"Campbell, 25, was shot in an apartment parking lot in North Portland. Police had been called to the scene on a report of a suicidal man who was armed. Campbell came out of the apartment with his hands behind his head, walking backward toward police, witnesses said. Police, who said he ignored commands to put his hands up, hit him with six beanbag rounds. Frashour then hit him in the back, firing the fatal shot with his AR-15 rifle. The officer said he saw Campbell reaching with both hands toward the back waistband of his pants and thought he might be reaching for a gun."
Simple, the signals units in the theater know where allied cell phone transmitters all are, when they detect a new site appear, they tell division artillery or combat air controllers where to send some high explosives.
Soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines from the United States already take alot of consumer level electronics into combat.
Somewhere I have a PDF from June of 2003 from the USMC that talks about all the non-standard stuff Marines brought with them and how effective they were and which of those the Marines should issue.
It talks about things like civilian walkie-talkies that have a push to send GPS coordinates, digital cameras all the way down to camping food and better Camel Bak water bags.
Cover an iPhone or Android in a Zagg Invisibleshield and a case and it'll be fine in Iraq or Afghanistan with the dust.
Actually in many states strip clubs are out in the open, look at Oregon where stripping and live nude shows are protected under free-speech from the Oregon Constitution.
Except for the fact that the US no longer has a draft and no one in the DoD wants a draft since we've gone to a professional army.
But I support the elimination of the DADT and fully support integration of LGB soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. I'm also a registered Republican, I think elimination of DADT is a good thing and it'll move gay rights forward just like integration of the military in the late 40s did.
No, a Confederate victory would have continued slavery for what, another decade or two, lead to more intervention the western hemisphere, and following slavery, how long would segregation have lasted?
Remember, southern states wanted Cuba and Haiti annexed, intervention and take over of Central America.
So you are arguing that because South Carolina wanted to keep blacks, and any whites who were even 1/32 black, as slaves or for a few third class citizens, and Maine and California thought those people should be free, that the country would have been better off with that "state's right" approach?
"States-rights" when talking about the United States from 1789 to 1865 means you support slavery of blacks.
The Republicans don't have a majority in Congress, they have a majority in the United States House, one of the two houses of Congress, the other house, the United States Senate retains a Democratic majority.
"The crash was the second fatal plane wreck near Merrill Field in less than two years. On Oct. 1, 2008, another Cessna 206 lost power shortly after lifting off from Merrill Field and crashed into a nearby commercial building, killing two people."
General and commercial aviation is awesome to watch in Anchorage. The An-226 was here in June overnight, I got pictures of it in the evening, just happened to be at the airport to pick someone up, their flight was late so I was driving around the airport.
I live in east Anchorage, so I see/hear Merrill Field all the time and am under the flight path for the N/S runway at Elmendorf, see C-17s nightly and see F-22s 2-3 times a week
It wasn't patronizing, I honestly thought you had no idea what general aviation was from the ignorance in your post and that thought is reenforced by the posts below.
General Aviation isn't about the rich, light planes are used in a wide variety of small and medium business and by the middle class, especially in places like the Great Plains, South West and Alaska.
There are no security checks at general aviation airports, TSA/DHS has no plans for security checks, they are essentially like cars but rules dictated by the FAA rather than the state or provincial DMV
The small airports that are infrequently used are that way because of the decline of general aviation.
Airplanes used to be about twice the price of a family car, then the rise of lawsuits against aircraft makers lead to fewer planes being sold and the price of used aircraft skyrocketing.
Legal reforms by Congress in the mid-90s helped aircraft makers some, but the price is still way too high.
While there are some regional airports that are there because of pork, many general aviation airports have closed because of a lack of business.
I grew up at a small general aviation field in the 70s and 80s, then we too had to close because of liability because insurance costs exploded.
Now here in Anchorage Alaska, we have two general aviation fields, plus the general aviation seaplane port and the international airport. The main GA field, Merrill Field is very close to my home and I just heard a small plane depart over my house even though it's 10:40 PM and 1 F out.
That graphic when Fox was covering the Columbia was the last straw for my watching them for even breaking news coverage.
During the Iraq Invasion CNN had the best video in the middle of the night, Fox had the best military analysts during the day, but since '03-04 Fox got way worse.
Fox's coverage of John Paul II's death, funeral and the election of the new Pope was also godawful, I ended up watching the Catholic Channel for that, they had real historians and would shut up during speeches in English and explain what people were saying in Latin. Fox, CNN just blathered on and on.
Fox was also able to junk up the memorial of Reagan and the funeral too.
CNN now is a shell, MSNBC is just as partisan as Fox, TV news really has died off for me personally.
No, you will see in every post I've made in this thread I state that I am talking about the United States Air Force, never about the Russian Air Armies, the Royal Air Force, Armee de L'Air, Zroa HaAvir VeHahalal, Ejercito del Aire or any other air force in the world.
Original poster said they were soldiers, I pointed out that the USAF members are not soldiers.
And even if the name of the organization is "air army", they are not by definition soldiers because with the exception of a very few super specialized units, air forces are not land armies.
A USAF F-22 pilot lives next door to me and I mentioned this in the elevator this morning, I asked if anyone in the USAF would call themselves soldiers and he replied "We are Air Force, not Army."
This wasn't whistle blowing though, it was passing classified documents on to a foreign national.
I agree, if he had leaked these straight to the NY Times, WaPo or hell, even Salon, he'd not be in the caldron he is in now.
PS - no biggy on missing that Wikileaks promised Manning money, it came out right at the start of this all when the Apache video came out and got lost in the noise over Wikileaks and Assange.
I'm sure if someone asked Assange why they've not helped Manning's fund out, he'd skip over the question like he does with all non-fawning questions.
The English are honoring a Swedish request so that if the tables are turned, the Swedes will honor an English request to arrest someone they want.
Sweden issued an European Arrest Warrant, so the United Kingdom had to show good faith towards arresting him per the framework all EU members agreed to
Well, he volunteered for the Army, submitted to the security check and swore an oath, then he broke the rules governing security, assaulted another soldier, and violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice, so why are you surprised he is in confinement still?
He pissed off the Army something fierce and by his actions have made it harder for other, loyal techs in the services, to use logical work arounds like gmail, flash drives, external hard disks for mundane tasks.
Of course the Army is going to put him in solitary and take away his pillow.
Wikileaks for it's part has contributed nothing to his defense fund, guess it's more important to keep Assange out of jail and his name in the press.
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Last city I lived in with alot of police shootings of civilian non suspects was Portland Oregon.
Where we have things like the police shooting unarmed people in the back.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/11/family_of_aaron_campbell_files.html
"Campbell, 25, was shot in an apartment parking lot in North Portland. Police had been called to the scene on a report of a suicidal man who was armed. Campbell came out of the apartment with his hands behind his head, walking backward toward police, witnesses said. Police, who said he ignored commands to put his hands up, hit him with six beanbag rounds. Frashour then hit him in the back, firing the fatal shot with his AR-15 rifle. The officer said he saw Campbell reaching with both hands toward the back waistband of his pants and thought he might be reaching for a gun."
But I'm sure to you everyone is a "perp".
Most citizen review boards are rubber stamps for the police leadership, exonerating police brutality and OKing police shootings.
The dude believes in total transparency, if its good for the State Department it should be good enough for Assange.
Simple, the signals units in the theater know where allied cell phone transmitters all are, when they detect a new site appear, they tell division artillery or combat air controllers where to send some high explosives.
Soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines from the United States already take alot of consumer level electronics into combat.
Somewhere I have a PDF from June of 2003 from the USMC that talks about all the non-standard stuff Marines brought with them and how effective they were and which of those the Marines should issue.
It talks about things like civilian walkie-talkies that have a push to send GPS coordinates, digital cameras all the way down to camping food and better Camel Bak water bags.
Cover an iPhone or Android in a Zagg Invisibleshield and a case and it'll be fine in Iraq or Afghanistan with the dust.
Actually in many states strip clubs are out in the open, look at Oregon where stripping and live nude shows are protected under free-speech from the Oregon Constitution.
Except for the fact that the US no longer has a draft and no one in the DoD wants a draft since we've gone to a professional army.
But I support the elimination of the DADT and fully support integration of LGB soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. I'm also a registered Republican, I think elimination of DADT is a good thing and it'll move gay rights forward just like integration of the military in the late 40s did.
No, a Confederate victory would have continued slavery for what, another decade or two, lead to more intervention the western hemisphere, and following slavery, how long would segregation have lasted?
Remember, southern states wanted Cuba and Haiti annexed, intervention and take over of Central America.
So you are arguing that because South Carolina wanted to keep blacks, and any whites who were even 1/32 black, as slaves or for a few third class citizens, and Maine and California thought those people should be free, that the country would have been better off with that "state's right" approach?
"States-rights" when talking about the United States from 1789 to 1865 means you support slavery of blacks.
The Republicans don't have a majority in Congress, they have a majority in the United States House, one of the two houses of Congress, the other house, the United States Senate retains a Democratic majority.
cubic meters even, I shouldn't eat and type at the same time.
http://www.lufthansa-technik.com/applications/portal/lhtportal/lhtportal.portal?requestednode=415&_pageLabel=Template5_6&_nfpb=true&webcacheURL=TV_I/Media-Relations/In-Focus/Aircraft-operations/A380_Maintenance_US.xml
180 x 140 meters and its height of 45 meters it is one of the largest industrial buildings in Europe.
So 1,134,000 square meters?
How many Albert Halls is LufthansaTechnik Frankfort?
I was at a Mexican place in Everett when I saw the Dreamlifter bring in the last section for ZA002 in the spring of '09.
Here is a picture of a Dreamlifter, A380 and 747-400 all in the same hanger.
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2010/12/photo-of-note-superjumbo-dream.html
Big damned building.
Yea, plane went down at the end of the east/west runway and hit a house and small business in June.
http://www.adn.com/2010/06/01/1303320/five-hurt-as-plane-hits-car-dealership.html
And there was one in '08
"The crash was the second fatal plane wreck near Merrill Field in less than two years. On Oct. 1, 2008, another Cessna 206 lost power shortly after lifting off from Merrill Field and crashed into a nearby commercial building, killing two people."
General and commercial aviation is awesome to watch in Anchorage. The An-226 was here in June overnight, I got pictures of it in the evening, just happened to be at the airport to pick someone up, their flight was late so I was driving around the airport.
I live in east Anchorage, so I see/hear Merrill Field all the time and am under the flight path for the N/S runway at Elmendorf, see C-17s nightly and see F-22s 2-3 times a week
Because if I fly a Cessna 172 into the World Trade Center it'll either bounce off or kill 3 or 4 people.
Remember someone flew a Cessna 150 into the Oval Office windows under Clinton and it did nothing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Eugene_Corder
The 9/11 terrorists used large planes because they go really fast, they weigh alot and have alot of fuel in them.
It wasn't patronizing, I honestly thought you had no idea what general aviation was from the ignorance in your post and that thought is reenforced by the posts below.
General Aviation isn't about the rich, light planes are used in a wide variety of small and medium business and by the middle class, especially in places like the Great Plains, South West and Alaska.
There are no security checks at general aviation airports, TSA/DHS has no plans for security checks, they are essentially like cars but rules dictated by the FAA rather than the state or provincial DMV
General Aviation airports, like those in the story you linked to are for private owned aircraft, hence no scheduled passenger flights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_aviation
The small airports that are infrequently used are that way because of the decline of general aviation.
Airplanes used to be about twice the price of a family car, then the rise of lawsuits against aircraft makers lead to fewer planes being sold and the price of used aircraft skyrocketing.
Legal reforms by Congress in the mid-90s helped aircraft makers some, but the price is still way too high.
While there are some regional airports that are there because of pork, many general aviation airports have closed because of a lack of business.
I grew up at a small general aviation field in the 70s and 80s, then we too had to close because of liability because insurance costs exploded.
Now here in Anchorage Alaska, we have two general aviation fields, plus the general aviation seaplane port and the international airport. The main GA field, Merrill Field is very close to my home and I just heard a small plane depart over my house even though it's 10:40 PM and 1 F out.
That graphic when Fox was covering the Columbia was the last straw for my watching them for even breaking news coverage.
During the Iraq Invasion CNN had the best video in the middle of the night, Fox had the best military analysts during the day, but since '03-04 Fox got way worse.
Fox's coverage of John Paul II's death, funeral and the election of the new Pope was also godawful, I ended up watching the Catholic Channel for that, they had real historians and would shut up during speeches in English and explain what people were saying in Latin. Fox, CNN just blathered on and on.
Fox was also able to junk up the memorial of Reagan and the funeral too.
CNN now is a shell, MSNBC is just as partisan as Fox, TV news really has died off for me personally.
No, you will see in every post I've made in this thread I state that I am talking about the United States Air Force, never about the Russian Air Armies, the Royal Air Force, Armee de L'Air, Zroa HaAvir VeHahalal, Ejercito del Aire or any other air force in the world.
Original poster said they were soldiers, I pointed out that the USAF members are not soldiers.
And even if the name of the organization is "air army", they are not by definition soldiers because with the exception of a very few super specialized units, air forces are not land armies.
A USAF F-22 pilot lives next door to me and I mentioned this in the elevator this morning, I asked if anyone in the USAF would call themselves soldiers and he replied "We are Air Force, not Army."
You mean the story on the front page isn't enough? http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/15/1822216/Todays-WikiLeaks-News
Or the one from last night - http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/15/0038211/Air-Force-Blocks-NY-Times-WaPo-Other-Media
Or the one from yesterday - http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/12/14/1612247/Julian-Assanges-Online-Dating-Profile-Leaked
Or the other one from yesterday - http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/14/168248/Michael-Moore-Posts-Julian-Assanges-Bail
Or the two to four a day we've had for days?
If anything /. has too much about Wikileaks right now, Reddit is slammed with it as well
This wasn't whistle blowing though, it was passing classified documents on to a foreign national.
I agree, if he had leaked these straight to the NY Times, WaPo or hell, even Salon, he'd not be in the caldron he is in now.
PS - no biggy on missing that Wikileaks promised Manning money, it came out right at the start of this all when the Apache video came out and got lost in the noise over Wikileaks and Assange.
I'm sure if someone asked Assange why they've not helped Manning's fund out, he'd skip over the question like he does with all non-fawning questions.
The English are honoring a Swedish request so that if the tables are turned, the Swedes will honor an English request to arrest someone they want.
Sweden issued an European Arrest Warrant, so the United Kingdom had to show good faith towards arresting him per the framework all EU members agreed to
Well, he volunteered for the Army, submitted to the security check and swore an oath, then he broke the rules governing security, assaulted another soldier, and violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice, so why are you surprised he is in confinement still?
He pissed off the Army something fierce and by his actions have made it harder for other, loyal techs in the services, to use logical work arounds like gmail, flash drives, external hard disks for mundane tasks.
Of course the Army is going to put him in solitary and take away his pillow.
Wikileaks for it's part has contributed nothing to his defense fund, guess it's more important to keep Assange out of jail and his name in the press.