who make people spring leaks while gathering such intelligence to feed the intelligence types more than what they need.
And we've not even touched the civilian side, with actual espionage agents and handlers, who manage the actual spies.
But, there are some civilian training programs about. They'll not turn one into a James Bond, which is actually a good thing, as they instead turn out intelligence professionals.
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Why? A misapprehension on when xenon would be detected in the core, then deflection of blame to the lowest guy on the totem pole, big plus if he's dead and unable to defend himself?
Hell, the video itself contradicts the central assertion that xenon wasn't poisoning the core, as it's a primary fission product. It's a noble gas, so not exceptionally reactive and takes time to diffuse through the dense uranium fuel pellet, then diffuse out of the rod, into the water coolant and be detected. Obviously, one isn't cutting fuel pellets inside of an operating reactor to check xenon levels!
Add in the graphite tips on the control does, which act as a moderator and were a bit part of some western prompt criticality accidents. Add in what's readily apparent to be misunderstanding of test conditions and reasons, such as one needs a certain excess of power to actually try to spin steam turbines enough to operate the circulation and cooling systems.
And oddly unremarked upon, the rationale for removing control rods that are never removed - ever in the history of that reactor, plus withdrawing rods beyond their normal levels, allowing the xenon to burn off rapidly in the rapidly increasing neutron flux, depoisoning the core and allowing it to swiftly, beyond human ability to react, go prompt critical. Once the pile was at prompt critical, nothing could prevent the disaster, as control rods aren't bullets, they take time to insert and well, you're talking a millisecond or so of instantaneous hundreds of megawatts of anger.
I've not reviewed his other videos, but conditionally agree and disagree on the "no hydrogen explosion" bit. There was a hydrogen explosion, an utterly unconfined one, as water hammer dismantled the reactor core and the overheating rods did allow disassociation of hydrogen from the water, which duly did explosively combust in the now open reactor building. As in, a bit less of an explosion than the resultant Hindenburg fire, after the dirigible initially exploded. A bit whoosh and it was over.
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@brontewcat sold who the gun?
The accusation was made that the federal firearms dealer sold a firearm, specifically a pistol, which is federally illegal, to a minor child.
Which, per all facts revealed in the case is entirely false. The FFL holder lawfully sold the village idiot a firearm, who then violated the law and the common sense that the Almighty gave to a common house brick by letting her troubled teen son have free and easy access to it - again, in violation of federal law.
That's as bad as wanting to sue a firearms manufacturer for the proper function of their firearm when it's unlawfully utilized. Yet, for some odd reason, we don't see Ford motor vehicle company getting sued when pedestrians are intentionally ran down by terroristic idiots. Especially, given that despite the hyperbole, I've yet to see a firearms advertisement bragging about how many people that firearm can kill and maim.
Although, I do have some heartburn over the advertisements from a marksman perspective. Want to sell me that expensive chunk of steel, one would have much better luck discussing its much greater accuracy and environmental tolerance than the tacti-cool crap currently advertised. I'm far more inclined to consider a product that's, say an AR-15 with 1 minute of angle accuracy than one advertised with a search light, radar set, photon torpedo launcher and a Volkswagon attached to its stock.
The same being true for handguns.
And for the next gun nut that blathers about an AR-15 in 5.56x45mm being a great hunting rifle, that individual is at great risk of having a magazine shoved up their butt sideways and secured with a sand encrusted eggplant. It was a varmint round, it still is a varmint round and it'll always be a varmint round.
Oh, just to be pedantic, swords are also lawfully considered arms. So are spears, archery weapons, well, weapons in general.
More worriesome is, the school was well aware that the teen was troubled and was powerless to get the minor child help in the face of a criminally negligent parent. That's something easily addressed, as every other form of abuse currently can be legally addressed. But first, we have to get off of our fat, lazy collective asses and make mental health care of greater importance than dentistry, which itself is treated as inferior to cosmetic surgery!
Seriously, it's easier to get a boob job than braces, which are both infinitely easier than to find covered mental health care. I've no need of a boob job, the state capital is rife with plenty of fresh boobs and right down the street from me. No need of braces at my age. I could use a mind, mine has been blown over the last two decades...
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@brontewcat I actually own a pair of switchblades. Military related, now retired, but bought them, they're mine unless the government wants to name an acceptable price to acquire them and well, if I can locate the things.
Useful tools, switchblades are banned by many for being dangerous, which they are - to the bearer.
Today, I lug around a small pocket knife that has a spring assist, as frequently, I run flat out of hands to open a knife and otherwise, I'd be forced to lug around a fixed blade of greater length.
See the balance there?
Same balance when I mentioned a National Firearms Act item - a suppressor.
In a number of European nations, a suppressor is desired to not disturb residents during hunting season, not banned in the US, they are NFA weapons.
Now, I've had my share of Rambo style idiot knives, got seriously tired of getting jabbed in the hip or losing mobility when mounted near my chest, went with a saner US Air Force aviation survival knife for the majority of my military career. Civilian life, I have my assisted opening 2 1/2 inch knife that's around 6 and 1/3 centimeters. Does its jobs, enough said.
Now, is that a weapon? A hammer is a weapon, when used as such, as is a common screwdriver. People have been hitting one another over the head with the latest rock replacement since people were mistakenly invented.
Now, let's go back to firearms control, which is lacking in the US and needlessly so.
First, take the idiot's brigade out of the picture. All semiautomatic firearms derived from military service rifles go under a new chapter of the NFA. Shy of machine guns, lower than suppressors (yeah, there's a legal threshold in the US practical law, as states have input beyond the NFA).
Handguns, I'm shit out of luck figuring out, due to Heller vs D.C..
Here's the fun of it, occasionally, I do hunt, using typically either a 30-30 lever action or a 45-70 lever action. I also compete with an AR-15, frequently enough against active military and also compete in M1911 tournaments.
And thoroughly hate gun nuts, who prefer "victory via superior volume of fire" idiocy and go beyond hatred of those who think that they can lawfully overthrow their government with their toy vs MLRS, artillery, bombers, tanks and royally pissed off infantry.
But, we've also have a rather confounding legal landscape. That whole second amendment being key to governmental function in a national emergency and citizens rights. Idiots fixate upon militia, never following laws, critical being the various militia acts, upon which the conscription system is rooted upon.
Military aged men (now, women are admitted, due to legislation), who are fit mind and body, can be conscripted into military service nationwide and are classified as unorganized militia. That's every able bodied male, typically between the ages of 17 - 45, now adding women (formerly, only women in the National Guard, aka Organized Militia).
I'm big on law, I've lived under lawless conditions during deployment, ain't fun at all.
I'm also big on commonsense, which alas, is an endangered species, courtesy of my national fixation on quick fixes, rather than permanent fixes.
I do however, personally advocate for the concealed carry of 105 - 155 mm howitzers.
With one exception, Atomic Annie is also allowed, despite being of a higher caliber.
Look up the weights and sizes to get the humor.
Had a concealed carry permit, long ago, still have the card for it. One night, as I was cleaning, yet again, my M1911 pistol (yeah, I have a decided preference there), I considered how sporting an armed criminal would have to be, to allow me to equalize the odds by lugging my own out. Stopped lugging around that pig iron the next day.
Guns, like hammers and saws are tools, to be used for good or ill. How often do you lug around a hammer or saw?
And I live in an "open carry state", where very few bother, see the hammer and saw argument...
Here, we've got an obvious parental neglect case, initially viewing things opposite, well, suggest it to say, I'd happily beat both parents to death with their own livers.
We've got a massive, glaring hole in our mental health non-care system.
As a result, we've got a massive number of mentally injured children, teachers, staff and some dead.
All because Ronnie Raygun defunded mental health care and funded vaporware of Star Wars.
If there's a hell, I hope to be allowed the privilege of shoveling coal onto Ronnie.
I've other reasons, but they're classified...
So, I'm not against your views, just tempering them based upon prevailing law and that beyond diamond hard Constitution.
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Usually, in fixed wing aircraft, an emergency is something one can first take time out to wind their watch. This was more like rotary wing, where split second correct responses are critical.
Which typically only occur at low altitude in both cases. Makes sense, as one cannot crash into the air, but one can crash into the ground or water.
Many years ago, I got fooled briefly by a false horizon. Instruments conflicted with my vision and common sense prevailed and I relied on instruments and halted a hard climb before there was a problem.
To this day, I'll trust instruments over my senses, save if oh, the great wide world is about to smack me in the face and instruments say otherwise, then I'll go for getting the world out of my view and sky prominent in my view, then figure out whatinhell is wrong with my otherwise more reliable instruments.
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I noticed a long time ago, if I diluted soda even up to 50% by volume with water, I really couldn't easily tell the difference between the diluted and straight, other than by viscosity.
OK, at nearing the 50% point, it did grow more tolerably sweet.
I'll stick to having my water without sugar, flavoring crap or carbonic acid. Largely, straight from the tap, as the city's nice enough to filter and treat it.
And before someone complains that they want chemical free water, drinking a vacuum is bad for the GI tract, as water's also a chemical.
Yeah, I've heard that drivel of a complain before, telling me simply, I'm speaking with an idiot who is seeking a new village.
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What I never figured out with Chernobyl, how in hell does an operator miss going into an iodine pit situation?!
Went from full production power to low power, nearly shut down, then tried to ramp it back up and reactions didn't increase is a Jolly Green Giant thumbprint.
TMI did impact human factors engineering, especially hiding important indicators on the opposite side of a console. For once, a safety change that wasn't written in blood!
Oh, from the original book, there was another winner, discussing how these type of reactors melt down, but "breeder reactors blow up", something beyond laughable and nearly made me toss the book without finishing it. It was so factually concise, I've forgotten most of the book, save the BS about breeders blowing up...
The saddest sight I ever saw was from TMI and later, Fukushima's cores, from a wonder of precision engineering, they became a Greek tragedy. Especially Fukushima, as concrete is alkaline and the chemistry did horrific things to the metallic components!
Shot while running away was an actual thing in the '60's and early '70's. Especially black males, survivors being asked why they ran, "I was afraid of getting shot!", so shot while trying to escape - despite not being armed, dangerous, just "cops too lazy to run" turning into the political mess. There was a big to-do about it, eventually it went from glorifying a sheriff with a .44 magnum built into his dashboard and through the engine compartment to kill "escaping criminals" to something closer to what we have today.
But, if dealing with a terrorist, the converse remains, as the absolute last option is to allow the SOB to push any buttons.
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He's totally right! That's why Patton lost WWII. Lacking air superiority, the Germans overcame the Allies during the Battle of the Bulge, slaughtering all of the allies and shortly after, nuked New York city.
Oh wait, despite no air superiority, tanks did cover the day with infantry cover.
Survivability onion, I'm reminded of an M1 Abrams that was killed by a newer model RPG that made one big sensation in Iraq. One shot, right between the idlers, penetrated the hull, entered the crew compartment, the jet grazing the loader, killing the tank by the jet hitting the "brain box".
They junked the tank, not due to critical damage, the CPU box could've been replaced, but to dismantle the hull to analyze the failure and damage done by the new model warhead.
A good movie illustrating tanks penetrated and remaining in use was the film T-34.
When asking anyone about combat and warfare in general, pretty much the absolute last person in the universe that I'd ask is Elon Musk. He's got zero military training, zero military experience, but somehow is an expert in warfare? He's invented nothing whatsoever, codeveloped one website, "earned" his fortune by inheriting an emerald mine, bought everything else and hired experts in those fields to develop things, but did precisely what Liberace did - be mediocre in everything, save being a showman. Might as well also ask for treatment advice for my Crohn's disease, which is also something he's got no training or experience with - or maybe DIY brain surgery.
I can kill a tank in a number of ways, such as a mobility kill - damage the drive enough that the tank can't move. Now, it's a bunker that's well, not as strong as a bunker. I can firepower kill a tank - damage optics, gun, loading system or ammunition storage enough to prevent utilization of the weapon(s), it's a huge metal box now, can use it to ferry supplies on top and inside, the weapons are useless. I can k kill, a wee bit harder on anything not Russian, as Russia insists on putting the blammo inside of the hull with the crews - any major hit that puts thunder, fire and brimstone inside with the blammo and blam! The hatches turn into flaming jets, might lift the turret off, the crew is decently cremated instantly, the tank is now junk.
Anything less and one can kill the entire crew and scoop out the cremains and shreds, minor repairs and the tank is back in business.
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Well, a laser printer is an LED printer, as the laser is in its heart an LED in that case.
But then, I remember the earliest laser printer, which used a HeNe laser.
But yeah, I remember when Okidata introduced their LED printer and there were no other LED printers on the market.
I went with a Panasonic laser, as it printed text at 22 pages per minute, which was blazing for a department level printer. No toner cartridges, it got toner dumped into a hopper by the bottle.
Much later, got a Samsung color laser printer, excellent quality, didn't jam much, overall fairly reliable, but it was an personal office level printer.
I tend to prefer department level printers, much higher toner capacity.
And yeah, my home network is an enterprise level affair. To the point where, if I go on vacation and go away, the electric company wants to change my meter.
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Jason King true, frankly, I think the only nation not involved at Normandy was Japan, who had other problems at the time. ;)
I honestly can't think of any Allied power not present on those beaches, which was good, as overall, the more help the better!
Stupid at the time, not moving destroyers other fire support platforms into range to slam the prepared artillery positions and minefields in advance and until annoyingly late in the initial invasion.
But then, that's with the 20/20 perfect hindsight vision. ;)
Would that I had such hindsight before we began some of our operations! Alas, that would violate causality and well, likely would break the universe or something.
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Jason King indeed! About the only European, North American or Commonwealth nation was represented, save Russia, who was a bit busy with problems on their front. Without all of those magnificent maniacs, WWII would have ended far differently! That part of the campaign reminds me of a factual joke about my walk to the local store, where due to being in a small mountainous area, I walk between heights of both sides of a saddle - uphill, both ways. ;)
The Germans built a set of defenses in depth, breach one, there's another behind it, all to slow advances enough for reinforcements to arrive. Thankfully, the reinforcements were largely withheld, due to Hitler and his high command buying the massive Allied disinformation campaign, which allowed a sufficient beachhead to be built up, so that all of the Allies could continue the party!
As I recall, the King of England wanted to be aboard one of the fleet ships, Churchill discouraged that by stating if the King was there, he'd also have to be there.
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There were a number of personnel from the Manhattan Project that had detectable amounts of plutonium in their urine for the remainder of their lives, amazingly, dying largely of old age.
There's another lost warhead off the coast at Cape May, NJ.
When the explosives detonated in Spain, the tamper should've also been burned and ejected, it's made of depleted uranium and is the final fission stage, right after the fusion stage liberates tons of neutrons, providing the majority of the actual yield of the device.
The tamper being replaced with aluminum (or at one point, lead), sacrificing explosive yield in favor of a blast of neutrons, aka a neutron bomb.
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Actually, the suggested revision of when death occurs would be quite, ahem, entertainingly aromatic.
Given that neuron activity has been detected a week after death has occurred.
@angelmendez-rivera351, the problem actually is that a very loud and threatening minority has hijacked the political machinery of our failing, due to their phenomenal efforts, nation.
And I say threatening, as in far too frequently, these religious maniacs will bring guns into the discussion - assuming that the rest of us aren't firearm owners and combat veterans. Yeah, had such discussions and suffice it to say, they're paper tigers, talk and bluster, but when the bluff is called, are conspicuous by their sudden absence. Especially when in person and I flop my military retiree ID card down.
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@jeffreyt991 if I lived there, their department would have survivability problems until the survivors learned how to be loyal to one another and the populace.
What in the screaming fuck that any officer goes missing unnoticed?! And yeah, interacting with the policed populace is unlikely to be correct in any way imaginable.
Jesus Christ, it's enough to make me consider taking up day drinking.
To the department, you went home while one of your own was absent and unnoticed, I can never forgive that at all.
Or trust you in any way whatsoever again.
And I was a neighbor, take care of your own and your populace for a fucking change.
The wreckage, it just made me want to puke, a wreckage field would've been preferred, that shows controlled flight into terrain due to shit training. Everyone and everything needs to have an instrument rating.
And available goofy goggles but not whatever, the fucking things were in the closet.
I trained my guys, despite command resistance in using the damned things.
The commander, as much as I loathe it, should've lost retirement for due cause. Not due to the crash alone, but not knowing whereinhell his people weren't. And not requiring instrument rating in spades.
That bird's planting just broke my heart.
God job, Mover on getting that additional information, you honored those lost souls big time. You moved up big time in this old top shirt's books.
And as you said, land and live, dammit.
For some naysayers on the department, you tolerate them, you earned them, otherwise you'd enforce a superior replacement, do shut the fuck up.
I never did consider employment with the state department.
Bossier Parish was my digs for a while, did other areas as well, came back to PA due to familial obligations.
BTW, I also produce ethanol on fasting, it's called Auto-brewery syndrome. Goes with my Crohn's.
And enough gas to play the 1812 Overture, complete with artillery.
BRPD, what in the actual fuck, over? Balls on a pike should've been demanded.
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Odd that you'd crop out his time travel. "We had to go back to 1798", as if the law didn't exist until he jumped into the time machine and enacted the law by himself, rather than it's been there since that time and we don't use it because it doesn't fit with oh, reality. That whole no invading army, which are noted for you know, being an actual army and armed thing not going on. But, apparently, he'll happily incarcerated and execute infants - per what he has repeatedly stated.
And actually, my father had some behavioral issues that I raised with doctor. Testing revealed him to be suffering from vascular dementia, which progresses far more rapidly, in a stair step progression, than most other dementia forms.
As for the Arnold Palmer bit, I dunno, maybe Trump's thinking of coming out of the closet? That's basically the only reason I can think of for an ostensibly cis male to have such a fascination for the genitals of another man. Not that that's any of my damned business though.
Or his diaper's too tight and cutting off circulation to the brain. Or more likely, urinary tract infection, which can also give very similar symptoms in elders with dementia.
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As one who has sat on multiple juries over the decades, yes, we watched *everyone*, even the jurist and staff. There were times that such observations were discussed in the jury room and such observations were telling in the extreme.
And for those who criticize my attending jury duty, I'm an old retired soldier, I've an especially sensitive and fine sense of duty. One doesn't have to enjoy it, one doesn't have to like it, one does have to perform said duty so that others won't have to and it's your turn. How could I shirk that duty and look my men in the eye and assign them to life threatening duties when it was their turn?
It would be interesting to see how Trump would try to play being jailed for contempt though, he may think it's a winning play, but it's a brown, smelly card to try to play and jokers may be wild, but they're not brown and smelly.
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@oldschoolzone5711 erm, who was paid oddly capitalized millions? The White House or the press?
So, was Harry Truman also liable for threatening a reporter for insulting his daughter, a minor child?
Back when we had a civilized society, leaders families were sacrosanct, now they're a terrorist's target of opportunity. Be happy, if I were in that office and some asswipe came after my family, what I'd do would be equally uncivilized, involve an edged weapon and quite lethal. At a certain point, office and father become quite distinctly different, with entirely different duties.
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The morphine in the urine is quite low as well, as in poppyseed roll consumption could easily account for its presence.
You didn't cover one additional probable factor in the fentanyl level in his blood, tolerance from repeated usage. I had to look up the levels, as you did, that likely was right in his dosage profile, so obviously wouldn't have been a major contributing factor in his death.
If memory serves, fentanyl has a lower respiratory depression curve than most other opioids and opiates.
Frankly, I can't tolerate the entire class well, get heavy congestion when my mast cells dump from the opiates or opioids. BP stays OK, but I still feel miserable as hell.
Thanks for the excellent presentation!
Tomorrow, I get to break in my new doctor. It should be fun all around. :)
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It's a logical progression. After all, we've had mobile antiship mines for years. During WWII, the Soviets tried anti-tank dog mines. Yes, dogs wearing mines.
That one wasn't pretty. Soviets trained the dogs using Soviet diesel fueled tanks, training the dog to seek shelter under a tank and it wearing a mine that would detonate when going under a tank. Germans used gasoline fueled tanks, so the difference in smell confused the dogs. Worse, getting shot at and explosions disoriented the dogs, so some returned to friendly trenches - detonating after jumping into the trench.
The Germans examined a few of the mines and animals and turned them into another propaganda event, but knew it was an act of desperation in the early part of the war. The Germans had their turn to become desperate though, when they couldn't enter multiple major cities and the entire campaign got bogged down by intense fighting and mud. Winter then thinned the herd to manageable levels, frustrating both sides into a bloody bloodletting match until the rest of the Allies finally began the D-day invasion.
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Let's see, no food stamps, that consigns 12.6% of the US population to starvation. That'll prove popular with the heaviest armed populace on the planet. Once the MAGAts see their children start to starve, they'll prove a bit intractable and quite vicious.
I wonder if Musk could make it to the airfield safely?
Meanwhile, migrant workers would be gone, food rotting in farm fields, borders closed spitefully, shutting that source of food down as well. That sets off the cities.
Now, nuclear armed nations view the US in flames, questions begin to arise as to who will end up controlling our nuclear forces and one or more will preemptively strike to neutralize the danger to themselves. The missiles pass one another in suborbital trajectories and civilization as we understand it ends in a series of brilliant flashes of light.
Won't matter much if Trump made it to the mobile command post aircraft (Air Force One isn't used in a nuclear scenario, there's a special aircraft just for usage in a nuclear war), as he'd literally have nowhere to land.
Life would survive, humanity would survive at much lower numbers, technology largely obliterated, a few years of nuclear winter and survivors claw their way through to survive, the superpowers no longer existing.
I'll not care much, as I'm effectively at ground zero in an area ringed with military depots, so I'll just be a bad odor in the air.
Think that's far fetched? It's not. We're talking about at least 1/3 of the US suddenly becoming homeless, 12.6% watching their children starve and we are the most heavily armed population on the planet. Once the nukes are thought to be up for grabs, nuclear powers will universally feel at risk and a preemptive strike will become inevitable, our reply inevitable and nearly automatic, missile retargetting occurring literally in mere minutes. Those plans are quite comprehensive and it's a hell of a lot more than "nuke Russia" or "nuke China", as in a literal book of various options for every nuclear armed nation as a target, because that's one thing that the military does - plan for being attacked and attacking/counterattacking.
Survivors will essentially be back in the stone age, fortunate ones in the bronze age, as steel working is too modernized now to fall back technologically to any degree of iron age for quite some time.
Family sizes will snowball, figure 5 - 10 children so that two can survive to adulthood, just as it was only two centuries and less ago. Disease and accidents claiming most in childhood.
Starlink won't be worth much, the EMP's claiming those satellites early on via the artificial radiation belts created by the devices.
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Actually, airmen is used to refer to all USAF military service members, not only pilots. No sexual determinism there, but man/men referring essentially in mankind and when speaking of the species, one typically won't refer to womankind.
Save when one's dealing with a medical issue that involves hormones or reproductive organs or mutual off duty private activities, that matter really shouldn't come up in civilized company.
But then, I'm just an aging US Boomer, trailing edge Boomer.
Just as "race" or ethnicity usually isn't something I consider, save for some cultural subjects or medical, such as if I'm preparing fava beans, specific groups would not usually be blindly given them, as in certain ethnic groups, there's a genetic predisposition for favism. Now, what was a fine meal dissolves their red blood cells and they're hospitalized in dire condition. Entertainingly, I'm of an ethnic group where favism may occur, but I don't have that enzyme deficiency and quite happily enjoy fava beans.
Note how vanishingly rare such needs are?
I use quotes on race, as there are only two races in my humble view on this planet. The human race and the rat race, not too fond of the latter due to their destructiveness to human foods, homes and a few diseases they may carry. Not too fond of the human race at times either, due to boorish, violent behavior. Usually the only time humans behave is during and after a disaster, but it seems that issue is being worked on in a deleterious manner of late...
Can't we all just get along? Or are you all going to make me pull my finger?! ;)
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@Progressive_Canadian no, to me, I don't give a tinkerer's damn what organs one possesses. Is the individual competent in their duties? Are they physically capable of performing those duties or do they need to be reassigned to duties that they can perform? Those matter, not which organs dangle or not.
I actually do know how to fly certain aircraft. I'm also medically unable to do so, so I'd have to be reassigned to duties that I could perform, rather than try to fly the damned thing and turn it into a drill when my aorta exploded.
Anyone capable, competent and fit to fly, don't care if they can't reproduce, won't reproduce, reproduce by binary fission or budding, as long as they're fit to task and duty and competent.
I've served under male officers and female officers, what I paid attention to was their position and rank, not which specific sets of organs that they had. They were colonel or general, not a label indicating sex. And a bit of trivia, unlike the civilian world, their base pay was the same, plus longevity pay.
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@scriptles so, it'd be a democracy under your definition if say, the former candidate choked to death on a cow femur and obviously wasn't eligible for the ballot and no other candidate is available save their opponent?
It's then still a democracy for those now disenfranchised because their party no longer has a candidate?
You spent considerable time typing up that drivel, but entirely none thinking other permutations through. Because, under your suggested system, we'd be Russia, where candidates can disappear on mythical charges, "fall out of a window" or all other manner of mayhem, but it's a single candidate democratic election.
Meanwhile, you omitted one part. The voter still has a ballot if a candidate is replaced and can vote for whomever they please.
But, giving voters even that level of choice after losing a candidate is not democratic and foolish.
Got ya.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but with the defense countering the court's finding that there was a threat of arrest, isn't that attorney calling the court a liar? This is how the trust of our courts is undermined, rendering such a threat to our entire system of justice, both civil and criminal.
So, what else will the sheriff threaten arrest for, perhaps political speech? Are the rights to a fair and speedy trial or right to an attorney also be suppressed?
Frankly, he'd get the door slammed in his face. Forced entry, as exigent conditions do not exist, would simply be a matter of home invasion by an armed intruder intending harm. Evidence is not going to be destroyed and words are not nuclear warheads.
Now, the case law is mixed on suppression of rights in a national emergency, but in that, the courts did state emphatically that the emergency must be dire enough that the republic itself is in danger. COVID isn't that type of danger and we're fresh out of civil and world wars.
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Oh, want to really have fun with Trump, mention his catch and release that's ongoing, then ask how his great war is going against Taylor Swift.
Remember that one? And how it self-destructed and just disappeared while he held up a new shiny to distract the idiots?
Then, allude to each of his failures by an invented "operation" name, such as "Operation Trump Vodka", "Operation Trump Steaks", etc, each of his operations given its operation name by his ever so many epic business failures...
Even money, press well enough he'd throw himself on the floor and have a full on toddler meltdown tantrum.
And have the GOP further undermine themselves by proclaiming that's normal adult behavior, forcing his faithful congregation to nationally throw themselves onto the ground and tantrum and end up on psych observation floors...
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There's only one problem with all of that gear.
If you're needing all of that protection from carrying around fallout, you're walking through an intense radiation environment unprotected. Yeah, you're not contaminating your clothing or eating or breathing particulates or iodine gas, but you have no protection against hard beta, x-ray and gamma, not to mention neutrons.
The crew from the Castle Bravo shot cab became trapped, due to a shift in the winds and the yield of the device unexpectedly being doubled. The ended up sheltered in place beneath around a meter of earth for around 8 hours, improvised sheets to keep the dust off of their clothing and ran to the evacuation helicopter. Around two weeks later, it was safe to walk around the atoll without protection. But, during the peak after detonation and fallout, those first 8 hours had lethal levels even within the less buried areas of the shot cab bunker.
One can now safely remain on the islands exposed, but the food and water remain unsafe due to cesium-137 contamination.
As for protection for me. I live around a mile from TMI, in an area ringed with military depots, within a state capitol. I'd be right in the middle of the fireball.
Oh, a note of caution with potassium iodide, the Wolff-Chaikoff effect occurs when one receives a massive dose of iodine - it literally shuts off the thyroid gland, inducing instant hypothyroidism. That's great if one is in a thyroid storm, not very good if one likes remaining mobile and conscious. Dose with care and as directed. Doctor was considering using the Wolff-Chaikoff effect with me during a severe thyroid storm that nearly killed me. Fortunately, the thyroid blockers took effect quickly enough that it wasn't needed.
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Two factors come into play in any hypothetical space aliens receiving a signal, assuming that they're even listening.
The inverse square law and the fact that space is damnably noisy.
Together, at our current technological level, we'd have trouble even hearing a signal from our closest stellar neighbor, given the volume of noise out there.
As for the SETI signal, remember that beam isn't a pencil beam, it will spread over distance, even as it attenuates.
I figure that an alien would know to listen at their frequency, be looking in the right place and actually detecting that signal about as equal to my being able to pet a unicorn within the next five minutes.
As in, you're trying to hear a whisper from 10 feet away in the middle of a rock concert and you're sitting close to the speakers.
Edit: And those rock concert speakers has a name - Sol. It's shouting, we can't really even manage a whisper.
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Well, Musk does still have Neuralink, which has finally blazed a path forward and matched the level of technological mastery present in 1972 (not kidding, cartoon news break had a report on literally the same mind moving a mouse via signals from electrodes in 1972), OK, not worth that much. Ummmm, Boring company, who last bored a tunnel under a Vegas parking lot? Huh, maybe HyperLoop, who last ran a train under a certain Vegas parking lot...
Yeah, he's screwed himself seven ways to Sunday, save for being firmly latched onto the US taxpayer's teat and he's killing the rest of the litter to ensure exclusive access, like any fine cuckoo would do.
Yeah, mixing species, but I think we've found proof that changelings exist.
I do wonder at what purpose those Cybertrucks he managed to get a contract to provide are for, perhaps monoxide vans for what's looking to be a rerun of Aktion T4?
All of those eggs, only one basket... And government contracts have one clause at the end, "at the convenience of the government" to abruptly terminate said contract.
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@sidgarrett7247 not necessarily, a VP can then be appointed, it's not a linear chain in the line of succession.
But, realistically, there's no lawful way to stop Trump from being inaugurated, any more than there was an option when Biden was inaugurated.
Still, there is the hope that the disruptive choices Trump tried with cabinet positions and the resistance from both aisles will continue and mount, as blank check support would be political suicide for the GOP once the full impacts are felt. After all, the MAGAts think that all impacts will be on blue states and regions, once they realize that programs they rely upon are also getting chopped, yeah, things will get ugly for the GOP.
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@MetroidChild not fully, regeneration via recycling hot gases can lower the soot output, downside is increased nitrogen compound exhaust. The US Army experimented with ceramic bladed compressors for energy generation via high temperature turbines with fair success, albeit with increased nitrates and nitrides exhaust. Greyhound also experimented along the same lines, with some contributions from the US Army, given a common interest in the technology.
The magic trick is, run entirely sootless, one generates nitrogen pollution. And the standing joke in the field is, NASA discovered how to avoid those nitrogen pollutants - eliminate nitrogen from the air supply. A joke, because it's true, both chemically and well, NASA actually did report that finding and for those chemically challenged, 80% of our atmosphere is nitrogen. Kind of like eliminating the risk of drowning in the ocean by eliminating all of the water.
Still, what floors me is, multiple scandals and massive fines later, Cummins actually tried to get away with such easily tested for fraud.
And counterintuitive, diesel NOx emissions control by injecting urea, a nitrogen compound, all courtesy of catalytic processes. But, as I joke when taking my blood pressure medications, "Better living through chemistry".
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@davidreed3357 yeah, insurance companies really profit big by paying for immense claims.
In Trump math.
The insurance companies will do what insurance companies do - do their level best to avoid the loss of paying out a claim, tying things up in court for a generation - literally.
The big bucks will go where they always go, the lawyers involved.
My wife asked me after jury duty once, "So, who won the case you were on?". I replied, "The lawyers".
They made their fees, properly so, either way. In one trial, we decided for the plaintiff in a symbolic action where the widow received a token amount for her husband's loss (heavy smoker that had advanced emphysema and asbestos related complications on top of that, the case revolving around an asbestos claim), which was calculated to be around 10% of the attorney fees involved in the defense. After the case was closed, the judge asked for volunteers to remain to discuss our decision in an unofficial, information panel discussion. We explained the reasoning for the award amount, preventing a deadlocked jury and one defense attorney laughed aloud and exclaimed, "You got that right!" in regards to the percentage and fees.
The lawyers won, as they inevitably do.
Insurance is a form of gambling. You're betting the insured event will occur, the insurance company is betting that it won't. When faced with a claim, the company will do what is required by statute and try to limit or eliminate a payout due to responsibilities that are codified in law requiring they look out for stockholder interests. That's the law and how it works out. It ain't pretty, but then making sausage ain't pretty, but many of us enjoy eating it.
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Pretty much, the sand sank and spread the forces around her. Heard from someone involved about a man run down by an M113 APC, figure around 20 tons loaded, which it was.
Bruised as hell, but otherwise he was OK, if spitting and sneezing mud.
Dry sand, not so much, Gulf War I showed that quite well when someone got in the way of a tank column and ended up several times taller and wider, but infinitely thinner... Trust me, that was an image that's the stuff of nightmares.
Although, I've far superior nightmares to replace those, GWOT and worse, nightmares of performing CPR on my wife of over 40 years, feeling her ribs pulverize under my CPR.
Last days of March, still ain't sleeping worth a damn. Took me a week just to be able to take a meal.
As for prayers, thank you, but if the Almighty showed up right now, he'd be passing the moon from the kick in the nuts he'd get. Then, we'd cross swords on wrath.
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The asteroid, it'd make far more sense for a proximity detonation to ablate one side of the asteroid, rinse and repeat as needed to have it push itself off course. Still, better than other fare in the same time frame and before, where RonCo's Magic Nuke made entire gigantic asteroids simply disappear.
Crossroads did have one mast torn off. Not by the blast, but by the water column collapse. Above water overpressure damage was present on close vessels, below the surface, the damage was of course much more pronounced.
The fallout was limited in one vessel, which had a wash down system installed as part of a sub-experiment that was later included in new vessel construction that continues today.
There is a doomsday launch system, the Soviet Union claimed to have a "dead hand" system, loss of communication with it would trigger nuclear forces to respond to an assumed significant decapitation strike. There was talk of salted bombs, typically with cobalt, resulting in cobalt-60 fallout, none were ever implemented, but Putin did threaten that with his newest physicist killing nuclear propelled missile. That'd only trigger a new arms race with salted bombs, which really takes minimal rework to implement at a cost of lowered yield for the simplest designs.
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@el_zirb not very idiotic of a war with Afghanistan for my cousins, who lost a father in the WTC.
Al Qaeda attacked multiple US embassies throughout Africa, claiming 1000 lives, then attacked the WTC twice, once causing a garage explosion and fire, killing 3000 the second time. After we paid them a courtesy call, that's often alleged to be ineffective, the most they've achieved is one attempt to ship a printer bomb to a US synagogue, one failed diaper bomb and one failed shoe bomb. I'd call that massively degraded - especially given the senior leadership having experienced severe cases of high velocity lead poisoning.
As for the Vegas attack, he suffered at least one, likely multiple TBI's (Traumatic Brain Injuries) and PTSD, was accused of infidelity by his wife (which can be instantly fatal to a security clearance and a 19 year military career, with full retirement available at 20 years). Hard to reintegrate someone that's still serving in SF into society, being busy doing all of those SF duties abroad and all. Taking care of those who have experienced TBI's would help, but that gets shifted to the VA and to hell with those serving as long as thy can still sort of function, largely due to budget and direction not being focused on those individuals by policy and that's guided by Congress.
So, the only thing I see coming out of this is more of the same, people thanking me for my service, while meaning "fuck you for your service, now drop the fuck dead".
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Oddly, Russia has maintained their low earth orbital observation constellation, which has to be replaced fairly often. China, Russia, the US and possibly Israel have the capability to shoot satellites down.
The Space Force is really just a command in the US Air Force, as Congress declined wasting money in creating an entirely separate combatant command service, rather than just making a combatant command within the Air Force.
Most of US orbital assets are communications, observation and navigation (GPS is actually a military constellation, civilian which is a bit less accurate than the encrypted military precision GPS). Additionally, there are nuclear device detonation detectors, largely looking for gamma ray flashes, some of that data only recently being released to science on gamma ray bursts and terrestrial gamma ray bursts from high energy lightning. There are a few odd birds out there as well, but I can't comment on that which everyone knows is up there, but not what it actually is.
As for governmental expenses, well, around 1/3 of my paycheck goes into payroll taxes, most being federal income tax. Suffice it to say, I earn enough to be quite comfortable, with quite a few computers for each primary room for home theater and web browsing, a pair of data center servers, an electronics lab and quite a few appliances, including home cleaning robots and a fair assortment of various types of firearms, some precision shooting grade competition weapons.
Some find it odd that I drive an older car, but I refuse to purchase something that loses $10k or more of its value just driving out of the car dealership.
But then, I'm a cleared defense contractor. After all, if one cannot be part of the solution, there is plenty of money to be made in perpetuating the problem. ;)
The rods from God concept was insanely expensive, as they would've had to heft that insanely heavy rod to orbit and simply dropping them wouldn't do a thing - it's in orbit, something had to initially accelerate it down and out of orbit, upon impact, the entire rod compressed itself, heated and turned into vapor. A telephone pole, made of heavy metal turned instantly into gas, in short, an explosion.
There was also consideration of an x-ray laser, pumped as part of a nuclear weapon, focused and aimed at MIRV buses and individual suborbital warheads, ablating them enough that the fuel for the guidance unit exploded and threw it off course (and the charged particles generated by the high energy x-rays striking dense components destroying the electronics.
And there still is a notion, currently prohibited by ratified treaty, of placing a high energy laser into orbit and accomplishing the same thing, for far less.
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Actually, doctor is slightly incorrect. We didn't always have veterans disability or even any form of coverage during recovery for an injury that was slow in healing. Benedict Arnold was wounded in the failed Canadian campaign and was incapable of working his family farm after the war was over, so he sold out to support himself and his family.
After that, we developed various and slowly improving wounded veteran pension systems.
I disagree on neuroplasticity, but it's on extremely technical grounds. It's not only present in children, it remains present within a healthy brain throughout life, albeit at reduced levels as one ages. It's greatest in children, but it remains present in those without significant brain dysfunction and actually slows a number of dementias progression measurably. Again, based upon rather technical grounds. I was fortunate, although I joke and say that I was just better at ducking. Avoided significant TBI, basically via dumb luck, others didn't fare as well.
But, even neurologists argue the finer points on that subject, as it remains a highly active field of research.
I'll also suggest that Trump is essentially the worst possible thing that could happen to the GOP, literally placing it into the precise position of its predecessor, the Whig Party, which necessitated the sane membership to form the Republican Party to preserve conservatism in a sane and rational manner. He's a one man foot shooting firing squad. And worse, has no discipline, so when pressured, he'll act out worse and worse, essentially switching from foot shooting with his sidearm to foot shooting with a machine gun, increasing his own pressure in the process and dragging the party down even farther into insanity and eventual insolvency of support. His impulsiveness will result in the death of the party if a major readjustment from within the party is not widely conducted. And as much as I may disagree with many conservative viewpoints, we do require a balance of views to advance forward toward a more perfect union in a balanced manner.
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@Greg-io1ip I'll vote for NRA, but not the modern NRA, the one from the 1960's and early 1970's, before industry took it over because they supported the Gun Control Act of 1968. Until they abandon their con games and embezzlement and go back to sports and outdoormanship, I'll stick with CMP programs.
As for AIPAC, I still question and have been questioning for decades that odd allegiance that is over and above the allegiance to the nation they swore to uphold laws and protect by good leadership, of US leaders that hold greater allegiance to a sovereign foreign nation above the nation that they're supposed to be leading. It's one thing to be loyal to an ally, as that isn't expected to override one's allegiance to one's nation one is representing, it's quite another to sell out one's own nation's interests in favor of that sovereign foreign nation.
Indeed, in any other nation, that would be treason. We Constitutionally emasculated that charge and for good historic reason that's well exemplified by a failed former POTUS incessantly abusing the word.
A good example of proper loyalty to one's nation is FDR in WWII, while supportive of the UK, he did not suborn US interests in favor of UK interests. The closest that ever came to be was moving some operational dates forward, slightly prematurely, to take the heat off of the long suffering Soviets and that was strategically understandable.
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Well, the sheriff and DA handling that need to get shovels, dig up both of my grandmothers, whose husbands died, as they had siblings babysit their siblings and poisonous snakes could've invaded Philly and ate them up.
So, single mothers are prohibited welfare and jobs, hence food, clothing and shelter for their families.
The devil went down to Georgia and settled in firmly. So, watch out, space aliens could kidnap the babysat children there!
BTW, my GT score is 13, with peaks in other IQ scores ranging from 128 through 158, but have a learning disability - dyslexia. Obviously, I shouldn't have watched my own children in Georgia!
Sherman should've finished the job in that infested state!
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The water injection system is a fascinating design.
Most consider water the enemy of fire and rightfully so, but properly harnessed, it becomes a benefit, as with the engine, cooling combustion chamber temperatures and providing additional mass to be ejected by the engine, providing thrust.
First capitalized upon by the V2 rocket, which burned ethanol at 85%, the remainder, added water, lest the combustion chamber burn through and providing steam assistance in cooling the engine and ejecting additional mass.
This flight, well, buzzing dense residential neighborhoods, looking at a mountain, all near stall speed the entire time, yeah, that's a white knuckle experience. It's a wonder that the crew still has fingers!
There's also a chance that the engineer tried to toggle the water injection system. Rapid transits tend to get ignored, even on aged systems.
Overall, bad-assed airmanship! No balls of steel there, those are solid cast diamonds all around.
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@MyNewUserName47 first, operation of a motor vehicle is a privilege, not a right, hence why one has a license that can be administratively revoked.
Hence, relevance isn't present.
Second, I mentioned repeatedly established case law. Since that's only reasoning, go ahead and fuck around and find out, you'll have three squares and a nice bed to stay in and an interesting roomie.
Finally, show me a right within the Constitution to life. One has a right to a trial and legal representation if one's life or liberty is at risk due to a trial, but nowhere is there a mention of a right to life. The reason is simple enough, it was established as a common law right that didn't require clarification.
But, the courts have, throughout our nation's history, whether you agree or not, referred to every right outlined in the Bill of Rights as privileges.
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@qsquared8833 I get a fair number of system crashes here, every time there's a geomagnetic storm. To hazard a guess, there's a good current path under the river that's literally right outside that induces spikes that puts all of my systems into a tizzy.
The only reason I'm aware of the most probable cause is that I'm on the space weather mailing list and have been for years, as I used to track space weather for military operational reasons. Now, it's just basically a warning that I'll likely need to reboot several computers...
Arthur Clarke was quite the aficionado of space elevators, yet never quite cottoned to several issues that were show stoppers. He realized quickly that, well, it's a hell of a long trip and in his writing took that into account when writing of trips on a space elevator and some authors also took notes, rather than ignore the fact that geostationary orbit is a wee few steps away.
He entirely missed, as most authors do, my magical space elevator speeding along, well, those wheels would be spinning a helling. We're talking about rotational speeds that'd be hypersonic! Think of the rotational speeds involved for the drive wheels and idlers of rollers on a cable system, where the elevator car is moving at a nice leisurely Mach 1. And we thought the cable had to be strong! I'm surprised that Clarke missed that, he was otherwise a fine engineer.
Maybe we should pen a few physics jokes about relativistic wheel bearings and oh, a mythical paper on frame dragging in relativistic wheel bearings and the effects upon rotational systems...
And do a Star Trek transwarp wheel bearing system.
Or how the friction generates so much heat energy it collapses into a Kugelblitz... Headline in the fictional news, "Planet disrupted by Kugelblitz generated by overheating space elevator bearing, foggy film at 11!".
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I've gotten heavy mud on the roof of an off road vehicle and drove it through water that, well, suffice it to say I needed to change pants, shirt and underwear. Didn't have any problems with the vehicle afterward, despite belly flopping into two feet of running muddy stream water.
But, those vehicles were designed for that kind of insane usage - they were military offroad vehicles.
Expecting a civilian road usage vehicle rated for off road usage to go through that is like expecting the damned thing to work fully properly on Mars! Wrong usage, wrong environment, the warranty guide essentially saying, "Tough shit, dummy".
In that tough shit situation, one can only chew harder and take one's deserved and earned hit. That's something I've had to do over the years of beating down vehicles and frankly, I could beat down an M1 Abrams tank. I certainly beat down my Stryker...
Want to take it mud bogging? There are kits to do just that, but they're not standard and kiss your warranty goodbye. Just like you can't build Bigfoot out of a pickup and try to make warranty claims.
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Unfortunately for some's sensitivities, no matter how rightful their concerns, it is not the place of the IC to determine suitability and fitness for office. Our military and IC does not have the civilian populace under their command, the converse is true.
Fitness for office is a political decision and out of the purview of the IC entirely, rightfully so. Just as, when he was the CIC, it wasn't up to the IC or military whether or not to regularly replace his biscuit and codes, he received them regardless, as he was their commander, not the converse.
Concerns are present, they were raised, that's the end of their duties. Going beyond that, such as going to the press is a violation of the Hatch Act.
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It'd essentially start at peak heating, since it's originating at the densest part of the atmosphere. I'll assume tumbling adding inefficiencies to movement, sideface being unlikely due to the fluid dynamic, which I agree, are far from static. There'd also be ionized components to further confound trying to calculate matters and he also treated it as a uniform object that would fully melt, then boil as a unit, rather than melt from outside inward as has been observed for other hypersonic objects passing through the atmosphere. The core of a meteor doesn't instantly boil while the surface is being superheated and bolides tend to fail structurally due to the aerodynamic deceleration forces overcoming their binding energy more than anything purely heating related.
More probably, the cap would be partially melting, losing strength as it's heated and aerodynamic forces driving pieces off as it traveled until sufficient mass was lost that only fragments were traveling and decelerating much as bolides would be traveling in pieces after a fireball explodes.
I suspect a lot of the modeling has already been done that would help in calculating this, but much would be related to railgun work that remains classified. As it was a decidedly non-aerodynamic body to begin with, the stresses would be beyond immense, that the object is a disc and not a blunt body, conic, biconic, etc body just increases compressive strength failure as a mode of fragmentation of the body's chances tremendously.
Then, to further muddy the waters, there's a major assumption that the initial estimation of velocity could be wildly off, as even the shape of the cover once it departed from where it was welded is unknown. Did the weld fail and it's just largely cover? Did it bring any parts of whatever structure it was welded to with it? The heating isn't immersive either, it's heated by the inferno just in front of the shockwave and modeling that is devilishly complex with known shaped objects, such as blunt body, aerodynamic body, cone body, etc.
Most likely, it'd have come apart fairly early on, much as Columbia came apart, for much the same reasons.
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@sparkzbarca airports are physical locations, websites are routed, by definition by IP address and don't have a physical location in that one can move a website by moving its files to a geographically distant server and update the DNS record. So, I can have a website that's physically in the US today and by COB, have it seamlessly in Taiwan. When referring to the domain name, that is merely a DNS reference and the DNS server, beyond the top level domain be anywhere in the world. Literally, for a US ISP to restrict my domain name, they either have purchase a server that redirects traffic by domain name, violating the heart of the agreements that are backed by ratified treaty and potentially interfering with valid traffic.
Name any law that states that a company or individual must purchase a specific device, costing anywhere from $5k to $100k to satisfy a court case that they're not a participant in? That's literally like saying that Pennsylvania must not allow motor vehicle or air traffic to Miami, Florida and only Miami, Florida originate in the state and has to build a specific highway to accomplish that task. The only way to fully comply is to deny all traffic and shut down.
So, a company that owns guide.tv is denied traffic because of two IP address resolutions to that same top level domain? OK, how about we do the same with .com?
By court order, the internet is hereby illegal is the essential effect. Your example perfects a digital attack upon a sovereign nation because of two individuals within that nation. Following that logic, we should have invaded Argentina when Nazis fled there after WWII and at a minimum, walled off the entire nation if we couldn't enter it legally.
That's like banning red traffic lights by banning electricity nationwide.
Or in my example, destroying I-95 to prevent traffic from Pennsylvania from getting to Miami, Florida and once realized there are other roads, destroying any road that can possibly get to Miami, Florida.
The order is essentially unenforcable on its face, it requires excessive expenses, essentially punishing providers for no reason by forcing a major expense and literally, per your example, declares digital war upon a sovereign nation for objectively the most trivial of reasons.
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What I loved is, the judge asked, looked left, then right, nobody had a peep to say, all were... Beyond shocked.
Asked again, looked back and forth to the same effect. Took a third try to get a reply from the attorney to break out of her shock to reply his license was suspended - after modest prodding, so shocked that she was.
I think the only one in the room not the victim of shock was the camera, which is inanimate.
Honestly, the judge probably would've asked me if I was courting a contempt charge, as I'd be hysterical in laughter...
Let's suffice it to say, there is one unlicensed driver is decidedly unlikely to develop grand unified theory.
And I do know about medical and not being able to afford transportation, had to cancel vascular surgery and cardiology appointments due to a lack of transportation, so I'll just have to learn to get along without a heart and aorta.
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@MadFox-jr6by I know that words are complicated things, just barely within the mental grasp of most conservatives, but climate is long term, weather is extremely short term.
Oddly, conservatives here in Harrisburg, PA know that quite intimately, as here, if you don't like the weather, one just waits for ten minutes and it'll change. Climate, that changes somewhat slowly.
As a kid, I'd have been able to skate on the Susquehanna River, haven't seen that frozen over in decades. But, that's because ice now freezes at lower temperatures or ice is illegal now or something equally insane, right? Snows aren't deep enough to have a proper snowball fight, whereas as a kid, we had pitched snowball battles. Totally normal, right? Droughts are normal, continental dustbowls are what God intended, right?
Folks, this is why we have lead paint abatement programs, to avoid kids getting brain damage!
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Had a spider bite, likely from a hobo spider. They'll deliver envenomation like a mild version of recluse venom. Mild inflammation, sunken area, took months to fully heal, but totally painless and zero systemic symptoms or significant eschar. It resolved uneventfully and I identified the hobo spider, as I saw one previously in the bedroom and subsequently on our bed.
I relocated it away from the domicile, where it could hunt for insects. One downside of having a bedroom right next to the back door of the house.
NW Louisiana, yes, recluses are there, but never saw one in the house, only the occasional hobo spider.
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There's also a misconception of a metallurgical report that stated that the plating was subject to brittle fracture at the temperatures of the North Atlantic at the time of the sinking.
A ship's strength doesn't come from its plating alone, but from the frame(s) that the ship's skeleton is made of, plus the plating. If the plating was brittle enough that beyond its normal flexing stresses during it normal journeys, yes, it could fail while the skeleton remains intact, not being as cold or suffering the same stresses by its design and the ship won't break in half, it'd leak like the proverbial sieve.
If fracturing on a lager scale occurred in the framing, it still would be unlikely to suffer the later movie's version of failure on the surface - impact with the ocean bottom isn't some 1 - 2 MPH event, it's at speed and hence, high energy, torsion on its way to the bottom adding shearing stresses.
Major structural failures are complex beasts, far beyond the ability of most programs and pretty much all entertainment venues could ever hope to portray. To think otherwise is to think that everything is simple and ships are decidedly not simple and never have been.
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@VulcanLogic it's interesting that you include Social Security in your list of costs, when we paid Social Security taxes our entire working life, but that should be cut, effectively stealing that money too.
Tell me, if I get a CD or other earning investment, gonna steal that investment too? If I pay for a house free and clear, gonna transfer that away too?
That's as bad as Trump suggesting elders and infirm/disabled "just should die". Which was Hitler's very words when he ordered such people sent to carbon monoxide vans and the first cyanide "showers" before the concentration camps were built.
And cut all the taxes, brilliant suggestion! OK, the highways are fucked up blocks of jutting concrete and impassible, no more police, fire and ambulance, water supplies corrode through and are tainted and all the parks are now landfills. No way to get the children dying of cancer to the hospitals on the impassible roads, as there are no ambulances anyway, but the playgrounds and water have a healthy glow! Although, that glow is hard to see with the raging firestorm sweeping across the city. Not that anyone notices, they're laid up with cholera.
Couldn't happen? Love Canal, New York, Chicago fire, Washington, D.C. cholera outbreaks aplenty, Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic that nearly canceled the first Constitutional convention.
And who needs a military? Just teach everyone to learn how to surrender in an assortment of languages.
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@rell127 well, we do have multiple parties, but the de facto reality of it remains an effective two party system, with a "progressive" party and "conservative" party, since day one of the republic. The other minority parties come and go, sweeping up dissidents and at least giving them some voice.
Of them, the conservative parties tended to be more fragile, as evidenced by the fall of the original Whig party and currently, with the fracturing of the replacement, Republican party. Time will tell if the party survives, but it's looking less and less likely minus a conviction and removal of one certain individual that's turned a circus into a cult.
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Dr Fauci referred to it as modified quarantine. Odd term, to be sure, but he did explain it a bit as he'll largely be at home, with some office presence.
I was unaware that hydroxychloroquine caused ionophores to be created that would admit zinc, but I vaguely recall other drugs that are known to do that for zinc. Still, I do (again, vaguely) recall zip1 transporting zinc from the interstitial space through the plasma membrane. Still, I'm aware of two high quality studies that show no effect for HCQ in patient outcomes and one that showed higher morbidity and mortality, the latter seemed to hint that cardiac conduction anomalies might have been exasperated.
Yesterday, we learned that our youngest, who was working in hospital housekeeping on COVID floors took ill. She briefly placed us on hold, where her physician had called with her SARS-CoV-2 test results. Positive. She sounded horrible last evening, severe coughing, which seems to have abated today, sounds like she's moving air well, held longer sentences than last night, but retained a fever and now has purple toes.
Fortunately, she's now staying with her sister, who is an RN.
I've been hearing chatter that initial viral exposure levels may possibly play a role in initial disease severity. We'll have to see if any studies are being conducted and of course, await peer review.
If there's one thing I've learned personally about peer review is, peers love little better than to savage shoddy work. That induced me to rapidly produce high quality work!
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Priced a fence, found the 45-70 was cheaper with a box of 450 grain hollowpoints.
A lot excessive for deer though.
Usually though, I end up with a nice, polite conversation and the nice officer sods off eventually.
Or once, "Get off of my property". His supervisor apologized profusely later. We all have off days, oh well.
My off days typically end in the letter 'y' in English. The fun begins when two end up having that off day together. Then, it's rightfully a festival of apologies.
Beats gunfights. Given my unit didn't have a budget to afford missing the target. But then I'd have to clean the damned thing again...
Usually though, as I said, it's conversation of mutual interest, offer of coffee (the mighty elixir of life) and eventually, we both sod off. Occasionally, with "No worries, officer, if the SOB pops by here, he'll be calling you to rescue him".
And yeah, did hold one nosebleed at gunpoint, aimed precisely at his dick before until the nice officers retrieved the garbage.
My good side is the back of my head at times.
The rest of the time, it's chill pill, just don't push the naughty button.
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OK, US expectation, regardless of reality is, fever s bad, kill the fever, kill the malady.
That's the social construct in the US.
I am aware of viral testing that is effective for live virus, we both are, it's call cell culture. But, remember, Trump is literally a lawful superior of those treating him, so can give a lawful order to report anything he wants and doctor, nurse or spokesperson is required to report what the imPOTUS requires.
Would that I could be able to accept a statin, I'm a 1% type who utterly cannot do so, as in full blown rhabdo, Repeatedly.
What has been observed is early on dexamethasone and heparin. The rest, gravy, maybe he muddled, maybe the antibody cocktail worked, also, we don't know the full treatment path.
He could as easily claim that playing Tiddly Winks worked for him, his medical officers, upon order, would be required to report such, per US law and US UCMJ.
The rest, that's still open research.
But, dexamethasone and heparin was, back in April, a golden standard. I know that firsthand, due to a thyroid crisis and hypertensive crisis, with "ground glass" and pneumonia signs, due to the condition.
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Russia took their artillery to battalion level, but entirely failed to address the change in logistical requirements. Basically, good idea, shitty implementation.
Which could've been addressed by a meat wave and truck wave of logistical support of those battalions - if properly planned and implemented. But, they're so highly regimented, mentally and organizationally as to make such a change easily.
The meat wave in a can attack can be simply explained as probing recon by fire "attacks", seeking a soft spot to try to exploit in a limited manner in, as you said, a non-permissive environment.
The choices are highly limited. One cannot form massive assembly areas, lest it rain steel, fire and brimstone. One cannot employ mass formations, as they cannot assemble. That leaves either limited probing and smaller attacks when the opportunity arises or dial the clock back to WWI trench warfare. Which also hasn't worked well, what with modified drones raining steel misery upon trenches.
No matter what, it's a quagmire from hell, with attrition being the name of the game overall.
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With Greenland, well, it's part of Denmark and hence, part of NATO, so we've got a base there and formerly had multiple bases (including one unauthorized nuclear powered base) there.
And that reminds one of an ancient adage, "Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free?"
And one ponders, is Iceland next? Then, perhaps the UK in an island hopping campaign to establish Airstrip One?
After all, we've already got our telescreens in our homes, as smart TV's, some smart assistants and our computers.
And we're getting a lot longer than our five minutes of hate.
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@carlos.gomez2023 given that two explosions were on the track and suspension, that makes sense. Nobody sits inside of the track, they sit inside the armored compartment.
The missile, had it struck the tank with the crew inside, they'd not have survived.
There are several kills for armor.
Mission kill, where the tank is out of action for the mission before it can be repaired.
Mobility kill, where the tank is immobilized, such as broken track, transmission damage, engine damage, etc.
Vehicle kill, the tank is destroyed, typically by fire of its ammunition and whatever damage that set fire to it. With a vehicle kill, the crew may or may not survive, but a surviving crew tend to be incapable of pulling another tank out of their back pocket.
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@theeater1756 I see, your ignorance of history is indeed boundless! First, let's review civil unrest and lawlessness, where the militia was called in to restore order.
Nauvoo, Illinois, Mormon war against civilian authority, the press and whatever suited their interests at the time in 1843, militia called up, restored order. Guess Illinois is still in the throes of civil violence by Mormons today, by your lousy candle.
1857, Mormon war in Utah, militia quelled a theocratic attempt at takeover of the territory. Guess Utah is a barren desert, devoid of human life in your Bizarro world.
1844 Philadelphia Nativist Riots, Protestants vs Roman Catholics, Protestants using stolen artillery against Catholic churches, guess they're still blowing up the city, depopulating it daily or something, huh?
1857, Bowery Dead Rabbits Riots, gang warfare in the streets, militia restored order or maybe NYC is dead, barren of life, due to the incessant warfare between the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys. Pity, would've been a nice city had it not been destroyed by continuous violence once the militia left - oh wait, it's still there.
Let's move into modern times.
Let's see now, Seattle George Floyd Protests, federal forces called in, because an idiot POTUS proclaimed literally that the city was burning to the ground daily, really impressive builders up there! Order remains or maybe the city is still burning to the ground nightly, rebuilt during the day to bonfire nightly - oh, no it isn't.
Or maybe the North American continent is a barren wasteland, order never being restored and we're all dead.
Folks, do admire our lead paint abatement programs, children no longer grow up with severe brain damage like our friend here.
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The laugh is, the immigrant crime shit goes back to the 1840's and the Nativist movement, which joined with other zanies to first coin most of the codswallop still parroted today against other immigrant and minority groups.
Their efforts literally triggered religious warfare between attacking Protestants against (mostly) Irish Roman Catholics in Philadelphia, where the Protestant Nativists stole a cannon from the port defenses and opened fire on Catholic churches, a school and a convent/hospital. Militia was called in to restore order and the Nativists murdered some of the militiamen. The militia general then ringed the area with artillery and strongly suggested they return the stolen artillery piece and go home or go away in small pieces. The crowd finally dispersed and soldiers patrolled Philadelphia city streets with fixed bayonets.
Later, these same wonderful specimens from the bottom drawer of humanity hijacked the conservative party, much as they have today, destroying the Whig party, which literally came with the nation (the Democratic Party essentially remaining today, modestly changing names as every surviving party has to meet the times) from within. The sane departed the Whig party en masse, forming a new Republican Party - their first candidate for president, some Abraham Lincoln guy.
The Whig party basically imploded as the Civil War raged, ceasing to exist and fading into obscurity.
But, their stupid ideas rage on today. The same arguments against any progress, given a cheap retread, but otherwise parroted verbatim the arguments from the 1840's, be it against immigration, freedom of religion for anyone not Protestant, white supremacy, desegregation, LGBTQ+, hell, even Mickey frigging Mouse. Women as property, oh they got that malady in spades.
Hell, yesterday, had one brain trust from that group of zanies tell me he just loaded his AR15. I replied that I know where the ATACMS is, how to use the system and where precisely in the ASP the ordinance for it is stored. One battery will take away all life for one square kilometer, which is over 1/3 of a square mile for the measurement challenged, for anything larger than a virus. That threat terminated swiftly, don't threaten a combat veteran, the only thing stupider is to actually try to follow through on that threat and that's just another Darwin Award. Threaten a war, no problem, I'm very, very good at war, I terrorized terrorists for a living and they're not around, I'm still here and I'm far from alone. And we network - a lot.
And the military is on our side, as we're on our nation and Constitution's side.
While I'm here, "Entitlements are evil and commie!" is bullshit, entitlements are rights guaranteed within the Articles of the Constitution itself, not even amendments, which some try to claim are subordinate to the Constitution and are not. So, when complaining against entitlements, they're complaining that they hate fundamental Constitutional rights. In my own opinion, campaign against rights, you lose claim to your own rights in further arguments.
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@rustshoo5068 doctors are not FLIGHT crew, they'd be considered cabin crew or specialist crew. They remain, along with flight crew and passengers souls on board.
Tragic though, kid on the way home from lifesaving treatment.
Saw a blurb that the flight recorder was recovered, hopefully the NTSB will get good information from it to prevent a recurrence of this tragedy in the future.
The staff at Shriner's have to be positively wrecked by this as well.
And good on the reporter for calling in the finding of that tank. Some wouldn't have bothered.
Decades ago, a cub reporter, Walter Cronkite, was covering a schoolhouse explosion. Natural gas was piped for free from a nearby oil well to the school for heating, a basement leak and the school exploded, killing hundreds of kids and the teachers.
While covering the story, one of the locals told him, "We need hands right now more than we need reporters". He rolled up his sleeves and joined in the rescue effort. He went on to cover WWII from the front lines and eventually graced nationwide television screens covering the news, but that early tragedy stayed with him for his entire life.
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How do you impeach Emperor Musk? He literally holds no legal position in the US government, Empress Trump annointed him holy advisor and just hand waved him to a federal office, the latter as I recall also being unlawful, as there are terms of use and terms of service that get included in any federal contractor that occupies a federal office space.
As for the violations, we're talking about over a century of hard time, solitary confinement for just the classified information spill onto an unclassified and worse, unsecured, non-FISMA compliant IS system and site, add in additional violations for uncleared access, unauthorized copying across security level domains, Privacy Act of 1974 violations, I'm willing to bet that the HD's they used weren't encrypted and that's another violation on data at rest, seriously, we're talking their getting out of prison about midpoint of the sun's red giant phase.
Now, due to the breach, a full physical audit of the enduring stockpile has to be conducted and that's an immense mess to have to audit, as we're talking about sensitive warhead components sitting on shelves inside of bunkers whose security now must be questioned.
They're not dismantling the government, they're literally scuttling the ship!
Any who want to refuse to impeach and convict this merry gang of thieves needs to be impeached with tar and feathers.
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"...through appalling weather conditions..."
Based on 28 years of military service, is there any other kind of weather conditions when you're in the field on a real world op? One upside is, nobody's looking for any damned fool to be trying to operate under those conditions.
Waco, well, CSX isn't optimal of an agent if you're trying to rescue kids - it can burn their lungs and skin.
As for the rest, was at a doctor's appointment. Went in, they were pumping CSX, came out to see the compound fully involved. There's a term we used for Waco and Ruby Ridge, a total goat screw.
For those confused, CSX is CS "tear gas" that's powdered, suspended in a solvent. Once sprayed in, it leaves a dust of CS powder to be kicked up as people move about and any breeze picks it up.
Most people don't perform very well in any environment with CS or CN (aka mace) in any form. Personally, it was a matter of, "That which does not kill me only serves to piss me off", as all it is to me is mildly irritating.
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@palomathereptilian I'd say oddly, save that I know precisely why I have an aversion to any medication.
Speaking as a primary, on site EMS practitioner, well, I'm both extremely conservative and adventurous, depending upon very specific conditions.
Typically, the least intervention delivers the least side effects and problems, but in some patients, more intervention is required to simply get them evacuated to a definitive care facility.
The worse, under that context, took 12 hours of intensive interventions, over a simple severe allergy event, which consumed the entirety of a Battalion medical supply. One bee sting resulted in depletion of the treatment for many conditions, for over 1200 men.
And was the most exhausting day of my life.
As for the remarked upon case, she'd have been equally served by not bothering to eat.
I do that, on occasion. Not out of disorder, but out of lack of activity.
Not busy at all, idle beyond couch potato? Not hungry level, go for base mineral nutrients, hydrate as needed, call it a day.
I'm not underweight, not overweight, "just right" to end up the eldest male in my paternal line of the family to not be type II diabetic. By decades.
While taking a beta blocker, calcium channel blocker and a thyroid blocker, due to severe hypertension and Grave's disease hyperthyroidism.
Another pill? Doc, do make a very serious case for it. Did opioids for a significant issue, the histamine response sucks, badly! Got a better ploy?
Annoyingly, no.*
*Opioids and opiates tend to share a common effect, activating mast cells, resulting in a massive release of histamine.
Inject a patient with morphine, get vomit on your boots, decrease in blood pressure and respiration.
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Wow, bumped into a screwballtube video claiming there was a major riot at the White House, as near as I can tell, shouting was an attack that must've leveled the building, killed everyone inside, infected your mind, curved your spine, and kept the country from winning the war.
Or I dunno, the tooth fairy is real.
Flagged it as disinformation, as what was being said denies the very first amendment's right to peaceably assemble and seek redress of grievances - a right inherited originally under the Magna Carta and hence, over 800 years old until we got a god-king-emperor.
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Well, it is a major ball pain to lower diesel emissions. One can eliminate soot, but at the cost of massively increased NOx emissions. One can then inject urea and run that lot of exhaust and urea through a catalyst and lower NOx emissions. But, each stage has a cost and balance to maintain.
They tried a gamble, one that's blown up in the face of every competitor that's cheated in the same arena, fraud. Now, they have to explain to investors where a sizable amount of profit evaporated to and why, hoping they're not sued into penury on a personal level by said enraged stockholders.
Reminds me of a song, sung to "It Had To Be You":
It sucks to be you...
Just sucks to be you...
I'd rather have glass... Shoved up my ass... Than be in your shoes...
Oh well, as usual, the lawyers win.
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What they fouled horribly was the actual heart of his defense.
The distinction between a lawful order and an unlawful order and the erosive effect a criminally complicit command environment can have on that distinction. It's literally at the heart of what happened at My Lai, but Hollywood always loves to get it wrong or worse, not even wrong.
Love the graphic on Rule #1! First time I've saw it, but certainly not the first time I heard it. If memory serves, the first time I heard it, saber toothed cats were still an annoyance...
I disagree on who was pushing the code reds, as sergeants and corporals aren't ordering a lieutenant to give that order. But, it did start interestingly with perjury...
Marine officers are not gods? Seriously? ;)
May I introduce you to second lieutenant god... Wow, I could be charged with reckless endangerment of all personnel hearing that one, due to the extreme risk of dying of laughter.
I've gotten unlawful orders in the Army, largely due to poor wording and not listening to an objection to the order not being lawful, what prompted an instant reevaluation is, "Very well, Sir, however I'll require that order documented and digitally signed". Never got such a document, the order was instead made lawful and properly considered.
"Going after the Colonel", you know, insubordination for performing your sworn duties. Yeah, totally Hollywood. Although, had the Colonel in a real world court bellowed his career ending tirade, I'd have closed with my own bellow, starting quietly with "Sir, I am a veteran and a honorably retired former service member and military retiree, hence now a civilian and a representative here today of the US citizenry and taxpayers and would like to state, for the record, NOT IN MY NAME!!!", giving my sternest NCO glare. Yeah, wouldn't be allowed, but it would out Hollywood Hollywood and any attempt, rightfully having me ejected from the courtroom, likely alongside the wayward Colonel.
Mr Navyman? Just whose department is on the head of a paper paycheck from the USMC? Oh yeah, Department of the Navy, sailor. ;P:p:P:p
It's a favorite rub at the VFW, reminding them I was US Army Medical Corps, they are US Navy Marine Corps, the other gentlemen largely being US Marine Corps Judge Advocate General Corps and at some points, I had affiliation with US Army Chemical Corps, as well as US Army Communication Corps. Yeah, long career...
High ranking Marine officer? He'd be properly referred to as a Senior Marine Commissioned Officer, which actually means something anywhere but a court of law, where that only comes into play under very special conditions - such as the Colonel's upcoming general courts-martial proceedings. I don't even think senior officers can receive a summary court martial at that point, it'd be special or general, both due to rank and nature of the charges.
While on a jury, we once did have a situation where shouts were needed - by the jurist to order a recess until the nearby noise could be abated and examination and cross could be conducted at levels below a bellow. After an slightly extended lunch, the noise had ceased, although I don't believe it was by direction of the court, just that the conditions requiring the noise be made had ended (aircraft overhead, which was unusual for that location and probably was due to some emergent or contingency conditions that had ended). Memorable only because, as a juror, we were fairly well bored out of our minds and seeing a judge shout to be heard yielded entertainment to the spectacle.
Military justice is... Complex, due to the unique nature of the Armed Forces (not my words, but the words of the SCOTUS). A number of offenses that are lesser felonies for civilians are capital offenses in the military. Some of the biggies, espionage, mutiny, sedition and treason, typically get civilians a lengthy prison sentence at most, a service member could actually be executed for. That reflects the position of public trust granted to our military, both to represent our nation and her values, as well as being entrusted with our most lethal of weapons. Hence, the need for a level of discipline unheard of in the civilian world.
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Well, contracts are now illegal, along with that stupid Constitution thingie for the god-king and his minions.
All hail the god-king, long may he wane!
I've already prepared my insurance packet. Something amiss happens, the entire planet learns how to build a "suitcase nuke", it all comes down to a small x-ray laser that was initially accidentally created due to a contaminant in the processing of a component code named fogbank. It took the DoD $200 million to replicate it during a warhead refresh, as they lost the manufacturing records for the component.
Amazing what a specific fluorine compound can do. It was the heart of Teller's zany scheme for SDI magic lasers that could never work, working inside of the tamper case is one thing, focusing and directing it in space was and remains pure insanity.
But, inside of the tamper, guided by shadows of ionized components, quite useful for sub-meter distances.
Caring is sharing, that goes with fates as well and knowledge is power.
AKA, MAD. It happens to me, it happens to all.
Iran would be all of "who cares?", North Korea and other zanies, highly interested.
Yeah, I believe it's gone that far off the reservation. Reminds me of the ancient film, "The Lost Missile", magic missile spewing nuclear poop and destroying everything it passes.
I really need to take up drinking!
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The Medal of Honor is our highest award to our service members. The majority of said medals, awarded posthumously.
For our military, 9/11 was our worst, as I can clearly remember my thoughts when the attacks against the WTC was reported, "We failed". We failed to prevent and intercept, civilians going about their daily lives died.
Long after, I learned that one of my cousins died in the attacks.
The Soviet-Afghan war, well, that mess was made worse by the same guys who trained me in certain types of action. Yeah, The Company does train segments of our Armed Forces, due to interoperability needs.
End result: We had to help clean up our and Soviet messes, where most places that are the biggest mess, civilly, are directly attributable to either or both proxy warring nations. Totally turning a fair part of the world into a total goat rope.
BTW, Afghanistan is about as much in the Middle East as you are, it's in Asia. There are elements of culture that make that distinction important when actually interacting with the respective populaces and trust me, been in both regions.
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Centuries ago, when I worked the ramp, I was beyond paranoid around running engines. Too easy to lose situational awareness and end up in the ingestion zone or get caught by the exhaust and fly precisely unlike Superman - straight into stationary ground equipment.
At PHL, between terminal C and D was the commuter aircraft, right along the concourse. Eastern had powered back (power back was their thing, as otherwise, their mechanic's union required a mechanic to push back and cost saving...), then as they waited on the taxiway entry to cross the closest runway, while tail still facing between the terminals, the pilot in control left the engines at at least 30%. Commuter aircraft were blown free of their chocks and into ground equipment, their baggage carts were blowing around, some striking the building and other commuter aircraft, I sheltered next to a 727's gear with the FO, who was doing his walkaround. The 727 was blown over its chocks and one cabin service crew member, who had just opened the rear door for servicing, lost her balance and fell to the ramp face first. I was on a baggage run, thought it was a loose bag, which I'd get on my next trip, as the passengers were waiting on their baggage. Late bags means missed connecting flights.
Thankfully, a fueler was present, saw her and rendered aid while radioing for help.
That was quite an expensive event for Eastern, who folded not long afterward.
Good thing I decided to park along terminal D when the blow started, I'd have not cleared that ramp before my carts would've taken me for a ride.
Those engines are powerful enough to push an aircraft that weights anywhere from 130000 pounds to 1.25 million pounds to 170 mph or more to take off. That's a lot of force, folks! And if it's blowing with that much force, that much air is coming into the front as well, where the giant fan awaits meeting whatever it can bring in at 2500 - 3000 rpm. That's a lot of mutual shredding, as the fan won't withstand a human body's being shredded, placing the aircraft and passengers at risk as well. Anyone going into the engine pretty much has nothing to worry about - ever again.
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@Uzziah33 didn't realize he was born in the US, largely because I really don't track what celebrity was born where.
Was aware of the lack of that eatery in China, lucky them! I've had actual Chinese food, quite tasty and varied tremendously by region.
As for eating cat, I leave sexual practices to those practicing such privacy preferences, same with the long dog...
I'll just get my coat...
As for the PRC knowing if someone's late, frankly, I think they care about that as much as I don't care about it. Well, maybe if you had a government position, they might care. Or had a financial officer position. Or network administrator position. John Q. Public, nobody cares save the boss and nobody cares what the boss thinks anyway.
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I'm truly astonished at the sheer volume of aviation experts here, proficient to mastery of both rotary wing and fixed wing, as well as ATC policies and procedures!
Why, however does the government get by without your expert consultations?
All here know well how easily one can see in pitch darkness, with city lights and dozens of aircraft flying about and can see better than puny radar!
All here know precisely how to fly at a fixed altitude, within a hair's breadth of a dime at 150+ knots!
And all here know how trivial it is to dodge anything whatsoever, using the might of the fighter jet performance of a UH-60 and CRJ 700, indeed, both capable of trivially outflying the best fighter jets on the planet!
And how long it takes to traverse one mile at 300 knots of mutual closure, given that was the distance at warning of a conflict!
Why, War and Peace was written in that eternity of ten seconds! The bible, even in less time!
So, do regale us further on your infinite knowledge and experience, as acquired on your Twinkie encrusted sofa, about all things flight and indeed, about your DIY brain surgical techniques you perfected upon yourself as you gave yourself mere flesh wounds.
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They can threaten civil war to their heart's content. It's if they act that it becomes a problem for them.
Once weapons are taken up against their nation, it is treason and a full writ of attainder and corruption of blood can then be levied against them and their extended families for the duration of their lives. That means, taking every penny, every inch of property, even their very clothing and ejecting them onto the streets as literal outlaws. Any who help them gets charged with the felony of undermining the sentence and sharing the sentence.
That's an awfully pretty family to be flat broke, propertyless, naked and under a bridge without any protection of law. It's also inherited common law that's never been legislated away and mentioned in the Constitution as only allowed in case of treason.
The writ of attainder last applied in full against Robert E. Lee's plantation, which is now Arlington National Cemetery, not by his or his family's wishes.
Ben's "Fight, fight, fight" nonsense literally put me in mind of Rick Moranis for some reason. What next? Gonna compare Schwartz sizes?
Want to see things get really hilarious? Have Harris debate Trump and when going on stage, just have her speedwalk around the stage three times. That's more energy than Trump's expended in a year and would unnerve him, since the best he ever managed was to lurk behind Hillary in their debate, looking like some shambling Sasquatch reject.
I'd have tripped him with my cane when he wandered behind me that way.
One other area of concern. In the closing of the RNC, his speech was badly slurring in the closing speech he gave at the convensssssion. Interestingly, zoos nationwide have also began to complain of a dearth of elephant tranquilizers. Sure it's a coincidence though.
I do have one upside against him. He can't accuse me of cognitive decline. One cannot have a decline in that which does not exist.
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That's the problem. He isn't a complete douche, he's an incomplete douche.
At least a complete douche is useful.
And a complete douche doesn't try to sell the world on "The US government doesn't use SQL", when it's the world's largest Oracle customer - a SQL database, plus PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL... Or fire critical workers, like epidemiologists during epidemics, cancer researchers mid-approval for a non-small lung cancer vaccine trial, weathermen that predict major storms, nuclear weapons security personnel, air traffic controllers, etc to save mythical money that is being spent even more rapidly in their absence because critical work isn't getting done now.
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Cute Uh-60 in the background of the interview, I liked that bird better with a fully stocked ESSS.
And an AH-64 and AC130 series friend to properly introduce myself.
Well, if a nicer introduction failed, which was rare.
Oddly, I was once investigated, actually had to authorize said investigation, due to some peculiarities of the infrastructure that have since been corrected.
Authorized it, learned of my own errors, corrected them, everyone moved on and SIPRnet infrastructure was improved.
What I didn't do was eliminate the supervisory infrastructure or obstruct the investigation, I fully cooperated and even contributed to it. And I literally could've gotten 20 large in prison. Due to a procedural error that was caused by previous in war theater lapses that were cumulative and once arrested, strengthened overall security.
Defense attorneys would literally shit themselves, but my strategies always work until they don't. Same with theirs.
Everyone being honest helps in that specific scenario of a massive goat screw of my own origination. Got caught out, fixed it and sent the fix downstream, case closed.
Not kill the messenger. Hell, if memory serves, the kid that reported me got promoted and rightfully so!
And oh, "He was federally investigated", yeah, big shit, anyone with an SF85 or SF86 is investigated. Here's your big kids pants, child. Stop pissing yourself.
That's my job in my dotage and injury status.
Dammit...
There is one thing worse than growing older, not living to get older. Nobody I know reported back on how great dead is, only living people have suggested I investigate that option and I suspect that they don't have my best interests at heart.
I'll just get my coat...
Where my spare quantum torpedo is stored. ;)
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I'm reminded of this time of year in Grafenwoehr, aka, exploring the wonderful world of deep mud.
That's OK, didn't like the weather, wait 10 minutes, it'll change. But, the food more than made up for the misery!
Yeah, back in the early 1980's, education was excellent on WWII and the Holocaust. There were some things my uncle never would talk about from that war, which was something exceptional for him, so definitely it sounds like an experience best avoided by all.
I only advocate for total war against ignorance and disease, which are worthy of being eliminated and are far less expensive to wage.
Back to the food, the Bavarian table is about as dangerous as the Lebanese table, for there is a very real risk that one will arise twice the person that arrived! ;)
Well, off to create my own dangerous table. Made up a gallon of pasta sauce yesterday, so it's time to use some of that sauce and I think I'll try that lentil pasta someone gave me. I'll save my left over gallon of chicken and barley stew for lunch.
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@pallidavisholubar7273 treason will never be part of the dialog. Period.
Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Has either Trump or Musk levied war against the US? There is no enemy, as Congress hasn't declared war on anyone.
Now, one can make a case of sedition and massive overreach beyond his authority under the Constitution and he literally can be impeached for any reason that the House and Senate come up with, even for having mussed hair, as the SCOTUS found long ago that impeachment is a political act, not a criminal or civil matter.
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Poppycock! Two entirely different and opposing stories only happen on those rare days that end in the letter "y" in English.
Seriously though, crazier and stupider stories have been used in defense, occasionally, they even work, as life itself can get crazily stupid at times.
Frankly, it sounds like the wife set her paramour up, along with her jealous husband. But, that's only a suspicion.
As a former juror, would I buy the story? Probably not, but I'd certainly rent it and take it out for a test drive. Questions I'd expect answered by the prosecution would then be why a loaded pistol was left outside and on a gun safe in a "sanctuary room" and why the window he couldn't bolt through wasn't capable of being opened.
But, this case is nearly as bad as a jurist instructing a defendant that only a plea of guilty is permitted, under threat of sanction. The term Kangaroo Court comes to mind.
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@JustTooDamnHonest well, Hitler killed himself, cyanide and shot himself before the cyanide could start to work.
Now, Mussolini, what happened to him was epic.
Ran off to escape to Switzerland, hoping to fly then to Spain, was captured by communists, summarily shot the next day, body dumped in a plaza in Milan and a crowd hung him up by his heels, stoned, spat upon and beat upon the corpse.
I suspect that those folks didn't like him very much.
Hitler's corpse was exhumed by the Russians, identity was confirmed and the body cremated, the ashes tossed.
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@jamesdana1273 heh, sound goes out occasionally on a PA system. Now, if my team was scrambling to get and keep the accursed thing back online and he stated he was going to stiff us? I'd have turned off his mike again, then loudly asked him if he wanted to rethink the payment of his debts or are we repossessing the equipment immediately.
As soon as he mentioned litigation, everything gets broken down and removed. Sorry, passed a corporate point where from then on, everything is between attorneys. Then, they have a choice, try to commit grand theft on national television, with hundreds of witnesses, try to kidnap the sound crew or allow our property to be repossessed and he can try to be heard the old fashioned way - the way people have been heard for thousands and thousands of years.
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@stephanweinberger save that a trusted individual could as easily then generate a new hash for the Makefile, save it and it appears as valid as everything else in the repository.
So, timestamp auditing would also be necessary, as its hash would be saved at a different time and date than the rest of the files. Well, unless that also was altered.
My first rule of information assurance, trust no one, not even myself. So, stumbling blocks, such as checks and balances, auditing before publishing, etc always get inserted, regardless of my gonad pain. Never had a persistent compromise on networks I was in charge of, so I obviously did something right, given we were repeatedly targeted by multiple APT's.
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Lightning isn't much of an EMP, which is a regional phenomena. Geomagnetic storms are also regular occurrences from solar outbursts, thankfully nothing like the Carrington event, but still plenty spunky and causes some hair loss in the load protection and management centers.
Radiation, yeah, a few days and everything's fine for a fair bit of time outside. Give it two weeks, you're pretty close to background radiation levels again.
New Orleans, kind of a poor example, when Houston would be more damaging to fuel infrastructure, as was illustrated a few years back after a hurricane hit there.
AWS, Google and Microsoft cloud management centers, although a cyber attack would be just as effective and a lot cheaper.
Another misconception is one bomb per target. For large targets, both CEP comes into play, as does the nature of a target. An air field needs multiple devices, with a military air field likely needing up to a half dozen devices to entirely destroy. Degradation vs destruction are also facets to consider.
MAD becoming a component, what we'd get is what we'd send. Upside is, deployable warheads are quite limited compared to the height of the Cold War. Still, it's moderately likely my area would get some licks, as we've Chambersburg not far away and the area is dotted with DLA and NSA (Naval Support Activities, not the Puzzle Palace) depots, if things went toward countervalue.
Slightly more likely, which remains extremely unlikely, a strike on a NATO member with a tactical device, which would earn a reprisal strike of a like nature. An analogy for that is, two prize fighters in a heavyweight boxing match, both having anvils in their gloves. Nobody's going to want to swing first, as they know a swing is going to then be coming their way.
Circling back to EMP, due to the geology of the area I'm living in, whenever we get any halfhearted geomagnetic storm, my computers crash due to power spikes riding past my filters. For what I've got, not worth getting a saturable reactor to try to block those odd spikes. A data center, yeah, worth the expense of protecting, even a main office, a home office, yeah, not worth spending more than all of the computers are worth to protect them.
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There are precisely two races on this planet and it's readily apparent which one is which.
There is the human race, a tailless offshoot of monkeys that define themselves as not apes, but are just bald apes that use slightly more advanced tools than their cousins. There is the rat race, which decidedly have tails, burrow, trash things, have constantly growing teeth and can either play cute or be exceptionally disagreeable and known to carry a few really unpleasant to human diseases. The ears and nose kind of gives them away, along with that disagreeable thing. Rats are also known to run scientific experiments on humans, pretending to be test subjects and randomly dying just to see what their human test subjects do.
Kamala is obviously a human.
Trump's staff, obviously... Dammit, human. With ratlike characteristics.
Seriously, the only time ethnicity comes to my mind at all is in regards to medical issues in need of treatment and really, that's the only time such things should come to mind.
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The entire lecture was bogus, likely entirely out of ignorance.
First, the entire train of objections is akin to complaining that Linux isn't a hammer, when a screwdriver is required. It's neither, it's a general purpose OS, for the most part. Aerospace requires a realtime OS, with the smallest of jitter in task processing possible. Jitter being the variable time between an input and answer from the software and delayed answers are considered hard bad answers.
A good example was Apollo 11, with the approach radar on while landing, the computer overloaded and incessantly rebooted. Thankfully, Armstrong had taken full manual control early on, not trusting the relatively new computer. Had he not, the reboot would've cut power to the engines and history would've recorded a fatal crash on the lunar surface. The cause, radar data simply overloaded the computer with data, buffers overflowed and the primitive computer simply kept rebooting and alarming.
Which on errors, it was supposed to do.
Now, there are realtime Linux distros available, one is actually in use by the US Air Force, which puts to lie everything in their presentation. It already exists, it's in use and it's certified. It's also novel enough to fly under their radar, which is unsurprising, as novel things aren't exactly welcome in aerospace. New can mean buggy, buggy can mean failed projects, as nearly happened with the F-35. Remember when they had trouble booting up the entire airplane?
AFIK, there are around a half dozen realtime OS vendors out there, two are Linux based and relatively new. Not a one will ever even remotely become popular, as they're not designed for regular server usage or workstation usage, they're for specialized custom applications like running equipment like airplanes and their subsystems. They'd suck at, say, running sendmail, but excel at their purpose of monitoring a thousand sensors and balancing an aircraft's flight.
And the Wind River VxWorks OS, also open source, has gone to Jupiter and Mars. The RTLinux line was acquired and revamped, but originated in 2007, languished a bit around 2011, acquired and reshuffled a bit, but has managed to have annual releases since its origination. Their RTLinux product is used by Schneider Electric and Toshiba, their VxWorks used by the USAF, NASA and more.
Linux is a general purpose OS, it's great as a server or desktop, even for fairly non-critical non-realtime tasks. Inside of a datacenter, it's a major workhorse, happily sitting alongside *BSD servers and more. But, in aerospace, one needs an entirely different animal, we're into round cow land, compared. Comparing the two entirely different technologies is like comparing a round cow to a bowling ball. Both are round, but that's about it.
Well, off to fix my MythTV box. Looks like a kernel update borked the boot. Not ideal for an aerospace system, where borking a boot system in orbit around Jupiter would kind of be a big deal. But then, space probes tend to make really lousy home entertainment centers.
Because, a hammer is not a screwdriver. A general purpose OS is not a realtime OS. And while I could take over Johnny's paper route with a large dump truck, it'd hardly be practical. Hell, Johnny got made redundant long ago anyway.
I'm sure that before long, my morning paper will be getting delivered by a realtime OS operated drone to my neighbor's front door... ;)
But my space probe will happily orbit Jupiter, studying away in a radiation environment that's absolutely obscene.
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No, that's management level idiocy and greed.
It'd potentially impact the bottom line to fight or pay, so pass it off to the riff-raff, screw everyone in favor of one's bonus.
Trust me, been working for years in that suite.
The worst part is, the lot knew that I'd gladly testify against them, shaken faith, but not stirred, as not a one got litigated against or prosecuted.
So, not laziness in my experience, moral bankruptcy is more appropriate.
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In fundie speak, "the enemy" is Satan. So, he's praying to God for God to not be incompetent and get out thought or outmaneuvered by Satan, because apparently in his faithful view, the Almighty is a blithering idiot.
Now, if some loose in the head lugnut goes and kills some of the SCOTUS, especially those whose "names were called out in the mass", he'll proclaim God's angles or angels or something helped the idiot commit murder, in His Almighty name, all for the tyrant god-king.
Or to paraphrase, per other Christians.
Oh, Lord! Please help the antichrist to overthrow you...
Me, I just say, "I just don't drink enough".
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If the Secret Service is investigating him, but haven't interviewed him, it bodes ill for him. That's typically what happens when they're entering into a criminal proceeding, with indictment to follow. Then, his contracts get into a funny place, as they'd be contracts with someone on indictment for conspiracy to murder the senior leadership of this nation. Conviction and he remains associated with those companies is the kiss of death to all of those federal contracts.
And run after conviction, don't be surprised if a wet team gets dispatched due to the threat level.
And given his track record, he'll try defection, doubling down and all is admissible in court, he'll screw himself into becoming Bubba's new fiancee in the supermax.
In the end, got fomenting assassination of our national leadership. Might even nab him on sedition. Treason can only be gotten if he is proved to help an enemy in a declared war or takes up arms against his nation, but the first two are both life sentences anyway. Then, likely State will strip citizenship and send his newly penniless ass back to South Africa.
Never, ever, ever piss off the top shelves in the federal government!
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The "This is my first day at" one was a joke, saw it when it was fresh. People dutifully followed on with other ways to impress the boss...
Mine being, "Don't forget to pour around the gasoline on the way out the door".
True though on never push updates out on Fridays. You push them out as mandatory immediate at COB on a holiday weekend Friday, then pour the can of gasoline out on the way out the door.
One thing that really didn't sit well was, those companies that had test groups and deployment staging configured in Falcon's updater found to their horror that Crowdstrike had overrode the client organization settings and pushed the update as mandatory and immediate. That went from one lead balloon to a Blitz barrage balloon squadron full of leaden balloons.
I've used their software, got our organization out of a jam with a very longstanding APT attack that was ongoing for long enough that we joked that the APT was eligible for a retirement pension due to the amount of time spent within our network. Went from loggers with delays of 19 - 26 hours to instantaneous alerts and accessible logs, literally capturing one attack in realtime, buffering it in its entirety and leveraging packet captures, submitted their latest PE software to the FBI and DHS for submission to the vendors, halting a major attack on our network and apparently, a half dozen other organizations. Attack being via RDP and novel(ish) an ancient method being revived - buffering into notepad the binary, something I'd not saw since the Windows 3.11 days. I know about that one in detail, as I ran that one down and wrote the report on it.
Downside, all it needed was a repadding and recompile and they'd be at it again, but that was long enough to get the behavioral software to recognize it and jam it up in IPS. A bit later, we found the entry point - a long forgotten, unpatched DMZ test machine on a multinational network. Once it went offline, the attack was over. All, a side effect of having a network that happened, rather than one that was planned.
If I'm at BSOD, yeah, lemme click on that one. Gimme a minute to grab the disconnected keyboard and start typing in commands.
JLOTS, reminded me of the Mulberry harbours at Omaha. And precisely like with the Omaha one, a storm came in and knocked the snot out of it, forcing it to be abandoned. Maybe next week, we'll try the charge of the Light Brigade...
Circling back though, I'd not include the A-10 being eliminated in favor of fast movers with lighter capacity overall. For CAS, it'd be inferior due to lower loitering time, less rounds for the cannon and generally just ill suited in that role. It'd be like trying to revive the museum ship battleships to assume the role of a cruiser. They could sort of do it, just not very well in that role.
Sure, you can try the new guy, but I'll stick with Frank Moses. ;)
And don't tell me "it's old", the BUFF is even older, both run on coal, so what, they still work and work well in their roles.
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I mentioned this last week, after a call between Murdoch and Trump went south, suddenly his media outlets began skewering Trump, Fox pivoting slowly, as the departments either adjusted or were told to adjust or be escorted out the door by security.
Initially on Times Radio, some skewering on one or two Fox shows and it's been spreading.
Basically, he's lost control of his monster and thus far, he's spanking it. Suffice it to say, I'm fairly certain Trump won't react as desired and reconciliation will quickly become unlikely as he reacts.
Price of eggs bit, that alienates everyone that understands US egg production and the uselessness of criticizing any POTUS over bird flu culling losses - on both sides of the aisle. When I get people on the street completing sentences about how long it takes a chick to grow to egg laying age (8 - 9 months), you're beating a dead horse and driving them away.
Every other price, yes, eggs, only focus on promises, not results, as in promising something beyond the power of humanity to alter.
Save, if your candidate can shit out laying hens by the millions.
Choose your targets to devote shots to more narrowly. You don't create a cat hole to crawl through a wall with a .50 cal by shooting the entire wall, you fire at a foot to foot and a half area and pound the hole through there.
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@edg5218 I call such types god-cops, for they act like they're the Almighty himself.
I've dealt with such types in the past, being the voice of reason, they the voice of unreason, then they learn also, I was a US Army NCO and am fluent in both languages and escalation spectrum for me is beyond their means. Thankfully, violence didn't occur, but I was within a half second from it a few times and their peers reigned the idiots in.
And I accepted my citation and moved on.
One telling point is, fidgeting with his sidearm. Trust me, that's not a good thing around me, it just made you target #1 and I begin scanning for next dangers and that's apparent to any veteran officer or military service veteran.
And the veterans, not wanting to become part of a major incident, which is a royal pain in the balls if one survives, want what I want always, peace and quiet.
We can argue about it in court. Where arguments belong.
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@jonathanvachondechevigny1020 first, you really should introduce yourself with the capslock key, it is your ally.
Second, there are no such words as treator or beging. I can only assume, grammatically, that you're attempting to use the words traitor and begin. Traitor implies treason, which is precisely and narrowly defined in the US Constitution as taking up arms against one's nation or giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
As there is no implication of taking up arms against their nation, that only leaves giving aid and comfort to an enemy in peacetime, which is a decidedly odd notion. Howinhell do you have an enemy when at peace? One can have an adversary, but that isn't by definition an enemy. When playing chess, my adversary is not my enemy to kill, just an adversary to defeat in that contest. One can have adversarial relations in many ways and still not legally be enemies, as there has been no declaration of war by Congress, as is required by our Constitution.
Although, we'll really get into the weeds on one of my pet peeves on war and the dearth of declaration of such, while still engaging in massive hostilities. The last time we declared war was WWII and frankly, we've played quite free and loose with the Constitution ever since, skirting a duty of Congress while lives are lost... But, we're far beyond the scope of this discussion there.
One may betray a sworn oath, such as in these cases, sworn public servants betraying their position of trust by presenting fraudulent documents designed to usurp the very basis of our government, but that's not being a traitor, it's simply a betrayal of public trust and proof that such a person should never, ever be trusted again and that criminal charges for fraud, perjury, forgery and conspiracy should be filed, with additional charges applied under the discretion of the prosecuting attorney.
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@unknown5150variable considering that is pure fiction, I'll disregard the remainder.
What was said, quite late in his teachings was to for two followers to buy swords, so that he could be counted as amongst criminals to fulfill scripture. Not "hey, go shove a sword up the ass of anyone who won't follow me".
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send [or bring] peace, but a sword."
Followed immediately by, "And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me".
Kinda hard to be swinging a sword about while lugging a crucifix around.
As for Genocide, that's repeatedly in the Old Testament. Indeed, there's a whole part about killing everyone and everything in a city-state during a battle being ordered by no less than the Almighty. Decidedly odd, given he was already notorious for being alsmitey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_violence
Now, excuse me while I go smite some bread dough for dinner...
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All the Afghanistan problems were a turd buffet set by the previous maladministration.
As for "military grade equipment", most are trucks and firearms, not worth the cost of repatriating. Are you implying that China doesn't know how to make trucks and guns? That they don't have Cisco routers and switches? That they had no access to computers?
But, no, it's all this administration, the god-king, emperor wannabe was perfect and didn't set anything up to fail. Well, anything beyond every damned thing that he could sabotage.
Sorry son, you worship a flawed man, not a god. A man who set the timetable for withdrawing US forces that the incoming administration was saddled with. A withdrawing of forces that was scheduled, not briefed to those who needed to implement it and as the date approached, we'd be leaving our forces abrogating the previous maladministration's agreement. Hell, the only one that administration briefed was China and Russia, FVEY got to suck vacuum, as usual for that maladministration.
And who, by the way, put roadblocks in the way of issuing green cards to translators and other allies again? Oh yeah, the previous maladministration.
But, what would I know, it's not as if I was with CENTCOM for most of the war - oh wait, I was! What would I know, I don't know nothing, I'm fucking ignorant and you're the shining voice of wisdumb for the entire benighted planet.
Hey, I hear Putin calling you, better run quick!
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@ChangingAperture first, the foundation is below the water, the pier was struck and likely damaged, leaving others to take impact and shearing forces as the bride collapsed down upon them.
Tell me you know nothing about bridge and highway construction and engineering without telling us all that you know nothing whatsoever about them!
*Maybe*, after thorough inspection and gamma imaging to ensure the piers are still usable after minor repair - with some likely needing replacement. Not that replacement would delay construction by that much. Six weeks for concrete cure before loading with the bridge support elements, about the same for preparatory work to construct replacement foundations and piers, pouring over a week to keep the concrete volume controllable and hence, temperatures under control. Slinging a bridge structure, then deck, welding rebar, pouring decks will take the lion's share of time.
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I'm reminded of a few things, for one, how lordly he is treated, far above and superior to how all we serfs are treated.
For another, the courts awaiting his Royal Boon before applying any realistic standard, when any serf would've been beneath the prison for contempt on day one.
Finally, I'm reminded of something he said during his last campaign, speaking of Biden, how Biden would hurt God. I've come to realize, the God wasn't the Judaeo-Christian God, but the Lord God Trump. His followers already knew this and hence, their repeated reactions. Let him acquire the power that he so desires, welcome back the tyrant god-kings of the ancient city states back, setting humanity itself back thousands of years, albeit with thermonuclear weapons that they, nor he comprehends. After all, he never did read the SIOP, which is the instructions on using the infernal things, but did ask the military to use a nuke to put out a hurricane.
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As someone who has sat on multiple juries, that "psychosis of a jury"... Is spot on. Courts have that effect on we commoners. ;)
Trump seems incapable of learning the first two rules of court.
1: Don't piss off the judge! Ever! At all! Just don't do it!
2: Don't piss off the jury, asshole! Why do I even need to have to tell you this?!
I can see him falling asleep during selection, nearly fell asleep during jury selection myself and I was eventually appointed to those juries. Watching paint dry is far, far, far more exciting and interesting. It's necessary, but courts are designed to not be exciting, want exciting courts, watch Matlock.
Still, there's an old proverb of non-biblical origin, "Never interrupt one's adversary when they're making a mistake".
Give him time, he'll assert that the jury is paid off by Biden and the "Deep State", the latter of which as far as I can tell decodes as the Civil Service. An odd position, given his claims of their utter incompetence, but yet they've the phenomenal competence to plot as an unorganized group against him so effectively. Must involve space aliens or something.
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One thing about Greenland is, the US had multiple bases there, now we've just got Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule AFB. The other bases, well, the Ice won, as usual.
We even had, much to Denmark's ire, an attempted ICBM base buried in the glacier. Didn't work out well, differential flow in the glacier caused many corridors to suddenly not stay continuous, becoming blocked when flow moved the corridor edges away from each other laterally. The nuclear reactor had many hot loop leaks, resulting in many barrels full of radioactive waste and eventually, the entire mess was abandoned.
Denmark made the US go back and clean up the radioactive waste that was abandoned there, with some rather blistering comments.
We've other posts there, scientific ones that have absolutely no military usage. One recently observed the fastest movement of a glacier ever recorded, the glacier accelerating to visible movement speeds to even a casual observer.
Now, if I was Denmark defending my territory, first declare Article 5 for NATO against the US. Then, have trawlers drag anchors across the SOSUS sensor lines between Greenland and Iceland, rinse and repeat between Iceland and the UK. That'd tie up US fleet support. Then, mine the piss out of the region, cutting off SLOC for the North Atlantic.
Now, the US is spending billions to mere millions in being an annoyance. Toss in some anti-aircraft batteries, now it's a no-fly zone and fucking up the airlines. More billions lost.
Might end up with a US victory, but it'd be trivially turned Pyrrhic.
Panama, easy as well, mines and blow the locks. All you win is a trench and yellow fever, bon appetit on the turdburger. With one's forces surrounded on two sides of a really big stagnant trench.
Then, Trump can move on Airstrip One and he can order mandatory telescreens installed in the proles homes.
Damned shame that kid in Pittsburgh couldn't make a shot that any first week of marksmanship basic trainee could make.
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Many words from German are part of English originally, given the, erm, amount of "cultural interchange" between the UK and Europe over the ages. American English further incorporated words from "Hessians", some from Hess, others from other regions, Swiss, etc and still more from Yiddish, from mostly Ashkenazi Jews who immigrated in several waves as has historically happened (most of our immigration has arrived in waves over the years, typically generating a wave of xenophobic resistance to that which is the primary nature of our population growth throughout US history, from colonial times to the present).
Many Hollywood films reflect that the immigration wave phenomena with specific jobs as a stereotype, with various occupations increasing around the time of arrival of a wave, such as the Irish cop, Italian bricklayers, Chinese laundries, etc. A niche occupation had its inception around the time of a wave, the new immigrants took those poor paying jobs as a matter of course and mutual assimilation occurred. As you can tell, the Blarney stone obviously kissed me! ;)
We incorporated rather common foods in the same way, such as my breakfast favorite, scrapple, aka Pannhaas in PA Dutch, derived from panhas or the Dutch versoin, balkenbrij and even sauerkraut, which the use of the latter originating in the US before the civil war.
Suffice it to say, loanwords and culinary history run apace in the US, although English in general is the child of many fathers.
As for the "beer stein", that seems to have been an imported concept and a version becoming the beer mug in the US shortly after WWII, likely imported by returning soldiers from the war, occupation and later, from our mutually agreed upon bases in Germany.
I can still remember my first Oktoberfest, where to my horror, I found myself with little room for bier, due to the culinary delights the harvest festival produced! OK, maybe not horror. ;)
I'm still hard pressed to find a preference for regional specialties, although I do lean toward northern Austrian and Bavarian in preferences, most of which tend to be derived from farmer's derived dishes, hence would incorporate offal and heavier on the carbs (even if, when my wife was still alive, I was the only one in the house to enjoy beets - more for me!).
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First, the photoelectric aren't a panacea. Period. Fog, such as from my neighbor's meat locker set air conditioner and her cigarette smoke would set one off incessantly. Dust will set them off incessantly. Mist and steam will set them off.
Now, the magic sauce has been available for as long as both types of detector, ionization and photoelectric and it ain't Harry Potter's magical fuck stick, it's a combination photoelectric and ionization detector, which is commonly used in commercial grade detectors in businesses.
Downside being, the cost a fair amount more.
My ionization detector failed silently, which is plain evil of it, silent failures are bad. Maintenance tried just popping a battery in and running, I poked it with my cane, it stayed silent, maintenance was annoyed in having to go back up the ladder and pop a replacement in. In irritation, he handed it to me. Good, I'm an electronics guy, component level, I stripped that board down.
In mid-build for a radiation detector and cloud chamber for the radioactive source, the rest are loose components. The ionization circuit unchanged in well over 30 years (and basically the same detector for photoelectric or ionization, it's a comparitor and well, it compares the level read, say a quarter second before and now). The Americium source shrank by over half, which is fine.
Oh, my sense of smell has been out on a powder for decades, awake or asleep. So yeah, I need that detector and well, if some food is dodgy, someone to sniff it... No cheap detectors for that yet.
But, 90% of what he said on ionization, hyperbole, likely for pay. The rest, overstated, but loosely accurate. Get the dual model, minimal falses, it'll detect great.
Oh, figured out the silent failure by spilling some instant au gratin potatoes in the oven unnoticed, then was reading e-mail. Looked up to see a pall of smoke and had an "Oh, shit!" moment, as I really didn't want to set off the entire apartment building alarm system over a cooking mishap. So, popped the windows, ran the fans and ignited some fumes with profanity.
OK, maybe not that last part, but profanity was involved. Aired the place out, no annoyed neighbors and fire department, a wee bit less of a red face. Detector was replaced by maintenance, mischief managed.
And thanks to maintenance, a new science project was born that'll make a great conversation item at parties, as the radiation detector I'm building is of a CERN design for a particle spectrometer, so it can identify the element based upon its radioactive fingerprint (specifically, energy level). Not too shabby for $50 in parts. The cloud chamber is just a couple of shitty busted lid Amazon food storage containers that are getting repurposed, a chunk of heat sink, some blue freezer packs and that super secret ingredient, hot water. Shhhhh...
See PhysicsHigh for details on the cloud chamber. CERN's education outreach website for the experiments. Me for a 62 year old guy with a cane on a stripper pole, I need the money putting it back on again... OK, not the last, really, I've no desire to end up in traction for the next six months. Yeah, dad humor meets EMS humor, deal with it.
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Actually, yes. VP and cabinet inform Congress that POTUS is unfit medically for office. I recall one such advice given when POTUS went in for a colonoscopy procedure (think it included polyp removal), only lasted a couple of hours, but it's actually the procedure.
The 25th amendment, section 4.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB11131
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
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Manchuria then belongs to the Mongols, of Mongolia. Or did we forget about Genghis Khan?
Hell, based upon such ancient claims, Mongolia owns everything through the Middle East and over half of Europe!
Now, China invades, Russia launches their nukes from their bases on the Peninsula, their forces glow. Not a good idea or option.
Worse, it destabilize the region, which isn't in the PRC's interest, potentially bringing the Kuril islands into question more than currently, bringing Japan into the mess, again against PRC memories and interests, North Korea then jumps off while everyone's distracted and the entire Pacific powder keg goes off, to the harm of Russia and the PRC.
All, before the PRC has completed their blue water navy, again to their disadvantage.
Of course, most of the predictions here have aged well - as milk left in the summer sun for a week. Like every other prediction since the dawn of time... Humanity just sucks at predicting things that are complex, largely due to insufficient information.
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So, I've stumbled upon the Masochism Central Channel, got ya. :P:p:P:p:P:p
Obviously, I'm a masochist, why else would I put in nearly 28 years into a military career? I only retired because, it just started to hurt too damned much to put all of that gear on in the morning.
Don't get me started on AK's built in blacksmith shops (or is that shoppes?) in the rural Afghan regions...
Rust control, I take it you've never been to Iraq...
Overall, I'm well known to imbibe truly legendary amounts of distilled spirits, but I've never been drunk enough to build that or fire something that abusively malassembled - outside of from a vise.
Given that ethanol, firearms and myself remain amicably strangers, yeah, vise testing only. I like having forearms and hands!
Total frankenbuild from below hell. Pretty bad when one is building shit from seven floors below hell.
But, it proves, some people should never be allowed to assemble metal of any sort.
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I've burned the flag many times, as it was worn, tattered and unservicable and that's the US Flag code method of destruction.
As mentioned, protest is allowed, so when I see foreigners protesting in their home countries and burning the US flag, I shrug, as that's permitted here and anyone objecting is objecting to our very own, very first amendment.
As for profanity on public display, were that unlawful, what is to prevent someone from deciding that a specific political party's name or candidate's name is profanity? Now, we'd have a monarchy and anarchy would ensue - rightfully so, as we are decidedly not a monarchy.
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@marksainsbury2422 got caught that way myself. Doesn't make it invalid, cherrypicking data is a favorite pasttime for pseudoscience types.
Rather like religious fundies that run around screaming about end times, because of "wars and rumors of war", to which I laugh and ask for them to name any time when there weren't wars and rumors of war.
As for accelerationists, they think that they could accelerate a downfall of civilization, ride the tough times out in their gilded bunkers, happily sipping champagne and nibbling caviar, then emerge and start running things and everyone will happily follow them.
More likely, those who starved, watched family and friends die and shivered through long, cold winters will be waiting for them with a brand shining new National Razor.
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Yeah, the simple accident of dropping a ham sandwich turned into a major conspiracy theory. Or something.
You know, sneaking off to spy in an antique reactor, climbing through a few feet of stainless steel, control assemblies and fuel, to gnaw on a sammich, when the flying saucers and worse, flying cups upset a wife due to a fractured tea service.
Between the dropped sandwich and the profanity of the enraged wife, the reactor overheated, melted, then had a massive explosion.
Or one could go with what actually happened, a comedy of errors resulted in an inevitable tragedy. Oh wait, that couldn't happen, because governments are all perfect and never make mistakes.
The radar crap makes jack shit of sense either, as the US and Soviet Union had those since WWII and both operate a fence type radar to this very day to track all of the junk we've tossed carelessly into orbit. A US version shutting down in 2013 in Texas, as it was replaced by a global version with more stations over a wider area to better track the junk in orbit. Feel free to look up "Space Fence" and the Russian counterpart, who share information between them to ensure orbital safety of modest projects like the ISS.
Then, there's one not touched here. Chernobyl is a total dead zone, nothing can live there. Ignore the tourists visiting pretty much daily. Or those, ahem, Russian tourists in the tree looking clothing and armored vehicles that dug all over the place, they all obviously dissolved or something.
Reality is stranger than fiction far too frequently, so some seek to make fiction even stranger. I'd pop these idiots in the head with my cane, but it's far too much fun tripping them incessantly with it instead...
OK, I can wish. Trip them or just tie their shoelaces together, which would likely occupy them constructively for a decade untying them again.
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Yep, a fine firearms instructor, providing the bad example of what not to follow.
Odd how I've given hundreds of firearms classes in the military and somehow retained the use of all ten thumbs and both eyes, leaving the classroom entirely unperforated.
I did send one of my classes back to the classroom after they hit the range though. Was monitoring the M2 .50 BMG range after giving a class in the weapon, use, firing and preventative maintenance, including headspace and timing adjustment. Heard the gun begin to fire erratically and just as I'd shouted CEASE - BOOM! The barrel blew off and flew 25 meters downrange.
I'd harped on checking the detent spring, as it's a common failure item, which prevents properly setting the headspace for the barrel/gun and holds the barrel in from unscrewing when firing. Obviously, nobody checked, as the gun was also out of time by two notches. So, I asked who didn't perform their pre-operation PMCS and headspace and timing checks, nobody raised their hand. Had they done so, it'd have been a lesson learned. None admitted to not doing so, so they obviously hadn't learned and they went through my class again and the next time, under my highly irritated glare, properly checked their gun for safety.
It could as well have fired partially out of battery, blown the feed tray cover off and injured the operator or assistant gunner. I've also witnessed what that half inch wide, two inch long bullet can do to a human body with its 13000+ foot pounds of energy at 3000+ feet per second energy. Think Superman putting his fist through someone.
And I am one of the original "Safety Nazis", do something unsafe with a weapon, you'll think the Almighty just started thundering at you and you'll be off my range before you realized that your feet left the ground.
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Get a national strike going, once their corporate campaign contributors start calling and getting directly through, they'll start paying attention.
Now, protesting en masse would probably just get declared an insurrection and numbnuts would just declare martial law, as truth and he are unfamiliar with one another. But, staying home, they're sure as hell not going to be sending the US Army to individual homes and force workers to their civilian jobs at bayonet point. Not the least of which is, the Army wouldn't piss on their oaths and the numbers just don't exist. Not enough soldiers to even visit half of the population's homes to see if they're not at work and employed.
And every day people are home, billions of GDP get lost and corporate profits are lost, in organizations long cut to the bone in "fat trimming", leaving zero redundancy.
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@mhammer3186 one thing I've learned is, there are precisely zero unaccountable bureaucrats in the US. Piss of a VIP, you'll find the most protected of positions at risk instantly, as there's always some out for HR to drop the hammer onto if they need to.
Even money, it's some dipshit that loathes the military. Shred a few of those historic vehicles in a public way, on memorial or veteran's day on live TV, watch how quickly they find that idiot's name out and they're gone, as now that individual made D. Boss look bad to the public.
It's called being a PR nightmare.
Meanwhile, they fucked their medical professionals during major storms, as now the folks that volunteered to drive them to and from work are no longer allowed to do so, so hospitals won't be conducting shift changes and could potentially be unable to care for their patients. Again, right at someone's ogre feet...
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@mitchellspanheimer1803 metal shielding is even worse, especially with beta. Remember, Cs-137 is a 0.5 Mev beta source and a 0.6 Mev gamma source. Bremsstrahlung radiation will be emitted by metal when a particle impacts the metal atoms, which can then ionize a path through the chip itself. Some plastics would be far more effective in protecting the circuitry than metal.
In space, one faces mostly protons and beta, along with x-ray and a touch of gamma, all save the EM generating bremsstrahlung radiation from the spacecraft hull. Thankfully, one doesn't have neutrons or protons to really foul the camera in the case of Cs-137, but damage from gamma should be minimal to absent at that energy level. As a hint, thunderstorms can generate gamma in the 100 Mev range, we don't see cameras failing from that. Pair production is quite unlikely at that flux and energy level.
Oh, another tidbit, I-131 is used in nuclear imaging, had such testing done for my thyroid. It puts out around 0.364 Mev, which goes clean through the body to be easily detected. The Cs-137 is harder by a little, but magically was blocked by a hand that should've only barely attenuated some of the beta and not a lick of the gamma.
Were such an offer real and I ran into it and could verify it as a source of some type, I'd buy it and call a friend who's a nuclear health physicist to verify by a proper survey. Then, if it was something like Cs-137, call the NRC and the military installation he works at to see who wanted to take custody of the damned thing. Better to get it off the street and market and into proper custody than pray it doesn't turn up used in some terrorist attack or irradiating a neighborhood.
I'd also get the tag number of the seller and if possible, the VIN from the dashboard. The NRC would certainly want to have a conversation as to where such a hazardous source originated.
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Arson that risks every employee and customer, yeah, she'll get time.
But, in many communities, cable theft is also a felony, so it's telling if they mention felonies, but not what they were or if they were violent or non-violent. An ounce of weed still is a felony in many states, totally equal with arson and reckless disregard for the lives of others, amiright? ;)
If they don't point out what the felonies were, they were likely non-violent BS charges and the news outlet is playing you for a fool using the "she was no angel" bullshit. If she committed 21 violent felonies, the people really need to seek redress of grievances with their government over a catch and release system for violent offenders. If the individual has 21 arrests for an ounce or so of weed, the people should seek redress over the waste of sparse tax dollars over penny ante offenses that should've been summary offenses paid for by fines.
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@funsizedtom in other words, never try to make America better, surrender and retreat like a good coward.
Trump's been voluntelling many countries what to do with their own borders. He even tried telling Israel and Hamas to send every Palestinian on the West Bank to Egypt and Jordan, without either nation being consulted, asked or even oh, an e-mail letting them know of his idiotic pogrom suggestion.
Israel and Hamas wisely tousled his hair, patted him on the top of the head and sent him back to bed, while the adults talked.
Egypt and Jordan paid no note, when asked, "What, someone spoke? I thought that was just a fart".
What he pulled was, sending some group of people that nobody in the neighborhood knows about, to enter the next door neighbor's house without warning, then threaten the neighbor's family because they didn't open the door to a crowd they didn't know was coming, why they were there or whoinhell they were, but the neighbor is the bad guy.
No, the neighbor sending the crowd would be pulling buckshot out of their ass if it was my home being banged on by a crowd of unknown, unexpected strangers.
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@Sarcasticron trying and failing to appear human.
Which is odd, given the only sapient and sentient life on the planet at human level are humans. After all, if you were a space alien, would you be stupid enough to land on this planet full of insane critters called humans? ;)
But yeah, keeping up and well, keeping wrangled. Never had to resort to shoulder carry, but I spent enough time with our kids, as in most of my time at home, playing with them and keeping them wrangled. I was also the preferred babysitter for the grandkids until I had to relocate far away due to my job.
And also was the only one that could keep the colicky infants happy. Now, they're tweens, nothing keeps 'em happy. ;)
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@FixNewsPlease and I'd lead the charge for mistrial and impeachment of the judge. There has been no treason.
Sedition, yes, treason no. Our Constitution clearly and plainly states that treason shall consist solely of taking up arms against the country or giving aid and comfort to the enemy. As we're not at war, we're fresh out of enemies and both are too pusillanimous to ever pick up a gun against their government.
Hence, he'd have convicted them without the two required eyewitnesses testifying in open court (another Constitutional requirement), for a crime that they never committed. That's both mistrial and denial of rights under color of law.
And treason doesn't have a mandatory death sentence, the punishment is set by Congress by law, per the Constitution and is the only crime for which writ of attainder and corruption of blood may be ordered. The latter last exercised against Robert E. Lee against his plantation, which remains US property today and was only paid for by Congress after seizure after his death. You might have heard of the place, Arlington National Cemetery.
Oh, for the trivia hounds, the actual penalty is under 18 U.S.C § 2381, states that a person guilty of treason against the United States “shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”
Seditious conspiracy is 18 U.S.C §2385. Advocating overthrow of Government. Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
And we've multiple seditious conspiracy convictions, with sentences being served and more cases pending just for Jan 6 currently, just add a couple of more onto the pile-on.
The mental image of both in solitary inside of a supermax is quite appealing. They don't allow cameras to be present on visiting day.
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@nightnight9164 "If you used common sense you would know he means any Agent, SRT, officer, etc should be wearing a body cam when they are about to conduct a search or out on the field in general."
Is there a disagreement present?
Poop, re-read, I meant to mention the counterargument isn't much of an argument at all. Damned dyslexia!
Too often, idiots complain about a $100 camera, after funding a $2k vest, $1k rifle and ludicrous maintenance fees for unused armored vehicles (trust me, I've operated them in the military, armor is heavy, which increases seal leakage and hence, maintenance costs), etc. Penny wise, pound foolish.
I know a hell of a lot of cops. Old Army buddies, for the most part. When sitting with them, tipping back a few, once a conversation started over armored vehicles.
I asked, "What does God want with a starship?". He blinked a few times, thought about it and said, "I have no fucking idea why God would want a starship or my department would want an APC".
Then, we returned to stomping a few more recalcitrant braincells.
A rifle makes sense, as it has range over an imprecise handgun. Armor makes sense, as does a camera, as that provides evidence in court.
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"They can't disenfranchise thousands of students, can they?"
Why not, they wanted to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of deployed military to kill off mail in ballots.
I say disenfranchise away, but no taxation without representation, so entirely tax free for a decade per denied vote - from local property and school tax to sales tax, booze and cigarette tax, income tax, excise tax, zero taxes, to be paid for by the denying authority's budget. Wanna fight, fine, I fight dirty.
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Indeed, this is one case where, I do believe firmly, his demand for victimhood, should be honored. Let him be the martyr that he proclaims he already is, while experiencing sitting on a stainless steel toilet, rather than his usual gold plated toilet, with no privacy, lowest bidder bunk and enjoying a month of prison food.
If he makes it a week without a major mental breakdown, I'll be more astonished than if Marvin the Martian landed on the White House lawn. Especially if he has to share a cell within the general population and not getting fast food and Cokes at a motion of his fingers.
Now, I see one of three chances that'll happen to his affluenzaness, slim chance, fat chance and no chance, as our two tier system of injustice goes fully onto open display to the world, showing our third world underbelly.
In the old days, the Soviets would've had a field day!
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They can tell me to shut up until the cows come home, I invite them to just pop on by and try to shut me up. They'll be wondering why the ceiling is in front of them and they're awakening to a harangue by a poor defenseless old guy with a cane.
Something that's happened in the past with a "tough" in his 20's, who also thought he could shut me up and make me do what he wanted. Instead of his expectations, he punched my cane, then got nutted and crowned, to find the ceiling before him and his friends laughing at him.
Since I kind of liked the kid, I didn't give him the South Philly stomp while he was down.
People mistake me for being a nice guy, usually I am and try to be nice, but there's another side to me, the side that served for over 28 years in the US Army. And I'm decidedly not in the shit business, so I don't take shit and don't give a shit. And I definitely don't appease.
I'm also firmly of the belief that we do have a right to express our political views in the polls, by ballot, not bullet. Bullets belong on the range or in the field when hunting. Not fairgrounds, not goddamned golf courses.
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Now, now. That wasn't an invasion, that was Russian troops going on vacation and their commanders generously allowing them to take their vehicles and equipment home with them on vacation.
Remember that nonsense being press released from the Kremlin?
Yeah, I agree about the Crimea part, started there as a test, we failed and well, one failed President that also ignored a pandemic encouraged escalation by Putin.
You missed one other use of nuclear weapons, typically neutron bombs - area denial. Then, one channelizes adversary movement into a desired direction and area.
Also, we've not used Cheyenne Mountain Complex for a C3 center for ages, the C3 center is now a standard office building and the old bunker is just communications switching for the most part.
I've also ungently reminded some Russian stooges that only one nation in the world has ever used nuclear weapons in war. And that that country tested cobalt-60 releasing warheads first. And that countervalue strikes would be preferred to wasteful counterforce strikes, as Russia would run out of population centers down to village level before we'd run out of warheads, leaving the population depleted below survival levels. They attempted then to shift goalposts, counting large cities in the US only, upon which I reminded them again of village level raising the number from 1300 to 19000+ vs our number of cities exceeding the numbers of cities, towns and villages in Russia. They did the smart thing and went for a nice hot cup of STFU.
I grew up in the Cold War, I trained and operated in the Cold War, much of my career specifically targeted at Soviet, essentially Russian forces.
Diplomacy isn't saying nice doggy until you find a rock, it's saying nice doggy until you can pull out the gun and fire.
And blathering veiled threats of nukes, ancient news and flat out boring, Putin ran off at the mouth at his supermissile we're not hearing about since it blew up its scientists and irradiated its water based launchpad, but he had during his brag sessions threatened to salt the warheads for port attacks, which would really foul US ports and coastlines - plus our largest population centers. I countered then with, the only reply is a full level countervalue response and between his missile blowing fissiles all over the place and such responses, he STFU. And as I've happily informed all readers that I live at ground zero anyway, I really don't give a fuck kind of set the tone, as I was born a week after Tsar Bomba. I'll definitely outlive Putana.
Oh, one did suggest I'd discover Novichok, I reminded them that we have long had samples and a standardized detector, so the most likely outcome from such a thing would be a redelivery in a Russian styled gift package to a very inconvenient location, at a sensitive time, resulting in Russia having a really bad day from an inconvenient and usually troublesome part-ally.
Because, we trained to fight dirty and think much farther ahead than they're used to dealing with. They really hate reply in kind with high explosive babushkas.
Just to remind them that I remembered the bombs in children's toys in Afghanistan that they used.
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@Elenavkuznetcova funny, as the speed, reaction time, stopping distance claims were all weaponized against those insanely fast 10 speed demonic racing bikes back in the 1970's.
And trust me, I dented the hell out of a car with my Kia 10 speed when the driver intentionally stopped in my path, then drifted forward to ensure my path was obstructed.
So, now that we've required a license for mountain and 10 speed bikes, when do we require a walking and talking license? When do we then require a voting license? Gonna need gun licenses too, as well as assembly licenses and speech licenses, plus press licenses and church licenses, given the literal death tool historically associated with all of those activities.
So, if someone lacks their magical license, do we give them life in prison or summarily execute the offending children at the curb?
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Well, panem is Latin for bread.Romance languages then shared the word.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_world_of_The_Hunger_Games#Panem
The Hunger Games based the national name of Panem on the Latin phrase "Panem et circenses", bread and circuses.
There's a load of chemistry in breadmaking, including the Malliard reaction turning starches into sugars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction
Which people tend to notice is associated with browning foods by heat with oxygen present.
So, I'll give the crumbs a try, if they, ahem, pan out, I'll upscale things and make my own. I do make my own bread by hand or mixer, depending upon batch size, electrocuting it for a certified electronics technician at the appropriate temperature known to a breadmaker is trivial.
Then, determine if it's cost effective to do so or simply buy the damned crumbs. ;)
Now, proper brown bread, that's an art and science, requiring lower temperatures and extra long cooking times to properly make that bread, which is in part, steamed by itself. The Malliard reaction is critical on that bread!
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Had a $1k package from Bose misdelivered by OOPS, erm, UPS. Claimed that it was delivered to our porch. The multi-tennant building does have a porch - only accessible to employees and on the second floor, so that was bullshit.
Filed a claim, UPS insisted it was delivered, but wouldn't provide a photograph, ended up out $1k for a never delivered product and I've not ordered a damned thing from Bose again and refused, whenever possible any offer of delivery by UPS. Given the performance, if I need to ship classified documents, which I have had the occasional need to do so, I'll either go with FedEx or my preferred route of USPS registered mail.
Yeah, classified packages routinely go via UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS and a few other approved vendors, via specific required methods within the continental US. Overseas, either via diplomatic parcel or via the APO system.
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I grew up in a predominatently Jewish neighborhood in SW Philly, so I had a fair exposure to Yiddish. In some real ways, it's comforting on Sabbath day walking past the synagogue next door, because I'll still hear it spoken.
Of course, having a wide diversity of friends, preparing foods can be a bit of a challenge. Besides religious requirements, there are just some people one should not risk exposing to fava beans, for one example. That impacts my falafel recipe...
For those confused, fava beans can be lethal to certain populations from around the Levant (mostly), due to an enzyme deficiency that will destroy their red blood cells. I don't have G6PD deficiency, but being a good host, I do have to take that into account.
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That's OK, these are the same ones that scream bloody murder when FEMA isn't at their doors before a disaster strikes.
Or some really special brain trusts, who actually want FEMA workers, equipment and supplies waiting for the oncoming flood - within the flood zone, because their flag will wave away the flood waters from the relief workers, equipment and supplies like Harry Potter's magic wand.
But, at least we know that US schools civics classes are abysmal failures. After all, they want to deny the states their judicial system, in favor of a Royal institution of justice.
And another complaining about "too many handouts that we can't sustain", while wanting to collect more from Social Security than he paid in.
The same types will go on and on about entitlements being evil. Another word for entitlements, per every legal dictionary around is rights. When shown that fact, usually one gets "yer a commie".
Or course, most of them want Trump to close the boarder, rather than the border...
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Interesting blurb came across Fox. Oddly, factual reporting that DOGE wants full access to the public's IRS database records.
Beyond actually factual reporting that was utterly neutral, what was interesting were the sheer volume of Russian bots going nuts for it.
Not a lick about the Privacy Act of 1974.
I dunno, does Trump want his very own, personal Wellington? Or just a Brutus?
Telling, watch CNN's coverage of the "peace process", they go on and on about Russia-US-Ukraine meetings for peace talks. Factual reporting, Ukraine hasn't been invited to these "peace talks", so it's about divvying up the corpse, not a real peace process. Not that such talks are going anywhere, Putin's pushing hard now militarily to gain leverage, but won't want to lose mineral wealth or cropland. Trump won't want to lose mineral wealth or crop land to sell to corporate farming. A great process of going nowhere.
And he's still going on about the Biden Under the Bed? I thought by now, he'd have progressed to the Biden In the Closet. You're in the office, inflation is yours, not the guy who's been gone for a month.
Although, to give due credit, he's done nothing to egg prices, nor could he, even he can't lay that many eggs. No president can change the rate of infection of chickens with bird flu.
Which reminds me, gotta run to the store anyway, gotta schedule an armored car for the delivery of a dozen eggs...
Although, a wise president might want to have the USDA examine current production practices with an eye to limiting infection spread in battery cage egg laying "farms" (they're immense warehouses full of crates that chickens literally spend their entire lives in to lay eggs, with around 6 million chickens inside of one building, so one gets infected, the entire building is infected). Canada only has around 28k per such a "farm" and they're geographically distributed due to the nature of the population distribution in Canada, the same with Mexico. Don't have all of your chickens in one basket, to mangle a metaphor.
There are a few ways to address a problem. Acknowledge a problem and try to find a solution. Deny the problem, then try to blame someone else and watch it blow up in your face. Pretend there is no problem and blame someone else and watch it turn into a nuke blowing up in your face and we know Trump loves this method, it's the Biden Under the Bed. Not an immense warehouse full of infected chickens.
BTW, USDA predicts prices of eggs to go up another 20% by year's end at a minimum, as bird flu isn't slowing down much, if at all and it take 8 - 9 months for a chick to mature to laying hen. Which will also be the fault of the Biden Under the Bed.
Doesn't care about everyone in the world rejecting US produce, "I gots mine" being the attitude.
Wonder what his attitude will be when farmers start driving up-armored farm equipment into D.C.? That's happened before, usually in one or two numbers, when farmers look at unpurchased crops, they're literally seeing foreclosure on their farms in the near future and that means homeless families... Oh wait, I know what his reaction would be, hide in the bunker while forces gun them down without mercy, as happened every other time a pissed off farmer showed up inside of the city with farm equipment.
Dealt with several forms of dementia during my clinical rotation, dealt with vascular dementia in my father's final years.
Suffice it to say, I'm fairly sure he's diabetic, right diet, age, body mass index for type 2 and poorly controlled, vascular dementia is a significant to severe risk. Vascular dementia is a dire diagnosis, as it's rapidly progressing as a dementia, with stair step progression as the blood vessels inside of the brain break down due to the accumulation of glycation end products in the blood vessels epithelial layer, rendering the vessel walls delicate. Basically, constant micro-strokes.
Add that with his malignant narcissism, he's beyond dangerous. Case in point, got his eye on owning Gaza and he's got an army.
Trump's birthday, but nothing for Saint Reagan day?
"We reversed the firing", nothing about if they actually contacted anyone or got them to agree to return, meaning they turned on payroll, not that anyone's back to guarding that enduring stockpile of nukes literally sitting on shelves.
Somewhere, there's likely someone's cat rolling around a plutonium core on the apartment floor...
Which for those that don't get the image and joke, that core would weigh in around the weight of a heavy bowling ball, while being around the size of a grapefruit.
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The Nativists have disagreed since they made religious warfare in Philadelphia city streets, bombarding Roman Catholic churches, schools and convents with a stolen artillery piece from the port defense post and murdering responding militiamen.
Google the Philadelphia Nativist Riots. It took the militia commanding general to call up a full regimental artillery unit to ring the protestant Nativists with artillery for them to return the stolen gun to the port and finally go home and soldiers patrolling with fixed bayonets to keep the peace.
The Nativists then hijacked the leading conservative party, the Whig Party, turning it into the same kind of caricature of unreality we're seeing in the Trumpite ridden GOP today, resulting in that party's collapse and the formation of the Republican Party. The Republican party's first POTUS candidate, some Abraham Lincoln guy, who wasn't treated as bad as Trump, since Trump was shot in the head with artillery, rather than a handgun like Lincoln was.
But then, Trump is too good for God anyway, he already made a public statement that God was a "pussy" for letting his kid get killed, something he'd never allow, entirely missing the point of the entire faith he claims lip service to, while following the other guy's teachings...
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We all have our own "devils", our own inner monsters within us. As civilized people, we keep them firmly repressed for the common good, which in the end is our own good as well. One only releases that repression when confronted by a predator intending harm, then brings that monster back under firm bond. Thankfully, despite fearmongers selling fear to acquire power, predators are rare.
Trump is a human predator, one that lacks that filter to keep the monster under control. That doesn't mean one releases one's own, but that one monitors him and does everything one can to ensure he is never allowed to gain a position of power where he could create a danger. After all, we have people we retain to hunt our predators and restrain them, that's also a benefit of civilization.
What one never should allow is to allow one's fears to drive one's decision making, regardless of how terrified you actually are. You acknowledge that fear, know that it'll color your thinking and guard against that from happening, so that your rational mind controls your decisions and actions. That simple thing is the difference from mere sentience and actual sapience, being self-aware vs thinking and using reason.
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Not an Apple user, but vendors use what connectors they will and it never was a problem until now, when it's a big emergency to micromanage.
Especially, given that the Lightning connector has been in use since 2012.
Fine, abandon the entire market, rather than slavishly change your entire product lineup's design and be forced into a licensing agreement against your will. 100% embargo of Apple products, anyone violates it gets nailed on licensing violations.
Although, I do wonder how much it cost the USB consortium to get this shoved through...
Removing all ports, thereby lowering efficiency in charging, as obviously the speaker feels that energy production has plenty of excess capacity! Gotta love when someone that is ignorant of technical limitations reports on technology and licensing.
So, if there's a new USB per year, that won't generate the waste that they complained about. Yeah, paid off.
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Well, he also wants to dissolve the CDC into a puddle of unrelated agencies to create the US Healthy America Administration. I suspect they'll peddle vitamins over preventing diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, polio, RSV, anthrax, ebola, malaria, yellow fever, etc.
Wouldn't put it past him to direct the BSL-4 "hot labs" to dump their samples of smallpox and ebola onto the streets as refuse to be picked up with municipal garbage, to then spread throughout the land and be met with vitamin dispensers. and literal snake oil. Maybe even reintroduce radium water or even Hulk Water, containing cesium-137 to imbue kids with Hulk powers of disease fighting...
And reintroducing the public to what livor mortis looks like again.
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@roeko10 welcome to the wide world of irregulars. Not every "military" force can afford uniforms after buying weapons.
And their training and professionalism also betrays that weakness.
Hamas, by definition is civilian. Similar was Taliban and AQ in Afghanistan, hence why we classified them as unlawful combatants, but still afforded them Geneva Convention protections as a matter of course.
But then, we dealt with non-Convention forces in the past with Japan, who wasn't signatory and ratifier of the Geneva and Hague Conventions, but had agreed to abide by them (and largely didn't). Easier to stay playing the good guy than pretend to be the good guy and rely upon everyone recognizing the white hat.
With a few gaffes along the way. WWII Marines wearing Japanese ears on a string as a necklace a few times, a few in Vietnam, one arrested for making such in Afghanistan. But, we also had press along to keep us honest.
IDF, not so much. Minimal to no press, total obscurity, obstruction and zero visibility, save what they want released and this, being an exception they couldn't hide on a bet.
Yeah, not a fan of how they're fighting this war. And I'm the farthest thing in the universe from gentle in war. But, it's good to have oversight and to have civilian control of our military, rather than "sic 'em" and walk away.
And flooding tunnels hostages are known to be inside of, yeah, no. As much as I'd dread it, I'd personally be going into those tunnels to ferret out the hostages.
Once they're out, fuel-air the damned complex comprehensively, after obscuring exists with WP smoke.
While trumpeting a slogan far and wide, "khalas, Hamas!". Arabic for, "Enough, Hamas" and well, not in the passive.
Yallah, Wallah, I do know a bit of Arabic.
English equivalent transliteration, "listen, swear to God..."
Although, I'm a bit more fluent in Arabic profanity. ;)
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I'm scratching my head, as there has not been an indication that a pressurized core split open and spewed irradiated steam. The core melted, the the reactor vessel remained intact with a puddle of corium at the bottom of the pressure vessel.
Where "The China Syndrome" tells us it melted straight to China despite China not being an antipode and destroyed all life in Pennsylvania. Something quite disconcerting to me, as I currently live three miles upstream from TMI and am obviously dead or something. Or, the author was full of shit - having read the book and discussion on how breeder reactors simply explode in nuclear detonations (despite three breeder reactors that also melted down and entirely refrained from detonating).
I do remember the entire mess quite well, was in physics class watching it all go down and discussing precisely what was going on, with some insiders feeding us information out of band. As bad as the handling of the LOCA event was, the response was a total goat screw, with PR having greater value than informing the leadership of the state and federal response, causing mass confusion and opening the door to so much hyperbole as to render any PR effort utterly meaningless.
Meanwhile, no significant amount of fission daughter products was detected, despite hyperbolic claims to the contrary (hell, I'm still waiting to see a photograph of an alleged two headed whitetail deer...
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It's a lot worse than emotionally scarring, it's destabilizing of what few governments remain stable in the famine afflicted regions. That spreads outward, both due to refugee flight and genuine anger over their needs not being met, their loved ones dying and they'll strike out at whoever appears or is doing better than they are.
With plenty of online fingers pointing exclusively to the west, ignoring Russia stealing most, if not all of Ukraine's grain stocks as we speak.
As far as I'm concerned, send those pirate vessels to the bottom, switch them with US excess grain, paint over the vessel names and fly no flag. If something needs to be on the hull, put a banner up saying MV Grain Fairy. Pull it from what I'll use, I'll not be alone volunteering it and I can stand losing another 20 pounds.
One fee for the grain - recipes.
We've had enough food to not only feed the entire planet, we've had enough food for my entire 60+ years of life to literally make the entire planet morbidly obese.
Oddly, those against feeding those who hunger claim ever so loudly to be fine, upstanding Christians, who as Gandhi said, are ever so unlike Christ.
Now, a bit of homework for most. Look up "Scarcity economics", which is the actual economic system we live under. Add in lean practices, such as just in time delivery keeping stocks low, it's no wonder that the US has an infant formula shortage due to 30% supply halting for contamination issues at the main plant. Not stocking warehouses means, any interruption in the supply chain leads to shortages and in scarcity economics, increased profits at everyone's expense.
And there will always be interruptions in the supply chains, an earthquake here, typhoon there, volcano blowing its top diverting traffic over there, pirates in the underwear...
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@maeburekaiser yeah, the awareness that she doesn't have artillery to bombard the "wrong" churches yet. Happened in Philly with a very similar crowd destroying the nation, the "Know Nothing" party. They imploded the conservative Whig party, causing everyone with two operational brain cells to form a new party, the Republican Party. The new Republican Party then picking a candidate that was unacceptable to the Know Nothings and when Lincoln was elected, well, a bit of a disturbance occurred.
That Know Nothing group stole a cannon from the harbor in Philadelphia and proceeded to bombard a Catholic church, school and residence hall for clergy. When the militia was summoned, the Know Nothings attacked and killed militiamen, causing the militia commander to summon the regimental artillery and ring the area with cannon.
Totally aware that they don't have cannon yet, but give them time and they'll convert by the sword and have our very own 300 years war.
In the nuclear age, I'm sure things will end well.
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He's upset, he got rid of an opponent and wanted to run like his dictator buddies ran, unopposed so he could proclaim his godhood and supremacy to all gods due to no opposition.
That denied him, he's having a hissy fit, like well, many a toddler.
The old polite name for it is second childhood, the technical term is senile dementia. A rather aggressive form at that, given the rapid progression just in aphasia symptoms alone. Oddly, we were supposed to want Biden out absent such symptoms of actual disease, but vote for Trump who has symptoms in spades.
Because one really wants someone with advanced dementia in control of a thermonuclear arsenal that literally only requires a telephone call to launch and absolutely no recourse to stop. No office of government can halt, delay or ignore the order without being charged, convicted and executed for mutiny. Congress has no authority over those weapons, only the POTUS.
Might as well just put them all onto a real button and stick that button into the monkey cage at the zoo.
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Where something similar might work is, if we suddenly went into "Mars or bust" mode, dozens to hundreds of probes, a constellation of comms birds in orbit, one data center on the surface, where one has the thin atmosphere and even the lithosphere to help reject heat would make more sense.
For this, heat rejection, ridiculous size that'll be an instant Kessler syndrome, absurd lag, don't get me started on restocking reaction mass as it's exhausted, just for the top few problems that come to mind says, "a great big nope". Add in Murphy's Law with space weather, yeah, Murphy says, as soon as you deploy the panels, Sol will have a tiff and now half of your panels got crispy.
But, great scam.
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Your medical information is protected by HIPAA, the PII is protected under the Privacy Act of 1974, which has a very sharp set of teeth.
Did a quick calculation just on fines for the Privacy Act violations for every US citizen, $1.705×10¹². That's quite the stack of pennies! And five years hard time for each offense, when counts computer records acts and a few other acts that should've protected all of our data before President Musk instructed the god-king to rescind the US Constitution and all of our laws.
I say, everyone stay home from work for a week or so, the campaign contributors will raise merry hell with the Representatives and Senators they bought and paid for and eventually insist that they surrender to We The People, lest the economy completely evaporate. Rather than some idiots, who think that their dinky AR's and AK's would win against armor, gunships, bombers, drones and artillery.
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Japan was in expansionist mode, Europe was doing its own mass destructive thing.
Yes, FDR figured out in advance what someone blind, deaf and dumb figured out, we'd inevitably be forced into war.
We scheduled a number of insults, Pearl Harbor happened, despite some guarded warnings.
Another side is, sales are sales.
It was what it was, I'll not defend sending Jews back to be murdered, ever.
That said, my parents worked in scrap drives to support the war, my father lying about his age and my grandmother reporting his forgery and he, when he became of age, ended up unique among his male siblings in missing the war, training out after the war was over.
As a veteran, I said to him, "You didn't miss much that's welcome".
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@SearTrip I'm reminded of a service company, whose slogan on their signs and vehicles was, "If we can't fix it, it ain't broke". A coworker in the electronics service company I was working for and I were in a diner enjoying our break as he remarked on the slogan and I quipped, "If we can't fix it, it ain't broke and if it ain't broke, we can fix that too".
Well, it ain't broke, so they fixed that problem and are now fixing the problem that they created, likely by breaking it in a new way.
Because, if you want something FUBAR, give it to a politician to implement.
Those that can, do, those who cannot, teach, those who can do neither, manage and those who can do none of the above go into politics.
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@alexj9603 as I mentioned previously, in some cities, such as Dresden and Hamburg, what was available initially was only the rubble of other buildings.
So, they collected the bricks, cleaned them off and reused them.
@fermis paradox1, the Marshall plan came a bit after rebuilding had already begun out of sheer necessity. First, it took a while getting the plan together and approved, then funded, staged and initiated. Then, came the larger projects.
But, initially, governments and citizens both needed a roof over their heads, as the weather respects no human.
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@icu64x all it takes is Trump sending a crowd the wrong way and a few pull out weapons to perfect a charge of treason against Trump.
Then, the government can, on conviction, attainder everything he owns or will own and prohibit his children from any inheritance for the remainder of his life.
The US having done that to Robert E. Lee and his plantation, which is now Arlington National Cemetery. Took 20 years after his death for the family to get paid for the plantation, a mere $18k from Congress.
Treason is rare in the US for a reason, it's narrowly defined, requires two eyewitnesses to testify in open court and well, the penalty is expensive by any measure, the prison term variable (unlike Trump's representation that it's universal death penalty, it isn't).
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The largest solar array in the US is 7.28 square miles, if it's a full square, it'd be 2.69 miles x 2.69 miles, which is 10 miles in Trump measurement magic miles.
Meanwhile, coal plants got shut down because coal cost more than any other energy source. I'll not even go into bodies of water that had total fish and bird kills when coal ash spilled into those water sources.
And he'll change energy prices, supermarket prices and the price of unicorn rides, because the POTUS fixes all prices in the nation using Harry Potter's wooden magical marital aid stick.
But hey, he's helping Americans get well paying jobs by halting federal employment that's only open to US citizens, but really loves H1B workers coming in to take well paying high tech jobs.
Thus far, he's fully gone over to opposite land, total Bizarro World, where everything is opposite what he says. Down means up in his lexicon, win means lose, enough said.
But, at least he banished Musk from the White House, much to the irritation of President Musk, who is now consigned to the executive office building off campus.
And he got Hegseth, who will be easily found if he needs his SecDef, such as if we're under nuclear attack, as he know which lampshade his town drunk wears when it's Miller time, which is all the time.
And the Army is getting rid of, as of his taking office, their sealift capabilities. If we need to move an armored division somewhere, they'll have to drive their tanks across the Atlantic or Pacific. And the commandant of the Coast Guard, well she got fired for not stopping the previous commandant from misbehaving while he was in command after she took command, I guess she should've used Obama's time machine.
The man is dumber than a 50 foot tall stack of anvils.
I really need to take up drinking. Alas, can't afford to and I'm sure that Hegseth won't share.
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It was the 4G rollout - they all had strokes trying to get a decent signal, when even 3G, which 4G was to save us from, barely worked in so many areas.
Oh wait, that was me, now experiencing the same disorder with 5G...
Seriously though, some inverse rocket scientists blamed 5G for CCD, which would require a time machine to achieve that one, given CCD began a fair bit before 5G was even out of the testing lab.
And in a way related to my joke, that's been a confirmed issue in a number of species. Rather than one stressor causing a decline, it's more often a handful of issues that synergistically impact their survival. In the southern and eastern US, feral honeybee numbers have dropped precipitously over the past decade. We're starting to see a rebound, which suggests a combination of a parasite and virus stressing the hives into collapse and likely, the lower numbers broke the infection chain long enough to allow recovery to begin, just as with corvid numbers after West Nile virus became endemic in the US.
As for 5G, in some ways, it reminds me of the early days of cell phone popularity. Get into a suburban and toward a rural area, you run around looking like a Star Trek landing party with your tricorder scanning away for lifeforms. :/
My other primary stress source was easily eliminated. I moved all of the mirrors out of the house. ;)
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@aarondavis8943 if the government had aircraft, drone or otherwise operating, they'd neither confirm, nor deny. It's boilerplate and required for addressing a program of record that's sensitive.
But, testing a sensitive system isn't done over densely populated areas, as one's then exposing capabilities that are being tested. Hence, why the U-2, SR-71, F-117, B2 all were tested out of Groom Lake and officially, nothing ever took off from Groom Lake.
Hell, the best case study is the insanity from Roswell, where an atmospheric sampling balloon, collecting samples of air after Soviet nuclear testing, crashed. Generations of hilarity ensued, while the DoD remained silent until the declassification date expired and even today, the actual report remains rejected by the faithful. The greatest evidence of space alien presented by the faithful? Honeycomb aluminum - something classified at the time, now a common substance utilized in refrigerator truck walls. And pretty much the worst thing one could ever want to utilize in a pressurized aircraft, let alone a spacecraft.
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@KariN-or3sc well, extra large eggs are $5.00 a dozen at my local stores, only two of which carry extra large eggs, everyone else switched to medium and large at most in selection.
Still, valid enough point, given we don't imbue the POTUS with price fixing powers in supermarkets or well, any other market, some free enterprise system thingie or other, price fixing being a commie thing to conservatives, save if competitors illegally do so and pay good campaign contributions, then it's OK.
They thought they were voting for Ali Babba, instead they voted in the 40 thieves.
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Difficult to analyze anything without all of the pertinent facts available yet.
Known, a warning was sent to the accident flight to warn of a potential bird strike threat. A literal minute later, the aircraft radioed a mayday call for a bird strike. Insufficient time during a stabilized approach to escape that kind of risk, engines take time to spool up thrust enough to begin significant maneuvers.
Aircraft attempted a landing, landing gear failed to deploy, TOGA was engaged (hopefully, as they did go around for a missed approach due to landing gear deployment failure), reciprocal approach was approved for the mayday flight (otherwise, they'd have had to circle the airport and begin a whole new approach on the original course). Belly landing was attempted, flight was without flaps or landing gear, thrust reversers did engage, but were ineffective. Video exists of a compressor stall in the #2 engine (starboard side). The reversers indicate at least partial hydraulic pressure was present, as they're hydraulically actuated, no out of balance thrust observed on landing when the reversers were engaged, indicating failure of the remaining #1 engine.
One odd report was stating something about a bird lodged in the wing, but I've not observed any further reporting on that, so that may just be noise. It is beyond unusual though for a bird to penetrate a wing, damage a wing, damage control surfaces, destroy an engine, but I'm unaware of any flights that have had a bird actually penetrate a wing and damage the hydraulic lines and/or actuators and aircraft are tested and certified to survive bird strikes to the wings.
So, open questions that the flight recorders will reveal, did #2 entirely fail, which appears likely? Did #1 fail and if so, when? Did the crew engage the APU and get it up to speed in sufficient time to retain full hydraulic function, which does take a fair amount of time during an emergency? Why did the crew fail to pull the landing gear manual deployment controls, which would have allowed the gear to drop and lock under both gravity and air flow assistance? With the gear down, they'd have lost airspeed rapidly and may have then avoided an overspeed landing that was extremely long - especially with no wheels with which to brake with. Also missing, the speed brakes, which automatically deploy along with landing spoilers when the gear is down and otherwise would have to be manually activated.
Panic isn't really a first consideration, pilots operate and survive by following checklists and checklists take time, hence reliance in time critical emergencies on memory items. In either case, quite a few disasters have been traced to not following a checklist or missing a memory item.
Basically, the accident occurred in absolutely the worst possible time, at the end of final approach and at a cleared to land time frame and that is where most fatal accidents do occur. Losing engine power on one engine is recoverable, it's literally part of the design of the aircraft and is necessary for certification. But, bird strikes can and have damaged both engines and damaged engines can manage to operate for some time after initial damage, we'll need the flight recorder data on the EPR and maybe EGT to be certain if the turbines were catastrophically failing or failed, but #2 is likely due to the observed compressor stall and consistent with fatal damage due to ingestion of a sizable object, specifically, a large bird. We're not talking sparrows or pigeons, we're talking geese or even larger, so twice the weight of a chicken or more, depending upon what species is being struck at a couple of hundred miles per hour and turbines spinning at 10000 - 25000 RPM, the fan spinning at 1000 - 4500 RPM.
And in a high workload, information overload environment, where CRM (Cockpit Resource Management) is critical to offset the massive workload between crew members. Landing is already a high workload situation, pop a sudden emergency and multiple problems into the mixture during one's final leg of landing, it's a hot mess of tons of information, only some being critical, flooding the displays and computer and without teamwork, has often resulted in disaster.
It certainly didn't help having the antenna array for the approach system resting on top of a tall double reinforced concrete wall, which is unconscionable to every pilot I've spoken to. Normally, they're on low concrete pads and on steel towers, which at least will shear off, even if they do damage the aircraft badly. Concrete, one may as well rammed into a mountain and frankly, it's a bit of a miracle that even two survived that crash.
But, panic would them imply rash and hasty actions and there's no sign of significant control inputs that would indicate panic. There was little time and as was noted with the Hudson River forced landing, both engines can be fatally damaged by a flock of large birds and there are a plethora of examples one can find where one engine immediately failed, the other failing later and again, on landing, that's doubleplus ungood.
Still, I'll await the report on the recorder's logs, which will fully tell the sad tale.
That the pilots accepted coming in hotter than a two dollar pistol suggests a loss of thrust though, but that's an educated guess from someone that hasn't flown in quite a few years. But, I do remember there not being a hell of a lot of time available to even panic when things go sideways and one being quite busy analyzing indicators and messages, while going through checklists and worst case, memory items. There is a very real possibility that things went so disastrously wrong, in a worst case scenario way, that the checklist and memory items just couldn't be completed until a half minute or longer after the crash and if thrust is absent, a missed approach then won't get you a go around, you're not going to miss the ground.
Because, gravity always wins.
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Well, Rush and the Amoral Majority. Well, they called themselves the Moral Majority, but each and every one ended up in embezzlement and sex scandals.
But, the actual decline, as skip mentioned, was with the traitor Nixon, who sabotaged and was recorded in NSA intercepts sabotaging the Vietnam War ceasefire negotiations.
Then reneged on his agreements with the North Vietnamese.
Then came Ronnie Raygun and his Welfare Queens nonsense, all over one fraud case in the entire nation and history of the program. Which was echoed by a MAGAt in my presence, as he trumpeted about welfare caddies "he personally saw" to a young gas station/convenience store clerk who happened to be Black, terrifying her. I pinned his ears back on the bullshit and flat out called him a liar regurgitating what he heard from Reagan. He quickly retreated and the clerk thanked me.
If I want bullshit, I'll go to a pasture.
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In other words, the right to redress of grievances shall be suppressed. Rights denied? Tough shit.
Removing the right to have a court tell them to chew harder. Slippery slope and all that, something the right loves to drone on about, so turnabout is fair play.
Then, there's Roe, with verbiage that states by denial, that the ninth amendment does not exist.
And the day previously, prohibiting the states from regulating the second amendment's activities, as well regulated means not regulated at all.
Sounds to me like an incremental legislative repeal of the entire Bill of Rights.
@Steve, have you reviewed the SCOTUS decisions yourself? That's been my habit, as well we know, the media typically turns many such reports into a pig's breakfast, getting ever so much not only wrong, but not even wrong.
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Superchemistry, wait a bit for more sensitive equipment and see ringing.
Really, it's in the math.
Eliminating contrails is good, eliminating chemtrails is better, as the exhaust is pollution. Anyone figuring out that one, well, my hat off and a Nobel prize for them!
Model the same thing with a plastic ball, but changing plastic with neutronium, learn a lot more. I'm serious. The math's a cast iron bitch, but it's illuminating.
Downside to replaceable batteries, water resistance. Not a big barrier, given USB/thuderthud connectors.
Gilling a mushroom is easy. Genetically sterilize the mushroom. No clue where the next mushroom is coming from...
Hurricanes are easy, God-Trump said to nuke them and hand wave...
I'll just get my hat...
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It does speak to desperation on the part of Putin, not so much the motorcycles, which have been used effectively in the past, being difficult to target in the past. The desperation part being first launching IRBM's with MIRV warheads, which are indistinguishable from nuclear versions by any means until the warhead reaches its target, posing a risk of misinterpretation of strategic nuclear weapons being launched and a response by every NATO associated nuclear deterrent force.
Now, attacking when a NATO head of state is visiting, with full knowledge in advance of said visit, risking letters of last resort authorizing the launch of SLBM's from effectively point blank range onto Russia. The letters directing countervalue or counterforce options and currently unknown to even allied NATO powers.
As for armor, the current delay is likely due to getting their old WWII stock running and operational again. Yeah, they still have those in stock. They've largely depleted all of their modern stock and most of their Cold War stock. Maybe horse regiments after that, in conjunction with nukes?
And if a nuke goes long and into a NATO nation, Article 5 and NATO replies in kind are inevitable.
And even money, given YT policies as observed, this will get deleted and I'll be in YT jail again. Because, anything anti-Russia gets poked by YT with a sharp stick.
Well, let's see next Monday, Vice President Trump did promise to stop the Russia-Ukrainian war on day one. Assuming that President Musk will allow that. Someone will have to tell me if it happens, as I'm scheduled to walk my unicorns, then go for a long flight on my pigasus, then resolve a fairy strike.
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Well, the USMC is a corps of the US Navy and hence, on the rare occasion that you'd receive a paper paycheck, you'd see proudly emblazoned being issued by the US Navy.
As for reprisals, I've been with many joint forces on our now ubiquitous joint bases, "Fine by me, we'll kick each other's asses for a while, no matter what, I'll win, as I've rank, time in grade and time in service on God. Jesus can't get promoted before me".
And hell, I can chew the crayons with the best of them, despite being Army.
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@Idiotsincarshere that'd be a vertical lift bridge. Any movable bridge costs a lot more to replace. Vertical lift bridges cost more to build, more to maintain, take more maintenance than either swing bridges, bascule bridges or fixed bridges, but are a better alternative in some locations.
A local Baltimore paper is trying to make hay over the bridge piers needing dolphins to protect them, basically concrete piers that'd block the ship, but in the case of that bridge, would also obstruct the port entry entirely for large ships. Not sure what one does with a port that one obstructs, other than admire a useless port. They could've gone with starlings, but again, there are limits to the strength to repel a large container ship and they'd want starkwaters built to cut ice, preventing pier damage.
Like any engineering problem, it comes down to what is able to be done, practical to implement and what one can afford to spend.
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@Atticusnme firearms are just one more tool to be used and respected. Exercise proper safety measures, they're as safe as your household hammer.
Always respect the firearm and the end the thunder, brimstone and owie comes out of is hazardous and don't point it at anything you don't want obliterated. Keep safely handling it until it becomes like an instinct and practice, practice, practice. Be comfortable enough firing that you're certain that you'll never miss your target, then keep on practicing until you won't.
For me, it's an exercise in muscle memory and applied mathematics and I'm proficient to a kilometer - even with an M-16, better with a high power rifle and pistol I'm good to 50 meters from an old M1911 (my preferred sidearm). Shotgun, well, I can hit door hinges and locks... ;)
And take up honing knives. Not for military usage, conservation. A good knife should last a lifetime with proper honing. And a dull kitchen knife can really mess you up. Dull knives injured me badly enough in the past, my razor sharp kitchen knives left me alone with only minor nicks.
And a good heavy weight cleaver, great to tap around a bone to cut it and bake it into submission for boiling into stock.
Hey, even if the poop hits the fan, which I really hope it doesn't, ya gotta eat!
And I eat like a king for under $350 a month.
Balls! Just realized, forgot to grab coffee at the store earlier and a winter storm's blowing in. Oh well, pantry reserves it is!
Yeah, got four shelves of food and a stuffed freezer. Not a prepper, just well, lazy. Shop once a month for basics, get fast turnover weekly for milk and whatnot (used to include eggs in that list, but can't afford the armed guards). OK, got a dozen, don't tell anyone. ;)
Knowledge is power. Acquire as much knowledge as you can, from food preparation from scratch to which end of the firearm the thunder, brimstone and owie issue from and how to safely handle it.
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I've always saw IR illuminators well. Not as in using them as a flashlight, but the source I can see well at a distance. I suspect it's just part of the range of normal red wavelengths that many can see, as they're not exceptionally far from our usual wavelengths discussed in usual conversation.
But, UV, long wave UV is quite bright to my eyes, a deeper shade of violet, fluorescent marking, such as counterfeit detection on US currency is also blindingly bright under a long wave illuminator. UVB, I see in a pinkish-purplish tone. Neither being well focused at all, one actually appearing quite foggy, suggesting something a biologist I discussed it with suspected, fluorescence of proteins downconverting the UV into ranges that I can detect.
No clue what UV-C looks like, you explore it, I'll stay at home. That's damned near x-ray wavelength and quite unhealthy for humans.
Oh, seeing in x-ray and gamma would be even more interesting during powerful thunderstorms. Regular strength thunderstorms are fair x-ray sources, strong storms are good enough gamma sources as to be detectable easily from orbit.
I did get to see my femur in gamma, when I had a thyroid scan using I-131. Before dosing, they needed to determine my natural background level. I'm slightly hotter than those junior to me by decades, but given I was born a week after Tsar Bomba and the idiotic amount of atmospheric bursts, plus underground bursts that leaked fallout to the surface in the US, not surprising.
Oddly, I don't turn green or get larger when angry. But, there were a few Privates that were certain that if angered, I'd likely beat them with the 20 ton APC they had to clean after using it... ;)
Naw, they'd just have found themselves with all kinds of things to do that they'd loathe while everyone else was chilling with ice cold beers.
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The GOP follows only one religion, a very dark one indeed, for it is simply money and power. In a Christian view, they'd be the Sadducees of today, ruling class and wealthy. Sadducees believed that there was no resurrection of the dead, no afterlife, no spirit realm, no angels. Most Sadducees were priests of the Temple.
Pharisees believed in the resurrection of the dead and the afterlife. They believed like all Jews that God created the world, chose Israel as his chosen people, and rewarded and punished them according to his law. They also felt that the Law of Moses contained ambiguities which they strove to fix by developing rules and regulations for every possible human action in order to adhere to the will of God as outlined in the Torah.
Yet oddly, Jesus had Pharisees as followers, who he recognized as following a righteous path.
Given the political environment at that time, Pharisees tended to be more for the people than Saducees, who were for the wealthy establishment and there was tremendous amounts of unrest due to their political differences. The Romans wisely stayed out of things, save when tax money was interfered with by unrest. The problem is, playing politics with one's faith is to prostitute that faith, gradually at first, increasingly over time.
There are quite a few stories within Judaeo-Christian scriptures where politics overruled lessons considered law and the results were always disastrous. Stories where the lessons were followed, the results were wonderful. Whether they were literal events or tales of wisdom is up to the reader to consider as an intellectual exercise, the lessons remain the same of attempting to impart some modest wisdom upon the learner that desires that wisdom.
The foolish simple consider it verbatim law, no reason required for that law, it just is, as surely as an altar gets its gilding.
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@mikepool-USA for hire. So, either the companies get a percentage of the veteran's rightful benefits payments or the veteran has to be able to afford to pay them to receive what is rightfully theirs.
OK, how much do you want to pay for each and every other one of your rights? Speech, religion or irreligion, assembly, voting, weapons, right to a trial and attorney, even life? How much per right, aka entitlement? You get none whatsoever until you pay in advance.
And even with a VA social worker, I'll be literally waiting for years just for hearing aids, after waiting a year for access to said social worker.
Blow sunshine up someone else's ass, this veteran know far, far better.
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When the half of you that are tired and depressed feel like rejoining life and when the other half, who want to shred the Constitution and use Trump's tactics, techniques and practices feel like rejoining reality, where it's more conducive to life, then come back and read my warning.
Health warning: Leopard heads are tasty and one can easily engorge oneself on them when they attempt to dine on one's facial features, their forgetting that's where our mouths are.
One must pace oneself when dining, lest one suffer constipation like I currently am, due to a slight logjam of still digesting leopard skulls. Never fear, you won't run out quickly and leopard heads make an excellent egg substitute that's entirely free and incessantly volunteering to become a meal.
So, we had our asses handed to us in the election. Dust yourself off, get up and get ready to fight to preserve what remains of our nation.
George Washington lost most of the battles against the United Kingdom, but kept on slugging, preparing, slugging some more and eventually won important battles and guess what? We're not singing God Save the King, we sing our National Anthem.
We lost many battles in the beginning of every damned war that we fought - literally, tragically in many cases, laughably in others, stupidly in many cases, we dusted ourselves off, trained up, prepared and slugged away and won the important wars, walked away from the unimportant, stupidly chosen ones, stalemated one that had an impossibly large army backing the adversary that remains a stalemate to this very day. We defeated Spain and her empire, Germany and hers twice and the aggression is largely gone from Europe, save with Russia who's desperate to actually mean something and make more acquisitions to recapture their Soviet empire glory and that played heavily into our election debacle.
We never were a nation of quitters, there's no damned reason that we should suddenly start and become a satellite of the Russian Federation.
So, as I've done when my ass got handed to me, snap the damned thing back on, get up and get back to slugging.
I would recommend stocking up on shelf stable foods for the early months of the upcoming disaster - during this administration, because things are going to get stupidly crazy once he swears in and your sudden non-purchasing at war pricing is gonna really kick him and his cronies in the wallet hard if you're already stocked up. I always keep a couple of months of basics in the pantry and freezer.
Not some doomsday prepper type, I'm just lazy and when the weather's shitty out, why go out shopping when I can pull some UHT milk from the shelf, bake my own bread or whatever else I need gets pulled out of my pantry? Don't have some chest freezer or anything, just a regular full sized fridge/freezer, around four pounds of beans, four pounds of lentils, couple of bags of flour, veggies I can for myself because where $.99 for a can of veggies, half might go to waste for myself alone and the half cans are $2.00, screw that, canned my own in 8 oz jars for a couple of cases worth. Pasta sauce is in 4 gallon batches and pressure canned with the meat in a case of quart jars, mostly because I loathe that store bought crap marinara swill.
And hungry leopard heads are tasty as well, since I can't find some powdered eggs for backup for when the weather's iced up... ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozCoq4osSwk
Bad days pass, want the good days back, it's on you to make them come back, being an adult is accepting a setback and moving forward, adapting to failures and moving forward.
Because, going backward only results in being backed into the ocean and getting soggy.
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Can a block be a triangle? Why not? I've also lived near a block that was part of a circle.
Traditionally, a city block is 1/10 mile, but also referred to at the arbitrary length of the street between intersections. So, a block can actually have any shape, even the shape of a drunken, meandering walk.
Had a similar issue at one place we lived. The neighbor couldn't get the high speed cable. So, having a spare ethernet switch, I ran a fiber over to their house and put them onto their own vlan that was just for internet, then we split the internet cost.
Needless to say, my switches aren't consumer type switches, but those used in corporate campus networks... ;)
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I'm reminded of the Fukushima meltdowns. CNN had Bill Nye on to discuss when they were injecting boric acid into the reactors to prevent criticality. Bill, being a good engineer and generalist totally flubbed things, confusing cesium-137, a fission product for boron, a neutron poison.
Now, on day one, that'd be a no biggie, not enough time to line up any consultants that knew a control rod from a fuel rod. After that, not exceptionally excusable, as people who worked on nuclear reactors were lined up around the block to talk about what was going on and were studiously ignored. Instead, they had "whistleblowers" that were crackpots or well, a mechanical engineer who once worked for Boeing on hydraulics discussing the physics of a nuclear reactor.
With the efficacy of asking a barber about constitutional law technicalities. Better off asking wait staff, oh wait, I'm sure they would, rather than ask an attorney.
Being right has a low return on investment to the MBA crowd, being first is what counts and well, we see what MBA attitudes did for Boeing's profit margin with the 737 MAX debacles. And the booze bottles in the under construction Air Force One candidate...
Pity, as MBA types are invaluable within their fields of expertise, but lousy outside of their lanes, as are every other specialist around. You don't ask a network architect to fix your car, you don't ask your barber for legal advice and you certainly don't ask your attorney to remove your gallbladder, you go to the appropriate expert in those fields.
Or do your own research and remove your own brain tumor. Sure that'll work out well.
Although, one's next career would be as a second lieutenant/ensign. ;)
I'll just get my coat...
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@stevenobrien2596 explanations define a problem, from there one can then proceed to plot a solution.
Rather than bitch about a problem, never define it or its cause and wonder why it keeps on happening.
Years ago, 747 aircraft kept falling from the skies, people bitched and that was it. Then, enough fell that people really bitched, the problems were defined and well, engines falling off and ripping other engines and a big chunk of wing was found out about, the cause found and it fixed. Defective door designs got fixed. Proper repair procedures got followed. The airplanes stopped raining from the skies. Now, if it wasn't for asshole passengers, most air travel would remain downright boring.
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@mnomadvfx never interrupt an adversary when he's making a mistake.
Or in this case, a colossal blunder.
Most Republicans are repelled, but habitually vote Republican, Trump is rapidly curing them of that habituation, just as the Know Nothings cured Whigs enough to have them form the Republican party in the first place. The only real difference currently is, the GOP hasn't saw the handwriting on the wall yet and split off to form a new party. The more batshit crazy their wingnuts go in hijacking the party, the better it is for progressives and mainstream Democrats. The more they talk about overthrowing democracy, the more they speak of violence against their own government, the better it is for even a potted plant to defeat them in an election.
And should they pick up weapons and actually engage in violence, well, I'm a veteran, an AK or AR vs howitzer is really not much of a competition, add in rockets, bombs, tanks and trained and experienced infantry, that fools mission would be swiftly put to paid.
Because, mutiny, sedition, reason and espionage remain capital crimes for those in the military and pretty much no serving service member is going to get themselves executed in support of god-emperor wannabe Trump the buggier than a baitshop.
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@pieceofpeace35 Musk was gifted a chainsaw by a South American dictator. He waved the saw around at a public appearance where he slurred responses, wore dark glasses during that nighttime appearance and was behaving rather dully, as in stoned out of his mind.
As for ketamine, Musk's admitted drug of choice. Something that's also utterly disqualifying from any position of public trust.
As for the drug itself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine
NMDA receptor antagonist, so it blocks the action of the neurotransmitter NMDA, anesthetics either blocking NMDA or GABA. Hell of a useful drug in a medical environment, promising in some cases of clinical depression that are refractory to other treatments, good in anesthesia that preserves respiratory function, exemplary at low dosage for chronic pain, absolute nightmare if improperly administered and hallucinations occur.
But then, anesthetics are a nightmare in an abuse environment, as Michael Jackson could attest to, had he survived his propofol overdose.
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@johnryan8859 that is absolute nonsense!
The day that he summarily, via fiat order, did order everyone displaced from a house of worship - to include the minister in charge of said edifice, then criminally trespass on said property, holding the bible up inverted is accurate.
Yeah, he had federal agents chase everyone, including the minister who had legal control of the church ejected from the property, under threats of physical violence and criminal charges. So much for the rights of the public to their religion, the rights to enjoy one's owned property and the right to control the activities that goes on on one's real property.
Frankly, after having my house of worship so profaned, I'd declare it sullied and irredeemable and order the razing of the National Cathedral, just to ensure no god-emperor wannabe can occupy it by force again. Just replace it with a lot with a tent, which could be stricken rapidly to prevent a recurrence. With a memorial to the place prominently in its place. With Trump's unholy name prominently mentioned as to suppressing property and religious rights and his unholy right to hold holy books inverted in the proper way of Satan...
I freely admit to a major character flaw, I am a very, very, very vindictive individual. And I get ahead, not even, occasionally taking the shoulders with it.
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I'm reminded of the fact that President Musk turned off Ukrainian Starlink during the conflict and only turned it back on when the US government rather threateningly reminded him that they held the contract to provide Starlink to Ukrainian forces and that cessation without the US government's approval is a fundamental breach of contract and a fully recoverable injury to the government.
In other words, "Turn it the hell back on or we'll sue your company and you into abject poverty".
But, he had no political goals, ignore his repeated anti-Ukrainian creeds, he's really neutral and can be trusted as the purchaser of the highest office in the US.
No, not joking about either.
The fun part is, there's plenty of public record and even YT videos on both subjects, but some will refuse to see the evidence of their own senses and only follow their religious devotion to a specific man.
As for affordable access to the masses, everyone that ever said that obviously never priced the service. Suffice it to say, priced double what average home high speed internet is in cities and rural folks are not exactly wealthy or even simply well to do, with farmers being notorious for being broke.
So, the claims of access to all are as well grounded as one expecting to receive a dragon ride anytime soon.
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Well, whenever you're feeling more comfortable about life, remember, potato, tomato, eggplant, tobacco are all members of the nightshade family and well, toxic in their own special ways. Belladonna being another member, producing atropine.
Interestingly, some wild potato cultivars are being experimented with as a food staple, researchers using varieties originally grown by Native Americans. They're low in the known toxins from potatoes, but their native toxin is fairly low and in much lower concentrations. The toxin, tomatine is also present in tomato plants.
Nasty, nasty plants! I think I'll eat some tonight, just out of spite. OK, they're tasty staples, when properly stored and prepared.
I just keep thinking that, as I keep forgetting about the small eggplant in the fridge... I make a kick ass eggplant lasagna with homemade tomato sauce.
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What most civilians can never grasp is, armored anything afire becomes a metal box that's heated - an oven. At times, even to the point where even steel begins to burn.
The hanger deck had to have been filled with rivers of molten and boiling aluminum quite early on!
As for Illustrious, I'm not sure which caused more damage, the attack you're speaking of or the last attack on her, which was a 2200 pound bomb detonating 50 feet away in the water, cracking multiple transverse frames. Most of the bombs that did strike her, well, they only struck her, didn't penetrate. Excellent armor on that deck!
Although, I don't recall that many warships that had the ship's bell shot up as much as hers was, which is telling as to the intensity of the attack.
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@ffggddss odd that that didn't happen before qualified immunity was put into place!
Amazing how many were arrested, tried and convicted before 1967, when that doctrine first saw its early stirrings!
Why, it's almost like it's propaganda from police unions...
I don't even need a history book to find that, other than my clear memories from that period onward, we have newspapers or digitized newspapers/microfiche records of those newspapers. From an era when civil rights marchers were still being beaten and police dogs loosed on them, so that doctrine was needed to protect their civil rights being ignored.
That, also quite well remembered, as I witnessed such events with my own eyes.
When men were gunned down by police for "trying to escape being arrested" and survivors asked why, "I was afraid that he was going to shoot me". And cops were finally told to stop being lazy and chase the suspect down, rather than summarily executing them.
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Wow, King George VI was God?! Why didn't anyone tell me?
England gave part of Palestine to Jewish refugees that wanted to leave Europe after the holocaust. They got a lot land grabby and literally ejected Jew and Palestinian alike from their homes, taking over homes that their families held for centuries.
The rest is history.
Not that they ever really got along, all the way back to Ishmael and Isaac, being half-brothers. One of the few things Jews and Arabs agree upon, that small bit of shared heritage.
Grew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, learned a lot. Mystified them though, I was the only kid that they knew that loved eating the maror and horseradish, two favorites to this very day, probably some nutritional thing my body really wants, I'll crave those on occasion, mussels I did figure out was a zinc and selenium deficiency that crops up from time to time.
Learned even more from Arabs on their subcontinent.
And just the respect of learning about someone frequently can incline them toward friendship.
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@SeedFactoryProject not really, buying isn't the same as hiring, as one buys the company, but one then has to retain the workers. Been in outfits that were bought out and all employees summarily dismissed, the organization then failed and only the name, which the purchaser only wanted, remained.
In Musk's case, he bought the companies and in many cases did hire quality managers, which is a fine art in and of itself that very few ever master. Lord knows I am only mediocre at it, because bullshitters abound in many circles, management especially.
He's also a very, very highly skilled showman, much like Liberace. Liberace was a moderately good pianist, not exceptionally good, but good enough for popular appearances. Where he excelled at was as a showman, in that he shined. I still remember wondering at women going insane about "Liberace in hot pants!" for one concert, was all the rage and raked in tons of money. And I noticed every blunder he made during the performance, as I was a pianist as well.
Haven't touched an instrument since the war, hearing loss has ruined that. But, Musk is seeing to it that I don't get my hearing aids, as a hearty "fuck you for your service, no go away and die".
Once they come for my pension, well, got nothing left to lose and a hell of a lot of training in a specific skill set arena and I shan't be alone, things could get downright interesting and a society about to evolve in one direction or another.
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@kakashiofthewhitewolf8679 who cares, Hitler was his own person, so what? That's your defense?
The environment that a child is raised in will be reflected in their learned behavior. This is a very well observed, documented phenomenon. It's like you are denying the law of gravity even existing!
Is your faith in your boy-god so strong that you cannot admit to any evidence to the contrary that is presented before you? I've been confronted with religious zealots during the war, it wasn't pleasant and their actions drove things on occasion toward unpleasant conclusions. Usually, I've managed to reach many and avoid such conclusions, but not always - some insist upon remaining of fixed views, despite all evidence to the contrary and things ended up concluding unpleasantly.
After all, people have to decide for themselves how they'll proceed, try to shoot it out with the sheriff and the posse or give up an unsupportable, untenable position.
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@vincentsnow8436 since the alpha and beta shit was proved bullshit over 30 years ago, keep on promulgating antiquated, wrong bullshit. It entertains the knowledgeable.
Hell, most of MAGA bullshit and well, their Russian partners and consultants both put out bullshit that's lousy quality retreads of bullshit that was discarded back in the 1850's. A different sticker and a slapdash Earl Scheib coat of paint don't make it new or right now, when it was old and wrong back then.
Lemme guess, you think he'll also won't pop in your mouth? The check really is in the mail? Boy, are you gullible, sonny.
Trump will fall, Russia will glow in gamma and life will return to normal, one way or another.
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He's since replicated the accident with a replacement rifle from a friend, secured in a vise and fired by a rather long string. He had 12 additional SLAP rounds, which he fired, with over half requiring a strap wrench to unscrew the breech plug and a lot of effort extracting the fired cartridge. The primer was ejected from a couple of rounds, several more the primer was pushed partially out of the cartridge.
He got the rounds from a somewhat dubious source and it appears that the rounds were massively overcharged, I'd estimate twice normal or thereabouts. He finally loaded an insanely overcharged round and replicated the explosion of the rifle reasonably well.
The lesson is, buy your ammunition from known trusted sources, not random good price sources, lest you get a bolt in your throat or skull.
A fair amount of the surgical techniques used to save his life were pioneered by military surgeons, for fairly obvious reasons. He had hemopneumothorax, lacerated jugular vein, the skull injuries to wire back together, so he was incredibly fortunate to survive the trip to the hospital!
I'd hate to see what his copays look like though.
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There are commercial traps like what was described. It's designed to fire a 12 gauge shotgun blank toward the ground, originally intended to discourage animals, but also used to discourage trespassers. Harmless, save if it kicked up some dirt into the low crawling trespasser's eyes, put a live round in it and it'd likely explode - they're plastic or sheet metal and could then be considered a mine.
I've also used old fashioned magic cubes and a thin pin to trip the snapper inside that actuates the bulb. Taped carefully to a fencepost, trip lines six inches inside and down, on two adjacent posts, whoever's coming over the fence will likely be looking into the bulb when it flashes. Their night vision would also be shot to hell and gone.
Hear the idiot coming over the fence, hear the distinctive pop of the bulbs, going back over and trip and fall into the concrete outside of the fence, snicker like Muttley.
Worked great for one doper, who for some odd reason, would come down the alley and shoot up in my yard, leaving his works behind and at the time, we had small kids. He left a blood trail from his shins meeting the retaining wall outside the fence that lead straight to his house. He didn't return.
We also used the same thing in the Army to discourage infiltrators trying to scout our site.
For the remote controlled device, that'd be referred to as command detonator and as far as I'm aware, remains untested in the legal system and usually is used with actual mines, like Claymore and other antipersonnel mines. Dunno if I'd want to test a prosecutor and court's Wheaties...
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The Gulf War was and remains in the Persian Gulf region, Afghanistan isn't very close to the Persian Gulf, something called Iran being between Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf and our bases there.
Historically, well, ever since a certain invasion by some Mongols, was easier to invade after, the populace realizing that being conquered wasn't as bad as what happened in a total war, was a lot more easily won. Even with what now is Iran.
CIA, because they have a covert operations division that we can have plausible deniability and save diplomatic face sufficiently enough that everyone knows we got caught with a hand in a cookie jar, everyone knows it was one of our hands, we cut it out enough to deny knowing that hand. Soviets did the same thing, as do many other nations. Diplomatic dancing dirty.
Afghanistan even gave Alexander the Great a hard time "retaining it", which basically was a bloodletting exercise and eventually, abandoned.
The Mongols suffering a similar experience.
The British Empire suffering a similar experience.
They cannot be ruled, because they are unruly!
Thanos invades, suffers a similar experience and loses most Infinity Stones.
At least I got to keep my stones, even if I did long ago lose my marbles... ;)
Oddly, both sides have an open invitation for me to come back and visit. One side, I suspect, doesn't have my best wishes in mind for such a visit. The other side, not at all noisy, but I'll likely have to lose weight after and not from any form of metals or minerals. It all comes down to who got on my bad side and who got on my good side. Life can get really weird at times, given what tag some placed on some of each. My attitude is, if you want to misbehave, do so quietly and cause minimal destruction, make a noisy wreck in a way one cannot pretend to ignore, now, we've all got a problem. I don't give a damn which started the fight, now I have to stop it immediately and still have to deal with pissed off Mom. I'll be hearing about for ages! And sorry, kids, but my parents were indeed married. ;)
Having been in both theaters, I am quite firmly convinced, somewhere that we've not located, there are vast fields, where RPGs are gently swaying in the breeze, awaiting harvest by a certain Slavic nation for delivery "south"...
Tomahawk missiles are precision missiles, which can deliver several forms of havoc, the nuclear variety, retired, cluster bomb, HE, a few other sorts of bomb delivered, with GPS precision, some having additional option kits added to further inform accuracy from indicated guidance that's shared with a JDAM bomb. They were most recently and famously, used against aircraft shelters in Syria and did a hell of a job against hangar queens that were left behind after we deconflicted things with Russian Federation forces. GPS can inform guidance, terrain mapping radar as well, plus of course, the usual autopilot style guidance.
Precision guided junk removal service!
Anaconda, "We knew you were coming, so we baked you a cake!", total goat rope, but we most certainly left an impression on or with them. Well over 3000, in well prepared positions, with overlapping fields of fire, mine fields and prepared choke points. It was prepared by the same SOB's that trained me.
But, as usual, US training and equipment comes in two models, export models and our own models.
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There's only one problem in accusing anyone of being a lemming.
The entire myth of lemmings running off of cliffs was a Disney invention and to support that invention, the film crew drove a colony of captured lemmings off of a cliff while filming it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_(film)#Controversy
Lemmings are strong swimmers, so the migratory species can swim quite well, but don't leap off of tall cliffs to do so.
As someone who has personally met Trump at a Chamber of Commerce function long before unreality TV existed, what you see is precisely what you get. A narcissist from hell, all subjects of discussion must be him and his greatness and successes, even the bankruptcies of his casinos he billed as successes. So successful that he was prohibited from owning casinos in NJ.
The only thing you get with Trump is an incompetent version of Hitler.
In closing, I'll rarely vote against my own self-interest and that of my family. When I have, it was for the good of my nation, our laws and Constitution. I'd never vote out of spite, as that's in no good interest and simply potentially destructive.
I'll never, ever, ever vote for a fascist SOB that wanted to emulate both Hitler and Stalin! I didn't serve for 28 years in the US Army to ever support such a thing!
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@AureoleWebweaver so, we now have repealed the Constitution? Rights are administratively revoked on dislike of someone, all accusations, no matter how outlandish and wild are treated as true until proven false in the court of idiotic opinions?
For one thing, you've quite the uphill battle to repeal rights, as assholes like me won't allow you to - even if force is necessary. I didn't serve for 28 years protecting our laws and Constitution to consider it otherwise, I did swear an oath, my word of honor and while my terms of service have expired, my word of honors never shall.
For another, I'll be immensely entertained as you define these alleged war crimes. This should be immensely entertaining, as most people don't even understand what a war is, let alone a war crime. So, enlighten us all as to his mythical war crimes.
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It is ironic, one will need to produce identification superior to the requirements of purchasing a firearm and ammunition.
So, one cannot cast a ballot, but can fire a bullet easily.
Not a problem, on election day, I'll bring a firearm and if denied my ballot, a bullet will go through the ballot box lock, invalidating all of the ballots.
Only hearing will be injured, mine more egregiously, given my service related hearing loss that the VA likes to ignore.
Although the governor might be disturbed, my polling place and home are only a few blocks from his mansion and there is an acute disinterest in that dwelling of firearms, which I rather share outside of competition with said instruments of noise.
But, useful instruments, as they do earn me a turkey and ham at tournaments. Used to hunt with one of them that I've since no longer possess, alas, the deer were far smarter than I and they evaded me so successfully that I started to not even bother loading the rifle.
And now, unarmed, the fuckers actually walk up to me, go figure. Oh well, we don't have a rock season and I'm in no condition to be dragging a stoned deer from the woods and the butcher doesn't require oiling.
Yeah, I do literally live three blocks from the governor's mansion and I'm fairly certain that his security and my firearms should remain disinterested in one another and given the firearms are inanimate, I suspect their happily being ensconced in the safe will remain appropriate.
And general laziness means, if the safe is opened, they get cleaned and well, the safe only gets opened when I compete for that turkey and ham.
And now, if necessary, ballot day.
Although, a small shaped charge would be lighter to carry and just as effective...
Were the Founding Fathers alive today, they'd be shouting "God Save The King!".
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Meh, not necessarily being given bad information, but perhaps a lag getting the most current, non-peer reviewed data percolated up.
Or, as common, an acute burst of intracranial flatulence results in old data being repeated. We've all had one of those moments. :/
I will say, that virus is good at adapting to our species, dammit. Still, I'm waiting for more mature numbers to guide actions, rather than a still fairly small sample set. Give it a couple of weeks for the data to properly firm up. Still, I suspect a second booster may well be found warranted.
Sigh, life... Nobody makes it out of that alive.
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So, the use of force is acceptable to ensure that a summary offense, frequently addressed by mail, is acceptable.
If the cop's out of pepper spray and doesn't have a taser, I guess he can use his M4 instead and shoot the suspect to death to serve that summary offense notice.
And nukes should be allowed for citizens suing.
Yeah, as in, what in the actual fuck, over?!
God-cops need to be replaced, as god-cops seem to believe that courts of law do not need to exist, so it becomes a use of force game.
And honestly, were I to witness that, those cops would be obstructed - permanently, as they escalate. Upside is, the economy would be slightly stimulated, as there'd be vacancies in the local god-cop force. And the undertaker would be fairly busy as well.
Capital punishment and life in prison aren't much of a deterrent for those who are aged, militarily experienced and just out of fucks to give any longer. We just want peace and quiet and obedience to the laws and Constitution.
Back in the formerly real world, refuse the summons, get served by mail again, ignore that and meet the constable who will forcibly escort one to court, by court order. No god-cops needed to Roy Bean shit and invite Range Wars.
Excuse me while I check my nuke stockpile...
Cool! Got a few left, all prominently marked and properly marked Chili with beans. I'll never lose in that contest, I'm US Army, REF.
Retired, Extremely Flatulent.
Seriously, we've a major problem when cops decide to be god and become punishers of pseudo-offenses. For then, the courts lose authority, law enforcement as well and we've just gone feudal.
Literally.
Now, excuse me while I go vomit.
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@athlonen inapplicable. Espionage isn't insurrection or rebellion, so let's look at Lindh's crimes.
Supplying services to the Taliban (50 U.S.C. § 1705(b), 18 U.S.C. § 2, 31 CFR 545.204, and 31 CFR 545.206) and carrying an explosive during the commission of a felony (18 U.S.C. § 844(h)(2), oddly neither conviction was insurrection or rebellion.
So, would you also try to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3 for jaywalking, which would be equally inappropriate?
Oddly, you entirely omitted those who would be objectionable, but apparently, unenforceably so, because the Constitution is apparently unenforceable under this SCOTUS, the Jan 6 insurrectionists convicted of seditious conspiracy.
I miss the heady days, when our Constitution was enforced and worse, their decision now endangers federal civil rights cases against local and state lawless enforcement officers.
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@athlonen irrelevant, as what he was convicted of, via his pleading guilty was not giving aid and comfort to an enemy, which if you ever read official documents, the Taliban and Al Qaeda were never described as (the word adversary was always used). I know that one intimately, as I authored such documents during the war in my filed reports on our operations and enemy was a disallowed term in official reports.
What he was convicted of is what operationally counts. Hell, Trump's affirmative defense against the 14th enforcement would be that he was never charged or convicted of insurrection or rebellion and BTW, giving aid and comfort to the enemy is also not insurrection or rebellion and the 14th makes no mention of anything other than insurrection or rebellion. Like I said, going for jaywalking next?
And the SCOTUS did shoot the foot of civil rights enforcement by states, as without specifics including say, law enforcement, state and local law enforcement no longer need concern themselves in abiding by the entirety of the Bill of Rights that doesn't have a codified law to enforce the meaningless Constitution.
I do wonder if Congress wrote any law establishing the SCOTUS? If not, by their case lawlessness, aren't they illegal and hence, have no authority? For that matter, interpreting the Constitution was never codified, it was original thinking of the very first SCOTUS, who considered the Constitution self-executing.
But then, the SCOTUS has long called enumerated rights privileges. A key difference between a right and a privilege is, a right requires law and the action of a court to abridge, a privilege may be administratively revoked. An example of a privilege being operating a motor vehicle, that privilege can be administratively revoked, for one example, if a licensed physician finds the operator unfit to safely operate a motor vehicle. But, one has a right to speech, until a court issues a gag order.
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@rhenamaharrey1137 as I personally do business with a fair number of Amish, do enlighten me what the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is doing.
I know that there was a federal action against a very small number of individuals over their unlawfully selling unpasteurized milk, which has resulted in a number of hospitalizations, but you failed twice in one sentence. Apparently, in your country, public health threats and epidemics are totally cool, like any other third world nation. First world nations intensely dislike such threats to their population and protect their citizens and residents, unlike second world and third world nations.
First, not knowing the difference between a common wealth and commonwealth, each distinct legal entities, where a commonwealth's goal is to secure the common good of all citizens and residents and worse, not comprehending the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is decidedly not the US Federal government.
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Just a replay of the Native American Party hijacking of the Whig Party. The Native American Party was AKA the "Know Nothing Party", notorious for circus stunts, obstruction, brinksmanship and distilled incompetence, pure nativist, decidedly against Native Americans, well and anyone else with skin darker than bleached paper, anti-anything not Protestant, white or Anglo-Saxon and was even involved heavily in religious warfare in Philadelphia when Nativists stole artillery from the port of Philadelphia and fired it at a Catholic church, school and convent with hospital, then murdered responding militia.
Their hijacking of the Whig party caused it to implode, resulting in conservatives forming a new party, the Republican Party. Their first POTUS candidate, Abraham Lincoln. We saw the Nativist response...
And we hear their ilk today threaten civil war again, to which I've happily replied, "Fine, Reconstruction II will last a minimum of one century and be happy if we don't include Hunger Games". I never did claim to be a diplomat, I'm as diplomatic as a shotgun at a wedding.
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No, not every aircraft carrying the POTUS is callsigned Air Force One. There was one aircraft designated as Navy One: a Lockheed S-3 Viking, BuNo 159387, assigned to the "Blue Wolves" of VS-35, which carried W to board a carrier.
Army One was Army helicopters, which carried the POTUS from 1957 until 1976, although prior to 1976, helicopters alternated between Army and Marines and currently, his helicopter that picks him up at airplane inaccessible locations, such as the White House, is Marine One.
If the Space Force is issued an aircraft and a POTUS would ride on it, it'd become Space Force One, which would be intolerably cool for the office. ;)
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Uranium was used as a pigment in the paint under the glazing of both tiles and dinnerware from around 1900 - 1942, when the Manhattan Project diverted all uranium (formerly a waste product that took 3 metric tons of uranium ore to produce 1 gram of radium, the rest was considered waste and plentiful.
That, on top of being used as a pigment for literally centuries.
So, either humanity is extinct due to the ubiquity of uranium glazed tiles or homes have never burned until the LA fires. Or traces of uranium oxide aren't exceptionally harmful, given we evolved alongside them in the environment in granite, for one example, making it into granite bound aquifers and hence into our drinking water, into the soil when the granite erodes, into plants that we eat from that soil and more ubiquitous, potassium-40, which trees love to take up and bananas and Brazil nuts are high in.
Indeed, a great amount of the heat of the earth's core is from radioisotope decay, largely potassium-40 and uranium/thorium decay.
The reality of it is, there's anything from 0.25% to 25% uranium pigmenting the paint under the glaze and if the glazing is intact, the only thing one could have as a risk is if one's laying on the tile 24/7/365 and receiving beta radiation, as the gamma is too low level and rare to even escape the glazing and alpha particles certainly won't escape the glazing. Radon is a modest hazard, if there were tons and tons of the thinly painted tiles around - say, in a warehouse and such warehouses are long emptied of such tiles.
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@claritapadilla7110 Iran what? They're in Russia's pocket and as importantly, 6400 miles away.
And oddly, despite Trump's worst efforts, still not with any nuclear weapons and by now, they should have at least a couple of thousand. They do have their own high grade uranium mines and processing plants.
Oh wait, their drone carrier? In WWII, they were called jeep carriers, merchant vessels given a flat top and called aircraft carriers, but couldn't hold a candle to a fleet carrier. Which is why the fleet carriers went out after the Japanese fleets, leaving the jeep carriers in Leyte Gulf. The only thing saving that fleet being the tin cans, aka destroyer escorts, which were about as heavily armored as a VW bug.
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In the United States of America, we're a bit weird. We don't just grab people's assets, regardless of how obnoxious, disagreeable or how big an asshole they are. If there are financial assets that require seizing in order to secure and pay a legal debt, the matter goes before the courts to ascertain if that is a lawful action, merited, then if appropriate, the court can order the local sheriff to seize said assets. That would require a court, likely in another state, to apply to the local Floridian court to secure said assets for a stated debt, with documentation from the originating, owed state, proving that the claim is valid and part of a legal proceeding.
Ran into something on that very subject in regards to Florida some months ago, just can't recall how I ended up reading about that matter.
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@LeeMooEez were that so, actual howitzers would massively alter the weather.
Instead, only one weapon or technology we have can alter the weather, very locally, within a few miles at most. Nuclear weapons, where local precipitation has been observed due to the effects of the bombs.
Observed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in detail.
"First, a cloud of soil and dust was stirred up by the blast and carried upward by rising air currents heated by the fireball. This cloud rose 4000 meters into the sky and formed the column or pillar of the "mushroom cloud."
Next, the cloud spread out high in the sky, forming the cap of the mushroom cloud. As the cloud spread, the temperature and pressure decreased, and water vapor in the air condensed to form droplets.
The third cloud was caused by huge fires that were started by heat from the bomb. The air currents rising above these fires lifted more hot air and water vapor 800 meters into the air. Rain produced by big fires isn't associated only with atomic bombs. Emeritus Professor Hitoshi Koyama of Kansai University, writing about the Osaka air raids, noted that "after a big air raid, black rain almost always fell.""
Not some toy cannon in someone's back yard. Or by the rainmaker's cannon.
Or even my almighty flatulence.
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The original plan was for a third wave, targeting ammunition stores and more importantly, the fuel farm.
Without that fuel, our carriers would've been worthless and recovery would've taken far, far longer.
The dud rate in that era isn't really all that unusual, impact destroys the fuse before it can detonate the bomb. Additionally, the bombs and torpedoes were customized for the mission, the torpedoes had to be shallow within the port, the bombs designed to penetrate the armored deck of the warships.
The worst part of the attack was, due to the security measures enacted pre-attack, the ambassador had to manually decrypt the declaration of war, resulting in an official declaration of war to be delivered long after the attack, resulting in a sneak attack before war was officially recognized as being declared, enraging a pacifist population.
Interestingly, US intelligence already knew the contents, as the diplomatic codes were cracked and the declaration known to the military. Chain of command delays essentially ensuring Pearl Harbor had no inkling of an upcoming attack.
The US, having significant losses, additionally added pocket battleships, destroyer escorts and escort carriers, all with minimal to no armor. In the battle of Leyte Gulf, those destroyer escorts, despite being unarmored, turned back destroyer, cruiser and the pride of the Japanese fleet, a dreadnought class battleship. The Japanese mistook destroyer escorts for full destroyers, selecting armor piercing rounds, which literally punched through the ships, to land on the sea bottom. Aggressive action on the part of the unarmored destroyer escorts reinforced the mistaken impression of the Japanese commanders, resulting in their failing to punch through and destroy the escort carriers and their aircraft, essentially sealing the fate of the war for Japan.
Proving the adage true, "Never interrupt the enemy when they're making a mistake".
The Arizona remains a war grave to this day, slowly leaking fuel oil, but her guns were salvaged and used by the Navy.
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@Tahgtahv actually, quite a few tuners do emit in their IF frequencies. But, that's beyond this context.
In over 28 years of military service, I never used a receiver only in the military, only transceivers that could by definition, transmit and receive. It's called communications, it's bidirectional to be able to ensure proper communication.
And powerful receivers, well, no such thing, transmitters have power, receivers can only be efficient in reception.
Now, I've saw transmitters that were detuned and had a higher effective power, this was at the cost of inefficently splattering signal over an entire band, making that transmitter even more easily located. The rule of thumb with military radios was the lowest power setting that gets one's signal to its recipient, not scream across the entire solar system and get incoming aircraft, missiles, artillery and very irritable infantry visiting in large numbers.
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I have to admit that the king does have exceptionally good command of the English language, despite his biting his tongue the entire time.
I've not mastered that skill.
As for the beautiful land he wants to pogrom the Palestinians to, would it be perchance named Auschwitz?
As for the Greenland thing, it's consigned to committee, given there are two, H.R. 361 and H.R. 1161 (the latter being the idiocy about red, white and blueland), with 1161 assigned to two committees and well, given how bills introduced literally monthly by MAGA types to expunge Trump's impeachments, yeah, call it the circular file, aka file 13, aka file 86, aka the shit can.
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CO2 is good, it made Venus the garden world that it is today!
More seriously, CO2 is one component in photosynthesis, at night plants consume oxygen and exhale CO2. Meanwhile, photosynthesis also requires phosphorus and nitrogen for the cycle to work, so soil nutrients remaining the same becomes a problem. Add in, we need O2 to live, so O2 is people food in the same non-rationale. Pure O2, not so much, at standard atmospheric pressure and temperature, pure O2 verges on toxic, elevate its partial pressure more, you're talking actual burns of the respiratory tract. Something everyone that works with oxygen and especially hyperbaric oxygen therapy knows quite well.
But, nothing can be done about disinformation? OK, nothing can be done about greenhouse gases. Enjoy Venus mkII.
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True, the POTUS should've sent the Army in, as was done by George Washington in Pennsylvania, to suppress that police insurrection.
Shutting down all federal operations in the county until full compliance and restitution was assured. That's a couple of major DoD depots, FEMA hub, government communications hub (there are alternates, might as well test the redundancy) and a hell of a lot more. Suffice it to say, AT&T would be immensely pissed off when that much of their lit fiber goes dark, with a suggestion it could become permanent and some pressure would be applied to local political leaders by them. The public has a substantial number being employed by those federal operations, who would be on furlough and they'd be clamoring at their political leaders as well.
Hey, your guys think that they outrank Uncle Sam, now you get to learn as a population center that that uncle can be a real nasty SOB when he wants to and there are plenty of other states that'd enjoy our patronage. Dayton would get some backsplatter and be applying their own pressure as well. The state, even more so, as it'd put a major ding in the state's tax income.
And if they don't comply, well, there's plenty of room near Site R, which already has much of the fiber running through it...
Yeah, I fight dirty.
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Well, there is one snake oil that was confirmed to work, it's a species of Chinese snake, every other snake in the world seems to be absent that effect. One of those weird, but confirmed true. In the US, well, snake oil was pretty much anything, due to no regulation, disproving Libertarian nonsense, as in some cases, "snake oil" was booze and motor oil...
I've found plain hemp oil seems to exhibit mild anti-inflammatory effects and mild pain relief, that and ibuprofen tend to take the edge off, although I dislike having additional pills to take - especially a hemp oil horse caplet.
One confounder is, unregulated equals Christ knows what's really in it and he ain't talking.
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@davidedbrooke9324 I don't want to get sanctions, so god-king God, god-king God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Laws say speech is god-king God's word, so speak it only or else laws will be enacted, the Constitution is God-King GOD KILLED AND DEAD!
You know, the difficulty in fusion isn't the initial confinement, but in retention of confinement during the fission phase. This is accomplished via ---- via FOGBANK emitting ----.
Free speech, wanna know how to make a fusion weapon from a generation 3+ device or is that god-king dead, while any other speech is allowed per god-king allowance?
When an arm of government oppresses political speech, the first amendment is dead.
I do know the limitations, as exemplified above, in that right.
You want all speech regulated, god-king deluxe, fuck US anything in favor of your god-king.
And the dopant of FOGBANK isn't all that complicated.
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@cgi2002 OK, my reading of what was said was that that wasn't updated.
Hence, if one updates the registration data to reflect the block installed, the complaint that inspection is impossible is a non-issue.
In short, start out with say, a Detroit Diesel, replace that engine with a General Atomics nuclear flatulence engine, as long as the state isn't objecting to nuclear farts as exhaust, once the state database is updated, one has a nuke fart engine and life is good. That makes a hell of a lot more sense that reflects reality than, "Oh, ya can't change the engine out or it'll never pass inspection".
Just to use silly examples... ;)
Honestly, this sounds like a law where politicians went a bit wild writing it, resulting in a law that does unintended things that break things and eventually gets updated to well, meet reality. Not uncommon in US legal history, to the point where I've often said, "Got a problem? Want it to get a totally fucked up solution that never properly addresses it? Give it to a politician, they'll FUBAR something and proclaim 'See? I'm doing something!'". See the "assault weapons ban" for an excellent example, change a few cosmetic items, the same rifle is for sale, one then changes out a few parts with simple hand tools and gets the original rifle that's incorrectly claimed as banned. A side effect of well, having no comprehension on what one is attempting to legislate, due to sheer ignorance on the subject being legislated upon.
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@lewisner well, having a basement requires some specific requirements in geology. Easily dug, one has components for a strong enough foundation to hold up the structure without the foundation collapsing into the basement and dragging the house down into it and a low enough water table.
Then, there's what was easier to build after so many wars, when left over explosives can collapse the foundation into a basement, so that basements were selected against in favor of a stronger structure.
And of course, available labor and components being available.
Few houses in GCC nations had basements, that whole calcium carbonate layer in some countries, just sand in others, high briny water table in quite a few prohibited it.
In the US, they are more common as a storage, initially for foods that required modest cooling, rather than above ground, where warmer conditions could cause decay and space on land was limited initially to what one could manually plow.
Well, that and tornado alley being a thing one needed some protection from.
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You've never had guard duty, huh?
You're on gate guard, you guard the gate. Not the OP, not the foot patrol, not the TOC or CP, the gate. You don't allow diversions to distract you from what you are guarding, the gate and fence line.
The same is true for the Secret Service, who were guarding the venue itself and Trump, not the OP, not the foot patrols, not the TOC or CP, the venue and Trump.
Outside of the venue, there were hundreds of local and state cops patrolling the grounds, controlling the crowd outside, keeping the lines entering the venue orderly, controlling traffic, inside of one building over from where the idiot fired from as snipers and somehow, he wandered past hundreds of cops with a rifle just five inches shy of a yard long, that's 31 inches of steel, entirely unnoticed by those hundreds of cops, to climb an AC unit to the roof and set up shop.
Somehow, it's the Secret Service and not the hundreds of keystone cops, why not blame the Air Force and Navy too?
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@agme8045 not quite correct. Obesity usually isn't a disease, it's a symptom of underlying disease or dietary/activity imbalance. Metabolic syndrome is fairly common, can be due to sedentary lifestyle and carb heavy diet over the period of years, can be from Cushing Syndrome or PCOS as well. Addressing the root cause frequently will address the symptoms, including excess body fat and glycemic imbalance - well, until everything starts to break down due to overload.
But, UrbanShamanDK points out one major addiction that the US also faces, an addiction to the quick fix. Not an actual repair or adjustment, just a quick fix. Stick a bandaid on a bullet hole. Yeah, covers that unsightly hole, doesn't stop that leaking red stuff until you run out of it and do that dying thing.
My ship has a hole in the side, I stuff a mattress into the hole staunching the worst of the leak, it ain't fixed, it still needs to be fixed, it's just controlled for now. We've been wandering off calling the mattress in the hole fixed, ignoring the increasing leaks until we're flooded. No, you then weld in a patch over the hole, remove the mattress remains, repaint and check frequently to see that the actual fix is permanent.
Or learn to doggy paddle across an ocean, which usually doesn't end up well.
Lose weight by first seeing doctor, if doctor's first move is to go with this drug or one related, find a competent doctor that hasn't given up on you and actually follow doctor's advice. Lose the weight gradually, not quickly, as quick fix fast loss is short term loss and regained with a vengeance. Get back in shape, yeah, round is a shape, just not an optimal one, just don't go to the other extreme and go to skin and bones, for moderation is the key to a healthier life. Get imbalances like PCOS addressed, it's long term, frustrating, takes a lot of effort, but is controllable.
It's not gonna be simple, it's a complex problem and complex problems don't get effective simple quick fixes, they get complex solutions to each sub-problem that's part of the big problem and gradually controlled.
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Erm, for me, the business end of the lathe is the cutting tool. Guidance, well, that's operator and equipment.
I've watched operators do their thing as senior machinists and accomplish what otherwise would be considered impossible.
They all required knowing material, knowing equipment, knowing specifications, then it relied, when things went beyond that, to experience.
I understand the basics, don't know names of tools of when or how to employ them, would love to learn.
Figuring out the machine malfunction, trivial once conditions are established that are being violated vs normal conditions.
I am quite good at figuring out mechanical things. I disassembled a Baby Ben alarm clock, Dad's primary alarm clock to components when I was 8. Reassembled successfully before dad got home. And calibrated it.
Adam failed in examining parameters of failure, then examine scope.
I tend to go Boolean, if that fails, go RegEx, if that fails, go freeform.
Adam fixated.
Proper examination, examine every function, then examine malfunctions.
Especially when he gave a combination lock failure code...
Which is a logic tree failure.
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Well, there was a lot of garbage, right after Maria. Thankfully, Trump saved the day by tossing the paper towel in.
I was with DLA during that mess, that's where the wires, poles and transformers came from. Can't take credit for that, was just keeping their computers working. But, they jumped to full 24/7 for the duration, despite POTUS ignoring everything.
Oh, good job cleaning up the local embarrassment in contractor selection, glad they got hard time for their crimes!
Now, when are you folks gonna vote for statehood again? I want to get a flag with a new star!
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Benedict Arnold was a war hero, who was injured in the line of duty and had no pension in which to support his family and farm, despite being disabled in war. So, he turned traitor to provide for his family.
And oddly, after that decorated and respected war hero turned to support his family, the Continental Congress founded the precursor of the VA.
So, any traitor lacking such a reason is far, far, far worse of a traitor.
But, we do not have a Constitutional provision for exiling people, as exile was abused by England for centuries.
Still, if you object to rural people, don't support them. Stop buying food from farms, that'll show them, when their produce and meats go to waste or go unpurchased.
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It's not identity theft, they're not taking anyone's identity.
They're stealing personally identifiable information, which is protected by the Privacy Act of 1974. The secure storage of said information covered under a handful of other statues. We're talking 5 years hard time for each case, though god-king would just pardon them and hell, probably refuse to charge them with any crimes, because he's crafted a Constitutional Crisis that neutralizes all law enforcement, save by his Imperial Decree.
The only thing remaining is Congress to impeach him, before he finally figures he can just discharge Congress by decree like Caesar did.
Now, one way to fight that, without using guns and then one faces dinky guns vs artillery and tanks is to just stay home from work. Enough do, the economy shuts down. If one needs to escalate, one blocks entrances and exits to refineries and petroleum storage facilities, halting fuel deliveries and hampering transportation and trade. Then, the wealthy campaign contributors start screaming at Congress to do something because they're losing money. The Army and federal agents sure as hell can't round up half of the population and force them to go to their non-federal jobs or even to their federal jobs.
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Alcohol and tobacco taxes, plus inheritance taxes funded a lot of the government. Add in some excise taxes beyond tobacco and alcohol, was a rather large chunk of cheddar.
And we had income tax twice before, implemented once, to pay for the War of 1812 and to pay for the Civil War.
But, he's saving taxpayers money by purchasing 100 foot flag poles, because he's a real estate guruilla.
See my shiny? Watch me wave it, ignore that raging wildfire all around us that I set, that's only the Constitution burning, nothing important.
But, he also wants his Armies to cross the Rubicon, erm, Potomac, to tear up the highways, crush sewers, water mains and gas mains the entire way, for his birthday. Like every other tyrant king throughout history until they were finally dispatched by force in 500 BC.
Are there any surviving descendants of the Brutus family?
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Sure he learned. He learned not to be blatant and get caught.
He was busily scamming away selling colloidal silver to cure COVID, ended up in court over that as well.
Now, he's trying the Oral Roberts gambit, because it worked for Oral. Got him yanked off the air, but it got him his $8 million (actually, something like $9.1 million). Oral loved his diamond rings and jewelry and Italian suits, his staff busily airbrushing the jewelry out of publicity photos. Opened a fine Beverly Hills "office" he used for vacations.
True man of the Almighty... Dollar.
Bakker, just ask about air conditions doghouses...
Yeah, it happened. He scammed money blatantly, got caught and was sentenced to 8 years, served 5.
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The Abrams doesn't use gasoline or diesel, it uses JP-4 (Jet-A) jet fuel.
Mortar fire for air burst has a timer on the warhead, as the trajectory and flight time is known, one knows what altitude it'll be at, at a specific time. Other methods were ground proximity sensing, similar to radar.
Depleted uranium is extremely dense, hence it's useful inside of an armor package, as well as a penetrator against armor, where its pyrophilic nature is useful. It is mildly radioactive, largely being an alpha emitter, with a half life of 4.5 billion years. A fair amount of our depleted uranium stockpile is from our nuclear weapons program, where it is separated from U-235, leaving the depleted uranium. It's also used in some aircraft and elevators as a counterweight. U-235 naturally occurs in uranium at a rate of around 0.7%.
We were actually surprised that our Bradley fighting vehicle's chain gun managed to blow the turret off of the T-72's, as our intelligence thought the armor was tougher.
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First, the plane hadn't just landed, otherwise a baggage tug would've been on the runway. He was on the ramp, where he should've been and clipped the wing, flipping the tug and getting pinned underneath the mess.
Unless you're going to now blame Trump for shitty driving on the ramp, you're barking up the wrong tree. That'd be putting POTUS in charge of a ramp operation at a small airport - along with every other airport in the land.
And oddly, you're not bitching about a week before the god-king wannabe took office and started fucking up the world, a 66 year old American Airlines employee died after being hit by an airport ramp vehicle at North Carolina's Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Guess that's Trump's fault too?
Putting the blame on him for everything is just taking a page from his dicked up book, making you no better than he is.
Both of these cases were tragic accidents that I know from firsthand experience, are not uncommon on airport ramps. They're congested, high speed operations to get passengers off and on their flights with their baggage and the aircraft turned around ASAP, as they make money in the air, not on the ground. And if you've not guessed it, I have worked the ramp, back when Piedmont was its original independent Piedmont, during the ice age.
ATC doesn't control the ramp, airline operations controls the ramp. The closest that ATC gets involved is when the aircraft is requesting to taxi away from the gate, initially usually being pushed back by a specialized push-back tug.
The NE Philly crash, ain't ATC, so unless you're wanting the god-king wannabe to wave Harry Potter's wooden marital aid to whammy everything perfect, it's likely either mechanical or a ghastly pilot error, I'm leaning toward mechanical or a forgotten locking pin that got missed on walk around in shit weather and oddly, that's also not magically the fault of the POTUS.
Who's got a smorgasbord of shit that are abominations he's responsible for, from establishing his own personal concentration camp at GTMO to bidding on sending US troops into Gaza for a Palestinian pogrom, ala Stalin. He's also threatened if anything happened to him or anyone close to him that he'd obliterate the entirety of Iran, which I can only presume would be via thermonuclear means, given the place is fairly large.
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Drunken homing is now a crime to some morons. Search and seizure once required a warrant based upon reasonable suspicion, well, save to those cops. Legislating from the patrol car. Peeping Tom isn't a reasonable suspicion.
No, I'll not answer your questions, your business has been completed, this interview is terminated and kindly get the hell off of my property - now.
Continue, well, "Greetings, this is the M1911A1 .45 caliber semiautomatic pistol. It is a magazine fed, blowback operated pistol currently loaded with custom 230 grain hollowpoints and aimed at your groin".
Why the State Department refuses to hire me is a complete mystery.
Now, sue for damages consistent with at least a decade of the entire town/county budget.
Then, really make them happy. Go through the full NFA process and buy a machine gun and a few cases of the wrong ammunition.
The weapon sale gets tracked, due to the NFA firearm, the ammunition purchase is noted, not the caliber. When they investigate and they will, out of habit of excessive policing, sue again for a half century of budget.
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When did the FBI become responsible for the network security of telephone companies? Do you think they're also responsible for the security of your door locks too?
Now, how the real world works. They may notice traffic at landing points for overseas to US fiber, trace it as it's going and get a warrant for a tap, which just mirrors that traffic to and from the US destination of interest. You know, that cell phone company. They'll more likely want to mirror all traffic from the foreign IP or even VPN.
They typically being the NSA, whose actual job such things are and actually do work closely with the FBI when traffic goes domestic, since the NSA is part of the DoD and hence is prohibited from police functions within the US by the Posse Comitatus Act.
The analysis will eventually show information about the internals of the telecom's network, specifically what's being compromised and how by that foreign traffic.
The business is then notified by the FBI and their security people (the business, not the government, since it's not the government's network) investigate and respond.
How do I know that? I am an information security professional and have been on the receiving end of those visits, with a full briefing and report, then had to dig away, trace and analyze the attacks and spread, literally recording network packets and analyzing them in real time, extracting their malware used and submitting copies to corporate for inclusion into antivirus, the FBI as evidence and report to the management and executives in both the company and FBI. In one attack that lasted a full seven years for a low number Fortune company, I traced traffic coming from a network blind spot to financial servers, where I captured an entire RDP (remote desktop protocol) session to a server, captured their latest and greatest version of software for submission, alerted the administrators of the server and their management. We installed sensors to monitor that blind spot and captured the entry point - a literally forgotten test server that'd been left on and connected to the DMZ for nearly a decade. Once that went offline, they lost their beach head and the attack was finally ended.
Royal PIA from start to finish, as it's not a magical window where I visibly see the session, I see the raw packets and analyzed them. Tens of thousands of them.
The attack actually lasting only minutes at most.
Only after would notification of end users be considered. You don't rebuild the house while it's still on fire, you put the damned fire out first.
You also don't shut down a Fortune listed company network that's performing critical services for governments and corporations over a modest network breach, that's how you shut down entire nations.
The organizational flaw, accepting modest attacks until a couple of Sarbanes-Oxley audits, as financial servers were being breached and copied by a foreign advanced persistent threat.
The entities involved remains classified. The attack was actually publicly reported long ago.
The fun part? This is happening every day, all day, all night.
And I'm not changing my SMS habits, as I don't transmit my PII in unencrypted form - ever. It goes by encrypted e-mail or encrypted e-mail attachment. Otherwise, well SMS is pretty much like skywriting, it can be received unencrypted over the air with a standard microwave antenna and receiver.
Biggest players, China, Russia, Romanian gangs that contract to foreign powers and just rip people off, Iran, Cuba, generic annoying people that have a vague clue, bored kids, of course every major Western power as well and some numbnuts in an internet cafe in Gabon or something. The gangs and larger nations being a wee bit better, by both skills and number of players working.
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First, "I am not aware of", one would have to prove before a court mens rea and what someone knows and that would either require public statements referencing the specific quote/event or telepathy. Additionally, there's the nearly insurmountable hurdle of proving that a blonde is even self-aware or aware of their surroundings.
Second, I heard the testimony with the Georgia Secretary of State telephone conversation and she stated "I have not heard the entirety of that recording", not that she was unaware of that specific quote. That was an evasion, true, but likely factual and well, admittedly, I've not heard the entirety of the conversation myself. Only the damning sound byte that well, knowing Trump from actually meeting him, is consistent with the charges alleged, but lacking in the full conversation that'd likely be even more damning. Well, it would've been, before the SCOTUS elevated him to monarch. After all, Nothing the King does can be illegal.
For the hostages nonsense, granted, weak tea blonde awareness joke aside, weak tea answer, where I'd stipulate that he is entitled to his opinion and his opinions aren't relevant to the matter before the committee, since he's not being reviewed for consent of Senate.
Patel's book, well, I've not read it either and what would remain relevant for her is, would she supervise him and not allow abuses of office and authority, her views on a book you'd then have to prove she had read aren't exceptionally relevant, save if one were to be instead asking if she embraced that enemies list and include said list in one's question and eating up one's questioning time on the floor.
Meanwhile, the Senate doesn't have to give a cause for rejection of a candidate for the cabinet level appointment or certain officers, they can literally vote against someone based upon their eye color or what kind of shoes they wear.
As for the 1001 bit and "I don't know", yeah, dumb answer, the proper answer as coached by every attorney I've known is, "I do not remember" or "I do not recall", one's conversations with others being easily investigated, memos and e-mails also trivial to print out and submit. One cannot prove what is remembered without telepathy.
The hypothetical question, got asked one myself that was rather broad in scope and essentially impossible to refine as asked, so I loathe hypothetical questions. "That order, was it with the space aliens overhead in their flying saucers menacing us or Genghis Khan's hordes risen from the grave? If I'm given an plainly unlawful order, I'll question the order and explain my questioning based upon law, if persisted, I'll refuse the unlawful order and if confirmed, would be forced to report said unlawful order to the House, however I sincerely doubt such a situation would ever occur so clearly and plainly".
But then, I've never been accused of being a yes man and I have indeed questioned unlawful orders, in many cases insisting on a digitally signed e-mail from the offending officer, who oddly demurred from issuing said order in writing. Digitally signed e-mails effectively being a signed written order, the signature being a DoD and court accepted nonrepudiation token and admissible in court.
And yes, I've some familiarity firsthand with both federal civil and criminal cases, thankfully from the periphery.
Now, if I were a spenditmore, would I vote to approve her for the proposed office? Not a chance in hell. From testimony I've heard from the proposed SecDef and now her, I'd trust neither as far as I can throw the entire District of Columbia. I'd at this point have serious qualms as to his other proposed candidates for the various offices he's requesting consent of Senate for.
And that first bit I refer to as a fraudian slip, a false Freudian slip, as I've little respect for any politician, earned richly by far too many.
Reminds me way too much of both "My Fellow Americans" and worse, "Liar, Liar".
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Well, could be worse, could have to deal with the cube root of infinity.
Although, the first measurement being met with disinterest sounds a lot off, given the phenomenal effort to figure out superluminal neutrinos that was reported in a way that basically said, "guys, I know these readings are wrong, but I can't find the cause, so what's going sideways here?" and got a swift answer that repaired the problem.
Especially when the math is claiming infinity, which means all of the particle accelerators are wrong, because of the godwhammy force holding protons and neutrons together under all conditions and hence, zero evidence of quarks, which is obviously wrong. Eh, maybe a one off due to illness, don't do my best work when feeling ill and that typically only happens on days that end in 'y' in English...
Yeah, I'd call it a godwhammy, or a Harry Potter wand whammy, anything whimsical that makes it obvious that it ain't magic and irritate enough for someone to correct the math to match observations. Maybe even name something unexplained, oh, planty.
Largely because, WTF effect being a rather ill received term...
And the explanation does need more clarity as well, as otherwise, if I go to rip a baryon apart, I'm getting something from nothing, which is nonsense, but the energy matches the input, it's an of course. I'm not going to get the excess in mass-energy within a confined region of spacetime with any reaction that isn't already there, but the laws of conservation remain alive and well. It's force and energy interacting via carriers that trigger particle generation, otherwise electrons are magic and they're merely mildly annoying at times. The laws of conservation are only violated within the constraints of my finances.
Well, there and within the constraints of single Planck units, where there still be dragons. At least, until better math is discovered.
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@scrambler69-xk3kv honestly, I think that the founders royally screwed up when they so narrowly defined treason.
Well, at least they did leave sedition open.
As for running out the clock, that's only for federal charges, despite what Trump's blathering lately about states being part of the federal government (they're not), state charges are still pending in two states.
And frankly, if he gets away with the classified documents debacle, I could make a pretty good living off of what I know, since handing out classified information would be then de facto legal.
No, I'd not sell information on what goes where and why inside hydrogen bombs. Just a hyperbole ridden example of the chaos that could ensue.
And I can neither confirm, nor deny the existence of the hydroscillator. :P
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Legally speaking, yes, they're the same gravity in breach of law.
Also considered, scope. As a thought experiment, I kill family members of your family at the numbers of documents that were astray.
For Biden, we're talking immediate family and some cousins, for Trump, a VFW hall sized venue. We're talking a mass murder vs Joe Mengle level atrocity.
Going into improperly classified data, well, that's an atrocity well known in government and essentially intractable, to the point where I've read documents that were proudly marked SECRET/FOUO.
Secret is special, in it could harm our government's interests, FOUO is For Official Use Only and hence, not subject to summary declassification and release under law. An IP address could be FOUO, the base chow hall roster and those consuming meals roster certainly would be. An entire network's IP scope and base roster is secret for plainly obvious reasons.
The massive difference is, if I took any of those documents home, I'd be in a maximum security prison, likely close to Manning's old cell. Executive branch, like seniormost military leadership both realize the overclassification and deal with rivers of such documents, so behavior is decidedly more casual.
Welcome to the real world, where some things are a major pain in the gonads for rank and file, not so much upstairs.
And if I see another anything not UNCLASSIFIED/FOUO, but otherwise marked something higher/FOUO, there very well may be a death or severe bodily harm involved...
And yeah, I Goobered security stuff down a lot, not that it's a classified thing, the guiding documents are unclassified and publicly available, bur boring as hell.
But, lawyers who specialize in such things, well, they're rare and about as expensive as live Dodo birds.
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She was literally his protege, then he went seriously off the reservation enough to be considered hazardous, so she jumped off and remains radio silent.
I've two sides of my personality, my sociopathic military side and my really nice guy usual side. Of the two, I hate, but value that first mentioned side, the other side, well small animals and young children trust me naturally and are protected and well played with and fed well, I'll eat the leopard's face off when it tries to attack. I was often the designated babysitter. And literal killer of terrorists. I preferred running clinics, schools and babysitting and still do.
Far easier than being a monster.
A lesson that frankly, having met Trump, hearing her briefly and his sons incessantly (save the youngest, who's still in college), they're pretty much Monsters, Inc, minus having an actual soul or conscience.
At least I do have a conscience.
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@Sal-tripin I'll have to pop by the VA and tell them that you insist that they don't exist. I'm sure they'll be amused.
Still, there is a point. Adam missed the mark with Benedict Arnold, he betrayed his country after being wounded in battle when we invaded Canada. With no wounded veteran pensions available, he was looking at returning to his farm that he was now no longer able to work, then he and his family starving to death. So, he sold out. He at least had a reason, Trump's got no reason other than the fact that as a person, he's utterly broken inside.
And Franklin's script was to be backed with money received from the locals, mostly Quakers, who refused to donate the money to pay the troops, leaving him with worthless script. Give the complete history, not a cherry picked Ruskie version of it. It's ugly enough without half-story telling, such as how long it took after Arnold's betrayal before wounded warriors received any compensation to keep them alive after being wounded while fighting to protect their nation.
Or the fact that during the revolution and again in 1812, we invaded Canada, only to be politely escorted back to our border, had our weapons handed back and a pleasant goodby tendered...
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I do rotate my foods literally daily, as I honestly can't comprehend eating the same thing every day.
I also hadn't salted my foods in decades, as there's plenty of salt in things like canned vegetables and that's worked well for me for decades.
I did however, despite ample sources, chronically run low in magnesium. Mystifying, but a supplement helped when it dropped extremely low - once doctor actually followed his treatment plan.
Then, four months of continuous or nearly continuous diarrhea arrived for an extended visit. Bristol 6 -7. Doctor was a bit distracted with some other issues that could do that killing me thing, so overlooked the overloo complaint for a couple of months until I reinforced the complaint a bit more strenuously and blood work came back with a severe sodium and chloride ion deficiency, as in I should've had severe cramping and possibly some entertaining cardiac conduction issues.
GI consult it is! After a number of entertaining misadventures resulting in missed colonoscopy appointments, largely involving a rather comedic number of transportation issues of the most improbable, crap for luck sorts, this appointment stuck. Crohn's and of course, erosion right were salts are scavenged.
On a biologic now, last induction dose is just shy of two weeks from now. We'll see if that's effective, as there was some annoyances with what the GI specialist wanted to utilize and what the insurance company has a warm and fuzzy with and for once, due to efficacy rates, I rather agreed with the insurance company.
They did check for some micronutrients and folate and B-12, both star spangled happy mid scale.
I've identified one flare trigger, <grumble> <grumble> <grumble> chili peppers. Love them, but the neighborhood around my ileocecal valve really wants to run that stuff out of town.
And for entertainment's sake, my endocrinologist informed me (well, the blood tests did as well before my appointment) that my body got bored with Graves' disease and instead is visiting Dr Hashimoto.
And if one couldn't take a guess from the maladies, yeah, I'm a desiccated smoker. OK, my hydration is fine.
But, given those issues and their linkage and some lumbar issues that'll likely require surgery or my switching to permanently seated and needing a diaper, yeah, think it's time to toss one bad habituation. So, the sex swing goes!
OK, the smokes gotta go.
Never got that other thing, as neither my wife or I had a yen for being in traction.
One needs to retain one's sense of humor and my ancient EMS humor remains alive, imbalanced and unwell. ;)
And at least my herbal teas are well tolerated - drank not for some medicinal value, but because they just taste so damned good. Favorites being artichoke tea, ginger-tumeric and hibiscus. Might try some rose hips, if I can clip some when the Rabbi next door isn't looking... ;)
And note to self, discuss with doctor some forearm novel behavior, sudden 5 - 6 cm inflammation and intense itching, with sub-centimeter hives that hemorrhage and resolve in about a week, a bit longer than my usual healing time and I clot quickly, as observed in bleeding time measurements and when using the glucometer due to the steroid I'm briefly saddled with. Was just finally clocking at pre-diabetic at age 63, in a family where diabetes is usually diagnosed in the age 30 - 40 range and dialysis is needed by age 50 - 55 ("It's in the genes, why fight it" being their mantra and mine being, over 28 years in the Army, fighting's what I'm best at and loathe).
Shit. Forgot to pick up coffee when I was at the store, gotta dip into my pantry reserves, as a winter storm is coming. Probably revenge from Canada for those tariffs... ;)
That's OK, I pre-pre-retaliated by buying 2.5 gallons of Canadian canola oil.
But, the good news is, eggs in the US should be coming down in price, given one certain POTUS incessantly laying eggs...
I'll just get my coat on the way out...
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In my experience, justice slumbers like the senile elder she is, injustice never sleeps.
But, seeking redress of grievances is unlawful? OK, any court declaring that has zero authority, as it denies the Constitution and bereft that, has precisely zero authority.
And we have anarchy.
That means gunz. OK, I'll bring the DoD. What've they got?
Thankfully, appeals courts don't enjoy considering extinction.
Assuming punitive measure are actually punitive and not a slap on the wrist, coupled with a severe "naughty, naughty, no go and sin some more".
Now, after replacing everything in my household three times, due to theft while deployed defending this faithless nation and abuse of office under color of law, I'm out of fucks to give, next attempt will bring my entire extended network in actual warfare.
The worst thing possible to face is someone who has nothing left at all to lose.
And perhaps, a major spill, in a significantly adverse scenario. Think supertanker full of Ft Knox.
That last is incorporated offline, via a last testament.
Aka, I'll take the lot with me in the end. I'll be shoveling coal on heads in hell.
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The KN-23 is supposed to have a 200 meter CEP, so this would qualify as a gross violation of the prohibition on attacking noncombatants, as there were no military assets anywhere near that home. That sacrifices the Geneva Convention rights of captured Russian forces, as Ukraine is now permitted to engage in reprisal summary executions under the Geneva and Hague Conventions, to which Russia is a signatory of.
More telling is, Russia is using technologically inferior missiles from North Korea and Iran, proving even further how much of a paper tiger Russia actually now is.
Meanwhile, we now have evidence that the PRC is violating sanctions against North Korea and smuggling US technology into North Korea, opening them up for sanctions.
Boy, all of the bullies are screwing themselves this week, is this an early holiday gift to the West?
"Russia retains surprises", yeah, it'd be like the US firing missiles supplied by Somalia.
If Russia attacked a NATO nation, it triggers Article 5 and a full NATO strike with all options goes on the table. Russia nukes with tactical nukes, as they threatened in reprisal to conventional weapons, any fallout on a NATO member triggers Article 5 and NATO nukes back.
Putana's painting himself into a corner, pants down and bent over. It'd be far more prudent to withdraw his forces.
But, he won't and he'll escalate oddly, at least until the threat of a NATO reprisal grows sufficiently that he's forced to retire "for health reasons" to a dacha in the woods, to not be heard from again - assuming he doesn't fall out of a window in a windowless building.
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Well, we've actually had cold fusion for ages. Not gainful, hell, it's a hell of an energy sink, but then neutron generators aren't energy sources, they're neutron sources.
I remember one model at a national lab that is literally smaller than the end of one's thumb, generates quite a lot of neutrons for a bit, draws tons of power, produces really nasty electric bills. ;)
Farnsworth fusors are excellent cool fusion devices, only raises one's electric bill moderately to massively.
Hollywood, well, they've forgotten the first law of thermodynamics, TANSTAAFL. They're also clueless about neutron embrittlement, but then they also still rely upon high explosive automobiles (all cars explode in Hollywood, at the convenience of the script) and electricity is magic.
Weird Google experiment though, if I'm checking for fusion reactions, I only really need to look for two outputs, thermal and neutrons.
Want cheaper cold fusion? Go lithium. Won't generate gainful power, but lithium is weird, will fuse or fission fairly easily. Fission it, get tritium, fuse it, get a really big electric bill - oh wait, you'll get that either way.
Don't get me started on their infinite supply of ammunition and most of that genre's infinite supply of smokeless powder (if it was actual gunpowder, well, it'd be patently obvious given gunpowder's notoriety for its complimentary smokescreen on firing even a single round)...
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@Savvy_boomer do you? They thought as much as well. Their predecessors did as well, when conservatives were members of the Whig Party. Another party usurped by demagogues, religious fanatics, racists, white supremacists, religious extremists that wanted only Protestantism, nationalists, anti-immigrationists and caused the sane membership to abandon the party, which then imploded. The sane membership formed the Republican Party, their first presidential candidate, Abraham Lincoln.
Presuming immunity only means that you're driving at high speed with a blindfold on, for only by watchful wariness can one avoid such pitfalls.
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So, they'd have incarcerated Mary and Joseph for fleeing to Egypt when warned by an angel about Herod's orders to kill every firstborn Jew.
I imagine also, they'd order the SS St Louis sank in the ocean by our Navy, rather than allow those Jews to approach our shores seeking asylum as refugees from Hitler in 1939. Rather than oh, what we did, send them back to Europe to be sent to Auschwitz.
Yep, totally a Godly people, if one's god is Satan himself.
And worse, condemning someone for utilizing their very first amendment rights, because the Constitution is illegal to the god-king Trump and his Emperor, Musk.
Embrace that and embrace your eternal condemnation to hell, you've richly earned it.
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While there are risks within even a high therapeutic dosage level with diphenhydramine, it remains my antihistamine of choice, due to its slightly higher efficacy level and being common in our military drug chests. When it's not quite effective, one can rapidly follow with dexamethasone or other steroid and of course, to close those leaky, dilated vessels, good old epi, followed with a rapid MEDEVAC.
Once, I lost the advantage of rapid evacuation and got saddled with severe anaphylaxis, secondary to longstanding beesting allergy and several stings. Yeah, that man kept me busier than a one armed paper hanger! Used up a fair number of drugs in a kit designed to supply stabilizing care for 1200 men. Our surgeon was supervising and only offered a sparse few suggestions of odd one off uses of some drugs, after he noticed that I was calling out using Promethazine for its antihistaminic properties, synergising it with an analgesic to ensure that the patient not injure himself. It also meant that I was beginning to scrape bottom in the drug kit and my knowledge base and doctor suggested a few drugs, even adding atropine to counter the recalcitrant bradycardia.
Learned a few things from that, mostly, on how to more politely indicate outrage over unnecessary delays in MEDEVAC requests, some of which made it up to division level as the most polite alternative usage of terms that otherwise would be translated far more profanely.
Worst twelve hours of my life! But, he finally stabilized, was hospitalized anyway, as I wasn't having a warm and fuzzy over the encyclopedia of drugs utilized to stabilize him.
Suffice it to say, the surgeon gave due credit, which I honestly didn't give a damn about and had some interesting words to say to command over unnecessary delay of evacuation of a critical patient during a training exercise. He also had a touch of ethanol, for medicinal purposes that he prescribed a strong dose of for both of us. Largely, as we both wanted to hit a specific individual over the head with a flung M1 Abrams tank.
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Well, does it matter? Just saw two reports that claimed massive rioting at the White House and to hear what was being blathered, the building must've been leveled and everyone deceased and that there is no right to peaceably assemble or seek redress of grievances with one's government.
And oddly, the building remains intact, nobody had as much as their feelings hurt, well save the god-king wannabe, must've been Harry Potter's wooden marital aid fixed everything as he rode around propelled by unicorn farts.
And eggs remain $9.00 for a dozen jumbo, $8.00 for extra large, $7.00 for large, maybe they'll be selling human eggs next for cheap.
Well, my $6.00 10 pound ham is in the oven, pretty insane when hams are cheaper than a dozen eggs, damned bird flu. And that flu, one that causes serious infections in humans and is highly infectious has been detected in herds of milk cows.
But, raiding of the treasury, transmitting classified data unencrypted via unprotected channels is of greater importance to the god-king and Emperor Musk than the populace having anything to eat. Because a hungry, angry populace worked out so well in France in 1789.
Although, I did have one tool tell me to "die with dignity", I strongly suggested that they lead by example and go first.
I remain mystified as to why my applications for employment at the State Department go ignored... OK, not really, never applied, I'm decidedly not a diplomat.
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@peetsnort the only problem is, even if we're lucky and only 10% contract COVID-19, that's 25000 newly sick, on top of the current average of 40 - 45k new cases per day and they're spreading that farther along, at a minimum of 1.7 infections, possibly more. The hospitals are already stressed in areas that are still rising, some area hospitals are full and have no more medical beds, let alone ICU beds, all while waiting for patients to heal enough to be sent home so that they can bill and get screwed by the insurance companies. That will result in hospitals going bankrupt and being forced to cease operations - while they're still full of patients, most COVID-19 cases! Once we're at capacity and bankrupting hospitals, the case fatality rate will increase dramatically and we'll quite literally have people dying in the middle of the streets, like had happened during the 1918 influenza pandemic. That's when you'll see at a minimum, ten times the current death rate, as we don't install ICU equipment and nurse monitoring inside of private homes, so no O2 for people who need it to survive a moderate case of COVID-19, let alone installing ventilators inside of private homes.
Currently, conditions are basically turning this pandemic into an Acme dynamite kit and we're all sitting on the pile of explosives while Trump keeps whaling away with a seldgehammer.
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@peetsnort actually, there are several comparisons to be made. Both had circulatory damage, both have cytokine storms wreaking havoc. This bugger just happens to trigger a touch more widely distributed of a cytokine storm, complete with cardiac and kidney damage, making it a fair bit higher in the fatality department.
Now that we've got a handle on some effective treatments, the CFR should drop down by a lot.
A couple of months back, I was hospitalized with respiratory distress with SPO2 bouncing around 83 - 85. CXR revealed atelectasis with infiltrates. So, while working up the differential, TX was initiated for presumptive COVID-19 pending further testing and DX. First up, dexamethasone, followed with heparin. Sputum and nasal membrane swabs were taken. Speaking with doctor, I simply asked, "Presumptive pending differential and testing proving otherwise, huh". Doctor, shocked simply confirmed my suspicion.
What had made me ill, thankfully was not infectious, but a full blown thyroid storm with hypertension and decompensation resulting in the pulmonary issues.
Never before had I ever thought that the words, "Thank God it's only a type of heart failure!" would leave my lips. Oversimplified, that's what happened with me, loosely resembling part of the symptom set of COVID-19 and I entirely agreed. Were I still treating military patients, that'd have been my approach while ordering testing and getting doctor on the radio, as well as scheduling MEDEVAC in a New York minute, then decontaminating my treatment and waiting area of my BAS.
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@peetsnort one calculates not on total global population, but per capita so that apples to apples are compared.
Currently, for hospitalized patients, the CFR for COVID-19 is higher than for 1918 influenza. That said, there are confounders present for both, as both have cases that never are hospitalized and that skews the numbers.
One upside is, we've yet to have people expiring on city streets, whereas with the 1918 influenza pandemic, that was a regular occurrence. We also now have dexamethasone to tamp down cytokine storms and heparin to prevent clotting issues, where in 1918, we only had hopes and prayers.
Downside, thus far, per capita, Coronavirus has a higher per capita CFR than the 1918 influenza pandemic. Upside, as I said, we now have treatments, although I really would have a much warmer and fuzzier feeling in regards to one antiviral with additional studies on the efficacy, as the studies I've reviewed are rather weak tea.
That all said, at the beginning of any pandemic, all studies are weak tea or non-existent, we learn as we go along, as life isn't a Doctor Who episode where one has a time machine to violate physics with. ;)
A couple of months ago, we were embracing dexamethasone and heparin for preventing cytokine storm and clotting cascade failure, resulting in DIC, which has proved quite effective in preventing worse sequelae advancing and some studies suggest cardiac, CNS, peripheral circulatory and nephritic damage is far more limited when such treatments and possibly one antiviral treatment is initiated. At the time, I was hospitalized with dyspnea, SPO2 on room air 83 - 85, swiftly improving to 95 - 99 SPO2 on 5 LPM nasal cannula.
Admitted for that and a hypertensive crisis, atelectasis with infiltrates. Immediate TX, dexamethasone and heparin, doctor was surprised that I asked if that was presumptive to possible COVID-19, pending labs and differential and shocked, he concurred. That's been the gold standard initial treatment.
I was dubious that it was COVID-19, due to any possible exposure was over 30 days previous, due to one burst of intracranial flatulence on my part and since, I've been my usual cautious self in regards to contamination. Additionally, I have a HX of Grave's disease and hypertensive crisis and had fallen complacent on monitoring my BP and pulse, as well as remaining afebrile, retrograde or common fever at all and no precursor symptoms of a respiratory infection. A few allergy attacks, but those aren't unusual with me upon return to the US after five years.
Well, the usual battery of tests, including nasal membrane swab drilling for oil in my sinus, a sputum test and my FT3 and FT4 being ridiculously high, it was confirmed to be a decompensation after initiation of a thyroid storm.
Honestly, I never before thought I'd ever utter, "Oh, than God it's only a form of CHF!". But, the protocol matched and the dexamethasone also would be effective for limiting damage from the circulatory inefficiencies present due to the hypertensive crisis that turned things into an acute decompensated state.
It's also right at the edges of my understanding and capabilities from when I was treating military patients in the field and I'd be getting doctor on the radio, after scheduling a New York minute MEDEVAC (basically, I'd brook no delay, urgent means what I *@&!%!!! said), TX to stabilize and advance doctor's efforts before arrival.
And I've actually performed cut downs to gain circulatory access in some cases.
So, I'm rather adept at knowing my limits, I'm also quite adept at anticipating what doctor will call for at a SF military level. I've also responded to more than a few outbreaks of infectious diseases and raced to get in front of them.
Where I excel is, I know when to call in an SME and that's always before I'm well and truly in trouble - it's far less damned work! Even today, now that I'm retired from the military, I have my network of SME's available by telephone, personal visit or e-mail, counting PhD epidemiologists, some personal friends who my wife and I have enjoyed many fine meals with.
Still, there are comparisons. Cytokine storms, DIC seems to have been present with both due to probable peripheral circulatory system damage, high unmitigated R0 and the only real difference is COVID-19's unmitigated hospitalized CFR being twice the CFR for hospitalized 1918 influenza pandemic patient rates, adjusted for per capita, rather than total number of ill.
For, comparing outside of a per capita rate adjustment isn't even an apple to apple comparison, it's apple to bowling ball.
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@peetsnort there was no concern at that time about overdose, the patent was confiscated from a German company, something about enemies and a World War, you might've heard a little something about that. Aspirin does not cause a cytokine storm, try looking up the germ cytokine storm, then look up what cytokines are. That's medical knowledge, not hypochondria, which is a psychiatric condition involving a pathological fear of being ill. We don't hospitalize people for hypochondria, we do hospitalize them for major illnesses.
Nobody had antibodies for smallpox until they contract the disease, the same for influenza, which is most commonly carried by birds, which the Native Americans were most certainly familiar with. Measles, mumps, varicella and smallpox were unknown to them.
Peanut butter allergy has already been figured out, underexposure when young resulted in allergy when exposed when older, it was repeatedly written up in every pediatrics journal in the world.
Not microdosing, but microexposures to promote tolerance to the allergen, which is a standard desensitization method that's been in use for decades.
No, COVID-19 isn't some emotional overreaction, we don't put people on ECMO or ventilators for emotional illnesses, we put them on such invasive technologies when their respiratory system is so badly damaged that they'd die otherwise. Even then, a fair number still die, which most assuredly is not an emotional overreaction!
It's been globally, even within Sweden, to be acknowledged that the Swedish approach was a dismal, abject failure that resulted in excessive deaths. Only one political leader in Sweden supports that failed view, well, that leader and Russia, who's always contrary to those not their friends.
Again, we don't hospitalize people for a mental condition as minor as hypochondria, we do hospitalize people for life threatening illnesses.
So, why do you go on at such length about things that you repeatedly prove with your own words, of which you know nothing whatsoever about? Are you proud of such alarming and excessive ignorance?
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I've had my, ahem, interactions with TSA screeners. "You do realize that I can _____".
"You apparently failed to properly screen my pocket contents, otherwise you'd see my federal identification card showing I have more than enough decades of federal service to this nation to be trivially able to make one telephone call and effectively end your career - in anything and everything. Now, move along, these are not the droids that you are looking for".
Trust me, every time they glance over and see the now offending ID and they do what should've been done to begin with, leave me the hell alone. Well, all save for one, whose career as a security guard in a boarded up mall appears to be proceeding as can be expected.
You serve long enough, your network eventually has people pretty much everywhere. Everyone who has served in government service knows that and knows that if you're going to piss off the right person, you'd better be damned right or that mountain you constructed from a molehill will bury your future.
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Honestly, I do believe that a civil war may be looming. :(
Things would get mighty interesting though if it did and who is control of our nukes comes into question. :/
And alas, I'm for once being serious.
Had to take a break, due to a Crohn's flare and got irony nibbling at my heels. Was preparing to hone my ulu, as it's in need of a touch-up and realized my honing oil was empty. While examining the bottle from an Arkansas company, I noticed that the label was tri-lingual, English, Spanish and French.
And billed as non-petroleum, while its MSDS says 98% mineral oil, which is decidedly petroleum. Mostly from Canadian crude.
Fortunately, I've a larger bottle of plain food grade mineral oil on hand that I use to make wood butter for my cutting boards and wooden spoons.
Gotta still get the board/bowl for it, neighbor set out the blade and I rehoned the much abused treasure. I'd make my own board, but I'm feeling a bit lazy. Got many a fine kitchen knife that way and the losing neighbor never realized, I'd happily hone them for free for them. Oh well, waste not, want not.
And a fine kitchen work cart that has an excellent cutting board top that a neighbor never installed all of the hardware for and worse, covered the butcher block with contact paper. Stripped the crap off, installed the missing hardware for a few bucks investment, refinished the cutting board top and coated it with that abovementioned wood butter. Bleach it clean, re-butter it.
Circling back to the subject at hand, I suspect you folks might want to spool up JTF 2. Served in an overlap region with them, did some mutual assistance jobs in both directions when a bite was a bit more to chew than was called for due to some faulty intelligence, they can set quite the party table! And that's meant in a most unpleasant for the other folks way. Canadians are polite as the day is long, right until they're riled up, then they're as nasty as the rest of us until the unpleasant business is concluded.
And just as happy when the other guys just go home.
I'm a pacifist by nature, but was a warrior by trade. Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent, it's a final recourse when one didn't do one's job properly. Because, nobody in their right mind wants a war.
Now, to important stuff. Wood butter is easy, about 1/3 beeswax to the rest mineral oil, more or less oil to desired consistency. Melt over low heat in a pot that's expendable (I keep one small pot just for that purpose), jar it up and it'll keep indefinitely. Just as a good steel blade will, keep them sharp or get injured, they should last multiple lifetimes if properly cared for. Guide for a quality blade, if it's shiny as a mirror, you're looking at the wrong thing, if it's the hue of a US nickle, you're on the right path - it's high carbon and will take an edge, the other crap needs a whole intensive care unit to hone. Ceramic blades are good, but really a bastard to re-hone.
Note a preference for the useful over the worthless?
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Without that shoe repair battalion, our soldiers would've been trying ineffectively to march across obstructions, minefields and through machine gun fire. Without the supply battalions, our troops would've been yelling bang at the enemy, rather than projecting rounds. As Patton learned the hard way, without fuelers, the tanks remain parked and immobile on the road. Without medical, our forces fear engaging out of concern if they're injured and no treatment is available.
Without the whole, one doesn't have a military force, one has a rabble. Rabbles don't win wars, they simply get mowed down by the professional forces.
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@epicelements5528 my youngest daughter has finally recovered from long COVID, contracted while she was working the COVID floor during the pandemic's first wave.
I contracted COVID, thankfully a mild case, as I was fully immunized against the virus. So, I ended up with some mitral valve damage only.
Our eldest is an RN and worked the COVID floor, she had to take a year off to recover emotionally, as she literally had patients cursing our out and denying the existence of COVID with their literal dying breath.
I also remember Trump blathering that that very physician that was a guest in this interview, had he been in power, would've been denied entry back into the US. He'd have literally exiled a US citizen because he became ill treating Ebola patients.
And Ebola isn't exactly easily transmitted, basic PPE is more than sufficient to prevent it from infecting someone. It spread to healthcare workers in the endemic regions because of a lack of PPE availability, once PPE was made available, worker infection rates plummeted.
And now, notifiable diseases will go unrecorded, because DOGEshit firings by someone who legally isn't permitted to hire or fire anyone, as he's a pseudo-cabinet level, unauthorized agency that Congress never voted to create or fund. And OPM isn't authorized to hire or fire anyone save with OPM, so their mass firings were also illegal, as a court has already decided.
And now, he's setting his sights on the VA and Social Security.
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Now, let's have a stroll down history lane.
In the years 1937 - 1939, the first Social Security pension payments were sent out - a one time payment to those of pension age or older.
That was it for them, but according to god-king, they're still getting paid, probably by Harry Potter's magical wooden dildo.
And all contracts you can underpay, because contracts mean paying whatever you want to pay if you're a god-king. Your electric bill and rent, both contracted, try to pay half or whatever you want to, let us all know how well that works out for you. Mortgages are also contracted, pay half and keep paying half, keep on saying you'll only pay half and never, ever the contracted amount and hell, do it in writing. Let us all know how nice it is to live under that bridge.
Breach of contract is a really big deal, save for god-king, who has his lawyers keep continuances abusing the system until anyone suing either dies of old age or goes bankrupt and can no longer afford to collect. That's why the roofer at the Taj Mahal started to remove those onion domes when Trump attempted to refuse to pay by "Oh, we can't pay the agreed amount today, it has to come from the corporate office only and they didn't cut the check that's due today" card was flipped. Cranes and workers came up, workers scaled the roofs and began to dismantle the roofer's roofs and wonder of wonders, suddenly that location acquired the ability to print and possession of company checks and one was immediately cut.
The roofers stopped, reattached what was disconnected and left to a happy payday.
And DOGEshitters have yet to provide any evidence of fraud, waste or abuse, only waved around some pages that finally were admitted to have DEI baked into the contract BY THE GOVERNMENT.
If we can find 1.5 trillion, yeah, he said the same thing about votes, but one AG couldn't be assed enough to push the case forward, so we're living the life of Wile E. Coyote at the Acme plant.
Want to have fun interviewing him, have him provide some numbers, wait five minutes, have him repeat those numbers, they'll be different and his dementia won't allow him to remember what he invented.
Then, "Oh, Hamas, Gaza, Mozambique, Israel, nice town"... Yeah, BRICS wall to the face.
He was truthful about his approval rating, he's not heard those numbers before he pulled them out of his ass, won't hear those numbers again if nobody plays the video for him either.
I did notice one odd trend in retail. NICS background checks for firearms sales is a fair bit higher this month than last and this month isn't over, despite it being a short month. Ammunition sales are also up. No idea what that means though. Maybe that's connected with the approval rating or something. Feel free to Google it, the FBI reports on how many NICS checks are done and the firearms industry does track ammunition sales and report on that more often than on firearms sales, as ammunition is consumable and companies like to know if they need to make more to stay in front of demand.
BTW, the Hanford nuclear site is now short staffed, the workers fired by DOGEfuck, those maintaining the NW power grid, especially the hydroelectric power stations at the dams, also shitcanned, so it's a matter of time before the west coast goes dark.
I'm sure that Silicon Valley and Vegas won't mind being in the dark for a month or two until they can reassemble the power grid.
And has anyone confirmed if he got back the bird flu tracking team that they'd just fired? How about the NNSA security teams for our nuclear warhead security? Just saying they're unfired does not mean that they've even actually gotten contact with those fired workers, they could've as easily and quickly reactivated their e-mail and cell phone accounts and a box of cell phones in the abandoned IT office at their site now have full inboxes and nobody guarding our nuclear weapons stockpile.
Don't take his word if he waves a receipt, that receipt for recalled workers is more likely a McDonald's receipt. Or the tape from a young lady's maxipad...
Yes, having met him in person, I trust him that little.
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@absalomdraconis the additive in question was called Olestra. Not especially relevant, given it was dairy products, specifically milk, butter, cream and many cheeses that all contained lactose.
Additionally, lousy example, as the only people who did suffer that seepage were those who consumed ridiculous amounts of potato chips with Olestra as their fat. Every investigatory study found that one, not a one had such problems with average consumption, only with those who ate absurd amounts.
I actually tried the products, including Pringles potato chips with Olestra, didn't have a problem with them. Still, a moot point, as Olestra was never a milk or other dairy product adulterant.
But, there was one further thing against Olestra, it suspended fat soluble nutrients, such as vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, and vitamin A, along with carotenoids. Those then had to be added to the product as supplements to offset what otherwise was excreted.
Olestra remains in use today - as an industrial lubricant and paint base, as well as a deck stain base, as it is environmentally friendly.
Laughably, lobbyists against Olestra used chemophobia to fight the product, long before excessive consumers complained. One attack, calling it what it is, a polyester. So is cooking oil, of course, but one does have to shake one's head over proclaiming general health and championing knowledge by capitalizing upon ignorance and the promotion of said ignorance.
And a tidbit of later follow-up studies, those excessive consumers had the same seepage with regular fat chips, as there are limits to how much fat the body can digest, process or absorb.
Rather like those who consumed low calorie sodas to lose weight, but turned around and drank hundreds of gallons of the swill, then complained that their weight remained the same or higher. They offset the caloric loss by overconsuming and obliterating that otherwise health gain.
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@nothanks9503 have yet to see a palatable algae product, counting gelatin products containing agar.
I do enjoy edible seaweeds though!
Lacking access to affordable edible seaweed, I'd happily fight seven strong men for a basket of broccoli rabe or curly escarole for soup. Alas, can't find even a leaf fragment in my neighborhood, our stores largely are geared toward Caribbean cuisine. Which has its own delights. Oh well, guess I'm stuck with collard greens and a few other greens (big grin).*
With either, I'd be unlikely to ever be zinc deficient or magnesium deficient though. I tend to run deficient on magnesium, occasionally on zinc as well, but a dish of mussels fixes the latter. Haven't figured out why I run deficient on magnesium (yes, proton pump inhibitors and all, but even months after being off of them, I was still deficient), so I boost foods with both in them.
*Lost my wife of 42 years a couple of years back this March. Still, for Thanksgiving, I cooked a full thanksgiving dinner (albeit with a smaller turkey), complete with collard greens. One of my neighbors, while discussing our dinner preparations scoffed at this white boy making collards and asked, "What do you know about making collards?!". Gave her my recipe, ended up having to share some of the greens with her, much to her delight. Learned how from my mother-in-law, who came from rural Kentucky. :D
And this Philly boy loves his greens! Meats get a small serving for me, around the size of the palm of my hand or so.
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...before he was tortured to death by radiation.
One can't be more spot on, every fatal case of radiation exposure was a fugly death, redefining agony in many cases. Bad enough that the DNA was badly damaged in the exposed cells, even the cellular machinery was badly damaged or destroyed.
Sounds like major depressive disorder or severe bipolar, coupled with easy access to a cat 1 source. That's already a potential disaster, add in ethanol, it's fortunate that he at least had a conscience.
Ir-192 is plain out evil, due to its short 78 day half-life. Just maintaining the things had to be challenging, due to the brevity of the source's utility!
But, why those sources went home on company vehicles is beyond me and now, the fodder of my nightmares. Way too easily stolen that way!
"So, what do you have for show-and-tell, Johnny?"
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Game wardens have effected warantless entry on private property for longer than the six decades that I've been alive. The only novel thing is the game cameras.
Hunting in Pennsylvania is by license for the game in season, with the only exception being public safety for designated agents and for farmers. Again, code older than I am.
Now, untested at a federal Constitutional level, suspicionless searches and installation of cameras, taking soil samples without suspicion or warrant.
Now, as a Pennsylvanian, if I have a substantial property and see an armed warden, he'd still be met by an armed me and challenged. I can get uniforms easily, so present credentials and state one's purpose for entry. So, a challenge and demand for credentials is both lawful and reasonable. Obstruction then is not lawful. Refusal to credential can then lawfully result in detention and the summoning of law enforcement and becomes a game commission disciplinary matter.
Then, most typically, there will be a requirement. Stop by for a cup of coffee. We'll discuss cameras and acceptable placement and my request for good wildlife shots from those cameras.
Got some really good shots of a fox from one of my cameras, as well as some shots of a neighbor's kid trespassing that we ignored and simply pinned up next to the fox. The shot's value, well, the fox looked smarter in the pictures. Lousy shots of deer, typically the south end of a northbound deer...
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Oh, I could stage it quite precisely. Of course, everyone would see the rails that the round would be sliding along.
The rifle he used is a 4 - 6 MOA rifle and round combination, the best that model can typically achieve is around 4 MOA. At 150 meters, that's around 5 - 7.5 inches circular error for the round with perfect marksmanship. To hit a quarter inch ear lobe to give a boo-boo. With perfect marksmanship, the head would've been struck with likely lethal effects and well, suffice it to say that perfect marksmanship was conspicuous in its absence and further removed after a few deliberate rounds by a high volume of fire one typically sees from those who just can't shoot worth a damn.
The problem with most who claim it was staged is, they've absolutely no damned clue in the world what they're talking about in terms of ballistics, many also getting lost in weird weeds on terminal ballistics that are fanciful at best. They're bullets, not some science fiction guided munition that still don't exist, this ain't Star Trek. They're also bullets, not ICBM's.
But, there are those who know far more than those of us who have used these very weapons and ammunition for years, multiple decades in many places, for they've acquired far more experience and knowledge from their vast experience acquired on their Twinkie encrusted sofa. And most of those "experts", incapable of hitting the broad side of a barn with the entire weapon at point blank range.
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So, one doesn't schedule a revolution, the Colonial Armies were wrong, they just needed to randomly pop up here and there, ignore that big assed organized army.
After all, they had air superiority, having good airport security and thousands of wings of Colonial Vipers. Or something.
Yeah, I don't think I need say more about that idiotic notion. It is as bad as Trump claiming we had excellent airport security during the Revolution. Of course, he's also the stable genius that knows all, who had no clue what happened at Pearl Harbor.
Annoyingly, his MAGA devout then proclaiming that Pearl Harbor was actually invaded...
Dumbasses aren't notable for their brilliance, hence why they're called dumbasses.
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Well, I do have to agree, Critical Race Theory does not belong in primary or secondary schools, any more than advanced brain surgery techniques does.
Since both curriculum subjects are at equally advanced levels of postgraduate degree courses. Just as PHYS 531: Galactic Astrophysics from Drexel University shouldn't be part of primary or secondary school courses, as it too is part of a PhD program.
Pity, it'd be pretty cool if we could get kids graduating with a PhD... ;)
When Trump says "I hear people saying" or "people tell me", he's literally talking about what the voices inside his head are saying to achieve a gain for him, regardless of the cost to others or an entire nation. I learned that quickly enough when I met him around 2000 at a Chamber of Commerce function where he was a speaker. The following year experienced a 90+% attrition, as no business owner forgave the Chamber for that debacle.
But, if he wins or loses the election, he'll still do the same thing. Play golf - poorly. To the point of not only incessantly cheating, but even cheating a child when playing against the small child and his father.
https://golf.com/lifestyle/celebrities/how-why-president-trump-cheats-golf-playing-tiger-woods/
Frankly, he's as welcome in my home as an elephant fart in a church during the sermon.
Thankfully, I don't have to worry about him entering my home - I live in a castle doctrine state.
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The question is, for that last positron and electron, is the attractive force a real force or a convenient analogy for the increase in probability of interaction once one's proximity to the other is within twice the Bohr radius? At a certain range, the probability of interaction is essentially 1, but never quite 1, as otherwise we'd be discussing infinity again and one really is only stuck with that when working with Planck units, where our math remains a bit fuzzy. So, is it a real force that measurably increases or an artifact of extremely high probabilities reaching the top of the curve?
So, we inject more energy to narrow it down and measure the two photons...
In this instance, it's essentially the inverse of the problem and it's easy to make the defective analogy that with increasing distance, the force increases, but that would lead to one quark being here on Earth, the partner being orbiting Sag A* and infinite force now is accelerating the partners together, which of course falls apart due to scale and the path, it's at close ranges such things seem correct and distance confounds things as it gets macroscopic. Which is precisely what was observed with that plateau. The only reason it doesn't yet be observed to fall off as distance increases isn't that it won't, it's that we've only hit the limits of what we currently can observe.
The math never needs to meet some intuitive expectation, it just has to match up with observations, if it doesn't, we have to change the math to match the observations, for if we change the observations to meet the expected math, it's no longer science, but fiction. So, if one gets results that don't meet one's expectations, replicate it, have others replicate it, that is a good thing, as we're closing in on a superior answer.
~There is no such thing as a force of gravity. Gravity is merely mass-energy's way of telling space-time to go get bent.
Me
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Well, it's a driveway, not a parkway. Obviously, they need to park in the parkway.
As they showed a nearly four decade old photo of parking there, but it wasn't old enough, they obviously have no specific code as to what historic means and frankly, sounds like the court needs to examine their vague code...
And meanwhile, consider their age and any infirmities, for potential ADA leverage. The per day violation penalties for ADA violations are budget killing quite swiftly.
Then, I'd consider fighting dirty. The pad being graced with anything aesthetically displeasing that I can find that still falls within the city's arbitrary guidelines and I can be damnably creative, as most former military types can, when confronted with such idiocy.
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Another difference is Japan supplies 100 volts three-wire single-phase, the US 120 volts three-wire single-phase.
One potential issue with the Japanese system is a neutral fault, as both require the neutral center tap be grounded at the transformer, the US also at the home and neutral and ground bonded. That lessens issues, but fails to completely eliminate them in the US system if a neutral fault occurs, from your description, the Japanese system would exasperate the problem by a fair amount due to load imbalances in that same scenario.
Given the technical descriptions I've read thus far on the Japanese electrical distribution system for residential power, it looks pretty much the same until the breaker panel, although the neutral - ground bonding is likely done at the service entry/meter, rather than at the breaker panel.
Still, it makes greater sense to GFCI the entire home electrical system and Japan had an advantage in doing so early on, given the nation had to essentially rebuild most of their infrastructure after a bit of an unpleasant disagreement back in the 1940's. The US, well, we tend to hold onto things, so we've got parts of Edison's original DC system still in place, retrofitted to AC, terracotta water pipes in some cities (I know for a fact Philadelphia still has many) for water supply, lead pipes still persisting in the water supply in some cities, etc. Total Frankensteinian systems here, bastardized to pseudomodern "standards", with tragic results at times and pretty much an attitude of "let someone else pay to upgrade things to modern standards" until they fail utterly.
So, we'll get water main breaks in 150+ year old pipes leveling parts of city blocks by undermined foundations, an electrical system that's a century and spare change old and don't get me started on our sewage systems in older cities...
And occasionally, somewhat comedic events, such as when we had a power outage in my apartment building, where half of the building remained lit, somewhat chaotically (some floors had no lights, others had half the building lit), my own apartment in the dark, but the 220 volt AC unit behaving rather oddly due to logic failures, LED night lights operated, nothing else did and really odd voltages, as the outage was due to a neutral fault from pole to building. So, the entire building of hundreds of apartments lost neutral to the pole, the neutral then completing a circuit back via ground and/or via conduction between loads from hot to hot via the 220 hots. There are videos here on youtube about "neutral fault". Can create interesting issues, to put it mildly, each circuit's hot-neutral voltage was entertainingly different in different parts of the building and well, it took me a couple of minutes to figure out the problem and call the power company about it, as it was at the pole and not the building's service lines that the apartment owned and I'd have had to explain to rather sleepy maintenance personnel what was wrong... It was fairly late and I don't sleep that many hours, rarely have. And I was bored anyway...
I suspect that the Japanese system would trip the power and protect the equipment in such a scenario. If anyone is intimately familiar with the Japanese power system and the precise protections of the main breaker, please do respond on if I'm correct. It would be quite along the philosophy of Japanese engineering, "why solve one problem when we can solve three with one solution?". I'd also be curious if arc protection is also in the standard or soon to be.
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@SeanBZA wow, who knew that a corporation is now the state!
Can I live in the state of IBM?
Now, for your penance for saying something stupid, learn the difference between income and expense. Here's a hint, if the money goes out, it's not "making money", hence paying money out is an expense. Income is fines, fees beyond expenses involving said fees and processing and taxes and maybe any federal funding.
Prisons are largely ran now by contracting companies, not the state and well, don't typically return any profit, but still operate at a loss. Because, here's a news flash for you, prison workers, clerks, guards, medical staff, etc aren't free, they are paid, have benefits and administrative costs themselves.
Does no one remaining alive still learn civics 101 and business 101 any longer?!
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@HO1ySh33t except for that whole chlorine being neutralized and removed from the water plant's output.
Used to do water purification as part of my military job. The only place one could find any chlorine residual was in field water supplies, where free chlorine at 10 times the level allowed in a swimming pool was required to prevent water borne illnesses.
And those nitrates are present naturally in many meats without any curing, that whole proteins being lousy with nitrogen and 80% of our atmosphere being nitrogen. So, if you're still upset about that fact, maybe your family should've stayed on the battlestar.
Because, in the end, Paracelsus got the right of it. The dose makes the poison. Pure oxygen is ungodly poisonous. Too much water is poisonous. Too much salt or potassium salts, poisonous. An absence of any of those, also absolutely lethal. Phosphorus, totally lethal, right? Try making a cell membrane, DNA or a bone without it. Calcium, really nasty element by itself, it'll literally burn you. Can't move a muscle - literally, without it. Used in all manner of high energy processes that sodium-potassium lack enough energy for.
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@BruceRickett-vr4tc depends on how long it's allowed to continue. Backups can be restored to computers, funding clawed back and put where it belongs again, markets eventually settle, trust eventually rebuilt (even if it takes decades to do), workers rehired and compensated, etc.
If it came to warfare, well, that took a generation and change to largely recover from... Doubt it'd get quite that severe though. With just food stamps, medicaid, medicare, Social Security and VA pensions, that's well over half of a very well armed and pissed off population.
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'He didn't fill out an application that doubles as a place mat at McDonald's", because this is the 1860's, so out of touch that they think companies still use paper applications.
"You can't define fascism", how entertaining if they actually took the insane risk to actually ask someone. Especially me, their stereotype, non-college educated and I most certainly can define fascism, communism, socialism and capitalism quite well. I did have social studies, aka civics and quite well remember my lessons from the ice age. In detail. Well enough to literally satisfy college professors.
Then, pivot to "close the border before another 9-11 comes", because so many of the hijackers came across our borders through the desert, rather than as privileged students and such by air. Oh wait, some of us remember 9-11, having fought your wars for you. I'm a dick though, I'll give you closed borders. Utterly closed borders, making sure the entire planet gives the GOP due credit for failed supply chains - again, no produce, missing meats, no car parts, no imports from China, chronic shortages of everything and pissed off starving people picking up torches and pitchforks heading directly their way.
Then, pivot yet again into mythical handlers steering opponent candidates into, whatever hand wave bullshit they're plying. Know who used handlers extensively, which is telling that one would refer to when doing one's master's bidding? The Russians. We didn't have handlers steering tons of agents, well, we had a few, but the CIA wasn't the size of an army, the KGB and GRU were army sized. The more the right speaks, the more they tell on themselves. They forgot that they have the right to remain silent, which any attorney says at the onset, is always the best idea.
"You're gonna do it anyway, when nobody can see", such a stalwart position of honor, denunciation without cause, again, out of the old Ruskie playbook. Traded in commies for Nazis, good job, traitors.
Then, segue into the strange, bizarre and unusual, log splitting. Back to the roots, perhaps, given the GOP's first candidate was Lincoln, of log splitting fame? Oh wait, no, something insane about sex changes of illegal immigrants in prison, because there's ever such a line around the universe for such services - in a galaxy far, far, far away. But, they'll be quite an impressive army, locked in prison, stooped over from groin surgery, were they not fever dreams from too many methamphetamine doses, another Nazi failing that literally cost them a war. Yeah, Hitler's command staff and himself were delusional by the end of the war because they were constantly on meth, a new drug that swept through their social circles that gave their "supermen" superhuman no sleep, along with paranoid delusions that undermined any actual sane efforts in their losing war effort. Pepperidge Farms remembers, so do we.
Then, go with the time machine gambit. "Harris broke it all", hoping nobody notices she wasn't in any office that could influence events in the way that they claim. Saw another one blaming Obama not being inside of the Oval Office on 9/11, you know, when W was President... Need a time machine to make that work, dipshit.
Then, thank veterans for their service, then try to tar and feather them if they report what they heard with their own ears. Next then comes threats of violence from their looser wrapped peers, who never question the wisdom of threatening to shoot someone good with the same class of arms out to two thirds of a mile to a mile. Their best offering, one that went after their own candidate, firing at a distance that any basic training trainee on their first week with an M16, missed by a lot and their other key brain trust, one that thought bushes naturally sprout $90 rifle barrels... Their best and brightest, easily disarmed using only basic stealth maneuvering and a frigging screw gun shooting a bolt down the muzzle. Then, sit back and watch them take themselves out.
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Honestly, I'd have answered the first question the same way. Then, pin the Senator's ears back on her response, while confirming that Biden won and I'd said as much by confirming that he was POTUS.
Second question, I'd have to answer that yes, there were irregularities, onesies and twosies that really didn't matter, save to the penal systems of a few states, who had to accommodate a very few new guests. My evidence is the handful of Republicans that are convicted and serving prison sentences for election fraud.
I'll not go on further, as I'm even more unqualified than well, any of Trump's picks and I'd not accept an offer for such a position, as I refuse to set myself up to fail and worse, fail my nation by accepting such positions.
Although, she'd really hate life when she said, "I was in Pennsylvania", as my first question would be what county she was in. Because, this Pennsylvanian didn't see her sorry ass anywhere around the capitol. Nobody I know in Philadelphia and Delaware County saw her, nor did anyone I know in York, Cumberland and Lancaster county. And interestingly, every case of election fraud in Pennsylvania, save one, were Republicans and we've cases pending for the recent election in several counties as we speak.
Unlike MAGAts, some of us do pay attention to events, people and things that are not Trump.
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Elon mentions Clinton, but oddly omits Dementia Donnie bringing his kids to child rape island.
And oddly, Carter never patronized Fantasy Island.
And following and unfollowing, got my own list of doing the same with individuals and groups, guess I am a maoist or something and the devil himself, which would be odd, given he is my best employee.
Love the USA and love means correcting when one's loved one goes astray, not abandonment or harming one's loved one.
Used that doctrine with my wife of over 41 years, more often, she used it on me to stop me.
With superior effect to my military superiors, her memory still constrains my actions and reactions.
Pavlov had short term effects, wives, longer lasting effects. ;)
Psychology types will appreciate that rarely expressed psychological humor. I'd have refined it better, but it's a royally off day. Crohn's attack of mild-ish level, weather change causing significant physical pain due to neurological compression issues that thankfully are less severe than the previous storm and nearing the third year mark of my wife's rapid and unanticipated demise.TP supplies
Compensating a bit deficiently, due to exertion and weather issues and well, 10 poop trips now, worrying me about TP supplies, being down to three rolls.
Someone one loves fucks up, one, out of love corrects them, not loving them into a well understood pathway to destruction, that ain't love, it's hatred.
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They used technetium for my testing. Likely due to it being a hair more convenient and hence, cheaper.
And that test was a hair more expensive for them than usual, as they had to switch from treadmill to chemical stress test after the treadmill was damaged trying to elevate my pulse enough for the test.
They're really going to have to get better prepared for fitter over 60 types!
Chuckle fest, resident radiologist ended up on the carpet over his report on the test. Hit the panic button unnecessarily over some mitral damage from when I had COVID, mistaking moderate for severe reflux. A hint for the actual severity, I broke the treadmill and right after the test, walked two miles to a supermarket usually out of my usual range to pick up 25 pounds of supplies not easily available locally, loaded them into my backpack, walked two miles back to ride my medical shared ride home.
And cussed myself out for a couple of days. Damned dyslexia, I'm 62, not 26... ;)
But, that lentil based fake meat loaf was worth the effort. Not vegan or vegetarian, just for a change of pace. Mild texture deficit though, next time I'll either add flax seed or more likely, oat meal for texture.
Yeah, I do medical, built a cloud chamber because I was bored, same with a scintillation radiation spectrometer (OK, a bit crude, but works and is good for parties) and cook.
And fix electronics when I'm bored, it's only physics, after all. :P
Just like chemistry is.
FOOD FIGHT!
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@johnmcclane4430 not that will unbind nicotine. Pralidoxime works for organophosphorus toxins, such as insecticides and nerve agents, but is ineffective against nicotine, as it can't bind with nicotine. Atropine can counter some of the symptoms, benzodiazepines can help with the seizures, but still can't unbind the receptors. Add in excitotoxicity and lowered oxygen, wreaking havoc in the cellular respiration chain, well, humans can be fairly evil with chemistry, but nowhere as evil as plants can. Plants have a 700 million years of practice on humanity and excel at chemical warfare between one another and animals.
It is a bit two way, as the use of nicotine recreationally, as well as a number of other phytochemicals prove and well, many of our spices either work as antimicrobials on foods or work as antiparasitics in our GI tract, as well as make foods taste good. ;)
And of course, some phytochemicals are medicinal, atropine originating from belladonna, as one appropriate example. Nicotine being present not only in tobacco leaves, but also in tomatoes, aubergines and potatoes leaves in much lower content and with other toxins to discourage herbivores from consuming them.
Worse, even dialysis or similar filtration is ineffective at removing nicotine from the blood, it's downright pernicious.
Note, I didn't go into phytochemicals commonly abused for good reason.
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@SamPoole-yj3yj frankly, I'm surprised that the lie speaker could even spell nystagmus. Even money, like the few that obviously copypasta the word (hence, the capitalization of the first letter), typically can't even pronounce the term. For the few that manage, none yet have been able to describe the three most common types. Oh, for those wondering, vertical, horizontal or torsional (basically, sort of circular motion).
The causes, well, frankly that was doctor land, I'm not a neurologist and didn't have the facilities for such patients, so it was swoop and scoop.
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It's actually entirely within the Trump playbook.
You see, bankruptcy is in common views, a failure. Trump bills it as a great success. Failed businesses, also successes since his investors lost money, but he managed to not lose his shirt.
So, defeat = victory.
It's all standard Trumpian Bizarro World logic, where everything is opposite. And if you follow the ancient comic book series, Bizarro won against Superman once, having Superman then make Bizarro World a cube, rather than the sphere it originally was.
And remember from WWII, Nazi propaganda kept proclaiming victory, even as Berlin was under assault by all of the Allied forces, right until Hitler committed suicide, I imagine unimaginably bravely so, by taking cyanide and shooting himself heroically.
And that's still a winning proposition for President Musk, while his puppet draws fire, even fatally, he's only lost a tiny amount of his fortune and little is blowing back toward him. And as well, remember that President Musk has a security army of around 20, complete with a doctor, with more available as needed. So, as I said, no risk to him in any way whatsoever, his puppet VP Trump assumes all of the risk, as does every citizen of this benighted land.
And I'm sure Trump has his own Trump Youth and Volkssturm as a final defense for President Musk and himself.
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A goodly number were plainly helicopters, for one, a great bloody dome perspex canopy being clearly visible, for a lot, the landing skids plainly illuminated and tail boom and vertical stabilizer being also plainly illuminated.
The size, I discard that "data" immediately, as it's dark, night vision and distant object size estimates are just nonsense due to the limitations of human night vision. There's nothing to offer size comparison to in the dark, hence the estimates are pretty much always wrong.
Or it's the second wave of the great Martian invasion of 1938, they just got hung up on confusing signage on a cloverleaf exchange and are just a bit late.
But, there are some drones that do have the required illumination and beacon set required. Some experimental Amazon delivery drones, which are not in the areas of reported "activity" and some military drones, which aren't being tested outside of remote and restricted military reservations.
They're not Iranian drones, as the Iranian drone carrier is quite literally what the US slang term was a "jeep carrier", merchantman converted to an escort carrier, about 1/3 of the fleet carriers of the time and oh, that Iranian "carrier" is 6400 miles away. The only thing Iran has with that kind of range is e-mail and telephone calls.
Haven't heard the KC-46, which makes no sense unless the mythical carrier is now a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier that needs refueling. A P-8 would make more sense, but know nothings will just pick some random aircraft and hand wave it into the Federation Starshit Boobyprize.
Did hear of some "sightings" in Delaware County, PA. You know, where PHL is located, as well as Boeing VERTOL, where they build Chinook helicopters and their parts at - about a half mile from where I grew up and where my kids live near, who oddly saw nothing odd in the sky beyond a few kids drones on rare *days*. Well, other than the usual flying saucers and occasional flying cups from a neighbor's domestic dispute.
I am reminded though of the panic Mom told me about in 1938, with reports even that Concrete, Washington was attacked - what actually happened was a substation transformer failed, but the town police called the wire services for unfathomable reasons.
There was quite a wrestling match between radio station personnel, management and supervisors with NYC police, who wanted to arrest the entire crew of the War of the Worlds broadcast, as apparently radio plays became illegal to the god-cops of the time, but they were overcame by the radio station personnel, the puny gods. Didn't even need a Hulk.
Idiocracy is being overly kind.
Folks, don't let anyone poke baby in the fontanelle, consider it a great public service to the future!
Sigh, I really need to take up drinking...
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I've been quite busy dissuading people from moving to adopt extreme measures to address their concerns over threats to our Republic and Constitution. I've been successful thus far, even if at times, a suggested threat of the use of the force of arms was met by a counter suggestion that the very arms used to defend this nation would be wielded against those behaving in such a lawless and harmful manner.
I believe that, should no motions made, no efforts to counter such blatant corruption not be proactively addressed, that inhibition will cease. I and my veteran peers will simply kick back into play any idiot that heads in our direction and when the smoke clears, we'll reestablish order in our own way, then re-institute our Constitution upon what remains.
Yes, they're that angry on both sides right now. And honestly, I was trying to enjoy my military retirement.
Our jurists and attorneys enjoy a highly special position of trust and are allowed to self-police their ranks. Do so, lest others take their notion of the law into their own hands and we just step out of the way. What's holding these people back is, unlike them, we know where the ordinance is stored.
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It's far from the most important bridge in the nation. It is currently the most important port obstruction on the East Coast and regionally, it's the primary hazmat route to bypass the bay tunnels. I used that bridge frequently in the military, as our convoys with fuel and high explosives weren't permitted through the tunnels. Now, all hazmat traffic, to include RV's with propane cylinders have to make an over 30 mile detour around the west side of the city.
Now, if we lost the west side of the beltway, well we're talking about interrupting the I-95 corridor at Baltimore, effectively halting the majority of north-south trade for the East Coast.
Frankly, the blocking of the port is the bigger deal, rather than the highway route being detoured. That said, once recovery begins, rebuilding the bridge does need to become a priority and I'd personally recommend 24/7/365 efforts to rebuild it ASAP. Otherwise, why bother even having an interstate transportation system?
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Given his previously proclaimed anti-apartheid and now plainly pro-apartheid commentaries, yeah, there's some oddities going on with Elon, to be generous. But, we've witnessed that even in the US with hippies going far right conservative in their dotage.
As for generational trauma, I grew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, with neighbors that had tattoos from the concentration camps. Let's say that it's a given that I've witnessed what generational trauma looks like.
OT, CRJ-900 crashed in Toronto. No fatalities reported. At least the port wing and both horizontal and vertical stabilizer are torn off, the aircraft literally on its roof.
No further specifics currently, but given the degree of damage, that's one hell of a great design in that aircraft! Aircraft can be replaced, lives cannot. Best wishes to all involved!
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A chain gun does not need an electric motor, it can be any kind of motor, hydraulic or for aircraft, where most early chain guns were used, the main propeller motor (aka, engine). The energy source is just an external motor.
Initially, the chain gun was used to both drive the action and time firing, as it's kind of embarrassing to shoot your own propeller off.
A couple of problems with a man portable chain gun is, well, blammo kinda weighs ya down - a lot of blammo, loads of testicles inside of one's socks. Then, there's the power source (I'm assuming a non-human motor here). Not a hell of a lot that one could call useful or man portable when you're up to a quarter ton at the non-starting gate. Think a can or three of blammo, plus batteries are not included.
Then, there's recoil. Something I'd do just looking at being asked to lug a quarter ton, but I'm talking weapon recoil.
You know, "Stop shooting up there, He might just start shooting back and He's a lousy shot!".
I can see them on vehicles, especially given remote weapons station equipped vehicles. Why have a weapon a crew has to exit the vehicle that's protecting them, hence it being remote, just to clear a misfeed or misfire?
The chain can be trivially replaced as they were frequently in cars with a timing chain, a cogged belt.
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@judymawhorter7301 except for one problem. The culling was in Feb 2022, this is Nov 2024 and it only takes 40 weeks to grow large enough to produce jumbo and extra large eggs, sooner for smaller grade eggs.
So, it ain't the farmers, it's profiteering, as usual.
Just like the COVID toilet paper bullshit, nobody could get music roll for their bathrooms, I had no problem, went to industrial/janitorial supply houses and got it by the case. Different supply stream, but there never really was a shortage if one simply resourced the supply stream, rather than artificially keep scarcity and prices higher.
Eggs in bulk for bakeries aren't that high, just stupidmarkets.
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DonOLD remains an epic failure, failing while flailing, turning what could be a basic meat and potatoes race into Trump Steaks.
His performance is weird because his noodles are scrambled and have long been scrambled, now dementia has cooked them softer. Soon, he'll be so far gone, he'll even be impossible to be laughed off the stage, only sadly escorted to a rubber wallpaper covered van.
At least they'll not need to worry about a bed alarm, they don't allow golf carts inside of nursing homes for dementia patients.
Still, if anyone sees him on his now only once per week low energy sojourns out, ask him how the shoe sales aren't going.
Seriously, the man's so far from reality that he couldn't even sell life preservers on the Titanic.
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Mach number is the velocity of sound.
Oddly, we still fly U2's.
Also, consider when we first built the U-2 and SR-71, our rockets mostly had a reverse gear, while Soviet rocketry was far more advanced. Obviously, both nations moved forward in regards to rocketry.
Hell, the space race, especially to the moon was basically proof that our missiles could reach anywhere we wanted to reach, complete with Carl Sagan being part of a program to detonate a nuclear warhead on the moon. Thankfully, it was observed that the moon is big, a warhead detonating in a vacuum, tiny and likely not even noticeable.
The SR-71 was constructed with titanium that was purchased from the largest producer of titanium at the time - the Soviet Union. It leaks like a sieve on the ground, so it gets only enough fuel to climb and meet a tanker aircraft, where it tanks up and gets to altitude and speed, with everything expanding and sealing up. You don't want to touch the cockpit glass, you'll be badly burned.
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So, everyone staying in an airbnb is a criminal under such a statute.
But, going back to simpler times is a good thing, so bring back smallpox and bubonic plague.
As for lewd and lascivious conduct within one's own domicile, all I have to say is, Bowers v. Hardwick.
Oh, I forgot, states outrank the federal government, which is why states have nuclear weapons and can declare war and the federal government cannot. If only we had a supremacy clause in the Constitution. Oh wait, we do.
I'd not be surprised to see states try to bring back slavery.
Given this crap is done to pander to a minority of the population, entirely against the will of the majority of the population, perhaps it's time to place all tax monies normally deducted into escrow accounts until such time as democratic function is restored to our government.
Because, that minority can't even manage to pay their state, let alone federal legislature alone.
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One small, but critical problem with your argument.
Before he could charge Biden with his mythical charges, he'd have to charge himself.
Trump negotiated the withdrawal, timing it for when Biden took office and refused to allow any planning or staging for said withdrawal.
As for treason, I royally piss them off by showing them the Constitutional definition, one unique in the world, of what treason is and explain that one cannot give aid and comfort to an enemy when one is absent an enemy, as Congress has not declared war on any nation and hence, there can be no enemy in the eyes of the law and Constitution. Regardless of what the division of hate out of the ministry of love says.
As for commies, yeah, more times than I can count, I've been denounced with the proud and well educated and thought out accusation, "your a commie". An odd take on my quite capitalistic income, which typically exceeded the speaker's sub-minimum wage income.
Marxism, there is one form of Marxism I am endeared to, Groucho Marxism. ;)
Alas, can't walk around with a cigar, does really nasty things to my blood pressure when I try to smoke the thing. Pity, I do enjoy a good cigar, just don't like the nosebleeds by the literal pint and the expansion of an aortic aneurysm.
Oh, for those unfamiliar with the US Constitution...
Constitution's Article III, Section 3, Clause 1 defines treason. Very, very narrowly and precisely, because such a charge was so heavily abused by the British Empire in its holy wars against other Christian sects.
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@lillianshaver24 so, that means that fixed wing aircraft cannot achieve a stabilized approach, since they cannot change direction due to the tracks they're riding upon.
Got ya.
Both can take evasive measures, it depends on time of warning and initiation of evasive actions and that's pre-established for which direction each aircraft turns to.
That said, the aircraft would have the maneuvering ability of an overfed cow, due to low altitude and speed, it being in a landing sequence. The helicopter would be in stable flight on its assigned course and slightly more nimble, but neither aircraft are fighter jets to begin with, so they're not going to be making any Top Gun kinds of maneuvers.
Worse, the radar shows that they first received a potential collision alert at around 1 mile distance, with a mutual closure speed of around 300 knots. That'd give them around 10 seconds to locate each other visually, as requested and queried by ATC, in the dark, in a congested environment with significant air traffic and light pollution. An environment where human depth perception is infamously poor to begin with.
Frankly, I'm more curious as to why the ATC automated systems didn't begin alerting after the fixed wing aircraft completed its last turn, as at that point, they were several miles apart.
Regardless, experience has shown that there are no single points of failure in accidents like this, but a slew of multiple factors that all line up to create the conditions of the accident. And that's most of what the NTSB is there for, to ascertain all of those factors, figure out what part they played and offer suggested measures to prevent such an event from ever occurring again.
Circling back to your comment, there is no fixed anything when a collision alert is sounded, the local flight computer takes priority over all, including ATC and standardized maneuvering is to occur once a potential collision is confirmed, as spurious alerts do occur often in congested environments.
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@timothyjackson4653 one image I've seen shows the displaced air distortion from one round. More than one round was fired. As in 8 shots, per multiple accounts. That's 8 bullets aflyin', after the first few, most likely wild and well, his marksmanship began by badly lacking, thankfully.
I averaged around a 2" group with GI ammunition on an issue M4 in the Army at that range. But, I'm also a competition shooter, the average marksman would average that or maybe 2 1/2" grouping and they'd also know, shoot fast, miss always.
End of the day, he has a boo-boo that wouldn't merit a purple heart in someone engaged with an actively firing enemy inside of a war zone and yes, he's milking it like it's a cash cow.
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@Mark-jy6xd pakka mat, chod.
Or if you prefer, bint haram bin Ibils.
Or putana su mama.
I've got a few other languages to discuss your lineage in detail.
Trakhni tvoyu mat'.
Just being polite, mind you.
And for the record and full disclosure, my medication list is a beta blocker, calcium channel blocker, thyroid blocker, a steroid, a proton pump inhibitor, magnesium oxide and oh, ran out of drugs that I'm on.
So, feel free to pull my finger.
That ain't my finger, strange man.
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@Kryptzonl meh, one of my two kids checks in typically once per week, usually by MMS message, occasionally by voice. The other rarely does. The one that does has a regular job, the other is a medical professional with variable, long hours.
So, the chances of my waking up dead and undiscovered for close to a week is moderately high, given the fact that geographically I'm at minimum of two hours of hard driving away. Don't really think I'll care once I'm dead though, never had any buddies come back and mention how good or bad being dead is and well, only living people recommended dead to me and I suspect that they've not got my best interests at heart.
I look at it this way, my wife of over 41 years died coming up on 3 years ago. When I go, I'm most likely going to be dead for a really long time, so a few days or even weeks won't really matter much in the totality of that eternity thing. And as for my remains, use them for fertilizer, it's not like I'll be using the rotten, worn out thing for much. If anyone needs to find my bones after, well, the radioisotope signature is charactistic of the atmospheric testing era and confirmed still present in a gamma camera background scan. Based upon that background gamma scan, the age is easily enough calculated.
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A bump in antibodies could be from both the number of cells signalling that they're dying and from malformed proteins making their way to the cell surface, triggering an immune response.
Let's face it, with massive irradiation of a body, all kinds of cellular malfunctions would be happening as DNA in protein forming genes is damaged and producing wrongly coded proteins. Add in T cells malfunctioning, heaven knows what antibodies could end up produced by some!
The lack of GvHd makes sense though, the host immune system was essentially destroyed, the marrow likely watery and cell free or dying cells only. But, in experimental animals, blood types were literally switched after marrow irradiation with great success, with the host acquiring a new blood type after the irradiation. Not a clue how GvHd was avoided though, unless the host thymus somehow accepted the new white cells...
Still, if things were easy, we'd not need scientists and medical professionals.
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Sounds a damned sight better than state of the art of 15 years ago, when one either had to find where a robotic mower got lost or stuck on one's property or worse, had to track down where it wandered off to off property and in some cases, was still merrily making great time while utterly lost.
Thinking of looking at a vacuum/mopping robot now, downsized to a small apartment since my wife died, probably will avoid irobot, as frankly, after incessantly fixing circle dance (cleaning sensors frequently and in one unit, having to replace the damnable things twice in the other unit), got a bad taste in my mouth that might still be residual dust...
And if the programming interface is decent enough, might program it for Cylon mode. Break in, your shoes will get cleaned extremely well, incessantly. Or maybe a few units and have a Marx Brothers defense mode, swarm around mopping around the unauthorized person... ;)
And maybe I might build a domestic bot, something to go to the bathroom for me in the middle of the night... OK, that won't work, but one could wish.
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I remember one entertaining case that was a lost opportunity for the jurist to have some fun turning a defense sideways.
A physicist was issued a citation for running a red light. He then claimed in court as a defense that at the speed he was driving, the red light appeared to be green due to blue shift.
That'd be around 0.1 - 0.2 the velocity of light in a vacuum, which would be decidedly speeding that would require a departmental hearing... ;)
Or in our measurements that mere mortals use, between 67,061,663 mph and 134,123,326 mph. The fine might be a wee bit high as well...
Instead, the judge rejected the defense and found him guilty of running the red light.
Had the jurist considered the math, well, we both know judge humor, "Are you certain that you want that to be your defense?"
Then, a choice, pay off the national debt several dozen times over or admit to running the red light and get laughed at by all present.
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OK, we've locked up everyone who has sworn an oath to uphold our laws and Constitution. What did we gain, other than to allow seditious individuals to now run free and no law enforcement around to arrest them?
Now, had you used "Patriots", the intent is properly clear that one's not demanding actual patriots arrests without charge, but pseudopatriots that proclaim patriotism, but are demanding treason.
And if you knew me personally, I don't drop the treason term lightly, treason is narrowly and precisely defined within our Constitution. Taking up arms against the nation or giving aid and comfort to an enemy. Lacking a declared war, it's a wee bit hard to have an enemy, legally speaking. Hence, why we so frequently utilize the term adversary.
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OK, show me two eyewitnesses to Trump or Musk picking up guns and shooting at federal officers to overthrow the US government. I'll wait.
Treason is the only crime that's defined in the US Constitution and it's extremely narrowly and precisely defined to avoid abuses of the charge that occurred in Europe.
Now, giving aid and comfort to the enemy, not an option, Congress has not declared war on anyone, so there is no enemy. So, we've the statute that you cannot make the charge with - the statute being no less than the US Constitution.
Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
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Entertainingly, the insurance company and bond company have the same owner and share a CEO.
A one horse carriage company, renting out four horse carriages and certifying the additional needed horses are somewhere, but don't actually exist.
Rather like Trump in business practices too, self-certifying values with nothing to support the claimed values. Which well, OK, I'll hereby certify that my iPhone SE is worth one trillion dollars. Honestly, would I lie?!
And I have a prehensile tongue and breathe through my ears, ladies. And have brown eyes for a damned good reason.
Yeah, I'd be getting some extremely stern warnings from a judge. But then, I've never suffered fools well.
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If Trump threatened to nuke, I'd call his bluff.
First, there's no way in hell he could get through page one of CONPLAN 8044, no pictures or bullet points. Additionally, his choice of SecDef would be wearing a lampshade and way too drunk to authenticate off of his code card inside his biscuit and verify that Trump was actually Trump. So, lacking both, no nukes would be able to be used, no matter how much he rails.
I started my military career in nukes, trust me, I know the authorization chain and procedures quite well. There's no magical button, it's literally a written and telephonically delivered authenticated order, using a specific format from the CONPLAN. Incorrect format being an invalid order and disregarded. No two man rule for verification or launch orders, orders are disregarded. Disregarded orders being duly logged for record of the unlawful attempts.
But, Trump ignoring campaign promises is a given, he did so last time he was in office.
Besides, he'd need permission to actually fulfill any promises he's made from President Musk, who is unlikely to authorize his VP to do anything he didn't originate an order for, having duly paid for the office he now holds and owns.
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The only problem with "vote counting computers" is, they're not networked with external access possible, so someone would have to have physical access to each vote counting location's computers, which is 67 counties, so 67 locations.
So, Elon must've been really busy, breaking into those counting offices, hacking into the computers, all unnoticed by the workers counting those votes.
Still, a claim was made, now must be investigated to see if Musk bribed a shit ton of people.
And if proven that he did, allow him to go uncharged and Trump to remain in office, because no one may dethrone a king.
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Well, let's review some of the initial objections.
Ignored, those who lived downwind of the bomb testing. Mentioned, the folks who worked at the site and service members exposed, but not the civilian population - a group still ignored today.
Most of the victim photographs and films from Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain classified today.
Civilians were most of the victims of the bombing, true, they literally were taking work home, Japan wasn't honoring the Geneva and Hague Conventions (they weren't signatories of the Conventions, but did agree to honor them at the beginning of the war and entirely didn't) and having components in their home as secondary manufactories did make them targets under the Conventions. Odd that the firebombing of Tokyo never gets mentioned, as that series of bombings killed more than both atomic bombings combined.
The Emperor himself said that the bombings were necessary to convince the warmongers to come to the peace table. I suggest that the Emperor knew his people a tad better than you or I do today.
Finally, Nagasaki got short shrift in the movie. true. OK, who was the third man to walk on the moon? Yes, it cheapens their loss, but Hollywood watches time like the proverbial hawk in running time on films and the film is about a person, not the damnable, thrice becursed bomb.
I began my military career working on nuclear missiles. For reasons beyond my comprehension, we were shown those classified images of the victims and suffice it to say, I fully support their remaining classified. People have harmed themselves after seeing those images, for they haunt many a nightmare.
And I can think of only one use for a nuclear or thermonuclear warhead - asteroid ablation to divert a decade or longer distant asteroid from earth's orbit. Beyond that, I fully support Oppenheimer's views on global disarmament of nuclear weapons. They're products of the insanity factory and have no realistic utility in a civilized world. And it'll never be able to be a civilized world with the damned things around.
And before some pinhead nitpicks over "suitcase nukes", the lightest warhead was a 60 ton yield, 70 pound dirty fission bomb, the rest weighted in at 120 pounds for 600 tons yield, then jumped rapidly to quarter ton and most weighed in at a half ton. All need a pretty bad assed suitcase to handle that weight and the Incredible Hulk to lug it around. The MADM and SADM warheads weighed in over 100 pounds, plus support components and used a duffel bag sized carrier.
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End of story, he exploited, likely unknowing, Murphy's Law. Barriers were down for maintenance, he showed up just in time.
For the religious malconversion, there's a specific set of personality defects that are present in terrorists and I've real world experience there.
Sociopathic and narcissistic being primary, schizophrenia helps, but are typically rejected by planners due to unpredictability and false triggering.
I'd go on, but the audience would grow glazed eyes.
His erratic behavior was reported by a second husband, not the wife herself, there might be bias, not a good house to stack cards on, hell, at this point the lot of "evidence" available is questionable, to put it gently.
Consistent, likely, but weak tea.
I've, as I've said, dealt with such people, both militarily and well, socially. Unpleasant, in some ways, to put it gently. But, one has to respect the culture and society or engage in hostile actions that are literally suicidal. Easier and safer to drop a JDAM on the SOB after departing and being beyond sight, as is the cultural norm in such an environment.
I've argued religion with both Christian and Muslim fundamentalists, having read both religious texts. Understanding an opponent can frequently result in the ability to convert those willing and capable to something safer for all. The others, well, as I said, military and those not "disarmed" via ideas, remained a threat that had already killed multiple civilian non-combatants, so mischief managed via high explosives.
In one case, we were able to help dig out non-combatants from the rubble of living next door, a decidedly unpleasant experience, but the villagers respected us for doing so alongside them and greatly appreciated the removal of a monster in their midst that they rightfully feared.
Still have some nightmares of that dig out, more on other experiences, but I'm dealing reasonably well overall. Although, there is some threat to the VA budget by some amateur night at the White House again...
Don't get me started on electrics, I've -45 db hearing loss, many internal combustion engine vehicles are quiet enough to be a threat at times to my deafening ass, electrics add to complexity and actually add to PTSD issues due to processing overload.
As for a life of failure... One only succeeds if one fails and recovers and learns and advances.
I've four careers under my belt at age 63, all being proficient at those careers, per evaluations. The career path failed economically, moved onward to more complex fields, from TV repair to IT security, on top of a military career.
One lead complained to our trainer once, "He keeps making mistakes", the trainer replied, "Yes, but he never repeats a mistake, he makes all new mistakes and guided in the right direction".
Said lead, also an infamous team wrecker, if things didn't go his way.
Long story there, he found more fertile grounds for his toxicity.
One odd thing reported, "They were at the same military base", that and a quarter won't get a phone call. There can be 25000 - 50000 employed and assigned on some military bases and nobody has a time frame.
If I was assigned to a base that Benedict Arnold was assigned, did we know each other?
You didn't address that, thankfully, as well as maybe a later awshit...
And oh, my differential blood pressure is quite low currently, due to a flaw in my health system's communication between patient, pharmacy and resident. So, I'm far from at my best.
There's one thing worse than aging. Not living long enough to age.
<grumble> <grumble> <grumble>...
Context, got about a half dozen medical issues that are trying to kill me, from a mitral valve blown, through AAA and more in between.
While stressed by being so poor that a church mouse stopped off to drop of crumbs.
Shared another moron's cultural and military history, but oddly refrained from renting an expensive vehicle, shooting myself and detonating a rather shittily designed bomb.
I'll stick with my glue gun, "Got a gun and know how to glue your shoes to the floor with it".
The rifles and handguns, safely inside of the safe.
They only come out on hunting season, when I can be assed enough to consider dragging a deer or competition for cash prize.
Hint, it's only competition now, when I have to calculate trajectories, wind, barometric pressure and the spin of the earth. In a way I can only suggest to being courtesy of my dyslexia.
Want to meet up?
<grumble> <grumble> <grumble>... :P
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@meferswift I can't help transliteration of whatever your native language is into American English or UK English, as I don't know your language to help transliterate.
Tradition vs reality, as old as humanity, some idiots think it's novel.
My remark was to "traditions can change", ignoring well, reality.
Set course with the unreality drive and travel to insanity!
I'l mock my own side or opposing sides, but rights are best expressed by expansion, protecting edge groups by buffer of novel protection. Do argue for rights being rationed, you'd be dead by morning in a civil war.
I do note, with alarm, Russia's pushing things, which such arguments are largely based off of, triggering a nuclear armed state.
Does Putin really want a thermonuclear war?
I'm down with that, lost my wife of over 40 years at the end of March, let's play, I'm at ground zero and know shelters and C3 nodes. That gives me a pocket full of quarters!
Let's play. I go for farmland and transportation, secondary communication.
In person, I'm a nice guy. In combat, I'm a monster. Get over it, I did, as did my wife of over 40 years.
She's dead, I'm adapting poorly, let's play. I'm less than a mile from ground zero of a nuke.
Let's Putin and cobalt-60 the fucking things!
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@richardhauer7354 hmm, do you mean like the Irish blight? The citrus greening pandemic? The Cavendish Panama Disease pandemic?
Oh, it's spelled wheat, not wheet. Just a bit of help, English is a royal pain that I honestly believe is a weapon of psychological warfare...
With monoculture in place, the vulnerability is increased for any pathogen to wreak havoc over time, whereas with multiculture, assuming proper planning occurs, disparate crops prevent the easy spread of disease between fields. Better to lose one field than one province or state, let alone primary cultivar of a food.
Not that I consume much of citrus or banana, getting vitamin C more from other food sources and potassium from a wider assortment of fruits.
Which reminds me, gotta hit the store soon. Down to one white yam and canned goods. And the decision of green beans or asparagus with my leftover ham and mashed potatoes for dinner... Overstuffed on spinach the last two days and I was sure I had another can of beets, but seem to only have pickled beets left. Probably use those for dessert... :)
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@vinvinvichii do you really want us to name every industrialized nation on this planet, save the US? Seriously? You can ask any service member that's deployed to a friendly nation, they'll all give that same response!
Of course, then the moron brigade will go on about how "they're all communists", never comprehending that monarchies in their list by definition cannot be communist, as communists don't have royalty and especially kings and queens.
And two idiots above can't tell what fascism is or a religion is, one not realizing that he's insulted Christianity by definition, as Jesus was a Jew - he sure didn't worship himself. Fascism being hypernationalistic, state control in a way much akin to communism, but with an industrial elite running business. I know fascism well enough, as we've a strong family tradition of ending fascists.
Probably out of shame, as the capitalists didn't get a chance to end Mussolini, the communists got to him before we could...
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@alanmcentee9457 so, the government restricts the practice of religion then, directly against the desires stated by the founders. And the government supports repression of an enumerated right under Article I, Section 8.
Very well, the Constitution is null and void, as is the government in its entirety, lacking any foundation for authority.
One's religion may not suborn the rights of another, beyond that, the government is to leave one alone with one's religion. That is the case law. In feeding the hungry, homeless or not, one is both obeying certain religions requirements and supporting Article I, Section 8, Clause 2. A community attempting to nullify that is irrelevant and a matter settled via a civil war.
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@alanmcentee9457 how fascinating it is that for the first part, you stop and ignore the remainder, particularly the general welfare of the US, which previously was defined as We The People. Yet, when examining the second amendment, you parse the final part.
It's as if you cherrypick what you want, ignore the remainder and just pervert that perversion into some odd damned fiction that meets reality in absolutely no imaginable way.
Here's a hint, ever heard of a section 8 discharge from the military? Section 8 housing? All entitlements under section 8, entitlements being a fancy word for rights.
The entirety of Section 8:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;–And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
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Immediately after my gallbladder was removed, I experienced around 9 months of lactose intolerance. Medically speaking, it made no sense, as lactase is produced in the intestine, nowhere near the gallbladder.
I also quite enjoy milk, especially in my coffee, which I still drink a fair amount of. So, at the time, all of the current milk alternatives were quite expensive and goat milk was stocked by my local stupidmarket. So, I quite enjoyed the goat milk.
Oddly, the indigestion I get from 4% cow milk wasn't present in the much higher fat goat milk, yet another case of, the body, have to live in it, ain't got to figure the infernal thing out.
Eventually, the lactose intolerance passed and I was able to switch back to the much lower priced 1% or grudgingly, 2% cow's milk and butter again. But, on occasion, I'll cheat a bit and grab some goat milk.
I've also got a case of quart Mason jars full of pasta sauce, pressure canned with goat meat. Something I do remind goats that I occasionally meet of, should they grow a bit mischievous and rammy.
Largely, as my cousin could've used your advice in not getting a goat, for pretty much every reason that you gave. And I'd had the dubious wisdom of getting to eye level with the goat once and it rammed me straight in the forehead.
Until the day she died, my wife swore that the goat's eyes crossed. I was a trifle preoccupied with exclaiming "Ow!" and rubbing a rather sore forehead, looked up and noticed the goat wobbling a fair bit, with its legs crossed as it sat on the ground. Sicilian-Americans do have a well earned reputation for being quite hard headed.
The goat rammed my cousin in the thigh about a month later, giving her a dinner saucer sized deep bruise, never did learn who got the goat after that.
Yeah, I'll leave the goat rearing to you and your peers.
Laughably, I'm quite certain that the goat was just being playful and didn't anticipate that I'd be quite as massive in comparison.
But, ever since, I have taken to remind goats that I'm an omnivore... ;)
Not that they understand me.
I'll stick to raising dogs, who I'll train to verbal directional commands and a few useful tasks, as they train me to walk and exercise with them. They've advised me that I'm highly trainable. Something that my wife agreed with over the course of 41 years.
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I have fun with the "The King James Bible is the literal word of God". I ask, "as spoken?". When routinely answered, "absolutely!", I exclaim, "No wonder there was so much trouble back then! Why, Middle English hadn't been invented yet and most of the folks Jesus spoke to only spoke Aramaic and early Hebrew!".
Eyes typically cross, then the excuses flow like the waters of a raging flood.
The bible, thrice mis-transliterated, from transliterated sources. As a hint, there is no Hebrew word for either unicorn or dragon. Oddly, they're in the bible.
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@amandalewis3898 UK uses an odd admixture of measurements, with a fair amount of metric, some UK Imperial and for heaven's sake, still using the English Imperial Stone measure for weight?! ;)
At least, the last time I was there, that was the custom and granted, it's a bit over a decade since.
I'd hear my friends discuss their weight in stone, distance markers to cities in miles or kilometers, pick up a kilogram of luncheon meat (yeah, I enjoy sandwiches and meat in my omelettes) and I've still no idea what is being said in Wales or Liverpool.
Oddly, explaining the US governmental and legal systems became substantially easier after a few hours in the pub. I suspect that's due to the fact that's precisely where both were originally designed.
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First, before I'd run out and play in that traffic, I'd grab the map and figure out the general bearing of the ridge, gaps and how far the ridge extends for.
Losing visual reference and lift source, begin compass and altitude loss guided serpentine course and choose an altitude of safe egress, hopeully it'd be in the right direction to not taste the mountain. Go 30 -45 degree relative to what inertial course at loss of reference view would bring me and that relative magnetic couse is the way to hopefully egress.
Call it the Helen Kellar maneuver.
As an instructor, unless I was comfortable in entering those conditions with my entire family, I'd not allow a student that degree of risk. There are a lo of less negatively loaded dice to choose from!
A GPS map device in the instructor's lap would also mitigate the exceptional risk.
But then, I have gotten lost ib the woods once. After, I learned how to navigate on time traveled, bearing and sparse observations of landmarks using a map and compass only. And can accurately call out a ten digit grid accurately.
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First, a Tweet or Xhit does not an executive order make.
Second, if autopen were disqualifying, we're going to have to return the entirety of the Louisiana Purchase to France, which is literally both our most productive farmland and around 1/3 of the country, as Jefferson signed most documents by polygraph, an early version of autopen.
Finally, pardons have even been granted by telephone, which was contested in court and won - the telephoning president being Trump.
And just which president was given a Montreal cognitive assessment again? Oh yeah, Trump and physicians don't perform those in a vacuum, they perform them when they suspect disease is present.
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Well, when that didn't happen and in quite a few cases, OK, many cases, things were stable. But, there were exceptions, one being Syria, where al Assad brought in Palestinians in favor of Syrians, which started a lot of the frictions that built eventually into civil war.
And once his outside support crumbled, well, he's a wee bit north shivering now.
Hopefully, Syria will pull it off and get back to modern stability again. Nice enough folks, not as friendly as Lebanese, occasional attitude issues, but what can one expect from a people with such small olives?
I'll just get my coat on the way out...
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Oh, the tariffs will help Detroit, after all, a $49k car costing $198960 would stimulate car sales and profits, as parts cross the border a half dozen times during processing. Just tighten your belts as new US factories are built over the course of a decade.
I'm sure that the kids won't mind waiting a decade between meals as they freeze on the streets.
Oh, the judges are all being unfair. Used to hear from the kids how the teachers were all being unfair, just because they didn't do their homework.
It was uglier than what you said, Musk had referenced the condom bullshit earlier, spurring her question.
Now, a proper answer, "You're absolutely right, I really screwed the pooch on that one and do keep my heels to the fire when I screw up - Americans need accurate answers, not wrong answers". Not, "Oh well, I fucked it up and who gives a flying fuck?".
Oh well, someone go down into the White House basement and thank the Biden in the Basement for the sabotaging of the god-king and Emperor Musk.
Although, shouldn't Big Balls have caught that sabotage for Emperor Musk? Guess those balls aren't eyeballs or associated with testosterone. The sheep wonder why he has cowboy boots...
Hegseth, so that's what he looks like without the lampshade? Thank Mr Chamberlain for his contribution again, if it's all the same to him and even if it's not, I'm unwilling to try WWIII on for size.
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@rumls4drinkin well, find my last garage, you'd have to drive through my house and well, I don't think I'd want your pizza.
I had numbers on light under the door and on the mailbox and curb.
Oh, oddlty, never had a mythical problem in delivery.
Amywhere in the continental United States.
Well, save once, when a neighbor 100 yards away had a misdelivery and I got his yummy crabs and I got an announcement of my delivery.
Knowing that, waited for someone seeking and confused, he confirmed information on the receipt and well, transferred our dinner.
Called it q day.
Did note a crab source for a dinner, as that's a thing for me.
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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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"If these are the best lawyers..."
Well, nearly every other attorney that's defended the god-king wannabe has ended up disbarred, in prison or both.
So, the field is wide open, want the job? Yeah, didn't think so, I've had a few rare attorneys that weren't exactly the sharpest tool in the box, indeed I wondered that they both acquired a law degree and passed the bar, but even they wouldn't touch anything Trump with a stick the width of the planet Jupiter.
But this one, it reminds me of a scene from Braveheart. William Wallace and his army facing the Royal army, the Irish prince beside him saying, "The almighty wanted me to tell you, he can get me out of this mess, but he's pretty sure you're fucked".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWgsdexkv18
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@cybrthret no, many are aircraft at a distance, their navigation/landing lights oversaturating the camera CCD, but no, it's really Martians invading again and they killed us all and we're actually dead.
So, obviously since we're dead, it's time to panic.
Most of the videos I've seen so far are airplanes and helicopters, eventually coming into focus and the red and green beacons become apparent, tail stabilizers with logos on them, landing skids on helicopters and in one case, a bubble canopy on a helicopter plainly visible. Totally, a flying saucer, because flying saucers and drones have FAA beacons, logos and rotors or jet engines.
Amazingly, none have pointed at a satellite yet.
Hell, I've even read one idiot proclaim that birds aren't real and not realizing that that "movement" is a satire on their idiocy.
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@namenotfound8747 they toyed with a half dozen names when testing it. It was to be a DMR with full automatic capability and well, it's been expanded a bit beyond that, largely to be well and truly rid of the direct impingement mistake Stoner made.
The problem with the SAW is, well, it's a SAW. Great when new, lousy when used and well, worn out. I literally danced a drink can at 100 meters (I'm still mystified as to whatinhell a soda can was doing downrange on a US Army range) with a brand new SAW. Old ones, I danced for joy in not having to lug the damned thing.
As for logistics, lose logistics, what are you going to do, shoot dirty looks at the enemy?
Besides, for most of our nation's history, the Army was job security for the USMC. Marines would come in and take the land, Big Army would move in, set up a nice sexy fire base, give it back to the enemy so that the Marines could come back and take it again. Otherwise, the Marines would run out of things to break and take and be out of a job!
Yeah, I fucked with everybody, even my own branch.
Including reminding buddies who were ever so impressed with our Strykers that nobody else had, it's really a LAV 3. ;)
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@namenotfound8747 never had anyone complain my uniform was dirty, just after a day out with scouts getting asked why my uniform wasn't pressed and starched.
He wasn't exceptionally happy about his career outlook when I turned around and he saw I was two grades superior to him.
And your weapons were a wee bit better in quality. Nice custom shop pistols, tighter group capable rifles, why, it's almost as if the Corps expected you guys to actually hit your targets, rather than do what we did - make a shit ton of noise and behave as if we were static displays when engaging.
Oh well, we promoted quickly, not based upon competency, but PT scores, so fire and maneuver tended to be beyond the capabilities of thought in many leaders.
"Like, flank them with the gun, keeping them occupied and approach from here, here and here."
"But, the gun isn't in that position."
"If only it was on a vehicle that could move..."
"They could engage it!"
"It's armored, braintrust! And our rich and retarded Uncle has plenty more that look just like it. Now, move the goddamned vehicle, engage them before they bury us and that isn't a fucking request!"
Covered in Kevlar, got more fire support than God and afraid to move at times.
Peacetime fucks infantry up - always. Took months to get them to actually stop being pretty and capable of breaking shit again. Got in country and they fought like REMFs for far too long. If my uncles had fought like that in WWII, there wouldn't be a synagogue next door to my apartment today and a different flag!
And be completely united in loathing our political leadership - oh wait, that's a constant throughout human history, disregard. ;)
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Nope, not a scandal at all. It's literally a nothingburger.
Literally, the SecDef got a SCIF installed inside of his home, which he's entitled to. Frankly, they're such a huge pain in the scrotal contents, I'd move heaven and earth to avoid having one inflicted upon me, but his choice. Oliver North had one inside of his home when he was in Reagan's White House.
EmCOAT. Literally RF shielding paint for a SCIF. The $1k door, a secure door that's also required for a SCIF. Then, there's the X-10 locks for the door and the safe for the encryption devices, figure abour $1500 - $2500 each, depending upon the lock style needed.
Yeah, I've some familiarity with the infernal places. Full TEMPEST compliant wiring, sealed conduits, shielded cables and a fair bit more.
And enough of a scrotal contents pain that I'd never want one inside of my house. Whatever it is, it can wait until I get into the office.
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Save for that whole refit time at dock or dry dock, when a beam could degrade the warheads.
The theory expressed here is shortsighted, as they consider only massive reactions to hopefully fizzle a warhead, but one could beam at much lower intensities and degrade the highly pure weapons grade plutonium or uranium core to a level that, even if used, the weapon would fizzle or even entirely fail to detonate beyond the initiating high explosives yield. The only way to detect it, a neutrino detector at the weapons sites or to physically test all weapons cores on a highly frequent basis that they're still weapons grade.
And no need for James Bond crap, everyone knows where everyone else's warheads are stored, where the bombs and missiles are stored, that's ancient news from the Cold War and hell, part of various treaties for verification purposes. Hell, we used to allow Russian surveillance aircraft to overfly our nuclear weapons sites for treaty verification purposes, then Trump came along and derailed that treaty.
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Yeah, show me how to clear Joe Sixpack off the street for a Yankee White clearance in minutes to hours, I'll wait.
Welcome to the real world, where security matters, even for blithering idiots that made it this far into the election. Both Harris and he get full POTUS level security, which means nobody in proximity without a Yankee White clearance.
I doubt I'd get one, as it's well known that I loathe the man and well, having a more useful clearance, won't lie or conceal that fact. But, I'd also discourage anyone for putting me in for that clearance, they don't make enough money to have me want to work at that level environment. I was always more a field ops guy.
And since I've identified a government affiliation, I cannot endorse a specific candidate. So, everyone, vote for *somebody*.
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Lasers move at the speed of light for a reason, the L in laser is light. Coherent light, all waves fully in phase, which helps keep the beam from expanding excessively, as all photons are moving in the same direction and phase once they leave the laser output mirror. The laser is invisible because it's infrared, which the human eye cannot see. In theory, one could use an x-ray laser or UV laser and they'd be more efficient - outside of the atmosphere. The oxygen in the atmosphere doesn't like high energy photons, like x-rays and UV-C band light and ionizes, blocking propagation by blooming the beam, scattering it to hell and gone. So, x-ray lasers and UV lasers, largely would be confined to space, where ballistic missile and spacecraft threats could be intercepted.
Masers are also of potential usage, but IR is more energetic, so why go to a lower energy microwave photon?
For a rail gun, even Chuck Norris would be vaporized while trying to catch the slug. The biggest problem they've had is massive slide erosion, plus the capacitor bank is the size of a small village. OK, not really village size, it takes a industrial building sized generator and capacitor and cooling bank, the capacitor bank the size of a large heavy weight moving dump truck. Conductors that go to the rails are around as thick around as your arm, many times they're hollow, as the center of any conductor won't carry a current at all, due to magnetic effects and repulsion that electrons have for one another.
I have some ideas for the rail gun erosion problem and the rail price would essentially be three times higher. Still, well worth the price, given that that projectile would literally blow clean through a WWII dreadnought class battleship.
Plus, the railgun would still have a bank of capacitors on a ship, the old ammunition magazine spaces.
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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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@NikoBellaKhouf2 not Hashemites, who are basically part of the source of the indigenous peoples of the Levant, Jews were a branching at Abraham, the rest from Ishmael. That's readily apparent when one consults their names proper pronunciation in Aramaic.
The Europeans managed to bollocks things up after the holocaust during WWII and rather than plan and incrementally assist migration, allowed mass, uncontrolled migration that turned into a debacle and two groups creating a new sport - killing each other.
But then, I've lived in the region for a number of years, what would I know?
Those who speak like they're of bint haram know far, far better.
Today, you're stuck with each other, like it or not, neither is going to manage to get rid of the other.
And today, there's been a bit of an advance, despite Trump's worst efforts, when both sides patted him on the top of the head and sent him back to bed while the adults speak.
Maybe one theory of mine is correct after all, you both need a common enemy.
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Representative Van Drew would hate my interviewing him, he'd feed me that Iranian drone mothership nonsense, I'd be inviting him to urinate into a cup to see precisely what he was stoned on.
Iran and New Jersey are just a few miles apart, 6400 miles and change.
While we ignore Lakehurst NAS R&D labs, some R&D labs near Monmouth, etc. And the fact that helicarriers are a comic book thing, not present here in the real world.
Oh, Representative, MegaMaid is also a work of fiction.
There is such a thing as the USS Boobyprize, here's a mirror.
Man must've gotten his brain from Temu.
Damn, I really need to take up drinking...
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There are 55 earthquakes per day on earth, that's over 20000 per year, God's sure sending a hell of a lot of messages! Not Morse code, must be moron code if MTG is deciphering them.
Wait! My computer decrypted the messages! "MTG is my edition of 'dumb blonde jokes', sorry for the Dad jokes". And that, of course is a lie. There's no Godly earthquake code, eclipses were scheduled by the earth, sun, moon and giant planets right after the moon formed in orbit and MTG was, will and shall always remain an idiot, welcome to the short version of some fundamental laws of the universe.
Damn, dumber than a bag of hammers. But, at least she's as sharp as a bag of wet mice.
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Sorry, it is consistent, just as when he had COVID and nothing was released...
There is imagery of his injury at the time, it is consistent with a graze injury to the top outer ear lobe. In military EMS terms, we'd refer to it as a boo-boo. As in, if in time of war a soldier was similarly wounded, that service member might not even be awarded a purple heart.
That said, the last time I looked and I do intensely dislike uncovering my mirrors, as replacing melted mirrors gets expensive, ears are part of the head. And in Trump, any head wound is only a flesh wound.
It was and remains a boo-boo, with a gigantic bandage that is only worn during public speaking engagements, probably for two months to properly milk that cow dry.
So, what you've got here isn't a gotya, it's really a nothingburger, being examined minutely while he's swimming in various other felonies that he now has a divine right to commit. I thank the SCOTUS for giving me the lowest level of contempt for the entirety of their branch.
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Oh, I've plenty to say about New York state, the raccoons are murder at Fort Drum, the weather's a bit colder than I prefer and I loathe cities in general, the rest of the state, well, from Pennsylvania, so got plenty of pretty much the same and the entertainment of Pennsyltuckey on one side, Amish on the other.
You know, idiots on one side, good furniture and excellent manual hand tools on the other.
Being in the middle, would that make me an idiot with a hand tool?
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During basic training, way back in '82, I needed to use the forward assist incessantly to close the bolt against sand.
That said, the weapons, like all of our weapons at Fort Dix back then were worn the hell out.
Got to my units over the decades, rarely needed to use the thing. Not never, but rarely. Most of the time, just jarring the weapon allowed the bolt to slide forward into battery.
As for the decision, let's face it, which generation ordered the specification for a forward assist? The generation that used those M1 Garand rifles when they were brand new during WWII. The WWI veterans had tried to order them bolt action rifles, rather than those new fangled Garand rifles.
Let's suffice it, some of the more senior personnel in charge of such programs, well, not exactly optimal for the task at hand. Need I mention the mark 14 torpedo? The modification of the powder bags for the Iowa that cost a turret crew their lives? We're just lucky that the M16 didn't come with a T&E, since it had automatic... ;)
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Concrete, which both tarmac and asphalt paving are a form of is a substance, upon which one walks upon its surface. Well, save when it's being installed... ;)
But, if I'm walking across a wooden bridge, I'm still walking upon the surface of the substance known of as wood.
And yes, both are concrete, just that the portland cement or lime plaster got replaced with either tar or bitumen as the cement binder for the aggregate.
And the video only scratched the surface. Plastics recycled into aggregate, assorted other substances being experimented with as well and common today, recycled rubber from old tires being used in the aggregate, providing some flexibility, but more importantly, improved traction. Even such basic technologies evolve for greater durability, expanded utility and enhanced usability.
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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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How entertaining, "The Dogefather", actually admitting to his view that he holds a royal title of king of kings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(title)
As I've said, he's literate. An idiot, but a literate idiot.
I say, as many as can, buy a gallon of pine tar and some chicken feathers. Might need them to help remove that wide streak of yellow down Congressional backs.
Just remember, before application, it does have to be properly boiling and a whitewash brush is recommended for application.
Some traditions never should have been abandoned.
For the rest, just pick a day together, stay home on a nationwide general strike until our own government is forced to surrender to the people who are their lawful superiors.
Assembled, he could just lie, as he's done before and proclaim an incident free peaceful assembly is an insurrection and declare martial law.
Home, well, it'd make an interesting case of insurrection inside of one's own living room. Even more fascinating if the accusation was made when one's enjoying one's own bedroom.
Not that the government ever had and most certainly no longer has any chance of knocking on each and every striking citizen's door to compel them to report to their private sector employment and shop at our stores.
Especially, given we've now witnessed what happens when sedition is met with silence.
Stay home, let corporate America, in fear of bankruptcy, pressure those they bought and paid for via "campaign contributions" do their damned duty as they swore an oath to.
And have each governor prepare articles of secession for their legislatures, dated to Julian date 2460767.208333.
The date on the calendar saying it all, but the humorless idiots won't have a clue and respond to nothingness.
After all, Musk shouldn't be the only one allowed to go for a literary pwn.
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As near as I can tell, the Constitution is unconstitutional, save if Congress legalizes it, at least for provisions and amendments and until legalized for each provision, is not in force.
So, what happens if Congress repeals legislation authorizing a Supreme Court? Is it then null and void? If Congress repeals all legislation regarding the POTUS, is that office then null and void? If the first amendment had no legislation, we can have only authorized assembly, press, religion and speech?
And apparently, if one state swings the vote for POTUS, that is evil - for the first time in US history. Guess we'll have to toss that state's electors votes out, along with that state from the Union or something equally absurd.
Or wait for the decision, which is as often in divergence from the questioning as it is along the course of said questioning.
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It is decidedly odd, saw a different report that also claimed adverse weather, but interestingly, no adverse winds, which makes about as much sense as reporting the aircraft landing in a vacuum. That same report also blathered something about a bird stuck inside of a wing. I've heard of wing impacts, damaged control surfaces, but never, ever a wing penetration and hampering of flight controls.
That report also claimed that the aircraft had performed a missed approach, then declared a mayday for lost engine approach, authorizing a reciprocal approach and landing any runway and direction.
Perhaps coming in single engine and a subsequent failure of the remaining engine during TOGA and no APU to provide hydraulic power, save they had remaining hydraulics enough to have the aircraft under control. But, that could explain the configuration and excess speed.
Everything is a head scratcher on this one, way too many things have to align the holes in the cheese and the media distorting reports via incomprehension hampers rational analysis.
So, we're stuck with conflicting and/or nonsensical reporting until an investigation is completed, as usual.
Well, at least no media outlet is proclaiming the phantom New Jersey drones caused it, being only slightly farther from the Iranian jeep carrier...
As for the wall, it's an absurdity that's also an obscenity, the only thing missing is including a minefield! I'm sure that an excuse will be that the war is only in an armistice, not ended or something along those lines. Because a tiny wall is a major defensive structure in some imaginary realm.*
*I'm retired military and a veteran, suffice it to say, that's in distilled sarcasm mode. Especially given the apparent construction of a double rebar, which implies high test concrete wall that may as well been solid steel.
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@AlanKelly-nm9lx so, all organophosphates are bad?
Think on that very, very carefully.
Because cell membranes are organophosphates, specifically phospholipid membranes. DNA is also an organophosphate.
So, in that simple statement, you're saying that every cell in the world is poisonous. Guess we're safer then eating rocks?
Now, a couple of things to remember. First, from Paracelsus, "The dose makes the poison". Oxygen is poisonous in high concentrations and indeed, increase the pressure and concentration and you'll swiftly do that dead thing. It's one of the biggies in limitations on how deep divers can go.
Too much water is lethal as well, upsetting the electrolyte balance that's necessary or cellular respiration.
Some spices are literal nerve agents, similar in action to nerve gas. Tasty though in their diluted form we enjoy as a spice!
And some things, such as well, insecticides that are commonly utilized are very literally derived from nerve agents, they're acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, which leave acetylcholine bound to the receptor in nerve cells, leaving the cell turned on. Humans would suffocate with a lethal dosage, insects tend to starve to death, paralyzed.
Yet, the Orkin guy came in, sprayed my apartment and somehow, I didn't end up on the floor doing the Funky Chicken. Oh yeah, the dose makes the poison. Big assed me can dilute any traces that I'm exposed to of that far less than 1% solution, bugs can't manage that dilution factor and they do that dead thing.
And Mom taught me, wash your produce to get the insecticide off of the produce, even though it's usually washed coming in from the fields.
Now, for glyphosate, another phosphorus containing herbicide, it blocks the shikimate pathway in plants, bacteria, archaea, fungi, algae and some protozoans, but not mammals or well, vertebrates or even insects. So, are you a microorganism or a plant?
No? Then it's not toxic to you unless you get a dose high enough to drown in the shit.
I've used it for weed control on concrete, in my garden, I use barrier crops that are toxic to pest insects and some that actually tend to repel pest insects, but that's a home garden plot, not a big assed farm that feeds tens of thousands of people.
Heard the same bullshit arguments about fertilizers years ago, they old water as well as a colander.
Now, want to argue about Monsanto's saving seeds for planting next year prohibition for farmers, yeah, that's just beyond wrong.
But, spreading fear and misinformation, that's just as wrong.
It's as bad as the bullshit that soybeans turn men into women, which ignores the fact that humans have been eating soybeans for quite a few thousands of years and obviously everyone didn't turn into a woman. That took an Executive Order's tortured illogic and poor language to accomplish, the ink on that drivel might just be dry by now... ;)
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Interesting tap dancing around what is and is not obstruction, entirely missing intent and proof of mens rea. One can argue until the sun goes out, one has to prove a guilty mind in intending obstruction to support an obstruction charge. Specifically, not obstruction of a public highway, but intent to obstruct an official governmental function in specific.
Otherwise, you create the example asked in the title, equating being shackled seated to block a public highway being precisely equal with assault, battery, forcible entry, burglary, theft, ransacking the capitol and threatening the murder and unseating of one's government, so that legally blocking a road is sedition. Which, frankly is the dumbest goddamned thing I've ever heard in my life. Fortunately, not precisely what was said, but will likely be interpreted that way anyway to support their god-emperor wannabe.
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Well, eggs are way up because bird flu obliterated entire warehouse sized henhouses of chickens.
But, one upside, at the rate DonOLD is going, he's gonna lay enough eggs to supply the entire planet twice over.
Maybe then, I'll not have eggs so old that they literally explode...
As for housing, that boat's long sailed. Owned a house some years back, deployed to some war thingie, redeployed home to find it empty, stripped of every inch of copper, walls torn out and windows left open. Fuckers even stole the water heater.
I let the city have what was left, as costs to repair at cost of just materials was greater than a new house and it was fully paid off.
Rented since, save for a brief period when I was homeless after my wife of over 41 years died.
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Oh, the cheat nonsense is alive and well, you've obviously not been actually looking to see it going on on various news commentaries pages.
The biggest bit being a misapprehension that "called" the race being some official thing, which it isn't, per even your own content description describing how "AP has called...", largely in response to state counts not being officially announced for senate and house races, but of course were "called" by various media sources and pollsters. Not a lick of whom have official standing to actually make such an announcement on an official governmental basis, as counts and mandatory recounts are ongoing on some tight races.
And with the GOP, that which matters most is, as long as there is even one vote against their candidate, it's cheating.
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Wasn't only his nephew, Alex Azar reported the statement as well.
He stopped just shy of Aktion T4, Hitler's start just prior to his Final Solution, where the elderly, mentally ill, mentally challenged, disabled were all rounded up from care homes, hospitals and private homes and literally gassed in carbon monoxide vans in the street.
Yep, a real treat, trying to bring WWII back. Along with all of the atrocities and crimes against humanity.
The beast, who was wounded in the head by the sword and did not die. Cursing in church, profaning and blaspheming daily, but the damned calling him the Chosen One. Yeah, the beast was chosen, but not by the Almighty.
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We had one better example. One of the ramp supervisors was struck by a spooling down propeller, right in the face.
He managed to recover and well, became the greatest proponent for safety that there was. Any who would be inclined to argue just needed one look at him to be quelled.
A fan can only do far more damage before it fails in milliseconds.
Now, we have two cases in two airlines, one in Alabama, the other in Texas, in six months.
I'm not thinking it's time for a stand down and safety reexamination - yet. A third within the year, I'd seriously consider it, economic damage be damned.
Bad enough to lose workers and have damaged engines, but the risk of an uncontained failure increases with the mass impinging upon the fan and turbine blades. Back when Piedmont was still independent, I worked the ramp and we had fuel pods, one with motor gasoline, the other jet-A substituting for diesel. Uncontained debris puncturing one of those would spill and atomize that fuel around running equipment, risking a substantial part of the terminal and all aircraft at the gate.
Add in psychological harm to pax who witnessed the accident and its aftermath, something needs to be done to ensure compliance with safety standards.
Yes, there is time pressure to get the aircraft serviced, but a fatal accident only delays all by far more than waiting for the damned things to be spooled down, the beacons extinguished and the ground crew waved in.
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@a.deadgirl I dunno, I'm more of a function over form guy myself, so what someone or something looks like isn't as relevant as what someone or something operates like.
So, that my physician at the hospital having body builder muscles wasn't of relevance to me, that she had a clue how to keep the treatment team of cardiologist, pneumonologist and endocrinologist working together to get me breathing well again was the priority, not hair style or lifting technique (actually, the muscle build is more of an orthopedic surgeon's build). Went in breathing around 60 breaths per minute, due to mild pneumonia, left stable, breathing room air comfortably and while still dropping weight, now I'm dropping about a pound per week, rather than ten pounds per week and that'll taper off as the thyroid is wrangled the rest of the way under control.
Just as well from my seat, as I dealt with plumbing, structural and infectious diseases in my military career, dealing with things that aren't plumbing was and remains well above my pay grade.
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I was just mentioning Dr Karen Wetterhahn in another comment. At the time, it was presumed that the latex gloves she wore would be effective protection and alas, they were not.
Two compounds are pretty much the penultimate in evil, dimethylmercury and chlorine trifluoride. I'll happily work and play with either or both, as long as they remain on a different continent than I am.
The one, even a single drop is lethal for, the other is so much better an oxidizer than oxygen is, it'll not only burn ashes, it'll burn glass, sand, concrete, water and any soul coming into contact with it.
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"I think everybody gets that test", yeah, nope.
Didn't get that until my Army over 50 physicals. Even then, they'd only notice enlargement and well, aggressive cancers move... Aggressively, as in fast, spread wide, think nasty, then think nastier than a Trump diaper. The diaper being stage 33 1/3...
Mark, well... Biden Under the Bed and all.
Or maybe he thinks Biden's the shadow president and the Shadow World Destroyer will come if he summons it, because of chewing too many lead paint chips as a child.
The reality is, they want to scream BIDEN BIDEN BIDEN BIDEN BIDEN, all while they're cutting food stamps and medicaid for their constituents that are largely MAGA.
Then, when caught, likely they'll still try to blame Biden, rather than Tyrant Trump, the god-king of gods and man, worshiped by all, long may he wane.
Come on, ya knew I was gonna stick a missile up that one's tailpipe, didn't ya?
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Farmers are going to do better because he's tariffing aluminum and steel? Oh, I know, he means the aluminum and steel farmers, whose products can be acquired in any supermarket's refrigerated section, right next to the apples.
The cities are laying on their sides? Must be those Chinese gravitic drives from Harry Potter's magical wooden marital aid.
Oh what the hell, someone ask him about our super dooper missile again.
BRICS is dead because he god-king pronounced it so and the universe must change according to the will of the god-king. Have him call the Rocky Mountains to kneel before him.
Which confuses me, with such godly powers, how does he have such a problem with a Biden in the Basement undermining his godliness and immense godly impotence, I mean omnipotence, no I was right the first time?
Interesting and telling, he cites only one person about the G7 that 'agreed with me', someone that's deceased. And oddly never stated any such agreement verbally or in writing. More voices from within his empty head?
Crimea and Ukraine and Trump and I dunno, he got stuck in tanglefoot on that one, didn't quite complete a circle, just a frigging tangle of Obama and Bush and rambling, I mean 'the weave' of a dementia driven confabulation or maybe a covfefe.
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To be honest, Trump has revolutionized one specialty of medicine. Never before, in the history of humanity, has one man done so much, so thoroughly and comprehensively, as to advance the medical treatment of self-inflicted gunshot wounds to his own feet.
For, he's never learned the first rule of court: DON'T PISS OFF THE JUDGE, thereby shooting himself in the foot - repeatedly, in multiple courtrooms, in multiple levels of federal and state courtrooms.
Then, blaming everyone else for the holes in his bone spurred feet.
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@ConfiscatedZyra ah, Laws by Ronco! For a limited time only, this can be yours!
Then, you wake up and join the real world, where that is bullshit.
First, the statute of limitations expired for the assault, leaving only damages and libel, both of which he was convicted on and has to pay for. The criminal charges never could be filed, but the judge ruled that the assault was proven.
No change of laws required. The damages award part was expanded, not for some mythical limited time only by Ronco, but expanding the time farther, as laws can be changed to fit the time. Why, we even changed laws and now allow wimmin to vote, ding dang it!
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You missed a lot on the Nazi eugenics program, 375000 forcibly sterilized began the program.
Then, "Those unworthy of life", which was the elderly incapable of work, disabled, disfigured, mentally ill, social misfits and mentally disadvantaged were first denied food and water, then when that was too slow, the hard acid phenol was injected, causing massive muscle contractions, then nervous system collapse. When that was too slow, they moved to carbon monoxide trucks to gas patients in care facilities at the curbside. Over a quarter million were murdered in Aktion T4.
Then, he moved to the death camps.
And in paranoid moments, I consider the mysterious cybertruck federal contract...
Easy to evade those though, cybertrucks are pure pavement princesses. Go into any kind of rough road and terrain, it'll get stuck like Chuck.
As for deporting citizens, one isn't deporting them, they're exiling them. Already by Constitution unconstitutional, without due process, again neutralizing habeas corpus, the body of law, hence utterly lawless and literally placing the Constitution in abeyance.
And to reinforce fear, now arresting judges and threatening all levels of public officials for "obstructing government officials".
And an EO authorizing the tyrant god-king to command local police forces.
Two words come to mind, well two sets of two words.
Batshit crazy.
Civil war.
Looks like one condition being present, the other seems to be what he desires. I suspect, based upon comments when the film first was released, that Trump watched part of the film Civil War, but obviously missed how it ended.
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@jakehutchison5761 odd, just did a Google search for "UK income tax rate".
Band Taxable income Tax rate
Personal Allowance Up to £12,570 0%
Basic rate £12,571 to £50,270 20%
Higher rate £50,271 to £125,140 40%
Additional rate over £125,140 45%
Maybe that's that New New Math, where 45 is greater than 60.
Denmark has no allowance and a 14% higher tax rate standing at 42%.
Canada: Federal income tax rates in 2023 range from 15% to 33%. Ontario income tax rates in 2023 range from 5.05% to 13.16%.
Why, it's almost as if you are lying, rather than just not telling anything truthful.
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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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It's BoA, good for taking, never paying.
Upside is, FDIC insures the CD, so one can get the federal government involved. Although, by now federal investigators and BoA executives are on a first name basis...
Our eldest had a problem with BoA during their robo-signing scandal. They were making moves to foreclose, despite her honest efforts to remain current, usual BS delay tactics. I contacted the VP of the bank directly, which quite shocked them at my even finding a direct contact method.
A hint: Never piss of an information security professional. We've learned every trick in the book and a few tricks not in the books to find out information and utilize it, as we have to defend against such things.
Long and short, they began dealing in good faith again, nary a problem since.
Which saved me a trip and some time infiltrating their building and knocking on an office door... One of my fortes, infiltration. I don't fight often, but I'll admit to fighting dirty.
In my initial contact, confirming the office physical address and suite number, in that specific case.
And the last thing in the world that an executive wants to hear inside of their own office is, "You've been served" and a packet dropped on his or her desk. Phase 2 being initiating a PR nightmare campaign. Investors really hate those kinds of things and they're quite timid creatures, rendering executives quite timid as well.
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I agree, the more rapidly engaged with precision by small fire teams that are appropriately armed, the greater the impact that they will have.
If a full on WWII blitz style attack were met that way, they'd have been immobilized and chopped to ribbons in days at a division to army level! As the Finns taught the Russians during the Winter War. Catch them in the woods, where their already restricted vision is heavily limited, nail their iron coffins shut with them inside, welded with their own fuel and munitions.
For a column, find a pinch point, where terrain keeps them on the road, pop lead and trail, take your time with the rest.
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Whatever are you talking about? Mass deportation worked - at getting crops to rot in the fields unpicked. Meat shortages, as the slaughterhouses were raided and shut down with not enough employees, the animals euthanized and disposed of as they couldn't feed them.
And Trump is a godly god-emperor wannabe, worshiping himself. I'm amazed he didn't issue a decree when he was in office requiring church steeples to have a giant Trump sign made of gold installed.
And he's as godly, in a Christian way as well, nothing, living the antithesis of everything Christ spoke of. Indeed, he actually made public comments that the Almighty was a sap for allowing his kid to be killed and went on about how he'd never have allowed that.
I met him at a Chamber of Commerce do back around 2000, where he was a guest of honor. All subjects of conversation had to be about him, he was flush bragging about his several year old "success" in filing for bankruptcy for his casinos, which in a room full of business owners, generated Guinness level numbers of eyerolls, total boor of the party. The following year, there was a 95% attrition for that event. At least then, when he spoke, the sentences were cogent. Not what we see at his campaign rallies today, where word salad is served up about his incessantly losing court cases. A hint for Donnie, "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time".
Still, he is a champion shot, never before has anyone scored so high in the NRA foot shooting competition!
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@soup31314 OK, the US is being invaded. POTUS can't declare war, so he sits by idly waiting for Congress to come back into session and declare war and authorize hostilities. Great idea!
The Big One hits California, the state is in ruins and burning, but the POTUS doesn't have the money or authority to send in help, see the above example of waiting for congress to come back into session to act.
Those are emergencies and POTUS is authorized by law to issue emergency orders, as well as executive orders necessary in order to run the country in general.
A real world example, beyond the GWOT, was FDR, who sent help to Pearl Harbor, despite not having the money issued by Congress to do so, but then asked Congress to declare war and authorize the funding of his response.
Now, in this case, it's a copyright law case and like it or not, copyright law is a real thing and copyright law treaties are ratified treaties, to which the Constitution states simply, "Ratified treaties are the law of the land", making ratified treaties subservient only to the Constitution itself, which is ultimate in authority.
The judge issued a default judgement, as the defendants didn't appear before the court and issued relief to the plaintiffs. I strongly suspect that the reporting is in error, as SDNY does not speak for the nation, as there are many, many other districts and 11 circuits. So, an order to remove the .com registration goes to Verisign, who owns that top level domain, who ignores the order, as they're under the 4th circuit, Eastern District of Virginia. For the .tv address, the people of the sovereign nation of Tuvulu would simply laugh and shake their heads in confusion over how a US district court could order another nation around without a means of enforcement and just go about their daily lives, as I highly doubt that the US Navy would even want to bother finding that island and enforce a court order that would be legally an unlawful order.
ISP's in my home Commonwealth of Pennsylvania would simply circular file the order, as we're under the 3rd circuit, Central District of Pennsylvania and hence, not under the jurisdiction of SDNY. They could order their personnel to blackhole the domain, save that that violates an international treaty on the internet, would require them to acquire a blackhole server, pay someone to configure and install it, then pay someone to block that domain and hope like hell it doesn't block all traffic, destroying their business and hence, unenforceable.
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@matrix-teknologies one can typically find the quality of an argument just in how it's laid out. In this case, de facto is two words, not Defacto, which isn't a word in any language. If you get that wrong, then go into a rant, you really lack any point, otherwise you'd provide an example.
Qualified immunity has existed for a long time, specifically, since 1967 and limited immunity to qualified, rather than absolute immunity or sovereign immunity. Immunity was needed in order to perform one's duties, but qualifying it limited it to certain conditions and specifications that can be removed for cause by a court of law.
Oh, for the record, you obviously fail to even understand the most elementary of concepts. De facto means "in fact/by deed", it has a partner called de jure, meaning "by law" and decidedly does not suggest "in theory" or a capricious act by a court, but a policy for a specified reason that permits the operation of both law enforcement, government agents, agencies of the government and the courts, lest all be tied up incessantly with litigation because they performed their duties as assigned to them by law, but could also be stripped if they abuse their position of trust.
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The standard was the problem. Surviving three consecutive hits from a 7.52x51 NATO AP round to the same location. Worse, the Dragonskin plates migrated under normal field conditions, due to adhesive failure at higher temperatures.
Hence, when it was hot and nasty, which is the nicest description one can give to summertime conditions in most of Iraq and Afghanistan, the ceramic plating would start to slide down inside of the vest, removing the protection. If it took a hit and hadn't come loose yet, it did after a hit, leaving that area unprotected for subsequent hits.
That wasn't a problem with SAPI plates (which had their own problems, necessitating a recall and replacement with ESAPI plates).
Of course, we all want that which doesn't exist, a vest that stops at least up to .50 BMG AP/whatever, weighs as much as a single ply MRE toilet paper sheet, breathes like a t-shirt.. :/
Alas, currently, all are made of one form or another of unobtainium - the engineering catchall for shit that is currently far outside of our technological capabilities. Like transparent aluminum was, until aluminium oxynitride was discovered.
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@majermike true, you can convert between units, but as an example, 32 psi comes out to 4608 psf, whereas 30 psi comes out to 4320 psf, a bit of a loss of precision. Of course, that's a bigger deal in large structures, compared to single family dwelling sized structures, doesn't account for gusts and going into resonance effects, therein lies the pathway to migraines.
I'm only glad what I had to keep upright was that way until we launched the rocket, but that was only as a hobby. Although, if it collapsed after ignition, well, more interesting things can happen than a collapse.
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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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With no due respect, a regional rail train having a problem, currently appearing to be due to a malfunction on the train itself or it's a magical fire that followed the train for over a mile, isn't the moron's problem or fault.
Do try to stay focused and not blaming the wind and rain on him, given he's got plenty of felonies he can take credit for.
Such as that wonderful Corps of Engineers effort in washing away a crop and soil, which will magic a fire hundreds of miles away due to Harry Potter's wooden marital aid or something.
And Christmas is because of him, he is the Virgin Mary, whose difficulties in early life are well documented, as it's tough to be breast fed by one's father.
And he's gotta make concepts of plans to have a concept of a plan for his pogrom, emulating the Czars of old, murdering entire ethnic groups that don't run fast enough.
And get rid of anything that helps US interests, then act surprised when terrorist recruitment goes way up.
And he's rescinded the Constitution, he's gotta be building up a powerful thirst!
And he's been Trumpy winning in court, Trump win after Trump win, which mere mortals would call having epic losses of the most Pyrrhic kind, but he'll not pay for those bills anyway.
And Comer just admitted to dereliction of duty, when he claimed that these agencies had no oversight and his branch is the oversight for those agencies, boy I'd hate to be his defense attorney, given such a propensity to confess! And a fascinating Trump style redefinition of transparent, calling opaque transparent. Honestly, he'd have tried to say that to me, I'd have wrapped my cane around his head a few times.
And Flood, sure thing, cut what keeps me alive, I'm sure Iran and North Korea would love to learn how to design and assemble a compact fusion warhead that can fit in the trunk of a car or one of their missiles. Since classified things are no longer of importance and are marketable. I'm sure they'd also love to know where the current Congressional bunker is in case of nuclear emergency is, as well as the communication node locations for it. After all, my pain is your pain, come and get it!
You might want to ask President Musk for a copy of my classified 201 file sections first.
Now, an interesting question on the fake buyout is, could that be construed, in conjunction with the threat of summary termination, as a fundamental breach of their employment contract with the US government? If so, it's fully recoverable and with punitive damages. But, it's nice to know that misappropriation is no longer a felony, stealing is now federally legal, people!
Mr Lau seems to have missed the Musk/Trump message, food is to be made illegal and has to be either destroyed or taxed into a range that's inaccessible to the populace, thereby generating civil unrest that can justify martial law. It worked ever so well in France, just ask King Louis and Marie, although they're probably a bit hoarse after their experience with the National Razor.
Thinking outside the box, from inside of the rubber room, I'm ever so comforted.
Oh well, maybe he'll send some of his thugs in my direction, I'll be happy to store their ordinance for them as I eat their lunch. I always do enjoy light entertainment.
Might take a trip if that happened, say kick Ravenrock's extension cord out. Only needs a dozen or so manholes to have an odd accident with an appropriate solvent that's commonly available.
Oh yeah, never worked inside the box, so I really don't know what the box is from inside, but I do know its boundaries and constraints. You'd be playing with Briar Rabbit's briar patch, which isn't a good idea. My home literally defends itself and the best place to find me is behind you, picking your pocket of interesting things and oops, sorry about detuning your radio.
Now, excuse me, I have to put away groceries. Donnie know groceries, they come out of pumps and apples, from the refrigerated section. Had to top off some shelves, as with winter storms, well, I'm lazy, so it was only about 200 - 250 pounds of them, most shelf stable, some delicacies are frozen though. Was only a four mile stroll across some annoyingly irregular terrain. And President Musk can trivially even confirm the purchases and my residence.
On an upside note, I am looking for a low priced, but decent dry white wine for a reduction sauce for clams in an olive oil based white sauce and my local state store employees don't know a white wine from a red. Suggestions are welcome. Uptown Harrisburg is a bit of a confusing market for me when seeking quality wines sufficient for both table and cooking for a casual meal. Every damned wine I saw was unacceptably sweet or fruity.
I'll be having a chat with their union rep, that location's employees need some actual training!
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@DrinkyMcBeer forgery perfected in the alleged complaint, especially if said complaint was fictitious.
An originating document contained an allegation that did not exist, but had a legal signature enough to list the innocent man.
Bad contact information sworn and attested to as valid is perjury by the attorney.
Identity theft involves more than mere finances. I'm aware of one attempted identity theft that involved national security information, I guess national secrets are now money?
As for defamation, that's the least of it, as it opens the victim up to potential hate crimes against him and his family.
Which actually opens an uglier book, the potential for terrorism. That's well within my purview, as I operated in counterterrorism. Investigate, find target, eliminate target. Call it a day, get a signed national security letter after.
I'm a really nice, forgoing kind of guy in person, but beneath is a monster built and raised to defend an entire nation. To keep peace, we have laws and customs that are not disobeyed.
When such are disobeyed, there's lawlessness and the SCOTUS has openly invited lawlessness repeatedly as it stands and that needs to be rapidly addressed, less the nation entirely descend into lawlessness.
And I happen to be quite find of law and order, peace and quiet and things that transcend that, not very fond of, save if it's children being children.
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Your apology is accepted, backhanded and knuckles and all.
They'll heal in around six weeks of immobilization, just don't coat hanger under the cast.
One problem I've noticed amongst my peers and well, elders back during the ice age is fear. People grow fearful with age and hence seek authoritarianism. The worse were the peacenicks of my youth, those flowers soured with age.
I'm also an odd bird, still a Boomer, not quite blooming if one is outside of the bathroom, but am an IT guru and IT security nazi from hell and oh, old SF type with a couple of damnable wars under my belt that I'm happy enough with to keep them away from others.
And well, not joking all that much about a cast, my head is legendary for its robustness, as were Mom still alive, could attest to. Commanders spoke of my not requiring a Kevlar helmet for two reasons, one being legendary for retaining consciousness when all others were unconscious and my legendary stubbornness that withstood strict scrutiny.
I am a walking, talking war and wars start and end in the mind. And one cannot defeat that which does not exist.
I'll just get my coat... ;)
Yeah, I pick on everyone, even myself and well, that's easy, low hanging fruit and all.
Now, please excuse me, gotta go remind some big balls that a dick hangs above and has to urinate...
We'll start with a nice, fine IT audit, both for access and data integrity. That'll tie the kid up until Social Security kicks in for Mr Pistachio.
I really do love scaring INCEL types straight.
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Well, if the first amendment is deemed illegal, then it follows also that the universe was constructed by an unlicensed engineer and needs to be razed, the engineer that built it charged and punished.
Just to follow their illogic.
But, to follow legal logic, if the first amendment is illegal, court orders are illegal, so is their own authority, as the Constitution is the wellspring from which all laws in the US originate. Therefore, they are illegal and have no authority whatsoever.
Now, where did I put that militia again? Aw poop, I left them in my other pants and they went through the dryer and shrank...
I have an entire pallet of sarcasm meters for those now in need for a replacement.
Although, at the rate that some southern states keep using the Bill of Rights as toilet paper, I may well deplete that supply quickly...
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Ironically, a likely misstatement is quite literally true. He defended this nation in war on more than one occasion, he defended the nation from war on many more, advising against military actions that were ill advised. Every CJTF has. It's rarely mentioned, then in passing, as it's expected.
Because, when generals suggest that war is ill advised, only a fool will not listen. Because, there is decades of experience present in such officers and decades of education in our National War College and their education is not in the fine arts.
But hey, what's this retired US Army NCO know about such things, Mr Twinkie Encrusted Couch obviously will know far more about things military.
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Retired military veteran here. Trump's been undermining our courts authority since the first case brought against him, he'll continue to illustrate our white wealth two tier justice system until it collapses or is corrected.
He'll eventually get himself locked up, likely when property seizure begins and he calls for violence clearly against a state and county government, perfecting sedition.
Because, at the end of the day, it's a loud and threatening minority armed with AK's and AR's vs mk-19's, MLRS, HIMARS, howitzers, gunships, bombers, tanks, fast attack aircraft, while the infantry enjoy the fireworks display and the FIST teams guide each group. That's less than no contest.
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@alhoonxor on a steroid now, just as I was when I got COVID, which was blunted by the vaccine, so only had mitral valve damage. Now, on the steroid due to recently being diagnosed with Crohn's disease.
Downside being, now I've gone at age 63 from pre-diabetic to diabetic while on the steroids. Start my biological to wrangle the immune dysfunction that's causing Crohn's at the end of the week and the research suggests the steroid and biological together speed remission slightly and recovery significantly and rapidly.
And my immune system lends strength to flagging oxen.
And once the biological initiation is done, the steroid will be tapered off and I'll go back to pissing off every one of my paternal cousins and remaining aunts and uncles, as by they reach mid 30's to 40 at the latest, they're universally diabetic. I've only recently reached pre-diabetic. All because I eat a balanced diet, rarely eat heavily processed foods, keep my weight under control and stay physically and mentally active.
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@alexturnbackthearmy1907 nobody uses HF as rocket fuel or, more accurately, as an oxidizer. Just as nobody uses chlorine trifluoride for a rocket oxidizer, which would be incredibly efficient, save for it turning rockets and their oxidizer storage facilities into toxic bombs from hell. The latter being so nasty, even the Nazis left it alone.
But, is in use in cleaning nuclear reactors, as it dissolves uranium into uranium hexafluoride, which is the input feed in nuclear fuel processing.
HF remains in use in etching glass though, as well as in industrial paint strippers and other highly specialized industrial chemicals and remains highly hazardous. And it's a byproduct of Halon type fire extinguisher usage after the agent is superheated in a fire. Major incidents in the latter were in Afghanistan, where several mine resistant vehicles were attacked by RPG directly into their fire suppression system, resulting in significant crew losses and a major medical debacle on the ground.
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One problem with the scenario.
The US and Russia retain the lion's share of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, currently capped at 3000 or so each. China has hundreds of warheads, not thousands, wisely choosing to retain a minimum necessary to ensure deterrence.
Given that military targets take six or more warheads to neutralize, that's not leaving a lot of anything to strike civilian population centers. The economic havoc would still be significant, but the death toll from warheads and current cleaner bombs fallout is minimal.
Basically, any major exchange is putting the exchanging powers at the bottom rung of global power, due to the military and economic attrition.
The worst of the fallout, assuming a few ground bursts, a few days, the next worse two weeks and as noted, Hiroshima and Nagasaki rapidly recovered.
Basically, the weapons are far more trouble than they're worth.
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Ah, Putin threatens missiles, Rocket Man with his super duper missile threatens someone else with his limp heat seeking moisture missile. Given his drug habit, even money that little blue pill won't fix his rickety rocket.
And the chances of his actually successfully unlawfully ordering an invasion and declaring unlawfully war against Mexico is one of three: Slim chance, fat chance, no chance, as Milley himself suggested, that whole oath we all take on joining the military is to our laws and Constitution, not Caesar and his mighty word salad.
Shoot Patriot antiaircraft missiles at drug labs? Talk about clueless!
Not to mention, no POTUS may declare war any more than he can declare himself God. Though, I'm sure that Trump is certain that he can declare both at the same time.
And his go-to of "there's a caravan" is beyond tired, even amongst his faithful, as the last one turned out to be one Dodgy caravan that barely ran with a single family inside, the previous a few hundred women and children. Guess those diapers were loaded, they were so dangerous. Looked great on international TV when a certain Texan governor strung razor wire illegally on the border, which states are not authorized to access, when infants were hanging from the razor wire quite dead. God and country, burn the babies once they're forced to be born, in Jesus' mercy.
Sigh: Gonna be an interesting four years, all with a choice of Vance or keeping a raving lunatic with dementia and a bad drug habit in the Offal Office. I estimate it even money he'll nuke our sanctuary cities. Oh wait, that'd also be an unlawful order and ignored.
Might get a military wide mutiny though, not sure what kind of government we'd have then, but a junta would be assured. I'm sure Russia would love a Russia hating military junta in charge of our nukes, with the shade of LeMay hanging over all to advise them... As long as one American man and one American woman survive, we've won.
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Even money, they looked at the evidence and remarked, "Shit happens".
Then, photographed it, logged it and disposed of it, as I'm aware of no court that would want that evidence, ahem, preserved.
Although, it's entertaining to consider a supreme court reviewing such, ahem, preserved evidence...
Alas, by the time it'd reach them, it'd have composted.
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Most of the MAGAts obey and listen to the words of their betters and take that as gospel. In religion, to exclusion of actually reading their religious texts that are frequently misquoted by omitting inconvenient things in favor of prosperity gospel and in politics, whatever the flashy showman has to wave around.
With Trump, I used to say a "straight Libarace", but given the Arnold Palmer shower thing, YMCA and the entire fellatio of a microphone, well, DADT, don't really care when he finally comes out of the closet, although President Musk might become upset with such a distraction...
It may take a while, but rest assured, those knuckles are in the package of compliments for some. :P
And I'm equal opportunity, I pick on everyone, even myself. Though, the latter is rare, as the low hanging fruit is rarely worth it, compared to the higher hanging fruit, as the low hanging fruit was passed for a good reason.
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Heh, steam gauges. Yep, EMP is rather serious, both local or if it's a major hit above the thermosphere, where it's far nastier.
Animal sourced fertilizer, I'm gonna have to steal that one.
I am a tiny bit surprised at the 8 - 10 requirement, it was previously a half dozen.
Wiring, that's largely fiber now. Can't discuss that further at all.
Or booze bottles found inside of an aircraft under construction.
Boeing is doing Boeing, it's looking out for its own interests, rather than previous prestige.
And I anticipate a change of course, post door blowing off impacting, well, prestige.
See excrement striking primary impeller...
And right alongside uncontained fan failure.
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Outbreak in Florida from spas and "botox parties", apparently, the "botox is tainted", which given the symptoms, likely is illegally imported bootleg botox that was massively underdiluted.
Meanwhile, I've taken to canning vegetables in half pint jars for individual servings, as the small packages are priced nearly the same as a full sized can and a full sized can would be wasted. But, knowing the bacterial conditions, I use a pressure cooker to prepare the jarred veggies and well, double the pressure cooking time to ensure full sanitization, then monitor a the lot, if one fails out of a batch, I'll be waiting and watching closely, if two or more fail, the lot is getting tossed, the jars and lids blasted in the pressure cooker after bleaching, then reused.
If I'm to be paralyzed, it'll be from paralytic shellfish poisoning and given how far inland that I am, that just isn't gonna happen. ;)
Although, I have enjoyed some potatoes that started to green, I removed the slightly greened sections and toss the rest as they soften and toxins are accumulating.
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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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Worse, apparently, DOGEfuck decided to purge their records, so that personal contact data wasn't available for the employees to be easily recalled.
Allegedly, the majority have been called back to work, although no confirmation was available that said workers had received their "recall notice".
So, even money, to be able to claim that they successfully recalled the fired employees, they re-enabled their accounts and now everyone has a text message, e-mail and voicemail on their government phone's mailboxes that are inside of a box in the IT department that also has no employees.
I don't now why, but for some reason, my mind's eye sees some wayward plutonium cores rolling around, with polonium trigger spheres rolling nearby and someone's cat batting them around a Texan apartment...
After all, the plutonium core is only the size of a grapefruit, the polonium trigger the size of a golf ball. and both as hollow as Emperor Musk's head.
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I said it was a propaganda ploy on day one. First, the MIRV warheads were all over the map, but embarrassingly close to one another as well.
If they're close together, if they were nuclear, they'd have destroyed one another. All over the map, well, they didn't have explosives, they were test warheads and the CEP for the missile MIRV bus was rated for 90 - 250 meters, meaning that's how far off target they can hit, that'd be a fairly heavy explosives load to actually damage any real target and the dummy warheads that did strike buildings in an old rocket factory struck warehouses and pretty much only punched holes in the roofs. No fires, no collapsed warehouses and warehouses aren't exactly militarily hardened things.
So, it was an OMG, we're gonna have to call in a roofer! Eeeeekkkkkkkkkk!!!
Meanwhile, if they'd used nukes, most of their warheads would've suffered fratricide from the first detonating warheads, fallout drifting into Poland would've triggered Article 5 and Russia would have its own wonderful glow.
And as a psyop, it was a failure, as it revealed their disinformation dissemination chains. That's like carrying a concealed firearm, then donning a frigging tee shirt that proudly states that you are carrying a concealed firearm and has great big fucking arrows pointing out where the firearm is concealed at.
Or being a spy and wearing a hat saying that you're a spy.
Nope, they took a test missile, lucked out in getting a couple to actually work for a change, launched their IRBM, called it initially an ICBM and it wasn't, dumped empty weighted warheads onto the area of a target and entirely missed the target, but managed to kill a kid inside of a civilian home. They simultaneously revealed their disinformation chains and discredited their own disinformation chains.
That's right up there with foot shooting - using a howitzer.
How do you follow that up? Nuke oneself?
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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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@pudgeboyardee32 it is rather interesting and distinctive though. When with our forces, he was twice wounded quite severely, once in each leg, resulting in one leg being much shorter than the other.
But oddly, when he was with the British forces, he received not so much as a scratch.
Given the range of muskets and their lack of accuracy at range, one ponders just where those shots may have originated, which would speak to his quality as an officer.
Something more likely and actually probably, compared to your screed of suppositions, postulates and odd reading compared to well, actual recorded history of both sides.
And his court martial was ostensibly for doing what the other officers were doing, but in reality, it was because he got caught profiteering, rather than keeping a lower profile with a restive and divided populace.
A bit of trivia. George Washington had minimal to no pay during the revolution, instead being compensated with an expense account for the duration of the war. His income, rather higher than his British counterparts.
After the Constitution was ratified and he was to become our first president, he offered to do so without salary, only a similar expense account. Congress gave a collective shudder, remembering said infamous expense account and rapidly assigned him a salary.
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@mattgayda2840 a lot of that is due to military training. Previously, it was as you said, which was an absurdity in the middle of a gun battle to begin with and the training was previously, "use a tourniquet, the limb is lost". Later, a physician was at a military EMS conference and that was being promulgated and he questioned that "conventional wisdom", as orthopedic surgeons have a tourniquet applied for 8 - 16 hours of reconstructive surgery without loss of function. Long story short, the tourniquet guidance was reconsidered and between combat necessities and the availability of rapid evacuation, it became basically tourniquet first and evacuate.
Which reduced both limb and life losses by well over 60%.
But, you are spot on on correctly applying the thing. Although, I'd be quite challenged to manage to interrupt venous return and retaining arterial flow even intentionally misapplying one, but that's likely due to my instinctively avoiding such locations and simply moving up or down as appropriate for the anatomy.
The problem here is the officer is trained to seek offense, rather than consider medical as well and seek medical guidance and treatment. Hell, I'm surprised she didn't try to administer narcan. I've heard of a few of those on MI induced codes...
And I'm retired military EMS.
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This is precisely where such thinking lead us before, with significant numbers of lost lives, including in our militias.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_nativist_riots
Had the right to steal a public fixture, in Philly, a cannon from the port defense installation, then used to bombard a Roman Catholic church, convent/hospital and school. When militia was mobilized, they murdered several soldiers, then the angry commanding general ordered his artillery to surround them, ordering the crowd to return the stolen cannon, then return home or he'd open fire. Weeks of soldiers patrolling the very cradle of our nation's streets with fixed bayonets.
And the Constitution and laws weren't new, it was 1844. The Nativists eventually took over the nation's primary conservative party, the Whig Party, driving off sane members, who formed the Republican Party. The Republican Party's first candidate for POTUS being a relative unknown, some Abraham Lincoln guy.
The Whig Party evaporated with the civil war.
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Caffeine withdrawal, aka, migraine from hell - literally. Only, it's a global one, rather than just one or two blood vessels involved.
Yeah, been there, done that, although I don't get the nausea with caffeine withdrawal, just the headache and fuzzy feeling, muddled thinking, etc.
Thanks to COVID damage (mitral valve regurgitation and some conduction issues), I had to cut way down on my coffee. Literally going from a full 12 cup pot of coffee per day to 3 cups per day, otherwise I ended up throwing enough PVC's to toy with v-tach. That took about a year to finally largely resolve, although the valve leak is one that isn't going to resolve.
I'll be getting signed up for a full body transplant soon, my only problem is that they keep trying to pawn off one with a brain in it. ;)
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@chrisspellman8545 he's certainly undermining the faith and credit in his state's board of medical licensing.
Note the specific words used, they're Constitutionally and regulatorily important. Article 4, Section 1 of the US Constitution important as to state laws and state licensing and when faith and credit are strained, a barrier to interstate commerce exists.
That's the beginning of a case against his medical license, then one goes for his Commission in the Armed Forces, where he's actively and seditiously undermining the faith and trust of subordinates in their Commander in Chief. Sedition being a capital offense for members of the Armed Forces. Undermining the faith and trust in the command structure, grounds for revocation of his commission and hence, pension.
Not that we can trust the admiralty to do the right thing for a change, they've always been infamous for covering for one another. Leaving Big Navy to eventually end up with a dozen eggs on its face after vessels playing bumper cars, submarines slamming into mountains, guns blowing up and dozens of sailors killed in those events and admirals covering for one another in every case, prompting some Congressional interest and in at least one case, a Congressional threat to defund that entire branch until they complied with Congressional will.
Kind of hard to run a supercarrier task group with a budget of $1.98 for the year...
Knowledge is power.
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I tend to naturally do the Rice Krispies snap, crackle and pop as a matter of course.
And haven't been able to hold a stethoscope with my fingers for decades, due to crepitus being thunderously loud. Gotta palm it.
The price I pay for skipping lube and oil changes...
I started out with hypermobility of a moderate degree. Occasionally, my fingers will actually lock in a hyperextended position, where the adductors cannot bend the joint, as it's beyond what's considered the normal range of motion, so any pulling slightly adducts them. Annoying, I actually have to do some maneuvers to release things enough for the joint to function properly, either some maneuvers to lower the leverage or manually bring the joint where it can function again. After all, joints, especially fingers are levers and pulleys that are actuated by muscles. So, a finger with its second joint bent past a critical point won't be able to return to a normal position unassisted.
Downside of hypermobility with age, lowered mobility and increased injury rates, when one's accustomed hypermobility fails. :/
No worries though, I'm signed up for a full body transplant. Alas, they keep trying to pawn one off on me with a brain...
Oh, cavitation bubbles usually don't pop, then implode and a bit of trivia, frequently will actually emit a flash of light. They're still trying to explain the flash of light.
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I'm reminded of an old strategy against our government, one originating back when I was just preparing to graduate from high school, which effectively did announce its intentions via lobbylist Grover Norquist's words, "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
Trump is doing his level best to accomplish both goals in one fell swoop, leaving only a monarchy that he's stuck sharing with Emperor Musk, who bought and paid for that Oval Office.
With each and every step deliberately designed to circumvent the entirety of our Constitution, leaving no branch unsavaged, until only an Imperial Office shall remain, with two madmen at the helm and a nation and economy in ruin, a population that's starving and homeless and entirely forgetting that said populace just so happens to be the most heavily armed populace in the history of humanity and that as proved in 1789 in France, a starving population, when confronted by indifference on the part of their rulers, tends to react in a manner deleterious to the health and welfare of said ruler and their supporters.
And this "honeymoon" ending abruptly with, "Let them eat brioche" (the actual alleged quote, cake being even farther out of reach than that rich bread that was already beyond the reach of those rising up in rage and hunger). And being defended by Chariles I's infamous attempted defense against a charge of treason against England, was, "the King can do no wrong". The king was promptly decapitated.
Thus, accounting for two European kings in as many generations.
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@grindcoreninja6527 that's OK, my stash is on encrypted drives that use crypto that the NSA approves of and can't easily crack.
And I keep a Downloads folder called "Dick Picks", got Nixon, Cheney, Van Dyke and a few others faces in that one. Hey, go through my hard drive, you'll get a few life lessons on minding one's own business. Pathology reports, autopsy reports, all manner of medical imagery, most of which will decidedly put one off one's meals for a protracted period. Plus assorted physics documents, which glaze the eyes of any reviewer.
Oddly, an Egyptian Islamic scholar said it best. "When you see your neighbor do something that is wrong, if he rejects your correction advice, walk away and say, 'God knows better than I what you are doing' and go in peace". Why can't Christians take such sage advice? Forcing compliance upon others is not faithfulness, it is the rejection of the Almighty's gift of free will and hence, itself a sin for more severe than the one one is attempting to prevent.
On to lighter matters. Just moved apartments recently, along the way, some items were lost, including the charger for my drill. Now, I can neither drill, nor screw. Gotta get me a new charger pronto!
Need to hang a few things, like my cane holder and a fruit basket.
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And here's the fun part, which branch enforces a confinement order by the courts again?
Mr President, we want your agents to arrest you, will you be kind enough to direct them to do so?
Now, civil contempt has better teeth, although I'm uncertain how the levying of fines would work without Executive Branch involvement.
Frankly, the risk of a very literal civil war is increasing by the day, especially when the rule of law is being openly flaunted and Congress has effectively abdicated.
And taking his crayons out to scribble through an amendment he doesn't like, based upon the most ludicrous argument I've ever heard in my life, beyond obscene.
If said aliens are not subject to our jurisdiction, they could not be detained or arrested, let alone be deported. I'm pretty sure that's covered in week one of law school.
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@ivok9846 there are areas in which AI excels, such as photographic analysis - especially in astronomy. Then, there's the other form of AI, Artificial Idiocy from LLM's, which confabulate a response when a search returns a result, but the result gets delayed for some reason. I don't use their preferred term hallucinate, because it is indeed confabulation of the sort one sees in dementia patients, for that very same reason - a memory recall error occurs, so the brain invents out of whole cloth a memory that seems plausible to the patient.
Worse, the AI has absolutely no clue what it is speaking about or even that it is indeed speaking at all, it's literally a Chinese Room problem by its very design, with no expert systems involved to vet its own output. There are copious examples of ChatGTP inventing case law, as one example, citing nonexistent research papers and more, rendering any output beyond untrustworthy. Yet, idiots abound who will use and trust the AI's output.
Not quite even a tempest in a teapot, more like an attempted tempest in a tepid teapot, but can't actually work up any steam.
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Date of first use came in handy for networks where mandatory baselining was practiced, after X time the machine had to be formatted and reimaged.
A line of script confirmed it was allowed on the network. :)
Another winner was mandatory reboots, per network policy and leveraging uptime vs current time at intervals enforced that policy - in one network, with mandatory reboot with no choice. Three days after being directed to enforce that, the installation commander that ordered that enforced had his system reboot while briefing his general, to much jocularity between them that I was later clued in on to share a chuckle. It took six months before I got nailed that way... :)
I did fall in love with KMS eventually. One extra tool against rogue machines and trust me, I nailed them as they came along and eventually, the automation capabilities caught up. Yeah, we have our own KM Servers, we had to, as some networks will never see the internet and we cannot confirm or deny the existence of things like SIPRnet hosts. DISA runs those, which is good, less for me to wrangle. :)
Then, came TPM...
That reminds me, budget in to activate that second system... :/
Oh well, eventually I'll be patching it and nagged with my credit card being on hand.
At home, under duress, I maintain two Windows hosts. The rest are Linux, more for anything, free open source software and easy of maintenance, rather than a half dozen operating systems being supported at home, as I can't afford my own services.
I'm reminded of Omar Bradley, "amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics" and Patton ignoring all in his advance, outrunning his logistical train and well, the Russians recently emulated his columns fuel exhausted state...
Yeah, Patton would've been the first to admit that he wasn't perfect. Unlike myself, I'm a perfect 10 - alas, that's on the Richter scale.
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Sorry, the math doesn't add up. An e. coli outbreak takes days to begin in the face of massive contamination.
And it'd take weeks to spread contaminated food throughout so many states.
Although, to be fair, everything else that the man's touched has turned straight into shit.
In this case, it's a literal case of shit happened inside of a food preparation plant, either via cattle crap contaminating meat or crap contaminated onions, both are sadly far from uncommon sources. Because, e. coli is a common intestinal and soil bacteria that helps mammals digest their foods and only a few strains will sicken humans.
Ironic though, reading and hearing the details of the outbreak on colonoscopy day... Oh well, off to study for that test, wouldn't wanna fail it.
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"We've called the DEA on this".
"Oh, OK. May I speak with the agent? Hi, run this through your security officer in JPAS."
The career they save will be their own.
"Drugs? Cocaine? Money? The dog alerted."
OK, hold the dog here. Pull out your wallet and have the dog screen it. Don't make us have to do this the hard way, cooperation will be taken into account.
"This is illicit currency."
"So, the US government is an illicit organization? I'll be reporting that as well on my contact report, as I have some reasonable suspicions at this time as to an attempt to coerce some unlawful activities in national security matters."
Although, I'm more inclined to just call in some buddies and run a fire mission, shake and bake until they surrender unconditionally... If more than irritated, shake and bake 2x4, two quick, two air, mixed WP and HE.
Not that anyone that I know would have such destructive devices in their possession... That'd be illegal! Like cops robbing people is illegal and hence, doesn't happen.
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Far too frequently, the nearest tool is a 10 pound sledgehammer. Not always the best tool for every job and well, decidedly not optimal if I'm trying to change my watch battery.
Running back and forth for different things, yeah, notorious for loading up with multiple things to drop closer to an area in common and put what needs to be together together. Eventually, they'll get returned...
Scraps that might be useful, well, my smoke alarm failed and was replaced, I scrapped out the components from the board for loose resistors, diodes and capacitors and the radioactive button retained for next month's project, a cloud chamber. A rather small one, don't need something larger and I might build up a small cooler to save my having to run out for dry ice. Probably going to use butane for the coolant.
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A WWII computer was, at a minimum, one floor that's one city block by one city block, one model was larger and took up 3 floors. People manually calculating were actually faster for some mass calculations.
Hell, for the beginning of the US space program, computers were extensively used - human computers. John Glenn's first flight into space was calculated by an IBM digital computer and due to the calculation running twice and giving different results, was recalculated by a human computer that Glenn trusted more than that new fangled IBM computer.
The movie "Hidden Figures" shows a small window into their world at that time.
Slotin and his screwdrivers were subsequently replaced with the Godiva device - the first of which was destroyed by a criticality accident that didn't kill anyone.
There was a third criticality accident during the Manhattan Project, a chemist who turned on a mixer, which formed a vortex sufficient to allow criticality. He shut down the mixer and ran outside shouting that he was on fire. He died of radiation exposure some time later.
Today, we understand the mathematics involved and can simply calculate what configuration one is operating under and apply the math. No blue glows, no loud, rude noises.
Laughably, Stalin was getting daily reports from his espionage network, detailed reports, but due to the pressure of the war, wasn't able to do much about developing their own nuclear weapons until after the war ended and their first designs were US based designs.
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Garlic and ginger are highly effective!!!
At making some food dishes extremely tasty.
In high concentrations, such as in dry cured meats, they'll act as antimicrobial, as microbes can't metabolize them and our metabolism, due to our immense liver will, neutralize them. Some, like hot peppers can even stun parasitic worms, but we have drugs that'll eliminate all, rather than stun some.
So, spices for taste, oils because they smell pretty (they smell like nothing to me, I have no sense of smell, taste is taste bud driven for me), tea for its flavor or as a stimulant.
I'll go with coffee or, when foggy, ginseng, your mileage will vary.
And saffron tea, because it's delicious!
I'll sugar and milk coffee, teas are drank neat, for their own flavors.
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@ikengaspirit3063 we do have a plethora of historians, archeologists and sociologists graduating each and every year from university. Documenting pretty much anything is exceptionally inexpensive these days as well, so documenting before such traditions and practices fade away or die off is easy, if we merely exercise the will and discipline needed to do so. Although, for the archeological record, that is man hours and manpower intensive, as anyone who has worked on a dig can attest to.
But, moving forward is necessary to improve lives and extend lifespans, so we have to be intensive, meticulous and accurate, while still advancing. We've had many a construction project halted for archeology and that's right and proper, the project completed after the dig and recovery was completed.
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Had a run-in once with customs and immigration. Refused to view my credentials, opened sealed parcels, saw that they were marked beneath the plain blank markings with security markings, then proceeded to illegally open the classified parcels. I walked over, totally against their protocols, picked up my credentials and cell phone, dialed a preset number and reported the breach. Then, I looked at the lead, who was huffing and puffing, ready to blow my house down and said, "You'll want to answer that telephone", which promptly began ringing.
Missed the flight, got an upgrade at their agency's expense, as agents came to investigate and prepare an incident report, my parcels were resealed properly and as the idiots were being lead off to a debriefing at the federal building, I was sent to the next connecting flights.
So, it's not just with John Q that this insanity happens, they've tried it with classified documents couriers and in those cases, it flat out blew up in their faces. They opened sealed classified documents in an insecure, publicly viewable area and that's pretty much top of the no-no list. Even money, they lost their nice federal jobs and had to go back to being a rent-a-cop somewhere.
What's supposed to happen is a verification of credentials, open outer cover, note classification marking, reseal the parcel, verify clearance on courier card matches or exceeds the level within the parcel, then pass through without any comment whatsoever.
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Ironically, there are two nations that lead the world in pain management research.
The US isn’t one. Germany and Japan are the world leaders in pain management research.
I’ve immense respect for opiates and opioids, I’m personally intolerant of the damned things as well.
We still have morphine in battlefield medicine, a bit more restrained in usage, but necessary at times to prevent phantom pain.
A drug I loved to hate. But then, I’m intolerant to the entire class, massive histamine response that’s it’s shy off allergy.
And don’t get me started on Nixon… One of my other true allergies - to traitors.
I do have two addictions. Caffeine and nicotine.
And a bit of dependence of Bavarian foods…. ;) Hey, you can’t beat farmer foods! In moderation.
But, for chronic pain, if the patient is terminal, go with the opioids, as addiction isn’t a real issue. Non-terminal, I’ll go with German and Japanese research.
Because, “pain builds character” bullshit from the US only leads to my cane earning yet another dent, as I grant the speaker additional character.
My personal go-to for back pain, think near agony, is a hot bath (around 104 degrees or so) and ibuprofen (second generation versions are less effective with me, dammitalltohell).
Oh, additional irony with the US, heroin is “uncontrollable” in the US, but UK hospitals manage to use it routinely.
Thanks, but no thanks here, but for those in need, well, I didn’t go to medical school or residency. Gotta go with the subject matter expert, just as they have to go with my expertise in my fields.
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The proteins in their blood literally denatured, due to the severe pressure gradient, resulting in fat being readily apparent in the divers remains bloodstream.
They didn't even get to know something went sideways.
The Soyuz cosmonauts knew, tried to reach the valve to cut off the air loss, but it was unreachable and upon landing, only bruising and bleeding from the ears suggested a problem. Well, that and being quite dead.
NASA research showed that universally, upon exposure to vacuum or its equivalent for us, the entire gas exchange system voids all atmospheric gases from the blood through the lungs rapidly, exhausting O2 and CO2, as well as nitrogen (80% of our atmosphere), fibrillation begins in the heard, after 90 seconds, no experimental subject survived defibrillation and resuscitation attempts.
Respect significant pressure differentials, for they'll not respect you at all - ever.
But, you won't explode, even under 9 atmospheres to zero atmospheres of hard space vacuum, our skin is far tougher than our internal tenders are.
Or more simply, the universe doesn't like you, take care that it doesn't kill you when you venture outside of what would be survivable - always. Respect a danger always, protect against it always, never, ever grow complacent.
That won't get you to even survive as tame an environment as Mars, but you'll be at a good starting point. Humans have survived, as found by some misadventures here on Earth, about a minute under hard vacuum conditions, full body exposure, longer with a forgotten or lost/penetrated glove. Think cartoon bulbous hand, hurting like hell and gone, twice and better larger in size for a glove.
Gene survived that mess, a few hours later, he was fine and amazingly, didn't have a full hand hickey.
Just most of it.
So, follow the checklist. I've designed a few, they account for a five star hangover, sleep deprived for a full month and being ill for a reason.
Been there, done that under far less risk conditions.
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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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@pennybourban3712 ah, but they have ever so many accomplishments! Why, they are up for multiple Tony awards.
Can't get any Oscars, as those are for film, the Tony is for theater, after all.
You do realize that creation and funding of an agency doesn't revolve around the Patriot Act, right? As in, formed under the Homeland Security Act of 2002?
Or are all Congressional Acts the same thing in your lexicon, so the Militia Act, as old in origin as our nation, is also the Patriot Act?
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@MrHrKaidoOjamaaVKJV that's true of many big cities. Pennsylvania is an open carry state, save in cities of the first class, where concealed carry is only permitted with permit and open carry prohibited.
Cities of the first class being defined by population size, which currently escapes my memory.
I knew one guy who loved to open carry in Delaware County, he got to know every cop in the county, but they couldn't do anything, as we've always been an open carry state - but very few bother. Not much in dangerous animals here and they permanently closed mother in law season, so there's little need.
Now, in Louisiana, open carry and I did in the yard, keep getting cottonmouths in the frigging yard.
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Doesn't matter if he was, he can't fire federal judges and he sure as hell can't do a damned thing to a state judge.
Well, unless he wants to somehow convince the DoD to wipe their collective asses with the Constitution and federally invade and take over the state, illegally arrest judges and wonder why his military mutinies and the states all take up arms against him.
Trump is like a schoolyard bully, talks smack a lot, but once hit back, runs away. He's gotten a pee-pee smack currently, at least until the courts actually collect the penalties. He'll continue to talk about coming back, despite there being no pathway forward, right until he rebrands that failure as a success and his sap brigade gleefully follows his "success" in jumping off the cliff.
He'll continue to fail, as he doesn't recognize that states and federal are entirely different courts and jurisdictions and no POTUS has influence over state courts. He, despite pretending to serve one term, knows nothing whatsoever about our system of government and embarrassingly, foreigners understand our systems of government far better than he does.
I'll close with, Al Capone did nothing wrong, the same as Trump, ignore that entire conviction and term in prison served... Enough said. Fraud is illegal for a reason, tax evasion is also illegal and tax evasion by fraud is coming soon. That intention has been telegraphed quite clearly. Then, it'll turn into coordination on who gets stuck with them in their prison - federal or state, for America's Least Wanted.
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Well, for a first inauguration with the flags at half staff, Trump needs to hop into his time machine. When president Taylor died, flags went to half staff, when Lincoln died, flags went to half staff, when well, every other president died in office, flags went to half staff. Uncertain for Harrison, as presidential succession wasn't established yet...
Inauguration occurred as soon as was humanly possible after the death of the president, so Trump needs to set his WABAC Machine to before 1850, just to be sure his statement was correct - not that being correct or truthful ever was a concern for him at all.
Perhaps we should begin fundraising now for a nationwide fireworks celebratory display for the very moment Trump finally drops dead.
At 3:00, one of the rarest moments of Carter's life, painting himself into a corner and getting asked to step out onto the wet paint. ;)
Been there, done that, got the tee shirt that proudly reads, "Kick me hard". :/
Trump vs deceased McCain, again making history by losing a popularity contest with a deceased person with his flag antics, then acting as if he could've denied a war hero and veteran leader in Congress a goddamned funeral.
What a cheap, petty, short fingered little man, frustrated that his fingers cannot encircle his minuscule member.
Go ahead and sue me. You'll get a wonderful choice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_penis_rule
I did meet the SOB back around Y2K, tri-state Chamber of Commerce function, he was invited as a speaker of honor. He was the boor of the party, all conversations had to revolve around him and his speech was devoted to his successes, centering on a then five year old "success" in bankrupting his casinos. To a room full of business owners, whose eye rolls had me astonished that the Earth didn't flip off of its axis.
The net effect on the event was, the following year experienced a very literal 95% attrition rate of people refusing to attend and the Chambers were forced for an entire year to apologize to their members and promise no recurrence of that prior travesty.
Given a choice between meeting him again and making sweet, sweet love to a wood chipper, I'll go with the wood chipper.
But, there is a positive note to end my tirade. I cannot ever be accused of character assassination for Donald Trump, for one cannot assassinate that which has never existed.
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Well, quite a few spices do have antibiotic properties - in food. Before refrigeration, spicing and drying were the only realistic ways to preserve food.
But, food doesn't have what we have, a digestive system, which dismantles most of what we eat to chemicals that we need to survive, so those spice antibiotics get digested along with the foods that they made taste yummy.
As for alcohol, good in moderation for recreation, decent sanitizer for 60% or higher (95%, not so much due to surface tension and some chemical issues that also make it lousy for extracting spices), as is a quarter cup of household bleach in a gallon of water (just don't leave it sitting around, it'll slowly degrade to uselessness), that doesn't mean one should drink any to prevent illness, as doctor mentioned.
But, a bit of ethanol can take the edge off of irritability when hearing and reading a lot of the nonsense being promulgated as magical cures that simply won't work or worse, can injure or kill.
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Frankly, it's a worthless order. Trump just writes a memo certifying DOGE has a lawful purpose with full access, they thumb their noses at the court and continue doing whatever they want to, it's all how one interprets the order and memos away the legal requirements.
Give me ten minutes, I'll have a document and statement that authorizes precisely that that will withstand legal scrutiny.
So, the judge needs to write a TRO that's much narrow, enjoins the maladministration from making such an interpretation and has confirmation that the data is inaccessible to them at all, has no copies made, that it's properly encrypted at rest and has very, very sharp teeth if violated.
Otherwise, one has a Pyrrhic paper victory that means absolutely nothing. The order, overcome by a memo in crayon, written on toilet paper.
They're dealing with scofflaws that feel as though they can do whatever they want to and likely will and simply lie about it.
And honestly, given I'm certain that my retirement and financial data is in that data set, am disinclined to trust any of them, especially having actually known Trump in the real world, long before unreality TV existed. Hence, I wouldn't trust him any farther than I could through the entirety of Langley.
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As a courier of classified documents, things remain the same under this decision, which under that consideration, is a no-brainer, lest massive case law be overturned and classified becomes common knowledge.
Like, how to build a thermonuclear weapon. In one specific case, literally true.
Since, fuccked if I know, didn't care, loathed being tasked, went on with my job. Later, retaining the qualification, got tasked rarely to convey some documents and parcels.
Later, got to send such and well, thankful to send, then got TSSA halted and damned near strip searched.
Fucking irony.
Got a court order precisely once. Long and short, that didn't last long, the court was ordered by a FISA court, enough said. Took a day.
As for my phone, it's lousy with pornographs, some of myself, enjoy the electron microscope pornography.
The only thing not encrypted.
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There's plenty of evidence in support of their supercavitating standard torpedo, complete with some, ahem, acquired samples.
However, refueling a nuclear powered torpedo of the specifications they've semi-provided... Yeah, nope. We're talking about an exposed reactor core, contaminating the entire ass end of the weapon. They'd be dumping trainloads of the things into the nuclear dump area they're already regretting and simply moving the warhead and replacing the electronics for each refit.
And no tsunami, we couldn't manage it at Bikini, it just ain't gonna happen. The laws of physics don't yield to anyone's politics.
And 100 megatons, yeah, possible. Most of the blast would go straight into space, having pretty much zero impact on earth. Hell, a fully configured 50 megaton Tsar Bomba would've broken into space, lowering its effective yield effects. Nukes don't really scale well at a certain point. See the laws of physics vs politics.
Now, is it practical for attacking ports? Iffy. Any currents, rogue waves, deep waves, etc can broach the thing, spreading wreckage, rather than delivering a warhead to extremely shallow water of a port. If it got in, yeah, it could wreck a port - just as a conventional nuclear torpedo could. Or a nuclear missile. Or me with a can of beans. They're nukes, not Harry Potter's magic wand.
Interesting though that it's been scarce since certain European pipelines had their mysterious, ahem, accidents.
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They're also doing this shit to born US citizens. Jack them up, no passport or birth certificate, the agent claims in court papers that you've admitted to entering the US illegally and not being a citizen.
Personally, I'd start off with, "Call your security officer and run me through JPAS, otherwise we're gonna have a big problem and you're undermanned for it".
Then, there'd be a fight and once a weapon comes out, my force escalation goes to maximum. I not only walk with a cane, I fight with one quite well too.
If a weapon comes out, I'll be retaining the equipment from the remnants. Just because I'm 63 and a retired and ornery old NCO, who's tagged REF.
Retired, Extremely Flatulent.
Served for over 28 years, this is the polar opposite of what I signed up for and entirely against what I swore an oath to uphold and defend.
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No, the crew wouldn't have sensed anything. The air doesn't catch fire, but even paper would flash to fire in the brief instant before a wall of water would extinguish it.
Basically, all hollow cavities would instantly be crushed, so chest, spongy bone, sinuses, even one's skull would instantly collapse, with the effect of basically several cases of high explosive going off all around you.
There might be one safe place, sort of, inside of the nuclear reactor and frankly, that'd be an extremely dubious choice. ;)
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Won't be effective. Only a nationwide general strike might have an effect and a general strike where nobody assembles, just stays home denied them even the opportunity to claim some mythical uprising.
If that still won't be effective, which might occur at the risk of other billionaires rising up, well, if every rail signal in the land turned and stayed red, that's utterly halt all commerce and movement or marketable goods.
Any billionaires and megacorporation donors would be demanding Congress actually do their job or else.
And again, denying them the opportunity for physical engagement.
Compared to protesting in person, blocking highways and now being declared an insurrection because emergency vehicles can't get through.
It's literally a war and wars aren't about how much is destroyed or how many are killed, they're about destroying the other side's will to fight.
And utter economic destruction via no business being conducted, they'll fold extremely quickly, as their businesses suffocate.
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One protective system fails, due to out of scope contamination, turns aircraft suicidal.
Because, that aircraft did a whole hell of a lot to actively try to crash itself.
There's a reason I never griped that airline pilots receive rather generous compensation, this is a classic example of why.
Hopefully, they also redesigned the filters, so that bypass isn't possible when something fouls it.
When designing a protective system, always assume that the worst of the worst conditions are exceeded in ways you've not considered and plan for that. As an example, the water separator gets supersaturated and fails, plan for that and a fuel leak and fire, while still pumping. Basically, if it clogs, it shuts down and refuses to pump.
Otherwise, one gets a bunch of mysteries that garner a shoulder shrug and ends up with a suicidal aircraft.
Better to perspire on not fueling than to have a pilot trying to land an aircraft that's seriously bent on its way down.
Damned fine job though, the flight crew took that crap muffin out of the flames and made a flambe! I'll take a busted ankle over being spare parts any day.
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He actually walked around the POTUS insignia bearing podium and made that salute three times, not once.
And not an actual Nazi salute, but the original fascist Italian salute authorized by Mussolini.
First, why is he at a podium bearing the seal of the President of the United States of America? Oh yeah, the inauguration. The Capitol Rotunda.
So, more than anything, given the grunt, body language and facial expressions, basically an "up yours" to those sensitive and a suggestion of how the maladministration will proceed. Especially given that he paid for the election endgame.
And Trump just recently tweaked some noses, suggesting Musk being in Pennsylvania had something going on with the vote tallying computers, which is obviously nonsensical, but now will bear investigation due to the repeated claim, in 67 counties. Because state budgets aren't important to the wannabe emperor.
Additionally, the "Roman salute" is mythical, there's absolutely no historical mention of that salute, it's basically from an artist's work in the 1800's and Hollywood ran with that ball. Not atypical for Hollywood to run with the ball and turning out to be running with a ping pong ball in a football game.
Honestly, out of all Hollywoodified military salutes, I prefer the Spaceballs salute.
And yeah, the Victoria Cross was created in 1856, so Queen Victoria was a Nazi 64 years before the Nazi Party existed, must've used the Obama time machine.
I did have a toothbrush mustache once. An accident with a Zippo lighter and high winds rather pruned one side, evened it up, yeah, that thing came off that night and I grew it back in a less absurd looking way.
Given Musk is the Liberace of the business world, great showman, minimal to moderate skill as a developer of software and utterly incapable of mechanical engineering, but excellent at hiring quality managers, my read of it is, an intention to "trigger the libs" and distract from other things going on behind the scenes. Much the same as Trump's BS about Musk and computers and I've some familiarity with computers, doing IT and IT security for a living and some knowledge of Pennsylvania polling and vote counting practices, being born and raised in the state and again a PA resident.
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Actually, it was a mix of deists and theists, but all remembered the horrors of the European religious warfare between Protestants and Catholics, which literally killed tens of millions and didn't want anything like that here.
Didn't quite succeed, in the 1850's, there was literal religious warfare in US city streets that required the militia to bring artillery in to quell. For some reason, their version of the AR, their muskets and rifles didn't seem to be much of a match to cannons, today, in some mindless minds, they think that they are. Or they think that service members will mutiny in favor of them, mutiny being a capital offense. Well, mutiny, sedition, treason or insurrection are all capital offenses for service members.
No, they don't get shot, that's China, Russia and North Korea, we use lethal injection.
Of course, I've heard some want people to be hanged, drawn and quartered. Interestingly, when asked, not a one could describe the practice and I was called a liar when I explained precisely what that execution method entailed. They then called the UK Crown a liar when I showed them the old statute on a UK Crown website. The few that did accept reality were suitably horrified and desisted from calling for such a torture again.
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His good friend, Hannibal Lecter, a mythical character, much like his own character. Total nanu-nanu!
Weaving around asylum, our asylum laws created out of shame after MV St Louis was sent to Europe and the 1000 Jews sent to the camps and somehow confabulating asylum into insane asylums that we closed under Reagan.
He hasn't seen a beach since he was beached and learned how to walk.
Some years back, when my tween grandkids were toddlers, I was sitting on the floor playing with them and our daughters noticed a bald spot.
"Dad's got a bald spot!!!"
My response was simple enough, "What the fuck did you expect? I'm getting old!"
I'm lousy with candor.
Trump rallies, "Our dreams are like our children...", from "My Fellow Americans", 'get a new speech, old man!'.
So, he went YMCA, Arnold Palmer's member and now fellatio on a microphone on his way out of the closet.
Mom used Liquid Gold on the kitchen cabinets. They never recovered. I make my own wood butter for the same general purpose, mineral oil and beeswax melted in an expendable pot. Got plenty of those turd coated pots that the coating fails on after a couple of years. And why I ordered stainless steel and cast iron to replace them, keeping the junk for wood coatings. Now, you've gotten something useful from something political, wood butter, 1/3 - 1/2 mineral oil to beeswax, depending upon what you're doing, more mineral oil for loose shoe wax levels, more beeswax for firmer general waxing. Mostly used on my wooden cutting boards after bleaching them sanitary, then rinsing and drying, then coating.
Don't have an atomic force microscope for that back corner performance and well, don't swing that way, Donnie.
Polls, well, DEWEY WON! Enough said.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman#/media/File:Dewey_Defeats_Truman.jpg
As useful as a stripper pole is for my income, which trust me, is utterly worthless.
See my best side on the monitor as a churn while speaking, "I see London, I see France, I see my own underpants, excuse me for a moment...".
No, all about him and image of immortality.
I'll suggest amorality, but nobody can find such for a damned good reason. I'm discrete.
I mean, I'm moral. Yeah, Mom said my eyes were brown for a damned good reason. Told her hers were the color they were for a good reason too. She exclaimed "They're green!"
"Yeah, it turned moldy".
She damned near broke her hand on my skull, which makes granite look soft.
True story of actually mutually fun times. Even the swat.
Queen bitch of the universe, when I was right, the Almighty didn't challenge, when I was wrong it was all in capitals. Damn, miss her and miss my wife, both holding that standard.
Still churning over ass end views, suggest my ass has more hair than the back of my head.
Vanity ain't my strong point.
Doing a job is my strong point, get hired on, I do that job. Even as a DoD contractor, follow the damned contract we were paid to do, not underperform and then scope creep to try to keep that contract. Did a few favors, that I insisted never be considered, as they're not part of the contract, just taking care of the service members I once was one of.
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@elaine1034 I give credit or fault where it's due, not where it's invented.
The devil was the angel of the morning star, that was both earned and assigned. It wasn't ignored due to his failings. Why do you think you're superior to your god?
Of course, I'm utterly a perfect 10. Alas, that's on the Richter scale.
Oh, supportive of the argument of protege, look at what each son got from god-king wannabe.
I used to hunt monsters militarily for a living, part of that was analyzing them from a predatory perspective, which meant understanding them.
And to hunt a monster, one has to be a monster, but some of us do guard and confine that monster. Some never received such upbringing and well, the monster is always unleashed.
I've unleashed the monster thrice, once to my conscience's later horror, due to an error that still haunts my dreams. Trump, well his dreams are likely god-king of the world, given my own personal interaction with him. And he's the only remaining survivor of people that I loathe, their earning their early demise via their own actions and due to my personal animosity, I demurred from operations involving them out of concern for potential conflict of interest risks.
So, as an example, some senior AQ leaders I and my teams stayed out of by request, due to that risk that was self reported by myself, lost a cousin and several friends in the WTC attack. Couldn't risk friends and noncombatants where I was emotionally compromised or potentially so.
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We had a PDP-11/03 when I was in high school. Only the teacher running one class and I could get the thing to boot.
Some few years later, I joined the Army and what did I see in a programming hut in the field? A PDP-11/70 to program our Pershing II nuclear missile.
Which was retired barely after it was introduced - thankfully.
I'd have built in a rail system with hoist to maneuver the infernal thing, less of a toe risk.
I'd also probably be diagnosing the capacitor problem myself, but old habits of an ET...
If we're ever in the same neighborhood, I'll grab some wire wrap tools and wire and give you a quick class, it's quite easy.
I'll probably need two sets of reading glasses though...
And to think, used to repair that kind of thing to component level. Fun, when they introduced four layer boards, given they were de-introducing rooms with rubber wallpaper around the same time...
Now, remembering TTL, especially fun things like ECL logic circuits, that'll take a bit to regrind those wheels rust off.
And yeah, I've also worked with vacuum tube circuits, but that was all analog. Shouldn't be too hard though, it's either on or it's off and the oscilloscope will tell that tale.
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NNSA does more than oversee the nukes, they're the security for the arsenal. Most of our warheads aren't deployed or on alert status, but in the enduring stockpile, which is entirely guarded by the NNSA.
Which means, there's a very real possibility that some could have gone astray during the period when so many were summarily terminated and refused entry to the site.
So, for all we know, someone's cat is playing with a polonium trigger sphere or plutonium pit, rolling it around the apartment right now.
While classified employee lists are being downloaded from an unsecured database that was set up by Emperor Musk's super genius snotnoses, lead by the microcephalic big balls.
Tariffs, per the auto industry CEO's are going to tank Detroit, that's increasing it by killing it, uh huh.
And farmers are getting screwed, more crops to rot in foreclosed upon farms.
Canadian fuel is about to go elsewhere, which is the only fuel our refineries can use, but no jobs, no food, won't need those cars to go anywhere save under a bridge or parking lot to live in.
And he's deploying US troops for immigration enforcement, while promising a 50% cut on the DoD budget. And only recruit white male soldiers, while cutting the VA to nothing and pensions to be under threat. And to steal Social Security, so that elders and disabled are living under bridges.
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Overall, I think that our press is really failing badly on reporting this. The nation as a whole fails to comprehend the various grades of felony, the way sentencing is imposed regarding a multiple felony single event crime, hell, the difference between state and federal courts.
I've heard people suggest Trump be immediately taken to GITMO, for crying out loud! That's a federal POW holding facility for terrorists from the GWOT, not a state prison. The very notion of that is as foreign as if we tried to incarcerate him in Moscow's Lefortovo Prison, the old KGB prison. He's convicted on a NY state crime series that are rooted in one crime, just 34 different laws related to different aspects where he was, ahem, naughty. Class E being the lowest level felony NY has (didn't even know of different felony classes until today). No, we don't just throw people in prison, we have a judge sentence people appropriately and maybe they rate prison, maybe they don't and if you're not from NY, sod off. As a PA resident and native, not my monkey, not my circus, it's NY's business and since they don't meddle with PA business, I'll not meddle in theirs.
Besides, before the sun goes out, he'll eventually face his federal charges. The government has no choice or they'll destroy any possibility of retaining control of classified information.
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I'm still trying to figure out Hogan's place in the picture. If someone can rip their shirt, they're fit to govern? What do I get for ripping my underpants that are over 20 years old, godhood?
Yeah, I know, a need to buy new underwear. Oh well, gotta also get new crew socks, starting to wear those out too, so obviously I'm unfit to drive a golf cart everywhere everyone else walks to.
Given his not wearing a bandage while golfing, what do you say we start a pool on how long he'll wear a bandage on stage? I'm thinking at least a month, more likely two.
Oh well, he's alienating his core big time from the convention, let's see how long he goes on extra zany. Once his primary core walks off, all he'll have are the neonazis and KKK and nobody has ever won on the inbred vote.
Oh, was that my outside voice?
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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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@gerrymatheson4020 I suspected as much. Given initially reported conditions, one would be expecting a fire fighter to go running up to a home gas valve and turn it off, given reports of an armed and shooting suspect, yeah, absent a greater threat, such as a strong smell of gas, just wouldn't happen. EMS ain't cops, you need a greater danger than random shots for them to be cleared to enter a suspect with a firearm scene.
Scene safety being critically important to fire and EMS services, lest they swiftly run out of responders.
The bear is, it takes quite some time for a house to air out on its own. :/
People are far too complacent with NG and LP, not realizing how explosive it can be. Having witnessed such explosions from regular leaks, yeah, nasty stuff, but I still use gas or induction for cooking, gas usually being cheaper.
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Hey now, I actually like Pringles!
Hence, why I get around 6 cans per year.
Gotta watch the weight, hence glycemic index, due to familial well, lard accumulation. Gotta keep my title as eldest in the family to not be massively overweight and diabetic.
But, they taste damned good. Nearly as good as spuds I fry myself, even more rarely, due to the oil consumption and disposal issues. Yeah, I am known to make my own potato chips, sue me and my ham sandwich.
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I'm aware of only one field where what otherwise would be considered subtherapeutic dosing is common - pain management that utilizes what's more typically utilized as a general anesthetic. This is, of course, physician guided and managed, administered by a physician and monitored by a physician for specific physiological goals. And I recall that this was discussed in professional pain management conferences that I'd attended back in the mid-2000's and today is of a moderately effective management program for certain specified chronic pain instances.
I did work with one cyanide containing food product for my dinner - cassava root. But, unlike wild cassava, aka bitter cassava - a famine food, this was cultivated root. The biggest risk wasn't cyanide poisoning, but of slicing and dicing my fingers. Did get one modest cut, so shallow it didn't even bleed, but annoyingly is over an index finger joint. What I get for careless handling of knives that I maintain as literal scalpel edge sharpness.
And boy, was that cassava root (aka yuca root) good in my chicken stew! With some mixed veggies, cowpeas and kidney beans, plus my favored barley and a small handful of noodles. Got 3 quarts remaining in the fridge, with some home made bread awaiting another few meals.
And I actually do know how to prepare the wild cassava, learned that while deployed in areas where it is a common famine food. I'll as happily avoid doing so, as chronic cyanide poisoning is a problem in those areas during times of famine. Google "Konzo" for more information.
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@zoiders I was speaking of both the UK and Germany, the last I recall was in Munich in 2021, injuring 4, a few years previously, techs were killed when a 2000 pound bomb detonated. Around every 5 years a team gets one that goes off in their face.
Other than boobytrapped bombs, corrosion and chemical instability from all that time underground can make the bomb extremely unstable. In some cases, the bomb is too badly damaged to defuse and the bomb has to be detonated in place, which is labor intensive as hell, as one has to make trenches to protect nearby buried utilities and building foundations.
Can't remember the UK organization, but Germany has teams by state. Of course, Germany was the only nation bombing the UK, a whole lot of folks were angry at Germany during WWII.
Then, there are French farmers fields, where frost pushes up old WWI UXO's, farmers literally stack them at collection points, where they're collected, trucked off and destroyed.
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A leader visiting isn't a violation. Otherwise, we'd have private citizens in danger of arrest for someone knocking on their door.
Discussion of policy and political things, that's a violation. "Very nice, it'll be fine" ain't a violation. That isn't policy, official position or well, anything similar to anyone that is sane.
Meanwhile, we've had Logan Act violations by Nixon and Reagan, all well recorded and ignored. Gaetz violated the Mann Act, it was ignored, apparently only Black men get charged with that one routinely and well, Epstein's female recruiter...
Unless and until that PM shows up and he and Trump discuss policies and politics, there isn't going to be a violation and historically, we ignored outright sabotage of peace negotiations and hostage release negotiations, so Trump's fairly safe. This is as huge a nothingburger as Trump's souper seekrit medical records on his boo-boo he got outside of Pittsburgh.
Besides, the courts have effectively anointed him a god-king. And remember, Caesar was a felon once he crossed the Rubicon, he still became emperor and a friend had to make him see the point of the Senate's objections.
Leaving the Republic dead and an Emperor to turn to ashes over time.
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Only one problem, the project was canned because it was found to be impractical at all. When the fireball escapes the atmosphere, well, once it's cleared the atmosphere, its effects disappear. Had the Tsar Bomba device been constructed for its full 100 megaton yield, its fireball would've escaped the atmosphere with no additional effects on the ground and with only a modest part of that 100 megatons being felt on the earth.
Simply put, gigaton devices just won't be all that destructive, as the weapons effects don't scale once the fireball escapes the atmosphere and there's nothing to transmit the heat.
Teller did go on to hawk gigaton devices for asteroid ablation for any problematic enough to be in an impact trajectory, but nobody was interested. Especially given more sane yield devices would effectively do the same thing without requiring an absurdity of a launch platform.
He then went on with some schemes for the SDI, aka "Star Wars", getting Reagan to buy in on magical x-ray lasers that never worked and never could work - it's one thing to have weak x-ray lase activity inside of a bomb casing during detonation, aiming it outside of the casing and having even 1% efficiency, just ain't in the physics. Eventually, even Reagan caught on and barred him from the White House, Teller's career sank swiftly after that and the knowledge of some extremely liberally interpreted research that basically was fraud did the rest to torpedo his reputation.
And it didn't help that he was as popular in his field as the Black Death after his backstabbing Oppenheimer...
We also don't have even 10% of the warheads left intact as is claimed in the video, courtesy of the START treaties. Basically, we've got enough to destroy Russia and the US as nations, with the Russians having nowhere as many warheads as we've got cities and towns, whereas the US has a bit more warheads than Russia has cities and towns, but military targets requiring multiple devices chews that excess up, taking a half dozen or so just to destroy one military airfield, worse for depots and large assembly areas on large bases. Products of the insanity factory, they're basically the least useful devices in the history of humanity.
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nothanks9503 ironically, I've actually got a partial immunity to acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. Dunno why, but rather than being poisoned, I just feel a bit ill and that was it on exposure.
So, I'm literally in the recommended condition to begin with and well, being a veteran, already down with the roaches to begin with. Watched the VA budget get slashed each and every year since I joined in 1982 until the second year of the GWOT, the first year, when we began shipping men and women back home missing pieces, the VA budget was slashed again and eventually after being told loudly, the press finally paid attention.
There's one rule in general in combat, dread fighting someone who has nothing left to lose, they never quit. We might end up learning what happens when folks specially selected for the sheer inability to quit are placed into that very situation and I strongly suspect it'll be quite unenviable.
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Delivers said Karen to NASA's vacuum test chamber, locks her inside and activates the vacuum pump, saying "bon appetit!".
After all, the only thing that isn't chemicals is various forms of radiation, so she obviously wanted to consume absolutely nothing and I do aim to please.
RSFAKQJ10 RSF, that's hydroxic acid to you, bub! ;)
Or hydrogen hydroxide, since it's both an acid and base, save where it isn't. :P
Jesus, I'm doing chemistry jokes and elsewhere, physics jokes, totally sound like a geek. Oh well, if knowledge is power, one should be a nuke. :D
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We've had high winds statewide in Pennsylvania for well over a week, wind doesn't exist.
All I'll say is, he appears flushed and he does have a family history of severe alcohol abuse...
Which would explain why he confused illegal Alien Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence, what with him lacking intelligence at all.
As for him never reading some mythical magazine of content that remains undiscovered, undiscussed or even described, well, he is well known to never read, he just looks at the pictures and goes with whatever story the voices in his empty head tells him.
And United States Steel, formerly USX and renamed in 2001, the 8th largest steel producer in the world, is being sold to Nippon Steel for $14.1 billion, guess he wants the plants closed and rusting. No wait, it's just he isn't making money, so nobody else is allowed to make money, support your wannabe god-emperor or go broke.
Oddly, Biden opposes the sale as well, supporting the union's objections to the sale. Guess he's now on Biden's side now! Quick, someone tell him so he can extol the virtues of selling out, GOP types are good at selling out.
"I want to move the election to Tuesday", yeah, before your likely conviction and sentencing, but hey, I want a pony.
But, we got 20 people, not 19, not 21, precisely 20, because INS reports to their god-emperor wannabe on individuals, entirely unlawfully, because of voices in his head. I'm sure they drove an illegal caravan from the DRC as well.
Funny how he's not mentioned one of our primary East Coast ports being blocked though. Or the legal immigrants that were killed working on the bridge when it collapsed.
And the Gettysburg comments did generate some confused looks, as Schnecksville is near Allentown and he was extolling the virtues of the traitor Robert E. Lee, who is no longer in favor. Guess he never visited Lee's plantation, seized by writ of attainder for his treason, now known of as Arlington National Cemetery. Oh wait, the dead service members were suckers, I forgot...
And Gettysburg, beautiful now, was really wonderful after the battle, where Union soldiers got buried and Confederates were literally left to rot in farmers fields, which was what the battlefield originally was. A farmer took it upon himself to bury the remains in mass graves, as it's kind of hard to plant when bodies are covering the ground.
As for Trump with "the nuclear codes", he already had them and well, they're useless alone, he needs well, let's use the old name, the SIOP and select from many menus of options on who to strike, where, when and how.
In a guy who can't get through anything longer than a page with bullet points and pictures required content.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Integrated_Operational_Plan#Executing_the_SIOP
Think this word salad server could give a cogent order that could actually be followed? The guy who asked if nuking a hurricane could put it out? Who basically made every state Alabama and doodled on a map to be "right" and still got it wrong?
More likely, any such attempted orders would go on the Chief of Staff's desk to await his sobering up in the morning and seeing then if he still wants to nuke North Korea, as happened with Nixon. Obviously, we didn't nuke North Korea. Even more likely, he'd blow his response to the challenge he'd have to read back from his biscuit and be denied access to order anything, as a probable false order being originated by parties unknown.
But, he does seem to be coming apart at the seams. A few courtroom images of him gagged, with obviously missing gag should suffice to lose some of his supporters, the rest will follow him, as the Zealots followed their leaders off the cliffs of Masada.
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Oh, if you want to see a mirror of this level of stupid, look up the Nativist movement in the 1800's, the Native American Party, which invaded the Whig party, imploding it and all of the Whigs left to form a new party called the Republican Party.
Yeah, I'm serious. Abraham Lincoln was originally a Whig, quit the party when it turned into a very, very similar circus of stupidity and sedition to join the Republican Party, the remnants of the nativists formed a core that spurred the civil war. Now, they're an even tinier minority.
But, as loud and threatening as their predecessors.
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We have 11 and are building more as we speak.
One term for aircraft carriers is "bomb magnet", today, it's also a missile magnet. Hence, the fleet.
Aircraft carriers, like their fleet can and are replenished as sea, via logistical ships. So, they can quite literally stay out at sea for a year or even longer. The line driven resupply method, as well as hose based resupply, go back incrementally to WWII.
"We're on the same side", today. When I started in the US Army in 1982, we weren't. I rather like running low on adversaries and turning them into friends! :)
BTW, I was born in Philadelphia. Google that, get a fair sized list, Pennsylvania is my home state.
APO = Armed forces Post Office and zip code designates a specific area, AE being Armed Forces Europe. Which covers US CENTCOM AOR and US AFRICOM.
Anything more granular is classified as confusing. ;)
Catapults, other than the electromagnetic variety still being perfected, use live steam to operate them. Live steam is so hot, if a pipe ruptures, you don't even see steam, you get cooked instantly, with a scalpel precise jet.
Elevators for planes went back to WWII and even the Soviet Union had a carrier that has elevators for aircraft.
Alas, to the best of my knowledge, no McDonalds are on an aircraft carrier or any other vessel. Yet. And I was US Army, but I know the conditions and capabilities of my brothers and sisters at arms.
Three US aircraft carriers wouldn't manage to take over Russia or China, too big for one, too damned many people in the other. Remember the first law of ground warfare, never, ever, ever get into a ground war with China.
And as Germany learned, Russia. ;)
Estonia, trivially taken with coffee cups. ;)
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Perhaps you can explain how the fifth amendment, defined as a right within the Bill of Rights, is a privilege?
Privileges can be administratively revoked, legislatively constrained, even eliminated at the stroke of a pen by any bureaucrat. Rights may only be encroached upon by orders of a court of law.
If I only have a privilege to remain silent, do I only have a privilege to not be randomly searched, my property randomly seized, my privilege to an attorney administratively denied, my privilege to religion or irreligion state assigned?
For, in such an erosive condition, the vote by ballot then is endangered by a vote by bullet.
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Kerosene and methane are more energy dense fuels, with greater power than hydrogen, but were harder to ignite in the 1960's - even with the hypergolic ignition system that the Saturns used. But, soot accumulation shouldn't be an issue with pure oxygen as an oxidizer, it wasn't for the Saturns.
The trick is making it reliable in a vacuum or near vacuum, otherwise someone's staying behind with a flare to light the engines for the rest of the crew to get home... ;)
But, hydrogen won't freeze when kerosene or methane does, it's all about trade-offs and critically, reliability of ignition. Still, that shouldn't be a problem with today's technologies and methane is ubiquitous in the solar system.
For CO2, I'd go with compression of the atmosphere and steal off the triple point CO2. It'll take a long time to get much, but time is plentiful in space exploration.
As for Martian cities, not gonna happen. We evolved for 1G, not less. Live outside of earth's gravity for much longer than a year, return to earth is pretty much a death sentence and radiation is quite high on mars, due to the thin atmosphere and no magnetic field. One can work around some of the problem, but colonizing mars means exile from earth
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So, ricin chicken is legal, even without mentioning that ricin is present or fatally toxic. After all, ricin is a natural bean component and beans are natural, so that makes everything acceptable, since it's not synthetic and natural things should be expected in foods - even toxic substances.
I've seem decisions that strain, even sprain Article IV, Section I's Faith and Credit clause, this puts a bloody gunshot wound in its head. Ohio of late has turned into a Constitutional version of herpes, a gift that keeps on giving that's actually a highly unpleasant disease that'll also eventually likely become cancer.
Oh well, at least people have a natural defense of gunz...
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For a notion, during the US Civil War, only 2% of the total population fought.
It was a hair lower during the Revolutionary War.
WWII had 11% fight. Women went into factories to build ships, weapons and munitions, children like my parents ran scrap metal collection drives to turn in for the war.
Ironically, some prior proportion, sent by Japan, who bought US scrap metals before the war, at US forces.
BTW, the riots in New York were so severe, the Militia was called out and shelled the Bowery, NYC to suppress the riots. We also had militia and regular troops patrol our streets to suppress the much later Nativist riots, literal religious warfare between Protestant and Roman Catholic adherents.
Interestingly, the allegedly anti-semetic Grant, allowed full and unrestricted rights that every other citizen had at that time to - Jewish men and businesses. Beyond unusual at the time.
Suggest, he was a bit more nuanced in intelligence. But, a good General takes orders, a good president has to be far more creative than that and also know how to lead in front of their leaders.
Both sides were confiscating supplies along the way, especially food, as in those days, even the mighty rail logistical train was still in its infancy, so it was immense, neverending trains of horse carts with food or what one confiscates for food for their armies.
Both sides tended to not win a lot of friends, as nothing was left for the farmer's family for winter.
Even then, interrupting the logistical train still would wreak havoc on the enemy, as one can confiscate food, one can even conscript personnel, but ammunition and munitions comes typically from far more distant sources.
The Mississippi River is the largest river in the US, essentially nearly dividing the nation in half, save for limited ferries for much of our history - until the modern era, when bridges began to abound and Eisenhower shoved the interstate system down our throats, which was a good shove, even if at the time, it was a horse pill.
As for names, if the officer was good enough, I'd happily serve under Moses Foe, aka, Moe Foe. ;)
Lincoln was quite at risk of losing the election. That's where Sherman was needed, Grant into greater play and driving forward with little more than piss, vinegar and napalm being excreted as one moves along, depleting any third column attempts.
While the Confederacy ran off of voluntary contributions to supply the war effort, the Union had mandatory taxation, tariffs and more, both at that point, requiring conscription, with many desertions along the way.
Yeah, the debates redefined the word debacle.
BTW, General Hood has a fort named after him, not all that far from me and where we've taken a rest during a long convoy for rest and resupply, Fort A.P. Hill.
Given Marfan's Syndrome, Lincoln's survival at that time is surprising. At that time, he was a decade beyond the normal average age where one would die of aortic dissection, in that era.
292 day siege, during an era lacking artificial lighting to illuminate runners on the river and small roads.
Yeah, it was primitive back then, even gas lights were novel notions. Most homes, in northern Union cities still have water and sewer lines from that era today.
Well, Jefferson Davis could've refused surrender, but being utterly out of armies, I have no idea how he'd stop even a few US Marshals from arresting him.
Meanwhile, Lincoln's assassination wasn't a simple murder, it was a decapitation strike attempt, the line of succession was attacked strategically, with the VP avoiding via chance an attack.
The feeling of occupation was due to The Reconstruction, which enforced black rights, rather than lip service only and slavery remaining de facto.
The emotions of having a military force enforcing civilian laws forced the necessity of the Posse Communicatus Act, forbidding the US Army and by lineage, the US Air Force from enforcing civilian law as long as local law enforcement and the courts remain able to operate.
Which is why, today, seeing someone in an apparent military uniform on the streets while armed and enforcing law is jarring enough for people to quite literally begin arming themselves.
One of the scars of the Civil War era.
Because, a violation, at the gentlest destroys all military careers for violating it, at worst, prison, massive fines and a loss of faith and trust that'll remain lifelong.
I was a young teen during our bicentennial celebration, literally bathed in the history, due to the epic historical nature of such a date. It was just not long after the Civil Rights Era gained major gains that I fully agree with and would fight to the last drop of blood of whatever bastard tried to forcefully overturn that.
And no real patriot ever wants a status quo, a real patriot wants to continually improve the nation that they've dedicated a lifetime in support of.
Welcome to my mantra.
Every right to a marginalized group further enhances and protects my rights and I'll protect those rights as I swore to do, way back in late 1981, to the last drop of blood of whoever tries to deny those rights, our laws and Constitution. For, that Constitution is my bible, our leaders that advanced rights and those who fought to protect our Constitution, my Gods.
And being one of that August group, I'm lousy with smite, in an era rife in need of it and many begging for it.
And while, today, I walk with a cane, everything around me is a weapon, so please never offend against our laws, societal norms and Constitution. Lest you do so in my presence and, like the idiot that coughed upon an infant over a mask, the moron that beat an elder down with a cane over mask rule enforcement of their state and company, the soon to be imprisoned for life regressives that have actually murdered workers over rules on private property owners requiring masks, I'll treat you precisely as I treated very real terrorists that attacked and especially, those who tried to go hand to hand and it'll be unpleasant in the extreme, with permanent injury, as I lack time to bandy about, as usual and it'll end the threat swiftly.
I protect against any and all aggression upon those of my peers and I've the scars to prove that I was highly successful.
Peace, success and long life as long as you refuse to be treasonous or stupid, but I repeat myself.
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And he called his original heroine, Ashli Babbit a nobody, as in the literal same breath he said she was killed, nobody was killed.
Then, the cops he so lauded previously, are "other people".
The, placed himself with the crowd using "we", leaving himself now open for the hugely successful seditious conspiracy charges that has convicted Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders, who are even now serving sentences and more in mid-trial. Excellent job making that confession on international live television, DonOLD! I had faith in your ability to land yourself in prison, you've rewarded my patience.
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No, he's got worse than nothing, he's got a huge war bill that grows larger by the day, debts to Iran, North Korea and China for replacement missiles and drones and soon, he'll be scraping up WWII armor, as he can't get modern tanks off of the assembly lines and he's already using 1950's tanks up at a fast clip.
I mean, think about it, how desperate is he when he gins up an IRBM, duck tapes a MIRV bus onto it, launches it with dummy warheads that are only used to test ICBM armed MIRV bus/launch systems and entirely misses his target with it? Especially, given a MIRV can trivially be outfitted with conventional explosives if one has a few bucks.
I know, started my military career working on IRBM's.
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So, Mr Hur, Sirrah, did you perjure yourself just now or did you willfully falsify a federal sworn document? Don't think too hard, either way you're Bubba's new fiancee, which is it?
Once I get an answer and either way, he'd get convicted for perjury, I ask under what New Math 6 stray documents equals 300 willfully retained and hard fought over are equal? Then, if he's familiar with the term mens rea is and means (hint, if one works in a prosecutor's office or in criminal law, one is intimately familiar with the notion of a guilty mind.
And I'm still scratching my head over some failing memory notion, while remarking upon a photographic memory of a house, precise recollection of a date of death that he perjured himself with and how precisely six equals three hundred and I was taught that New Math and Old Math.
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@me8042 some years ago, I was told with great pride the story behind the beginning of Pep Boys auto parts.
The friends started their auto parts business back when car lamps literally were lit lanterns.
They befriended local cops, who would break out someone's light, then mention how the lamp was out and the driver should visit "those Pep boys down the road".
Told by management at their corporate office.
Unrelated, but humorous, while going through security at their corporate office, we overheard the blare of a car horn, then screech of brakes, then the inevitable thud. Had they braked first and honked last, it's likely the collision would've been avoided and alas, it's a common theme on our highways.
I glanced at the security guard, he glanced back with a shrug, I remarked, "Sigh, another Pep Boys driver's license".
A voice behind me guffawed and exclaimed, "I haven't heard that one in years!"
I wheeled, it was the CEO of the company.
My thought was, "Oh, I am ever so fired right now!". Amazingly, nope. At least he had a sense of humor. Which was a good thing, as we were in the middle of a major deployment and upgrade on their cash registers, upgrading to a Linux based system...
Major technology shifts and upgrades are... Challenging, to put it mildly. That's what makes them fun!
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@jamessimms415 at the flowers, I'd explain that my tolerance to trespass was limited and we're a castle doctrine state and courtesy of her parents, I'm a small arms expert and competition shooter and war veteran.
Helen Keller could see the implicit threat there, but lawfully justified in castle doctrine states with no duty to retreat.
Pulling down the tree branch, I'd simply say, "Strike Two, wanna try to strike out, your family won't like what remains".
A black hole would figure that one out.
Third, circle my face with a finger, flat out of fucks to give, may she rest in pieces, erm, peace.
But, meanwhile, before escalation, I'd be microscoping her and pulling legal shit on her, the slightest infraction and if they refused for church group crap or other, fuck the reelection campaign. Did it before for nothing, trivial to play dirty again.
One thing in SF was, there ain't any fighting dirty, it's surviving that counts and accomplishing one's mission and we were selected for a sheer inability to quit, but to fight smart.
And I'm dirty enough of a fighter to survive to retirement. Now, worse, I've nothing to lose.
Comparative ball pain to the local government, veteran vs local government, they lose, twat being a twat loses, more letters to the editor, pfft.
Normally, I'm a nice guy, but there is that which made my military career survivable.
And honestly, I am flat out out of fucks to give.
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So, the proper means of updating one's kernel driver's parameters/daffynitions file is.
1: Do not check for update file integrity, save to at least ensure the file is zeros.
2: Updates should be always mandatory and immediate.
3: This was missed, so emphasis for future reference - Updates must be distributed and installed immediately at COB on Friday on a *holiday weekend*, not just any Friday at any time.
This will ensure the minimal disruption while ensuring the maximal destruction.
Pour a liberal amount of gasoline on the floor on the way out.
Did I miss any critical steps?
Seriously though, I've actually used their software during an active, long ongoing attack by an APT from a hostile foreign nation's forces. We literally had biweekly visits from the FBI and DHS representatives, given our government contracts and some level off concern and said attacks had been ongoing for long enough to actually warrant a pension.
A couple of SOX audits and well, our SIEM and loggers that were overloaded so badly we'd get events 19 - 26 hours after an event were augmented with Crowdstrike. Now, we were getting immediate alerts, had a Splunk interface to make life easy for hunting and alerts from Crowdstrike directly as well. Captured an attack via RDP on a server in realtime, capturing everything fully in realtime and reconstructing from packet logs their latest and greatest PE files they were utilizing. Did a write-up of a relatively novel for the era, if not exceptionally new method of dumping the binary into notepad, saving it, popping that through a program that'd tag it as a PE properly, sent the report and copies of the binaries and raw code to the government, who then got them fast tracked through pretty much every malware detection outfit on the planet, blunted dozens of attacks until they repadded and recompiled. By then, the behavioral analysis and interception definitions were distributed, so plenty of urine on a certain foreign nation's annoying people's Cheerios for a bit.
Also, due to that software, we finally located the incursion point - a forgotten test machine on a DMZ at one of our foreign offices that hadn't been patched since the Almighty was in diapers.
So, I rather respect their software and well, did respect their acumen - right until shooting out a must install on a Friday, which is a direct violation of the Commandments of Software Patching. Thou shalt not patcheth upon Friday, for therein lies the pathway to the damnation of wrecked weekends.
I've had my share over the decades of mushroom clouds, a fat fingered edit on a computer logon script, fat finger supreme in a GPO edit, patches that behave in the testing groups setting off mushroom clouds all over a military base, random reboots due to a bug, but this one has seriously outdone even the time I sent out a policy per the installation commander that ended up rebooting his computer while he was briefing his commanding general, much to their mutual mirth.
Or having to slam out a shutdown abort on my own machine... Try remembering the syntax on that in a few seconds, not like it's a common command - usually I'd be in a hurry to reboot due to instability, before the OS got eaten.
Suffice it to say, I'm glad that I live out of range, here in Pennsylvania, for there's no amount of money that could cause me to want to be anywhere near their offices since Friday morning. Texas must be nearly molten around Austin! It's been warm enough here, three blocks from our governor's mansion since Trump got winged... This, well it cost a lot of Fortune 100 companies some real cheddar, so it's gonna be hot in that HQ.
Two words coming to mind: Penny stock.
And a feeling that there likely will soon be some really sweet deals on some high end servers on the used server market quite soon.
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OK, four minutes of "he violated the code and the code was violated by him while he was violating the code that was violated".
Then, the violations get brought up. OK, lesson, Times: Put the cart behind the horse, not in front.
One mentions a code of conduct that was violated, one them mentions the violations in say, the first minute or two. Then, goes into the rationale. Not the code was violated, explain rationale and get around to specifics of violation four minutes later and lose most listeners long before.
The complaint is spot on, however I am mystified as to what his contributions and achievements precisely are. He's rewarded for recognition for inventing nothing, developing nothing and essentially having the great foresight of being born into a family that could bequeath him an emerald mine that he could leverage to buy companies with credit from that leveraging?
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For a few hours or even a shift, it could be understandable, someone might be working on an important project.
Days on end, there are two critical concepts that are mandatory in the financial sector, due care and due diligence, both are entirely absent from the highest level of corporate to that section of that office.
I live in a rather inexpensive apartment building, we have better security. Access tags that log entry, which is audited. Cameras that recordings are checked very regularly, evictions for violations of security have occurred here. Locks work and are checked and replaced when defective. And that's with a management staff of one.
I'd reported someone messing with the payment drop box, the manager mentioned that she'd noticed that I was speaking with the individual and I related that I'd explained to him that he was trying to open a secure payment box in full view of multiple security cameras. He now lives in another abode, prohibited from access to the building.
That's due care and due diligence. Something utterly absent, despite being required by federal law in that financial office.
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So, if Google is liable for not marking in their database that the bridge is impassable, is Google also responsible for pedestrians run over because the driver failed to stop, as Google didn't tell them to stop?
At some point, one is supposed to be responsible for the safe operation of a motor vehicle, as I recall that began while the vehicle begins to move and stops once it's safely and securely parked and not able to roll away.
That said, I've gotten wrong steers from Google Maps more times than I want to count. It's nowhere as good in accuracy as many GPS units for cars.
But, if visibility, such as a ramped bridge, is obstructed to see the deck, one slows down, per every motor vehicle licensing manual I've ever saw and even in driver safety courses authorized by the federal government.
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@transformer889 hey, there's a major forest fire around us on three sides, so why not have a fire on the fourth side?
Here's a hint, want to know if it'd react with ozone? Spray it on a fire and breathe the resulting fumes, if HF liquefies your lungs and starts dissolving your nervous system, it'll react with ozone. BTW, "Halon" and similar fire extinguishers also release HF, an acid that etches glass and corrodes all metals.
Operable is, just because something else exists doesn't mean that you add to it, then wonder why you're getting third degree sunburns, crops are failing and food prices go through the roof. That's like drilling holes in the hull of the Titanic, while saying water's coming in anyway. Sinking even faster isn't a good thing.
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Laughably, Trump shows all of the social awareness of Thurston Howell III, while combining that with the manners, social grace and class of all three Stooges, while quoting the great Marx - Groucho, when he addresses his cult of followers, original Zealots all, with "who are you going to believe, your own eyes and ears or me?". Vaudeville in microcosm of one organism, as current with the realities of today as its peer, the Tasmanian Tiger - which went extinct in 1936. The year Hitler was embarrassed by a black man, Jesse Owens defeating his showcase Olympic team of ubermensch - in English, supermen.
Every atrocity of the past, threatening the future of ourselves, our children and grandchildren.
That leaves us all with a hell of a hard choice, huh? The devil we know, a vanilla politician who was a prosecutor that put dangerous criminals away versus Genghis Khan and his hordes, who destroyed entire cities.
Lemme see now, "How do you vant to die, Maxvell Schmart?", "How does old age grab you?"
He brings WWII atrocities on his lips, at least I brought 1960's sitcom from an previously USMC drill instructor and general purpose Devil Dog.
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@themurphingjay5829 no, he'll get the actual codes, it's literally the law.
But, given the procedures required by law to actually order the launches, it's pages of procedures and instructions on target package selection, etc, I guarantee he's never read it or could follow it.
He's notorious for, if it doesn't have bullet points and pictures, if it's longer than one partial page, he'll not read or follow what's on the pages.
And given he can't remember his own speeches, despite a teleprompter, he'll be unlikely to remember which line to read off to authenticate off of his biscuit.
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The bitch of it is, every actual politician says the same shit and well, doesn't go to such super extremes, but...
I remember the first year of our GWOT, when the GOP lead the charge to cut the VA budget, for at least the 30th consecutive time - when men were coming home missing limbs. It took a leak to the press about veterans returning home to not be treated due to budget cuts at the VA to force a restoration of funds.
Which were subsequently promised to remain intact, but diverted to private mega-practices that were clueless to veterans specialized needs, but made the requisite campaign contributions.
Trump took a lesson from such prostitution and made it his own via extremes, due to his sociopathic nature.
I instinctively dial in on personality flaws and traits myself, helped me a lot when figuring out who was a threat or a potential friend when abroad in the military. One difference is, I have rules I abide by, Trump only has one rule, what he can gain from. He can't comprehend self-sacrifice for the benefit of the whole. So, he fools followers. I win their trust and reward it with my own trust and build relationships. He wouldn't understand a normal relationship even when it's repeatedly bit him in the ass.
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Meh, I can tell the difference, I'm a veteran as well.
Guns are used to protect oneself from the absolute tyranny of an unperforated center ring of a round paper target that's distant, the one most accurate wins a turkey or modest cash prize.
A brush is a wonderful tool, can clean guns, teeth, homes, spread paints, varnishes, stains and a whole host of far more useful projects.
And for fine artwork, if one's so inclined.
I do those as well.
I also still repair electronics for fun, rather than a living these days. Largely for friends and neighbors.
I also cook a lot, the majority of my food cooked from scratch, with plenty of pressure canning for preservation.
And I keep plenty of physicians company, since I'm getting older and issues incessantly crop up.
One can be broody or busy, I go for busy. Brooding tends to be destructive, I prefer to be constructive.
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Was married for over 41 years, my wife chose to largely be what's now the fad of tradwife, with modifications for our mutual happiness and choices.
She did "own" the checkbook, largely due to the fact that she was better at it than me, since I do have dyscalculia and my balancing the thing looked like the dog balanced it.
I usually did the shopping, as her disability grew more severe, previously we both did the shopping together. We also took turns cooking, even when I came home from work, if it was my turn or she wasn't feeling well, it was my turn cooking. The flip side was, whoever didn't cook got to do the dishes and we had a dishwasher anyway. Had to fix the damned thing a few times, but it worked well.
When I was injured and before she became disabled, she would work to bring in enough to keep the household afloat. When the kids didn't need continuous supervision, she worked to bring in some extra scratch and keep busy.
She was lousy with the sewing machine, always fouled up the spring tension, so that became my baby.
And the vegetable garden was mine as well.
I was also the preferred babysitter for the grandkids, as I was the only one that could keep the two eldest colic ridden babies happy and comfortable.
Lost her coming up on 3 years ago, still keep turning to talk to her...
And I do miss her keeping me in the right hat size. ;)
Of course, I'm a perfect 10 - unfortunately, that's on the Richter scale.
That said, this specific specimen is a typical INCEL, little boy looking for a mama he can screw when he wants only, coast the rest of the time, rather than having a partner in life. He'll continue this way, given the amount of pigment loss in his beard and die alone.
And looking around, I realized that I'm down to one quart of pasta sauce. Considered making more, but am moving on Saturday, so that'll wait to christen the kitchen in the new apartment by making 4 gallons of sauce and pressure canning quarts to fill the case back up.
Because a man who can't function in life by himself without griping isn't much of a man.
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I remember Protestants actually celebrating JFK's assassination, trumpeting the Catholic was dead. I wish I was joking, but I'm not.
A hell of a lot of violence has occurred throughout US history to keep Catholics out of power. Today, the populace got snookered into embracing men who are the most extreme sect of Roman Catholicism that was considered heresy for ages - right until the RCC went bankrupt and Opus Dei financially bailed them out.
All of which can be trivially found in a Google search, "Nativism in US politics", "Know Nothing Party", "Philadelphia Nativist Riots", "Protestants celebrate JFK assassination" for starters.
The Philadelphia Nativist riots, literal religious warfare in Philadelphia city streets, where Protestants stole a cannon from the port defenses and attacked a Roman Catholic church, school, convent and hospital, killed responding militia and only returned to their home when a thoroughly pissed off militia commander ringed their area with artillery, since it wasn't the first time such violence had happened. Following, months of martial law, with soldiers patrolling Philadelphia city streets with fixed bayonets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativism_in_United_States_politics
https://www.nola.com/opinions/hatred-of-catholics-led-some-to-cheer-jfks-assassination-jarvis-deberry/article_04891c1c-0b10-5362-b960-e244c1ac0654.html
I remember the JFK celebrations that Protestants made. Don't have personal memory of the Nativist movement in the 1800's, but it's well recorded throughout history.
So, in response to the election of a Black president, the WASP brigade joined up with their arch-nemesis. We'll get Handmaid's Tale, death camps and the worst of fascism, they'll fight it out later, to the detriment of the populace.
Because, both sides are so disturbed, they wouldn't hesitate to use nukes, to "force God's hand" in returning to Earth, as insane as that sounds. I've spoken often enough to both, they're the worst that humanity has to offer, right up there with Islamist terrorists.
Now, they ruin, erm, run the courts and are throughout the highest levels of government soon, good job in destroying a nation and probably, world.
I'm already missing secular and sane rule.
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He's levying war against the US, which means taking up arms against his government? You've got two eyewitnesses to the overt act of making war against the US government that will testify in open court?
Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
That's literally the only crime that the US Constitution very narrowly and clearly defines. Indeed, it's the only crime that the Constitution defines at all. He can't give aid and comfort to an enemy, as Congress has not declared war and hence, we have no enemies, only adversaries and those aren't in that definition.
So, stop using his play book, you're worse at it than he is.
And frankly, it'd be hard to even get a guilty verdict for sedition for Jan 6, it was just barely at a borderline by his own words.
Dammit.
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I've a rather narrow number of fungal species that I'll consume. In a fair part, due to allergies to things like straw mushrooms. Get even a bit of straw mushrooms in a meal, I'll be literally projectile vomiting.
Oddly, I can tolerate a number of other mushrooms, most of the brown mushrooms like portobello, shittaki, porcini mushrooms I can consume as much as I want. Go figure. But, different species, different proteins.
Fooling around with various toxic forms, thanks, but no thanks. If I'm not fond of taking prescribed drugs, I certainly am beyond leery of uncontrolled substances going into my body or on it or hell, even near me.
The only fungi I'll mess with under less controlled condition is yeast in my bread or perhaps, with some beverage and I've not made wine in decades.
Which reminded me, just added some portobellos to my shopping list. I'll be tossing some, well diced, into a lentil based "meatloaf" I've been experimenting with. My diet is omnivore, but I do enjoy a change of pace with my meals. Never could figure out how some folks could eat the same thing every single day!
Although tomorrow's meal will be to polish off a bit of leftover sauce, with additional sauce added to some of my thirstier noodles...
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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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In other words, he'd have surrendered to Tojo after Pearl Harbor was burned.
Shouldn't we be hearing this from Emperor Musk, not his Empress Trump?
And Ukrainian polling numbers, in a land Trump even says is shattered, was last conducted in December 2024. You don't run daily polls when you're being massively invaded, as anyone with two operational brain cells competing for fourth place can understand.
As for Hegseth, didn't recognize him out of uniform, usually by that time he's wearing his uniform lampshade or on stage dancing with the rest of the girls. It's nice to hear him repeat Chamberlain's words about Poland and France. Didn't stop them then, end result was WWII. Guess he'll ensure we get to try on WWIII.
Maybe he'll be sensible and replace the iron in our warheads with cobalt.
BTW, calculate out how much a car is gonna cost, given subassemblies of aluminum and steel go back and forth repeatedly across the border and now get tariffed. Welcome to seeing our newest ghost town, Detroit.
An upside being, pop in aluminum cans won't be affordable either, so we'll see some part of the populace lose weight.
Make America Gaunt Again.
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@gpcivil8807 well, you conflate two things erroneously. You confused good marketing helping sales, a showman as a CEO and being high quality.
Let's look at the product. Weird charging cable, there's a standard, Tesla decided to be Betamax to the world's VHS. The automagic driving drives into obstacles, with lethal results if the driver isn't babysitting it closely and the number of emergency vehicles rammed by the automagics is absurd. Seriously, how does an automatic drive system not spot a frigging firetruck?! Ambluance?! Police car, sure, after all, the lights and siren are cloaking devices or something.
Fires, alas, that's nowhere near a Tesla only issue, babies wet, high energy batteries short and catch fire.
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@gpcivil8807 so, sales makes something better? Which is better, Smith and Wesson or Colt?
Odd that you didn't bother commenting with the well documented problems, from proprietary charging connector that nobody else in the world uses or their incessant automagic drive crashes and the intensive babysitting needed to simply avoid a crash in automagic mode.
But, since we're talking about Musk, not Tesla as a product line producer, how's that hyperloop going? The magical brain electrodes that are doing precisely what was done in the 1970's, with an infection rate that's shocking even by 1970's standards and forced an end to that college collaborating with his company?
SpaceX, well, he didn't have much of a choice but to make it priority #1, failure to perform on a government contract gets to be insanely expensive.
Frankly, the man reminds me of Liberace, a fair pianist only, but a hell of a showman. If I had to choose a pianist when he was alive to play for royalty, he'd not be my first choice, but a superior pianist instead.
Brand isn't the important part, function, quality and in the case of vehicles, the damned thing not trying to kill you is just a little bit important. Ain't heard of any Chevy Bolts ramming into emergency equipment and highway dividers.
Or any other manufacturer stupid enough to have a car fart instead of making noises that would warn a pedestrian that a car was coming.
Or blatantly manipulating stock prices repeatedly, despite orders to cease and desist doing so again.
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@babu357 the military takes lawful orders, it doesn't self-mobilize and engage without lawful orders.
And we weren't sworn to the people, we were sworn to obey lawful orders and protect the nation, Constitution and laws. The Constitution's preamble defining the nation as We The People of the United States. Nothing in the oath about a god-king wannabe or anything political and there are laws against military getting in any way at all involved in politics or policing.
We also count on the folks at home keeping things reasonably stable and well, as close as possible to what we deployed to defend when we redeploy home. These antics are beyond disconcerting to those serving far from home.
I know that well enough, I trained a hell of a lot of those who are now senior leaders.
OT by a bit, went shopping at the local small supermarkets, around a 2 mile walk from home. Extra large eggs were at one market for $9.00, left them sit, large were $8.00, let that sleeping dog lie too. Ironically, the week before they were a buck less, but got a 10.39 pound ham for $6.11, which is now part frozen, part bagged in the fridge and the bone happily in the freezer door awaiting my pleasure of what soup to make out of it. Lamb was around the usual price. Pork was around average. Eggs are up due to bird flu wiping out entire flocks of hens. End of Jan, a report from Nevada reported bird flu in milk at dairy farms, then all flu and COVID reporting ceased from the government, per god-king's orders.
Of course that'd happen, he was seven kinds of bent out of shape how the reports made his numbers look bad during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Maybe I'll some green eggs and ham, like used to be made for me by Sam I Am. ;)
Since my pantry is restocked again.
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It was an unmitigated disaster!
To the reputation of an absurd number of people, agencies and companies. It wasn't so good for the reactor either. I reviewed imagery of the core after the accident, that wonder of modern engineering wasn't that any longer, it was a Greek tragedy. The only thing uglier was Fukushima's cores.
Couldn't find any imagery of what's left of Chernobyl's core, which is just as well, I'd probably become ill seeing what happened to that engineering.
Beyond those disasters, well, I live 3 miles from the island, everyone's still here and annoyingly, we still need street lights at night - nobody and nothing is glowing.
TMI, a lesson on precisely how not to keep the public and press informed during a mishap or major accident. The truth shall set you free, even if you're stuck admitting that you're in the middle of recovering from a major goat screw event.
Oh, from the report, the flashing indicator was on the obverse side of the main console and was noticed by the shift relief operator as he arrived.
Always remember the Shepard's Prayer, Alan Shepard praying when he entered the space capsule prayed, "Oh Lord, please don't let me fuck up!".
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I grew up in the US and attended middle school through high school in SE Pennsylvania. Common then, back during the last ice age, was gym class and mandatory common showers, segregated by sex. If you're unclear, boys had their own locker room and showers, girls did as well. Gym classes eventually got shared, locker rooms weren't unless you really wanted to get suspended and possibly expelled and enjoying the last reform schools.
I joined the US Army, did 28 years and change. Shared showers were far from uncommon, in the field, well, shared field shower or sponge off au naturale in the middle of the camp. I've done both.
Did clothing optional beaches, one laughably was half clothed, half clothing optional and a prominent sign warned "You may encounter nude bathers beyond this point", which Helen Keller could've easily ascertained on any warm part of the year. People enjoying the clothing optional ranged from couples with small children through people in their 80's or more.
Like the school shower, the beach had a similar thing. If you don't want to look at the train wreck, stop frigging looking, idiot.
Of course, I'm a pure, distilled Adonis. Just go to the closest cemetery, you'll not find anyone to disagree. OK, if you run into me, I'll disagree. Mom always said, I had brown eyes for a reason.
As for doctors in the US, yeah, I've shocked more than a few, when before they could escape the room I had disrobed for examination. Although, I've yet to have a skin examination, being of rather olive skinned stock. That said, our eldest inherited her grandparents genes from the paler nations and already had melanoma treated.
But, I did get a mammogram. Long story about hyperthyroidism induced adipose growth and a painful boobie. How girls can endure that growth without continuous complaints is beyond me!
I've traveled the globe over the decades, saw more women breast feeding than I could shake an abacus at. To the point where, it's highly probable that even here, I've entirely failed to notice. Although, here, I might offer to eat my meal in the bathroom, with a droll expression and wink, which would likely send the poor mother into absolute fits of mirth. Anyone harassing her would likely get a very sincere reading from the biblical Book of Threats that I've actually read to Al Qaeda members.
As far as television and boobs, I'm still trying to figure that disconnect myself, despite being born and raised in the US. We see boobs all the time when our leaders speak! And occasionally, an ass. With some, Samson could've defeated three Philistine armies with one of their jawbones.
But, profanity is heavily fined if used on public airwaves. And one can get up to two years in prison.
Media may, such as in states like Pennsylvania, be considered indecent (as well as clothing) if aureola or nipple are visible. Yeah, Queen Victoria is still alive and ruling in the US.
Little known history. The Puritans rewrote the bible, there was another bible with more books and chapters before in English, but they outlawed it and under King James, was authorized under duress.
Regardless of where one goes, people are people, the same emotions and sensations are present and guide overall behavior. Public behavior tends to be socially guided according to cultural norms, but notice I said overall behavior.
People are people and people fuck. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many people.
That eventually means babies and babies need to be fed and a lot of the world can't afford formula and bottles, so go with what God/nature provided, boobies to feed from.
And I very well may slap the silly out of the next village idiot that I hear tell me that babies are damaged by seeing boobs. Well, at least slap the lead paint chips out of that idiot's brainless skull.
Naw, shit splatters.
Given, kids running naked at beaches was normal in the 1960's. Breastfeeding is natural. An ass is only something to be concerned about if it speaks and there is an open flame nearby.
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Maybe they should deport him to Tennessee.
Then, send in federal troops to Reconstruct the state for a century or three. Until then, Tennessee is not to be considered a US state, only a possession equal with our other territories and possessions.
As bad as when I returned home to Pennsylvania and my military ID was rejected as unacceptable.
"After 9-11..." Bullshit, Real ID Act was passed in 2005 and still isn't in full effect until next year, so he's trying the time machine gambit.
And to be a US Navy sonarman, one needs a top secret security clearance, which aren't handed out to non-citizens. So, Tennessee is refusing to give faith and credit to multiple states and the federal government, violating the Constitution yet again. Reconstruct them again - for three centuries and if they bitch, have Hunger Games.
The laugh being, resident aliens are given a operator's license in Tennessee, so they've essentially revoked his entire US citizenship and refused all faith and credit in federal and other state governments, claiming under federal law, the US Constitution is illegal.
Wonder how they'd feel with every federal penny drying up?
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Nobody's deleting files. They'll stay hidden on the servers on the classified networks.
And "they're working day and night deleting files" is telling, given it takes literally seconds to delete tens of thousands of files if one needed to.
They count on the public's ignorance on how computers work to shift attention away from their never releasing that which they claim to have ordered released, with a pair of winks and nods.
Using just the JFK files alone, at least 99% of the people that'd be listed in those files are long dead, so if there was anything to be found, it'd be released without harm. Yet, still isn't released. So, that implies some national security issue keeping a section classified and given the impact of the event, fairly glancing, but still of current importance, such as maybe questioning a known Russian agent and some data that's of use today being mentioned in that section and cross referenced in other files, so remains classified. So, "Oh, the Epstein files", where we already know the majority of shenanigans in it, as a shiny to divert attention away from the non-release of any of the files that contain nothing notable to begin with that's germane to the assassinations.
And precisely what I predicted when he signed the EO to release the files that are on Pam's desk in some alternate universe. Sources and means will remain protected, so the files will remain sealed and since the press' attention is so easily diverted, it'll become as if the EO never existed and the files will remain sealed. After all, to Trump, his EO's are as valid as his campaign promises, made and forgotten if he loses interest.
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Now, now, the sneaker hawking Faux mewls advertisement, I mean story was spot on.
"I've never seen anyone that understand culture like any other politician I've ever seen". Yeah, me either, it's almost as if he's from another planet. Nanu-nanu, Donny.
The not-so Teflon Don the Con, 'cause everything is sticking to him like it's crazy glue.
I swear, any day now, I expect to hear him howl from his golf cart, "Detonate the reality bomb!".
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OK, there is a difference of methodology.
I was an NCO, I learned during the operation brief what the commander's intent was, as did my line officer. I moved the men, officer figured out how many and where, calling in resources to support us. Lose that officer, I also knew that job and replaced him or her.
And I'm the prick that accurately called out ten digit grid coordinates on the fly.
US squad leaders actually lead the squad and command said squad. Fully, we don't have that many lieutenants, we'd need to be the PRC to pull that much manpower!
Also, US light infantry will arrive at the time, via hummer, later, mine resistant vehicle. We were a Stryker brigade, so we had an armoredish vehicle collection, with anything from Ma Duece and more.
You made a perfect 20/20 hindsight mistake, could US forces do something not apparent to them? ;)
Still, I'd go back, with someone with similar experience, move to contact or locate our missing, calling in our organic 120 mm mortar team.
Our communications devices have a crypto zero function.
I'm still scratching my head over the US flag on evac.
Don't get me started on blue on blue...
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@gmchixx7652 Trump offered that which did not exist.
First, Canadian water is Canadian water, not US water. Second, that water goes nowhere near California, so unless the god-king was going to personally carry it in buckets a thousand miles, that wasn't going to happen.
But, keep worshiping the guy who fired God. Hell will look good on earth.
And enjoy the grocery prices shooting up 50% due to tariffs. And taxes shooting up to cover the increased defense costs, as a lot of really expensive equipment and weapons systems come from Canada.
And when he escalates things, enjoy the NE blackout, as their power comes from Canada. And no gasoline, as our oil that our refineries can use comes from Canada, our oil not being compatible with US refineries and exported.
He's literally planning to have an inverse siege, we besiege ourselves and starve ourselves into Canadian submission. That'll work out about as well as Trump steaks did.
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@ReasonablySpeaking9808 I have a benign mass on one adrenal, so it's just a keep an eye on it if it gets captured in any imagery. The thyroid, options were either radioiodine or medication, medication being selected so I've been taking methimazole twice per day (only really need to take both pills once, but I prefer balancing how many pills to take at a time, so twice per day, since I have to take my beta blocker twice per day).
The pheochromocytoma was in two patients I worked with in the military, the first was expired on the scene from a ruptured abdominal aorta. Basically, once that aorta let go, there was no chance and essentially she was dead before she could literally fall off of the log she was sitting on. The other, successfully treated surgically, it only came up when I was taking his medical history.
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Mine the shit out of the entry to Azov, bottling up ports Russia needs. Take enough east of Mariupol to make a no man's land, now a shit ton of forces are bottled up with no logistical supply.
The Russians can get those forces back once they withdraw to their own border. Otherwise, they're permanent guests, rather like some German forces that never left the region (such as one brew master, who came to not want to go back home, given he was doing better near Kyiv than he'd have ever done in Germany.
The rest, a slow, long bloodletting exercise. Make it about as popular as Vietnam and Afghanistan was for the invading nation.
"If they gas, they crossed a red line", because crossing that line meant ever so much in Syria. If they didn't gas our forces, we can't reply with our own WMD, so now we'll instead give up on a treaty nearly as old as I am? What'd be the next step, "Do it again and we'll nuke some random site"?
Because, nukes really calm things down every time, why they completely forgot about those two that got used in Japan, right? How about having an escalation and deescalation plan, rather than this cockamamie idea?
And maybe, just maybe, get advisors from anywhere other than the Old Soldier's Home.
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@davidgalea6113 odd, I didn't see any decline the last few times I was in the UK and various EU member nations. Indeed, considering the migrations that have happened throughout Europe and the UK, I only see another migration for much the same reason - warfare in homelands.
Still, perhaps the UK should've stopped before allowing Celts and Picts onto the island, let alone those bloody Romans. Or perhaps, Great Britain could've had a smaller empire, so that folks from throughout the realm wouldn't have migrated to the island.
As for invading, having been part of an invasion or two, you confuse immigration and invasion. Immigration is a legal process by which one relocates to another nation and despite claims to the contrary, every nation on earth has had its waves of immigration. Invasions are rather violent affairs and typically are beyond obvious, what with all of the weapon play and mass deaths involved. Perhaps, you'd like to ask the elders at Normandy about what an invasion looks like. Or perhaps, an Iraqi or Afghan about more current invasions.
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I'm reminded of a few things. One, providing IT support for a young man with Usher Syndrome, who was deaf, legally blind, had a guide dog and was the personal assistant to the installation's communications unit operations officer, who answered to a commander who was so good in school he got to wear two stars on his hat as a direct report to. Yeah, a two star Admiral.
When that individual called our hell desk for support, he had a significant problem beyond user level intervention. I even had the opportunity to work closely with him when we upgraded operating systems and had to tailor his desktop environment and eventually, defeated by some hurdles, I called in both the server admin for the remote desktop environment and the unit EEO, who had experience with helping tune the environment for the visually impaired users. I've never been shy about getting help when something goes beyond my capabilities and I've actually set up such environments myself, but not having that position, I didn't have the access, so hand it off to those better suited to the task.
Needless to say, he had some major hurdles, but he is highly proficient at his job. Much being past tense, as my company lost our contract and the new company didn't pick me up, then I suffered some debilitating maladies of my own that remain ongoing.
I'm also reminded of events of very nearly a century ago, specifically Acktion T4 and the actions of Wilhelm Frick and Karl Brandt, under the direction of some Hitler guy. For those unfamiliar with that travesty, that was the forced "euthanasia" of those deemed insane, disabled or unfit due to age or other disability, which was delayed pending initiation of the war by invading Poland, then France, when they finally starved, drugged to death or literally rolled carbon monoxide vans up to care homes and hospitals and murdered between 275,000–300,000 men, women and children.
Both were hanged, Hitler already ensured his own sentence was self-imposed and executed.
She got of supremely easy.
As my take is, she may well have planned a murder-suicide, but while likely intoxicated with her benzodiazepine, changed her mind and called for help. Supporting that was not remaining in the garage with her deceased or dying sister and dogs, but retreating into the home to call for help.
And well, given her prior crimes against humanity as a producer, New Jersey was too good for her, Texas is even excessively merciful, hell is far more appropriate, save I really wouldn't want her as a companion in my vacation home. I'd far prefer bedbugs.
Maybe as a neighborhood Karen instead, I enjoy tormenting those.
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Had a 12th district Philadelphia Police Department captain pull this shit, drawing down on me, while I was assisting in the recovery of DoD property and in full uniform and had called in for PPD assistance.
The 12th district was well known to be a disciplinary district, basically corrupt cops soon to be prosecuted, the foul-ups on their way out, etc ended up assigned there.
What the good captain didn't know is that I was personal friends with the deputy police commissioner and after, discussed the matter with him. He investigated it personally, found numerous and increasing complaints of drawing a weapon against department policies and procedures, as well as increasing complaints of excessive force. A psych review found that basically, that captain was just burned out on the job. So, he got to patrol a desk until his retirement papers got filed.
Apparently, the poor behavior was a relatively recent trend, the psychologist suggesting it was indicative of burn-out and he'd also recommended his retirement - he had more than enough time in.
Worked for me, got someone that was potentially dangerous off of the street and fairly quickly, out of the department and he got to keep the pension that he'd earned.
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@jasonwalker9471 not quite, cosleeping, crib padding, infant positioning, not using a damnable pillow, as all are risk factors. They've recently detected genetic markers that suggest respiratory drive is lower and can potentially fail if the infant falls too deeply asleep as well.
Tons of research, little so far to show beyond the suggestion of one set of genetic markers maybe.
Way back in the mid-80's, our youngest was diagnosed with SIDS, we were loaned a world of monitoring equipment to monitor her breathing, laughably, our cat alerted us several minutes before the alarms would go off. We'd be standing there checking, the alarm would finally go off, the cat already having warned us by meowing and pacing. Would that we could figure out what alerted the cat!
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@standingwhilepooping4685 did you ever wonder where section 8 came from?
Article I, Section 8, Clause 1, the General Welfare clause. If We The People is a waste of money, whatinhell are we defending then, when the Constitution already declared We The People the United States?
Besides, we wasted more money than God has every year. Like each and every year, SOCCENT would send a warehouse full of state of the art network equipment, brand new and in the box to the DRMO auction for pennies on the thousand dollars.
Or a war "because he tried to kill my dad".
Or the $200 million and a decade of R&D to replace a thermonuclear weapon component that they literally didn't document how to make. Look up Fogbank some time.
And investigating flying saucers a half dozen times, when we already knew they were mostly our own test vehicles.
Or the littoral combat vessels that are being retired brand new because they're cracking apart.
Meanwhile, you'd piss and moan if we didn't use equipment until it was falling apart because of the taxes being raised to cover it.
And we gain the benefit of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines learning how to clear stoppages, even if they'll never have to do so again because their unit equipment isn't worn out.
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Well, it is an older nursery rhyme. It's likely to have fallen out of favor in Europe over time.
I was surprised to remember that much, it's been many decades since I've heard it in any German dialect and the last time I used German was back in the mid to late '80's.
And now, I've got a craving for pumpkin soup... ;)
Oh, it's crib, as in produce crib for storing produce on a farm. So, Peter kept his wife in the pumpkin crib.
His was the original Mother Goose version translated to German, suffering in the translation a bit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter,_Peter,_Pumpkin_Eater
You'd have even more fun with Yiddish, which has German, Russian, some other Slavic influences and some Hebrew. Many years ago, I was fluent, as I grew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Philly. But then, we're talking '60's and early '70's. Can't keep the eggs in a basket forever, they'll eventually spoil. :/
I also grew up enjoying (and still enjoy scrapple (originally, a loaf of pork face meat, heart, liver, possibly other offal, corn meal and spices baked into a loaf. One would then slice it and fry it, typically for breakfast). Farmers never wasted any part of the animal they slaughtered, the only waste was its complaint.
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@jimmypad5501 well, English is an actual bastard tongue. No singular or plural source tongue, there are at least 350 languages that contributed to the language.
Hence, why every rule of the language has its exceptions and contradictions. A humorous write-up on the language even suggested that English isn't really a language, but a psychological weapon, designed to cause madness in the learner. ;)
Native English speakers tend to have a harder time learning other languages, as most other languages actually make sense and are consistent and those are concepts that they're utterly unacquainted with. So, obviously, the humorous thesis is in error, one must start off mad, then one is entirely fit to learn English.
Then, add in American vs UK English, well, that's all the UK's fault. They never even bothered documenting the language until after 1776, when some tiff developed that halted shipping of said documentation for sales within her former colonies...
A joke I've shared from the Occasionally United Kingdom, from the Rarely United States. Well, that and "Civilization, brought to us by those who brought us tea, English and blood pudding".
Brings the house down.
No, not random capitalization, part of another joke we've shared.
I'll just get my coat on the way out...
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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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@ellyningalls9518 protect fetal life, only to deny food stamps for the infant.
Because religious perversions, where abortion was known when the bible was written, but ignored and these "Christians" choose the most godless creature since Satan to lead them in their charge to know better than their own God what is right and wrong, while objecting to paying taxes (remember give unto Caesar what is Caesar's?).
Of course, they also want Zionism, heard with my own ears how they want to force their God to come back and take over.
Per their own holy book, they're in for a very hot time.
Per reality, I see no damned difference between them and the Taliban. At the end of the day, force their will upon others via violence, perversion of law and terrorism.
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@kevinlove4930 whistleblowers abound, most turn out to be crackpots or trying to defend themselves with false claims from being terminated for cause. Occasionally, some come out with actual actionable charges.
As for audits, audits always find something - usually, math or procedural errors. Compared to Trump, who owns superpac organizations with no purpose and law allowing him to use donations as his personal piggybank.
It's just amazing how many people that prosecute Trump are claimed to be criminals, yet no evidence ever gets presented, no charges filed, mens rea entirely remains absent.
Oh wait, I forgot, Trump is the god-emperor and it's black heresy to suggest any god that is before him.
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@no_peace so, trespassing on posted private property, after opening a secured gate and damaging private property, one can engage in self-defense against the homeowner who is defending their home and posted private property in a stand your ground and castle doctrine state?
I'm fine with that, your mommy and daddy's tax dollars saw to it that I was trained to not miss my targets at any range I need to engage at and did so in war. As missing wasted ammunition, it wasn't part of the budget.
One to the bean, one to the thorax, now it's a coroner issue. And the vehicle gets impounded for even longer.
I fail to see any losing point on my end and any victory the company may enjoy would be entirely Pyrrhic.
All of the words mean something. Posted, secured, trespassing, criminal trespass by opening a secured gate, castle doctrine and stand your ground state laws. In your Bizarro world, home invasions are legal!
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@thevictoryoverhimself7298 the carriers ended up being used as helicopter carriers. For the larger warplanes, we invented supercarriers.
For antisubmarine use, well, you do need to have room for countermeasures, weapons and electronics.
Meanwhile, armor rather became moot, as one could get swarmed with missiles that tend to hit their target, unlike most big gun rounds, which largely missed their targets. WWII proved one didn't need big muscle ships with big guns to slug it out, as aircraft wreaked havoc upon both Germany and Japan's fleets. Then came the guided missiles, which did quite a number during the Falklands. A fair bit of damage came from unexpended fuel from the missile burning and flowing belowdecks. The same, from her own missiles, with the Moscow.
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@catherinefalk8263 one area where that breaks down is, we're phenomenally well armed serfs.
Serfs were lucky to have a pitchfork or afford torch oil. Many Americans have literal weapons of war in their homes and don't get gun nut on this competition shooter and veteran about no automatic fire, we rarely fired burst mode, as a combat load just isn't all that big to risk expending all of one's ammunition in a minute or two of burst fire. They fire the same rounds, enough said.
Of course, the government has tanks, artillery, bombers, gunships, missiles and a shit ton of infantry...
And now, Musk is also screwing around with the VA's programs. Makes me concerned about my retirement pension benefits...
And other VA programs that I utilize.
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@dennissvitak5475 heh, living in S Central Pennsylvania. Right on the edge of Gulf Stream effects and continental weather effects, leading to the local saying, "Don't like the weather? Wait 10 minutes, it'll change".
The edge of two energetic effects systems tends to knock models into a cocked hat. :/
Had the converse in Qatar, where we were in the middle of a cell, so the weather was pretty much a constant - warm months with dry winds coming from the Empty Quarter, cooling months when it was hot and the shallow gulf raised the humidity high enough that at night triple pane windows looked like it was raining and winter, when it was 80 in the day, upper 40's at night and rainy season of a month, when an inch of annual rain fell in one serving. Basically, like a 10 minute long monsoon.
Saw a lot of virga during the summer in the distance. Evaporated thousands of feet up. Knew a sandstorm was days away from that.
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You've entirely not actually listened to her viewpoint.
We were married for 41 years and basically, were marriage counselors for many. Listening, actually listening was key in a relationship.
One can quite literally be modest while naked. My wife actually illustrated that to me continually, while naked on nude beaches.
If you don't understand provocative behavior and not, we're really done. You simply refuse to accept other viewpoints and only conflict can resolve things.
But, the reality of it is, the actual number of pedophiles in America is far under 1%, per FBI statistics. That you claim to know far more than tens of thousands of federal employees dedicated to convicting such criminals is astonishing!
What you flailed for is a term the SCOTUS used, prurient interest.
Google it.
Both mom and dad showered me, I'm as attracted to dad's balls as mom's balls and by definition, she didn't have any.
The artwork, David had a small set, positively geriatric. Venus, no thanks, not my type.
Oh, restrict knowledge? OK, let's start with restricting knowledge of how to eliminate the heretical knowledge of an inertial confinement device, aka a thermonuclear warhead.
Want to discuss that in detail and why to restrict that knowledge above all others? I can do that in spades, with detailed information to restrict.
Or maybe that information should be free, only what boobies and balls look like should be restricted, for doctor's better ignorance.
You've revealed a brain, use it outside of your context for a change!
It's what God gave it to you for.
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Well, cutting medicaid will save when 15 million disabled people die off in Aktion T4 2025.
Add in that 1 in 609 measles patients, regardless of severity will die of SSPE in 10 - 20 years, as their brain is destroyed.
And no word if they managed to find the fired people that were tracking bird flu, so I can only presume that they haven't.
The Gaza video is fascinating, he's coming more and more out of the closet. The fellatio of the microphone, Arnold Palmer's member, YMCA and now bearded ladies. Next, we'll see him under the queening stool under Elon, only it won't be an AI video, but a leaked real one.
Not to mention that the evangelicals love him, even with his video with the golden statue of god-king Trump and the Trump on the toilet golden household god statues.
Nice to know that the evangelicals worship the single person that actually is fully fulfilling every prediction for the antichrist. Which was also prophesied.
Excuse me while I place my mk 316 order...
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Hydrogen bombs used and still use lithium deuteride, which fissions down to tritium, which is fused with the already present and extremely angry deuterium. First attempt was infamous, as one common isotope of lithium was thought to not be of use in a fusion reaction, but to their astonishment, was quite useful. That test, Castle Bravo, where the crew inside of the shot cab, where the bomb is detonated from were trapped from detonation time until early evening, when the hottest fallout isotopes had decayed to a safe enough level to be able to run, while wearing sheets to limit contamination to the helicopter for evacuation.
The sheets were left on the ground as they boarded the bird.
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So, you produced that lettuce on your burger? You produced that IKEA chair you sit upon?
You are a consumer and producer, each to the product you consume, eat or produce.
And thereby, you have the actual golden rule, you have the gold, they want that gold, so you make the rules.
But, you also should remember the platinum rule, treat others as you desire to be treated.
Yeah, still working on balancing the two of those myself. And I'm a perfect 10 - alas, on the Richter scale.
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I am curious, who here is sleeping well, knowing that this clearly delusional maniac has complete, unlimited, unfettered control of our nuclear arsenal?
He can quite literally decide to launch our entire arsenal at any nation he chooses, nothing and no one can prevent him from doing so, merely by making a single telephone call.
So, are you sleeping well? I sure as hell ain't.
As for eliminating FEMA, fair trade then. No FEMA or other federal aid, the federal government may not conscript any member of the states populace or utilized in any way any state's National Guard for a federal emergency or war.
Additionally, all federal taxation collected currently is returned to each state to be deposited into the state treasury.
And all federal weaponry within the borders of a state now belongs to said state.
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No, the majority of fission products are decayed in a touch under two weeks.
Still, we have lost a few warheads over the years. That includes a warhead that is buried in a salt marsh in the state of Georgia.
The radiation from a nuclear warhead is quite low. I know that firsthand, as early in my military career, I worked on nuclear missiles.
Concerning was the first warhead accident, 5 out of 6 safeties failed. The weapon very nearly detonated. Safety was revamped significantly after that. Today, even if the explosives detonate inside of the warhead, the forces will be out of sync, preventing fission from occurring.
Additionally, the US, PRC and Russia have a permissive action link system, commonly referred to as failsafe. Only if the proper codes are given will the weapon function. One can bypass that system, which the designers described as as difficult as performing a root canal on a tooth, while entering the other end. Yeah, root canal via one's rectum sounds a touch difficult.
Maybe that's why they trusted me around boosted fission weapons.
The last B-52 was built in 1962, so most of them are older than I am, which is saying a lot. Still, in 1982, we had the Pershing 2 missile introduced, but remained unfielded, as the Soviet Union negotiated with the US to reduce the number of products from the insanity factory.
Still, the weapons might be useful to use photon pressure and push a wayward asteroid away from splatting us a few years later.
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And the Apostles did speak in Tongues and the Lord Jesus then machine gunned them down for heresy, for the Lord God spake exclusively in Middle English.
About as acceptable as a church allowing the word bullshit be chanted, as the only time that might be considered acceptable were if the entire congregation stepped into the excrement of a male bovine. Which I believe was a cut out scene from Blazing Saddles...
Regarding large crowds of followers, had millions of followers gather in my studio apartment. Thank heavens for Lysol!
Ironic, a video making points about chants of Bullshit having a baked in advertisement for a bidet... ;)
Which is actually a highly underutilized device in this country. Was the handiest thing to have when I ate something I really shouldn't have when I was overseas...
Sure beat using paper to smear meshit all over myself.
As for profanity, have yet to have even one Trumpite start a profanity contest with me and continue it for more than a few seconds. 28 years military, profanity is a language that I'm fluent with - regardless of a half dozen languages I'll use and translate.
But that's OK, I'm required to forgive them and besides, they denied the exchange, citing their rights under the fifth commandment. I usually only cite rights under a fifth of whiskey, but hey, that's me.
But Trump, of course he couldn't quote any section or verse of the bible, he can't even figure out which side is up for a bible. He's obviously a total stranger to judge not, lest you be judged or do unto others as you'd have done unto you, the former a warning about harsh judgement being promised to those inclined toward harsh judgements, the latter just damned good advice. Oddly, most claiming great affinity for the bible can quote the Old Testament origin for either verse, as Christ said nothing in the New that wasn't present in the Old.
I'll close with, remember my campaign and vote for me - for absolutely nothing. Not running for office, I'm lacking a small match temperament and far too inclined for a frank exchange of views.
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Lying about a subject does your cause ill. For one thing, shall we discuss the SALT and START treaties and the restriction on the number of operational warheads? If Russia and the US went at it on a full scale thermonuclear war, given that targeting is counter value, first ICBM installations would be targeted, then nuclear capable air force bases, followed by submarine installations, each with a half dozen or more warheads for target to ensure hardened structures are destroyed.
Each side is capped at 1,550 operational and duty ready warheads of any nuclear or thermonuclear mixture they choose, within the ICBM warhead cap previously agreed upon. To give you a hint, across each of our respective continental masses, we have a hell of a lot more cities than warheads together. Given that cities aren't the primary target, weapons are, that lowers the number of casualties significantly. It''s really hard to kill a lot of people in farm country in the US or Russia!
Oh, lemme guess, <gasp!>, nuclear winter? Disproved in the 1990's via much improved modelling that also managed to prove the threat of global warming. Those models proved to be correct when the oil fires from Gulf War I was modeled. The "experts", with their antiquated models predicted at least a decade of cooling from the soot of the oil fires, it was a couple of cooler, wetter months only.
Meanwhile, the plutonium pits are degrading from helium embrittlement, the explosives growing sensitive from neutron and beta capture, hence, the deterrent needs to be dismantled and reworked. A non-operational deterrent is not a deterrent.
Now, if you want to talk about being rid of those fine products from the insanity factory, I'm all ears! At one point in my military career I might have worked on the damned things, that doesn't mean that I like them.
P.S., I'm not really especially concerned over nuclear fallout, as warheads since the 1960's were efficient enough that less than a half ton of fallout per large yield warhead was a bit high, most were much, much lower. The only way to see significant fallout is for the warhead to be set for ground burst and everything on the ground within the fireball gets sucked into the still fissioning fireball and irradiated via neutron activation.
Although, Putin did give me a moment of pause and consideration when he mentioned cobalt-60 warheads, which would mean that all bets are off, as we'd have to salt one class of warhead the same way. I've no clue of what's he was smoking when he said that, as even at the hottest parts of the Cold War, nobody was insane enough to salt their warheads. Too high of a chance that "On the beach" would turn very, very real.
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Has the Supreme Court taken up arms to violently overthrow the government?
"Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
We lack an enemy, as Congress has not declared war upon any nation. That leaves the SCOTUS levying war against the US. Then, you'd need two witnesses to the actual overt act or a confession before an open court to treason.
So, lacking any of that, nope. Not even sedition or even advocating for the overthrow of the government.
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@julane-h2y mailed my ballot in on the 4th, it was received by the county on the 6th, it'll be counted on Nov 5.
Over the decades, it was extremely rare that I voted along party lines, instead voting for candidates of either party, according to how I agreed or disagreed with their overall platform. This election, due to party over nation insanity, adherence to cult of personality over the welfare of society itself, I voted straight democrat. A message has to be sent, come back to sanity or joint your predecessor Whig party in earned extinction, as the GOP is literally following in the footsteps of the imploding Whig party - that implosion due to a nearly identical populist, nativist group of minority fanatics hijacking and destroying the nation's first conservative party from within and the sane members leaving and forming the Republican Party in the first place.
That displays, not the courage of their predecessors, that new Republican Party's first candidate for president being Abraham Lincoln, but cowardice, embracing views that were thankfully extinct since 1860.
But then, those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat its mistakes.
I don't repeat mistakes, I make all new mistakes, that's how one learns and grows.
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Back when I was living in Louisiana, I sought some pain treatment from our local hospital clinic.
I suggested ibuprofen. Doctor had a major heart attack or something, going on about how harmful to the kidneys and what not,
“Fine, I’ll take an opioid:.
Got my Motrin.
Taking them American style, more is better idiocy, yeah, it’ll shred my kidneys. Real life, I loathe taking medications of any sort and am hugely annoyed to take the now seen tablets I have to take to survive. So, kidney load isn’t a problem with me.
And yes, idiots, I do need to take my beta blocker, thyroid blocker, proton pump inhibitor. I don’t want my aorta to explode, my stomach to digest its input or well, do that dying thing.
Or currently, enjoy wisdom tooth agony while awaiting an upcoming surgery.
Considered sending my mouth out for the surgery, but alas, I cannot enjoy my tilapia dinner without it.
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"Oh, go fuck off".
"Oh? OK, I've no ID, however I have enough for DISS and my clearance is higher than yours is, I can write a national security letter defining you as a terrorist".
Good, now go kick a rock.
Similar to an actual incident I endured, while couriering a secure, classified package. Idiot actually started to open the marked classified parcel when his phone rang to tell him that his career had ended.
Protocol is open outer, see the classified marking, make a call to report classified exposed, whoopsie.
Trying to open it, a violation of the Espionage Act.
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So, DEI is fraud, waste and abuse and having good relations with Sri Lanka is also fraud, waste and abuse because we don't like dark skinned people that talk funny is the justifications.
No, those are policy decisions and racism.
Frankly, wave papers in front of me, it's like that infamous red cape before a bull, I'm reaching for them to read the alleged receipts. More likely, she's showing the White House shopping list for hamburgers.
Just as when some tried to make hay over SecDef Lampshade Wearer's $48k paint job, I showed literal receipts as to why it was justified and actually, not by his request. SecDef gets the misfortune of having a SCIF inside of his home. The paint, literally an inside and out Faraday shield to prevent EM radiation leakage allowing someone to literally tap the electronics from a half mile away. The floors and ceiling gets a similar treatment, special windows that are shielded and window covers get installed as well, the tip-off being the $1k door (no, the lock is a GSA mandatory combination lock that costs $1500 - $2500 depending upon mounting hardware and oh, the required encryption devices cost twice the paint job in price.
Yeah, wave receipts or bills at me, I'm not an accountant, but I do know government programs, government costs and yeah, that hammer was actually a specialty tool, not some Home Depot toy, gotta work as well in space, Antarctica, the equator and anywhere else DoD needs to use it. You should see the spec book for just a high temper bolt, it's a thick binder after DoD got ripped off and men injured by non-tempered bolts failed and nearly killed them.
The biggest red cape, lying to me. I despise lies and being talked down to and one quickly learns my blunt candor and intelligence are par none.
And I remember his previous maladministration, when he waved a binder around as proof that was full of blank pages. Didn't ask for your documentation of your thoughts, Mr President, I asked about that program you've never documented or evidence you claim to have and oh, never presented and never will because it doesn't exist.
Still, I do most strenuously disagree and object to calling Musk and Trump pieces of shit. It is disrespectful and demeaning to perfectly useful excrement that only awaits composting to be able to be effectively recycled. Trying to compost them would be like trying to compost and recycle cobalt-60, if they composted, they'd still emit toxic radiation for over a century.
Oh, excellent proof that aliens live among us. I'd simply introduce people to some of my neighbors, most if not all are legal and many in the process of becoming citizens. Be careful though, I've gotten them into the habit of sharing recipes. ;)
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@AverageAwesomeDude one problem with a single Jesus is, the Romans had a massive bureaucracy, with records on everything from the name, residence and birthplace of every subject and citizen to who was executed and why. No records have been found that mention him as a person, but records to exist that speak of many preachers running about and preaching everything from rise up and make war against the empire to give unto Caesar his damnable tax money.
Most of what is in the New Testament is directly traceable to the Old Testament, from prophesies to being nice to your neighbor and not swinging a sword at anyone who gets you mad.
Worse, Paul came along and there's still a fair amount of dispute among theologians as to how much Paul upstaged Peter while Peter was traveling and preaching.
As Gandhi once said, "I like your Christ, I don't like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ".
How many forgive, rather than speaking of smiting whoever and wherever someone that angers them, who call themselves Christians? So unlike Christ.
How many are willing to turn the other cheek, rather than resorting to Smith and Wesson?
How many withhold judgement, lest they be judged according to the harshness of their judgement? That's the lesson, few listen to their own faith and are hypocrites by condemning strangers before learning anything about them, why they do things and simply judge and condemn. How should they be judged, if not according to their own rush to judgement and harshness of their judgement?
The lesson isn't that of a man or son of anyone, the lessons are the message and lessons to learn and live by.
For who would be judged the better person, the one behaving because of threats of eternal torture and nonexistence or someone that behaves because it's the right thing and better thing to do?
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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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@aperocknroll88 love them as a comfort food and for veggies, frequently as a soup and stew ingredient. The fish, well, a memory of when I was a boy scout, back during the ice age.
Annoying, the only realistic quantities are five gallon buckets, which is an absurd quantity for me, a gallon max would suffice for my needs for what is a rare guilty treat of a comfort food.
I can only find it at a reasonable price in five gallon or more prepper quantities and that just ain't gonna happen. No room for it and no need for such a waste, as I've absolutely no chance to wade through that much guilty pleasure without said pleasure becoming deleterious due to excess in favor of fresh food the rest of the time.
So, if they've got gallon and under quantities, I'll be interested, shoot along the URL, even here usually allows one quick link.
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There are two forms of water overdose. One is commonly referred to as drowning, freshwater is preferred for those treating that condition, as that will enter the bloodstream, rather than pool in the lungs and keep causing problems like seawater does.
The other is water intoxication. Got to work with one case, annoying and I'm glad that the idiot didn't go to such insane excess as this video's case did.
Dealt with more dehydration, electrolyte imbalance due to perspiration electrolyte loss.
But, a few service members did overindulge in water and entirely follow civilian population salt intake rules, resulting in hyponatremia and others refused to drink "water that smells like a swimming pool" (utter nonsense, as the residual chlorine level is ten times that of a swimming pool, for good reason, it's in water trailers left stewing in the sun and otherwise, would incubate all manner of microorganism that isn't preferable to imbibe a culture of).
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The chump change "fine" tells the tale on what they really want - not money, your PII for identity theft.
It's an ongoing issue in Pennsylvania, with the governor's office even issuing a warning of a major campaign targeting PA residents.
Been getting around one a month for the past four months, with one month garnering two. All get "report spam" clicked and deleted immediately after.
Other smishing messages are originating as well, all from the Philippines thus far.
Out of pure malice, I texted two back telling them that they texted me the wrong content, as we'd agreed that they'd send me the current disposition of the Chinese fleet harassing certain islands... I figure, law enforcement won't or can't do anything, let PRC intelligence perceive a threat then. ;)
Given the PRC already has my SF86 data and documents from their OPM hack, I'm sure they're monitoring my traffic to and from the region. :P
Hey, it's always a good thing when one can get one's adversaries to fight one another!
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Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Now, we have no enemies, since Congress hasn't declared war since WWII. That leaves levying war against the US, when did he pick up a gun and wage war against the US and where are your two witnesses to the overt act of doing so?
No? I guess we're stuck prosecuting him for his actual crimes then. He'll likely serve more time for them than for treason, given treason gets five years and up to execution, plus a fine and property attainder.
18 U.S.C § 2381 , states that a person guilty of treason against the United States “shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
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@Deathbomb9 uh huh, so science halts somewhim.
Nope, still studied, still relevant due to stress factors, shear strength and more.
M113 APC's, aluminum hulled, till in use.
You got a few things right, starting with material science, but your knowledge on alloys is deficient, badly.
Titanium, totally between aluminum and steel, right? Nope, alloy complicate that horrifically.
Density is the king of strength, but diverting forces is the emperor.
When you actually have a clue, come talk.Diversion of forces, redirection of forces and capitalizing of varying densities is a very eal thing that you excluded yourself from.
I expect better, you're brighter than that!
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@joeshmoe6969 you are obviously not familiar with the US or our Constitution and government. We have a department of justice, it's an executive branch agency responsible for federal law enforcement. We have a judicial system, under a judicial branch, which adjudicates law, not justice. Not what's moral, just, correct, proper, right or wrong, just what is legal.
And mutilation is unconstitutional as cruel and unusual punishment. If you mutilate someone wrongly, due to a deficient verdict for any number of reasons, do you now magically unmutilate them, just as we now have to undead the wrongly executed?
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God-emperor? Excuse me, god-emperor Trump?
Would you like some more pee on your Cheerios?
We've also got some cheese to accompany your whine.
Oh, I nearly forgot, we've freshly fueled your personal jet with enough water to reach Moscow.
And we've gotten you your solid gold, for once not gold plated, "Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200" card to hang in your cell.
In consolation, here's a cookie, fresh from the cat box.
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I still love those who insist that the Constitution protects "the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", conflating a declaration of war, the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution. The Declaration had no legal standing in the US, that war long being over before we even had a Constitution.
And it ignores that inalienable right of life being forfeited in an executed prisoner, making the right utterly alienable. The same being for liberty, otherwise all prisons, jails and inpatient mental health care facilities unconstitutional entities.
And laughable is the "right" to the pursuit of happiness, as how can one prohibit that?
Frankly, all of the nonsense spouted off is an indictment of our civics education, or more specifically, it's abject failure thereof.
And if English became a mandatory language, would I need to change my old insignia, which reads "de oppresso liber"? There would be some significant resistance to that, with folks one really shouldn't want to fight with.
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Rayon is cellulose, if that's a chemical, trees are chemicals.
I guess we need to ban all precursors to rayon - plants.
Seriously though, bamboo sourced fiber, bamboo sourced viscose (what rayon actually is), bamboo sourced whatever would work under the act, but it is about as much bamboo as a woody plant, it's about as much bamboo we're familiar with as a human is.
Although, rayon sheets, well, I could legally call rayon sheets viscose sheets, cellulose sheets or even sugar sheets, as cellulose is just a shit ton of chained sugars.
I do have bamboo cutting boards, not plastic, but actual laminated bamboo and they're nicer on blade edges than many plastic cutting boards, but like plain wood, still a pain in the ass to disinfect.
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I actually met a man that signed with an X, as he stated that when he was growing up, it was illegal to teach him to read and write. He was quite old and well, this was over 40 years ago, he would've been born around the turn of the century or so.
In the Army, I digitally signed documents and e-mails as a matter of routine, as the signing certificate is stored on our ID cards, which we also used to log onto computers with. My written signature, well that's illegible, largely due to, as paperwork increased, my penmanship declined. Good luck duplicating it though.
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-Surprised at shelf-life of Spam? Take a gander at an MRE's shelf-life.
Saw the notice in my mailing list, as recalls and alerts on foods and well, tons of other stuff, are trivial to sign onto a mailing list from every government agency.
UK and Spam, well, post-war shortages were common within the living memory of the writers of Monty Python, so Spam wasn't uncommon. Think recovering from the Blitz, enough said.
As for Spam itself, don't have any on hand now, but occasionally, I'll get some and enjoy it. Think every couple of years kind of occasionally, at my age, I'm watching my salt and fat intake.
And currently astronomical blood pressure, as doctor decided to wait nearly a week to refill my BP meds. Once more, I'll be chalking up another fired doctor.
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The god of Abraham, aka Ibrahim, depending upon the language. Allah is Arabic that literally translates as THE God. The God of Abraham.
As Jesus was a Jew, by his own admission, they'd also reject him as they already reject by their actions and words his teachings.
BTW, a bit of trivia that most of them don't know, Christ means "the annointed one", which at the time was largely reserved for royalty. Later, well, Confirmed Catholics and many other Christian sects annoint with oil. Jesus, a mistransliteration for Yeshua, in English, Joshua.
Also, another little known fact. While I may speak and write like an atheist, I am actually an ordained minister. Entertaining are conversations where a misunderstood transliteration gets referred to in the original tongue and still the social concept gets misinterpreted due to a difference in cultures not being taken into account.
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@rtaf4206 so, the right to travel is Constitutionally defined as the right to drive a motor vehicle? Any particular type or class defined in the Constitution? Diesel? Electric? Gasoline?
The right to travel is guaranteed, a mode of travel is not defined, so the Constitution does not guarantee one the right to operate a frigate or right to use a horse, only that one can freely travel. That could be on foot, crawling, taking a ship, riding a horse or carriage, not too many other modes of travel existing when the Constitution was written, hence kind of folded in. What also isn't guaranteed is that mode of travel being guaranteed if one does not pay for it, so carjacking or hijacking a vessel or aircraft in order to travel is decidedly not guaranteed.
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Frankly, with Vance's first tirade, well, Zelensky's a far better man than me. I'd have fractured Vance's hyloid bone and explained that a Marine just fell to an old Army retiree.
Trust me, the psychological impact of that is tremendous. And like Marines, we also got paid to take martial arts classes and use them downrange.
And I'm not typically one inclined to strike first.
That said, he's antagonistic because he questioned the words of the god-king. That's black heresy and should've been rewarded by burning at the stake or something. The god was challenged and the challenger must be punished by the faithful, the worst the punishment, the more faithful the follower is.
And I counter with, those rare earth metals won't ever go to the United States of America, I'll have them reacted with other elements to be unrefinable first. And chemically, it wouldn't take much to render even rare earths commercially nonviable with common elements. I also freely admit to a character flaw, I am a very, very, very, very vindictive man.
Still, there is one upside for this imbroglio. The UK has had a mutually warm reception between their PM and President Zelensky. I just checked my magical 8 ball, the odds look good for a rare earth mineral deal for the occasionally United Kingdom.*
*Kind of an in joke between some friends in the UK and myself, I make a similar quip about the rarely United States of America. I'm also known to poke fun at everyone, especially myself, because well, the lowest hanging fruit is the easiest available.
But then, if I somehow royally, immeasurably ever screwed up and ended up as POTUS, I'd refer to my office as the Oaf Filled Office and when SNL lampooned me, at the earliest opportunity, I'd be on SNL lampooning myself properly and likely outscoring them in belly laughs.
After all, my skin is nearly as thick as my skull, which literally stunned a goat once. Yeah, that's a true story of both epic poor judgement around goats, species miscommunication and well, a goat literally butting me in the forehead and it ended up stunned, while I rubbed a sore spot and said, "Ow!", much to my wife's mirth. She literally swore unto her dying day that that goat's eyes crossed, not that I could tell, it was only sitting on its rump, rear legs crossed, front legs splayed and wobbling.
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As you've mentioned, we've had bases on Greenland, hell, we still have Thule AFB, now under the Space Command and hence, still USAF as the Space Force is only a combatant command under the USAF.
With radar that looks to space and sea. With the SOSUS net, which runs across the GIUK gap, so that no evil, nasty Ruskie submarine can sneaky through.
So, given our ability to have Denmark (well, until now) rubber stamp anything we wanted to install there, it's a simpler question.
Why buy the cow when you already get the milk for free?
Greenland talks about independence, albeit very weakly, as most of their GNP comes from Denmark.
The mineral wealth is dubious in some ways, as much of it is under the glacier and nobody has ever considered mining through a kilometer of ice. Or even doing more than drilling ice cores.
Well, other than us, we did try to build an ICBM base inside of the glacier, due to differential movements within the glacier, the hallways literally stopped lining up quickly, the nuclear reactor they installed to power the base leaked like the proverbial sieve from the hot loop, we eventually abandoned the base and the drums of radioactive ice there - right until Denmark found out about it and made us come back and clean that shit up.
Leaving only areas that are glacier free for exploitation and there's no promise from nature that Greenland won't do to our mines what it did to the Viking settlements - bury them in ice later on.
No, rather than buying the cow, he wants to buy the cow and pasture of ice, then pay someone to travel 1900 miles to get the milk that was formerly delivered.
And rather than use diplomatic channels and methods, he went bull in the china shop looking for the tea service. Well, that service is now shards on the floor, good job, what next, fire?
As for Russian threats, they're no greater now than they were before. Russia doesn't have Star Trek transporters, ships travel around the same speeds now as during WWII. Airplanes have been traveling at the same speeds for two generations. Missiles have been around since the 1960's, albeit at much lower numbers of 1550 deliverable warheads for the US, around 1650 or so for Russia.
And Arctic ice clearing opens up areas far, far, far closer to Russia and just as wealthy in rare earths as on Greenland, especially near the Siberian Traps, where massive magmatic provinces brought such elements to the surface and water did its thing separating them into veins that are now becoming accessible.
Or maybe it'll become, Greenland today, Iceland tomorrow and next week, Airstrip One. I guess Obama could get the part of Manny Goldstein...
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@MrTruckerf I'm confused. Even more than usual after passing my mirror...
Why would you trade trucks every 3 years to keep up with improvements, lacking any regulation requiring such? There are no ex post facto laws requiring such, so, a matter of conscience? If so, thank you, my lungs appreciate that effort greatly!
Now, if we could only improve fuel economy on those last two trucks by an order of magnitude. Alas, tanstaafl. Largely, because free lunches are just so damned expensive!
I am curious though, what's the mileage for the urea for the exhaust system? I know it's load dependent, but really have no clue how far on average with a full load one typically can travel (either general average or on flat terrain for a general idea, mountains throw everything into a cocked hat in consumption terms).
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Welcome to the very concept of freedom of speech, no matter how unpopular or divorced from facts.
The only limitations criminally, for things that violate the law, like conspiracy and sedition, civilly, well, he finally seems to have learned that lesson a half billion dollars and change in.
Now, fascism, that's what he wants, complete with criminalizing free speech.
If it's all the same to you, I'd prefer to retain my rights, rather than to sacrifice them to the altar of Trump or stupidity, but then I repeat myself.
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I've had posterior nosebleeds my entire life. Mostly, it seems to be triggered by dry heat during winter, with some joys in early spring with a bit of swelling from pollen.
Losing a unit of blood isn't uncommon and I've taken to largely just let it bleed for 10 minutes or so max into a sink or toilet, was out of toilet paper in the bathroom and the damned room literally looked like a murder scene.
Cautery? Tried repeatedly. Packing? Tried repeatedly. Medications? Doctor even tried vitamin K, which I'll admit was a Hail Mary play.
Back during the first April wave of a certain pandemic, I was hospitalized with initially presumptive COVID-19, proved later to be what I suspected, thyrotoxicosis. Literally, the low O2 saturation was due to a hypertensive crisis and some LVH (saw that on the ECG in the ED and was swearing a blue streak). On 5 - 7 LPM O2 via nasal cannula, when I saw bright red spotting, got the dose lowered without SPO2 dropping and a humidifier installed on the O2 feed.
Those nurses didn't need a bleed like that and deal with a smattering of complex COVID cases!
Entertaining was when the endocrinologist suggested that if the methimazole didn't control the thyroid output in a timely manner, iodine administration was her next course. She was shocked when I mentioned the Wolff-Chaikoff effect...
Some of us got just a lot more training and experience in military medicine than most. I've never declined training and never will!
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@tom.m you neither zero or adjust fixed iron sights, which by definition are... Fixed.
And those rounds arc at one rate on earth and a substantially different rate on the moon.
Again, sights are designed to account for a fair bit of parabolic trajectory "out of the box", for adjustable sights, simply by virtue of being designed to be used on earth. A GI model M1911A1 has fixed sights. It's designed to fire a bullet mass of 230 grains and the sights are fixed at 25 meters/yards. If fired at 25 meters on the moon, the round will always impact high by around an inch (drop of 2.6" at 25 meters for 230 grain in air, more likely 1 1/4" high, accounting for drag vs vacuum). And 45 ACP out of an M1911 series is ideal for such calculations, given its range, extremely prolific documentation, known drag and mass for a NATO round, etc.
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@tom.m boy, you love to display your ignorance for all to wonder at!
First, I mentioned fixed sights for a reason. You never could zero fixed sights, you never will be able to zero fixed sights, you never will in the future be able to zero fixed sights - they're fixed. That's to provide a simple example to a simple mind.
Now, your magical reticle sights, great job, the marks are for earth, so let's say for easy of math, the bullet drops six inches per tick at 100 meters. On the moon, it'd drop less than one inch, now you're way off, as earth gravity is six times higher and then there's drag on the bullet, as expressed in the math via the ballistic coefficient.
A tall mount further introduces parallax errors, dropping accuracy.
But, what would I know? I'm only a competition shooter and experienced in rocketry.
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@TallinuTV well, space suits do have a type of armor, it's the micrometeor protective layer. Consider that micrometeors are cooking along around Mach 12 - 15 or so, that's a wee bit faster and more energetic than a mere bullet. So, goosing that up a bit shouldn't be a big deal, as one then accounts for a much slower, but heavier projectile. Basically, the overgarment is a cloth version of the Whipple Shield, which is used in all spacecraft, including the ISS.
Without that protection, a mere grain of sand sized meteor, which are common, would drill through a bare space suit and vaporize inside of an astronaut.
There was one spacesuit breach during the shuttle program. A tension bar inside of an astronaut's glove broke loose, cutting the astronaut's hand and through his glove, exposing his hand to space. His blood sealed the hole and the hole went unnoticed, that whole adrenaline thing and EVA thing going on. It was noticed when he removed his gloves inside of the shuttle.
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@Vaprous sights are rather useless for lunar distances anyway. On earth, someone standing just showing over the horizon would be around 5 miles away. On the moon, less than 2 miles. Given sights and stability of a firing platform, such as a sniper rifle system, suffice it to say that shots at a mile and over are beyond difficult.
Add in the terrain, well, it's hedgerow country done with rocks and small craters and large.
Now, line of sight weapons that could cause seals to fail would be far more effective at ranges great and small, despite the inverse square law. But, I'll stick with my standby, a few cases of vodka.
Because, fighting on the moon is about the stupidest idea ever considered since the military asked Carl Sagan to figure out how to make a nuke blast on the moon look impressive. Short answer, it's impossible and would likely go unnoticed, as there's no air to hold a fireball.
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YuoTvbe not quite true. it's a tenuous atmosphere, but a hard vacuum level one nonetheless.
As in, there is an atmosphere, that is barely detectable., but is present.
And for, well, bullets, not worthy of mention.
But, it is something that exists. Barely. Right up there with farting n a space elevator at a few miles up.
Seriously, there is a lunar atmosphere, it's pretty much a hard vacuum, but tenuously present. Google it, you'll be shocked and amazed.
If there's gravity, there's an atmosphere (ish), just don't try to breathe it, it's still a hard vacuum by our standards. But, even Pluto has an atmosphere.
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@728huey $8 million, he ended up collecting $9.1 million, but got yanked off the air due to the outrage - international outrage. Oral loved his fine diamond jewelry too, his staff airbrushing away the jewelry for publicity photos, but he stayed in his fine Italian suits. He eventually lost his vacation home, erm, "office" in Beverly Hills.
Bakker, last I'd heard was during the pandemic, he got jacked up by the FDA for hawking colloidal silver as a COVID cure.
Hope he likes it hot, because I'll be dumping extra coal on his section of hell. Then, some water, "It's not the heat, it's the humidity"...
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@sawyermillman985 not a clear cut case for sedition, fomenting insurrection also requires additional evidence beyond that speech. He was careful enough to manage to stay just this side of the law, although of late, not careful enough to not get multiple court verdicts against him.
Federal prosecutors are notorious for filing charges that they're certain that they'll get convictions on, not those that'll be difficult to prove to a jury. One upside being, by the time charges are filed, federal cases tend to be hermetically tight.
He is being sued for inciting a riot though, by those previously hailed as heroic law enforcement officers injured in the insurrection, now condemned by him because he doesn't want to pay for his crimes. Doubt they'll get much though, at the rate he's going in various state civil courts, by the time their case is heard, all that'll be financially left are bleached bones. And they'll not be able to take his prison mattress from him - that belongs to the jurisdiction that operates the prison. They might be able to seize his commissary money though.
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One problem is, the bible, despite abortion being around for at least 3000 years, remained silent on the subject and considered a fetus as part of the mother until born and taking its first breath, then it was considered an infant.
Well, save one ritual, if a woman was accused by her husband of adultery and pregnant, sweepings from the Holy of Holies and a ritual would either leave her unscathed and hence innocent or cause the fetus to rot. Numbers 5:18.
So, God was an abortionist and hence, in their view, a murderer of unborn children. And like Satan, they know better than God.
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Design, as in a defective design is also covered. Such as Ford having a known issue of brake fluid leaking onto electrical components, causing a fire that claimed a number of homes via garage fires.
But, my first question is, which planet is the car manufactured for. It's obviously designed for something beyond the solar system's frost line, maybe for driving around Saturn's rings.
Oh, as I recall, that London building had some remediation done due to the problem of well, molten streets. The other building you likely heard of was in Las Vegas, which similarly was melting the streets. Again, some mitigations applied, as in both cases, vehicular damage had occurred and the intolerable heat was rather bad for neighboring businesses.
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Non Guccione began construction on a casino in Atlantic City, which left steelworks literally over the roof of the home of Vera Coking. When Trump purchased the failed project, he razed the girderwork mess, resulting in damage to her home, she refusing to allow his workers repair the home.
An eminent domain battle ensued and she and two other property owners prevailed.
Still trying to figure out how Guccione's erector set ended up hanging over her home, since that apparently is criminal trespass.
Around a decade ago, a creditor of Trump's failed casino purchased her home after she moved to a retirement home in California for a little over half of her asking price that Trump refused and Guccione refused to pay, getting around $580k or so, her asking price being $1 million. The other property owners getting 2.1 million and 1.2 million.
Drones may not overfly private property below a specific altitude, I remember that from when I was working at CSC, whose seniormost officers discussed licensing of drones with the FAA director, which became effective soon after and guess what company got to handle the registrations? No bribes, just golfing buddies, because buddies taking care of buddies with government contracts is OK.
I've had to explain to friends in foreign lands about federal and state, given their nations (European, mostly) strong central governments.
The easiest way I found was to consider the US a strong federation of 50 nations with one overarching supreme Constitution that significantly restricts the federal authorities of the national government over the states beyond that which is outlined within the Constitution.
Given Eurozone, that got the concept across well enough.
Special thanks to History News Network for the naming of the guilty:
'The first record of the anecdote appears in a 1787 journal kept by one of the delegates to the convention, James McHenry of Maryland. He wrote: “A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy. A republic replied the Doctor if you can keep it.” McHenry added a footnote to the text: “The lady here alluded to was Mrs. Powel of Philad[elphi]a.”'
Why Elizabeth Willing Powel was erased from the majority of tellings of the story is beyond me, unless perhaps, they wish to reject that republic. Given that she did play pivotal roles at the time of the penning of our Constitution and before, that's the only reason I can figure, unless some, women included, want to deny women the agency that they had at the time of our nation's founding.
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It's a mathematical problem, really.
Each flight officer was deficiently issued only two arms, supporting two hands.
The initial TOGA, now that's a question, what's the airline SOP on bird strike and dual engine failure on final?
Because, had they continued on to land, they were already configured for it, they'd just not have thrust reversers and have manual brakes, which still would've been better than wheels up, no flaps, spoilers or speed brakes and their only braking system being what's essentially a bunker like wall from hell.
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Amazing, they used a lot of groceries on the campaign trail.
When we traveled, we rarely used groceries, as we didn't have a stove hanging out of our assholes. Laughably, I did own a gasoline camp stove, but that was packed.
The one place one won't use groceries is when traveling like that, no time or place to prepare groceries, so one dines out and well, all Trump does is hamburgers. And I'm damned sure he doesn't know the recipe for a hamburger.
Ironically, did go grocery shopping on Friday, eggs were extra large for $9.00, large for $8.00, went to another store where I got a steal for $7.00 for large eggs. But, the public aren't allowed to know about why egg prices are up, as god-king ordered all reporting on bird flu concealed from the public and his own reports.
Which, just before he got a chance to fuck up the entirety of our national government and C3 systems, there was another report out of Nevada of highly pathogenic influenza detected in dairy cattle and their milk in Nevada, but that might make the god-king's numbers look bad, so reporting on it's illegal by imperial decree.
After all, he's here to Make America Gaunt Again by starvation and disease.
Well, at least I didn't have trouble paying at the grocery pump.
Dear Lord, we've been invaded successfully by the Moron Militia.
Because, drilling is energy, refining oil isn't necessary and that our oil won't work in our refineries, oh yeah, I forgot, Harry Potter's magical wooden dildo will rescue us. Or give us splinters.
And gasoline will make bird flu killing entire flocks of hens off, ummmm, undead egg layers or something? I dunno about undead eggs though, not after having two eggs explode because I kept them too long.
And "the win", apparently, Dementia Donnie has forgotten that contributors and the win was in NOVEMBER AND THIS IS FEBRUARY. Someone tell him the months of the year in order please.
As for vacation, President Musk wants VP Trump on vacation, he's tiring of using the queening stool.
No, those were regular sized hats, you're just now noticing their severe microcephaly. Also known in a less professional term as having a pinhead. Small skull, malformed and tiny brain, usually disastrous at birth.
I said it when he was in office last time, back when his porch lamp still was dimly lit, a physician does not perform a Montreal Cognitive Assessment in a vacuum, one has a very good suspicion that's usually confirmed by the assessment.
Still, doesn't matter much, he's just a smoke screen for GOP misleaders and President Musk's actions as they convert our nation into a totalitarian dictatorship and once Dementia Don is no longer useful, he and his family if malcontents will also go to the camps with big ovens.
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Fraud exists everywhere, what matters is, when is it a paperclip in value vs a top shelf weapons system that doesn't work level fraud.
When routine site underperformance is present vs business as usual corporate intentional underperformance.
And a computer records search won't get results for amateurs to detect, it takes a forensic accountant to suggest where to send investigators.
Frankly, I suspect, due to certain specific behaviors and tendencies, Musk to resent US interference in apartheid, with some likely familial Nazi sympathies and he's now leveraged his inherited emerald mine and invested well enough to seek retribution and restoration.
But, that's my amateur hour armchair psychoanalysis of him. Trump knows what queening stool to stay under to gain influence, power and well, money. And is clueless in actual power and influence beyond very short range goals, but money and such short range influence was what he was literally raised on valuing.
Of the two, I only personally met Trump back around 2000. He remains the only human alive that I actively loathe. The few others were terrorists and are extinct.
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Nearly poached one gander. Aggressive as hell, charged cars and people, idiots still kept feeding the geese.
It charged my wife and kids, they got behind me and it charged toward me. Fortunately for it, it stopped just out of reach, figured out I wasn't going to back away and ran off for easier game. Had it continued, on first bite attempt, it'd gotten wrung and thrown in the back of the car for the dinner pot.
The rest of the flock was well behaved, so safe. Eventually, once that gander did disappear (not me, honestly), the township dispersed that flock. What that resident flock did to that small man made lake was horrific!
The township was idiotic too. Big sign warning not to feed the geese, right under it a dispenser one could stick a quarter into to dispense corn for the geese.
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So, when do we get to be ordered to install Telescreens in our home, direct to Big Brother?
And when does FedEx get issued weapons, since they're now a law enforcement agency?
I'm sure that the anarchists and militias will be thrilled with this nonsense, as it'll really help recruitment.
Oh, entertainingly, were the US to go to war with a peer nation, aka, one that could effectively strike US targets, that entire health care system, by feeding intelligence into government sources just lost protested status for every one of their facilities and became valid military targets. Becoming an intelligence source makes one automatically lose one's noncombatant status under the Geneva and Hague Conventions. As has FedEx and all of their depots and other assembly areas. I'm sure that a grateful nation will greatly appreciate and support your sacrifices in the cause of liberty to surveil.
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I adopted the electric kettle after being abroad for many years. Beats heating a room by using the stove.
Don't like drip coffee as much, but I do use my combination k-cup and loose grounds coffeemaker, when I'm not using my percolator. With a French press as backup. I like my coffee...
Don't have the soda water machine, no use for one myself, but if company came over, I'd have to pick one up.
I'm also a US rarity, in that I drink water straight from the tap. I also avoid sweet drinks.
On my to get list, a shoe horn. Over 60, not as flexible as I once was... Grew up with shoe horns anyway.
Used to have a half dozen measuring sticks, I largely now use a tape rule or the side of my knife, which has a imperial and metric ruler on it. Remember, measure once, cut 279 times, then get the board stretcher.
I can confound you though, I also still remember how to use a slide rule. I grew up using both.
The slide rule keeping me out of trouble, as I'd need to take off my shoes to count to 20 and once I hit 21, I'd get arrested.
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You don't understand.
Trump is the god-emperor of the universe, so if the universe disagrees, he'll god-kill-nuke-magic it away or else tariff it and the universe will pay.
That's what we get for letting him fire God.
But, he has concepts of a concept of a concepts of a plan - kill everyone by starvation, there'll be no need for health care.
And trust me, having actually met the SOB back around Y2K, long before unreality TV fed his already overinflated ego, it wasn't because Obama was a Democrat, it was because Obama was the wrong skin color.
Just based upon some chance remarks, never anything direct, as he always did enjoy his dog whistles.
My prediction of his new tenure? Expect mass casualties. Literally. Chopped programs, veterans benefits gone, social safety net incinerated, public health gutted and dismantled, food and drugs deregulated and toxic, social unrest due to stratospheric food prices and shortages due to closed borders and nobody to harvest our fields and slaughterhouses and more.
While he tries to deport people from his magical camps that are unfunded and unbuilt, to nations that already told him flat out nope, not accepting non-citizen exiles from a nation that never exiled anyone before.
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Hydrogen fuel, wonderful stuff, ignore hydrogen embrittlement, that got fixed by a hand wave.
Boeing, they do have a space division that explored hypersonic flight and lifting bodies, which may be leveraged into their commercial aircraft. Giving a wider body, additional lift and smaller size.
As increasing size has another side you didn't cover. Revenue flights that could, say, as a thought experiment, have a capacity of 1000 passengers, but paying passengers only number 100.
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@seandobbins2231 save for that whole democracy thing. You know, if one isn't a criminal, specifically a convicted felon, one can run for public office and create policies. Not specialists, whose opinions are known to vary depending upon who is paying for their "services" and well, listening to them while growing up, as often as some physicians told us smoking was bad for us, there were an equal number claiming smoking was good or neutral to one's own health.
Hence, decades of inertia, until finally the prostituted voices got drowned out by their peers - rather than weeded out via self-policing of their ranks, which was intended.
Our largest problem now is that political leadership has ended up selected strongly by largely religious minorities, who are enforcing idiocy and forcing it down a nation's throat, resulting in a race to the bottom and those are the very results we see here.
An upside, due to that idiocy, one party went full Nativist mode and is rapidly destroying itself, just as that Nativist group destroyed the Whig party in the mid-1800's.
Excuse me as I farther calm down. Just detonated at some militia goofball in another channel, who proclaimed all militia members were labeled by our government as domestic terrorists. He won't enjoy the exchange further, as I was unit historian for a historic National Guard unit - one founded under Colonel Benjamin Franklin. And well, lessee... Militia being, by Act preexisting this nation as able bodied males of military age (ages specified by each act and occasionally differing), later updated for females (initially only in the National Guard, but expanded by legislation, but leaving conscription an unresolved question) as unorganized militia and organized being organized militia that was in 1903 given a new fangled nation, the National Guard.
So, he's getting hit over the head with both codified law and history. That seems to make me a liberal in his book, a decidedly odd and telling tell on his part.
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You need your eyes checked then.
Treason is the only crime listed in the US Constitution and is extremely narrowly and precisely defined.
Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
By definition, we have no enemies, as Congress has not declared war upon anyone since WWII.
That means levying war and that requires, by law, the taking up of and utilizing arms against officers of the United States Government.
So, it's not treason, it's pretty much never treason.
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@JohnDoe-qz1ql nope, it comes down to judgement. Can you trust their good judgement when it comes to the lives of yourself and your loved ones?
Frankly, I'd not trust their good judgement with a used Foley catheter.
I fail to see Steve's consideration though on "figuring out how to unbolt", it's four damned bolts, the bolts embedded in concrete, the nuts holding the damned thing to the pad. It ain't rocket science.
The boxes may not be sold to the public, period, end of story. Want a steel box to store supplies, there are companies that build just as durable and a hell of a lot more functional and pleasant in appearance.
Still, I've operated ambulances and more, I could see something silly like, "Hi, USPS? Yeah, I'm Steve and I kinda clipped one of your collection boxes with the ambulance on a call, knocking it free. Here's the numbers off of it and its location, can you send someone out for it? Thanks!" Not, "Hi, I am pretending not to have stolen a quasi-federal agency's Constitutionally mandated property and am asking if I can keep what I just stole fair and square".
I know of two medics in great need of an enema.
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Congratulations! You finally noticed that he's been quoting Hitler. He's been doing it for ages, now it's just completely out in the open.
Interestingly, he's also getting things out of order, beginning Aktion T4 a trifle early through the VA now removing volunteers that were previously feeding dementia hospice patients and making visitation difficult to impossible before his invading Poland - erm, I mean well, damned near everyone on a randomly shifting list. Hitler acknowledged having to wait for the mass extermination of elderly, disabled, mentally disadvantaged, insane or otherwise "unproductive and undesirable" until after war began, so that he could justify it with the populace as a "necessary sacrifice to prevent sapping the strength of a nation at war by supporting the unproductive drains upon society". His ideas on eugenics, originating in the US...
And there are "Russian ships and Chinese ships out there", yeah, other countries have also always used the oceans too. The US doesn't own the seven seas, there are even ratified treaties to that very effect. Oh wait, forgot, god-king outranks laws and the Constitution and only must needs consult with Emperor Musk before the Empress may decided upon an action.
Although, I'm at a quandary here, how does the US invade and send US forces throughout the land on immigration enforcement and cut the DoD budget by 50% all at the same time?
Other than, it's yet another smokescreen.
And he's forgetting, there are 15.8 veterans in the US and he's successfully pissing us all off. Not an exemplary career move, given he's only got 2.86 million troops and that number is dropping due to his own actions. Given we also know where the ammunition supply points are. And the C3 nodes. And logistical distribution hubs. And assembly areas.
And we don't even need to go for stupid battles, we just need to foul logistics nationwide, hamper communications, everything grinds to a halt and without logistics and communications, well, you've got a rabble.
A bit of solvent here, some concrete there, missing steel somewhere else...
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If he were alive and I asked Schrodinger to solve the Schrodinger equation for a relativistic electron orbital, well, we'd both call it time to hit the bar and hope Lorentz doesn't show up there as well. There, Dirac would be waiting for us... ;)
Doubles all around, 'cause now it'll get dense.
Cap off that night by casually mentioning that, in 2024, we're really close to achieving commercial level fusion power, only between 5 and 40 years away, then get the bar towel to clean up the spit drinks...
I'll start the food fight though. Engineering is, like chemistry, simply applied physics.
And anyone wanting to say that quantum physics isn't useful, turn your computer off, since you don't respect or acknowledge its technology and come talk to my tunneling diode and tell it how it doesn't work. Don't make me dust off the laser...
Erm, nitpick, optical vs UV? Both are optical, Balmer is visual light (although there still is that whole IR thingie), Lyman is UV, which still is light. Both use the same basic optics, just different tuning and materials (same again with IR). It's only when the wavelength gets really long or much shorter than mere UV that things turn into a pain in the gonads to focus and reflect reasonably efficiently. UV absorbs and converts to heat, but visual light doesn't? Uh, no, six of one, half dozen of the other, just more energy downconverting to heat with UV and don't get me started on hard gamma (gonad pain, remember?). Perhaps, a bit too Goobered down?
As for quantum mechanics vs classical, a fission reactor is a fine example. I can kludge together a basic, ugly fission reactor without quantum mechanics. If I want an efficient one, I'm going to need quantum mechanics. Lasers, well, I need quantum mechanics, they're not magic, just the darkest of the dark arts, mathematics. ;)
I'll disagree about cannot agree to disagree. After all, there is Schrodinger's Mouse, who had the grave misfortune of trying to ascertain the wave function of that damned cat...
I'll just get my hat and coat...
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Isn't that where the gasoline refrigerator is?
Although, I was present at one supermarket some years back when the food was being freshly smoked. OK, I was briefly smoked.
Just as I got to the cash register, the clerk began having difficulties entering pricing, then the register began smoking.
I suggested she might want to get the manager to see if it was procedure to just unplug the obviously now deceased cash register, as I stepped back from the cloud of smoke. Sometimes, ya just gotta laugh, but prod someone to unfreeze. Obviously, it got unplugged. I just didn't know where the plug was, as in that state, even on broken ring, it'd have seized the token and eventually a timeout would occur, it sure couldn't do anything - the magic smoke had already smitten me. ;)
Now, excuse me while I go the grocery store and get some oil from the frozen section.
The man reminds me of a comedian's response to Saint Ronald Reagan, after making a PR trip to McDonald's to basically show that he was in touch with the common man, the joke made being that the entire effect was ruined when Reagan asked to see the wine list. I'd voted for him back then, but I found the joke hilarious. Alas, Trump's ignorance is real and downright dangerous.
Oh no, my chicken is defective! Lemme get the gun and hot glue that gaping hole in the obviously defective bird!
Damn! I'm completely out of rotisserie olive oil! Gonna have to pick some up, along with some extra crispy water.
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I dunno, I've said repeat a few times over the radio. The indirect fire eventually makes an impression. ;)
I tend to prefer to refer to explosions visual and audible effects as "thunder, fire and brimstone". It gets the point across reasonably well.
Hmmm, ignored by Hollywood? Blast cavitation injuries, avulsions from the same, hollow organ ruptures, shrapnel injuries (even on the rare occasions they hint at it, it's tiny wounds, not missing limbs, half of a head, seeing through a thorax, evisceration... Then, there's shake and bake, Willie Pete and HE quick, everyone will try to bunker in for HE, but when WP comes to visit, try to keep up with the old SOB!
Movies and bullets, a bullet hits, it always goes straight. It also always has to come out to fix a problem, which is bogus, as anything needing the bullet removed also means repairing blood vessels and bones, otherwise, if it isn't damaging anything, leave it the hell alone and not injure the patient even more.
Circling back to explosions, MASH did one scene well. Hawkeye was operating on a patient with a bone jutting from his body. He remarked, "Well, he doesn't need this", a nurse queried if the damage was that severe or something similar, he remarked, "No, it's not even his". Someone stepped on an antitank mine and one of his bones from his leg impaled the patient. It was a true story.
Or the Afghanistan case, where an RPG round was impaling a patient. The surgeon evacuated the OR, only volunteers worked on him to remove the round from his body, just in case it detonated and killed everyone present.
Next, in military situations, an explosion sends all manner of shrapnel, both from the device and whatever is nearby. Service member gets some of the shrapnel, but escapes significant injury from the blast itself. Fortunately, his body armor prevented any penetrating injuries, the ESAPI plates did need replacement and the fractures beneath were treated and healed uneventufully. Rib fractures suck, but sucking chest wounds suck even more.
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Given that the capsule of the cobalt-60 source is intact, Homer would never be radioactive, as cobalt-60 isn't a neutron emitter.
But, there's another extremely common source that resembles that capsule, a phosphor coated tritium vial, the tritium also coming from nuclear power plants. Again, he'd not be radioactive, as it's intact. Although, the amount of tritium, were the source compromised would be decidedly unhealthy, it's unlikely to reach LD50 for tritium on a chemical basis. Biochemically speaking, tritium sucks in organic reactions...
As for Cerenkov radiation, it's not only present in water, it can and has occurred in air, the eyes (OK, yeah, that's mostly water) and I've personally observed, much to my horror, its presence in glass.
Really long story there.
Oddly, there have been survivors of prompt criticality accident who observed the glow in the room air. Got sicker than all hell, but they survived. Suffice it to say, any children resulting from them are not on my family's intimate relationship list, as some of their DNA "eggs" got scrambled for certain.
I've been, off and on, reading an interesting IAEA report on criticality accidents. My thought, the entire time reading it and after, "A bunch of 5 year old kids with daddy's loaded gun in their hands". I'm firmly convinced that Homer Simpson is a real person and he bounces back and forth mostly between the US and Russia. ;)
Still, I'm in the market for a cobalt-60 source, so I'll soon be calling around South America to evaluate a few potential sources... :/
No, I'm sure Kyle recalls the orphaned sources at the heart of a couple of accidents and one in Mexico, which contaminated a hell of a lot of US steel that's still in use, you can't wink and smile about those deaths.
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There was one leader who did enact such a "disposal of dead wood", rounding up the insane, disabled and mentally challenged people and gassing them in carbon monoxide trucks. He then advanced to large camps, to eliminate all he thought to be undesirable for his vision of society.
Yeah, WWII. I actually knew some of the survivors.
Today, we do have some events that are reflective of history. A populist party, nativist in general nature, isolationist as well, hijacked a major political party and obstructed until it failed, earning the name Know Nothing Party, as nobody knew nothing about who was obstructing or why. The Whig party collapsed and a new Republican party was formed. Their Presidential candidate was some guy named Lincoln. The know nothings eventually went away, to fade into obscurity. The current day version are already showing signs of implosion.
After all, when one races to the bottom, once there one has nowhere to continue racing to.
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I initially wanted to reject the term supercarrier out of hand, but then remembered Japanese technology during WWII and even a submarine aircraft carrier.
And the Japanese nuclear warhead program, which was abandoned both due to a lack of resources and lack of will, as such weapons were considered dishonorable.
Give them an idea, it's likely Japan would introduce the world to an airevac and hospital superdupercarrier, able to MEDEVAC an entire country, treat the populace and return them home.
And for once, I'm not joking.
Having worked with the JDF, I'm damned sure they'd love to have such a capability. Knowing them, with one, they'd already be off the Turkey and Syria coast helping out.
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Stop looking for magical one source solutions. You've got insane amounts of wind along the coast, as well as wave energy, even some pockets of geothermal energy. Not much for solar, that whole north thing and all.
Hydrogen energy, it's unicorn farts. Gotta get hydrogen somehow, gonna get a unicorn to fart it out? No, didn't think so, that requires either catalysts or magical, Harry Potter waving his magical phallus about free energy. A small hint, the latter ain't gonna happen.
Increasing efficiency is one area that helps tremendously. Using wind along the coast and higher elevations contributes greatly as well, ocean wave energy helps a lot too. Won't replace everything at current technology levels, but it'll lower the final bill by a lot.
An efficiency model I like is one I use myself. I love cooking with gas, which is tremendously inefficient and I've even got camping gear kits I've modified for pots and pans to catch the blow-by heat from the flames that I retain for camping.
Induction heating is far more efficient, controllable and well, precise in cooking. Use the hell out of it. The cost basically is electrical energy utilized over NG fuel and well, copper and chips and transistors controlling coils.
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Flouride, isn't that what bread is made from?
Fluoride, depends upon the fluoride, not that these brain trusts would be capable of comprehending the difference between stannous fluoride and chlorine trifluoride.
Frequently enough, these same fu - erm, folks also call white phosphorus a chemical weapon, no it's an allotrope of an element, in a military context, incendiary and primarily used to generate tons of steamy smoke. Not a nerve agent, blood agent, choking agent, blister agent, CNS agent, etc. It's akin to calling a water balloon a chemical weapon.
Traces of fluoride compounds will help reduce tooth decay, excesses can cause tooth discoloration, weakened teeth and bones and major health problems in extreme dosage cases - which happens naturally in a number of places around the world where the ground water is high in fluorides. Guess humans shouldn't have gotten off of that battlestar...
Chlorine trifluoride, I'll happily play with that any day - if it's on a different continent than I am on. It's a much better oxidizer than mere oxygen (seriously). Great oxidizer for any rocket, it'll oxidize the fuel and the occupant instantly. Great for cleaning the containment vessel of a nuclear reactor though, the uranium will go into solution as uranium hexafluoride, which is where one wants it for processing. Which means, you'll not find me anywhere near a reactor containment vessel that's being cleaned of uranium traces... It's nasty enough to burn sand, glass, water (yes, water), ashes, chemists who violate safety protocols and as one researcher documented, in the event of a metallofluorine fire with the stuff, a good pair of running shoes is strongly recommended.
As for "fluoride is a toxic element", erm, that'd be fluorine. So is chlorine, are we gonna ban all salt in the world now? Iodine is toxic, you'll be just as dead without it as you'll be without chlorine in salt.*
Now, excuse me while I refill my bottle of hydroxic acid, aka hydrogen hydroxide, aka, dihydrogen monoxide, aka frigging water.
Paracelsus said it best, "The dose makes the poison".
* I have Grave's disease, a form of hyperthyroidism. One older endocrinologist warned me to avoid iodine containing foods, even while taking my methimazole (which blocks forming the iodine containing thyroid hormones that I form in excess). I asked if he was concerned with the Wolff-Chaikoff effect and he said no, more out of concern of a thyroid storm. A hint, I didn't see that quack again and found a competent endocrinologist. The Wolff-Chaikoff effect is iodine overload, which so busies the thyroid gland (OK, massively Goobering things down by a lot) that it completely shuts down hormone production in favor of taking up that excess iodine. When I was hospitalized in moderately poor condition due to a thyroid storm, the competent endocrinologist suggested that as an option to wrangle my thyroid under control until the methimazole began to take effect. Fortunately, rather than bounce between extremes, my thyroid was good enough to cooperate with more conservative treatment with the drug alone.
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Alas, such "nonsense" has turned into major issues.
As any hostage for their own encrypted data.
Got side bit by that, my lawyer got entangled by hostageware.
Further entangled by my association and well, legalese from hell contracts.
Poor bastard got to do without business with his computers for a month before the Department got it untangled.
But, it's all nonsense, vapor, ignore paralyzed governments, it's all a myth.
Yes, a fair amount of announcements are hyperbole, but reality is, don't click on the motherfucking links until checked by yourself.
Even if it requires calling the helldesk.
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@RuthK-b5i remember, a lot of the folks against Trump from the GOP were their dirty tricks squad that used to run the dirtiest of ads against democrats.
Trump only managed to hire their Geritol Generation, basically Nixon era rat fucker types, which explains their ineffectiveness due to multiple generation gaps and most being long overdue for being put out to pasture or the glue factory.
And I'm speaking as a boomer...
So, we're left with Trump's best being this bumbling mess and now threats again against arresting Pelosi, who's 84 and retired, because he's just that strong. Next week, it's anticipated he'll muster the strength to steal candy from a baby.
But, he can still fight - most of the way through a single ply sheet of toilet paper. If it's well saturated.
Oh, never fear, his running mate is there to help! Why, we're 100000 births short because of car seat laws. Oh, the sofa to bench seat of the car jokes are ever so tempting...
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@grimmertwin2148 no, it doesn't. It's still being worked on as a combined part of treatment for PTSD, along with traditional therapies to desensitize veterans to stressful stimuli.
When the hell are people in this country going to grow up and not seek a quick fix, magical pill solution to a complex problem?
To the OP, hard to address PTSD once it's fully established, one needs to address it promptly as it begins for full and rapid recovery and that's complicated when TBI's come into play, of which the Vegas attacker had suffered at least one, likely multiple. Helmets don't keep you from getting your bell rung good, they only keep one's skull intact. Ten helmets won't stop countercoup injuries or shockwaves from injuring a brain. And a TBI makes one more prone to PTSD that's likely incurable, as the brain has experienced significant tearing and other damage.
As for "his prescription", he's addressing what can be reasonably addressed. We can't rebuild brains, we can address the most common and harmful - those radicalized. When assessing which risk to address, one looks at rate of occurrence, annualized loss expectancy and a number of other factors. Part being cost of loss. Which cost our nation more? A dozen people mowed down, one shot and killed, two cops shot and wounded or one suicide with one injury to a bystander?
Sounds cold? Good, it's supposed to be, it's called using reason, not emotion. It's the most effective way to deal with complex problems, as emotion clouds one's thinking and colors perceptions, resulting in incorrectly addressing a problem and likely worsening the problem.
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No, it's worse than that. They crossed security domains with an unapproved device, which would upon connection assume the highest level of security that it was connected to. So, a hard drive that's plugged into a TS//SCI system now becomes a device that's also only permitted to be connected to a TS//SCI system and never lower. It's literally illegal.
They then copied and likely entirely failed to encrypt their device, another law violation on data at rest.
They then copied to an unauthorized, non-FISMA compliant civilian system that's claimed to be USG, but being non-compliant, installed and operated by a non-government agency of dubious legal provenance, with the poorest baseline configuration I've seen since the days of DOS/NT3.51, placed that data that was essentially unsecured onto the public internet with absolutely no port filtering, assuming the database being open is accurate, again, in violation of laws behind FISMA and security classifications, plus the Privacy Act of 1974.
Frankly, as an information assurance security officer, I'd expect better from a high school kid! No best business practices, no concept of security at all, not bothering with silly little things like laws at all and frankly, I strongly suspect that the system was likely also never security patched for known vulnerabilities.
Everyone involved should be in Manning's old cell, in solitary, lest they reveal classified information.
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nunyabaznus7851 so, lung cancer from asbestos and the other nasty chemicals burned in the tower fires and collapses is precisely the same as lymphatic cancer? That's like saying my testicles and toes are identical structures and trust me, maybe yours are, but in humans that's entirely untrue. Lymphatic cancer is well established in fallout exposure cases as a primary cause. True, not the only cause, but genetic testing can help rule in radiation exposure, as can that whole radioactive lymph nodes thing. And frankly, I'll say something I've rarely ever said, in this, I'll trust the VA.
But still, IRL, feel free to hand me my trusty rusty and tell me more about conspiracy theories and how we're all liars. The hogs are hungry.
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@vanessarodriguez4259 rebuild and recover is exhausting at best when one's young. As one ages, it's double, triple and more tough to do until it's pretty much impossible.
Been through a bit of that myself and I'm just in my early 60's and reasonably fit.
In theory, one can build structures and even configure properties to withstand tornadoes, hurricanes and floods. In practice, nobody anywhere could afford such an insanely expensive thing. Not even the wealthiest or even the government, which is why nobody does build them other than for test units. Besides, who wants to live underground?
I'm in south-central Pennsylvania. So, winters can get a bit annoying to get around, since I'm stuck walking with a cane. As a result, I prepare a modest pantry with about a month and a half of food, largely dry goods and canned goods and a well stuffed freezer. It avoids me finding myself on my back, wondering why the sky is in front of me when it's icy out. That's actually come in handy, as I and thousands of others had our food stamps stolen via a skimmer ring out of NYC. Just reconstituted a gallon of dry milk last night, picked up some bread and eggs from the food bank and I've enough flour to make a half dozen loaves or so if I need them. Not a prepper, just creatively lazy and frugal. When weather is good, I'll walk the two miles to the market, load my folding shopping cart up, walk the two miles back. The river is literally across the street from me, but I'm on a high floor and at worst, were it to flood, which would take a hell of a lot, I'd lose what's in the fridge and freezer when the apartment building's utility level flooded. That's happened in the past, but it's basically a once in an actual century event.
I've lost everything I own twice, yeah, that's heavily wearing in the extreme, restarting life from scratch gets harder as one ages. So yeah, know where they're coming from. Hopefully, they find a place that's safe and secure and a bit better protected and affordable, as prices have been insane and growing worse from a mismanaged pandemic.
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@MickeyMishra go for it, actual research is good, correction is better.
But, I've actually driven a "trespasser" from our armory, who was a former member that I actually refused to serve with, due to his readily apparent mental illness, incurred during his tour in South Korea.|
Being notified, I gave a directive to wait for my arrival, then drove him to the local VA hospital, instructing doctor to hold him until he was balanced and well or "else"...
I took care of my men, even after they were "out", when suffering.
And veterans do stick together, as this nation regularly abandons us, for the least political and financial convenience.
Odd serendipity, was watching "The Trial Of Billy Jack" and remembering such things.
Yeah, our care is stellar, totally absolutely spectacular in its non-performance as "leaders of the world", just as our health care has and remains, where germ theory remained dormant for a half century, even into the Spanish Influenza pandemic and masks are still argued about and well, Cuba developed a small lung cancer vaccine we're only now testing - 20 years later and Trump damned near derailed that test.
Sad isn't the word, but I lack a proper word for it. And my command of English, both US and UK is excellent.
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@Opinionsrnotfacts574 back around y2k, Trump was invited as a speaker of honor at our tri-state Chamber of Commerce function. Everything then was exclusively about himself, his great successes in serial bankruptcies going back a full handspan of years. Seasoned business owners rolled their eyes so much, I was amazed the planet stayed on its axis! The following year, the attrition rate for that same function was 95%.
DonOLD Trump, serial failure, serial banktruptor and serial loser. He's got a literal inverse-Midas touch, for everything he touches turns straight into shit.
And a unique ability in negotiation and litigation to snatch defeat from the gaping jaws of victory.
He took something around $20 billion and converted it into a few hundred million, most of that encumbered. What otherwise would be considered sad, well, with him and his personality, the Pope himself would find his continued failures hilarious.
Now, he continues his uninterrupted chain of abject failures with the political equivalent of setting fire to his state campaign headquarters.
Oh well, soon enough, the mindless beast will wander off.
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I spent five years overseas using BS 1363 , aka type G plugs. Left a few unplugged and was incessantly barefoot, only stepping on one once in all of that time.
As for sparks, well, in an explosive atmosphere, sparking could be considered dangerous. That said, if one's domicile is filled with an explosive atmosphere, I've got quite a number of questions as to one's lifestyle choices.
As for much of the world being confused by US heavily used natural gas, it's abundant here and always has been. For many years, lighting was provided by natural gas lamps inside of homes, my last home still having capped and abandoned gas lines in the walls from that era. That home also had some knob and tube wiring that I replaced when I found it still active, replacing an antique fuse box with a modern breaker panel while I was at it.
And fixing a botched kitchen wiring issue, where some idiot was switching the neutral, rather than the hot wire on the ceiling lights.
And immediately after, replacing part of the kitchen ceiling after a lead drain pipe eroded through, dropping a sizable part of the ceiling... At least it didn't have a thatched roof, it was a flat tar based roof.
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@maxdecimus13 well, it's trebly hard to link something from the old testament to the new, when it's been thrice mistransliterated, edited for content and version and had entire books tossed into the rubbish heap.
Which is why one has to resort to other sources, rather than religious sources, such as scholars of that time.
The laugh is, the majority of his teachings were literally quotes and parables that were in the old testament, but Christians tend to ignore that entire section of the bible in favor of the new and think that's where a specific teaching originated. Love your neighbor, repeatedly mentioned in the old, being a prime example.
Then, there are the quote miners. I get them with wall pissers being cursed. No, they weren't cursed because of urinating on a wall, they'd be cursed in some areas of the old testament if they didn't do something God wanted them to do and he who pisses on the wall basically being every male being cursed if they don't obey.
Not quite the same idea in the end though, wouldn't sell their line of Machine Gun Jesus products or something. I also send them steaming by reminding them that Jesus was a Jew, he never said he wasn't, he sure didn't worship himself, he worshiped the Almighty like every other Jew and even celebrated Passover.
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We can tell that Chernobyl is uninhabitable from all of the Russian soldiers who died and remain unburied there after occupying the site for months.
Oh, wait...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, believe it or not, actually had fissile core components recovered from the area around ground zero, were air bursts and hence, had nothing drawn into the still reacting fireball for neutron activation and well, had a lot less fissile and fissionable components involved than Chernobyl, whose core was largely ejected by a massive water hammer effect, followed by a fire and meltdown of the remaining core.
So yeah, I agree, poor analogy, comparing apples to bowling balls.
Oh well, there's worse. There are the Artificial Idiocy created confabulation videos, then the factless and clueless ones from Natural Idiocy. Case in point, in my suggested viewing, Neil deGrasse Tyson reporting Betelgeuse went supernova - for the 300th time in the past few years... And how cobalt salted bombs have more blast damage and fires than unsalted bombs...
Would that I could reach through the monitor and slap some of these dweebs with a large hammer.
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That's another bullshit tale.
Few individuals in Germany had firearms before or after. Who was disarmed was the German government.
And they hated me when I was asked about Hunter and his gun, because I said yes, he should be prosecuted and get his pee-pee smacked, as that's the level of offense that it was. He didn't accumulate an armory and frankly, was what would usually acquire a fine, but politically turned into a major federal case that was more severe than a straw purchaser's trip to Mexico with a truck load of firearms.
He should've been treated the same as any other peasant. Some of the other federal charges did need a court to review, as they were a bit more egregious, but still a basic white collar crime. And if Trump can walk, he should as well, as should Jim, Bob and Leroy down the street.
Rather than having a two tier system of injustice.
And I have a gun and not a single stick of the right glue to fix one annoying broken thing at home. Entertainingly, the hardware store has the right sticks and the part that needs mending for about 1/3 less than the sticks. ;)
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Well, he's line of succession and also authenticates the POTUS identity for nuclear launch orders. That requires secure communications and hence, a SCIF inside of his home.
And yet another reason I'd never want that job. Secure facilities are a pain in the gonads, inspections, audits, logging, high security safes, logging of visitors, hell, logging when you leave and return from taking a shit - literally, one has to secure down and then reopen the facility just to take a leak or dump.
Needless to say, I've logged a hell of a lot of hours inside of secure facilities. Put one of those inside of my home, I'm moving out.
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No, the "running the third time" is a dog whistle for "stolen election", he's still on that subversive shtick.
As for his BS on mail in ballots, it's nice to know that he wants to deny the military that he'd depend upon their right to vote. I was one of the Pennsylvania votes that mailed in a ballot, as for some reason, I couldn't find a Pennsylvania polling place in the Middle East.
Met him in person around 2000 or so at a Chamber of Commerce do. He was an invited speaker, he was such a resounding success that the following year experienced a 90% attrition rate. He was the boor of the party, as everything had to be about him, his bankruptcies in the casinos were still a subject of his rants and a resounding success (in a room full of business owners, you can guess the looks all were giving one another), frankly, it was about as enjoyable as having intercourse with a wood chipper, followed by cleanup with a rasp file.
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Tech genius Musk, who famously announced that the US government doesn't use SQL databases, still ignores a report thanking the US Treasury Department for their assistance in tracing a bug used in a compromise at Treasury of a PostrgreSQL server, which I guess isn't SQL because Emperor Musk says SQL isn't being used at all in government.
And given the sheer number of Oracle databases I monitored compliance with for the government, Oracle isn't SQL either. Nor is MySQL or MSSQL.
And his geniuses, the bestest in the universe, straight out of kindergarten are the super douper bestest, using out of the box configurations and passwords, no port filtering or shuttering of unused services and ignoring best business practices, totally the bestestestest. At getting pwned.
I swear, it's like watching Wile E. Coyote opening up the latest package from Acme, ya know what's gonna happen next just ain't gonna go so well for the Coyote.
Oh, the "not using SQL" was Musk's excuse for using WordPress, rather than oh, software that the US government has master site licenses for and hence, is bought and paid for.
And the first thing one does when setting up a server is to disable services that aren't used, change default passwords, block ports that are not to be used externally. That's literally the first steps when loading the server - before it's put online to the production network, let alone the big bad open internet.
Yep, the Coyote falling off the cliff again, wearing dynamite and a missile's heading toward his impact point - loaded with a nuke stolen because nobody was there to secure it.
I've set up servers from bare metal up, put up sites, databases and well, a whale of a lot more, administered them, verified baseline configuration compliance, patch level compliance, etc.
When I was done, I had the things reviewed by someone not in my chain of command. I got to review their work in return. Anything amiss got corrected. Then, I scanned the damned things with vulnerability scanners and when we used one of the nastier vulnerability scanner that could deliver some hostile payloads, those were the servers that we ran those specific tests upon. Some of those very servers lived on our DMZ and hence, were internet facing and provided services to external users.
Not a one was compromised.
Clint Eastwood famously addressed an empty chair at a convention, perhaps he should go to the White House and address that empty head.
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OK, Trump for POTUS then, the Constitution is null and void forever.
Since you hate having a Constitution, summary execution instead of arrest. Corruption of blood on misdemeanor as well.
Article III, section 3
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
So, you're either saying, despite no evidence possible to support it, that Trump has taken up arms and made war against the government or that Congress has secretly declared war and Trump has given aid and comfort to the enemy and should be immediately imprisoned for it without trial.
Either way, that you hate having a Constitution.
So, what's the difference who is now god-emperor of the Empire of the United States?
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@thaisstone5192 I see that elementary reading was never taught to you.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
So, in your version of the world, levying war requires Congress to declare war, so the war of 1812 wasn't a war, since Congress couldn't meet when Washington D.C. was burning. That means Benedict Arnold was never a traitor or something similarly insane.
Levying war means taking up arms. Trump wouldn't take up arms, he's too great a coward to do that. A case might be made for sedition and even for advocating for the overthrow of the US government, both serious felonies. Treason, nope, Congress didn't declare war, so he couldn't have an enemy to give aid and comfort to. He sure as hell wouldn't risk himself by taking up arms. So, treason is impossible.
And even sedition is dicey, as one would have to show that mens rea existed and that he fully and overtly ordered violence be employed for the purpose of unseating our government. Not by preponderance of evidence, but beyond a reasonable doubt. Laughably, sedition has been proved against leaders of Proud Boys, those convicted already now serving their sentences and Oath Keepers trials are ongoing. Still no direct Trump ties to any such orders.
But, there is ample evidence to support his advocacy for the overthrow of the government via an attack on said government, specifically Congress and blocking of its Constitutional powers and the penalties are equal with sedition.
Shall we instead stay with having a Constitution then?
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Totally, Martin Shkreli raised that foreign drug from the United States from $13.50 a pill to $750 per pill to fight TB in that foreign bacteria and hand wave more bullshit.
If your sarcasm meter burned out, dud is a US born SOB, running a US SOB company and bought one of the only effective drugs against modern TB from a US company and gouged away. He's about as popular now as Ma Barker at J. Edgar Hoover's dinner table. He also did hard time for financial crimes, because greed knows no bounds.
Last time we had similar, it was France and it didn't end well for the king and queen - or a lot of the middle class, for that matter.
The difference between most of the industrialized nations and us, they'll refuse to do business with a greedy SOB entirely, we put on the kneepads and open wide, then call monarchies communist or fascist, without being able to define any of the three systems of capitalism, fascism or communism, let alone socialism that's been extinct in the wild since its inception.
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When will billionaires care about the poor and working class? History answered that well in France, when they refined and perfected the usage of the French National Razor.
For the historically challenged, the National Razor was a cutsie name used in reference to the guillotine. Once the wealthy and ruling elites started taking significant losses, they paid very serious attention. Once that murderous and self-destructive wave was over, they continued to pay attention and the wheels stayed on the cart, well, once they got reinstalled.
Currently, Trump's in economic trouble anyway, he no longer has anything resembling a reserve of liquidity, his assets are heavily leveraged and he couldn't even throw bond for an appeal in a massively injurious civil case.
And with Musk, the gloss is off the muskmelon, with multiple recalls undermining the myth of his tremendous innovative wisdom due to Tesla recalls, fires, self-drive vehicles that unerringly collide with emergency vehicles, a boring company that hasn't bored even an earthworm in a decade and more, a brain link company that's literally caught up to bleeding edge devices from the early 1970's and I can go on and on, that plus his Twaddle antics plus SEC intense interest and now anger, he'll start to implode soon enough too.
I'll not show much sympathy for an unsympathetic dweeb who started out his wealth by skillfully inheriting an emerald mine, helping build a couple of websites and buying companies, then taking credit for the companies engineers successful projects.
He's literally the Liberace of the business world and a hint from a pianist, Liberace was a decent piano player, he was far from the world's best, he was just a good showman.
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@ClaudiusCaelum LLM AI's don't understand what anything is, they infer associations and maybe, just maybe they get things right or they run out of data on a search and then confabulate a response that's beyond fantasy. Ask some disbarred lawyers about that one, presented cases to a court of law with confabulated nonexistent cases and laws included. If one has to go over the results with a fine toothed comb, one has wasted time and electricity on a useless effort that one had to manually duplicate.
Forensic audits are a huge pain in the ass, but they are worthwhile enterprises, as errors and intentional malfeasance is trivially uncovered.
An auditor worth their salt would detect false entries that cite papers by famous neurosurgeons Doctors Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
as false, scatter a few faked papers and still get caught. An LLM AI would accept the "papers" on their face and cite the folk rock supergroup as neurosurgeons.
@Zentirix doesn't recognize that, likely out of naivete, but I don't, as I'm an old IT guy, did loads of IT security, which includes IT auditing and hence, got roped into forensic audits on occasion. You obviously don't as well, as you obviously know the generalities of some AI types and yeah, face recognition and well, image sampling to look for differences they excel at, large language models, ain't anywhere near ready for prime time due to untrustworthy to wildly fantastical results eroding their utility. Once you go into complex technical, good heavens, what a mess those LLM's can produce!
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@Zetirix you're right, my military pension links to my Social Security number, so doesn't get coded in any reports due to it containing PII that if included in a report without my permission, would be a violation of the Privacy Act of 1974.
And that is not a violation of policy and the law, it is in accordance with the law, policy having to remain within boundaries established by law.
How do you claim to have something in violation with the law, when I've trivially given a very real and regular event that is fully in compliance with the law? Oh, because you're repeating the words of others, with no actual knowledge about the subject and the complexities involved.
And I'll not even begin to discuss Musk's multiple conflicts of interests that are illegal on a half dozen counts, including dismissing agencies illegally, especially two of his first victims that were investigating him and one of his companies and his multiple federal contracts.
But, what would I know? Only worked with the government in assorted capacities since 1981. That all required my swearing an oath to uphold and protect this nation's Constitution and laws, not the interests of a wannabe dictator or the guy who bought his office for him, or the whims of Tiny Testes and his magical AI malfunction magnet.
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I've saw flying saucers. Followed by flying cups and plate, got the hell away from that domestic dispute quicker than if Marvin the Martian landed. Did my own share of earth shattering kabooms, thank you, I want to preserve what remains of my hearing.
Still, "cleared dude" gave himself away with "13,000 MPH", there are known objrcts that move at that speed and higher. Satellites and especially, newly reentering objects. Why, many become a veritable "squadron" of incinerating junk. One, a shuttle coming apart with pilot and crew.
Obviously, I didn't need to fire my heat seeking moisture missile. My wife remains thankful.
Now, UFO's? Saw plenty, U means unidentified, eventually, most get identified, then there are spy birds coming back down.
Orbit doesn't mean out of the atmosphere, just that the atmosphere looks like Mars and lower pressure, it's still pressure to decay an orbit.
Some others, well, "they weren't there", as they were some program object or once, an SR-71 that made an emergency landing, but in that case, neither of us existed...
But, I will say, a disconcerting number of fighter pilots chase after what was later ascertained to be satellites in orbit. Pretty much always, that 13,000 MPH or higher or "high G shift". which is still zero G in orbit. I suspect an artifact in their imagers.
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@nolongeramused8135 should've included the quote, since it was an earlier one.
"Someone once calculated that it would take the mass of the sun (100% mass to energy conversion) to power a spaceship to almost the speed of light. Good luck slowing down."
That someone miscalculated, it'd take infinite energy to get to C, close to C would take more than solar mass. By my calculations, it'd take at least one mother-in-law's mass. Or an SMBH, but I repeat myself...
And oops, dyslexia and an annoying GI bug have me distracted and decompensating. Doctor's narrowed the diagnosis down though, between cancer, infection and autoimmune, which pretty much means not a clue... When medicine meets the uncertainty principle. :/
Oh well, get to my emergency gastroenterologist appointment in two weeks, assuming my electrolytes don't drop enough to kill me. If the AAA doesn't kill me first.
Medically, I've got Schrödinger's body, no matter how I try to get rid of it, it's trouble.
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You may fail when you try, but if you don't try, you'll also never succeed.
I've been an instructor on multiple subjects over the decades, I've quickly learned to gauge from my audience as I go along - a plus for in person or even live video instruction that's absent for a recorded video. That's important, as I'm dyslexic and my perception and the audience's perceptions will be markedly different due to neuroprocessing differences. Overall, I've been rated a rather decent instructor, so I'll not complain. I'll also not try to just bolt out and grind out instructional videos without someone independent to evaluate it on the fly.
One learns by making mistakes, frequently more from making those mistakes than in never making mistakes. Once, not all that long ago, after yet another career change, I had a lead complaining to my trainer that "he keeps making mistakes", the trainer, a man who formerly instructed FBI agents on information security topics, replied, "Yes, he makes mistakes, but he never makes the same mistake twice, he makes entirely new ones, so he's learning quickly".
As for aged milk, got some in the fridge, it's called kefir and I use it in various recipes as a buttermilk substitute. ;)
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Let's look at one popular sugar alcohol that's used on tablets and caplets, as well as in emergency medicine. Mannitol.
It coats, in tiny quantities, those "pills" so that they won't stick to one's mouth, retain their shape better and oh, slide down smoothly. Most people won't even notice.
On the high side of the scale, say 10 grams+, well, you'll literally urinate like a garden hose is attached, as it opens the kidneys wide open. Good for a few medical conditions, coupled with dual large bore IV infusions with normal saline and electrolyte monitoring and adjustment.
As a coating, pretty much unnoticable.
Unless you're sensitive to it, then all bets are off, but the races to the bathroom are most assuredly on.
I've had some similar issues, finally traced it to a non-dietary source, my thyroid. I have Grave's disease and control can get a bit funny at times, in some very un-fun kinds of ways. Diarrhea being the least of the issues that can arise, but quite messy and annoying, as we're talking brown water projecting out. On the worse side, had severe tachycardia, tectonic hypertension and CHF that required hospitalization twice. Oh, also gave me an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Wee!
Dietary tracking helped tremendously, cooking food from scratch also helped a lot. The thyroid being absolutely no help at all. Guess it was getting too tired to help, what with all of that trying its level best to kill me.
Adjusted the methimazole dosage, went from an SPO2 of 80 on room air, pulse in the 150's and BP of a Hulk (235/190 at one point), with fluid filled lungs, which also partially collapsed to complete a set of problems on a Saturday night admission to hospital to driving the nursing staff nuts walking the halls on Wednesday.
Charting diet helped ward a repeat, as the GI tended to act as an early warning alarm.
Oh, there's another extremely common sugar alcohol in foods, cosmetics and even soaps, glycerol, aka glycerin, if you want it to sound scary, 1,2,3-Trihydroxypropane. Yeah, I'm not a fucking chemist either, but their names for various common chemicals can be quite entertaining - do look up the many different chemical names for just plain water.
Causes bloating in some, largely typically based on dosage, because too much of anything can make life miserable or shorter.
I'm fortunate that I don't have issues with sugar alcohols, straw mushrooms can make me projectile vomit, wood grown mushrooms won't do that, don't look at me, I only live here.
Sabine did get one thing wrong. Most sugar alcohols are not absorbed at all, they pass right on through and bacterial growth/overgrowth is variable, depending upon species and still poorly understood, as is our microbiome (it's now under intensive study, someone's gonna make a ton of money on Rx biotics eventually!). I am sensitive to some cholinergics, such as atropine that's an additive in some medications, burn through my beta blockers early, CNS depressants just bounce off of me, anything processed by my liver tends to have an extremely short half-life, so ethanol tends to have minimal effect in under legendary dosages. Opiates and opioids, no thanks, get a massive MAST cell dump of histamine, just under allergy level, but enough to make me feel like I'm dying and that pain is better than taking those.
Everyone's physiology is different, if it was the same, we'd all be clones and well, we'd all be the same and conversations would be boring.
Now, excuse me, dinner is calling me. Pasta, with home made pasta sauce, cooked with fresh pork hocks until they fell off of the bone, home made meatballs and probably a fruit cup that'll likely have some sugar alcohols in it naturally. There is an upside to being a reformed chef, I make the sauce in two gallon batches and can it. Next batch will have some pork, but mostly be goat meat, got a good price on that, I've also used lamb and oxtails. The bones add gelatin, thickening the sauce and flavor, the meat, more flavor and well, meat. I've also done it vegetarian, largely when I was out of meat and new in country, then I used olives in place of meat.
Tomorrow, something entirely different, with tons of green veggies and some potatoes in some preparation to be determined tomorrow.
I do a small carb load in the morning, minimal and variable mid-day and larger carb load for evening. Keeps my weight sane, which keeps my glycemic levels sane and well, I'm by far the eldest in my father's side of the family to not be type 2 diabetic, largely insulin resistance caused by high body fat index.
We also run high on triglycerides and cholesterol, all in bad numbers as a family. Because, that's not a chocolate bar at the bottom of my gene pool and some SOB urinated into it for good measure.
And I studiously avoid kryptonite. ;)
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@bschleevs2723 meh, I could trivially build a nuclear warhead right inside of my apartment. If it doesn't contain explosives or fissile elements, nobody will care. Literally.
That'll not happen though, as for one, it'd still be quite massive and I'd not want to have to shift the damned thing around when cleaning my apartment and well, I have a small apartment and only keep useful things around.
Like that Americium-241 source sitting over here, just harvested from a recently defunct smoke detector. I'll be throwing together a cloud chamber in the coming weeks, just to have something to do.
A little for the cloud chamber, a little for me... ;)
Yeah, I actually took the source from a dead smoke detector for that purpose. Boy, have they shrunk the source by a lot over the last 20 years! The source on this one is a quarter the size of an old model, pretty much the rest of the circuitry was literally the same, down to the chip driving the unit.
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No, there is no criticality possible, as there are two critical factors in achieving a critical mass, a moderator and the proper geometry of fissile fuel. The corium is diluted fuel, cladding, structural components and concrete. The only way it's reactive is chemically, due to the alkalinity of the fluid around it.
Spikes do get recorded, it's called radioactive decay of daughter elements.
The "elephants foot" has decayed sufficiently as to literally be safe enough to sit on and have lunch, although eating in that environment would have occupational safety personnel raising merry hell and rightfully so. Safe to sit on isn't safe to risk exposure to.
As for the original accident, well, that was The Three Stooges meet Home Simpson on the stupidity scale.
Written from visual range of 2 1/4 mile island, it used to be 3 mile, but part melted when I was a senior in high school. ;)
It's shut down, as fossil fuels are cheaper to produce electricity than running a nuclear plant is to run. And well, CO2 will bring the wonders of Venus to earth, making earth the garden spot that Venus is today - to use your level of hyperbole...
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Alpaca wool is my favorite wool for winter extreme cold socks.
Although, honestly, I'd be overly tempted to accumulate as many camelid types together, just to see which species outspits the other... ;)
Although, I'll be honest, I've never been spit on by any that I've met and I've encountered four thus far, including one dromedary camel that was notorious for spitting on pretty much everyone alive, man or beast, save me. Probably sensed, it'd spit its saliva, I'd spit bile back. ;)
Still, watching all of the camelids I met spit, I am astounded at their accuracy, the dominant one I honestly believe spits at the others in greeting...
Still, better greeting than Tasmanian Devils, who greet one another by biting each other's faces.
Still, better than being the butt of a goat's joking around. ;)
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@smcdonald9991 just corporate muddying the water. Proximity to the jet stream is associated with clear air turbulence and if the pilot wasn't monitoring temperatures and immediately changing course away from the wind shears induced by the jet stream, they would end up in court being sued by passengers.
There are two causes for such effects, neither mechanical. Clear air turbulence and there is a jet stream along their flight path or the aircraft exceeded its maximum allowed Mach number, both entering into the realm quite deeply for negligence. Control surfaces won't move the aircraft that quickly, too large a surface area change for the equipment to manage.
If a pilot observes CAT, the pilot is supposed to check the air temperature gauges and move out of the temperature differential zone, thereby clearing the turbulence.
Exceeding Mach, that's a major risk to the airframe and passengers and exclusively pilot negligence. Passenger aircraft aren't designed to reach Mach 1, they typically operate around 0.85 - 0.9 Mach. The flight recorders will tell the tale. A big tell is when the cockpit voice recorder gets "accidentally" overwritten after landing. In flight, yeah, that can happen, on the ground, more often than not it eventually comes out that the flight crew intentionally left it on after shutdown to ensure incriminating contents are "lost".
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The preferred and used with his VOM was formerly referred to as Kleps clips. The other alligator clips that he liked, actual alligator clips, the tiny version a later invention that was entirely misbegotten for electronics usage.
Seriously, leave the toy 'gator clips in the bedroom for use as nipple clamps, that's all that they're good for and the recipient will properly thank you with a hammer.
Yeah, I loathe alligator clips intensely, always have, always will. Given a choice between using a cheap alligator clip and soldering my dick into a circuit, I'll plug in the solder station.
And unlike Adam, I am a certified electronics technician, IT guruilla (work with me, people!) and quite mechanically proficient.
Hopefully, Adam was drinking something when he read that. I've a thing for sending fluid down someone's nose... ;)
But, I actually am certifiable, erm, certified in electronics and generally certifiable overall. :P
And remember, I have a gun and I know how to grease my car with it!
(muffled, while under the car) Where are all the *@&^! grease fittings?!
Yeah, seriously gave away my age there, huh?
To further date myself, my first Fluke meter was a Fluke 77, shortly after they were first introduced. I encountered Fluke meters in electronics school back in '78. When the 77 was introduced, I was working a counter sales gig at an electronics wholesaler. The owner initially objected to my using a stray component, specifically resistors and batteries to demonstrate the units to techs at the counter - right until he saw how many cases of meters I was selling.
I didn't sell a damned thing, the meters sold themselves. Autoranging largely sold itself, nowhere as good in quality as my Beckman 310, it still did more than well enough troubleshooting circuits in my side jobs.
I left my won Sencore meter on the floor behind the driver seat for a decade...
Still, if anyone has a Simpson 360 laying around and needing a home, I could happily give it utility in testing circuits that benefit from such low impedances. Seriously!
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He's worth nowhere near that, that's why he couldn't raise the bond for an appeal.
He's so heavily in debt it's a bad joke, one German bank ended up in trouble for loaning him money that was guaranteed by the Russian government. There's another Russian link, but that's under active investigation, so I'll not comment further.
He had 20 billion he inherited, that's long gone. The only thing he has in reality that's almost liquid is his name, which he leases out to other properties for a fee, his superpac donations that aren't tied down to elections and whatever he can steal. His ventures, two casinos that he bankrupted, four other bankrupted businesses and laughably, he called those bankruptcies successes. Yeah, successes in stealing coinvestors money and he managed to get his money back. Trump steaks, anyone? Trump vodka? Trump water? Trump whine, erm, wine? Need I go on? Trump bibles that actually are sold by someone else, have sticky and ill formatted pages with political BS on them and are sold off the back of a pickup for $20 less? Trump U?
The man's got an inverse Midas touch, whatever he touches turns straight into shit.
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That elite operator wouldn't have stood a chance when I was homeless after my wife of over 41 years died.
Nothing to lose and a full can of beans, that entire neighborhood would've been toast.
After all, when I was retired, I was tagged REF.
Retired, Extremely Flatulent.
Fucking POG's and fobbits, you don't need violence when one can utilize two brain cells competing for fourth place to negotiate.
A neighbor mentioned that I always talk about food. It's true, I actually do, it was actually one mode I primarily utilized on entering new villages. When they expected my binder to be full of a parade of terrorist pictures, it turned out to be recipes from villages and I proclaimed a free recipe exchange for all.
Find common ground, well, everybody eats and everyone save Hare Krishna and Seventh Day Adventists enjoy good food and new recipes. I am thankful to both latter groups and some Hindus for a COVID vaccination clinic program that likely prevented my own likely demise. Only ended up with a bum mitral valve, which is a damned sight better than our youngest daughter, who had Long COVID until just last year and still has some lasting effects and oh, thank you Trump, a new infection. I bequeath unto Trump the Obama time machine as well. Just because I feel like being a dick. And loathed you when we met back in 2000.
The victim, well looks to be about the age of my kids, so there's no attraction there.
My wife and I took quite a few such souls under our wings, no BS services involved, resolving a societal conflict and their decisions, then deconstructing those decisions and well, in her case we'd have likely redirected her to social worker positions and we need those badly.
A mentor is worth their weight in platinum.
Our eldest once observed, "You give the wisest advice, but make the most questionable decisions".
I replied, "How do you think I could achieve such knowledge without making those questionable decisions and mistakes?"
A long pause later, she conceded the argument.
And a new lesson was learned.
I'd also trained her to beat into jelly any boyfriend or other parnter that was abusive. One ex-boyfriend attempted to rape her during a school field trip, she beat him down hard, but disobeyed stomping him until either the corner or police arrive, got suspended for violence.
I appeared to the principle's office in full dress uniform, for once wearing all of my medals I usually studiously avoided wearing and my emerald beret and carefully explained that my children's safety and his and his family's safety were directly linked from then on.
He was a guidance councilor when I was in junior high school and we knew each other well, the in school suspension of the attempted criminal was out of school, law enforcement was advised to watch out on that family due to some criminal activities and bribery of the wealthy father and the suspension was waived and absence to family zoo trips and museum trips deleted from their records.
The only threat of violence was the only real one, I'm not nice under cornered conditions, but Socratic wins over pure didactic always. Both are invaluable in their place in education.
And it comes out at a Godfather's example, "Your signature will be on the paper or your brains will be on the paper" when reason fails.
Then, the hogs at a farm down the road get fattened mysteriously. Skin and teeth absent, given durability and DNA analysis capabilities.
Entertainingly, I'm always the designated babysitter for infants and toddlers. I'm damned good at redirection and splinting colic ridden infants bellies until they grow muscles enough to close that valve.
And I've repeatedly fed dki-dik gazelles by hand. Think a gazelle the size of a house cat. Even my own gentle wife couldn't manage that one.
And wrestled with the "Alpha" of the canine kennel at the base, who was infamous for biting down every handler and dog in the kennel, we got along famously.
I analyze, predict, confirm predictions or adjust accordingly, continue onward and that's the first ten seconds of meeting.
First, friend or foe that might become a problem, then consider how to move forward with the goal of neutralization or becoming friends, unlike sociopaths, friends are treasured and protected until they do wrong, nobody, especially not me gets protected when wrong. Then, it comes down to admitting a whooppsie or venturing into sin sinning ain't a good thing. Gonna have to consult the Department of Smite or something.
Fucking up, well, we all do it, me, I've got a Richter scale, I'm a solid 10.
How we unfuck our fuckups, that's what counts and if we can give a lesson, better.
Killing people off offhand, amateur hour at the opera, hope they get the perpetual whoopie cushion.
Although, I do not object to a fully, in depth hundred million dollar research project conviction and needle in the arm that's fatal.
Get it damned right or go home.
I really miss the dik-dik gazelles, one male even suggested head butting, which was cute, given a cousin's goat tried that and collapsed after and I was going, "Ow! "and rubbing a sore spot on my forehead, much to my wife's hilarity and "I told you so!".
That after her playing around watching a sitcom and pretending to wallop me over the head with the cast iron skillet, long story short. Long story short, was watching her antics in the window in our SW Philly row home, noticed the crack as her wrist gave out, the actual minimal impact upon that which does not exist and the eyes of our children growing to moon size and my own formerly infamous thunder, "Oh, did I fart, my apologies".
The family in joke that's real, the bottom fell out of the skillet when she tried to make gravey.
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@arronsmith4958 well, you see, ID's are like Harry Potter's magical marital aid, wave it around and magic, magic, magicky magic.
Because, it's magically impossible to have a falsified ID, whereas one's falsified ID automagically inserts one into the voter registration rolls via hand wave.
In other words, it doesn't have to make sense to Trumpites, who trust Ruskie bots over real leaders, written codified laws or the Constitution, only what the god-emperor Putin and god-king Trump insist is valid and the universe shall change its laws to conform to their whims by doublethink.
All fairly well covered in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Bought both of our kids a copy years ago, since schools discarded that as required reading.
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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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Kidneys, complicated, only seconded by the colon. Otherwise, we'd be mummies. And sex would become incredibly, erm, dry.
I do have a bit of protein leakage from the kidneys, courtesy of a heat stroke.
Doctor worries about kidney function, I concern myself with body fat and insulin resistance, due to familial trait.
All cousins remain diabetic, I'm refraining from that and grasping at age 62. Working on the rest.
Hypertension and whatnot, yeah, a big deal. That whole aortic abdominal aneurysm is a thing.
Doctor's fondest advice, "See you next year".
Kidneys and liver, my fondest organs. They do the most work of the body, outside of that parasite, the brain.
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@juanbrits3002 actually, she was. You should always wash produce before consuming it, for just this reason. Hell, the Army not only washes produce, they disinfect it with calcium hypochlorite bath before using it, again, for just this reason.
Worse, she put the infectious lettuce on a burger, then left it to incubate for a day, as the meat makes for an ideal culture medium for e. coli.
Ironically, we naturally harbor one type of e. coli in our gut, the toxin seems to have originated in a bacteria that causes a type of dysentery, itself related to e. coli, but in this case, it's typically a strain common in livestock that were infected by a bacteriophage, a virus that only attacks specific bacteria species and strains that gives this type of e. coli the ability to make the toxin. The toxin going through cells endoplasmic recticulum, basically punching out critical sections and traveling on to keep doing so, rendering the cell incapable of making proteins.
Mother nature sure seems to take a great dislike of us at times!
I didn't know that shigella like toxin and shigella toxin behave so similarly to ricin, nasty stuff, as it hits so much of the cell's ER! Nasty stuff!
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There is no gravitational attraction causing ships to collide. Shipping and naval vessels in general tend to use well established sea lanes, which increases the probability of rescue, should something happen and people are in lifeboats or worse, in the water.
Large vessels have one characteristic, it isn't being so massive that they form some magical gravitational field, but instead, they're massive and they can indeed stop on a dime - as long as that dime is a few kilometers long. Most commercial vessels also have a turning radius that's essentially, well, it steers like a cow. Try to steer fast, it's like taking a commercial airliner and shoving the rudder 90 degrees over, the last time that happened, the entire tail was torn off and the airliner crashed, killing passengers, crew, aircraft and people and structures on the ground.
At Midway, more vessels were lost more to fires, which eventually heated the magazines suffiently to detonate the high explosive munitions, one Japanese carrier died that way, after a US bomb detonated below decks, entering via the airplane elevator, rupturing the aircraft gasoline fuel lines, firefighting lines and magazine flooding lines, the fire finally overheating the magazine and BOOM!
Exoskeletons are being designed, some day, they'll even make them practical. Likely, in 20 years, along with fusion power.
Rinse and repeat every 20 years.
High tech, insanely expensive things like stealth are still useful, as Russia is incessantly developing newer and faster missiles, like hypersonic cruise missiles, China, new stealthier fighters, etc. It's rather difficult to shoot at what you can't find on radar and have to close to visual range to even know what direction the target you're seeking is.
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@rickdesper don't read the useless news story, the SCOTUS site has the full decision available for reading.
He did indeed punt, for a well reasoned and described reason, as was proven in the case presentation itself. Moral grounds shift both geographically and culturally over time, so what's pornography to some Florida illiterate soccer mom is fine art for the entirety of the world.
Can't turn to history, as fig leaves were added at one point a century after the artwork was accepted by the same church. Can't turn to culture, when we have mothers telling other mothers to feed a baby in the same bathroom they'd refuse to eat or feed their children in.
Still, there is a perfect, 100% effective solution. Eliminate every human life on the planet. Then, everyone will get along.
Yep, even more idiotic.
Hence, the punt, as case law has to stand for a long frigging time, potentially, for centuries. And can you define pornography that would even be accepted by half of the community in which you live?
I sure as hell can't and I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle and had a booster using a dictionary.
Or even try to explain to a computer what pornography is, as opposed to art or medical illustration for educational purposes.
I can use boolean and regular expressions to describe the entire solar system first, not even come close to that task.
But, totally defective, a SCOTUS Justice is an almighty God, with all powers and descriptions readily available, despite time and culture shifts, by pure, distilled whammy.
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Well, get into a longer conversation, they also believe in writ of attainder and the corruption of blood. Both, of course being expressly prohibited quite early on in our Constitution. Not by amendment, but in the main body in Article III, Section 3, Clause 2.
Aka, the treason article. Never fear, I jump on my peers that go on about Trump and treason, which he is in no way guilty of. He's not taken up arms against his nation, nor has he given aid and comfort to an enemy, since we're not at war, we have no enemy.
Sedition, yes, treason, nope.
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@androgenoide don't get me started on that barely avoided rabbit hole.
Was actually pricing one, had the plan to tap off a reflected GPS signal through my programmable radio to discipline it, then a sudden burst of sense dispelled the idea. I was bored and was about to spend a couple of hundred bucks to check the accuracy of a $30 radio controlled clock that was oddly, yet precisely off.
Turned out that la crosse sent it out miswired, where eastern time was mis-set to GMT+1, which was immediately calculated and hence, trivial to repair without going through the annoyance of returning it under warranty.
Getting bored occasionally can get dangerously expensive...
Words heard uttered by visitors to my apartment, "How in hell did you get that up *here*?!".
"But, tungsten?!"
"Yeah, couldn't get depleted uranium this week."
"But, that's radioactive!"
"So is that hand of bananas, the dose makes the poison and the inverse square law is my frenemy."
It is an alpha source, for anyone concerned and a very small sample, I'm not an idiot, I only play one in public so people don't annoy me.
"I just built a reactor."
"A nuclear reactor?!"
"No! A bioreactor."
Grew a sourdough yeast culture and well, got carried away a little... Largely with harvesting waste heat for the culture.
Even more fun when an investigator drops by on my periodic security clearance updates.
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@soldier1stclass987 note that every type people are claiming to miss also used SMS/MMS messaging, off of the very same servers, utilizing the very same protocols, hence equally exposed - the servers were compromised, not the handset devices, aka phones.
All SMS/MMS data is received, processed and stored on the servers and only locally buffered by the local handset devices.
The only reason that they released the warning on the top two operating systems is simple enough, there aren't that many users that utilize the obsolete more more primitive devices and frankly, who is more likely to have sensitive data that a foreign nation would be interested in, a smartphone user or Mrs O'Lady, who's 93 years old?
Now, some commented on a specific protocol that Google lead the way on, but Apple refused to get involved with or even offer their own offering. They've got a very valid point that is on target. Had the SMS/MMS platform been encrypted, especially for data at rest, this would entirely not be a problem, as the ones compromising the data would then have to decrypt millions of data sessions on at minimum of device pair by device pair basis, turning the entire exercise into an exercise daunting to even the best supercomputer in the world, to put it mildly.
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A hospital gift card for malpractice? Naw, no thanks, I've always wanted to own a hospital and its employees.
Chest pains, automatic O2 and ECG, ECG will tell the tale easily enough. At that point, if the person claims to be Jesus Christ, I don't discontinue treatment and restrain them, if I have reason to believe that they are not Jesus Christ, I schedule neurology to consult, not perform the medical equivalent of shooting at his head with a machine gun!
I had transportation disconnect my O2 once for transport for imaging, turned out my lungs were partially collapsed, partially fluid filled, totally a bad scene. Mr Transportation then dutifully brought me back to the ED and utterly failed to reconnect my O2, leaving me on room air and SPO2 dropping to 80%. Doctor was decidedly irritated... Turned out to be minor, it was only heart failure secondary to a thyroid storm, triggering severe tachycardia and obscene hypertension.
Got back on O2, sats jumped back into the upper 90's, where they remain today without supplementary O2. Was sure I knew how ugly it was, then the endocrinologist came by and suggested that if my BP and pulse don't approach survivable soon, they'd administer iodine. A large dose of iodine literally temporarily shuts down the thyroid gland's hormone production, which I knew, much to Doctor's surprise. Thinking that, they're into Hail Mary land. Thankfully, the propranolol and methimazole did their jobs and 3 1/2 days later, I walked out of the hospital. Oddly, never needing restraints, although I'm sure that the floor nursing staff was tempted once I was feeling better and began roaming the hallways out of sheer boredom (and well, to sneak out for a smoke (nearly made it, bad timing, as one of my nurses was coming in a bit early for her shift and spotted me 10 feet from the exit)).
The nurse administrator of the unit laughed at my attempt, realizing that had I wanted to "escape", well, in conversation I gave her six patent egress points from the facility and every one of them was workable. ;)
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@clydecraft5642 I've got two addictions, curtailing consumption causing PVCs enough to toy around with v-tach. Caffeine and nicotine.
Around the first peak of COVID-19 hospitalizations, I was hospitalized with a form of heart failure, caused by a thyroid storm. With the storm managed, I began to rapidly recover. About the point where I tried to sneak out for a smoke, well, the staff had a chuckle (one of my nurses literally caught me at the exit to the building as she was coming on shift, the nurse administrator having a jolly laugh over the whole thing) and knew I was pretty well recovered. Two days later, I was discharged.
As for soda, I prefer my water plain and might, just maybe, have one soda per day and usually, it's only once per week.
I do drink a lot less caffeine, primarily coffee, due to damage to one heart valve from, despite being vaccinated and boostered, COVID. I shudder to think what would've been damaged or destroyed without that vaccine to blunt the worst of the infection!
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5G remains a significant health hazard. It's still not fully implemented, so the risk is having a stroke trying to get and retain signal. The same risk of every other G, aka Generation.
Huge pain in the gonads at times.
The frequency, well, look at the sun with an antenna and receiver tuned to the griped about band or frequency de jour, obviously it's harmful and we're long extinct, so STFU.
I never figured out why the State Department declined employing me as a diplomat...
Want to start a bar fight among physicists, ask when an RF field becomes a photon, rather than a wave. Still being a competitive math contest. ;)
Tissue warmed, well, consider it cooking, because it is. Heat a steak to room temperature, enjoy watching it rot. Heat it enough to denature proteins, it's called cooking. Microwaves tend to do that whole thing between 600 watts of energy to 1500 watts of energy used, microwatts griping is like complaining that the sun cooked all life on the planet to death long ago and STFU.
There is a danger to microwaves - to radioastronomers.
Toxicology 101, the dose makes the poison, as even oxygen at high levels is infamously toxic.
Now, when the frequency starts at UV-B and shorter wavelengths, there, the jury's still open.
Slightly, given oxygen's intolerance to ionizing radiation passage.
So, wanna get rid of the "risk"? Put out the largest source first, the sun.
Hope you enjoy around 4 degrees Kelvin.
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Here's a bit of fun.
The US government utilizes extensive dark nets. SIPRnet, JWICS, each tunneled under their dim-ish NIPRnet, which to most would be the DOD internet.
SIPR gets tunneled under the already tunneled NIPRnet, that going through loggers and filters from hell. JWICS, the top secret network goes under SIPRnet.
Each level being tunneled under encryption devices twice, before meeting other networks.
Oh, nuclear wargames shit, totally segregated and not at all internet accessible, despite any tunneling.
TOR was designed by a US State Department grant, undermined by the NSA, now fully open source.
Not seeing FreeNet or other dark nets.
Dark is not available to the internet, your bank's network is darknet under that definition, as is any defense network or well, your desired home network.
Home networks, well, how much do you want to spend, effort and money to protect everything? On my end, after hundreds of hours of effort, my family information and PII are protected, my porn collection, not so much. I can delete securely and replace those few gigs trivially enough. PII and family, not so much.
TOR, like any network of such construction, relies on exit nodes. That's how it got broken by the NSA.
Capture exit nodes, you've got the heart and soul of the network and the puzzle palace is good at that.
So, go ahead with seeking red mercury.
No such thing, it was a Russian invention to find idiots.
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@purupurupikopuyo-k5w I had unexplained diarrhea for four months, doctor initially being a bit distracted over some things that could quite literally kill me quite swiftly, what was initially characterized by a radiology resident as severe mitral regurgitation (it was low end moderate) and an abdominal aortic aneurysm, which is a big deal.
Once those were at mischief managed, aka watchful waiting, it was, "Hey wait, you said four months?! Let's order some tests now".
No eggs or worms or suspect critters like protozoa was the first test. Inflammatory markers were high. Sodium, chloride and magnesium were dangerously low. A few other markers were ambiguous for several conditions, which isn't unusual in such cases and I was referred to a GI specialist.
A few additional tests, primary prescribed a steroid to calm the raging brown waters, which controlled the worst, GI doctor prescribed a colonoscopy (which amazingly went through well, three other attempts leading to a comedy of events like broken down cars, a major storm rendering getting the procedure done, etc), which revealed Crohn's disease.
My primary, knowing my dietary habits of basically everything from scratch because I'm a cheap SOB, ordered me to eat prepared foods, an Rx for magnesium oxide and called a few days later to see how I was faring. I explained that I'd excavated my salt cellar and was salting my foods for the first time in over 30 years, repeat testing showed much better sodium levels, chloride levels were happy and magnesium was dead center of whatever normal is. Minimal processed foods, because well, they suck.
GI doctor also ordered a few metabolic and specific tests, B-12 was good, as was folate, which was surprising given the inflammation, eroded tissues and other deficiencies, so obviously my diet was more than sufficient.
Just got my second infusion of infliximab to curb some of the immune system effects that spur the wider inflammation, we'll see, it'll work, not work or I'll grow an ear from my scrotum. OK, I invented that last bit.
It'll work or we'll have to stop playing with TNF-alpha antibodies and go with vedolizumab, which is a bit lower in efficacy, but still fairly decently effective, but not very well liked by my insurance company. We'll see how it goes. I'd already staged things to appeal successfully if their recommended drug is ineffective and to put it simply, I agree with their medical reasoning in this case.
My knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pharmacology is quite good, so if it came to an argument, those physicians are going to have one hell of a tough row to hoe, as I've also written peer reviewed papers in other fields and know how to present an airtight presentation.
And high on my to-do list is smoking cessation, as I've also noticed before the biologic treatment some signs of autoimmune dysfunction that could be warnings of some things becoming a problem and autoimmune and autoinflammatory syndromes are worsened by cigarette smoking. And it's also likely I'll need surgery for a disc problem and that has a very high failure rate in smokers.
I know these things because Google scholar is one of my closer friends, as are peer reviewed papers on such subjects. And peers love little more than to savage shoddy work from a peer.
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@Winona493 yeah, that's well over the distance between Munich and Seville. While a day trip to Paris might not be out of the question, Seville, that's more of a holiday trip, not a day trip.
That said, I lived outside of Philadelphia. Our school did have a trip to Broadway for a theater visit (odd, given we have dramatic arts in Philly), that was an organized day trip and a bit under 100 miles (160 km).
But, the US has a thing with unaccompanied minors traveling, it happens, it's usually a bit exceptional, as we're quite overprotective of our children.
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@annakingry9157 here are some interesting words, show me the levying of war.
Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Come on, show me where anyone picked up guns and shot at US government officers in an effort to overthrow the US government. Show me the two eyewitnesses that will testify in open court. Hell, show me a naughty cub scout with a slingshot.
There can be no aid and comfort to the enemy, as Congress has declared no war since WWII, so we're fresh out of enemies.
Without the levying of war, there is no treason, so stop being like MAGAts and stick here in the real and factual world or stay the fuck off of our side. Because, we do believe in law and order, the rule of law and the foundation of that law is our Constitution. Such bullshit of claiming treason for whatever you don't like undermines any moral and factual authority one might've previously had and parallels the MAGAt religion.
Besides, I can make one bastard from hell of a case for sedition just on 1/6 alone, subsequent actions only adding additional counts.
Besides, we all know that they're far too cowardly to pick up a gun. The streak of yellow down all MAGA backs can be seen from space.
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Many years back, when some guy named Bill was POTUS, I was repeatedly and tiredly, asked, "What do you think about the President allowing gays to join the military"?
I didn't miss a beat and said, who said that they weren't there, we have a Navy, don't we?
That was actually honest, in some ways. Navy has a more congested culture, due to ship size and berthing, hence, there is a preference there and for their more famous Corps.
I won't even go into the Navy originated joke about submariners, where 100 men go down and 50 couples come up.
Real world, rather than joking. I've served with people who are pretty much every shade of the sexuality spectrum, they trusted their lives to my care, I trusted my life to their care.
Or, as I've joked, "I don't give a shit if they love viewing my (anatomical location omitted, due to variability), as long as they cover it, the same is true for them".
And that was before our current cocktail successes to halt viral progression.
Because, all military service members are potential blood donors. So, I have a choice of dead for not getting replacement of blood or not dead if I were wounded.
Until we can fix dead, no, not going to suggest a suicidal path by denial, save in terminal conditions and under fairly modest conditions.
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@DevPythonUnity that is called piracy and it's illegal under both US and international law.
Now, go to your room, the adults are trying to talk.
Jesus, what an ultramaroon! Upstream he was talking about beheading Saudi royalty, invading Saudi Arabia and all other batshit crazy bullshit that has no grounding in reality.
And yes, that's actually my picture. My wife snapped it just as I came inside my quarters during an annoying sandstorm when I was deployed to the Persian Gulf. Our issued dust masks lasted mere minutes and clogged, that headdress allowed us to mix with the local populace and actually makes sense in that environment. When it clogged up, shifting it a bit allowed the moisture to evaporate and the dust to just fall off of the cloth.
And that damned dust got into everything! Consistency and size of portland cement dust, much of it being gypsum dust, acted a bit like plaster when wet too.
The Qatari people are nice too. The Saudis a bit irritable at times, but if I was saddled with Mecca, I'd be irritable too.
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That stage is obviously no good. All of the other ones were good, that one isn't. So, upon return, SpaceX will replace that stage free of charge so that SpaceX can re-run their mission with working equipment.
Largely, to avoid a collision risk.
Seriously though, I'm with Scott, there's liquid also leaking, which suggests it's a LOX leak, likely from a ruptured line or connection. Shake and rattle you (along with vibration) that much, you'd fare far worse.
I'll always fare better though, as I actively avoid the propulsion stack when it's in use. Dad may have raised a dummy, but he didn't raise no fool!
I'll see myself to the door...
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Let's see, something happens, audio goes out for a bit and is fixed. Not exceptionally unusual, it happens.
"I'm not going to pay them". OK, cut the feed and leave. Take any equipment that's yours, as he's promised to default. If the boss convinces us to say, once he starts talking litigation, that's automatic cease and desist to limit further legal exposure.
Now, the microphone gets collected in front of dog and man, everything gets disconnected and removed. Try to stop the crew from leaving, it's kidnapping. Attempt to halt recovery of property, it's grand theft.
Nope, you threatened litigation, it's now in the hands of the lawyers. Have your lawyer contact ours, we're done and no further communication will be accepted, save through said attorney, please do have an absolutely shitty day.
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@karenholmes6565 when he owned Taj Mahal, he'd ordered the onion domes for the spires. He promptly tried to stiff the roof builder, as a check was stipulated in the contract immediately upon signing off on completion.
The builder had a plan in place though, cranes and crews converged upon the casino and they began repossessing the builder's roof. Trump's local management proclaiming that checks could not be locally issued, they lacked facilities or even checks, please wait, etc. Long and short, before the domes could be dismantled, magically, a check was printed locally for the amount due.
Given his track record and his public statements, he'd hate me to hold a contract. The moment he stated he wasn't going to pay, all of my equipment and services would be withdrawn, as I'd declare a fundamental breach of contract and have my attorney immediately file litigation, as I have absolutely no hope that he'll honor the contract and seek to recover damages. Not a material breach, he promised not to pay and that's about as fundamental as one can get.
Yank his sound, teleprompter, whatever he's contracted for, mid-speech and remove it back to storage offsite.
Trust me, his audience would be initially irritated, but as word spread that we were collecting equipment he'd otherwise steal the use of, they'll be laughing at his dancing, since they won't be able to hear his infantile cries.
If his staff interferes with removal, call the law for grand theft. Restrain the staff and prevent departure, it's kidnapping and unlawful restraint. Let the prick put himself into yet another felony corner. While his crowd is entertained by his impotence.
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Annoyingly, I was basically breaking even, compensation wise.
I guess Trump wants all quarantines ignored.
But, oddly, has his official perpetual quarantine surrounding his bunker and bunkers offal office.
A 26 day old infant died of COVID-19, perhaps Sierra should pay his respects in person! And to prove his claims, lack both nostrils.
Oops, I forgot, he's The Bunker Boy. Especially with germs that he once said he didn't believe in and shortly after, admitted to a phobia of.
Afraid of what one just claimed didn't exist?
Thats the honest of a street where, but less honorable. One of the two doesn't kiss and tell.
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Go ahead and stop the firings then. Congress has whored out, the SCOTUS has whored out, the Constitution is dead and we're stuck with a god-king ruling by fiat.
He yearns for some war, so that he can declare a state of emergency and institute martial law.
Likely, gleaned from notions from the film "Civil War", where he obviously never watched the ending of.
Or realized that we have IRBM's as part of ATACMS and he's in range of a half dozen states.
Not that that is a suggestion.
Predictions, eventual state of war, state of emergency that'll be perpetual and a mass termination of the disabled, infirm, elderly disabled and mentally disadvantaged, then the camps.
And WWIII beginning.
I recognize the playbook and the maniacal monsters following it lack originality.
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@jackieow first off, only suicidal idiots run around in fallout. At the Castle Bravo debacle, the men trapped in the shot cab (the crew that actually pushed the boom button) stuck a plain G-M tube based radiac meter out of the door, saw levels that measured between holy crap and I'm dead already and closed the door. Room measurements were much better, but still lethal within the day, so they found where the film was stored, which was the best buried place and stayed there until early evening. They sealed up and called it good, as HEPA filtration wasn't a thing yet - that came out of Castle Bravo's accident and subsequent research). Then, the radiation had dropped as the hottest radioisotopes decayed. A quick trot off to an impatiently waiting helicopter, they went to their ship. 12 days later, it was safe for the troops to stomp about and stomp about they did.
Something like Chernobyl, yeah, all bets are off, as long lived radioisotopes are about and nobody wants to spend a century or two inside of a bunker. That said, wearing an N95 mask, I'm not going to really give a toss about alpha emitters, they're stuck inside the mask and my epidermis is blocking them.
BTW, I was on our radiological survey team back in the Army and I originally worked on Pershing missiles, both 1A and II (for all of the microseconds those existed before being treaty driven to extinction, thankfully).
Now, in an ideal world, one would have both a G-M tube and radiation spectrometer scintillation detector, sealed and HEPA filtration shelter a couple of meters down and Scotty to beam you out. Alas, none of us are named Musk.
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Mark my words, he'll eventually lose control of his rabble. When that happens, at a minimum, his daughter and her family will be in grave danger from the antisemites in his rabble.
I have fun with that lot, reminding them first and foremost, given their proclaimed Christian priorities, that "Jesus was a Jew". They usually counter that Jesus was a Christian, "Oh, no wonder he got into trouble, worshiping himself over his father and all!". Leaves them tangled in a hot mess every time.
Potentially hazardous, yes, but frankly, most of them couldn't fight their way out of a layer of single ply toilet paper with an M2 machine gun. Especially, given that the M2 manual's headspace and timing section is written at a 6th grade reading comprehension level, which is far beyond their ken.
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I've no problem with the second amendment, within its context.
The militia, due to the various militia acts, remains military aged individuals (originally only men, but fairly recently changed) of military age and of sound mind and body.
Hence, regulation on who can lug around what, where and when, as well as when assembly while armed or for armed purpose is allowed.
Now, go ahead and say we don't regulate those things. Show me where someone can legally enter a school with a machine gun or artillery piece (yes, you can legally own both, pass the background check and pay the $200 tax stamp, it's yours (and each round for the artillery piece also being a $200 tax stamp item)). You can't, as that's unlawful and indeed, a felony. The militia is also prohibited from mobilizing itself and just charging forth on mythical missions - their government has to call them up to protect their nation, state or county.
And I am a multiple firearms owner, who properly secures his firearms and am both a competition marksman, occasional hunter and happily retired military veteran.
Regulation on activities with firearms predate this nation, one law I reviewed from Philadelphia prohibited celebratory gunfire within city limits generations before the Declaration of Independence and was retained when we became a nation.
But, the NRA was, during my lifetime, hijacked by the industry in response to NRA support for the Gun Control Act of 1968, usurping the sportsmen and women alike and turning the organization into a political industry support group.
Oh, training of the unorganized militia is conducted by the Civilian Marksmanship Program, a federally regulated and created organization.
I am a proponent for the concealed carry on one's person of howitzers. 105 mm and up.
Google the things to get that joke.
My personal carry weapon being an M65 Atomic Annie. I figure nobody will bother someone concealing an 11 inch bore, nuclear capable cannon that's 86 tons and 85 feet long. :P
OK, stopped carrying decades ago, when I figured out out sporting an armed criminal would have to be to allow me to get mine out to equalize the odds...*
*Yes, I'm serious there. After figuring that out while having to clean the damnable thing, yet again, I locked it up and only removed it to go to the range to defend myself from the tyranny of unperforated X rings on round targets.
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@kristenjoyce2180 there are currently a dozen fraudulent ballots that were "intercepted", fraudulently filled out, forged signature and returned in Colorado as well. If the mail was stolen, that's 20 years and $200k max per count, plus mailing the fraudulent ballot gets the same, all federal, since the mail is involved.
Hell of a high price for an election of someone one doesn't even personally know.
And before another idiot calls them a traitor, traitors commit treason, treason is only taking up arms against the government or giving aid and comfort to an enemy and we're out of those since Congress hasn't declared war on anyone. Ain't sedition either, as that requires violence, so Jan 6 was sedition in a number of cases and convictions and sentences are being served and numbers are climbing. Fraud is enough and interference in a government proceeding at the felony level. Let them be a guest of the government in the gray bar hotel for a few centuries.
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In the beginning, that isn't zoned out, he lost the program. He was spinning his wheels trying to figure out what he was supposed to do when she swooped in as a crutch to divert him to "play his music" and had to prod him multiple times until he caught on and played it up, confabulating along the way.
This will be the first US election where a candidate is running that could actually be legally declared non compos mentis. Who would have nuclear launch capabilities that is utterly unchecked. The same brain trust that previously took an entire afternoon to convince to not nuke a hurricane off the coast of Africa to blow it out. A continent with 54 countries that he thought was one country.
And we can be damned sure that Vance would let him, no 25th amendment, just let the atrocities flow.
And his loyal followers would support it the entire way, ordering a double Flavor Aid ala Jim Jones special.
Meanwhile, foreign agitator bots are online and on steroids, full afterburner for them. Anything to destabilize and neutralize us as they hope that they can charge their way across the globe while we're distracted by fighting one another.
And the mainstream media, who once were our loyal watchdogs, busily scampering around his latest antics in his decreasingly frequent lucid moments that he can hold up a new shiny to distract them and get free press.
He can not be allowed to win this election or this nation will never recover. So, vote like your nation depends upon it, because it actually does.
If not, well, at least I literally live on ground zero of a strategic target.
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Oh, picked up a dozen large eggs at the dollar store for $8.60. Still had a fair stock of them, as the neighborhood isn't exactly notable for wealth. Well, save for the chap a few blocks down the road, but the governor has never been observed shopping in the local neighborhood.
Still have a $19 food stamp reserve until a week and a half from now and my pantry is fully stocked, as is my freezer. One benefit of preparing from scratch and walking for most of my groceries two miles each way to the store twice a month. Keeps me in shape too, which I've needed since doctor stuck me on a steroid for the past couple of months.
As for spend nothing day that's mentioned in the comments, that's my moving day, new apartment and all, so ain't shopping and don't need anything from the store and frankly, one day of losses like that literally won't even be noticed.
A nationwide general strike would be noticed, even if only 2% participated, get a higher percentage and well, that's a hell of a lot of lost profits.
I'm curious though, does Trump have a concept of a concept of a concept of a planned concept of a plan?
And I seem to recall his blathering something about the Mexican border being closed, despite all of that traffic going through... Maybe it's patrolled by unicorns or something? Ladies and gentlemen, Reality has left that building and is not expected back anytime soon!
And the January 6th choir, aren't they also the size 14 1/2 chorus line, they look quite fetching in their prison tutus and prison boots.
And Chairman, JTF is fired, because of MAGA, Make Apartheid Great Again. Scored one for Emperor Musk!
Apparently, we were the aggressor in Pearl Harbor, using this maladministration's standards. Shouldn't we be surrendering and apologizing to the Emperor of Japan? Since we're now Waltzing around reality, rather than living through it. But, a better plan? OK, first we don't go with, "Pay me well and we'll give you a surrender", we'll go with Zelenskyy's checkmate, "I'll resign like you want me to - if we're given NATO membership". Loads of wet paint across that corner they painted themselves into.
The National Sex Offender Registry and search pages are available, must've been down for maintenance. They do maintain those servers, so they can and will go offline during an assigned service outage for patching. Annoyingly, they don't seem to post a scheduled service outage page and they should, it's a standard practice to allow people that utilize their services to know when the services will be unavailable and for approximately how long. :/
Tell us the five things that you've done this week, just don't respond with anything classified. And so, everyone that works constantly with classified information got fired and nobody knows anything sensitive, yay for winning via losing!
Anti-Trump bias, aka preference for outright lies is only acceptable.
And oh noes! Trump gets angry! He might just turn into the Phenomenal Bulk! Oh, too late. We're gonna need a bigger Beast.
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I dunno, that one guy with a pro mask, every unit has "that one guy"...
I was that other guy, the one standing smoking a cigarette inside of a cloud of RCA, shunting men to where I needed them and I'll feel irritated when I get the time later.
Yeah, I was that prick that stood in a cloud of CS, CN, OC, whatever the lowest budget agent was that week and smoked a cigarette while directing men around to where they needed to be.
Yeah, me and protests, I'll let somebody else be a soft target. I'll be bringing up the rear with a full case of beans, the Conventions be damned.
Seriously though, that's always been a pet peeve on Hollywood crap, big badda boom, people go flying through the air in precisely the same way people don't fly, remain intact and yeah, nope. Loads of shredded and broken, tons of red stuff that the bodies are running out of, everyone's in shock as our central nervous system isn't constructed with extreme concussions in mind - as military medical science is finally discovering.
The problem with tracers is, they work both ways.
Blood, old medic's adage, eventually all bleeding will stop - react wrong, it'll stop the way you didn't want it to.
Still, one other adage, "Don't get shot".
The bodies in rooms, anything of intelligence value?
As for war crimes, conducting war crimes is the swiftest way to find oneself in the midst of a reprisal, as the Waffen SS learned the hard way after summarily executing Allied prisoners.
Another Hollywood gun is a lot newer, but we used similar for .50 BMG simulators, propane gas gun that has a spark plug to detonate the gas when the trigger is depressed. Then, there's CGI boom-boom-bang-bangs. Never ceases to amaze me on how quiet Hollywood guns are, as you said, shoot-em up inside of a room, end up with dead people and deaf people. Eh?
MRAP, same with aircraft, fuel hungry beasts that eat spare parts for light snacks. The one area most frequently forgotten in films is, vehicles - armored or combat aircraft are fuel hungry as all hell. Hell, even Patton forgot that lesson and had to learn when his tanks exhausted their fuel until the fuelers caught up.
The problematic White House assault is easy, Scotty fucked up with the transporter. That's why we said to never drink and beam. Damned senior officers always thinking that they're special... :P
Whatever are you talking about with the sandbags? Every CSM worth his salt will want fresh sandbags, with fresh paint on both sides. Yeah, you know I had to go there. ;)
The Beast is a tank that's disguised as a limo. Yeah, the hummer would've come apart like an opera singer at a rap concert.
Current issue for Protective detail is the MP7, a wee bit of improvement over the 9x19.
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@mrcase77 interns were hired. Internship isn't for teens, but for college students well through their college program, to gain experience to acquire their degree.
So, headlines like this are pure bullshit, it's like calling my own physician, a resident, a teen.
OK, a "teen" by extending the term well into his 20's and is fully qualified to perform surgery.
Inexperienced, yes, that's what internship is for, to gain experience in the practical side of all of that theory the college has been funneling into their heads.
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@mrcase77 well, Rush shared one common flaw with the military. Neither is known to have adult supervision.
But yeah, when his criteria for hiring one engineer is that he's a surfer, well, as I've said elsewhere, I'd have qualms just walking next to his piece of shit.
At least, in the military, when we had the absolute lowest bidder make something, it did adhere to stringent specifications.
There's a video here of a guy who has a pressure chamber and made a scale model of the sub, with flat, plain end cap assemblies and alas, using plain epoxy. But, the hull was a machined tube that was wrapped in carbon fiber and he ran it down to 80 - 85 bar pressures before it imploded.
I suggest that the technology, properly implemented and stringently inspected after each dive, is actually worthy of further investigation - in ROV's. If it crushes, one loses only equipment and instrumentation. Assuming, of course, one uses actual submersible engineers and students are adequately supervised.
I'm also willing to bet it won't look cool, it'll likely look like shit, but work like a dream. But then, I've always been a function over form type. Hence, entirely avoiding "Looks like a fish, moves like a dream, steers like a cow".
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SL-1 and Chernobyl shared one common flaw in their control rods, graphite tips on the control rods. Graphite is a moderator, so the end of the control rod, the rod being the slow down control, sped up reactions as it traveled through the core.
The base event that disassembled both reactors explosively via steam hammer explosions was the same - prompt criticality. But, SL-1 was excessive removal of the primary control rod (don't get me into having a single pull to start control rod, let alone having to pull it up a bit to hook to a pully...), Chernobyl was a reactor that just came down in power from producing peak prime power for a large region to super low power, causing iodine/xenon levels in the fuel to be excessive, poisoning the reaction when they tried to ramp power up for the unauthorized test. Not recognizing the iodine pit problem, the poorly trained oopserators then pulled most of the rods from the reactor and when the iodine and xenon finally burned off, it went prompt critical.
Two reactors that never should have been prototyped, let alone constructed as a production or test reactor, due to insufficient safety and training, which points directly to a cavalier management mindset.
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Heroin is illegal in the US, but commonly prescribed for post-operative pain in the UK. Remember, this is international , not US centric and biochemistry and pharmacology is decidedly not any nation or continent centric.
But, addictive potential is a topic lousy with confounders. Opiates and opioids have aversion factors, such as triggering MAST cell responses, I'm lousy with histamine and feel miserable taking the infernal things. That aversion tends to limit the potential for addiction and that's only one example. Susceptibility is another, such as genetic predisposition, secondary to slightly different receptor configurations or even ion channel differences.
So, we look at mass numbers to determine addictive potential and far more are addicted to opioids than benzodiazepines and alcohol is outside of the scope of a discussion on pharmacology and addiction, as I've yet to see a recorded case of alcoholism secondary to a prescribed medical treatment!
But, I do agree that the DEA's drug schedule is bullshit, as it's largely via Congressional input, hence political in nature more than anything evidence based.
As for ethanol withdrawal, I've been known to pack away that dosage, then quit without sequelae and amazingly, my liver panels were normal. Not a clue how that worked out, but it has repeatedly for me, again, confounders like genetics and perhaps, my Grave's disease shifting my metabolism upward a bit might be what comes into play.
But therein lies a confounder of medicine in general, both pharmacological and in medical theory, individual idiosyncrasy. But then, that drives everyone to distraction... ;)
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I remember the nitrogen levels and protein becoming a major legal and public health matter and scandal in 2008.
Milk collection locations at the time were entirely unsupervised by the PRC government and to boost product output as demand increased, unscrupulous management directed the milk be diluted and melamine added to boost nitrogen content, which would fool protein level testing.
The problem being, melamine breaks down in a way to produce kidney stones, in this case, large, destructive kidney stones and oh yeah, a lot of that milk went into baby formula.
"On 1 December, Xinhua reported that the Ministry of Health revised the number of victims to more than 290,000 with 51,900 hospitalized; authorities acknowledged receiving reports of 11 suspected deaths from melamine contaminated powdered milk from provinces, but officially confirmed three deaths." That's just in China, the milk was also exported and true numbers difficult to find, as it went to many developing nations. Many of the children require dialysis to survive.
17 went on trial over it, with one life sentence, two executed, the rest getting 19 years, commuted to 15 years and change.
For those unfamiliar with melamine, it's used as a fire suppressant, in making plastic dinnerware (I ate from melamine plates as a kid), dry erase boards and more. Note how it's not used as a food ingredient. It's not soluble in water, so they had to add another chemical, such as formaldehyde to it (in low quantities, still not a biggie, the body makes that as well whenever it's making DNA) and they added maltodextrin, a carbohydrate to emulate milk sugar.
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A state ID provides evidence of residency. Lacking an eviction order or recent document after the ID issuance date is a reasonable suspicion of a false report.
Or should I go back to my old home that I ceded to the city after it was wrecked by burglars past economical repair and seize it, with my more reasonable excuse of being deployed defending this worthless nation?
Or just get more manned guns than lawless enforcement?
Oh, this case gives some small proof of life in this nation.
A tiny proof, as he could've ended up homeless, while paying the home loan.
Now, if the officers had operational brain cells, they'd CYA and arrest the false claiming individual and charge them.
Damages 10x what was awarded, with loan shark interest in every day of delay until payout and secession of appeals.
From someone left homeless three times, courtesy of various thefts. One, by common burglary, one via abuse of office, one by just getting taken while doing a favor.
But, oddly, still trusted by our government.
But, now at the point of nothing left to lose and more than capable of repelling invasion in an epic manner that would likely end up becoming military.
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I entirely advocate for the colonization of Mars.
Difference between President Musk's idiocy and my idea is, the colonists are short term, as the colony would be for research and study of Mars and low gravity environments, not some inane notion of permanence that's utterly unsustainable.
Tours would likely end up being only six months at most, due to the debilitating effects of the lower gravity and radiation (some mitigation for the radiation would be below ground facilities, allowing regolith to protect against the radiation).
Might as well go with a megastation in orbit, with a large centrifugal gravity system, since I'm going moonbeams for funding such a money pit.
Why actual humans? Versatility. Robots aren't anywhere as versatile as a human chemist or geologist, as was instantly proven when we put the first geologist on the moon and basically as soon as he set foot on the lunar surface, he discovered a sample that was groundbreaking.
A robot can't gin up a chemical test, a chemist or geochemist can. Let the robots stomp the surface, little can be achieved by personal stomping about - usually and the unusual is also where humans excel. And thankfully, the unusual is infrequent, so leave the squishy humans inside the labs and the robots outside to get broken.
As for Musk the innovative dreamer, he's invented nothing, developed nothing, everything he's gotten has been bought, save for an inherited emerald mine. I'd not have sought advice on electricity from J. P. Morgan and the Vanderbilt, I'd speak to Edison and Tesla, who actually did invent and develop the technologies personally.
And nuking the moon? Oddly, Russia never suggested such an absurd thing, that was the US Air Force and Carl Sagan's first assignment, which got kiboshed once Sagan's report was submitted showing how tiny a nuclear detonation would be visually from earth.
But, orbials would be a good idea, remember that mega station notion? Still obscenely, beyond the fever dreams of insane in expense, but more sustainable if properly designed and well, can be protected from major harm from holes getting occasionally punched through it. In much of earth orbit, it'd be magnetically shielded to a fair degree. Water can be the additional shielding/thermal regulation/water supply that's recycled. Use lunar regolith for soil for grow beds, although use for organic life support would require immense amounts of space.
Achilles heel, maintenance of such a behemoth would be a cast iron bitch.
Still, I volunteer President Musk's billions for funding the project. Should take only a few hundred trillion to design, construct, launch, assemble in orbit and maintain for a decade or so. I'm sure his fans will happily fill that modest gap between the two figures... I'll wait.
And wait.
And... Huh, black dwarfs sure are hard to find, even up reasonably close at 1 AU!
Until then, I advocate for Musk to personally colonize the surface of Venus.
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@vyomchauhan2931 no POTUS solves problems, they have advisors and staffers that are selected with detailed knowledge, well, save for one, who picked such people based on personal loyalty, to solve those problems properly.
A POTUS that is effective knows when someone that would advise them if a bullshitter, there are common traits in such people, not the least of which is a lack of detailed knowledge on the subject matter. So, a POTUS can at least ascertain that the individual before them that is speaking about brain surgery for all is full of shit by simply asking a few questions on brain structures that's basic high school science level. Then, they get shown the door and someone with a clue brought in. A POTUS decidedly is not an expert on brain surgery.
When those cues get missed, well, a POTUS gets advice from another Teller, who hawked an x-ray laser that had never worked, never could work and never can be made to work in a manner he was selling.
And when a POTUS thinks that they're experts in everything, we get told to drink bleach, show UV lights up our asses and take worm medication to stop a virus, despite that medication being useless against any virus.
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This is a new technology, nothing like it existed before. It's not as if there were steel cases with a lock that is opened by selecting multiple numbers from multiple, oh, just spitballing here, directions turned on a dial. We could then call it a combination lock. All, to keep important things safe.
Encryption is totally new, nobody has encoded information before, so ciphertext would be a total Enigma to anyone without the keys to decrypt the information.
Totally novel, Caesar couldn't come up with a cipher at all! No, it took Lou Cipher to invent such devilishly clever things.
For the security and cryptographically challenged, the first bit is about a safe. First used by Ramses II in the 13th century BC, although it was more a pin and tumbler lock. The Romans had combination locks for their safe boxes. A Muslim engineer came up with a much more modern combination lock for safe boxes in 1206 and the modern security safe hails back to 1850 or so.
Enigma was an encryption system that baffled the Allies during much of WWII. While it could eventually be mathematically broken, changing the configuration of the machine would set the analyst teams back to square one for months to years - it was simpler to steal one from operational warships. Caesar cipher was an encryption scheme that's childish by today's standards, about as weak as ROT13 "coding", which is just subtract 13 from the ASCII symbol value to decrypt.
If you missed Lucifer, that's OK, I'm sure Lucifer misses you too. ;)
It's literally the same issue as demanding the combination to your safe.
I ran into some annoyances while traveling on duty, once to the point where I called a phone number, reported the issue and the TSA agent's phone rang within two minutes and he wished that he followed my advice to wear hearing protection when answering.
The computer had a nice red sticker on it, with white letters with the cryptically ill informing SECRET on it and he was ignoring my classified documents courier card - until that phone rang.
Once he saw and I related that it was classified and showed my courier card, the most he was allowed to do by law was to document and report the contact, prohibited by law: Demanding access to something you have no need to know the contents of.
Misuse of that trust gets the abuser's security clearance revoked for cause, with potential criminal penalties attached for good measure. A total meteoric end to one's career.
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@Rhiannon-b6k show me where, before two witnesses that will willingly testify in open court that he took up arms and made war against the United States government.
Treason is the only crime that is described in the Constitution, it is narrowly and precisely described, far more narrowly than basically any other nation, due to abuses of that very charge in the past.
We lack an enemy, so he cannot give aid and comfort to such, as Congress has not declared war since WWII and we're not at war.
Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
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Tsar Bomba was an ironic bomb. The bomber had a maximum range with the bomb of 300 miles, the bomb, detonated at half yield. Because the uranium tamper was omitted, lowering the yield by half, the bomb was ironically, the cleanest nuke ever detonated by mankind.
Detonated a week before I was born as well.
The non-testing of nukes is a non-issue, as for one, the physics are well enough understood. For two, Russia and the US both signed on to the test ban treaty to halt such insanity. With respect, I grew up during the atmospheric testing era, I'm quite literally more radioactive than my children and grandchildren, tossing gamma radiation quite brightly under a gamma camera's baleful gaze. Learned that during a background check, followed by a thyroid scan for my Grave's disease. If it's all the same to you, I'd prefer my grandchildren not get that specific glow.
As for Russia's threats, China used to threaten the Soviets on a routine basis, a Soviet joke being "China's Final Warning" and "Paper Tiger", which Russia today enjoys a similar status of doing. I literally live on ground zero, as my area is ringed literally by military depots, so I'd be a bad odor in the air if they actually launched and well, we'd launch and we have more nukes than they have population centers under the last START treaty. They don't, but our society and nation would effectively cease to exist.
Hence, why I call the turdmuffins what they are, "Products of the insanity factory". Expensive as hell to make, expensive to maintain and utterly useless. And I started my military career in such weapons. Stupidest weapons ever frigging invented.
Might be useful if one put them onto interceptors with interplanetary range to ablate part of an incoming asteroid, otherwise, useful as a bustline on a bull.
And when the Soviet Union fell, Russia maintained only one weapon class, nukes. No choice, given the suicidal defense theory embraced by two stupidpowers.
I've no love for Russia, to put things mildly, intense dislike would be more accurate and an understatement. I also have no need of disinformation.
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@clonescope2433 from what I can recall, there are two propulsion systems, so it'd be two sources of input into one output.
Which sounds like a huge pain in the ass if they're both inputting at once.
I do wonder how they fixed the issue between the steel and aluminum, galvanic reaction between the two are infamous for causing problems in any other structural component scheme.
Frankly, new classes of anything have their initial problems, they always have. New technologies, new mixtures of technologies, implementation and maintenance, plus just being new in general all have to get shaken down to see what tries to fall off. I got to test a bunch of brand new Army stuff over the decades, some not ready for prime time, others never fielded and quite a few made it into active usage today.
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Ah, but will the asteroid lower the price of eggs?
OK, the original odds of impact was given at around 1%, based upon extremely sparse data, with large amounts of uncertainty. Recently, the numbers started looking, still highly uncertain, but had oh! More than doubled at around 2.3%.
Out of the sheer number of things that can quite literally kill me immediately and there are a few, that asteroid is the lowest probability harm on the list and well, longer term problem that can't even be verified. We've also gone through this exact same shuffle in the past with other asteroids, some making the news.
Now, I can go into risk assessment math and bore everyone into a coma, but really, need I bother? One stands a superior chance of winning the lottery than being harmed by this asteroid is the end of the day probability, per the math and well, experience. It didn't start off with oh, 30% chance and jump to 50% chance, the uncertainties are immense and frankly, of scientific value currently only, not even on an emergency response or mitigation radar.
Density is unknown, a rubble pile would come apart as it enters into the Roche lobe, giving a really nice meteor shower. It also wouldn't explode, it'd fall apart if it somehow stayed integral. Assumptions are made that it's spherical and it's more likely either a contact binary or potato shaped, as it's way too small to form a sphere.
The mass is unknown. It could be a puffball, in which case it'll disintegrate swiftly under G forces from the air itself, most of it evaporating.
It could be a starship and what does god need with a starship?
Until more is known, well I take greater risks walking to the supermarket twice a month. Obviously, I still eat - more obvious if you actually saw me. ;)
As for the apocalypticlly inclined, if you really, really want a catastrophe, pop on by and pull my finger. You'll get your nose hairs curled to your heart's content.
For a real disaster, well, I could always try replicating that salmon dish disaster, not only didn't the dogs not want it, most scavenging insects avoided it as well. The EPA still hasn't forgiven me that gaffe. The remnants are currently safely stored under the sarcophagus at Chernobyl, which is why Ukraine was so annoyed over that drone strike.
Given my AAA, mitral valve damage, thyroid disease, autoinflammatory disease and autoimmune diseases, well, crossing the street is more dangerous still, the rest, like crossing the street remain at "Watchful Waiting" until something occurs that actually merits concern and response.
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Oh, then there's the "bad boot". Cold boot, the computer does anything except perform correctly. Throws errors, runs dog slow. Warm reboot, no good. Quick cold boot, still no good.
While considering reprogramming the computer using a generously proportioned fire axe, one goes to the can during another cold off. Back, it boots right up and performs normally.
There's a reason they tell you to leave the damned thing off for 30 seconds to a minute. Space charge retaining a state. Traced one such event back to a literal cosmic ray shower of historic levels sufficient to make a blurb on the evening news as I was consulting with the designer of a custom OS, remarked on it and we brainstormed what happened. A register got stuck in an illegal state, quite excited by a particle that said hello at damned near the speed of light. Powered off during that, ahem, leak event, its charge finally depleted enough to allow the reset one shot that fires on cold boot to actually reset the register. Quickly power cycling just didn't cut it, as the charge was retained and the illegal state remained.
One of the times I was happy to be fluent in the profanity of six languages...
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@kenbrown2808 my response would be, "The jurist in this matter is respectfully and cordially invited to pound sand up his ass until the end of time, as the Middle District of Pennsylvania is not the slave of the Southern District of New York and the costs involved would both destroy the global internet, which is against international law and ratified treaties, as well as be sufficient to bankrupt any nation attempting to usurp such control, as only the People's Republic of China has a firewall capable of such a feat".
Not my district, not my wheelhouse, not my domain and entirely not my problem. I am not under their circuit or district, so the orders are irrelevant. I am not the global god of the internet throughout the world, so it's a big nope. I don't control the 1589 top level domain controllers that are scattered across the globe, so hell no. I'm under the 3rd circuit, they are under the 2nd circuit, so bye-bye.
And even were I under their jurisdiction, services ordered that are involuntary and unpaid is slavery, which is unconstitutional.
.tv is a top level domain, as is .com.The TLD .tv is owned by the island nation of Tuvalu, which is decidedly outside of any US court of law. The TLD .com is owned by Verisign, which is headquartered in Reston, VA. Reston, VA is under the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, which is under the fourth circuit.
Frankly, it looks like the reporter screwed up the jurisdiction of the court, the authority of the court and the impracticality of compliance with the order, unless the jurist is directing the US to go to war with Tuvulu, which is laughable. Lord, save us from tech correspondents reporting on the law and law correspondents reporting on tech, for they always turn the story into a pig's breakfast!
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The reality of it is, most journalists don't understand science in general and any specialty field is lumped in with The Professor from Gilligan's Island, a polymath of polymaths and full time engineer, so all science is the same and magic.
So basically, you have someone who has absolutely no damned clue about what the item being reported upon actually is, trying to explain it without seeking anyone conversant in that subject. I might as well get a medical study interpreted by my barber, at least that would have a historical relationship, if utterly unrelated today.
But wait, it gets better! For major, long playing events, they'll get science populisers, like Bill Nye, explaining why they were injecting cesium-137 into the reactor to stop reactions and how boron is a fission product (I'm not joking, Bill really fouled that up about as badly as I'd expect an engineer to foul up a field he never worked or studied).
So, we get reports about a study performed somewhere, by someone, on something, at a time indeterminate and for all I know was conducted 1000 years ago, some scientist's life story and family history reporting on one modest discovery (yeah, I fell asleep too) or other inanity that is the reason that I still keep a lead pipe next to my driver's seat.
Science is fuchsia. What? You saw it.
Science explains our universe and how it works. We started out explaining colors in really unique, precise ways, red, yellow and blue. Yay! Then, someone found the color fuchsia, which ain't all that hard to find in nature and boom, there's a new color called fuchsia. If we listen to the antiscience types, language has to be abolished, since fuchsia never exited at one point and language is hopelessly defective because now it can define what fuchsia is and worse, science can give us a specific code to reproduce that color.
You know, better is really worse or some idiotic bullshit. OK, I'll just slap a mauve on the idiot.
An oddity in myself, I perceive part of the UV-C spectrum as an odd shade of iridescent fuchsia. UV-A and B are just deeper shades of violet. I see those with the eye that had the natural lens removed and an implant that is uncoated installed and when I discussed it with a biologist, he theorized that it was likely a fluorescent effect, which would also explain some of the other effects when seeing those shades.
No, I am not about to allow anyone to start poking my eyes to see what proteins are doing what oddity with light, you're welcome to those after I'm dead and they likely have denatured.
Besides, we have plenty of similar examples in technology and nature. Why, I've got some fun crystals in the drawer that emit different colors when lit by an IR laser... Fluorescein dye is another fine example, discovered in 1871, used in ophthalmology in 1882, tagged proteins with it in 1941, actually started to understand how the shit worked in the 1990's. I laugh about how many drugs I carried in my Army medical bag that we really didn't understand how they worked!
Just as well, it'd be boring as hell if we knew everything!
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Someone runs up to them and says "Naughty, naughty!". Silently, without running. And perhaps speaker of the house or president pro tempore.
What's supposed to happen is impeachment and removal.
What used to happen was tar and feathering.
After all, it's an abrogation of a position of great public trust, once, there were consequences. Now, prostitution of one's high office is just business as usual for one major party, the one loudly proclaiming respect for law and order, but promoting violence and disorder.
Perhaps we should consider repealing the prohibitions against writ of attainder and corruption of blood. Violate your oath, lose everything you'll ever own and your heirs lose all possibility of inheritance. It discouraged anyone from following Robert E. Lee again and got the nation a fine plantation, which we call Arlington National Cemetery.
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@rylian21 no, we'd still have plenty of members of the House and operable, a Speaker, who is first in the line of succession, even if a quorum isn't present, pending selection of a new President by vote in Congress, selection in the House, approval in the Senate. The post may not remain vacant during that interim period.
If the Speaker is not able to assume the post, then it goes to President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
That's why both houses of Congress terms begin on 3-Jan, while POTUS begins 20-Jan, to ensure no vacancy is present, leaving the nation without a functional branch of government.
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@TheLukaszpg yep, your mother certainly was, while entertaining the US seventh fleet.
Still, reviews have it that you give better head than she did.
And yeah, I'd say it right to your face. Then, wrap my cane around your head.
But, it is nice to hear back from the poster child for their local abortion clinic.
Shelly, thanks for the feedback and apologies for the ugliness. I've worked a number of emergencies, to put it mildly and been in the midst of some as well, being military EMS. Watching the video was hard, it had to be triple tough to have lived through it, watched it and commented.
Even at age 62, I'm learning from some Moms!
And having handled many 737's back during the Ice Age, yeah, risk busted feet vs inferno, no brainer.
Notice injury much later, yeah, got that tee shirt. Indeed, part of why I need a cane now.
Although, I'd probably consider walking to my destination after yet another runway incursion... ;)
Most of my flights being trans-Atlantic. Kind of a tough walk, but I'm stubborn enough.
I'll just get my coat...
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Well, think about a stealth bomber, difficult to impossible to find on radar or get a solid IR missile lock on, which carries a 40,000 lb (18,000 kg); maximum estimated limit is 50,000 lb (23,000 kg) bomb load in two bays. Stealth, hard to detect with radar, hard to vector a fighter to where the bomber is - if you knew it was around.
Range of 560 mph (900 km/h, 487 kn) at 40,000 ft altitude.
Nuclear weapon capable.
Now, compare it with the other primary US bomber, the B-52, which is 1950's tech based, as stealthy as a thunderstorm and is so old, it's coal fired. ;)
We retain the B-52's because they can carry a bomb load of 70,000 lb (31,500 kg) of assorted mayhem and many were nuclear capable and since, restricted most from nuclear capabilities.
Alas, it looks like we're gradually entering into Cold War II with both the PRC and Russian Federation.
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I remember one credulous reporter going on at great length in a comment online about how natural things aren't harmful.
I asked how much hydrogen cyanide he wanted mixed with his ricin, both being toxic substances in the plant kingdom. The former, we prepare out of some foods, the latter, best avoided entirely if you like having a functional endoplasmic reticulum (specifically, ribosomes). The idiot promptly wandered off to kick a rock somewhere.
After all, asbestos is natural too, as is lead, arsenic, strychnine and well, we could keep that list growing all week. ;)
I of course, keep such substances in stock only in my nightmares.
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I'm growing ever more confused. While objecting to Republican attention on what's inside of women's pants, why there is ever such a growing fascination on what's inside of DonOLD's pants.
Beyond his absurd proclamations of perfection in essentially every way, from absurd claims that fall flat on their face on his intelligence and competence in all things, come his claims of physical perfection, which Helen Keller can see are patently false. So, why a fixation on his underoos?
That's somehow a campaign issue? That's right up there with saying that I'm unfit to vote because I shit myself due to an attack of Crohn's.
What is a campaign issue is loosely related to his claims of perfection, it's the fact that he's habitually, incessantly and by nature flat out more full of shit than a Christmas goose in literally everything that he says. To the point where, were I to have met him for the first time today and he introduced himself (unlikely, as his ego is such that he believes he needs no introduction), I'd card his ass. That he thinks shoving bright light up your ass and injecting disinfectants is a good idea, that nuking hurricanes off of the cost "of the country of Africa" to blow them out is a good idea, that trespassing on federal forests to rake them out like other nations don't and he claims that they do is, that he wants to suggest summary executions and chargeless imprisonments is, that fascists and totalitarians are good people that should both be coddled and emulated decidedly is.
What is inside his pants, when did you decide to become Trump? Maybe you need to run out and buy a white hat, so I can tell who is who.
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First, send the hot mess to the Virginia Secretary of State. Then, out of an abundance of concern for the safety and security of our service members, submit every military installation, including USCG stations, to the BRAC commission for immediate closure, since TDY is now permanent residence and families must only exist for under 30 days. Then, bring that legislative agenda item up to Fox News, over a state extorting citizens visiting their state.
Then, see if that state still wants to play, if so, I begin to fight dirty. Such as interference with the US Constitutional right to freedom of travel, due to their extortionate demands to falsify official records. Even dirtier, interference with interstate commerce, due to their extortion.
Plus PR nightmare games.
At the beginning, I'll buy some major stakes in antacid companies. By the time I'm done, the dividends alone will likely be enough to pay down the national debt. ;)
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Chet Carson no, man never walked on the moon. Shuffled, hopped, jumped, fell a hell of a lot, to the point where the team that built the spacesuits were near having massive coronaries. Walked, not at all.
Walking just ain't in the cards for creatures evolved under 1G, trying to move around under 1/6th G.
I've even said as much to Buzz Aldrin, which was greeted with a snort and nod. To which I gave a scout salute, as a full hand salute would've been inappropriate, neither of us being in uniform.
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@PureAmericanPatriot actually, I understand quite well. Not entirely certain though, as to which comment you were replying to.
Remember though, tolerances are for loading, shear, vibration, etc and can be cumulative, so typically there is some degree of excess to avoid unforeseen conditions, such as an engine thrusting out of spec in a multi-engine stage, in particular, the sudden change in load dynamics with an engine cutoff that was unanticipated.
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Lemme get this straight, the jurist was unaware of who was inside of the jury box and entirely unaware of the shiny steel bracelets with their shiny linking chain?
That sounds like a serious, life threatening emergency, as the jurist is decidedly not awake, aware and oriented times 3.
Still, I'd apologize and rightfully earn a contempt citation, "I apologize your Honor, I really need to watch my frigging mouth and shit, there might be some fucking cunt around".
Given her inappropriate action that engenders serious doubt in granting faith and credit to the judiciousness and wisdom of the judiciary.
I'd likely also have to apologize for breaking her bailiff...
Questions to answer, is the jurist responsible for activities in the hallway that fall outside of the case under her jurisprudence? When did the first amendment get repealed?
Oh, that non-apology is me being nice, but thoroughly irritated. I'm more than capable of making Saint Peter go into a tirade of profanity previously unheard by any ears - right in front of the throne. I've literally gotten a nun to curse while standing on the church altar. She was promptly caused to retire, which was my goal, due to her abuses to students.
Now, an appropriate action on the jurist's part would be to state her offense to a statement, then strongly suggest an apology.
I've ate crow pie the size of Texas, when approached that way. I then blamed it on its actual cause, intracranial flatulence.
Cole's slaw: thinly sliced cabbage. :P
Broken bailiffs: for when just leaving them badly bent just won't suffice. Left with their shoelaces tied together works quite well - as long as they don't notice you doing it.
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I'm reminded that Trump also said that Biden wanted to hurt God.
And that he'd fire God, as God is a pussy for letting his child be killed.
Donald Trump, turned Easter into keister. When it finally arrives, do enjoy Ass Sunday, courtesy of Dumb Donald, the firer of the Almighty.
Jesus, I really don't drink enough for this shit.
What really fucks me up is, one supreme court, subservient by design of required Constitution that's subservient to the US Constitution, found the US Constitution unenforcable, because of Trump God-king, the emperor of the universe.
I'll not even go into "the stock market is good" bullshit, while Americans literally are homeless and starving, it's a god-hurt thing and one cannot try to hurt the god-Trump.
As for absentee voting, why again do the GOP want to remove the right of our military to vote, yet again?
We fight your wars, but are denied the vote?!
Then, a former POTUS wants to further abuse us by trying, abortively, to consider our confiscation of voting machines?!
Trump is guilty of sedition. Per the Constitution, his family are outlaws, utterly unprotected by the Constitution and hence, our laws as long as he is alive. That, under common law at the time the Constitution was written and hence, inherited.
Note, I've not said treason, that's also provided for in the Constitution precisely. Sedition had to be defined after the civil war.
So, folks, we either have a god-emperor or we have a remaining republic.
That any evangelical Christian considers otherwise already makes me think, and the thoughts ain't pretty.
Being an ordained minister myself.
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OK, so we know that the building plumbing is, well, dodgy if workers attribute a rotting stench in the office to the plumbing.
We know that multiple layers of security are entirely absent, ranging from access control on the data systems to physical security of the facility, no alerts were raised when an employee checked in and disappeared from the planet without existing the facility. That's even more alarming than cholera and typhoid passing plumbing!
With security this lax, anyone could be doing anything on their network and systems, not a soul would notice. Start with a full Sarbanes Oxley audit, it's literally that big a deal business wise, not to mention employee safety wise. The management has no clue who is and is not inside of their building and systems, didn't even notice a decomposing employee until someone literally blundered into someone likely beginning to liquefy.
I suspect after such an audit, there will be multiple senior management position vacancies.
Meanwhile, the DA can examine from other angles what other laws have been utterly ignored. Even with remote work, someone checking into the building and their ID doesn't check out of the building, that should've triggered some form of alert to the management to check and correct the discrepancy to ensure both employee safety and facility and data security.
And someone needs to examine what other audits aren't being conducted, as I'm certain anything this lax proves that nebulous leadership has permitted other areas to have entirely absent security. In a financial sector business.
When I was working information assurance for the DoD, had this happened on my base, I'd have been looking for a new job with a spectacularly poor reference and I'd not have been alone!
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@anonjoeoof2113 I tend to not get injured, since retiring from the Army. Previously, when I did, I rarely needed hospitalization, save a couple of times for outpatient care. One advantage of being a medic is having one's own aid station that one works out of.
A couple of months back though, well, heart racing, BP insanely high, SPO2 of 85 and obviously feeling lousy - while COVID-19 was peaking in my county. You can guess what was running through my head. Pulse 135, BP 225/130, SPO2 85, atelectasis with fluid and partial collapse in both lungs, totally fun times. Noted also, even if doctor didn't mention it was phenomenally high voltages shown from the left ventricle, which told me longstanding hypertension to the point of cardiac muscle hypertrophy. Light bulb comes on - it wasn't COVID-19, it was proved out that essentially, my blood wasn't moving well from the tachycardia and rather narrow window in BP, resulting in lung dysfunction (there are a few other factors involved, it's a touch complex for here).
COVID-19 was indeed ruled out, although heparin was given to ensure no unpleasant surprises and dexamethasone administered for the inflammation, preventing some really degrading conditions. Free thyroid hormones were elevated over tenfold above normal, thyroid stimulating hormone was nearly absent and I had a previous diagnosis of Grave's Disease - a form of hyperthyroidism. I was in a classic thyroid storm, indeed, a fever can also be expected during a thyroid storm, but that remained absent.
So, the words that I never thought I'd utter came from my lips, to laughing agreement from doctor, "Oh, thank God, it's only a type of congestive heart failure!", rather than COVID-19, which would, within six sigma certainty, punch my ticket.
Used to be an SF medic, my A&P knowledge, as well as general medical knowledge is more than sufficient to converse comfortably with physicians, had to do that by radio on occasion for treatment suggestions within the scope of equipment vs time to evacuation to definitive care, with an eye toward stabilizing the patient for up to a day or two. Can't accomplish that in a knowledge vacuum. Drugs carried were those that, optimally would have multiple uses - even if used off label and critically, were temperature stable in an uncontrolled environment.
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@jimmydesouza4375 I call it for what it is, complacency. Complacency will result in one treating safety casually, cutting corners and developing bad habits.
I've worked the ramp, for Piedmont Airlines before US Air bought them, back when Piedmont had bought Eastern's old mainframe. It's easy to grow complacent, to slip into unsafe habits. Did it myself, resulting in an F-28's bin door knocking some sense into me when I opened it without a hand to guard against it dropping and it happily slammed onto the top of my head, all 90 pounds of door.
Thankfully, I do have an infamously hard head and a jaw of granite, but it still explained complacency to me even better than Krebs, a supervisor that himself was a propeller strike victim (again, due to complacency leading him to walk into a spinning propeller, resulting in a six month hospitalization) could do.
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You are wrong, tax exempt is to do with income, given we don't have federal property taxation in the US.
Indeed, to follow that example, all meetinghouse activities would have to cease immediately nationwide, a practice that was part of inherited common law for over 1000 years from the UK.
Finally, were that true, a lot of communities would lose their polling place, as voting is a decidedly political act, disenfranchising entire counties in many cases, as there would be no other realistic alternatives for polling places.
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Shooter and someone in the crowd are dead.
Known and established, the intended victim and shooter are both humans.
I'm not inclined to suspect some mythical magical home made weapon. One image that was said to be the shooter was a man in an elevated position with a rifle. Sounded like an assault rifle round, not a full throated roar of a high power rifle round series and that'd be consistent with the rate of fire as well. Basically, if it's bucking like a bronco, it takes a bit to get back in the geographical region of one's target in my own military experience.
I'll also say, Trump did precisely what he was supposed to do, drop and cover and let the agents protect him, although clearing the stage was delayed and somewhat chaotic.
I do have some slight suspicions, but I'll not discuss them at this stage, as I far prefer analysis to include facts.
Oddly, one conservative pundit is already blaming the Secret Service and essentially calling them incompetent.
And I'd love to hear how they got past the multiple diamond protection zone that's about as sterile within several miles as one can make it. Nobody on rooftops for miles, manhole covers are welded down, somehow an entire rifle shows up as big as Cleveland, I've some serious suspicions.
Weird question on secreting the weapon "in the blistering heat", as it wasn't that hot, our asses and rifles got hotter in the sandbox and oddly entirely failed to melt or fail. That whole steel melting at 2500 and all... How did someone get a rifle and ammunition into the sterile area is one big question. How did they get to an elevated position within the sterile area? Scotty in on it and beamed it in?
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In law, just as with the menu example, the or is actually typically applied as an exclusive or function in the menu example, in the sentencing example, it's a simple or, where any satisfied condtion then meets the logical criteria.
I can think of no simple equation where one can turn an AND into an OR, that requires a little bit of work with additional NOT conditionals.
Yeah, worked with logic a hell of a lot myself, also did REGEX, most of the time either straight Boolean or REGEX, occasionally combined, parsed out in my head first to ensure the truth table comes out as I want it to.
Did that at work often enough to be a living legend there, to immediately finish the task and proclaim, "Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell *bad*. Are you sure your circuits are registering correctly? Your ears are green."
Has a similar effect on androids and humans.
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Give another decade, we'll know if it's familial or exposure.
Gluten is hard to avoid, increasing over my lifetime.
And a joke within the family, having a gluten addiction. Noodles or bread, make both by hand.
And having been poorer than him and raising kids, well, rice and beans worked, noodles and tuna and green beans are a staple still today.
And turkey day massive of turkey, yams, cranberries and collard greens from scratch remains on the table (and turkey will be frozen for subsequent meals, especially turkey salad).
Which reminds me, got new containers, a tidbit of fridge space, there is a dearth of turkey salad...
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If we discarded all studies that run contrary to the conventional wisdom, as espoused by other large authorities, we'd still be treating patients for miasma related illness.
What we do now is have peer review, the peers finding any faults or flaws in the assessment of the data or erroneous data. If there is no faults or flaws, the data looks good and not tinkered with, then a new question is found.
Yeah, just what we need, even more questions!
Or should we ignore blood clot cascades that are strongly suggestive of DIC, as World Health didn't report such findings? Just to make that puzzle more fun, D-dimer was only elevated in some patients, just to ensure one's drive to tear one's hair out. TF is an unknown, but I'm willing to bet that it'll be elevated and that could be something or just another bucket full of noise, due to the level of destruction that's ongoing with the infection.
Finally got everything ready to gin up a mask for going out, as we're finally getting low on food.
Cloth diapers (nearly indestructable, are cotton and inexpensive), some scrap leather for lacework and jewelry for ties, got most of the way assembled with pins to realize I couldn't find the blasted bias tape for the edges. I'll get fancy tomorrow on the thing, as I still have to have some pleats to have a rectangle match my non-rectangular face.
I imagine it's far easier for blockheads.
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@FishKev one needs only hire people that know what they're doing. One sees that with Musk, as everything he directly managed has gone either static or tanked, such as Boring, his magical train that only exists under a Vegas parking lot and Twaddle.
And well, Trump's every business he's had so far, from bankrupted casinos to Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump U, well, Trump everything to the point where his inheritance is nearly fully expended.
Musk has two talents, showmanship and hiring good managers that aren't bullshitters.
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It's been years since I've heard that example of schlemiel and shemozzle, brings back many memories of when I was knee high to a grasshopper.
I'll just say, Rubio likely will be the poor mashugana left holding the bag, as I really doubt we've got very many attorneys remaining in the land who desire to commit career suicide.
Especially given the example of Giuliani, who is landing on that which is decidedly not his feet.
I suspect they'll all find, they're not working for some grand Emperor, but instead for King Pyrrhus after the battle of Asculum.
Learning the ancient lesson, "Another such victory and I am undone".
With Rubio likely to get the word, "Sir, there are some men outside that would like a word with you".
"Oh, who are they?"
"I'm not sure, however one is carrying a large axe and the other is carrying a pike".
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@Rickettsia505 can't say the same for two reasons, couldn't vote until late 1979 and well, was chased away by those who don't drink but like tea, the Know Nothing Party. Haven't looked back since.
The Know Nothings having destroyed the original first conservative party in the US, the Whig Party, resulting in conservatives abandoning it and creating the new fangled Republican Party. That party's first presidential candidate being some Lincoln guy. Much gnashing of teeth and renting of bad ideas and a war later, they faded into obscurity.
But, other Know Nothing antics involved their Nativist faction stealing a cannon from the port of Philadelphia and showing true devotion to the first amendment, the staunch Protestants proceeded to bombard a Roman Catholic church, convent/hospital and school, then murder militia that were dispatched to restore order. The militia commander then ordered a full battery of artillery to aim at the idiots and ordered them to return the purloined cannon and go home. Militia with fixed bayonets patrolled Philadelphia city streets for weeks afterward.
Well, they're back and linked up with neofascists that are replicating old Nazi bad ideas.
Actually read the history, they've nothing new, it's tired old retreads shoddily assembled and installed.
Their champion, Machine Gun Jesus of the prosperity gospel, their prophet, the beast who was struck in the head with a sword and survived, their god being Mammon and the Lord of the Lies.
Always use one's adversary's weapons against them.
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The Congress is too evenly split and the MAGA types won't impeach. Fear even driving them to ignore worried campaign contributors, whose immense funding is now even outvoted by MAGA voters.
That leaves the VP and a minimum of half of the cabinet, who are sycophants that recognize that they cannot control the MAGA movement, they're religiously devoted to Trump and by extension and purchase, Musk.
And Musk, having bought and paid for the office, but Constitutionally ineligible, wouldn't abide by the removal of his purchased meal ticket.
Frankly, we're on the cusp of a civil war and few realize it. Once elders and the poorest are on the streets, no income, no food, no medical, things are going to get downright interesting.
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I'm decidedly poor. Don't get or want that crap, as I don't need it - I'm only pre-diabetic due to familial traits and currently the eldest in the entire family to not be diabetic by well over 20 years. I just skip a meal, walk two miles each way to and from the stupidmarket with my folding shopping cart and that's my exercise, as osteoarthritis has restricted a lot of exercises for me as I've aged since retiring from the Army.
Was a lot overweight last winter, pants that literally fit for 20+ years suddenly were tight, hopped onto the scale to hear it groan for mercy, realized I was 25 pounds overweight. Dropped either breakfast or lunch, walked twice a month to the distant store, dropped the spare train wheel over the course of a couple of months due to that increase in getting off of my fat as-erm, laurels.
That, after consulting with doctor. Everyone can't manage that, so they first need to see doctor, if doctor's first step is Ozempic, find a doctor that hasn't surrendered and treasure him or her and follow their advice, give feedback on what's working and not working, as doctor/patient isn't boss and worker, it's a partnership in your own health.
Which reminds me, gotta arrange transportation to a specialist, then call and give doctor feedback on her latest treatment effort while I'm awaiting that specialist appointment.
There's a reason I refer to internal medicine as infernal medicine. Don't get me started on complicated things like endocrinology... ;)
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Doge shit is not a federal agency, so releasing PII and financial data of citizens if a clear violation of the Privacy Act of 1974. Worse, that information is being released to an individual who lacks an adjudicated clearance, aggravating the violation.
Hence, we have zero oversight, uncleared persons in possession of the PII of a majority, if not the entirety of the US population and for all we know, that data's being sold to China.
Is VA patient and treatment data going to Islamist backed nations?
No oversight, so we've no idea who is doing what with our citizens most sensitive data.
Especially from a President that's stated his contempt for the very Constitution that he swore an oath to protect and uphold.
He and his co-conspirators need to be removed by any and all means necessary to achieve that goal.
Oh, the dedicated Trump bots that aren't foreign sponsored are pushing a unique plane crash set of "theories", one involving a female pilot literally conducting a kamikaze attack upon a civilian airliner to make the god-king look bad. The other, also being a female flight crew, well, lady bits destroy all and she was responsible for magical hand wave collision between aircraft at an over 300 knot closure rate, more hand waving facts and commonsense away.
I am willing to bet that were the State Department files to be closely examined, Elon Musk's documents are not fully in order and multiple false statements are sworn to. Both being all that's required to rescind his naturalization.
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@-danR laughably, hand grenades (US models) use composition B, not composition C-4. RDX and TNT vs RDX, phelgmatizer, plasticizer, binder, some stabilizers, mineral oil (light motor oil specified for civilian usage) and synthetic rubber for C-4. Replacements being made recently with less sensitive explosives, as RDX isn't exceptionally stable under some conditions or over the long term under poor thermal conditions in storage.
Still, close enough for television and I'd not be wanting to heat and mix explosives either, as I'm not especially interested in finding out whose religion, if any is right quite yet.
Can't get civilian C-4, well, you need a proper explosives pyrotechnician and if you can't get C-4 in the civilian version (it's rare), there are various Semtex variants that are still used in mining, although most are replaced with ANFO these days for costs reasons. As one isn't really making specialized shaped charges by manually molding, RDX and a binder would suffice or just go with B. RDX remains common, especially in police usage for things like entry charges for doors and such.
Yeah, did a fair amount of demolitions in the Army. Was good enough that I still have all ten fingers and the same number of toes that I was issued at birth with.
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@randywl8925 oh, so there's a qualification list now?
Do post it.
I know that I'm pretty much second place to not being POTUS ready, Trump being first, so, do give us all the qualification list.
For the record, met the SOB back around y2k, loathed him from that moment onward.
So, me for me and all for me is a suggestion for a starting point for an answer.
Not a handwave after statement. You're not Trump, nor am I, we qualify shit with facts, not wishing nukes kill hurricanes and that bleach drinking cures COVID.
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I'd already have a demolition permit for the home, with a promise on live TV that the debris will remain.
OK, the ascetic value is preserved in the tree, while the entire neighborhood value plummets due to a debris pile where the house was. Fines? OK, go for it, can't use the property anyway and it's gonna cost the city any way it gets sliced.
Note, I've not said I've demolished anything, just the threat devalues the neighborhood - especially once the permit was issued.
Meanwhile, I'd be on with the state insurance commissioner to delist that insurance company statewide. Hey, insurance company, the state understands your quandary and has fixed the problem for you - you are no longer allowed to conduct business of any kind within our state, have a wonderful day.
Now, the insurance company loses an entire state, property, life, health, motor vehicle, loans, etc.
Meanwhile, litigation ensues, seeking punitive damages 100 times the value of the property, house and almighty tree. And a PR campaign from hell, nobody's getting reelected, insurance company is the devil incarnate, the neighborhood property value is penny stock and I'm not gonna STFU.
Then, I start to fight dirty.
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@1DwtEaUn I actually made an error previously, Section 8 for the military referred to United States Army Regulation 615–360, Section VIII, where those deemed mentally unfit for military duty were released from the military.
We had a soldier who was separated under those terms, as he suffered from severe mental illness fairly suddenly that was refractory to all treatments given with an eye toward rendering him fit for duty. He's now receiving VA care, as the illness was duty related. Pity, was otherwise a good soldier, I had to personally transport him to the VA for treatment when we caught him homeless and sleeping inside of our headquarters building. Couldn't just hand the matter off to the cops, as he was one of my men before and we take care of our own.
Ran into him months later, he was doing much better, had a job and was supporting himself, so my chat with the VA doctors seems to have been taken to heart (or maybe they just had the budget enough to take proper care of him for a change).*
*I watched over 28+ years of service Congress cut the VA budget each and every year, counting the first year of our GWOT, when we were sending service members back home minus body parts.
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Is a canoe a vessel?
Lemme see, if one steps into it while it's in the water, is your ass wet and you need to doggie paddle? If so, it's not a vessel. If only one is true, it's quite likely that it's vessel.
The shape isn't relevant, its construction material isn't relevant (doesn't matter if it's wood, plexiglass, fiberglass, metal, concrete, etc), it floats and designed to convey you over the water, so it's a vessel. The death of the child simply further proves the interest that the government has in enforcing those laws, as had they been followed, the child wouldn't have been in that lethal situation.
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Having sat on multiple juries over the decades, suffice it to say that it's a yuge pain in the ass, tedious, boring, honestly during jury selection, I nearly fell asleep as a prospective juror.
The trials, all of which did go to trial in the civil cases I sat on, slightly more exciting. Around equal between watching grass grow and paint dry.
Never did consider trying to duck it, as it's a duty, not some entertainment venue, something necessary that any good citizen should feel honored to be involved with, despite it being deadly dull and designed to be such. Facts are being found, not excitement and drama. Didn't duck out of my military duties, I sure wasn't going to try to duck out of my more important civic duties!
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I'm still trying to wrap my head around people fixated upon Trump not touching the bible, as if that changes an oath.
If that's so, I guess that John Quincy Adams never was sworn in either, since he swore in on a law book.
The simple truth is, an oath or affirmation is required, he could put his hand on his dick and it'd be just as valid.
What matters is, his oath, his word of honor is worthless to him. That he finds the Constitution inconvenient, well, every President we've had found that to be true, but somehow all save him managed to largely stay within its boundaries and when they exceeded those and the courts intervened, they respected the laws and Constitution enough to obey the laws as the courts found them.
Well, until the tyrant king wannabe Trump took office. Where's Marcus Brutus when you need him?
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@thattruckindrifter7232 welcome to the real world, where they fire what they're authorized to fire, not what they want to fire. I mean, otherwise why not use high explosive incendiary rounds, which would be a guaranteed kill?
So, do you know what type of round that they're firing, when nobody else does? Do you think that even expanding ammunition is some high explosive kind of destructive device from all aspects that it impacts and traverses tissue?
As an example, the skull shot destroyed the skull and emptied the contents quite distinctively and indeed, quite differently than is evidenced upon that rooftop, which is decidedly not entirely blood and brain spattered, but instead has a fairly contained zone confined to the ridges in the roof, in a relatively narrow stream.
And you also forget one thing most forget, skin is tough and tends to hold a lot together that isn't expelled from within it.
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@kylehill had an iodinated contrast agent the other day for a CT scan, one of the potential side effects is a worsening of Grave's disease, which I have. Didn't have to worry, as I'm taking a medication that blocks an enzyme in the thyroid hormone iodination chain, preventing iodine from being linked to form the hormones in excess. It'd essentially behave the same way as potassium iodide and similar iodine drugs to shut down the thyroid gland.
Because, a high dose of iodine does precisely that, it shuts down the thyroid gland as it takes up the administered iodine via the Wolf-Chaikoff effect. It's also an emergency treatment for a thyroid storm.
The day after the radiologist's report was posted, my doctor called and tried to convince me to go to the hospital because my AAA had a thrombus in it. She missed the CT from two years prior that listed the same thing, "Yeah, but now you've got a second one". No, actually, it's two additional at the nephratic artery branches, they come with aneurysms. It's kept this long, no clots wandering about, it'll keep until the vascular surgeon's appointment in two months.
She's consulting with the vascular surgeon, ain't heard back, so I suspect the surgeon agrees with me and not the resident. They're residents so that they can learn and I've always been a good instructor.
And an incidental finding of a mass on an adrenal gland, which hasn't changed in size or shape in a decade. And that my lumbar and thoracic spine is a train wreck, which is also readily apparent from symptoms and that I need a cane to walk.
Yep, I'm a walking pathology exhibit. With rather significant knowledge and experience in pharmacology and A&P.
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Funny, I recall Trump having a picture that showed his open desk drawer that was overflowing with Adderall generic from Europe.
Versed isn't some exclusive date rape drug, it's used in psych cases, as a sedative for anesthesia induction and well, a host of valid medical purposes rarely ever observed in any office environment outside of a medical office. Could've used a light dose yesterday at 5:00 AM when I was awakened by severe calf muscle spasms, thankfully they passed without the need of medication, but there still is residual difficulty walking (herniated disc triggered spasms and a massive weather front came through, triggering my superpower, for I am Barometerman).
As for performance enhancing drugs, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy. ;)
But then, I also don't need to deal with the nuclear SIOP. Something Trump never could manage to wade through.
OK, my actual recreational drug is ibuprofen, for nothing's more recreational than being able to move. Trump can speak to moving, usually when he needs his diaper changed. Must be caused by his bone spurs...
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I'm using tons of radiation right now. Otherwise, I'd be frozen and stubbing the shit out of my toes.
Oh, ionizing radiation, my bad! Used that two days ago, got a CT scan to figure out how much of a train wreck that I am, the railroad's still sending full trainloads of heavy wreck equipment... The CT beams, guided and shielded largely with the magical metal of incandescent lamp filaments, cutter of metals in industrial applications, reflector of x-rays and gamma radiation in radiology equipment and x-ray and gamma telescopes, tungsten, the pain in the ass to work with metal.
And oh, I do glow a fair bit in gamma. Had a thyroid scan using I-131, before dosing, they perform a background check, got my potassium-40 onboard as we all do, some strontium-90, cesium-137 and a few other isotopes your generation wouldn't have. Was born a week after Tsar Bomba detonated, when the nuclear armed nations had the dubious wisdom of detonating their products from the insanity factory in the atmosphere. Not that any cancers came of that, at least that's what our government told the downwinders repeatedly. I'm also known for anger management issues, unusual strength, but only turn green if I've eaten some food that's a bit off. ;)
Actually, that's all measured in trace radiation levels, using a gamma camera, which also uses tungsten tubing to focus the energy for imaging. Which makes me wonder if this filament might be a good basis for those tubes, adding tungsten plating within for increased reflection efficiency and the tungsten impregnated plastic adding efficiency lost via the thinner reflection coating at a modest resolution cost. Gain being decreased cost and more importantly, less heavy support for a much lighter reflector. Because, tungsten is heavy and dense, as in "Oh my God, I need a new foot now that I've dropped this tungsten brick on it!" kind of heavy. And yeah, you'd be in the market for a new foot. It's damned heavy.
It'd be also useful for a quick, fugly casing for homebuilt instrumentation, like my radiation spectrometer I built from plans on CERN's educational outreach site.
Which reminds me, gotta scavenge a mylar cap for a radiation window, a cheap headset for the jack and a 10k resistor and 0.05 uF cap for coupling to the computer. The processing software is javascript and python, both already happily installed on my computers.
Not too bad a price for the filament, considering. Guess I'll be ordering a printer soon after all. My americium source will be an excellent test sample for the filament.
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It's fascinating how he can fiat legislate and in this case, amend the Communications Act of 1934. I guess he's gotten control of the Obama time machine!
Nope, even Congress can't strip a station of its license. The FCC regulates broadcast licenses under the Communications Act of 1934, as amended and pissing off the President does not preclude licensing or result in licensing revocation.
But then, Trump says all kinds of shit that he can't do. Like oh, lowering prices of certain products, such as more recently, the price of eggs. Oddly, the price of eggs appears to be increasing since he took office.
Rarely, he'll try something he's not allowed to do that he spoke about, most of the time, what he said just evaporates and nothing is attempted. When he does try, well, the courts smack his pee-pee and send him on his way, his order prohibited by the courts.
I'd recommend a hammer for the smack, but alas, I don't think that they make hammers that small, the smallest I've found is a jeweler's hammer.
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In Dennis' case, you also have to consider the liability of having a dangerous carnivore about around a main road on the island.
The electrified fence was laughable, as mains voltage isn't applied to such fences, the voltage is stepped up from mains voltage and only the conductor is charged, the circuit would be to ground that one would be standing on.
Also, the skeletons falling from the ceiling, add in liability as you said, but further damning is, the things would be predicted to fall, as the island is seismically active, so earthquakes would drop them on unsuspecting guests.
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I found it fascinating that the DA stated empirically that there is, essentially, only one teenage mutant ninja turtle blankets in the entire universe.
Guess he somehow got our kids two blankets that there was only one of.
As for changing stories, I've spent many years in military EMS. I've heard no less than 8 stories from one victim as to what happened and I suspect that none of the victims were responsible for their injuries. I'm just spitballing here, but it seems to be a trifle unusual for someone to call lightning upon their own location.
But, that DA would use those 8 stories as the foundation for a case that a man called lightening onto his own location, causing injury to 200 fellow soldiers. And use as a key piece of evidence the fact that he could be the only person in the universe to wear camouflage clothing on a US Army rifle range.
Still, were I on a jury and my verdict is thrown out, the worst thing the courts could ever do would be to call me to waste my time again. They'd have the most hostile juror in human history.
Founding a case as weakly as the DA in this case seems to have done, that'd only have made me the second most hostile juror in human history. Well, maybe the 13th, there were 12 angry men after all.
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@benjaminlynch9958 or *BSD or Solaris or... But yeah, Linux is rather popular, but for say government systems, one would still have to get past filters, firewalls and more to even try to log onto the server.
So, they'd be looking at beyond difficult to access servers, with pinhole firewall entries for only the necessary services on the unclassified networks, all of the important traffic being on a number of classified networks that cannot be seen or see the internet or the unclassified network and are actually tunneled under it and one another, yeah, this would miss central government networks and basically nail provincial and municipal networks, as well as commercial and utilities networks. And utilities are a target of interest, as some high profile attacks on water supply networks have recently shown.
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Huh, "The Soroses", so George got himself cloned and was running around the nation handing out cash? Must've missed the clone with the wheelbarrow full of cash! Must be that new cloaked wheelbarrow that Wonder Woman flew around in.
And that had what to do with firearms safety again? Oh wait, lemme guess, ANTIFA ebil, fascism is cool, gotya.
"Unarmed, the government can do anything they want with you", OK, lemme think now really, really hard. Explain how your 9mm and dinky little AK or AR is gonna win against a B-52 again? A howitzer? A tank? A gunship? An ATACMS system? A 120 mm mortar? Just getting started and what I've listed can eliminate all life in a five square mile area in minutes. Do tell this veteran more about small arms repelling an invading army, maybe the Taliban will learn something, since they couldn't even slow our entry into their nation and we did degrade Al Qaeda down from blowing up US embassies all over Africa and destroying a pair of large office buildings to embarrassments like a caught printer bomb by mail, a diaper bomb and a shoe bomb that'd embarrass Maxwell Smart.
Tell me more, I purr, as I proceed to eat the leopard's face...
For the record, I do own and compete with an M1A, AR15 and M1911 and also believe that firearms are investments and investments get protected by secure storage. And that the NFA needs to be expanded to place semiautomatic firearms derived from selective fire military service rifles into a class equal to suppressors. And a hint, suppressors aren't very difficult to purchase at all, but the background check is about as intrusive as a colonoscopy. Or acquiring a security clearance. I've no inclination to get a suppressor, as they wear out too quickly and really won't give me any real benefit in competition (indeed, they're disallowed for precision marksmanship competitions I enter). I've absolutely no use for a paycheck eliminator, aka machine gun, but won't begrudge anyone wealthy enough to piss their money away that way - once they pass the screening that's equal to getting a TS clearance. And believe it or not, you can also legally buy artillery, each and every high explosive round being an NFA destructive weapon and costing a $200 tax stamp itself and thanks, but no thanks, I'll take a demied version of a howitzer that can't make rude noises and give it to a VFW post.
I do believe though in the utterly unrestricted right to keep and arm bears.
I'm confused with "It's pretty difficult to buy one on your own", erm, what? Go to a gun shop, pay for the weapon, fill out a 4473, clerk calls or enters the info into the computer, NICS does the background check, collect one's receipt and firearm and leaves. I can literally go to the gun shop right now and be in and out in around 20 minutes with a firearm, if I wasn't flat out broke and wanted yet another thing to have to clean quarterly. Not very interested though, got two hands, that means one at a time and if I'm not using the thing, why would I want it cluttering up my safe? Two competition rifles in different calibers, two hunting rifles for different environments, two pistols for pistol fire competition and practice is more than enough maintenance for my needs, never could figure out the bozo that has a half dozen AR's of the same type and still only has two hands. But then, never did hang around with such yahoos, way too unsafe on a range.
And having sold firearms that were used, so that I could replace them with less worn models, I've always taken handguns to a gun shop for a 4473 and NICS check and paid for it, just for peace of mind and long guns, I'm super careful of, although those I've only worn down one enough to require replacement.
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Not quite true, in nature there are a couple of examples.
Massospora cicadina, cicada abdomens completely consumed, spread by mating attempts. Toxoplasma gondii removes fear from predators from mice permanently, resulting in predator success and successful infection of the predator, spreading cysts throughout the environment to infect more mice, completing the reproductive cycle of the parasite.
As for actual living dead, remember that morning after the holiday weekend? ;)
Still, research has found that some brain cells, thoroughly disorganized, survive for days, expiring along the way, but all of the neural networks were destroyed by hypoxia and hence, we're talking ones and twos in diffuse regions, incapable of processing anything.
But, useful for statistics to chew on.
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No, it is decidedly not a public club. Public clubs are owned by the government. It is a private club, open to members and guests of members only, which is illegally being utilized as a permanent residence, per his contract and deed for the property.
@brianjennings1624, given the illegal aliens he had on staff, yeah, quite unlikely they could've gotten security clearances. That said, we had TCN (Third Country National) workers who would clean our classified processing rooms while cleared personnel supervised their activities. We'd have to announce a red badge on the floor on their initial entry and ensure all sensitive information was out of sight while they were present. As some worked out of our building, that was fine, as the classified processing areas had appropriate security to only allow those cleared and permitted access into the sensitive areas.
Which were decidedly not bathroom showers and floors.
But, even how the documents were moved was illegal. No courier handling them, just loading them into a moving van full of unclassified, left uncovered (for transport, they're typically wrapped or in a sealed envelope that's marked with the document classification, then wrapped again without the security classification markings) and a few other major violation events associated all throughout the non-chain of custody on said documents.
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I ran NT on an Alpha, don't recall the pinball bug, so probably the MIPS platform.
Working on AXP platforms taught me a hell of a lot about the NT bootloader, which helped me fix odd boot problems other techs never could figure out.
I do remember the _NSAkey nonsense, had to use that entry for certain crypto providers that were blessed by the DoD, hence the NSA and DISA. Another wonderful learning experience! I still give the occasional class on encryption implementation.
Used task mangler tons of times, still usually relied upon pstools in the NT era, now, gotta go with powerhell. But then, starting with DOS, of course I'm a CLI guy, easier to script for.
AI replacing programmers, not within any of our lifetimes. Too flaky still for complex tasks. I remember the same BS going on in the late '70's about assembly robots replacing all of the workers on assembly lines. Oddly, 50+ years later, the assembly plant parking lost are still full and I'm pretty sure industrial assembly, welding and paint robots aren't driving cars to and from work.
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@@ShannonBarber78 OK, under that specific scenario, there is only one solution, global thermonuclear war.
See my above for more detail.
But, I do believe in clean coal - it's used to filter municipal water supplies.
We can't mass produce antibiotics, as overuse made our current antibiotics ineffective. Doctor being a quack and prescribing antibiotics for a virus ruined their effectiveness, underdosing by patients before the infection was extinct added to it.
As for food, you've gone hungry just when? I have, but I had a sour stomach, so it was go without or vomit and I've had enough of that with whateverinhell this bug is, it'll pass and well, is.
You embrace a religion and don't know it, embracing one view as faithful fact, never investigating.
And that's the fatal flaw in global civilization, whatever that means.
Everyone races to the quick fix way, putting a bandage onto a wound, ignoring the arterial bleeding. I slap a bandage on, evaluate, see bleeding isn't controlled and advance to more advanced care to control bleeding before the heart runs out of stuff to pump.
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@digbycrankshaft7572 the platypus. A joke gift for science. Just when you think you've got a handle on evolution and genetics, you sequence the genome and are back at the level of when Europeans got their first skin of one... ;)
Mammalian DNA, expected, reptilian DNA, huh?, avian DNA, can we check this again?!
OK, that's irony, not divine anything, still a good joke though, because it's true. Amazing animal though, electrolocation of prey, venomous claw, oviparous, feeds young milk... Amazing what four letters can spell out!
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"Do you even own a suit?"
"Yes, but today's your mother's day to wear it and our shared rubber, which leaked to create you. But, just to make you happy, after we win this war, I'll show up in a new suit - featuring a g-string, your wife's favorite. Now, someone kindly give that man a harrumph".
Seriously, dick lips is my first thought and I'm the guy who incorporated Lorentz into relativity and incorporated momentum.
And yeah, so that all need brain bleach, I do indeed own a g-string, in copper, gold and camouflage. The latter, for my late wife.
For those interested, complimentary scanning electron microscope imagery is available.
Kid Rock's suit, yeah, comical and my first thought was your first comment, but the Resolute Desk, erm, look up the history of what was signed on it, looks like shit Mel Brooks would come up with. Still, a red version of Evil Knievel?
Operable, Trump saying, "I don't know much about it, but signed an EO".
This EO grants power to singular rich people over Congress and the People to god-kill-murder-death-kill those who price gouge.
Kinda don't have a problem with that, can leverage it against them as well. Oh wait, EO's no longer count, given the signalgate mess and the EO's against it (the codified laws of Congress are minimal, most 'laws' are EO's for cleared stuff).
Still, your guest gave me an idea.
Not a god-king, but a court jester for Emperor Musk. And his wholly owned Offal Office.
For the challenged, offal being lungs, kidneys, occasionally heart, etc left over from meat animals as food.
Aka, poor people's food. Now, excuse me while I go fry some scrapple, offal loaf and a favored regional breakfast food.
Eggs still being insanely expensive and god-king beyond his power to fix.
But, eggs are coming from Turkey, to be tariffed...
Because, empress Donna Trump can indeed fuck up a wet dream - always.
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Besides the local yokels doing the area screening, the Secret Service also perform an area screening. I have buddies that were working on installing an antenna when working at Sears service years ago that got chased off the rooftop two miles from where POTUS was to appear by armed Secret Service. When Bush Sr visited my base, we had to arrange for all manholes to be welded shut.
Those on the ground missing a guy in the middle of a large roof, that's a no-brainer if one remembers that cops don't have xray vision.
Then, there's the drone crowd, who think that drones are magical and only authorized drones would be there and unauthorized drones would be Harry Potter Magical Fuck Sticked away...
Now, within hours, bot accounts, some directly traced to Russia, are going on about how the Secret Service was holding Trump in place for a mythical CIA sniper. Amazing how phenomenally capable those folks are, save when a conspiracy theory gets proposed and Maxwell Smart starts to look like the epitome of competence.
Hell, I'm waiting for them to bring up space aliens next...
Sigh, I don't drink enough...
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After the hurricane ravaged North Carolina, some locals uncorked the ultimate rescue tool that they had available and well, the optimal tools.
Mules and donkeys.
Initially, donkeys only, as being smaller, they could negotiate through narrower, hairier spots that the larger mules couldn't manage and help clear paths for larger animals and eventually, equipment. Supplies got through the old fashioned way.
One supreme upside to a donkey over quite a few other load bearing capable animals is, they're loathe in the extreme to walk into a situation that could result in being harmed. So, if you try to walk them onto a dangerously unstable path, into a predator, over a sheltering or sunning snake, it just ain't gonna happen. Work related commands I'd work with first, directional commands, left, right, forward, back, stay and "show me" for the dog or donkey especially, to indicate what is worrying them. If it's worrying them, I needed to worry enough to evaluate what was going on and the trust needed to develop that the animal could trust my judgement - and that required I exercise good judgement as well. Working with an animal isn't some robot and controller relationship, want that, get a robot or a politician. It's a partnership.
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@MrNewman7336 heh, it all depended, what one was anticipating to encounter. I might've went out with 700ish rounds in 30 round magazines, might go with less or more, but if I needed the men to engage, I damned sure brought extra to ensure that they could and had others also humping and I was Army.
And was carrying MG ammo and medic's extra loads. Never asked my guys to lug anything I'd not lug around as well.
And on some odd, one off missions, I lugged in a couple of thousand rounds quietly, while they did their jobs, plus MG ammo and medic's load.
Then, I became supply sarge. Thankfully, that was rare over nearly three decades.
Retired when it just hurt too damned much to put all of that shit on that kept me alive. Lest, I slow them down and get them killed alongside of me.
I took care of them, they took care of me and between us, we took care of the other SOB's.
Still, dismounted, combat load, the Romans are going to have a tough row to hoe. When they'd try to overwhelm us, they'd find fixed bayonets, e-tools, assorted knives, whateverinheell they dropped and a load of Willie Pete pissing, royally pissed off soldiers. I would expect even more from Marines than my infantry.
You may kills us, but we'll frighten the lot of you to death as well. There's a word, quite, no..., quiet..., no, quit I think, no clue what that concept is, maybe similar to, as in quite?
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Artur, here's a fine product for you to look at in your spare time. I joked that it's the US Army's nuclear hand grenade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
"Sir, did you just order me to shoot a NUCLEAR WHAT WHAT, HOW FUCKING CLOSE?! Sir, can you kindly fill this plastic cup, initial it and your last four on the side before, I hope, then seal it and hand it back to me, Sergeant X will accompany you".
The B-52 was produced from 1952–1962, I was produced a early model me in 1961. There were 744 B-52's produced, only one of me was produced, which I honestly think is a good thing. ;)
They're upgraded in various ways every handful of years.
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Wait, she missed the important part, "Won't anyone think of the children?!"
Still, it'd be interesting to hear her read the GOP primer on Spot and Puff. Bet she sounds like she's ready to cry about Spot chasing Puff...
But, in actuality, it's the official GOP position, "Yeah, I've got nothing", so they go to kindergarten for a response.
Back to the rebuttal...
"See Spot chase Puff. Oh! What is Spot doing to Puff? Mommy says Puff is going to have puppies!"
And I thought Clint Eastwood's empty chair number, where he kept forgetting his lines was bad... Next, they'll air a potted plant. Brought to you courtesy of the GOP stragedy committee, Curly, Larry and Moe.
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@TomSpeaks-vw1zp more like the truth, that they've replaced the God that they claimed to worship by openly embracing the self-proclaimed god-king wannabe and their mutual god, mammon.
Although, Jesus is most certainly a welcome visitor, maybe he can bring Elijah along, I'll set a place for both. I'd only ask that they call in advance so I can run out and get some kosher foods for their needs.
What I never do is blame the devil for the actions of mankind. For, the devil's most powerful weapon is an age old enemy of humanity, human nature itself.
I'll plea guilty to profanity in a church though, twice and once, to actually uttering a curse inside of a church.
The first time, the chaplain rushed in to scold me for the profanity, saw the blood pooling at my feet from a cut through the web of my fingers between pinkie and ring finger going over an inch deep, learned I uttered the profanity in reaction to his assistant demanding I stop bleeding on the floor (sorry, forgot my antigravity unit or I'd have bled onto the ceiling). The chaplain quickly had his assistant apologize and get swift transportation to a treatment facility.
The other, shortly after my wife died, a guest minister told me happily that I should be glad that my wife of over 41 years was dead. With some swift profanity, I suggested he get his sexual reference buttocks off of the property, as his life was in grave danger - albeit a lot less politely. Our minister quite agreed with me, if not my selection of language.
The third, an exchange with a Roman Catholic priest at my mother's funeral, he made a rather unfortunate remark, I cursed him in the Almighty's name to experience the same justice that he'd denied others. Suffice it to say, the curse was effective, as shortly afterward he was caught molesting children in the parish.
Obviously, I've never claimed to be a diplomat, probably why the state department won't hire me. More likely, because I never applied for a state department posting though...
But, I'm fairly certain that I'll be more welcomed than these falsely claiming Christians, for at least I know the teachings, the origin of those teachings and do far better at living by those principles than they do.
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All of his other platforms are in line, Fox is still adjusting and started with sarcasm barbing him repeatedly, with periods of die hards not adjusting.
They're coming in line, lest they get shown the door by security.
And it's been driving the MAGAts and Russian bots nuts for the past week.
Which is when it started, right after a call with Trump went south, well the pressure against Emperor Musk and Empress Trump has been increasing as the outlets shift gears and targets.
It'll cost him the deep core MAGA type, the high priests of the church of god-Trump, who will likely jump to RT, Newsmax, etc.
I suspect that Murdoch's pissed off that the monster he created has wandered off on its own and isn't listening to his commands any longer.
That doesn't make him a faithful ally, more like the Soviets being part of the Allies during WWII.
A case of "once we put the fire out, then we can get back to fighting each other".
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Heh, just on the intro, I've got a really good idea on where this is going.
A soft "reboot" is just a restart and well, doesn't actually perform a lot of resets that are done on a true cold boot.
I'm guessing that discussing the three finger salute generating an NMI would have gone too far down into the weeds for the desired video length.
For the non-conversant, an NMI is a non-maskable interrupt, a signal that the CPU cannot ignore. Effectively, it's the computer equivalent of going up to someone and getting their attention by slapping them in the face. Not good at parties, but good for a DOS computer that's effectively locked up in a loop. And an interesting thing to intercept just to get the computer's attention enough to be allowed to log on... Needless to say, a source of some engineering mirth.
Which dates back the august days of when computers were initially programmed with toggle switches to tell them to read their boot instructions from paper tape or lace cards - whoops, punch cards.
Lace cards, occasionally called death cards had every hole punched and would jam the reader, requiring the 129 Card Removal Tool, aka card knife be used to extricate the offending card and starting the tradition of calling security to escort the offender from the premises - for their own protection from an enraged staff. Death card losing is charm as a name, courtesy of some Nazi misbehavior and genocide things and all being selected via one bit set on an IBM punch card. Don't want to mistake the two or one will find both a card removal tool and a real knife used upon one's tender bits.
I only date back to paper tape, punch tape and magnetic tapes.
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First, he's not levied war against the United States, which requires by nature the use of arms. So, no treason.
That kind of removed a cause for arrest, not that you'd get him to authorize his own arrest anyway and law enforcement is under the executive branch. Worse, SCOTUS created from whole cloth executive immunity, so that any official act is now legally protected.
Now, removal from office, suffice it to say, half of his cabinet and the VP aren't about to turn on him. So, that rules the 25th amendment out, that leaves impeachment and the GOP is thoroughly in his thrall.
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@tamaraspink4201 a new study knocked the hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin out as contenders for treatment of COVID-19. Utterly ineffective.
Started last week with burning cold sensation in the area that would correspond with the upper bronchus (where the windpipe splits to go into the lungs), that's consistent with bronchitis, but I remained afebrile. My wife spiked a temp a few times, last evening hitting 102 F (she didn't bother waking me up or she'd likely still be in the hospital, as she's diabetic and has asthma).
This week, it's moved up into the lower trachea. Less pressure in the sternal area, the spike feeling between my shoulderblades is gone this week as well.
But then, my immune system is quite strong, it even has a hobby of attacking the TSH receptors in my thyroid, giving me hyperthyroidism. A number of symptoms of which overlap with the damned virus.
Still, it all isn't anything that a full body transplant wouldn't fix. ;)
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Just more Luddite reporting. Toxic smoke, as if there's non-toxic smoke in a fire? Ask any firefighter about the smoke toxicity of a house or business fire.
Can't extinguish the fire, despite hundreds of fires, some on aircraft, which always were? Gasoline was initially reported as impossible to extinguish and highly explosive, which now is only true in Hollywood films. Admittedly, they are a pain in the gonads to extinguish, as is anything high energy. Try putting a transformer fire out sometime - we're not calling to eliminate electricity over that!
And it is a recycling center, which recycling center fires rarely are reported, but generate even more toxic smoke than other types of fires. Lithium needs to be recycled - it's one of the rarest elements in the universe due to its unique atomic structure.
Nope, let's put it where it belongs, recycling centers, chemical plants, refineries and lithium recycling/storage/manufacturing plants need to be in low to unpopulated areas - not in densely populated areas.
And we do need to improve on the battery technologies involved. A fair bit being a metallurgy problem involving metal whiskers shorting out cells prematurely. Had it with lead-acid cells, electronic solder joints and more, all largely resolved by altering alloys in usage.
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@charleshill9778 that's a different percentage than originally quoted, so how about some actual numbers and citations?
That asked, NASA has always, from day one, given contracts to contractors and gasp! paid them. That was quite well established back after Apollo 1 burned with the flash in the pan with the Phillips Report on one vendor underperforming. As the hearings at the time were on the Apollo 1 accident and that report was beyond irrelevant, it went nowhere. Oddly though, that vendor eventually was not the one making the CM and SM when we got to the moon, Grumman made the LEM, North American Rockwell made the CM and SM. With Grumman jokingly sending Rockwell a towing bill for Apollo 13 and Rockwell replying how they towed Grumman's LEM repeatedly to and from the moon... ;)
NASA designed some things, contractors built and completed designs or even used their own designs throughout the programs. As they well should, each to their level of competency.
The space shuttle being Boeing and Lockheed made, not NASA built.
SpaceX blew apart their own launch pad. NASA only blew up Wallops Island a few times. :P
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Well, a pure electric engine is possible. It'd have a bit less thrust, say around 1/80000th the thrust of an argon engine, but one could be made. It'd also be known of as an immense waste of energy, effort and equipment, as the heat from the damned thing would provide more thrust and still be far, far, far less than say that argon engine. As in, the Pioneer anomaly was detected after a decade... Solar sails would be more efficient and far faster, which still isn't saying much.
Still, there is the EM drive, powered by its free lunch system that ignores the laws of thermodynamics. And after all, who, other than Mother Nature can refuse a free lunch? On just needs to get an Alder Wand...
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The first object shown, a helicopter, bubble canopy model, which is a very common type. Second image, looks like a Jet Ranger helicopter, as is readily apparent by the tail, the third, another helicopter.
Not uncommon in the areas, given the areas listed in the first two minutes, given LaGuardia, JFK, PHL and oh yeah, McGuire AFB, Lakehurst NAS and Boeing VERTOL in Delaware County, PA.
They're not drones from an Iranian jeep carrier, which is currently being monitored in the Persian Gulf, a close 6400 miles away. They're more likely to be a second wave of the Great Martian Invasion of 1938, which had a similar volume of eyewitness sightings called into police. And Concrete, Washington, suffering a substation failure, the town PD called in an alert on the wire services, adding to confusion among some.
In short, another mass panic, driven more by media reporting than well, unusual activity, as flying machines aren't exactly a new phenomenon these days, although small drones are somewhat novel, large drones remain rare and extended range beyond 20 - 30 minutes of flight are beyond rare due to their insane pricing. Add in tensions of the Ukrainian conflict with Russia, Russian adventurism in general, political uncertainty and the usual turmoil of life, of course people are seeing Martians or Iranians or lions and tigers and bears, oh my.
Or we can knee jerk, bring back the old Nike-Hercules missiles and use neutron bombs to shoot down the mythical drones that are actually licensed aircraft.
Yes, the Nike-Hercules carried neutron bombs, to destroy Soviet bombers and fizzle their nuclear warheads. Over our cities and towns. Hysteria is harmless though.
And they really are Martians invading again, they just got hung up on that confusing clover leaf exchange.
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Big rip? OK, spacetime ceases to exist as we know it, hence all of our natural laws are out the window. Matter won't matter any longer.
Basically, if it happened, one wouldn't have the chance to notice it, given it'd be spreading at the velocity of light.
Somewhere in the universe, some poor creature would arrive at, "I think, therefore I - ain't".
So, basically, it'd wreck one's vacation plans.
So, this is cool, my vacation plans are still on in a few dozen trillion years, by then I'll probably be able to afford it.
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No, the Lord of the Lies Trump isn't guilty for an entire fucking planet, there's plenty of blame to go around.
He does own tens of thousands of US graves though.
Not much better, since he was responsible, regardless of his desire. He rejected it because "the numbers make me look bad".
Odd, when I was in charge of a debacle, the very first question I asked was, "How did I take a winning team and lead them into this mess, what did I fuck up?!", then responded accordingly, with full input from that winning team, accepting my own fuck-up before all, asking forgiveness and input on how to unfuck the situation.
You know, actually leading.
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OK, the Constitution is null and void and the US government in its entirety is disbanded.
Good job.
The Constitution requires his being sworn in on a specific date, period, end of story or the Constitution then is in a full on crisis with no executive branch and beyond the inauguration date, would then require Congress to pass an amendment by 2/3 supermajority, then have 2/3 of the states ratify it before we could have an executive branch again - that includes our DoD and all federal emergency services, as well as entitlements like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, our federal prisons, FEMA, CDC, our entire intelligence community and a hell of a lot more. So, you've yanked the wheels off at highway speed.
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"Can I see your ID"?
No, it's in my pocket, where it's safe from prying eyes that have no need to know who I am.
"Are you carrying any drugs"?
Yes.
Propranolol, lisinopril, methimazole.
If they take them from me, I can not safely travel, so I get a refund and if the airline objects, tell them to bitch to the government, my credit card bill will be challenged.
Grab my cash, fine, tourism has ended, file a travel advisory against that airport and cancel all reservations, explaining in detail as to why, then raise merry hell with my congresscritter.
Make me miss my flight, agent admitted to falsifying a federal document and an official complaint will be filed, travel plans canceled, advisory filed and hell with congresscritter.
Eventually, congresscritters get tired of their ears ringing and they start to raise merry hell on their own, cutting budgets and all.
While I also file litigation on the basis of an unlawfully applied random travel tax being levied exclusively by the executive branch without consent of Congress.
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They have absolutely no authority to force me to obey the law of gravity.
Alas, that law enforces itself.
But, the Constitution also states that our federal government must secure and protect the public welfare, given the Constitution itself defines the nation as the people. Not dying from a fairly easily preventable disease most certainly is in the interests of the people and when one is speaking of a pandemic that's national, within the purview of the federal government assisting state and local governments and institutions.
So, Congress cannot pass a law enforcing gravity, but can order masks be worn on federal property and tax and allocate tax dollars to support the states in battling a national pandemic.
States who refuse to allow local counties to manage a pandemic are misguided, as a state government micromanaging, rather than coordinating county and city efforts is a fool's errand that can only go wrong.
Full disclosure: Our youngest daughter, in her mid-30's, contracted COVID-19 a couple of months ago, while she was working at a hospital in housekeeping. That was ascertained to be due to a lack of compliance with hospital procedures by closing COVID-19 patients room doors to prevent the spread to the staff. The hospital, once they became aware of the issue promptly ensured compliance via inspections and training. She's slowly recovering after a couple of weeks of hospitalization.
Our eldest is an RN in a hospital, she's contracted COVID-19, but thankfully remains asymptomatic. The route of transmission for her appears to be related to reuse to failure of PPE, which despite some lying by our national leadership, still remains in short supply. The companies simply can't keep up with, let alone modestly exceed current demand.
I have pre-existing medical conditions, as does my wife, said conditions essentially guarantee our demise if we experience any significant level of exposure, so we mask up when in proximity to other people (it doesn't make sense for when we're simply outside, as we're in a rural area, but entering a store or area congested with people outside, it''s mask time).
Keep the good information coming, Mack! Just had to textually beat down an inlaw's championing a disinformation campaign by the cult Falun Gong's Epoch Times. Disinformation has to be fought with real, true information and while it sucks to find out one is wrong, one feels a lot better once one knows what is true and what is bovine defecation being passed off as food.
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@jb6712 it's a major Sarbanes Oxley Act violation, as they've literally zero access control security on their access control systems. They now should, by federal law, have to have a full Sarbanes Oxley audit, which can quite literally put a CEO in prison, should certain irregularities be present and I'm damned sure that there are.
Did information security for a living, this is beyond a big deal legally.
Someone dying at their desk can and does happen, should be noticed when that person doesn't leave work that day after their hours have been put in, as access to facility and resources is supposed to be logged. That's both for employee welfare and information systems security reasons.
With this level of non-security, I'd not trust a dog in their building that I don't like, let alone finances and family.
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@weswelborne4582 one shocks ventricular fibrillation, one shocks ventricular tachycardia, which can lead to ventricular fibrillation. One doesn't shock asystole, as there is nothing to synchronize a shock with and the shock would be useless anyway.
Compressions only buy time to get a defibrillator to hopefully be able to shock ventricular fibrillation, which is a leading cause of eventual asystole. Once sufficient time has passed without defibrillation or if a defibrillator was ineffective, the humane thing to do is cease fruitless efforts.
A little over a year ago, I had to make that very choice with my wife of over 41 years. The EMT's and paramedic initially wanted to continue, but soon realized once the paramedic plugged in the monitor, that zero electrical activity was irreversible. The sepsis moved quickly and caused catastrophic damage.
I suspected what was the case early, due to hard earned experience as an SF medic. The paramedic's monitor confirmed that my world was destroyed that night.
Well, I'm off to collapse for a day and a week. Took a 10 mile stroll today and my body's reminding me that I'm not still in Army shape and that I'm 61 years old. Gotta rehydrate as well, it was 95 degrees out and one small Gatorade (Lord, but I hate that flavored lactated Ringer's solution crap) and a single water bottle, well, didn't urinate since 11:00 until 19:00 and then, it was quite dark, that dipstick says I'm around a quart low.
I'll eat in a couple of hours, once rehydrated.
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So, he wants the big camps, wanna bet he'll want those beautiful blue showers and great big ovens too?
And he's already suggesting killing the disabled, look up Aktion T4.
Upside, the military won't obey such unlawful orders and if anything, he might end up with a military wide mutiny. Per veteran to veteran conversations with serving military. Our oath isn't to POTUS, it's to the Constitution.
The other day, I had a MAGAt threaten me with, "I just loaded my AR15". He didn't count on a combat veteran response.
"That's fine, if you feel froggy, leap. I know where the ATACMS systems are and where the munitions are stored in the ASP. I'll get you from my living room and not spill a drop of coffee".
He wisely desisted from further threats.
Given one battery is capable of literally erasing one square kilometer from the map.
Preferred: "I have a gun and I know how to grease my car with it!" Scooting under car and muffled...
"Hey, where's all of the *&@#! grease fittings?!" *
*Something that actually happened to me in the early '90's, when finding lifetime lubricated joints all over the front end. Yeah, lube fails, the part's life is over... OK, they lasted a hell of a lot longer than I expected, pretty much everything else wore out first.
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I've long been tempted to build a front end of a jet engine with a vacuum cleaner fan.
Just has to barely run, not generate significant thrust. Some vacuum cleaner fans are physically strong enough to just barely make that grade.
But, as you showed, balancing such a prickasaurus rex would be painful.
The explanation of a jet engine, isn't that the Fifth Element's secret?
I'll just get my coat...
Oh, for smoke, a smoke generator is an aerosol, smoke particles would work better to illustrate the internals, but not be exceptionally illustrative, given the burner can is metal and hence, opaque.
Still, pretty cool! Didn't expect the casing to survive as long either, that's a hella of heat to deal with.
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Hey, he's addressing the high cost of eggs compared to other foods by raising the price of the other foods.
And it'll be all Obama's fault and why he'll ask Congress to declare war on the country of Antarctica to stop the invasions from there.
And it'll jumpstart agriculture in the US, so that the crops can then rot in the fields with nobody to pick them. Which is the fault of NATO, who we'll have to also declare war on and invade that country.
The shame of it is, the average MAGAt will believe it, hook, line and sinker. Hell, he already had, during the campaign, proposed we steal Canadian water for California by running a pipeline from a Canadian river to the locals that need the water, which of course would involve invading Canada.
Because that worked out ever so well the other two times we tried it...
When all of his misdirected efforts finally trigger domestic unrest against his maladministration, he'll direct that sanctuary cities are the root cause of all of the problems with hidden aliens magic magic causing mayhem and order the thermonuclear destruction of those foreign lands.
All because his parents allowed people to poke baby on the fontanelle when he was an infant.
Full disclosure, I do intensely dislike the man as a person, as I've actually met him in person around Y2K. He was the boor of the party, literally, even managing to piss off my wife - a veritable saint, as she managed to put up with me for over 41 years.
Still, we've gotta give Trump some slack, he had a tough time of it as an infant, being breast fed by his father and all.
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@dvddvd5903 alas, no clue how. Originally, the Republican Party sprang from the ashes of the Whig Party, the original conservative party in the US, which had been hijacked by Nativists and religious nut jobs, pushing for literally many of the same insane things. The actual conservatives, showing courage that is now foreign to the GOP, bailed from the party and formed a new party. Their very first candidate for POTUS, some guy named Abraham Lincoln. The Whig Party evaporated in disgrace shortly afterward, never managing to have a successful candidate since the Republican Party formed.
Alas, these days, a defining characteristic of a Republican is easily ascertained, they're required to have a yellow streak down their back that's a mile wide.
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Artillery is just my way of saying hello and acknowledging your existence. The WP, complimentary smokescreen for your movements - honest. The HE quick and air, just a shoulder tap to keep you moving into range of MG's and eventually, small arms.
Perfect hearing? My VA social worker is now pushing hard on my hearing loss claim. Got damned tired of repeating herself loudly and clearly.
And the phone continues to ring...
Don't get me started on RPG's, got some ribs that get occasionally angry over some fractures I didn't initially recognize, being too busy shooting the SOB three times before he was allowed to fall down. Yeah, the round missed me, the fragments didn't and I actually noticed some time afterward.
An RPG did disable an M1 Abrams, flank hit hit between idler wheels on a tank that didn't have skirts. Hit the "brain box", mildly burning a gunner's flank and back.
Everyone got out, the tank didn't Harry Potter magically blow up. A Russian tank probably would have due to the solid gold turds launched by the evacuating crew impacting the fuses below their feet...
My own likely would be solid platinum.
Most tanks going up, if they go up, like a lighter rupturing, short, sweet and done and stinks like burning meat.
Firefights, carried 2000 rounds in a butt pack for my team, along with some IV fluids and necessities, ammo being chief. It was also rarely disbursed, gotta remove my LBV and belt to get at it or you're feeling up my ass and if you don't secure the damned thing well, I very well will shoot you myself.
Combat load was around 200 rounds and that don't last long in burst mode at all. Anyone firing burst was a warning in my team that some SOB got within pistol range, but switching weapons would take too long and hence, a distress call and attempt in desperation to get rid of the trouble.
I also had an additional duty of secondary DMR, despite being Geneva classified unacceptable, for a number of mutually acceptable reasons and memorandum for record filed. Largely because the only man who outshot me was our battalion senior sniper. By one point always, always enjoyed and learned from his doing so.
Of the lot, I still preferred the M14. Automatic fire was as accurate as farting in a tornado, but an effective noise bombardment weapon in a pinch, a kilometer and under, precise as one desires with match rounds and with MG rounds still could drive the tacks out of a target quickly enough to get off of the range fast.
My secondary was a custom M1911, as my unit was given a choice in custom sidearms, no idea why. Chose a GI model with match barrel and bushing.
Great to 50 meters. Used sights at 25 meters and greater, point of fire below that and never missed my target.
DMR, I missed on occasion and once, wished I missed and have nightmares about that one. Never missed when it was up close and personal.
Used a knife once, because I fucked up and got entangled by a man defending his home and family. The home being empty of anything of concern, it was later ascertained.
Welcome to nightmare #2.
Oh, entertaining, took an M16A1 and turned the barrel green in full auto fire to burn off rounds, rather than count them individually for turn-in, due to a Lieutenant signing blindly and opening rapidly the cases.
On a .50 cal range. Engaged targets at 1 KM with the rifle on auto, traversed in using a full sling wrap, nailed man sized targets at that range with six rounds out of much of the magazine. Wondering range NCO's then attempted without the sling wrap or training and embarrassed themselves.
Wasn't always a medic, son. And I still shot competitively for small cash awards and holiday meats.
And intensely dislike violence.
A weapon is a tool, like any other, rarely used and put away when not needed, just like my hammer. My hammer being more frequently utilized, my screw gun being utilized more often, my screwdrivers much more often and my knives, incessantly as I really do enjoy eating food and my teeth aren't that gigantic.
And reflux eroded those down to a pair - literally. The remnants are shards that I really do need to see a surgeon about ASAP.
Had two fears in my life, one was losing my wife, which happened nearly three years ago due to sepsis from a tooth infection that rapidly progressed, the other being a dentist, having several major misadventures over the course of my life.
And I freely admit to a character flaw, I am a very, very vindictive man. To the point where my own commanders feared my reprisals as much as the terrorists did.
Which thankfully resulted in our mutual going home for the day.
Which was what was desired in the first place.
But, resulted in an excursion and recipe exchange. No lie, my trade secret was recipe exchanges. Build common ground, well, everyone eats and enjoys something new.
And cooking off beats shooting at each other.
Oddly, some of the best cooks turned out to be terrorists. Go figure.
Oh, pot, kettle.
Oh bollocks! Wanted to make some tamarind juice from paste, but the fridge is full.
Oh well, cook the swai fillet or the whole parrot fish... Or the leftover ham slice...
You've got a knife, I've got a tun, come on buddy, let's have a little fun and the leftovers go to the cat and dog. ;)
Well, better than Jealous Man.
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@Feline9Bluvixen churches have always been meetinghouses, for political and secular use. You'd overturn over 1000 years of common law and our entire nation's history since 1797 over Trump's abuses?
First lesson, the government is not utilizing that church, a candidate for office isn't a government, they remain a private citizen. It gets in the weeds a bit under IRS rules, but even the IRS leaves much of that rightfully alone.
Now, as for the church, there are a few parties concerned here. There is the church leadership and the parishioners and well, that is between the two groups to muddle through, not my monkey, not my circus. If it was my church however, suffice it to say that there'd be more than hair singed in that leadership group.
Then, there's between the deity and both followers and leaders of that church. See the monkey and circus, I've enough problems of my own without borrowing some from a deity.
@masia1950, again, property rights and over 1000 years of common law, plus tradition of using churches for meetinghouses for religious and secular purposes. 501(c) 3 comes into play for tax exemptions for income, as we don't do federal property taxation.
Now, any monies received for a political rally would be taxable income for the church, that said, such usually gets overlooked intentionally, as it's usually not worth the taxpayer's investment for the amount brought in and frankly, with Trump's history of stiffing venues, the income would be zero. Especially given he's still not paid up many venues from 2016!
Besides, how do you audit the Chosen One? Oh, the IRS already showed that one with a potential $100 million due... Guess he should've parted with some of his almighty dollars.
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Whatinhell does that have to do with fraud? Or do we now take people, who have not been charged with sedition, punish them, maybe go corruption of blood and attainder their property and sacrifice their children as a burnt offering to the god of stupidity?
Even had he taken up arms against his nation, he's entitled for a fair and impartial trial, per our Constitution. Period, end of story. In this specific case, federal charges or uncharged random accusations are irrelevant to the fraud case.
It's literally like going to a court and demanding summary conviction, "Your honor, we demand immediate conviction for his shooting J.R. because he was accused of pissing on the sidewalk here".
Each court has a job to do and duties to fulfill, let them do so.
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Given the region and reporting on, ahem, incidents reported, I'd not be surprised if they've arrested him for a warrantless search and seizure of his own apartment.
And it's obviously fishy that, with a declined card, he was able to make a purchase at Walmart, as cards are the only possible way in which to engage in a financial transaction. If only there was some other means of tokenizing funding, say in metal coins or even certified documents, maybe call this fanciful thing, oh, money?
My money's on a different explanation. Someone's nephew needs a job and this guy didn't have family in the department leadership.
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@d614gakadoug9 yeah, that could either turn expensive or expensively entertaining, rather than enlightening.
Entertaining, if it's only the reference legs on a wheatstone bridge wandering in value randomly. Expensive, if it's measuring production or providing a reference bias... Well, unless one's goal is to, rather than turn out a flat and true product, produce a funhouse mirror. ;)
Sounds only minor, until one considers the difference between a non-precision automotive bearing and a high speed turbine bearing. Then, wobble shakes things apart and lateral runout can turn a stator into fragments as the rotor tries to convince it to joint it in its motion.
Did you ever look at what's required for use in space? That's even tighter, due to thermal, oxidative effects of the rarefied upper atmosphere and radiation effects, to name a few variables (not to mention no free oxygen being permitted in anything, especially insulators). Worked briefly with that, boy, but the requirements were demanding, exacting and absolutely necessary.
Or, in the case of the Mars rovers, one EE asked, "Do dust devils possess an electrostatic charge?". Everyone he asked didn't think so, but couldn't find any reference. So, he made a trip to the desert with some instruments and was horrified to find tens of kilovolts accumulating within dust devils. That necessitated a complete review of rover circuitry. The finding being, as initially designed, the rovers would've failed catastrophically on first contact with a dust devil.
Now, they're optical cleaning events.
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Heh, ironic, given the sheer volume of bullshit and bad information found on YouTube.
Most, actually due to the speaker not having a clue in the world about what they're blathering about. Things like we can shatter our planet with all of our nukes (we can't even dent it much with even the insane Cold War high number of warheads!), the world would be completely uninhabitable for centuries (nope, a week after, most of the hottest radioisotopes are decayed out, at two weeks, only some strontium-90, cesium-137 and a trace remains of iodine-131.
I started out in nuclear weapons in Pershing Missiles in the Army, then ended up on the radiological survey teams for the remainder of my career, regardless of what my regular job was, it was an additional duties as assigned.
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So, smelt started the fire? Because Trump smelt smoke?
Someone kindly send Trump a box full of smelt from anywhere they're not endangered or overfished. By US Postal standard freight. It'd be perfume compared to his diaper odor.
As for our 51st state, we already had one place vote to become a state and Congress ignored it, Puerto Rico. Where Trump decided to lend a hand after a hurricane flattened much of the island by throwing in the towel and withholding Congressionally authorized and earmarked aid funding, which used to be a felony until the SCOTUS decided we have a god-king, who may rule by fiat.
And Hollywood Hills is a wee bit different in national perception than Hollywood, aka tinseltown. Not that the guy who thinks that supermarkets sell apples out of the refrigerated section would have a clue, he's still working on "pull my finger" and not shitting himself. One's a neighborhood that's upslope from the studios and lower neighborhoods.
But hey, we're actually now being invaded via a mutual assistance pact of longstanding success. Canadian firefighting equipment and personnel are in the country helping out, despite the odious maledictions of VP Trump and President Musk, his almighty master.
And the dreaded FEMA assistance is spooled up - well, dreaded by MAGAts, who prefer to try to hunt that assistance down and end it, then bitch that they're not getting assistance.
Now, someone good with Photoshop, feel free to screen grab an image of Trump tossing that roll of paper towels, turn it into a log headed toward Hollywood Hills... When someone's trying to force feed you hemlock, always give them the first drink.
Now, maybe someone with a large airplane can send the lot of MAGA misleaders to the disaster zone and their hot air, properly directed, could counter the winds.
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Please try learning where your capslock key is and oh, frame thoughts before blathering and going nuts with emoties.
I did consider making a Trump crack or seven, but didn't, as simple human decency prevents turning politics into a showpiece when people are sick in the hospital.
E. coli is most often spread through excrement. In many cases, from literally the slaughterhouse floor, when poor practices swept excrement of slaughtered and in the process of being butchered animals made it into the meat, which was ground and sold for public consumption. Those problems were eventually addressed with much hard work on the part of the USDA.
That left a second reserve, excrement contaminated soil, in some cases, soils from foreign farms that were fertilized with uncomposted excrement, in others, from runoff from pastures. That remains an exposure point that crops its head up from time to time.
Hence, the uncertainty in whether it's the meat or the onions.
What's commendable is the speed in which the problem was admitted to and being addressed, of taking actions despite uncertainty and inevitable losses by doing so, to halt any potential for more cases while still investigating and awaiting cultures.
Rarely have I had cause to express respect for this company, but in this, I tip my hat to them in salute and I'll be thinking of this response when I enjoy my next McChicken or McFish. Sorry, I just really don't enjoy beef all that much, though a Big Mac also occasionally will wend its way though my gullet...
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I'll object to the cherry picked points, telling were some responses.
I've interviewed quite a few real terrorists and some of them were sociopaths, this video's text fails, epically.
For context, I've literally driven a knife home, designed to sever the subclavian artery and vein.
Something that haunts my dreams at times, but I did what I had to do to accomplish a mission.
Based upon that experience base, she's more full of shit than a Christmas goose. Effort is apparent in an investigation and I've been investigated a few times, for gaffes in dealing with classified information potential errors.
Laid out plain, reported facts and specific procedural information.
I fucked up is a valid defense.
She failed in deflecting a defense, while a challenge is present and failing.
And that, based upon experience acquired while leading, participating or reviewing defenses.
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Now, now. If they had opened things up, they'd have had to share the wealth that they instead took back home with them.
So, it's just more of the same, promises, come to visit, no reach around and you're left with their bar tab.
Still, given Trump supporters budgets, especially after having allowed him to fleece them for their highly limited fixed income, you know that they stayed in bargain accommodations, thereby benefiting the bedbug population. They'll travel to the next rally, to spread that wealth only, as their financial "wealth" was already donated to their god-king-emperor wannabe, who promised to run on his own wealth and he did - straight to the bank to deposit their donations.
PT Barnum's competitor once said, "There's a sucker born every minute", Trumpites prove that idea in spades. Repeatedly, as they camp follow their god-king-emperor wannabe, the beast wounded by the sword, but did not die.
But, at least Trump does entertain, like with his recent interview with the National Association of Black Journalists, where he incessantly shot his own feet off and did everything shy of dropping the N bomb.
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Odd, given how many European friends I have that hunt or compete in marksmanship competitions and the Olympic shooting sports seemed to not be lacking any European competitors as well.
I quite enjoy marksmanship competitions, precision marksmanship, not that silly shoot-em up nonsense. Won a number of turkeys and hams around the holidays, then the equipment gets cleaned and locked back in the safe.
Then, it's woodworking projects, largely repairing older wooden furniture items and refinishing them, cooking a lot of homemade from scratch meals and canning them, electronics projects, chilling with neighbors, helping out elders, etc.
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Well, that was interesting!
Heard gunshots, went outside to confirm, yep, 12 gauge shots being fired in multiple locations across the river.
A quick Google, it's opening day for pheasant season.
As soon as it was daybreak, either there were around 20 pheasants harvested or the pheasants were shooting back.
My bet's on loads of pheasants on people's tables tonight.
Ironic that the topic on guns comes up on opening day and I'd forgotten, as I've not gone hunting for years. Used to go for deer. But, usually by the time I got out to the woods, work schedule and all, the deer figured out what time of year it was and hopped a flight to the deer Bahamas or something.
Now, I'm just too banged up, herniated disc and all, to consider dragging 100 - 150 pounds of carcass through the woods, then home to butcher and I've not the freezer space for an entire animal. I'll leave that to the young'uns to do and just buy chunks of venison when I want it.
Open season for deer being the end of next month.
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@martinhumble I also am a competition marksman, pistol and rifle, precision marksmanship.
As in, pull any of that youtube yahoo high volume of fire crap on our ranges, you're swiftly trespassed from the range.
And your example fails in places like New Jersey, where you'd have outlawed hunting entirely, as they only allow shotguns to be used in hunting.
Although, I got my Pennsylvania shotgun serenade this morning, it's pheasant season and with the windows open, the fire from across the river is audible. Upside, they're sane in this area, it doesn't sound like the pheasant are shooting back. Can't say the same in some counties in deer rifle season, where in one county, it sounded like the Battle of the Bulge and tree tops were getting cropped above my head - I left for a saner county to not find any deer.
That remains an enumerated right. That said, rights come encumbered with duties and responsibilities and restrictions. I can't conspire to commit a crime being a speech related limitation, can't utter a false alarm and incite panic. Can't incite a riot. Can speak politically, can assemble peaceably (and assembling armed in my book is not peaceable assembly). We have reasonable restrictions on every right to ensure a peaceful, productive and happy society.
And as an owner of one and user of the military version for multiple decades, I do consider those AR's and AK's weapons of war. Want them, they got in a new chapter of the NFA, right up there with suppressors. Keep them for the confirmed sane.
Although, an AR is not some magical high power death ray, it's actually a varmint round originally. High power are battle rifles, which fire the equivalent of a 30-06 - enough to drop a grizzly, where an AR would only make a grizzly angry. Either one being decidedly unhealthy for humans though. Just a pet peeve, where some idiots in their ignorance make the damned things out to be death rays.
OK, that rant aside, "With great power comes great responsibility", wise words. I also use other words with a similar intent that'll become quickly clear. Firearms are expensive investments, especially high precision ones like mine. One doesn't leave investments in a sock drawer, one doesn't leave investments under a seat cushion, one doesn't leave investments laying on a table, one secures investments inside of a safe. That protects one's investments from theft and fire, as well as unauthorized access. One is also responsible for one's investments, go play with a financial instrument in an unlawful way, you'll find out in prison how you violated the law. The same should be true for one's investment in the form of a firearm, as it can cause harm at a much greater range than a mere bearer bond.
And I'm entirely reasonable, I entire advocate for the unlimited concealed licenseless carry of howitzers.
Anyone that can conceal between 3 - 10 meters of barrel that weighs 12 tons or more can carry whatever they want to. Anything else requires a CCW. Open carry, location dependent, as I've been where cottonmouths lived and wouldn't go near those areas without a rifle (just for its greater precision). Hell, Pennsylvania has always been an open carry state, save in Philadelphia, the state's only first class city (by population size determination), which only allows permitted concealed carry. Pretty much nobody bothers. The few that do are usually "I have a right to" and well, some folk wander around wearing Jesus Saves sandwich boards too, as long as they're not threatening anyone or trying to hurt anyone, a tiny few haven't caused harm yet.
And the howitzer crack is for a reason, I can be unreasonable, such as wanting firearm safes as non-negotiable for long guns, a similar, but smaller acceptable if bolted to the wall or floor or both for handguns. Don't make me park that howitzer on your foot. ;)
Because then, I'd have to buy one and parking for those is a real bear. :P
I did applaud recent events when parents were charged over allowing a minor child unrestricted access to "his" firearm (he can't lawfully own one and access is to be supervised per federal and most state laws). Rights get responsibilities, after all.
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@tomtech1537 there's an old joke in research. Torture P sufficiently, it'll agree with whatever results you want. In this case, torturing algorithms and datapoints into submission is basically making up one's own facts.
Still, the University of Liverpool is working on examining WSPR to see if it could achieve the desired results, results are expected in around six months from now.
Given the time frames involved since its disappearance and some major components of the missing aircraft being found, I suspect it's rather unlikely that the aircraft is about to crash anytime soon. So, patience as research continues is warranted.
As for one question in the description, "how can one of the largest aircraft...disappear", big world, planes are tiny in comparison and the pilot evaded radar and was far off course.
As for families and hope, I'll suggest to you that no feeling human wants to be the no good SOB to tell a kid that mommy or daddy isn't coming home. That some will generate false hope and generate hysteria with their claims, well, if there's a hell, I'm sure they'll get a special room there.
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@GreatDataVideos it also says that the interception was at the outer ring, as locals are outer ring and crowd control, so he got through the initial screening (which is a major issue in and of itself with him allegedly claiming he is press and the only alleged documents that were real on his person were passports), then got to the first ring entrance.
Yeah, major whoopsie at the screening checkpoint, everything worked in the next one, never made it to feds rings.
Thus far, everything that's gone in Trump's direction is the functional equivalent of F-Troop. At least we've got that much good news.
We eliminate candidates by ballot, not bullet.
Even if some of his supporters are already threatening "I've loaded my AR15", because small arms vs artillery is really a contest one could anticipate victory with in such small groups...
No real worries, by the looks of things, the flies will carry Trump off.
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Wow, I must be having ministrokes! I fart a lot lately, courtesy of dexamethasone treating newly diagnosed Crohn's disease. Obviously ministrokes, not a bowel disorder.
I've also wobbled and missed door pulls, due to nerve damage from a herniated disc and well, I walk with a cane to avoid falling when one knee will decide to go on vacation because I can't feel what position it's in or the amount of force is being applied. Aka, loss of proprioception.
Disinhibition, that's apparent, but it's also been his trademark, such as that is for his entire life. Previously, just attributed to his being the boor of the party. One need not search for an organic cause for someone simply being an execrable human being, some people just are naturally that way, know better and just don't give a tinkerer's damn. Usually, they're just ostracized by society and they only manage to make their neighbors and family miserable.
The slurring, could be word lookup issues, could be medication induced, could be TIA issues, all common in his age group.
Now, that he's unfit for the office, that was a given back in 2016, that he's still a candidate, well that is his right under the Constitution, that he has any support from a major political party is just damning for that party.
I miss the old days, when our conservative party actually lead, rather than followed populism and nativism, which doomed its predecessor conservative party, resulting in the formation of the Republican Party. It seems that we've a dearth of brave men and women today and eventually, the GOP will implode just as the Whig Party imploded, with no replacement party in place to give the nation its next Abraham Lincoln.
Although, the microphone thing, yeah, that was beyond odd, coupled with Arnold Palmer's member and YMCA, perchance he's just gradually coming out of the closet.
Personally, mike fails after being checked, double checked and all of the preliminary work done, I'd just make a Grand Conspiracy of the Space Aliens joke and move on or even "That microphone works about as well as my opponent's campaign platform!".
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One small problem with one of your arguments. There was no armed mob, hence why seditious conspiracy were some of the many charges and not treason. Taking up arms against the government being, not sedition, but treason. As best I recall, only one individual was armed and thankfully, didn't utilize their weapon, making such an assertion still dicey. Now, had the oathbreakers "QRF" taken up their arms, they'd have perfected treason for all and those convicted of seditious conspiracy would've been on the hook for the full ride on treason, complete with being open to writ of attainder and corruption of blood. They didn't, so the charges are seditious conspiracy, with a few convictions thus far and the other cases ongoing.
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As much as I loathe defending the SOB, burial codes vary wildly throughout the land. Mom was buried in a coffin, fully embalmed, etc. Unembalmed had very specific requirements, cremation urn burial also had highly specific requirements. Specifically, in Delaware County, PA, one is required to bury a special burial urn. Had to deal with that with Dad.
Being special means, of course, more expensive. And well, having actually met the creep, yeah, Trump is cheap. I mean frugal on expenses.
Nearly as cheap as I am, baby chicks start talking about me on leaving the egg, "cheap, cheap, cheap...".
Yeah, that joke's older than I am and I went to school during the Ice Age.
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Funny how they voted for Trump to bring down prices, but now they want even higher prices.
This is like "I'm gonna own the libs by playing Russian roulette with a machine gun". Save that the gun is actually a damned howitzer and they're in a crowded square.
On top of that, Trump shut down disease tracking and reporting, scientific research grants, including a non-small cell lung cancer vaccine approval testing candidate that's been globally successful and of course, medicaid to make sure Aktion T4 gets a good start.
Threatened a trade war with Columbia, who imports our oil and grains (we don't use what grains we produce, we export them all and import Canadian grains) and chemicals, the oil easily gotten from a nearby neighbor, grains from a half dozen sources and chemicals trivially available from China, resulting in a permanent loss of US exports, howitzering the foot again, Dumb Donald.
And he's screwed Nvidia with tariffs on chips that they import to the US for US usage - including their GPU for AI applications.
Now, if he does levy tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods, we'll raise prices even higher, basically double for basic staple foods. Our exports are going to tank, as the workers that harvest our crops aren't showing up to harvest out of fear of ICE antics, soon the slaughterhouses will get the same and there goes chicken prices (beef and pork are slaughtered mostly in Canada, as we closed most of our large livestock slaughterhouses years ago).
And our oil largely comes from Canada, our own oil being incompatible with our refineries and exported as crude abroad.
Maybe he'll nuke our own cities next, call it urban renewal or something.
And to this tanglefoot of his own device, he responds by vacationing already in Florida to play with his tiny balls and golf sticks.
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@DarinW-gx3mm more like really, really, really moronically bad at math, as apparently, in their books, 6=300. Six documents out of thousands is an error, 300 that got waved around in a club and discussed with uncleared persons is a violation of law of several counts.
Unlawful retention of classified national security information, willful divulging and display of classified national security information are three serious felonies.
And compassionate parole for dementia isn't in the cards for national security violations, lest he spill even more in his addled state, given his habitual divulging.
On top of being bankrupted, it seems and the loss of what little property he actually owns, given the banks will have to be paid what is owed on his heavily mortgaged properties, increasing the number of properties to seize.
Then, his attorneys will be wondering how they'll get paid and abandon ship...
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My response to Bernie, as a taxpayer, voter, veteran, military retiree and grandfather is, "Bernie, putana su mama" and the conversation will accelerate downhill fast. I'd begin discussing the relative merits of exploring how many times my cane will wrap around his empty skull and advanced to explore just precisely what I did in the Army during the wars...
One thing I'm certain of, he's a Republican politician, he's got no stones in him to swing at me, regardless of what I explain about his family members habituations and species. Unfortunately.
Nearly lost my wife while I was on duty with the military at a rather remote location. It literally took an entire day to locate me and my team to get an emergency message to me. Loads of emergency transportation wrangling got me home, in such a rush that it turned out I still had all of my field equipment, accountable items and sidearm still with me. Got home to find an empty house, no kids, my wife missing and nobody answering at her family's numbers, my parents having no clue where she was. The emergency being an ectopic pregnancy that literally was about to rupture and the religious hospital (closest and hence, required by military regulations at the time) insisting on my permission to abort the non-viable, about to kill her pregnancy.
It turned out she was at her mother's house recovering, doctor violated hospital policy and got fired for it and saved her life, she was recovering, the kids were with her mother, who was at the store getting additional food.
Grew some gray hairs that day!
The hospital administrator had an attitude problem, thinking I was some National Guard bozo (her words) and well, the police were summoned, saw my ID and sidearm, siding with me. She insisted that the hospital, regardless of the laws in force at the time, would never change their policy. A quick call to a friend in D.C. halted all federal funding to that hospital until they complied with the law, as was authorized under the law. Never sure came quickly for them!
Yeah, I bite and I bite hard in multiple ways.
God was their guide they said, interesting given that they're still notorious for being malpractice central for the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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@ianbattles7290 I was on a jury once in a civil case. Pretty much everyone had some liability, with the decedent whose widow carried the matter forward being foremost. Some on the jury wanted to award, period, end of story, law be damned, responsibility be damned, they felt bad for the widow. Of course, everyone also wanted to go home.
So, a compromise was offered, a payout that was far below just the estimated attorney fees. When we announced the amount, one of the defense attorneys broke into open laughter.
We were offered an opportunity after court to have a Q&A session and when asked as to the amount, I explained my thinking in suggesting the amount as being less than the legal fees involved. Attorney mirthful laughed again, "You got that right!" in regards to the far in excess of award their fees were.
Got some black looks from some of my fellow jurors, but everyone got to go home on time that day and everyone got a bit of what they wanted.
Diplomacy is the art of the possible and yes, the original says politics, but in the end, both are the same.
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I am an obligate omnivore. So, chefs remain on my menu.
But, you admit to fucking up, get a bad rating on that fuckup, triple down, you actually made menu for the neighborhood pigs.
Piss me off, your family also gets pig menu.
Admitting to fucking up, well, I schedule my own fuckups to coincide with days that end in y.
Hate vegans, you simply suck as a chef, as you and spices are complete strangers.
Cooking with tofu, that's simply an art. It absorbs flavors...
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@MarkStockman-b4j not so much totally sucks, is in continuous need of continuous improvement. The preamble of our Constitution establishes that very promise.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
It didn't say that we had a perfect union, but in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare (meaning of the populace individually and as a whole)... Never suggesting any was perfect, just to become more perfected, improving as we muddle along.
And we have an amendment process and provisions for laws to accomplish those tasks and as a safety valve for when we screw up, such as with prohibition.
What isn't provided or even suggested is a two tier system of justice for wealthy and poor, indeed, an amendment guarantees equality. And if one group is more equal than another, it ain't equality.
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@harlanjackson6112 largely, from growing up among Italian-Americans, many "off the boat". I suspect you can guess my lineage based upon my family name. ;)
Yeah, I do agree on the downfall of Rome, not the cause, but a factor. There was a loss of expansion, which sustained the Empire, increasing resistance at the border regions of the Empire and dozens of internal issues that caused crumbling from within via corruption and internal strife. Splitting it didn't help much either, nor did some visits by some Attila guy.
It really became clear when Rome began bringing in mercenaries to augment flagging legions and eventually had to embrace some odd cult called Christianity to fill their ranks.
The mercenaries then moving on to, in a fair number of cases, become involved in the sack of Rome.
And yeah, I agree as to his education, as most in the US couldn't tell a Hun from a sticky bun, much to my embarrassment - hell, most born US citizens can't even get basic facts of US history even 10% correct or what our Constitution actually says.
Indeed, our nation was modeled by the Founders to emulate the best of the Roman Republic and avoid its Imperial existence, something Trump and his all girl band would gleefully embrace - then be mystified when we'd also decline swiftly.
One day in the chow hall, I made a Roman salute and hailed Caesar and his mighty salad (yeah, not gonna hail any emperor) to close out a quip to someone. One of my NCO's objected, rather insubordinately to my "Nazi salute". My glare set him aback a bit, as it informed him that such familiarity and insubordination was noted and my statements informed him of my disdain for his ignorance of history.
I explained that the Nazis adopted part of the Roman salute, as did the Republican Party in the US throughout the 1930's, of which there are miles of film evidence supporting that fact and to kindly learn a bit of history and what specific salutes were before commenting to superiors out of sheer ignorance in the future.
Always educate when admonishing. Otherwise, admonition serves little purpose.
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Since Congress no longer enjoys its immunity, the Constitution is moribund.
It could be revived easily enough though. Congress giveth, Congress can taketh away.
Rescind every cent of misappropriated and properly utilized executive budget dollars for this year for the entirety of the executive branch - every agency and branch.
Then, for starters, Kash and Kristi get their positions consent rescinded by the Senate.
Then, consider re-instituting that budget again after Trump appears before Congress stark naked and apologizes.
He'll go into golfing withdrawal quickly enough, since there won't be fuel for the vehicles to even take him across the street. The staff, unpaid, the White House utilities unpaid and once overdue, subject to termination.
The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse, that knife cuts in both directions via rescissions, courtesy of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
He wants to cross the street, he'll have to pay for the fuel for The Beast out of his own pocket.
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Now, just think, shaped charge facing shaped charge, in a sphere of shaped charges, propelling not copper, but plutonium and focusing that based upon high speed x-ray movie camera data on actual film.
Aka, what the Manhattan Project did.
The metal seriously gets moving when it's around basketball size, hit the polonium core at around golf ball size, then things got loud. The shaped charge not being loud, it was a party popper in comparison.
And why such things had to be precisely directed, precisely timed and everything in a small a space as possible.
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"Look at the world today", because we have concentration camps somewhere, with cyanide gas "showers" and big ovens to destroy remains?
I'll wait to see an example of one.
As for torturing them to death, it's easy for a civilized man to stoop to barbarity, but hard to climb back up and remain civilized after. You simply perpetuate the malady, while claiming that spreading the malady is a cure.
That said, had they had miscalculated the drop and she strangled instead of her neck breaking, I'd not lose sleep over it. Another not so wonderful of a specimen of the dregs of humanity was hanged and took a half hour to strangle to death, with absolutely no mourning by any concerned, he was just as monstrous. But, that's a short term error in execution by an unskilled executioner, not a deliberate torture for months or longer.
Or should we start issuing out white hats and black hats so we can tell the "good guys" from the bad guys?
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The missile attack wasn't much of anything, the Russians literally took an off the shelf intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) and duck taped a MIRV bus from an ICBM in place, the results being more off target than close to target and basically, missing their intended target by as much as our atomic bomb missed its target in Nagasaki (literally nearly two miles off target).
Assuming the rocket factory was the intended target. That's early 1960's accuracy.
Current single warhead accuracy, which should be on par with MIRV accuracy, expected to be at most 90 feet from target. The equivalent of showing up to a modern sniper duel with a smooth bore Brown Bess infantry musket from the Revolutionary War. Suffice it to say, not quite even an annoyance - especially given the dummy rounds the warhead bus was loaded with.
Was it hypersonic, yeah, anything suborbital would be hypersonic, about half the velocity of what an ICBM would come in at, but still actually well, half the speed of an ICBM and easily enough intercepted. Just another hand wave to suggest he'd use nukes to get his way, while not doing so and ratcheting up the nuclear tensions as much.
The economic side, well, that's just comedy gold. It's right up there with Trump's interpretation of tariffs and who pays for said tariffs.
Japan and HIMARS, yeah, goes with Russia "producing" missiles and China's ambitions toward Taiwan and well, overall telling the US to stay on our own continent, trade and interests be damned or else we'll nuke you, nukety, nukety, nuke, nuke, nuke, boo.
To which I reply, well, all of our carriers are nuclear capable and oh, none need to be accompanied by the incessantly used oceangoing tug that keeps your single carrier mobile. Also, nobody has yet to sink one of our cruisers with missiles, despite a few attempts, how's your newest submarine Moskva doing again?
Trump's selection for envoy to Ukraine, odd interpretations out there on that. Envoys don't set foreign policy, the POTUS and Congress work together to do so, typically with POTUS leading, Congress consenting or removing assent and POTUS must then adjust or lose funding for those efforts. Despite Trump's desire for acquiring the right of imperial decree.
I won't go into economics, I know my areas of competence and my understanding is elementary at best. I do know psychological operations, nuclear operations, general military operations, information operations and nuclear doctrine and operations with IRBM's quite well, as that last was what I began my military career in. An ICBM can reach anywhere on the planet, hell, our space programs were basically a dick showing match on ICBM accuracy, reliability and quality, because if you can reach the moon and return, you can reach anywhere on the planet with accuracy. IRBM, those are around a thousand miles or so and less with accuracy within 90 feet or so for both ICBM and IRBM classes, a bit closer today, hence the smaller warheads compared to the 1960's.
The increased accuracy is why we moved operations from the old Cheyenne Mountain bunker to a regular office building, as the accuracy rendered that bunker moot - it'd be destroyed with an accurate precise hit, when when the bunker was built, it was anticipated that a close strike would be around 20 miles from the mountain with megatons. Ten kilotons right on target is equal to getting hit with a .44 magnum in the kisser, compared to that megaton missing by 20 miles being a shotgun going off and missing by 10 feet. Loud, but only made one angry.
Russian sources playing up some 50000 warheads that are sitting in tiny pieces on shelves all over the country in both nations, with 1700 deployable warheads for Russia and around 1550 deployable by the US. For comparison, Russia doesn't have quite as many cities as we have warheads, we have a bit over ten times more cities and towns than Russia has warheads and that's mooted, as one would want to disrupt the ability for the other guys to rain warheads on one's cities by taking out theirs and that typically takes a half dozen per military base. Still would wreck both nations entirely though. No, no nuclear winter, that got falsified in the 1990's with improved modeling and oh yeah, the old models proved false as well by that whole failed predictions of Gulf War I winter that lasted a month or two and was regional only, the dissipating.
So, extinction, nope, save for the two countries that would be so wrecked as to no longer be capable of annoying the world again. Which likely would have some major economic impacts and wreak their own kinds of havoc in the ensuing vacuum. Still, starvation because one's food won't grow or starvation because the economy collapsed in the vacuum of US dollars, dead remains dead, death by starvation doesn't care the proximate cause, just the end result.
And people thought I was crazy when I suggested that after the Soviet Union fell that offering NATO membership to Russia as an new entry member might be a good idea... Which then could've been leveraged into a trade union membership as well. Naw, that was crazy talk, they're done, the Cold War is over forever, the war to end all wars was won.
Again.
Again.
Again.
Fucking idiots.
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Well, that's why the Normandy landings failed and we never crossed the Rhine. Ribbon and pontoon bridges took way too much manpower that couldn't be protected, so Nazi Germany won the war.
Oh wait, we did construct such structures under fire, extremely withering fire, kept them operational and prevailed.
They're talking about a brigade sized element, meaning a battalion or two could be dedicated to security for the construction, maintaining it after, well ribbon bridges, which this floating dock and causeway essentially is, are not trivially destroyed. They're literally made to have the bejesus knocked out of them and quickly repaired.
I'd not put men to live on the ground, patrol, sentries, OP's yes, ferry them back and forth, that whole armored landing vehicle thing does exist today. Keep the entire site a sterile area for a kilometer inland, if the Almighty shows up within the sterile area, bad things happen to the Creator. I understand that he's a pretty forgiving chap.
And for every Iranian spurred idiocy, perhaps an old Iranian sea mine might float by chance into the Port of Abbas, which I'm sure would delight some of the bint haram brigade.
As for employment campaigns, sounds workable, call it the Khalas, Hamas campaign. Might as well go with some psyops to keep everything well greased.
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To show the actual power of the round, shouldn't you replace your butterfingers? ;)
I've ten thumbs to loan you, if it's any help...
My earliest memory, Mom telling not to jump, lest I get stuck by a diaper pin. Being a natural born asshole, I jumped and got pricked with the pin.
My next earliest memory was of Mom sitting me in front of the TV, telling me to "Watch him, he's the President, he's important", while she took down the drapes for laundering. She never finished that task that day, as I interrupted her with the news that the President was shot in the head.
Was watching what I'd later learn was CBS. Hey, being born in late 1961, that's a major series of accomplishments! Especially given, I was born a week after Tsar Bomba, the biggest nuke ever detonated and I'm still fairly radioactive, per a gamma ray camera (benchmark scan for a test I wasn't allowed to study for and a talk with the radiologist). ;)
That' my excuse and I'm sticking with it.
But, the marksman in me gently reminds all, via my gentle lead pipe, range is a factor.
Keyholing only starts when the round meets resistance, which pretty much when it hits a body or on a day that ends in Y in English.
But, do come to talk with me after you've shot someone and witness what a bullet will do personally. I've already done so. Not an experience that I recommend.
Or as I related to Dad, who barely missed WWII, nothing good to recommend the experience.
Having to pee so often, you might wanna talk to doctor about that...
I'll just get my hat... ;)
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@delorisjones4469 so said many, who died, it stopped when the bullies got shown their own blood.
If your house is on fire, are you going to wait around inside until Jesus comes to put out the fire?
And many said that when the Gestapo and SS were rounding up Jews for extermination, it took soldiers to stop it, as Jesus apparently was a bit too busy.
BTW, which Apostle is still alive, given that same Revelation also said some will still be alive to witness his second coming? I'll wait, as we're flat out of living Apostles by nearly 2000 years. And the number of the beast was Hebrew numerology for Nero's name, don't think we have much to worry about with Nero, him being quite busy doing that dead thing.
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@adriennerango1519 actually yes, I did indeed excel in civics as well.
But, I was responding to "this is national security", as if that's a reason to suborn our laws and Constitution. And my point was originally the very point in which you just referenced, co-equal branches, checks and balances and no damned king, despite the Heritage Foundation's efforts.
Now, what else is going on while this shiny is being held up to distract us? Every other time Trump held up a shiny to distract, other shit was going on in the background, including the infamous Agenda. So, what else is going on in the background, now that he's putting tinsel up on the power lines at the top of the pole?
The last time this kind of crazy was going on in a leading conservative party, the adults left the room of the Whig Party and formed the Republican Party. So successful, their very first presidential candidate won the election - Abraham Lincoln and the Whig Party collapsed under nativist and ultranationalist weight, quietly disappearing.
The Republican Party of today has no such courage left, so they'll happily destroy our culture, Constitution and government in order to acquire and retain power, creating a literal empire, where a republic stood before.
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Given it was a mere 8 hours since a LEO as first responder assisted CPR and provided an AED for my wife of 40 years, I wonder, would death by evisceration suffice to halt such a normality?
Thankfully, the LEO wasn't such a monster, can't speak to the coroner, but I doubt it, as a brief inventory I conducted while locating necessities after showed no deficit.
So, your not being surprised, I wonder if vivisection would halt such a practice, as that's close to the ancient penalties for the same.
Or would hanged, drawn and quartered suffice?
I'm thankful for my local PD, who only have yet to fail, be it for homeless or homed citizens!
Lest we fall to less civilized means of justice.
And yes, that was hyperbole, to drive a point of near infinite outrage.
So, James, how should this be punished? Full loss of all assets, including a family home and properties? An abrogation of a great public trust should be accompanied by a punishment as grave as the offense.
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This isn't a polar vortex. It's the Canadians getting revenge by waving their hands and blowing south all of that cold air!*
As for the first example, that Biceshit would've flown far lower if it had been directed my way, by my reminding her of an age old tradition involving boiling pine tar and dirty chicken feathers for bullshitters.
Grothman would be advised swiftly, he made one critical mistake. Bullshitting angry people, while making the mistake of allowing them to get between him and the exit.
And "The fraud and abuse uncovered...", "Sirrah, when you try to piss down my back and tell me it's raining, don't be surprised to draw back a nub".
A general suggestion to the lot of the mile wide stripe of yellow down the back GOP crowd, don't enrage and attempt to starve out the best armed population on the face of this earth, it shan't end well for you. Now, go wash that disgrace off of your back and pretend to have a spine - while we still allow you to possess bones.
Or, grace the hog trough, they need feeding too.
*My Canadian friends find that joke hilarious.
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