Posts by laird cummings 588 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Aug 2007
Is there poop in Heaven..? I thought we'd all be done with all that messy biological stuff...
Anyway, so what you're saying is that Jesus has to have his Messiah Bag packed and ready to go at all times (And what DOES one keep in a Messiah Bag, anyway..? Suntan lotion? Bermuda shorts?).
That naval helos spend a fair bit of time supporting...Marines. Whom do most of their business on land, no matter that they came in by the wet route. And what dose land have..? Terrain! things behind which to hide... IOW, you fail.
Also note - that with pods of FnF missiles, it's a fairly easy step to develop bolt-on fire-control interfaces for traditionally unarmed helos - now any mundane UH-60 or CH-47* can become a one-aircraft wave of destruction. This multiplies the number of potential shooters by a HUGE number with relative ease.
* One wonders, with a bit of awe, just how many 76-rocket pods one could deploy on a CH-47.
...Who stand and wait."
Bush-the-Younger was an interceptor pilot with patrol duties aimed at intercepting feared Soviet bomber attacks from Cuban bases. Now, say what you want about the plausibility of such an attack, the military and government beleived that they were possible, and if such a raid were to occur, well, the results would've been devestating. I don't call guarding against such a threat to be controversial - SOMEONE had to do it - shall we call ALL those who did that duty to be draft dodgers..? 'Cause if one is, they all are.
The instructions around wearing the 'V' were entirely vague and obtuse at the time Boorda was awarded the medal in the first place, and it appears he wore it in good-faith understanding that it was appropriate. Instantally as it was questioned, he stopped wearing it.
Ironically, one of his chief accusers, the late Col. Hackworth, was busted in a *indisputable* case of 'decoration inflation' - Not just a debatable add-on to a legitimately-awarded medal, but entire awards and qualifications* never issued to him, which he claimed on his proffesional CV and formed part of the basis of his self-promotional pitch as 'the most decorated soldier in America.'
Misunderstanding instructions around a real event is one thing, but claiming credit for events and qualifications that never happened is something rather different.
*Two false DFCs and the Ranger Tab. Hackworth hastily edited his bio to reflect correct awards after being called on it by CBS.
Home-unit installation costs still over-balance benefit. A typical 1.5KW system here has a payoff in the 20+ year range. Between relatively high latitude, and entirely too many clouds interfereing with the sun, we're still marginal for solar.
Industrial-sized plants are begining to pop up, but home uptake will continue to lag so long as the payoff remains elusive.
There is a robust market, and potential greater price reductions, hiding in the weeds. Which is further evidence that solar has reached a point where it's time to let it stand alone - and maybe time to smash some barriers to professional entry as means of further driving market uptake.
Sseems shoud reduce issues of turbulence alongside relatively smooth walls at height - you'd be more-or-less maintaining on thrust alone. Once you get into ground effect though, the ducted airflow may present some worries.
In regard to body shape, I was addressing the question about forward motion, liftoff, and heavier-than-normal loads asked above. Clearly, if you're hovering, forward motion will be of no importance.
;-)
For various reasons, the common honey bee is under great pressure - numbers have fallen drastically over most of the world - and without resident bees or a rent-a-hive ready-to-hand, it's hard to get your crops pollinated. For that reason alone, a few hives would be worth swiping.
It's happened over here. A few years back a couple were prosecuted AND convicted for public indecency for having sex in a room tro-rooms removed from the outer wall in their own home. Why? 'Cause the sneaky-peeper neighbor who just happened to be staring into their window could see them *reflected* in a door-hung mirror opened to an unfortunate angle.
Too bad the long-lensed shutterbugs in this particular case did have't their heads explode from sheer hypocritical outrage overload. Of course, then Mr. Nudist would be prosecuted for murder, and terrorism too, likely.
I generally like Lewis, but this is too over-the-top.
People have been predicting the demise of the tank (and other assorted AFVs) ever since teh advent of the RPG/Bazooka/man-portable ATGM. Hasn't happened. Instead, the combat environment simply got a lot less simple.
Well, this is a precise parallel - you don't send a full-up air raid to pot a single missle. You send an armed drone, as happened. Full-up air raids are for establishing full dominance of the combat zone versus mobile high-value targets - Which is kinda exactly what happened early on in Libya.
And don't whine about the cruise missiles - those are reserved for *immobile* high-value targets.
Isn't it the job of the RAF (and the UK government, for that matter) to buy what *works*...? They are, presumably, going to be using whichever aircraft they buy in enforcing the interests of the UK, and doing that with second-best, ESPECIALLY when top-line kit costs less, is failing at their mission.
Dunno 'bout you, but I'd prefer my government not toss aside pants-loads of cash in exchange for shoddy kit.
...that trauma plates can't be added. Maybe not easily to the inside of the thigh, but the rest, even the hams and the outside of the hip, can easily enough be equipped. Elsewhere, will just need to double up on the thickness of the cloth.
Oooh, wait - Why not a 'combat kilt', to go with the rest..? The troops can all look like Marvin the Martian!
Abrams is, of course, a marvel of accuracy and tracking, but naval engagement is rather more dynamicaly active, and yet that laster never strayed more than a centimeter from aim point despite all the squirelly motion. Not even the vaunted Abrams has that level of tracking (nor, to be honest, do they need it).
We use submarines to defend high-value 'targets.*' All we need now is to build a fleet of highly capable hunter-killer boats... Oh, wait. there they are, sitting in the harbor, ready to go!
Never mind...
*To a submariner, there are two kinds of naval vessels - other submarines, and 'Targets.'
The Japanese government should be having a major case of ass with the US Government - By advising and supporting different clearance zones than the Japanese government, my country has basically discredited the Japanese government in the eyes of its citizens. Fear mongers say "scary, scary," and the US says, in effect, "everything is worse than you were told by the Japanese!" Naturally, scared citizens immediately lose (more) faith in their government and distrust all it says.
The Japanese government has plenty enough credibility issues of their own, without US making it worse - I'd seriously consider expelling a diplomat or two over this, were I Japan.
You've got it just backwards - The professionals at managing prisioners have, in their professional judgement, determined that Manning is a suicide risk. A non-professional non-expert on prisoner management has floated an opinon that is contrary.
I wouldn't ask a psychiatrist to tell me how to keep prisioners alive, and I wouldn't ask a guard how to treat a prisoner's neurosis. Why would you trust a non-expert's opnion on a topic outside their expertise?
Go read 'em. Many of you are clearly grossly ignorant and in need of a bit of eduction on the subject.
Manning willingly and voluntarily raised his right hand and swore, so help him God, to obey those regulations. He's got *zero* kick now, and this BS from the UK amounts to stirring the pot and meddling of a pernicious nature. Time for Parliment to stick its beak back in its own musiness.
Ronald Reagan appears to have been an oracle: Vid kids controling aircraft of the future. How is this different than a console game? From the controler's POV, there is no difference.
How tempting will it be in the future to go fling a little 'bang' on some annoying geo-political bother, when there's no risk of bodies coming home in boxes?
Clinton loved to toss about cruise missiles at random, and so does, aparantly, Obama. Bush, at least, was willing to risk body counts, even if he was a jerk.
Grenade, 'cause that's what the future will bring us.
*BTW: The original autonomous killer robot is the auto-mobile torpedo - In their most basic form, they've been killing meat bags since the 1870s. In the 1940s, they gained the ability to seek and terminate their own victims (including, occasionally, the very boat that launched them).
Even presuming the scram-missile doesn't hit anything crucually important, they're still going to know they've been kissed. Secondary projectiles from bits knocked off, incandescent metalic vapor from friction and impact, crumbly bits of missile as it starts to come apart, and a nasty bit of overpressure / underpressure from shockwaves will make a right proper mess of things. Expect a warship so rudely treated to be out of action immediately following, and likely for some time subsequent.
BIG grenade, 'cause that's what it'll look like.
The Moral Majority was in fact a minority - It was a US-based political action / pressure group which pretended that they' were defending the majority of the citizenry in the US from Things We Don't Like. IOW, trolls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Majority
They're gone, now, but their spirtual heirs linger on, kinda like a bad stink after taking a particualrly foul crap.
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