I'm not going to get too deep into this whole thing but I suspect if someone were to find an ammo box concealed under leaves or stone in a public park around here it wouldn't be long before the bomb squad boys were called in.
Yeah, it sounds like fun, but after terror attacks and sniper whackos, people are kindof twitchy around here
Actually such concerns are not totally off the wall. And it has been proven in at least once instance that such concerns can and do impact geocaching. Such as with one cache that was located just outside Hill AFB in Utah (and had been there for a couple years). A geocacher was observed fiddeling with a box just outside one of the main entrances to the base. That person then placed the box under a bridge and left the box (I believe it was a bright red tool box). Needless to say, authorities were called and arrived before the person was able to leave the scene. After some lengthy explanations and the opening of the box. The person was allowed to go, and the box was removed.
So Geocacher's do need to be aware of where they are placing their caches.
Plus you forgot to tie in Wedge Antilles and Admiral Squid (haha, after all that is what they are).
Well I don't know about the Admiral, but Wedge has already been tied in via his father, the Senator Antilles, This person was not seen but was referred to, as an ally of Senator Amidala.
Current laws are so confusing that I don't know anymore whether I have anything illegal on my PC or not....(snippage)... This has been one of my main reasons why I decided not to have Internet access at home.
But how do you know the CD's you are buying a that used CD store are not pirated? While deployed overseas last year I was able to buy some very convincing bootlegs for dirt cheap. Or you may even have a faulty electric meter thats letting you get more electricity than your paying for? Maybe you would be safer abandoning all modern technology and joining the Amish. Really your rationalization is IMHO weak, and very faulty.
If you don't want to have and internet connection at home, that's fine, it's your choice. But don't try and blame it on RIAA, MPAA and the current laws. Maybe if there were a few million people like you, the internet would have a few million less participants, thats all. Regardless of the rulings to date, I do not see Verizon losing this fight. If not at a lower court, the Supremes will shoot it down. I think that so far RIAA has been very lucky in its selection of courts, but you get high enough and the constitution actually gets paid attention to by the courts. All this is going to do if anything is get aspects of the DMCA before a responsible court that much quicker.
And that is exactly what we want. Get the many faults of that law before the Supreme Court and the Law will be shot down. That is how the system works. Congress passes a law, the Executive signs it, and sooner or later if it is bad, it gets before the Judicial branch and they shoot it down in flames.
Just my IANAL opinon of course. I'm just hoping the PATRIOT ACT gets a Supreme Court date soon as well.
The radios are Frequency Agile encrypted systems with, an easily (on purpose, not real easy on accident) button to push that would dump the crypto, and thus make the equipment basically useless until it is reloaded.
I personally was disappointed that the 4th ID took so long to get into theater. Not only didn't the Third ID have the latest greatest equipment that the 4th has, they didn't even have the moderately advanced stuff they were used to using. The equipment the 3rd had was the stuff that had been pre-positioned in Saudi 12 years ago. It was maintianed, but not upgraded with the equipment in regular usage.
You mean that the government could use my GPL'd Winamp plugin for military purposes!?
Well,
As I enjoy listening to Music while working, and I Used Winamp to listen to the MP3 cd's I prepared before getting deployed on my last peacekeeping mission, and since I am in the Military. I guess I could be using your GPL'd Winamp Plugin for military purposes!.
I hope you don't mind.... Correction, I really don't care, as every system I had access to had winamp on it when I got there.
Proud to protect your Freedom to protest my providing your freedom to protest my pro... you should get the idea. Remember freedom isn't free, it has a very expensive cost that can only be paid in blood.
Are you certain of this? That nice five-prong burst of flame isn't directed along the same axis as the bullet, is it? My understanding was that the idea of the flash suppressor was not really to reduce the brightness or intensity of the flash but to spread it out and turn most of it perpendicular to the direction of fire so that it didn't create a flame that would poke right out of your firing position.
It's a nice half star directly perpindicular to the axis of travel. Basically its like looking at a wall, and seeing the gun port the barrel was sticking from. Except that at night, it's five streams of fire jetting out from the end of the barrel. Put several rounds in that general direction and the shooter is going to at least be hugging the ground a bit tighter still you stop.
Now that you remind me, though, I definitely remember the muzzle compensation effect, beginning with the M16A2. I'm pretty sure the A1 that I started with had four ports, equally-spaced. And I was trained to brace my hand above the weapon when firing on full auto, because it was gonna rise. Actually, we were mostly trained not to use full auto. Burst mode is much more useful, if not nearly as much fun.
I do believe your right. My unit had A1's the first few years after basic as well. Those were alot of fun. Especially as being a pistol shooter I was usually only firing them when we were burning excess ammo(and not having to clean them after). I still take that opportunity when ever possible, but it's not as much fun on burst. I find that while I could actually hit the occasional target on full auto, I can rarely do so on burst. Auto gave you time (though oh so little) to fight the barrel back down on target. On the ranges in burst I can hit the 50 m targets with consistancy, but not the 100 or beyond whereas with full auto I could hit the 100 and even the occasional 150 by using my hand over the barrel (with a glove of course)to help fight the barrel back on target. By no means was this ever accurate, but it's nice to see the occasional target go down when burning through magazines as fast a spossible.
Then there was the time I drilled with my guard unit before basic. That year they had the tracers to actually do a night fire. A very nice fomrer SF Captain let me shoot hiw weap for a few mags of "Full Auto Familiarization" And he loaded the Mags almost solid Tracer. As opposed to the normal one in three. Talk about a way to lock in a new recruit.
flash hiders are only vaguely useful in their designed function of protecting the shooter's night vision
If that were their only function, but it's not. The main purpose of a flash hider is to reduce the flash from a six-foot tongue of flame shooting out of the barrel to a small flash that jets out perpendicularly. The small flash is still quite visible, but nothing at all like the view a flanking enemy would get with an unsuppressed weapon, and if you have flank concealment you can fire completely unobserved except by an enemy almost directly in front of you. Again, completely irrelevant if your game isn't shooting back.
Actually the correct term is not flash supressor, at least not on the M-16, M-4, M-240, M-249, and M-60. Other weapons I can't speak for but on these weapons the correct term is Muzzel Compensator, and the purpose to to stabilize the barrel against upward recoil motion. The muzzel compensators have five exhaust ports pointing out two to the side, two at 45 degrees or verticle and one to the vertical. No vents face downward (relative to the weapon of course).
They do as a side benfit reduce the flash slightly which helps the gunner retain his/her night vision, but do absolutely nothing to hide the shooter's position. In short, you put it on burst and can expect to have an easier time keeping on target, but the bad guys are going to know exactly where you are fireing from. They have a nice five prong burst of flame to point directly at the end of your barrel. (Note the Five vents are on the M-16, and M-249, I don't have an M-4 or M240 or other weapons handy to verify otherwise.
What was the explanation for both jets experiencing engine trouble at almost the exact same time? What was the cause of engine failure?
What happened, If I rembember correctly, is that the lost plane actually collided with the one you saw. It was, I believe attributed to pilot error. The Plane that survived had as you noted a nice hole in the wing due to the collision.
And your right, I had forgoten, what they did for security is grabbed some soldiers from the security detail at the Deseret Chemical Depot. They were National Guardsmen from CA I believe. Hill field didn't have enough extra SP's at the time. I guess thats why the soldier only threatened you, rather than place you (at gun point of course) face down on the tarmack. Which is what my brother always said is the procedure. Though then again, an SP would have had a little bit more knowledge about how to work with civilians in such a situation.
A couple more points about Wendover Airfield. First, It played the role of Groom Lake/Area 51 in
Independance Day.
Also the F-16 recieved some on the spot repairs and flew safely home to Hill AFB. In General, the Airfield is occasionally (though very rarely)still used by the Airfarce for Exercises, as well as being the designated emergency field for AF Aircraft using the West Desert Ranges.
Second, the dive site is not a series of bomb craters. Blue Lake is a natural warmspring (at the bottom, the upwelling is in the 80's F). It's a great place to keep your dive skills fresh during the winter with a year round surface temp of about 73 deg F. The only bad part is the roughly half mile treck from the parking area to the Lake. The water has a high mineral content but is still freshwater, which is surprising as it is on the edge of the Bonneville Salt Flats. The diving is best on a thursday or early Friday, as the sediments get quite stirred up each weekend and take most of the week to settle back down. The University of Utah has placed several metal sculptures at the bottom (they were created in place by under water welding classes)as well as a couple old ski boats that were sunk on purpose. It is also host to a thriving population of bluegills who tend to get very fat on all the Cheese Whiz the divers feed em.
Oh and third, that Airman, the Airfarce doesn't have Privates(read that how ever you want), would have been most willing to empty said locked and loaded rifle. My brother played at that job for a while. Me I went Army.
As a Fellow Dirk, The only good thing about another round of "oh, like Dirk the Daring" is that hopefully it will reduce the amount of "oh, like Dirk Diggler" responses I get. I've never seen Boogie Nights, but hate it with a passion.
Currently, I recommend two relatively new Authors.
Robin Hobb, and David Farland.
Robin is the auhor of the Live Ship Traders trilogy which I have not read yet, and the Assassin's Apprentice and Tawny Man trilogies. Robin has just had the second book fo the Tawny Man. published so it will be a year or so probably before we get the conclusion to that story line.
All three series take place in the same world. The two series I've read are directly related, the Live ship Traders is not. The Assassin's Apprentice Series begins with Assassins Apprentice follwed by the Royal Assasssin and the Assassin's Quest the Tawny Man series so far consists of Fools Errand and Golden Fool. I really enjoy her writing style and story flow.
My oher "New" favorite is David Farland. His Runelords Series takes a rather new or unique take on the use of Magic. Or at least I haven't seen anyone else using this. The Series starts with The Runelords: Sum of All Men, followed by Brotherhood of the Wolf and Wizardborn I'm not sure how many books Farland intends to stretch this series out over, but the story clearly has a ways to go at the end of the third book.
Other Authors that I haven't seen many references to in the other posts (I do admit I was reading at +4)include Terry Brooks, Anne McCaffrey, and David Drake.
You could make it 7 feet tall at the top, now THAT might make someone stop and think if it was staring him in the face with lotsa e-vile red glowing blinkenlights and a voice coming out. I guess the little cute robot dragon is better for the very small japanese housing or say a small urban apartment here. For a more mainstream robot in the US it has to be able to negotiate stairs, PLUS grab the dang lawnmower and do the grass. Might as well get some work out of them for their electric bill.
Hmm add a cool laser gun on it's shoulder, zap it with lightening and you just described Johnny Five.
Utah is another state that is safe from such systems/scams.
In the early 90's several cities were trying out the Photo-cop systems. It looked like the systems were here to stay, until one of the state legislators recived a ticket in the mail. He decided having the burden of proof on the owner of the car (His son was the driver, but he got the ticket as he was the registered owner) was constitutionally highly questionable. So he introduced and was able to get passed a law prohibiting the use of Automated photographic tcketing systems.
Another note. At the time the systems were legal and in use, the sale of clear license plate covers were very high. These covers were the ones that turned opaque when viewed at an angle, thus preventing the camera from getting a legible picture of your plate number.
On the other hand though you can find that many excellent movies are not dimished at all and are possibly improved by having nudity cut out. I agree that many movies would not edit very well. Yet some would.
My favorite example is the movie Shakespear in Love. The first time I saw that movie, It was the airline edited version. I enjoyed it alot more than I thought I would because it has an excellent plot and storyline. At no time while watching it did I think to myself, "Boy I would really like to see Gwyneth's (sp?) breasts right now," or "this movie needs nudity to be really good," or even that there seemed to be something missing from the movie. Later I had a chance to see the movie as released and thought that the nudity scenes actually damaged the movie.
This technology can allow those of us who by reason of faith or other moral backgrounds find nudity, obscene language, or violence offensive, to enjoy movies that we would not have otherwise. Not every movie can be edited down to a G or even a PG-13 rating and still make any sense. Office space was ruined in my opinion by the way obscenities were used, but if they were cut out what was left would not make any sense.
However many movies could be edited easily to allow more people to enjoy what really makes a Movie a work of Art. A well written script, performed by exceptional actors, that is what makes a movie art, not language nudity or violence.
Anybody who is willing to die for his ideals is not any better than a terrorist! And is to be blamed when such things happen.
The willingness to sacrifice yourself for beliefs are not comparable to terrorism. What one does with that willingness is. A military action will not be targeted at a general population of innocent civilians. In targeting the WTC the terrorists proved why they were the slime they were.
Plus those of us in the Armed Services have made the statement that we are willing to sacrifice our lives that freedom may flourish. But don't mistake our intentions. As Patton stated "Remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." We who serve in defense of this country have no intention of dying for the country we just recognize that it may happen in the course of making the terrorists pay.
And to any who question whether violence is of any effect on Terrorism, When was the last time Libya activly supported a terrorist activity. Not since We bombed Libya. Quadaffi's daughter was killed in the attack. She was not the target he was but what is he doing these days? for the last year or so he has been making overtures to the West, trying to re-enter the world community.
If we make it too costly to them, they will think twice. It's one thing to sacrifice yourself, its another if you know that your friends and family will pay as well.
A war will not prevent any Harm, but if we take the time to make sure we know who to target, and them hit them with such force and power that they will never forget it. Greater harm in the future will be prevented.
SSG Dwillden
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So Geocacher's do need to be aware of where they are placing their caches.
But how do you know the CD's you are buying a that used CD store are not pirated? While deployed overseas last year I was able to buy some very convincing bootlegs for dirt cheap. Or you may even have a faulty electric meter thats letting you get more electricity than your paying for? Maybe you would be safer abandoning all modern technology and joining the Amish. Really your rationalization is IMHO weak, and very faulty.
If you don't want to have and internet connection at home, that's fine, it's your choice. But don't try and blame it on RIAA, MPAA and the current laws. Maybe if there were a few million people like you, the internet would have a few million less participants, thats all. Regardless of the rulings to date, I do not see Verizon losing this fight. If not at a lower court, the Supremes will shoot it down.
I think that so far RIAA has been very lucky in its selection of courts, but you get high enough and the constitution actually gets paid attention to by the courts. All this is going to do if anything is get aspects of the DMCA before a responsible court that much quicker.
And that is exactly what we want. Get the many faults of that law before the Supreme Court and the Law will be shot down. That is how the system works. Congress passes a law, the Executive signs it, and sooner or later if it is bad, it gets before the Judicial branch and they shoot it down in flames.
Just my IANAL opinon of course. I'm just hoping the PATRIOT ACT gets a Supreme Court date soon as well.
The radios are Frequency Agile encrypted systems with, an easily (on purpose, not real easy on accident) button to push that would dump the crypto, and thus make the equipment basically useless until it is reloaded.
I personally was disappointed that the 4th ID took so long to get into theater. Not only didn't the Third ID have the latest greatest equipment that the 4th has, they didn't even have the moderately advanced stuff they were used to using. The equipment the 3rd had was the stuff that had been pre-positioned in Saudi 12 years ago. It was maintianed, but not upgraded with the equipment in regular usage.
As I enjoy listening to Music while working, and I Used Winamp to listen to the MP3 cd's I prepared before getting deployed on my last peacekeeping mission, and since I am in the Military. I guess I could be using your GPL'd Winamp Plugin for military purposes!.
I hope you don't mind....
Correction, I really don't care, as every system I had access to had winamp on it when I got there.
Proud to protect your Freedom to protest my providing your freedom to protest my pro... you should get the idea. Remember freedom isn't free, it has a very expensive cost that can only be paid in blood.
It's a nice half star directly perpindicular to the axis of travel. Basically its like looking at a wall, and seeing the gun port the barrel was sticking from. Except that at night, it's five streams of fire jetting out from the end of the barrel. Put several rounds in that general direction and the shooter is going to at least be hugging the ground a bit tighter still you stop.
I do believe your right. My unit had A1's the first few years after basic as well. Those were alot of fun. Especially as being a pistol shooter I was usually only firing them when we were burning excess ammo(and not having to clean them after). I still take that opportunity when ever possible, but it's not as much fun on burst. I find that while I could actually hit the occasional target on full auto, I can rarely do so on burst. Auto gave you time (though oh so little) to fight the barrel back down on target. On the ranges in burst I can hit the 50 m targets with consistancy, but not the 100 or beyond whereas with full auto I could hit the 100 and even the occasional 150 by using my hand over the barrel (with a glove of course)to help fight the barrel back on target. By no means was this ever accurate, but it's nice to see the occasional target go down when burning through magazines as fast a spossible.
Then there was the time I drilled with my guard unit before basic. That year they had the tracers to actually do a night fire. A very nice fomrer SF Captain let me shoot hiw weap for a few mags of "Full Auto Familiarization" And he loaded the Mags almost solid Tracer. As opposed to the normal one in three. Talk about a way to lock in a new recruit.
Actually the correct term is not flash supressor, at least not on the M-16, M-4, M-240, M-249, and M-60. Other weapons I can't speak for but on these weapons the correct term is Muzzel Compensator, and the purpose to to stabilize the barrel against upward recoil motion. The muzzel compensators have five exhaust ports pointing out two to the side, two at 45 degrees or verticle and one to the vertical. No vents face downward (relative to the weapon of course).
They do as a side benfit reduce the flash slightly which helps the gunner retain his/her night vision, but do absolutely nothing to hide the shooter's position. In short, you put it on burst and can expect to have an easier time keeping on target, but the bad guys are going to know exactly where you are fireing from. They have a nice five prong burst of flame to point directly at the end of your barrel. (Note the Five vents are on the M-16, and M-249, I don't have an M-4 or M240 or other weapons handy to verify otherwise.
And the Lake is Naturally formed.
A couple more points about Wendover Airfield. First, It played the role of Groom Lake/Area 51 in Independance Day. Also the F-16 recieved some on the spot repairs and flew safely home to Hill AFB. In General, the Airfield is occasionally (though very rarely)still used by the Airfarce for Exercises, as well as being the designated emergency field for AF Aircraft using the West Desert Ranges.
Second, the dive site is not a series of bomb craters. Blue Lake is a natural warmspring (at the bottom, the upwelling is in the 80's F). It's a great place to keep your dive skills fresh during the winter with a year round surface temp of about 73 deg F. The only bad part is the roughly half mile treck from the parking area to the Lake. The water has a high mineral content but is still freshwater, which is surprising as it is on the edge of the Bonneville Salt Flats. The diving is best on a thursday or early Friday, as the sediments get quite stirred up each weekend and take most of the week to settle back down. The University of Utah has placed several metal sculptures at the bottom (they were created in place by under water welding classes)as well as a couple old ski boats that were sunk on purpose. It is also host to a thriving population of bluegills who tend to get very fat on all the Cheese Whiz the divers feed em.
Oh and third, that Airman, the Airfarce doesn't have Privates(read that how ever you want), would have been most willing to empty said locked and loaded rifle. My brother played at that job for a while. Me I went Army.
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Okay to nitpick, I believe you mean ~35k km up.
35 kilometers is, I believe, kinda low for geosync orbit.
Don't forget Dragon Lair's success in the Arcade led to a brief stint as a Saturday Morning Cartoon.
As a Fellow Dirk, The only good thing about another round of "oh, like Dirk the Daring" is that hopefully it will reduce the amount of "oh, like Dirk Diggler" responses I get. I've never seen Boogie Nights, but hate it with a passion.
Currently, I recommend two relatively new Authors. Robin Hobb, and David Farland.
Robin is the auhor of the Live Ship Traders trilogy which I have not read yet, and the Assassin's Apprentice and Tawny Man trilogies. Robin has just had the second book fo the Tawny Man. published so it will be a year or so probably before we get the conclusion to that story line.
All three series take place in the same world. The two series I've read are directly related, the Live ship Traders is not. The Assassin's Apprentice Series begins with Assassins Apprentice follwed by the Royal Assasssin and the Assassin's Quest the Tawny Man series so far consists of Fools Errand and Golden Fool . I really enjoy her writing style and story flow.
My oher "New" favorite is David Farland. His Runelords Series takes a rather new or unique take on the use of Magic. Or at least I haven't seen anyone else using this. The Series starts with The Runelords: Sum of All Men , followed by Brotherhood of the Wolf and Wizardborn I'm not sure how many books Farland intends to stretch this series out over, but the story clearly has a ways to go at the end of the third book.
Other Authors that I haven't seen many references to in the other posts (I do admit I was reading at +4)include Terry Brooks, Anne McCaffrey, and David Drake.
The owners of Stone Trek thank you for their suddenly maxed out bandwith.
Hmm add a cool laser gun on it's shoulder, zap it with lightening and you just described Johnny Five.
Umm, It was slashdotted when I tried it.
In the early 90's several cities were trying out the Photo-cop systems. It looked like the systems were here to stay, until one of the state legislators recived a ticket in the mail. He decided having the burden of proof on the owner of the car (His son was the driver, but he got the ticket as he was the registered owner) was constitutionally highly questionable. So he introduced and was able to get passed a law prohibiting the use of Automated photographic tcketing systems.
Another note. At the time the systems were legal and in use, the sale of clear license plate covers were very high. These covers were the ones that turned opaque when viewed at an angle, thus preventing the camera from getting a legible picture of your plate number.
On the other hand though you can find that many excellent movies are not dimished at all and are possibly improved by having nudity cut out. I agree that many movies would not edit very well. Yet some would.
My favorite example is the movie Shakespear in Love. The first time I saw that movie, It was the airline edited version. I enjoyed it alot more than I thought I would because it has an excellent plot and storyline. At no time while watching it did I think to myself, "Boy I would really like to see Gwyneth's (sp?) breasts right now," or "this movie needs nudity to be really good," or even that there seemed to be something missing from the movie. Later I had a chance to see the movie as released and thought that the nudity scenes actually damaged the movie.
This technology can allow those of us who by reason of faith or other moral backgrounds find nudity, obscene language, or violence offensive, to enjoy movies that we would not have otherwise. Not every movie can be edited down to a G or even a PG-13 rating and still make any sense. Office space was ruined in my opinion by the way obscenities were used, but if they were cut out what was left would not make any sense. However many movies could be edited easily to allow more people to enjoy what really makes a Movie a work of Art. A well written script, performed by exceptional actors, that is what makes a movie art, not language nudity or violence.
Flame Away
Anybody who is willing to die for his ideals is not any better than a terrorist! And is to be blamed when such things happen. The willingness to sacrifice yourself for beliefs are not comparable to terrorism. What one does with that willingness is. A military action will not be targeted at a general population of innocent civilians. In targeting the WTC the terrorists proved why they were the slime they were. Plus those of us in the Armed Services have made the statement that we are willing to sacrifice our lives that freedom may flourish. But don't mistake our intentions. As Patton stated "Remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." We who serve in defense of this country have no intention of dying for the country we just recognize that it may happen in the course of making the terrorists pay. And to any who question whether violence is of any effect on Terrorism, When was the last time Libya activly supported a terrorist activity. Not since We bombed Libya. Quadaffi's daughter was killed in the attack. She was not the target he was but what is he doing these days? for the last year or so he has been making overtures to the West, trying to re-enter the world community. If we make it too costly to them, they will think twice. It's one thing to sacrifice yourself, its another if you know that your friends and family will pay as well. A war will not prevent any Harm, but if we take the time to make sure we know who to target, and them hit them with such force and power that they will never forget it. Greater harm in the future will be prevented. SSG Dwillden