Helpful hint. If you hear a sound in your backyard don't grab a knife and check on it. A knife is probably just going to get you killed.
In most cases all you have to do if someone is prowling in your yard is show that you are home, and they will move on to the next target... your statement seems to assume that the person in your yard is armed, most of the time they aren't...
Any man who gets sent to prison, for anything, has a good chance of becoming a rape victim. And even if it were the case that only those who commit major crimes got raped in prison, that would still not be funny. I find it to be completely unacceptable.
If everyone who works in one groups swears around people who they deal with day to day, but are 'polite' to the others (higher levels of management, clients...). The swearing, and accepting of swearing becomes a subtle way of saying, that we are comfortable with each other, and when people get a long together, they usually work well together...
We will never make progress on equality if having some form of advantage in one area disqualifies one from pointing out injustice in another.
I have known a couple of women who do not fit the nerd mold who are very good at nerdy pursuits, anyone like that (pretty girls who are good coders for instance) who is kept out of a profession by the actions of those in the profession are kept out to the detriment of the profession.
I have attended, or worked for 3 universities (UIUC, Cornell, Caltech). All of them have an official university book store. UIUC had 2 large private competitors in the area, who were often, but not always, cheaper than the official store...
Don't forget the RAT, or Ram Air Turbine. If all else fails, it will power enough systems to allow you to glide safely to the ground
He did not forget the Ram...
It is what he was describing here:
Also some airplanes have a small external generator which can be used in an emergency. If you lose lots of power from engines at 40,000 ft you often have more altitude and more speed than you need (depends on where you plan to land,) and if so you can drop both and at the same time get some electrical power.
Go Look up what happened to Ray Buckley. (http://www.nhpr.org/node/12381 some other storys about the same:http://www.nhpr.org/taxonomy/term/8175)
Summary: Ray Buckley is a rising star of the New Hampshire democratic party. As he is mounting a campaign, that he is a shoe in to win, for the NH democratic party chair he is accused by a political rival, and former roommate, of having a long history of child porn smuggling. His life is ruined for many months. The allegations were found to be completely unsupported by evidence. The accusation was for purely political purposes...
I didn't give rap a chance until my senior year of college... Before I started listening to more of it, I thought it was all about ho's, and money, and bling, but then after the woman who became my wife introduced me to some of the stuff that didn't get much airplay... there is some really interesting stuff out there, about all sorts of things, you just can't listen to that crap on MTV and the radio and think you know all (or even most) rap.
Your not on the ground. Your not the one with training.
Consider how well all the ones with the training who have been on the ground have been doing at getting the Iraqi's to lay down arms and embrace the democratic process. Perhaps we shouldn't turn to them for advice...
Opinions without experiance are shit and you should keep it to yourself.
Experience not learned from is shit too. When are we going to stop trying subtle variations on a failed strategy, and try something else?
Ah yes... there were reports of the NBC nature. But nobody said we would be fighting 4 years after the invasion (I should have emphasised the long in long hard fight).
I really don't know many people who follow politics from either side that thought Iraq or Afghanistan would be a cake walk.
Who said anything about people who follow politics? I am talking about average americans. I was surrounded by people who believed the "we will be greated with flowers" BS and I find it difficult to believe that you are being honest when you tell me that people where you live were expecting a long hard fight in Iraq (I don't think many people thought Afghanistan would be easy, but we are talking about Iraq).
Few people expected to overthrow Saddam with few casualties
Perhaps few qualified experts believed it, but the administration shouted from the rooftops that it would be short and clean, and most of the sheep that I share this country with bought it.
Yes there were a few article portraying what it could have been like, and then there were hours of cnn/fox/msnbc showing a clip of dick cheney/george bush/general kissing ass talking about how the authors of the article were iresponsible fear mongers with no connection to reality.
Where do you live? Can you honestly tell me that the people in your town were prepared for the loss of 40K US troops?
To be brutally honest, it's not Arabic that will save us when we are there. It's Tactics and Procedures and it's technology. This is what we spent the bulk of our time on before we headed out there. In addition to some basic language and culture classes, to better understand the Iraqis. Who's going to survive longer in a firefight? A soldier who is well-trained on his weapon and whatever gadget he carries? Or a Soldier yelling out "Assalam Alaikum!" while bullets fly around him? Who's going to survive an IED? A soldier who has been trained how to react to such an event, or one who knows really good Arabic?
The one with the arabic skill may not be as prepared to win a firefight, but are firefights going to win this war?
Firefights don't win hearts and minds, interaction with the population does.
If we had taken huge numbers of casualties overthrowing Iraq, the press would be marveled at how well we are doing in the urban areas. But as it stands, the public didn't expect casualty rates to rise after heavy combat operations ceased. The press has only fueled this perception by following the "if it bleeds, it leads" philosophy and completely ignoring any successes in Iraq or Afghanistan.
All of your facts are right, but I disagree with you analysis.
The trendlines alone in urban areas are news worthy, the fact that casualty rates accelerated for a long time would have been covered (and rightly so) regardless of how well the initial invasion went.
Additionally, I have a hard time blaming the media for the public outrage, it was the administration that said we would be greated with flowers and out in 6 months. The public was not prepared for the levels of loss and commitment we have been exposed to, and this is the fault of the politicians who lied, or at least gave unrealisticly optimistic estimates as worst case senarios, not the fault of the media.
And as for preparing for the next war... I have 2 comments. 1. We need to prepare to finish this one, so spending on arabic training would be benificial. 2. The ability to interact with the population of the area you are fighting in has always been and will always be valuable.
A lot of athletes, particularly quarterbacks, are quite inteligent and well educated...
Consider, for instance, that two of the most dominant american marathoners of the 80's and 90's (Anthony Sandoval and Bob Kempainen) are now practicing doctors. The validictorian at my HS was on the cross country and tennis teams. One of the few people I know who has finished the UIUC chemical engineering program with a 4.0 was on the basketball team...
Also, NCAA athletes have a better graduation rate than the general student population... link
If you think this problem is unique to documents generated by the public, rather than by experts, you are quite wrong.
In my field (computational mechanics) there have been numerous papers published, and text books written in the last 5 year which explicitly state that a computational technique developed by a colleague of mine is incapable of performing a certain task. There has been documentation of this task being performed using the technique in question in journals since the early 80's (cited 100's of times I might add). Many of the authors of these papers/books have had personal demonstrations of the technique being used to solve the problem in question, yet they continue to publish blatant falsehoods.
I would be willing to bet that there are many cases, in many fields where data that is demonstrably false is continually published, despite numerous attempts to correct it.
I am an aerodynamics guy, not a software guy, but I am pretty sure you could sneak a small change in, given how disorganised everything was at the engine company that used to employ me... I know it could happen with airfoil shapes... What was designed, wasn't what was tested, but was what was built was a common occurance...
There was a sidewalk going right under the bridge girder in question, it was also on the outermost girder of the bridge, facing out. Anyone walking or driving down that street would have seen it; I have seen traffic lights mounted in less conspicuous locations.
There were plenty of pictures on zebbler.com but their site seems to be buckling under the traffic.
There are some pictures here: http://flickr.com/photos/vanderlin/358742603/ that aren't as good as the ones on zebbler, and there is a video embedded in this article that was made by the people at zebbler showing the instalation of the mooninite signs.
These things stand out, especially at night... You do know that they had blinking lights, right?
I really doubt they were intended to attract police attention. This is pretty obviosly plain old guerilla marketing. People are supposed to start seeing this pixelated character places, and go "what's that?" eventually they say "What's that?" to someone who watches ATHF, and then they hear about ATHF, then maybe they watch ATHF, then they tell their friends "Hey, you know those things with the blinking lights? That is a character from this hilarious show", and then their friends watch ATHF. And Turner makes money...
If there was a -1 wrong mod (as you request in your sig), I would use it on your post...
I didn't gain weight until I was about 19, which is not that much younger than 21...
Also, maybe it is because Texas is fatter than Illinois, or because the US has gotten fatter over the last 10 years, but I never had people telling me I was too thin once I got to 130 (and I am taller than you). You are a slim, but healthy weight, don't listen to anyone who tells you otherwise, unless you start losing weight.
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Helpful hint. If you hear a sound in your backyard don't grab a knife and check on it. A knife is probably just going to get you killed.
In most cases all you have to do if someone is prowling in your yard is show that you are home, and they will move on to the next target... your statement seems to assume that the person in your yard is armed, most of the time they aren't...
Any man who gets sent to prison, for anything, has a good chance of becoming a rape victim. And even if it were the case that only those who commit major crimes got raped in prison, that would still not be funny. I find it to be completely unacceptable.
If everyone who works in one groups swears around people who they deal with day to day, but are 'polite' to the others (higher levels of management, clients...). The swearing, and accepting of swearing becomes a subtle way of saying, that we are comfortable with each other, and when people get a long together, they usually work well together...
If that makes any fucking sense...
BORK
Chief, you know that guy whose camper they were whacking off in?
FLEMMING
(appalled)Bork! You are a federal agent. You represent the United States Government... Never end a sentence with a preposition. Try again.
BORK
Oh, ah... You know that guy in whose camper they... I mean that guy off in whose camper they were whacking?
We will never make progress on equality if having some form of advantage in one area disqualifies one from pointing out injustice in another.
I have known a couple of women who do not fit the nerd mold who are very good at nerdy pursuits, anyone like that (pretty girls who are good coders for instance) who is kept out of a profession by the actions of those in the profession are kept out to the detriment of the profession.
I have attended, or worked for 3 universities (UIUC, Cornell, Caltech). All of them have an official university book store. UIUC had 2 large private competitors in the area, who were often, but not always, cheaper than the official store...
Forgive me for thinking you are full of it.
It is what he was describing here:
Also some airplanes have a small external generator which can be used in an emergency. If you lose lots of power from engines at 40,000 ft you often have more altitude and more speed than you need (depends on where you plan to land,) and if so you can drop both and at the same time get some electrical power.
I used to have long hair, and an older car (with a huge dent in it)... Got pulled over all the time (15 times in 5 years). Never got searched...
Then I graduated, got a hair cut, and a newer (still used) car, been pulled over once since (still no search).
If the profiling I experienced was that bad as a white male, I can't imagine what black people go through...
Believe the rhetoric.
Go Look up what happened to Ray Buckley. (http://www.nhpr.org/node/12381 some other storys about the same:http://www.nhpr.org/taxonomy/term/8175)
Summary:
Ray Buckley is a rising star of the New Hampshire democratic party. As he is mounting a campaign, that he is a shoe in to win, for the NH democratic party chair he is accused by a political rival, and former roommate, of having a long history of child porn smuggling. His life is ruined for many months. The allegations were found to be completely unsupported by evidence. The accusation was for purely political purposes...
This AC is so right.
I didn't give rap a chance until my senior year of college... Before I started listening to more of it, I thought it was all about ho's, and money, and bling, but then after the woman who became my wife introduced me to some of the stuff that didn't get much airplay... there is some really interesting stuff out there, about all sorts of things, you just can't listen to that crap on MTV and the radio and think you know all (or even most) rap.
Your not on the ground. Your not the one with training.
Consider how well all the ones with the training who have been on the ground have been doing at getting the Iraqi's to lay down arms and embrace the democratic process. Perhaps we shouldn't turn to them for advice...
Opinions without experiance are shit and you should keep it to yourself.
Experience not learned from is shit too. When are we going to stop trying subtle variations on a failed strategy, and try something else?
Ah yes... there were reports of the NBC nature. But nobody said we would be fighting 4 years after the invasion (I should have emphasised the long in long hard fight).
Who said anything about people who follow politics? I am talking about average americans. I was surrounded by people who believed the "we will be greated with flowers" BS and I find it difficult to believe that you are being honest when you tell me that people where you live were expecting a long hard fight in Iraq (I don't think many people thought Afghanistan would be easy, but we are talking about Iraq).
Good luck over there.
Perhaps few qualified experts believed it, but the administration shouted from the rooftops that it would be short and clean, and most of the sheep that I share this country with bought it.
Yes there were a few article portraying what it could have been like, and then there were hours of cnn/fox/msnbc showing a clip of dick cheney/george bush/general kissing ass talking about how the authors of the article were iresponsible fear mongers with no connection to reality.
Where do you live? Can you honestly tell me that the people in your town were prepared for the loss of 40K US troops?
The one with the arabic skill may not be as prepared to win a firefight, but are firefights going to win this war?
Firefights don't win hearts and minds, interaction with the population does.
All of your facts are right, but I disagree with you analysis.
The trendlines alone in urban areas are news worthy, the fact that casualty rates accelerated for a long time would have been covered (and rightly so) regardless of how well the initial invasion went.
Additionally, I have a hard time blaming the media for the public outrage, it was the administration that said we would be greated with flowers and out in 6 months. The public was not prepared for the levels of loss and commitment we have been exposed to, and this is the fault of the politicians who lied, or at least gave unrealisticly optimistic estimates as worst case senarios, not the fault of the media.
And as for preparing for the next war... I have 2 comments.
1. We need to prepare to finish this one, so spending on arabic training would be benificial.
2. The ability to interact with the population of the area you are fighting in has always been and will always be valuable.
That was funny...
A lot of athletes, particularly quarterbacks, are quite inteligent and well educated...
Consider, for instance, that two of the most dominant american marathoners of the 80's and 90's (Anthony Sandoval and Bob Kempainen) are now practicing doctors. The validictorian at my HS was on the cross country and tennis teams. One of the few people I know who has finished the UIUC chemical engineering program with a 4.0 was on the basketball team...
Also, NCAA athletes have a better graduation rate than the general student population... link
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061127-8296 .html
Experts rate Wikipedia's accuracy higher than non-experts
If you think this problem is unique to documents generated by the public, rather than by experts, you are quite wrong.
In my field (computational mechanics) there have been numerous papers published, and text books written in the last 5 year which explicitly state that a computational technique developed by a colleague of mine is incapable of performing a certain task. There has been documentation of this task being performed using the technique in question in journals since the early 80's (cited 100's of times I might add). Many of the authors of these papers/books have had personal demonstrations of the technique being used to solve the problem in question, yet they continue to publish blatant falsehoods.
I would be willing to bet that there are many cases, in many fields where data that is demonstrably false is continually published, despite numerous attempts to correct it.
I am an aerodynamics guy, not a software guy, but I am pretty sure you could sneak a small change in, given how disorganised everything was at the engine company that used to employ me... I know it could happen with airfoil shapes... What was designed, wasn't what was tested, but was what was built was a common occurance...
There was a sidewalk going right under the bridge girder in question, it was also on the outermost girder of the bridge, facing out. Anyone walking or driving down that street would have seen it; I have seen traffic lights mounted in less conspicuous locations.
There were plenty of pictures on zebbler.com but their site seems to be buckling under the traffic.
There are some pictures here: http://flickr.com/photos/vanderlin/358742603/ that aren't as good as the ones on zebbler, and there is a video embedded in this article that was made by the people at zebbler showing the instalation of the mooninite signs.
It is pretty clear they were meant to be seen.
These things stand out, especially at night... You do know that they had blinking lights, right?
I really doubt they were intended to attract police attention. This is pretty obviosly plain old guerilla marketing. People are supposed to start seeing this pixelated character places, and go "what's that?" eventually they say "What's that?" to someone who watches ATHF, and then they hear about ATHF, then maybe they watch ATHF, then they tell their friends "Hey, you know those things with the blinking lights? That is a character from this hilarious show", and then their friends watch ATHF. And Turner makes money...
If there was a -1 wrong mod (as you request in your sig), I would use it on your post...
I didn't gain weight until I was about 19, which is not that much younger than 21...
Also, maybe it is because Texas is fatter than Illinois, or because the US has gotten fatter over the last 10 years, but I never had people telling me I was too thin once I got to 130 (and I am taller than you). You are a slim, but healthy weight, don't listen to anyone who tells you otherwise, unless you start losing weight.