Same deal when I first saw a B-1. Had an armed guard or two with M3 submachineguns. This would have been in the late '80s at Richards-Gebaur AFB near Kansas City.
Modern MREs are pretty good, actually. I ate one a few weeks ago. Only complaint was that the ersatz pork rib (kind of like a McRib) was too greasy. Everything else was good.
I'm saying this as a civilian who's/not/ used to military food.
In the F-4's case, I think it was because the Naval designation was F4H & it was originally for the Navy, then the USAF decided to procure it as well. Thus, the Navy's designation took precedence.
The Navy didn't use the F-111 -- IIRC they'd decided not to bother when it was still in the planning stages. Too big or somesuch. 'Twas just used by USAF here in the States.
Numbers restarted from 1 starting in 1962, when the Navy and Marines switched to the Air Force's style of aircraft designations.
Prior to that, a fighter might be designated F8U-3 -- that breaks down to Fighter, Design 8 from Vought (Vought's code was U), 3rd revision. Under the new designation system, that'd be the Vought F-8C Crusader. If it was the first design of a particular type from a company, it'd lack the middle number, e.g. the Douglas AD-2 Skyraider, which was later known as the A-1B Skyraider.
If I'm taking a biology class, I don't want some know-it-all punk wasting everyone's time by arguing with the teacher over science-vs-superstition. I'm there to learn the science.
It would have its place in a philosophy or philosophy-of-science class, but not in a serious science classroom.
Sounds almost like those WAD collections you could buy in stores in the mid-'90s, like D!Zone. They were mainly useful because you didn't have to download everything over your 14.4K modem.
Most of those were shitty author's-first-map WADs that were included to drive up the count (1000 WADs!) but some were worth playing. Some of them would have a custom launcher utility; not real useful, but easier than typing DOS commands all day.
I guess the upshot is that if you like Doom & you have a Dreamcast, Bob's your uncle.
Let me paste in the words of "Bod", who this about Dragonlance in alt.peeves eleven years ago:
God. Jesus. No. For fuck's sake, no, no, no. I've read a lot of shit in my time (I was, for a while, the copy-editor on the "New Adventures of Doctor Who" novels), but I can say without a single unmitigated shadow of a doubt that I have never, ever, ever, ever, ever read a pile of shit so huge, so mouldering and steaming, so slime-encrusted and maggot- ridden, so bereft of ideas, characterisation, characters, plot, background, setting, tone, atmosphere, themes, motifs, sense or words strung together in an even vaguely readable order as the first Dragonlance book. It is awful. No, it is beyond awful. It is an affront to literacy, history and humanity. If Gutenberg had been shown a copy of this book, he would have placed his head in his printing press and instructed his apprentices to squash it until the brains were running out of his ears and they heard his skull crack. It should be taken out and burnt. Everyone associated with its production should be fucked and burnt. The Nazi pogroms and book-burnings should be reinstated, together with the Spanish inquisition, purely to erase all traces and records of this book from our planet's history.
I was once stuck on a train for six hours with nothing to read except a copy of this book. After sixty pages I decided that spending the remaining five and a half hours sitting very still and meditating on the five screaming children in the seat opposite and their appallingly stupid parents was preferable to having to read one more word of the drivel before me.
It even has fucking SONGS in it.
The only good thing associated with Dragonlance is Margaret Weis's daughter, who is a fox.
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Assuming this guy didn't encrypt anything. He could have encrypted individual files or the entire /home filesystem.
If he used a decent encryption program & didn't use passwords that were obvious or left where they could be found, you're pretty much SOL there.
Dammit, that's "commander-in-chief". Stop that.
Are you sure? I thought that was true of the KDE4 version (Remix); pretty sure I read that the KDE3 build of 8.04 was LTS.
It sounds like he doesn't have the equipment to dump ROM images, so an emulator wouldn't be helpful.
He's referring to 30 June of this year, which is the last day that OEMs can install XP on a new computer.
System builders can keep doing it until early '09, but I'm told they have to buy XP licenses in packs of 50.
Same deal when I first saw a B-1. Had an armed guard or two with M3 submachineguns. This would have been in the late '80s at Richards-Gebaur AFB near Kansas City.
Modern MREs are pretty good, actually. I ate one a few weeks ago. Only complaint was that the ersatz pork rib (kind of like a McRib) was too greasy. Everything else was good.
/not/ used to military food.
I'm saying this as a civilian who's
In the F-4's case, I think it was because the Naval designation was F4H & it was originally for the Navy, then the USAF decided to procure it as well. Thus, the Navy's designation took precedence.
The Navy didn't use the F-111 -- IIRC they'd decided not to bother when it was still in the planning stages. Too big or somesuch. 'Twas just used by USAF here in the States.
:-)
& that was the FJ Fury.
Numbers restarted from 1 starting in 1962, when the Navy and Marines switched to the Air Force's style of aircraft designations.
Prior to that, a fighter might be designated F8U-3 -- that breaks down to Fighter, Design 8 from Vought (Vought's code was U), 3rd revision. Under the new designation system, that'd be the Vought F-8C Crusader. If it was the first design of a particular type from a company, it'd lack the middle number, e.g. the Douglas AD-2 Skyraider, which was later known as the A-1B Skyraider.
See also the urban legend about KFC's artificial chicken, Animal 57:
http://www.geo-pie.cornell.edu/media/kfc.html
If I'm taking a biology class, I don't want some know-it-all punk wasting everyone's time by arguing with the teacher over science-vs-superstition. I'm there to learn the science.
It would have its place in a philosophy or philosophy-of-science class, but not in a serious science classroom.
Nobody cares about Columbine anymore. Plenty's happened in the world since then, including school shootings.
Or are you one of those people who thinks we shouldn't do $THING on 11 September?
Sounds almost like those WAD collections you could buy in stores in the mid-'90s, like D!Zone. They were mainly useful because you didn't have to download everything over your 14.4K modem.
Most of those were shitty author's-first-map WADs that were included to drive up the count (1000 WADs!) but some were worth playing. Some of them would have a custom launcher utility; not real useful, but easier than typing DOS commands all day.
I guess the upshot is that if you like Doom & you have a Dreamcast, Bob's your uncle.
Pfft. .45 ACP or 00 buck.
Okay, I find the constant /. memeing tiresome to say the least, but that was really funny. Well done.
It's up to version 9, even.
I've had my share of GNOME and KDE configuration boxes that were far too large for the screen & didn't have scrollbars.
Shitty programmers are a universal phenomenon.
The word's trite & wrong. Whoever uses that should be treated with scorn & beaten about the head and shoulders.
Maybe you missed where parent said your movements are distracting to others, asshole.
Dude, SMB2 came out 1988! It was the cover game for the first issue of Nintendo Power!
More seriously, I hope they'll be made to release protocol information on a free license.
my time (I was, for a while, the copy-editor on the "New Adventures of
Doctor Who" novels), but I can say without a single unmitigated shadow
of a doubt that I have never, ever, ever, ever, ever read a pile of shit
so huge, so mouldering and steaming, so slime-encrusted and maggot-
ridden, so bereft of ideas, characterisation, characters, plot,
background, setting, tone, atmosphere, themes, motifs, sense or words
strung together in an even vaguely readable order as the first
Dragonlance book. It is awful. No, it is beyond awful. It is an affront
to literacy, history and humanity. If Gutenberg had been shown a copy of
this book, he would have placed his head in his printing press and
instructed his apprentices to squash it until the brains were running
out of his ears and they heard his skull crack. It should be taken out
and burnt. Everyone associated with its production should be fucked and
burnt. The Nazi pogroms and book-burnings should be reinstated, together
with the Spanish inquisition, purely to erase all traces and records of
this book from our planet's history.
I was once stuck on a train for six hours with nothing to read except a
copy of this book. After sixty pages I decided that spending the
remaining five and a half hours sitting very still and meditating on the
five screaming children in the seat opposite and their appallingly
stupid parents was preferable to having to read one more word of the
drivel before me.
It even has fucking SONGS in it.
The only good thing associated with Dragonlance is Margaret Weis's
daughter, who is a fox.
I was hoping that after Little Johnny was kicked out that sort of policy would stop.
Meet the new lizard, same as the old lizard.
What rocket programs did he work on? If he's ex-NASA, tell him a fan says thank you.