Im always amazed at the level of anger when the topic of obesity comes up. If there is a pill that helps fat people get skinny, so what? The logic must go like this "I put so much work into being fit, I am upset when someone else gets similar benefits without that same effort."
the temp was likely correct. the temp decreases with altitude only until you reach the tropopause. after that you are in the stratosphere and temperature rises with altitude. this jump was well above the tropopause.
well, as long as you stay off Oahu and Maui land isn't crazy expensive in Hawaii. As to the travel part, well, military retirees can travel on a space available basis on military transport aircraft for some very reasonable fees.
Servicemembers Group Life Insurance (SGLI) went into effect in 1965 and was for $10,000. I can't find reference, but I believe retirement was at 20 years and based on 50% of BASE pay. Neil had just hit 20 years of service so he would have been eligible but, Mike and Buzz were not at 20 years of service at that point.
Only the Congress could order a pension like that by passing a law. A Presidential order to that effect would in fact be illegal.
Not the OP but I will answer why I use open source when I can.
Yes the cost factor is nice, but I prefer open source because I have more trust that the system isn't leaking information to it's copyright holder. That and the endless update cycle.
I really with there was an effective way to use cash as a bounty to help pet projects along.
Of course not, If the wallpaper is so hideous we just don't go to start with!
I often wonder, as a Liberal, if you sell wallpaper no one likes, do you think the government should pass a law forcing everyone who doesn't want it, to buy it anyway?
You know, what do you think is going to happen if we just leave. Do you really think that none of this violence will follow us home? Anyone hear about some bombs headed to Chicago? Oh wait, it was going to a Jewish address, hate mongering Israelies should stop building settlements in Dearborne.
The end of oil reserves will be a great day for the civilization. Collectively the developed world will be able to ignore the middle east and its religion of peace into oblivion, kinda like they do with Africa now.
you are an ill informed ass A/C. We haven't used DU in years, Iraq is not the most radio active country on the planet. Not even close to it. Hell we dont even use weapons that have a high probability of producing duds anymore. (read cluster munitions and the like) The problem is you give equal weight to the claims of idiots and the enemy as you do to experts and the good guys. Thats ok, go vote democrat tomorrow and file for your third year of unemployment benefits. It must be someone else's fault.
the army used to have portable nuke reactors. google it. it went really bad. The burn pits scare me, I dont want to live next to a nuke run by spec4 disgruntled.
a yurt weighs a shit-ton, then it gets wet. it requires care. It does not like the hot dusty UV environment of the desert. Turns out tents, like what the natives have used in the region for thousands of years are a better choice than something from another fucking climate. But thanks for playing. maybe we should try igloos? hey then we dont need AC! cause they are already cold! and i read snow is a good insulator in nat geo. Fuck me!
Fuck, civilians piss me off. This isn't a trick fuck question about lateral thinking on some college exam. Most of the Jibs and Haj who are laying these IEDs are locals who have families and jobs. They dont use game theory to maximize outcomes, instead mostly what happens is some guy shows up at their house and says, "put this in the road next time the americans come by or we are going to kill your family. Or some guy is watching his family starve because we just torched his opium crop that was the only thing he could grow this year and he takes a couple of dollars to plant an IED in the road so he can feed his family. If the Americans dont come by that road as often as they used to the bad guy shows up and says "Dirka, Dirka, Ackbar give me my IED back, we have changed our plans. Muhamed Jihad!" Then the bad guys switch tactics to either direct action or indirect fire on the FOBs.
(im going to assume you are in a NATO alliance country). Troops decide to go to war much like you decide to pay taxes to support their efforts. Also, Godwin's law.
I am a military Helicopter pilot and I have literally come back with a UAV sticking out of the side of my aircraft after a mid-air with a small drone. There are lots of growing pains with these things, and they are no where ready for integration in the national airspace system. A growing conflict with military use of UAVs is that they are often being operated by non-pilots(cheaper to train). In many cases the smallest drones are operated by infantrymen who throw these things into the air and rely on big sky theory to separate them from the aircraft providing Close Air Support. Non-pilots typically have less diversity of experience and a lot less air-sense when it comes to situational awareness.
The most likely user of this technology is Law Enforcement. The last thing civil aviation needs is some jack-hole beat cop throwing these things into the air to look for a guy on a stolen bicycle and have a mid-air with an airliner on approach because he dose not understand what is going on above him, or have any responsibility for his actions because his personal safety is not directly tied to the operation of his aircraft. They cant be trusted to use tazers, why the heck would we give them UAVs?
I have used some of the high power(readily cuts electrical tape, pops balloons etc) hand held laser devices for tactical purposes. Some thoughts. They dont work in daylight as a weapon sight. I dont care what you think, you aint gonna acquire a tennis ball sized faded blue spot at 200m while shooting/getting shot at/flying/driving/running, its a lot easier and faster to walk rounds on target. At night you dont need high power. You really dont want to shine one thru your windshield, cause when it hits a scratch or a bug (at night) it tends to blind (temporarily) everyone in the cockpit and light up said cockpit really well (kinda defeats the purpose of blackout lights). Using them as a weapon will get you thrown in the brig when you are caught because of all the blind guys that come to the clinic on the FOB to get treated (law of war and all). Red or IR are ideal lasers, blue and green suck as most NVGs attenuate these wavelengths. The Chinese and North Koreans have weaponized Lasers, the North Koreans have blinded US pilots with them. I fly with filters for the some of the most common wavelengths used during daylight.
They have just sunk a bunch of money into all the new buildings and support structure here at Ft Rucker for this program, not to mention all of the Commanche portatble cockpits running around and the support personnel and equiptment for those... man what a waste... I guess those rumors about waiting to get the new buildings up before the program was canceled where true.
Those of us in the AF of course hope that never happens - it is already hard enough working with USN/USMC combat aircraft in joint environments. And at least they are at least decently educated. Wait until some neanderthal WO1 in an Army A-10 destroys a whole column of Marines on accident during the next war.;-) Note: Sarcasm used heavily in above statement.
As a neanderthal WO1 in the Army I cringe at the idea of working with "Highly Educated" F-15 drivers that can't tell a Hind from a Blackhawk. and oh yeah even our own branch officers don't really like us, they refer to us as heavy equiptment operators;-)
just remember, If you want it done right you better get a Warrant...
please stop slobering all over Dave having busted up all those signal pirate's h cards. ( I know infinite loop and all) Maybe it'll slow down the spam flooding my mail. The folks with a clue already switched to emulation a while ago. As to this whole Hacker/cracker nonsense, does it really matter that much ( except to 14 yr olds who just found out what BO2K is? ) Most people using h card hacks probably have VCR's that flash 12:00. As to folks descrambling Daves signal, he should of used better tech, it's not like someone is tapping a cable; I could understand the argument of theft better if the downlink was only as wide a basketball and only aimed at their paid subscribers. But no, they flood me with unwanted RF, I am going to do as I please with that signal. By the way Dave has run to their laweyrs many times before and has genraly made life miserable for many folks. Well thats my load of scantimonius(sp?) crap for the day.
I understand it is based on an english sitcom titled Trafikk. I really enjoyed the movie, It will hopefully become a film that changes the way the War on Drugs is percived, maybe even end it's lunacy. Just say NO! has never worked.
By the way let me be the first to say the joke, just say no to John Katz!
They State I live in can't even keep my driving record and that of a convicted felon in another county straight! Never mind the fact I am of a differnt race and our names are not even close to being similar. A DNA data base would be just a another way for law enforcement to profile potential arestee's.
Can you imagine all the fun little "facts" that the bean counters in washington would come up with? "ok, this guy has a genetic predisposition to making fun of police officers in resturants, pull 'em over!" "no don't lie to me, you can't be a Carpenter it says right here that your gentic type only finds carears in sales or marketing!" mmmm what a brave new world that would be
wonderful, another way for some multi-milloinaire to come along and buy his next little merrit badge, ( I skied down everest NO FEAR gear). Whats next? Corporate team building skiing trips? I wonder how much money and how many people risk thier lives to go rescue these idiots when they get lost/break a leg/get frostbit/get snowed under/get even less intelligent?
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Im always amazed at the level of anger when the topic of obesity comes up. If there is a pill that helps fat people get skinny, so what? The logic must go like this "I put so much work into being fit, I am upset when someone else gets similar benefits without that same effort."
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the temp was likely correct. the temp decreases with altitude only until you reach the tropopause. after that you are in the stratosphere and temperature rises with altitude. this jump was well above the tropopause.
it wouldnt be n2 narcosis, hypoxic hypoxia is the condition you are likely describing.
well, as long as you stay off Oahu and Maui land isn't crazy expensive in Hawaii. As to the travel part, well, military retirees can travel on a space available basis on military transport aircraft for some very reasonable fees.
Servicemembers Group Life Insurance (SGLI) went into effect in 1965 and was for $10,000. I can't find reference, but I believe retirement was at 20 years and based on 50% of BASE pay. Neil had just hit 20 years of service so he would have been eligible but, Mike and Buzz were not at 20 years of service at that point.
Only the Congress could order a pension like that by passing a law. A Presidential order to that effect would in fact be illegal.
NASA can't just decide to get into the life insurance game without congressional approval. Doesn't matter how much budget they have.
Not the OP but I will answer why I use open source when I can.
Yes the cost factor is nice, but I prefer open source because I have more trust that the system isn't leaking information to it's copyright holder. That and the endless update cycle.
I really with there was an effective way to use cash as a bounty to help pet projects along.
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Of course not, If the wallpaper is so hideous we just don't go to start with!
I often wonder, as a Liberal, if you sell wallpaper no one likes, do you think the government should pass a law forcing everyone who doesn't want it, to buy it anyway?
You know, what do you think is going to happen if we just leave. Do you really think that none of this violence will follow us home? Anyone hear about some bombs headed to Chicago? Oh wait, it was going to a Jewish address, hate mongering Israelies should stop building settlements in Dearborne.
The end of oil reserves will be a great day for the civilization. Collectively the developed world will be able to ignore the middle east and its religion of peace into oblivion, kinda like they do with Africa now.
you are an ill informed ass A/C. We haven't used DU in years, Iraq is not the most radio active country on the planet. Not even close to it. Hell we dont even use weapons that have a high probability of producing duds anymore. (read cluster munitions and the like) The problem is you give equal weight to the claims of idiots and the enemy as you do to experts and the good guys. Thats ok, go vote democrat tomorrow and file for your third year of unemployment benefits. It must be someone else's fault.
the army used to have portable nuke reactors. google it. it went really bad. The burn pits scare me, I dont want to live next to a nuke run by spec4 disgruntled.
a yurt weighs a shit-ton, then it gets wet. it requires care. It does not like the hot dusty UV environment of the desert. Turns out tents, like what the natives have used in the region for thousands of years are a better choice than something from another fucking climate. But thanks for playing. maybe we should try igloos? hey then we dont need AC! cause they are already cold! and i read snow is a good insulator in nat geo. Fuck me!
the problem is, you are a free-rider, man. Thats always the problem with hippies, they never pay.
Fuck, civilians piss me off. This isn't a trick fuck question about lateral thinking on some college exam. Most of the Jibs and Haj who are laying these IEDs are locals who have families and jobs. They dont use game theory to maximize outcomes, instead mostly what happens is some guy shows up at their house and says, "put this in the road next time the americans come by or we are going to kill your family. Or some guy is watching his family starve because we just torched his opium crop that was the only thing he could grow this year and he takes a couple of dollars to plant an IED in the road so he can feed his family. If the Americans dont come by that road as often as they used to the bad guy shows up and says "Dirka, Dirka, Ackbar give me my IED back, we have changed our plans. Muhamed Jihad!" Then the bad guys switch tactics to either direct action or indirect fire on the FOBs.
(im going to assume you are in a NATO alliance country). Troops decide to go to war much like you decide to pay taxes to support their efforts. Also, Godwin's law.
It can be, if the operator violates airspace or if the airplane reacts differently than what was planned.
I am a military Helicopter pilot and I have literally come back with a UAV sticking out of the side of my aircraft after a mid-air with a small drone. There are lots of growing pains with these things, and they are no where ready for integration in the national airspace system. A growing conflict with military use of UAVs is that they are often being operated by non-pilots(cheaper to train). In many cases the smallest drones are operated by infantrymen who throw these things into the air and rely on big sky theory to separate them from the aircraft providing Close Air Support. Non-pilots typically have less diversity of experience and a lot less air-sense when it comes to situational awareness.
The most likely user of this technology is Law Enforcement. The last thing civil aviation needs is some jack-hole beat cop throwing these things into the air to look for a guy on a stolen bicycle and have a mid-air with an airliner on approach because he dose not understand what is going on above him, or have any responsibility for his actions because his personal safety is not directly tied to the operation of his aircraft. They cant be trusted to use tazers, why the heck would we give them UAVs?
I have used some of the high power(readily cuts electrical tape, pops balloons etc) hand held laser devices for tactical purposes. Some thoughts. They dont work in daylight as a weapon sight. I dont care what you think, you aint gonna acquire a tennis ball sized faded blue spot at 200m while shooting/getting shot at/flying/driving/running, its a lot easier and faster to walk rounds on target. At night you dont need high power. You really dont want to shine one thru your windshield, cause when it hits a scratch or a bug (at night) it tends to blind (temporarily) everyone in the cockpit and light up said cockpit really well (kinda defeats the purpose of blackout lights). Using them as a weapon will get you thrown in the brig when you are caught because of all the blind guys that come to the clinic on the FOB to get treated (law of war and all). Red or IR are ideal lasers, blue and green suck as most NVGs attenuate these wavelengths. The Chinese and North Koreans have weaponized Lasers, the North Koreans have blinded US pilots with them. I fly with filters for the some of the most common wavelengths used during daylight.
They have just sunk a bunch of money into all the new buildings and support structure here at Ft Rucker for this program, not to mention all of the Commanche portatble cockpits running around and the support personnel and equiptment for those... man what a waste... I guess those rumors about waiting to get the new buildings up before the program was canceled where true.
Those of us in the AF of course hope that never happens - it is already hard enough working with USN/USMC combat aircraft in joint environments. And at least they are at least decently educated. Wait until some neanderthal WO1 in an Army A-10 destroys a whole column of Marines on accident during the next war. ;-) Note: Sarcasm used heavily in above statement.
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As a neanderthal WO1 in the Army I cringe at the idea of working with "Highly Educated" F-15 drivers that can't tell a Hind from a Blackhawk. and oh yeah even our own branch officers don't really like us, they refer to us as heavy equiptment operators
just remember, If you want it done right you better get a Warrant...
please stop slobering all over Dave having busted up all those signal pirate's h cards. ( I know infinite loop and all) Maybe it'll slow down the spam flooding my mail. The folks with a clue already switched to emulation a while ago. As to this whole Hacker/cracker nonsense, does it really matter that much ( except to 14 yr olds who just found out what BO2K is? ) Most people using h card hacks probably have VCR's that flash 12:00. As to folks descrambling Daves signal, he should of used better tech, it's not like someone is tapping a cable; I could understand the argument of theft better if the downlink was only as wide a basketball and only aimed at their paid subscribers. But no, they flood me with unwanted RF, I am going to do as I please with that signal. By the way Dave has run to their laweyrs many times before and has genraly made life miserable for many folks. Well thats my load of scantimonius(sp?) crap for the day.
I understand it is based on an english sitcom titled Trafikk. I really enjoyed the movie, It will hopefully become a film that changes the way the War on Drugs is percived, maybe even end it's lunacy. Just say NO! has never worked. By the way let me be the first to say the joke, just say no to John Katz!
They State I live in can't even keep my driving record and that of a convicted felon in another county straight! Never mind the fact I am of a differnt race and our names are not even close to being similar. A DNA data base would be just a another way for law enforcement to profile potential arestee's. Can you imagine all the fun little "facts" that the bean counters in washington would come up with? "ok, this guy has a genetic predisposition to making fun of police officers in resturants, pull 'em over!" "no don't lie to me, you can't be a Carpenter it says right here that your gentic type only finds carears in sales or marketing!" mmmm what a brave new world that would be
wonderful, another way for some multi-milloinaire to come along and buy his next little merrit badge, ( I skied down everest NO FEAR gear). Whats next? Corporate team building skiing trips? I wonder how much money and how many people risk thier lives to go rescue these idiots when they get lost/break a leg/get frostbit/get snowed under/get even less intelligent?