So, you want to give poor people crappy healthcare? That is what your statements mean.
However, you are *describing* socialism bordering on facism. If socialism is what you are advocating just say so and stop callin it a "healthcare system".
What you say is the equivelant of saying "the computing and network systems of the USA are the worst on the world" and follow it with some sort of Apple and Lucent giveaway program, administered by the state, paid for at gunpoint by everybody with a job, in a disproportional manner. Point being, there was nothing "wrong" with the computers, you disagreed with who posessed the computers and had access to the networks to start with.
Soon, the government will have a record of all the books we've bought, and when the time comes, their firemen will come and torch our houses for owning them.
Cobras have ejectable canopies, thus the "eject" handle at both crew stations. All it does is blow the plexiglass out.
Sikorsky? Arent those the guys that destroyed a prototype Apache on a familiarization ride with a mechanic in the front seat that cut all power to the aircraft by hitting the "chop" on the collective when I was in flight school;-)
The Comanche rumour is BS, and other corrections
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MIT's Acrobatic Helicopter
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· Score: 5, Interesting
(Old US Army Aviator speaking here)
Every effort at creating an ejection system for US rotary wing aircraft has been met with irristable resistance by the Aviators.
One methid, firing the seat through the floor. That is fine if you are an airforce guy at FL 2 zillion, but for us the ground is about 10 to 50 feet below the aircraft when we are most likely to need an ejection seat.
Second, not many of us like having explosives strapped around the rotor head at any time.
Third, most of us are not all that confidant that the firing sequence would work every time, i.e., not trusting the explosives in the head to blow early enough for the blades to clear the path of the seat flying up through the plane of the rotor disk.
One glairing item from this story:
HELICOPTERS HAVE NO AILERONS! They might mean a "snap roll" or a 360 degree z axis roll, but there are no ailerons on a helicopter.
This is nothing new anyway, any fully articulated rotor system OR rigid rotor system, with a powertrain posessing enough power, can safely do rolls, loops, etc. Don't try this at homw with your UH-1 or OH-58/Jetranger or Longranger, they have semi-rigid rotor systems that will break if you try to maneuver at less than.5G
As an Army Aviator *I* knew that virtually any munition that could hit my aircraft could disable my aircraft. We took active precautions against guided missiles and relied on speed and suprize to lower the risk from small arms, RPG, etc.
Also, when consulting with ground forces I always try to give some instruction on where to shoot an aircraft with whatever you have at hand.
What Liberal Arts department taught you Military Science?
So what if Conoco kept a building as big as whatever, dirt cheap, fo whatever.
If there were real oil reserves there were of the vastness that you imply then we would have had a presance like we had in Saudi/Kuwait/Iraq.
Where the hell were the tanks? Where was the Airforce? Where was the Navy?
Quit blindly following rhetoriticians and use some critical thinking.
There is more oil off the coast of the US that oil companies could get by coaxing the tree-hugging Congress into leases than there is in all of Somolia.
When I saw the movie, the sequence of the second aircraft being hit, continuing on the mission, then having a major anti-torque failure seemed messed up.
When you feel a high-frequency vibration in the pedals that is a warning of eminant tail-rotor failure and you need to be heading to a safe place to land, NOT hanging around over hostile territory.
A co-worker (a retired Black Hawk Aviator) that actually met the surviving pilot when he was in the Army, informs me that the RPG took out the tail rotor and knocked off the stabilator at the same time, thus causing an uncontrollable situation resulting in the crash.
I have not yet seen an objection from the irrational America haters (the rational ones do not annoy me, just the irrational ones) about the PROPER depiction of fire discipline. They dance all around it, but never come out and say it.
Perhaps they are objecting to this aspect of the movie and I am just missing it.
Anyway, I was glad to see, for the first time in my memory, fire discipline being shown on screen. None of the usual hollywood "5.56mm and 7.62mm firehose" scenes with unlimited ammunition. No destruction of property for sport, none of the nonsense that Hollywood adds to the mix that I spent uncounted months un-doing from the minds of soldiers as to the proper way to conduct a battle.
The orders were not to fire unless fired upon and that is what they did, in reality and in the movie. One scene with a kid with a SAW, his buddy asking why he is not firing: "they are not firing at us yet..." he then goes on to describe what it sounds like when you are being fired at and then begins firing "NOW they are shooting at us".
The next incident was one of many Officer nightmares. Solder tells his commander "hey they are shooting at us" Cdr: "well, shoot back!".
The Rangers and SOF guys were not depicted as brainless robots that show up with a finger on the trigger full-auto from start to finish. They were shown shooting when they needed to shoot and NOT shooting when they did not have a PROPER target. Nobody was burning homes or destroying buildings just for the hell of it either.
Finally, a depiction of what well trained troops do FOR REAL hits the screen and the leftists can't take it.
Yes, we oldsters know that Charlie was not a dolphin, he was the Starkist(tm) tuna mascot.
We also know that MySQL is not *really* a database management system either.
OKAY, OKAY, what about Fa? Wasn't that the killer dolphin in an old movie about trained killer dolphins, swam around saying "Fa loves Pa" to George C. Scott?
The US Supreme Court did NOT rule that CTS is NOT a disability. They ruled that whatever disability you have has to preclude you from leading a normal life.
From the link to the decision, scroll down toward the bottom of the page:
" The District Court noted that at the time respondent sought an accommodation from petitioner,
she admitted that she was able to do the manual tasks required by her original two jobs in QCIO.
App. to Pet. for Cert. A--36. In addition, according to respondent's deposition testimony, even
after her condition worsened, she could still brush her teeth, wash her face, bathe, tend her flower
garden, fix breakfast, do laundry, and pick up around the house. App. 32--34. The record also
indicates that her medical conditions caused her to avoid sweeping, to quit dancing, to occasionally
seek help dressing, and to reduce how often she plays with her children, gardens, and drives long
distances. Id., at 32, 38--39. But these changes in her life did not amount to such severe
restrictions in the activities that are of central importance to most people's daily lives that they
establish a manual-task disability as a matter of law. On this record, it was therefore inappropriate
for the Court of Appeals to grant partial summary judgment to respondent on the issue whether
she was substantially limited in performing manual tasks, and its decision to do so must be
reversed."
The next thing you know there will be.com domains and shit, then there will be a http://www.joltcola.com commercial cola website, then http://www.sex.com throbbing, pulsating porn sites, then people will be selling softwear! ohmygawd! or they will be selling cars and trucks and guns!!! then it will be drugs of all sorts!!! after tha there will be http://www.wired.com and http://www.2600.com just giving information away like harlets!!! then there will be other places that use the sacred internet for gabling!!! the next thing you know, people will be setting up swap meets on USENET (oops, wasn't that BEFORE the first web page?) and then spammers will begin culling EAs from every corner!!!
OH THE HUMAITY!!!
yawn, thanks for the hot tip and this stupid story looks familiar too
Since I never got around to ordering my college class ring, that's all I asked for this year.
The women of the family were extactic that I finally asked for something non-electronic/non-utilitarian! Anyway, it was put on order earlier in Dec and is not here yet. Johston's looks like they can use some help on taking orders too, but I got the customer copy of the order to hold until the ring arrives.
On the other hand, I got my son a copy of "The Federalist Papers" (along with other things), reversing his technique of giving me CDs that HE wants to hear;-)
Merry Christmas and all of the other hollidays too!!!
There are a variety of apartments, townhouses and free-standing homes in the Dulles Tech Corridor.
Caution: in Reston, stick with the north side of the tollroad, in Herndon the south side seems to be wired better.
You have your pick, from do-it-yourselfer hack apartments like mine at The Summit of Reston: washer and dryer in apt with outlet that is suitable for SGI Crimson, cable modem service, DSL available through everybody except AOL (no loss there), decent insulation and sound dampening between apartments, etc. There are also apartments with extensive internal networks, huge bandwidth, etc.
Part of the "charm" is there are very few old buildings around here, most of the construction has been leading into and during the.bomb era and anchored by more stable techs, like TRW, NEXTEL, and Oracle.
1982 World's Fair proposed this
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I have mentioned this in the other, almost identical, articles on beaming power to earth from space.
There was a proposal for the 1982 Knoxville World's Fair to do this from a satellite and have the microwave beam land on a mesh reciever.
The pesky problem had something to do with safety of birds passing through the beam, since they do not read Notices to Airmen and have no concept of "no fly zones".
The problem is compounded by basing this on the moon, since it is not geocincronious and the beam would have to continuously move to stay on target. It can only be on one target about 12 hrs/day or so too. (Yes, they CAN generate through the whole lunar cycle since the collectors can be placed all around the moon and only the transmitter has to be on the near side)
Someone called into the G. Gordon Liddy show about this the other day, but forgot the details.
I remember the incident in the late 80's or early 90's a software company sold a copy or two of some sort of management software to the feds. DOJ I believe.
The agency then copied and copied, sold copies to other agencies and other folks, etc.
FINALLY, years later, after the firm was out of business or nearly bankrupt, they were heard in court but I believe the case was settled before a judgement was made.
Yes, I mentioned this a few weeks ago. Updating the info for those that are tracking my incredible Jeep project.
OKAY, my 1996 Jeep Cherokee Sport has transported me over 242,000 miles using nothing but hydrogen based fuel! The stuff is a special hydrogen and carbon molicule and that is blended with a few other chemicals too. This special blend packs a whopping 87 Octaine ((r*m)/2 method)!!
Now I have to go to special distribution centers to get my fuel, as opposed to , these other hydrogen fuels that can apparently be found under the closest rock or spigot, based on the frequent stories. They are kinda rare, and if you don't know what they are you would think they are little grocery stores with funny looking "scrubbing machines" housed next to the store.
Actually, these places called "Exxon", "Chevron", "Mobil", "Shell" and "BP", to name a few, are the places where you get this super secret special hydorgen fuel! They are so numerous that if you don't have enough fuel to get to the next one then you are either broke or had a "blonde moment" and forgot that you needed more hydrogen-carbon liquid.
My good old Jeep holds enough of the stuff to travel around 400 miles at (get this!) 75 - 80 MPH! I have never been anyplace in the USA where I had to trravel farther than 400 miles to find another hydro-carbon distribution center.
This hydrocarbon stuff must be flowing like it is nobody's business too, since the price keeps dropping and dropping (hint: use adjusted dollars). Get this, today the MOST I pay for it in Northern VA is about $1.30 per gallon and I can go about 20 something miles on JUST ONE GALLON. Lots of that price is taxes, since it seems the government does not want anybody to have any hydrocarbon and the producers just keep dropping the price anyway. I keep hearing that it is being "depleated", but you sure can't tell by the way that market has gone.
The "scrubbing machines" at the "secret" hydrocarbon dispensing stations use that water fuel you guys keep talking about. I use the stuff to clean off my Jeep and dispose of other wastes. Maybe the scrubbing machines use it for power too?
BTW, if you see any big buildings that say "Jeep" on a real tall sign out front, that is where you can get one of these miricle machines. There are tons of other brands. Very feminine girls, and guys that wish they were girls, buy things called "cars", like the Miata. Kewell chicks and regular guys buy trucks and SUVs. My Jeep is called a "Sports Utility Vehicle" (SUV) and is similar to a "truck". If you are not familiar with them try a google search. Nowadays, the financing is very reasonable too. Almost 0% interest loans available on many different brands!
Not sure where your water cars are sold, is there a brand? I never see them anyplace! However, they may be as invisible to me as the hydrocarbon vehicles and stations are to the guys that put these articles up every other day.
There is not a thing in the world stopping any of you that have x, y, and/or z complaint about entertainment to go out and make your own.
Pool your money, buy/lease a channel, make a studio and broadcast away with no commercials and no icons. Buy/lease a transponder and offer it to satellite and cable viewers.
Knock yourselves out guys! Can't wait to see it!
Of course, I will have to find it by accident, since you will not make any intrusions on billboards, newspapers, radio, etc. Right?
Afterwards, when you are broke you can whine about how "the man" kept you down, create a fund and live like Greenpeace/Pacifica/Neil from "The Young Ones" hippies.
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So, you want to give poor people crappy healthcare? That is what your statements mean.
However, you are *describing* socialism bordering on facism. If socialism is what you are advocating just say so and stop callin it a "healthcare system".
What you say is the equivelant of saying "the computing and network systems of the USA are the worst on the world" and follow it with some sort of Apple and Lucent giveaway program, administered by the state, paid for at gunpoint by everybody with a job, in a disproportional manner. Point being, there was nothing "wrong" with the computers, you disagreed with who posessed the computers and had access to the networks to start with.
Soon, the government will have a record of all the books we've bought, and when the time comes, their firemen will come and torch our houses for owning them.
;-)
And this is wrong why?
Warmest regards,
Guy Montag
Cobras have ejectable canopies, thus the "eject" handle at both crew stations. All it does is blow the plexiglass out.
;-)
Sikorsky? Arent those the guys that destroyed a prototype Apache on a familiarization ride with a mechanic in the front seat that cut all power to the aircraft by hitting the "chop" on the collective when I was in flight school
Yes, you are correct (see my earlier post).
Z Axis roll would have been more accurate.
The fuel tanks are self sealing.
(Old US Army Aviator speaking here)
.5G
Every effort at creating an ejection system for US rotary wing aircraft has been met with irristable resistance by the Aviators.
One methid, firing the seat through the floor. That is fine if you are an airforce guy at FL 2 zillion, but for us the ground is about 10 to 50 feet below the aircraft when we are most likely to need an ejection seat.
Second, not many of us like having explosives strapped around the rotor head at any time.
Third, most of us are not all that confidant that the firing sequence would work every time, i.e., not trusting the explosives in the head to blow early enough for the blades to clear the path of the seat flying up through the plane of the rotor disk.
One glairing item from this story:
HELICOPTERS HAVE NO AILERONS! They might mean a "snap roll" or a 360 degree z axis roll, but there are no ailerons on a helicopter.
This is nothing new anyway, any fully articulated rotor system OR rigid rotor system, with a powertrain posessing enough power, can safely do rolls, loops, etc. Don't try this at homw with your UH-1 or OH-58/Jetranger or Longranger, they have semi-rigid rotor systems that will break if you try to maneuver at less than
I overclocked my microwave and now I am transported back in time whenever I make instant coffee.
Need to get back to the year 31337.
Where did you get that nonsense?
As an Army Aviator *I* knew that virtually any munition that could hit my aircraft could disable my aircraft. We took active precautions against guided missiles and relied on speed and suprize to lower the risk from small arms, RPG, etc.
Also, when consulting with ground forces I always try to give some instruction on where to shoot an aircraft with whatever you have at hand.
What Liberal Arts department taught you Military Science?
So what if Conoco kept a building as big as whatever, dirt cheap, fo whatever.
If there were real oil reserves there were of the vastness that you imply then we would have had a presance like we had in Saudi/Kuwait/Iraq.
Where the hell were the tanks? Where was the Airforce? Where was the Navy?
Quit blindly following rhetoriticians and use some critical thinking.
There is more oil off the coast of the US that oil companies could get by coaxing the tree-hugging Congress into leases than there is in all of Somolia.
When I saw the movie, the sequence of the second aircraft being hit, continuing on the mission, then having a major anti-torque failure seemed messed up.
When you feel a high-frequency vibration in the pedals that is a warning of eminant tail-rotor failure and you need to be heading to a safe place to land, NOT hanging around over hostile territory.
A co-worker (a retired Black Hawk Aviator) that actually met the surviving pilot when he was in the Army, informs me that the RPG took out the tail rotor and knocked off the stabilator at the same time, thus causing an uncontrollable situation resulting in the crash.
The man was not run over by the convoy, they stopped to let him pass just like we would do in reality after getting out of town.
I have not yet seen an objection from the irrational America haters (the rational ones do not annoy me, just the irrational ones) about the PROPER depiction of fire discipline. They dance all around it, but never come out and say it.
Perhaps they are objecting to this aspect of the movie and I am just missing it.
Anyway, I was glad to see, for the first time in my memory, fire discipline being shown on screen. None of the usual hollywood "5.56mm and 7.62mm firehose" scenes with unlimited ammunition. No destruction of property for sport, none of the nonsense that Hollywood adds to the mix that I spent uncounted months un-doing from the minds of soldiers as to the proper way to conduct a battle.
The orders were not to fire unless fired upon and that is what they did, in reality and in the movie. One scene with a kid with a SAW, his buddy asking why he is not firing: "they are not firing at us yet..." he then goes on to describe what it sounds like when you are being fired at and then begins firing "NOW they are shooting at us".
The next incident was one of many Officer nightmares. Solder tells his commander "hey they are shooting at us" Cdr: "well, shoot back!".
The Rangers and SOF guys were not depicted as brainless robots that show up with a finger on the trigger full-auto from start to finish. They were shown shooting when they needed to shoot and NOT shooting when they did not have a PROPER target. Nobody was burning homes or destroying buildings just for the hell of it either.
Finally, a depiction of what well trained troops do FOR REAL hits the screen and the leftists can't take it.
Yes, we oldsters know that Charlie was not a dolphin, he was the Starkist(tm) tuna mascot.
We also know that MySQL is not *really* a database management system either.
OKAY, OKAY, what about Fa? Wasn't that the killer dolphin in an old movie about trained killer dolphins, swam around saying "Fa loves Pa" to George C. Scott?
The US Supreme Court did NOT rule that CTS is NOT a disability. They ruled that whatever disability you have has to preclude you from leading a normal life.
From the link to the decision, scroll down toward the bottom of the page:
" The District Court noted that at the time respondent sought an accommodation from petitioner,
she admitted that she was able to do the manual tasks required by her original two jobs in QCIO.
App. to Pet. for Cert. A--36. In addition, according to respondent's deposition testimony, even
after her condition worsened, she could still brush her teeth, wash her face, bathe, tend her flower
garden, fix breakfast, do laundry, and pick up around the house. App. 32--34. The record also
indicates that her medical conditions caused her to avoid sweeping, to quit dancing, to occasionally
seek help dressing, and to reduce how often she plays with her children, gardens, and drives long
distances. Id., at 32, 38--39. But these changes in her life did not amount to such severe
restrictions in the activities that are of central importance to most people's daily lives that they
establish a manual-task disability as a matter of law. On this record, it was therefore inappropriate
for the Court of Appeals to grant partial summary judgment to respondent on the issue whether
she was substantially limited in performing manual tasks, and its decision to do so must be
reversed."
Every crook and nanny in Chicago already has broadband! Sounds like another slush fund for "the machine" to me...
The next thing you know there will be .com domains and shit, then there will be a http://www.joltcola.com commercial cola website, then http://www.sex.com throbbing, pulsating porn sites, then people will be selling softwear! ohmygawd! or they will be selling cars and trucks and guns!!! then it will be drugs of all sorts!!! after tha there will be http://www.wired.com and http://www.2600.com just giving information away like harlets!!! then there will be other places that use the sacred internet for gabling!!! the next thing you know, people will be setting up swap meets on USENET (oops, wasn't that BEFORE the first web page?) and then spammers will begin culling EAs from every corner!!!
OH THE HUMAITY!!!
yawn, thanks for the hot tip and this stupid story looks familiar too
Since I never got around to ordering my college class ring, that's all I asked for this year.
;-)
The women of the family were extactic that I finally asked for something non-electronic/non-utilitarian! Anyway, it was put on order earlier in Dec and is not here yet. Johston's looks like they can use some help on taking orders too, but I got the customer copy of the order to hold until the ring arrives.
On the other hand, I got my son a copy of "The Federalist Papers" (along with other things), reversing his technique of giving me CDs that HE wants to hear
Merry Christmas and all of the other hollidays too!!!
There are a variety of apartments, townhouses and free-standing homes in the Dulles Tech Corridor.
.bomb era and anchored by more stable techs, like TRW, NEXTEL, and Oracle.
Caution: in Reston, stick with the north side of the tollroad, in Herndon the south side seems to be wired better.
You have your pick, from do-it-yourselfer hack apartments like mine at The Summit of Reston: washer and dryer in apt with outlet that is suitable for SGI Crimson, cable modem service, DSL available through everybody except AOL (no loss there), decent insulation and sound dampening between apartments, etc. There are also apartments with extensive internal networks, huge bandwidth, etc.
Part of the "charm" is there are very few old buildings around here, most of the construction has been leading into and during the
I have mentioned this in the other, almost identical, articles on beaming power to earth from space.
There was a proposal for the 1982 Knoxville World's Fair to do this from a satellite and have the microwave beam land on a mesh reciever.
The pesky problem had something to do with safety of birds passing through the beam, since they do not read Notices to Airmen and have no concept of "no fly zones".
The problem is compounded by basing this on the moon, since it is not geocincronious and the beam would have to continuously move to stay on target. It can only be on one target about 12 hrs/day or so too. (Yes, they CAN generate through the whole lunar cycle since the collectors can be placed all around the moon and only the transmitter has to be on the near side)
Someone called into the G. Gordon Liddy show about this the other day, but forgot the details.
I remember the incident in the late 80's or early 90's a software company sold a copy or two of some sort of management software to the feds. DOJ I believe.
The agency then copied and copied, sold copies to other agencies and other folks, etc.
FINALLY, years later, after the firm was out of business or nearly bankrupt, they were heard in court but I believe the case was settled before a judgement was made.
Oh great, you had to mention the illuminati!
Fantastic, now they will be after all of us, one by one we will be expired by seemingly natural causes.
It is just like when they
Yes, I mentioned this a few weeks ago. Updating the info for those that are tracking my incredible Jeep project.
OKAY, my 1996 Jeep Cherokee Sport has transported me over 242,000 miles using nothing but hydrogen based fuel! The stuff is a special hydrogen and carbon molicule and that is blended with a few other chemicals too. This special blend packs a whopping 87 Octaine ((r*m)/2 method)!!
Now I have to go to special distribution centers to get my fuel, as opposed to , these other hydrogen fuels that can apparently be found under the closest rock or spigot, based on the frequent stories. They are kinda rare, and if you don't know what they are you would think they are little grocery stores with funny looking "scrubbing machines" housed next to the store.
Actually, these places called "Exxon", "Chevron", "Mobil", "Shell" and "BP", to name a few, are the places where you get this super secret special hydorgen fuel! They are so numerous that if you don't have enough fuel to get to the next one then you are either broke or had a "blonde moment" and forgot that you needed more hydrogen-carbon liquid.
My good old Jeep holds enough of the stuff to travel around 400 miles at (get this!) 75 - 80 MPH! I have never been anyplace in the USA where I had to trravel farther than 400 miles to find another hydro-carbon distribution center.
This hydrocarbon stuff must be flowing like it is nobody's business too, since the price keeps dropping and dropping (hint: use adjusted dollars). Get this, today the MOST I pay for it in Northern VA is about $1.30 per gallon and I can go about 20 something miles on JUST ONE GALLON. Lots of that price is taxes, since it seems the government does not want anybody to have any hydrocarbon and the producers just keep dropping the price anyway. I keep hearing that it is being "depleated", but you sure can't tell by the way that market has gone.
The "scrubbing machines" at the "secret" hydrocarbon dispensing stations use that water fuel you guys keep talking about. I use the stuff to clean off my Jeep and dispose of other wastes. Maybe the scrubbing machines use it for power too?
BTW, if you see any big buildings that say "Jeep" on a real tall sign out front, that is where you can get one of these miricle machines. There are tons of other brands. Very feminine girls, and guys that wish they were girls, buy things called "cars", like the Miata. Kewell chicks and regular guys buy trucks and SUVs. My Jeep is called a "Sports Utility Vehicle" (SUV) and is similar to a "truck". If you are not familiar with them try a google search. Nowadays, the financing is very reasonable too. Almost 0% interest loans available on many different brands!
Not sure where your water cars are sold, is there a brand? I never see them anyplace! However, they may be as invisible to me as the hydrocarbon vehicles and stations are to the guys that put these articles up every other day.
There is not a thing in the world stopping any of you that have x, y, and/or z complaint about entertainment to go out and make your own.
Pool your money, buy/lease a channel, make a studio and broadcast away with no commercials and no icons. Buy/lease a transponder and offer it to satellite and cable viewers.
Knock yourselves out guys! Can't wait to see it!
Of course, I will have to find it by accident, since you will not make any intrusions on billboards, newspapers, radio, etc. Right?
Afterwards, when you are broke you can whine about how "the man" kept you down, create a fund and live like Greenpeace/Pacifica/Neil from "The Young Ones" hippies.
He had some limited computer skills, but his probation restrictions only allow him to be a gang member, or an actor. Kinda the same deal eh?
The Martians are just going to shoot this one down too, just like they did with the others. Why bother?