Something incriminating ends up online, and you have two options...
Actually, there's a third?
Add material about the Bermuda Triangle, Bigfoot, Elvis or the Greys into it, then slip it under the door of some random yet sufficiently popular nutjob. Or, if you REALLY want to make sure the freaks get shrill about it, substitute Dick Cheney for everything else.
An average petroleum tanker weighs around 200,000 - 300,000 tons when full. The anchor weighs about three, and 200 feet of chain weighs another 6 tons.
Standard practice is to drop anchor and a few hundred feet of chain while moving backwards to give the ship a solid hold on the bottom.
Add a 14 knot breeze and a 4 knot tide, and you've got an anchor that's going to drag a few hundred yards until they pay out enough chain to secure the ship.
In the meantime, ANYTHING the anchor happens to rumble over is going to be obliterated
I used Messenger a few times? Then I found out that my user/pass was the same for my Hotmail account, AND my Passport. I remember I was using my Passport account to purchase something, when I suddenly realized, "Hey...my credit card info is tied to my Hotmail and MSN Messenger password..."
I promptly deleted the credit card info, changed the user info, scrambled the password by mashing the keyboard with a copy&paste and changed the email to a free Hushmail account that would go away in 30 days.
They've since changed that practice, but MS hasn't offered me anything worthwhile to bring me back.
Put your cellphone next to your speaker cable or headset and send a text message or make a call. Or if you want to see something REALLY neat, put the antenna on or next to the connector for your CRT monitor.
Well, that's just it? I "notice" something and look at the phone. Two seconds later, the screen lights up. Half a second later, it rings. So in total, I'm "noticing" the incoming signal before the phone even does anything at all.
Actually you're "missing" background noise that you're otherwise used to hearing and don't notice.
I dunno...
I live in a neighborhood that's got no shortage of "background noise", yet I can tell when my cellphone is about to ring nearly 2 whole seconds before it does. I mean, I'm pretty sure that I don't have any alien implants, and unless I start walking by billboards for A&E, I'm not going to be hearing voices in my head.
But more than once, I've been quietly reading a book in bed, or even fully asleep, when I suddenly look-or wake up and look-at my cellphone. 1-2 seconds later, it clicks, then the screen lights up and then the ringtone goes off. So I'm essentially "aware" of an incoming signal, just as it starts to hit my phone.
Who knows? Maybe there really *is* something to this after all?
At this point, I don't care anymore.
Wasn't this the plan all along? To keep pushing, chipping and nibbling away our rights and our lives until we just don't care anymore?
We had this guy on our ship. A real "shipwreck" if there ever was one. He got the idea to paint the officer of the deck on the ship next to us with his laser pointer.
Said officer of the deck was wearing his summer whites, and this brilliant red dot blooms on his chest.
It was amazing! The OOD dropped to the deck, drew his side arm and began shouting "SNIPER ON THE PIER! SNIPER ON THE PIER!" Their ship went to security alert, the security teams were deployed and began fanning out on the ship and the pier, and then OUR ship went to security alert.
By the time it all got sorted out, Seaman Shipwreck had been hauled off to the brig and later had himself the Big Chicken Dinner (Bad Conduct Discharge).
So yeah, firing lasers at official vehicles, ships or planes is a good way to earn yourself a Darwin Award, either by measure of return fire or being put in prison long enough for it to no longer matter.
...unless you make it amusing as well as educational.
I mean, seriously? Check out this Disney Video for combating VD.
If they could make an animation like THAT for inoculation, it would be more popular that the lies.
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
For a brief moment there, I thought your sig was actually part of your 419 spoof. Which made it exceptionally interesting, in my opinion?
Back in 2004, just before I left the Navy, I had a conversation with a contractor who was doing work on the RIM-161 Standard SM-3 defense system out at sea. I asked him what he thought about the Chinese strategy, and explained what I'd been reading about.
The Chinese are following a doctrine of asymmetric warfare, in that they know they can't stand against us toe-to-toe. We've got bigger, faster, stronger ships, planes and weapons. Our defenses are very powerful, and we can sink 20 of their ships in minutes.
So they've been building twenty-one ships for everyone one of our attack ships. Not only that, our defenses are built around sub-sonic missiles and munitions? So the Chinese have developed hyper-sonic weapons, such as the SS-N-22 Sunburn anti-ship missile, against which we have no effective defense.
And lastly, I explained how the Chinese didn't spend billions of dollars on growing their own, proprietary C4I network. Instead, they approached the most advanced, NON-MILITARY businesses in the world-including the US-and said, "We'll give you exclusive rights to business in China if you build us the best C4I network you can design. We'll pay all your expenses and supply free labor."
The result is that they have a C4I network that, while it doesn't match ours, come exceptionally close. On top of that, their C4I uses satellites as an augmentation, not the foundation of their strategy. If we shoot down their satellites, they won't be as blind as we would be if they shot down ours.
Next to last, their coastal and landward borders are protected by a layered defense grid that doesn't rely upon the network as it's sole source of input. Rather, they use a combination of communications strategies to keep each unit in touch with the others, as well as the central command network. Sure, we have the same thing, but they've developed and deployed it along their entire border. NIMBY doesn't seem to be a problem in Communist China like it is elsewhere in the world.
And now we have this.
Up until now, the Pentagon has been aware of Chinese defensive capability and it's ability to severely restrict our ability to launch an effective attack against mainland China. Heck, the Chinese sent us copies of their war doctrine back in 2003, just to brag about it! The gentleman contractor I was speaking with dismissed each of my concerns, saying, in effect, "We know what they can do and have them in the bag. Don't worry, they can't touch us."
I wonder what he's thinking now?
This isn't a warning? This isn't even a threat. This is the Chinese pulling a Nelson and going "HA-HA!" in front of the whole world-and that gentleman contractor-and there's not a whole lot we can do about it.
Actively pinging your sonar is akin to trying to find someone hiding in the dark with flash-bang grenades. They can hear you coming from a thousand miles off, and when you finally get on top of them, they're going to be exceptionally pissed. At full-power, the SQQ-89(V)6 Sonar can flash-boil the water around the sonar dome at
Actively pinging someone is akin to pointing a gun at their head, and the target can be expected to respond in kind.
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The guy was survived cancer surgery on his brain, and they fired him for blogging???
Damn...
They didn't just kick the puppy, they tossed it in the woodchipper.
Something incriminating ends up online, and you have two options...
Actually, there's a third?
Add material about the Bermuda Triangle, Bigfoot, Elvis or the Greys into it, then slip it under the door of some random yet sufficiently popular nutjob. Or, if you REALLY want to make sure the freaks get shrill about it, substitute Dick Cheney for everything else.
Everyone will believe it, but nobody will care.
You're posting Mork & Mindy jokes on SlashDot. Of course you're alone.
I see you've been through MSP International Airport...
An average petroleum tanker weighs around 200,000 - 300,000 tons when full. The anchor weighs about three, and 200 feet of chain weighs another 6 tons.
Standard practice is to drop anchor and a few hundred feet of chain while moving backwards to give the ship a solid hold on the bottom.
Add a 14 knot breeze and a 4 knot tide, and you've got an anchor that's going to drag a few hundred yards until they pay out enough chain to secure the ship.
In the meantime, ANYTHING the anchor happens to rumble over is going to be obliterated
We can already turn everything based on carbon molecules into petroleum.
Why are we wasting our time and wasting food and alcohol?
RIAA: We're going to enact a law to cut your funding unless you do what we say!
...
Universities: Go ahead. Knock yourselves out. Kill us. Wipe us off the face of the earth.
RIAA: Wh...what?
Universities: Sure! And then we'll turn off the switch on alll of our DNS servers.
RIAA:
Universities: *GRIN*
I used Messenger a few times? Then I found out that my user/pass was the same for my Hotmail account, AND my Passport. I remember I was using my Passport account to purchase something, when I suddenly realized, "Hey...my credit card info is tied to my Hotmail and MSN Messenger password..."
I promptly deleted the credit card info, changed the user info, scrambled the password by mashing the keyboard with a copy&paste and changed the email to a free Hushmail account that would go away in 30 days.
They've since changed that practice, but MS hasn't offered me anything worthwhile to bring me back.
Hmmmm...
So essentially, our jobs are about to become a live-action game of Paranoia?
Neat! *charges his laser*
Latitude correlates to IQ!
The lower you go, the lower it gets.
Two words: Tata masher
Put your cellphone next to your speaker cable or headset and send a text message or make a call. Or if you want to see something REALLY neat, put the antenna on or next to the connector for your CRT monitor.
Well, that's just it? I "notice" something and look at the phone. Two seconds later, the screen lights up. Half a second later, it rings. So in total, I'm "noticing" the incoming signal before the phone even does anything at all.
Actually you're "missing" background noise that you're otherwise used to hearing and don't notice.
I dunno...
I live in a neighborhood that's got no shortage of "background noise", yet I can tell when my cellphone is about to ring nearly 2 whole seconds before it does. I mean, I'm pretty sure that I don't have any alien implants, and unless I start walking by billboards for A&E, I'm not going to be hearing voices in my head.
But more than once, I've been quietly reading a book in bed, or even fully asleep, when I suddenly look-or wake up and look-at my cellphone. 1-2 seconds later, it clicks, then the screen lights up and then the ringtone goes off. So I'm essentially "aware" of an incoming signal, just as it starts to hit my phone.
Who knows? Maybe there really *is* something to this after all?
The CEO's all read "Virtual Light" by William Gibson, and they ALL want to be Costa Rica.
At this point, I don't care anymore. Wasn't this the plan all along? To keep pushing, chipping and nibbling away our rights and our lives until we just don't care anymore?
We had this guy on our ship. A real "shipwreck" if there ever was one. He got the idea to paint the officer of the deck on the ship next to us with his laser pointer. Said officer of the deck was wearing his summer whites, and this brilliant red dot blooms on his chest. It was amazing! The OOD dropped to the deck, drew his side arm and began shouting "SNIPER ON THE PIER! SNIPER ON THE PIER!" Their ship went to security alert, the security teams were deployed and began fanning out on the ship and the pier, and then OUR ship went to security alert. By the time it all got sorted out, Seaman Shipwreck had been hauled off to the brig and later had himself the Big Chicken Dinner (Bad Conduct Discharge). So yeah, firing lasers at official vehicles, ships or planes is a good way to earn yourself a Darwin Award, either by measure of return fire or being put in prison long enough for it to no longer matter.
We need another tag for stuff like this.
"CHUTZPAH"
...unless you make it amusing as well as educational. I mean, seriously? Check out this Disney Video for combating VD. If they could make an animation like THAT for inoculation, it would be more popular that the lies.
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love For a brief moment there, I thought your sig was actually part of your 419 spoof. Which made it exceptionally interesting, in my opinion?
Witness the below-replacement birth rates in first world countries.
I think there's a fundamental fault with that logic...
Back in 2004, just before I left the Navy, I had a conversation with a contractor who was doing work on the RIM-161 Standard SM-3 defense system out at sea. I asked him what he thought about the Chinese strategy, and explained what I'd been reading about.
The Chinese are following a doctrine of asymmetric warfare, in that they know they can't stand against us toe-to-toe. We've got bigger, faster, stronger ships, planes and weapons. Our defenses are very powerful, and we can sink 20 of their ships in minutes.
So they've been building twenty-one ships for everyone one of our attack ships. Not only that, our defenses are built around sub-sonic missiles and munitions? So the Chinese have developed hyper-sonic weapons, such as the SS-N-22 Sunburn anti-ship missile, against which we have no effective defense.
And lastly, I explained how the Chinese didn't spend billions of dollars on growing their own, proprietary C4I network. Instead, they approached the most advanced, NON-MILITARY businesses in the world-including the US-and said, "We'll give you exclusive rights to business in China if you build us the best C4I network you can design. We'll pay all your expenses and supply free labor."
The result is that they have a C4I network that, while it doesn't match ours, come exceptionally close. On top of that, their C4I uses satellites as an augmentation, not the foundation of their strategy. If we shoot down their satellites, they won't be as blind as we would be if they shot down ours.
Next to last, their coastal and landward borders are protected by a layered defense grid that doesn't rely upon the network as it's sole source of input. Rather, they use a combination of communications strategies to keep each unit in touch with the others, as well as the central command network. Sure, we have the same thing, but they've developed and deployed it along their entire border. NIMBY doesn't seem to be a problem in Communist China like it is elsewhere in the world.
And now we have this.
Up until now, the Pentagon has been aware of Chinese defensive capability and it's ability to severely restrict our ability to launch an effective attack against mainland China. Heck, the Chinese sent us copies of their war doctrine back in 2003, just to brag about it! The gentleman contractor I was speaking with dismissed each of my concerns, saying, in effect, "We know what they can do and have them in the bag. Don't worry, they can't touch us."
I wonder what he's thinking now?
This isn't a warning? This isn't even a threat. This is the Chinese pulling a Nelson and going "HA-HA!" in front of the whole world-and that gentleman contractor-and there's not a whole lot we can do about it.
Actively pinging your sonar is akin to trying to find someone hiding in the dark with flash-bang grenades. They can hear you coming from a thousand miles off, and when you finally get on top of them, they're going to be exceptionally pissed. At full-power, the SQQ-89(V)6 Sonar can flash-boil the water around the sonar dome at
Actively pinging someone is akin to pointing a gun at their head, and the target can be expected to respond in kind.
Okay Frankie. Youse got da info we need to break inta da place, right?
Yeah boss! Lookie here, on da webpage!
Name: CDC-03
Location: 900 North Franklin, 3rd Floor, Chicago, IL 60610
NPA/NXX: 312/640
Not bad, Frankie...not bad! Uh-oh...what's dis? Dis could hold us up...
No signage, nondescript building
No problemo, boss! See? They gave us a picture!
*snort* An dey call us teeves dumb...
When they give away the giant 160 gig iPod, then we're talkin' quality swag....
*wink-wink* *nudge-nudge* Know what I mean, know what I mean???