During the cuban missle crisis my dad was a flight line mechanic at Fairchild AFB outside Spokane WA.
At that time Fairchild was a B52 base.
He said that every B52 they had was in the aIr loaded with nukes, wating for orders.
The nukes had to be armed in the air before dropping so that they wouldn't go off in case of a crash or accidental drop.
During post-flight inspections, it was discovered that one B52 went up with all of its nukes armed. If it had dropped a bomb due to mechanical failure or crashed, big boom
I can only imagine the size of the boom that occurred on base when it was discoevred.
I used to buy a new performance car every two years. This system ate me up. Around 2002 after I had just bought a new home and a new SVT Cobra in 2001 I would get a dozen credit card solicitations in the mail each day. The record was 27 in one day.
Then I:
Only finance cars through my credit union.
Called the 800 number to stop credit card solicitations.
Paid the phone company 5 bucks a month for callerid so that I can block calls yhat won't show the number. This doesn't stop spoofers but the volume is way down.
Got on the federal do-not-call list and actually filed complaints.
Only purchase magazine subscriptions from the publisher, not from the clearinghouse or any of the fools going door to door.
With a few exceptions such as Amazon, only purchase items on the internet from companies from which I have already purchased items via phone or in person.
Never give my phone number to any merchant, no matter how pissy they get (Sears can get pretty pissy)
Give locally. Last Christmas I put several hundred dollars worth of toys in the toys-for-tots at the local fire station. I had to get the firemen to bring out a new barrel. They were impressed. It felt far better than writing a check.
Homebuying is more problematical. There are really three players. Your realtor, the finance company, and the title company. I bought a house in 2008. My realtor is a friend. He doesn't sell my info because he doesn't want me to dump any junk mail in his swimming pool. I financed through the credit union. They never sell my name. That leaves the title company. The sold my name, but removing two the three cut the volume way down.
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Are they somehow expecting honor among thieves?
Sorry, but if you are face down dead, the above seems like a matter of semantics.
could be wrong, but I'm thinking that the core technology here was built, licencesed and or, contracted from General Electric or Westinghouse.
they didn't poll me
did they poll you?
During the cuban missle crisis my dad was a flight line mechanic at Fairchild AFB outside Spokane WA.
At that time Fairchild was a B52 base.
He said that every B52 they had was in the aIr loaded with nukes, wating for orders.
The nukes had to be armed in the air before dropping so that they wouldn't go off in case of a crash or accidental drop.
During post-flight inspections, it was discovered that one B52 went up with all of its nukes armed. If it had dropped a bomb due to mechanical failure or crashed, big boom
I can only imagine the size of the boom that occurred on base when it was discoevred.
before he catches the ear of non-technical management and ends up as your boss.
It has worked for me since the days of PC Jr.
Isn't that where they always end up anyway?
My mothers side of the family all belong to the Moron church. A nuttier, greedier, more inbred bunch you will never find.
Three words. "Balance of Terror" Frightened me as a six year old. It still does.
"I can't help thinking that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man. Has to be."
This can be largely avoided.
I used to buy a new performance car every two years. This system ate me up. Around 2002 after I had just bought a new home and a new SVT Cobra in 2001 I would get a dozen credit card solicitations in the mail each day. The record was 27 in one day.
Then I:
Only finance cars through my credit union.
Called the 800 number to stop credit card solicitations.
Paid the phone company 5 bucks a month for callerid so that I can block calls yhat won't show the number. This doesn't stop spoofers but the volume is way down.
Got on the federal do-not-call list and actually filed complaints.
Only purchase magazine subscriptions from the publisher, not from the clearinghouse or any of the fools going door to door.
With a few exceptions such as Amazon, only purchase items on the internet from companies from which I have already purchased items via phone or in person.
Never give my phone number to any merchant, no matter how pissy they get (Sears can get pretty pissy)
Give locally. Last Christmas I put several hundred dollars worth of toys in the toys-for-tots at the local fire station. I had to get the firemen to bring out a new barrel. They were impressed. It felt far better than writing a check.
Homebuying is more problematical. There are really three players. Your realtor, the finance company, and the title company. I bought a house in 2008. My realtor is a friend. He doesn't sell my info because he doesn't want me to dump any junk mail in his swimming pool. I financed through the credit union. They never sell my name. That leaves the title company. The sold my name, but removing two the three cut the volume way down.
Somebody is going to pay a small penalty for early withdrawal.