I got a shotgun for $40.
Since it was so cheap, are you cool with me shooting at you?
BTW, if you walk up to an airplane and sabotage it, you have committed a federal offense that has a penalty ranging up to DEATH if you end up killing someone.
Sabotaging the flight crew shoud be equivalent IMHO as a pilot.
I was standing around in my yard shooting my.306 rifle into the sky. It was so much fun. I am SO sorry about killing your sister, but I didn't really do anything illegal did I?
What about the "giant world-wide S&M sorority thing" going on. All the women were always threatening to spank, hit, whack, or otherwise "discipline" each other pretty much non-stop.
BTW, when I first read the first book of the series I stuck it in my flight bag for a long trip and avgas back then was about $1.50/gallon. THAT was a long time ago!
Since the kite is used for sailing off the wind (wind from aft of the beam) in this application, pretty much any ship will work. The hulls of sailing ships were not too much different back in the day. Most of them were designed to carry as much cargo as possible following the trade winds (trade - get it) with the wind aft of the beam. It didn't make sense to design what would essentially be a large scale racing yacht unless you were either carrying a time sensitive cargo or doing something illegal like running slaves or drugs. The Baltimore Clippers weren't built to carry coal. They were more likely to be trying to outrun the Royal Navy with a hold full of slaves or opium.
It was not a close call. If I see someone in time to talk about it on the intercom before they come by the situation is well under control.
A close call = the plane goes by and the pilot(s) goes WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT!
WTF is the big deal?
I am flying a carbon-fiber airplane when I get home from work.
There are plenty of them around, as well as CF boats and cars. It isn't exactly a new idea that might or might not work.
Utter and total BS.
Readup on it some - and not in lefty "10,000 reasons the USA is Satan" books either.
It was a near thing for them surrendering even after 2 nukes.
We were killing all their civilians and cities anyway with conventional firebombing. The ONLY thing the A-bomb did was make it easier. General LeMay would have burned every single building and person anyplace in Japan with conventional weapons sooner or latter.
Also read up on what exactly the Japanese were up to. Read "Flyboys" for one . The Japanese ATE some POWs. Yes - you read that correctly - they fucking ATE some of our captured men. They also killed MORE people with SWORDS than we did with A-bombs. Given all they did, they are astoundingly lucky we didn;t nuke the home islands from one end to the other.
Wow. So many wrong assumptions in one post.
Radar breaks ALL THE TIME. GPS does not. It is 99,999 times easier to blow up a ground based radar than a satellite.
IFR certified GPS systems have RAIM that gives you an indication that the fix is invalid right away. No 20 second delay. This is why you can't use a $99 GPS to navigate IFR. I have yet to fly an IFR rated airplane that used GPS as sole-source navigation. I will give you that - if we disable the existing VOR/DME?NDB infrastructure then we NEED to have a backup. Right now the solution appears to be the excellent and very hard to jam LORAN system. Speaking of jamming, that is the ONE real weakness of GPS. It is easy to jam in a small area, since the signal strenght is low. LORAN is next to impossible to jam without using a huge amount of power and a very large antenna - something on the order of an AM broadcast station.
IIACP (i am a commercial pilot)
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likewise, you can't alter your behavior to prevent terrorist attacks. if the west acceded to every demand from violent jihadists, would violent jihadist become pastoral sheep farmers? no, they would go right on with their bloody agenda, they would just find some other lame excuse, because the root of their motivation is not the behavior of the west
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This is maybe 50% correct. It isn't what we do AT HOME that they care about. We (the West) support regimes that they HATE, like Saudi Arabia and Israel. If we nuked Tel Aviv and killed all the Saudi Princes many of the Jihadists would be satisfied. Since that isn't too likely.........
What kind of background check are you going to run on USA citizen HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS?
Maybe you should have a security clearance to learn to fly airplanes or rent a Ryder truck too.
There is a pee test for terrorism?
I *read about* ahem *cough* *cough* that high school kids in decades past figured this stuff out WITHOUT either the internet OR a formal class.
We have a long tradition of distrusting ANY government, even our own. We also have a shorter tradition of Marxist-Lenninist-Leftists who mainly populate colleges and college towns who think it is a sign of sophistication to look down on "patriotic flag waving truck driving gun toting stupid NASCAR fan redneck racist morons" and embrace European leftist views on the world. We had plenty of "useful idiots" who thought Stalin was a true beacon of liberty. We (the rest of us) got so used to them calling ANYONE even slightly conservative a moronic fascist that all the "Bush is an idiot- Bush is a warmonger, Bush is a fascist" rhetoric was ignored because they say that about EVERY Republican president. Just like a stopped clock, every now and then they might be right, but too late now, he got re-elected.
BTW, we are SO different than any Nordic country you can't really compare. If you took a community of Swedes or Norwegians from Minnesota that have a high average income, high levels of education, and very low levels of crime and gave them their own island, THEN you would have Iceland-USA*. When Iceland starts having illegal immigrants numbering nearly 5% of the population and have elementary schools where the student body speaks 20 or more different languages at home then you might start to see what we deal with.
*There was a famous quote by someone when a Swedish politician remarked on there being no poverty in Sweden and the American politician remarking that there was no poverty in Swedish communities in the USA either.
On the down side, you get Israel where the two major parties are always about 49% of the votes, so some nutcase ultra-(left/right/up/down/whatever) party calls the shots when literally 99% of the population thinks they're nuts.
By traditional I meant Marx-Lenin-Mao communism, not hippy communes. Northern Europen Socialism is MUCH different form old USSR socialism. Governments have an incentive to run their socialist programs well or be voted out. The Soviet Union could just kill their critics and sometimes did just that. The UK has nationalized and then privatized various industries as political parties came and went. By it's nature socialism run by free people lacks the odious cooercive aspetcs.
You are right of course that it matters little to a dying camp inmate if Stalin or Hitler put him there, but it is much easier to MAKE a Hitler-style dictatorship than a Communist one. Hitler at first went after marginal groups and tinkered at the edge of things. Big industrial concers were co-opted, not wholesale taken over.
Lenin had to "break a few eggs and then some" to turn Russia into the USSR. There was not much gradual about it.
Good post!
I must point out that traditional communism WILL NOT happen in a free society. People just don't behave that way naturally to any great extent outside of small family groups. You have to MAKE THEM do it. Thus Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, blood drenched butchers all. Northern European socialism is quite different. They can vote to end it next week if they really don't like it.
Also note:
Dictatorship = Dictator controls population with cooperation of some major industrial powers.
Communist Dictatorship - Government controls and owns industry directly.
Required Bush Joke #36- Industry controls and owns government here in USA.
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Running a red light is like shining a laser NEAR my airplane. If you hit my eyes then you DIDN'T MISS.
Quite correct. It is actually .308, not .306, when you write it out. My bad.
I got a shotgun for $40. Since it was so cheap, are you cool with me shooting at you? BTW, if you walk up to an airplane and sabotage it, you have committed a federal offense that has a penalty ranging up to DEATH if you end up killing someone. Sabotaging the flight crew shoud be equivalent IMHO as a pilot.
I am a pilot. If you shine a laser at ME with MY FAMILY in the airplane I think you shoudl rot in jail for LIFE at the very least.
Thirty-aught-six. Good caliber for deer and other mid-sized game. I could kill someone a mile away with it if I had a good enough aim.
I was standing around in my yard shooting my .306 rifle into the sky. It was so much fun. I am SO sorry about killing your sister, but I didn't really do anything illegal did I?
At flight school the more suicidal students were described as suffering from NAFOD (No Apparent Fear of Death).
What about the "giant world-wide S&M sorority thing" going on. All the women were always threatening to spank, hit, whack, or otherwise "discipline" each other pretty much non-stop. BTW, when I first read the first book of the series I stuck it in my flight bag for a long trip and avgas back then was about $1.50/gallon. THAT was a long time ago!
The old-time clipper ship sailors rounding Cape Horn would likely refer to 40 knots as a "lull" :)
Since the kite is used for sailing off the wind (wind from aft of the beam) in this application, pretty much any ship will work. The hulls of sailing ships were not too much different back in the day. Most of them were designed to carry as much cargo as possible following the trade winds (trade - get it) with the wind aft of the beam. It didn't make sense to design what would essentially be a large scale racing yacht unless you were either carrying a time sensitive cargo or doing something illegal like running slaves or drugs. The Baltimore Clippers weren't built to carry coal. They were more likely to be trying to outrun the Royal Navy with a hold full of slaves or opium.
?????? I own a sailboat and I can assure you I can sail in under 10 knots and over 40 knots!
It was not a close call. If I see someone in time to talk about it on the intercom before they come by the situation is well under control. A close call = the plane goes by and the pilot(s) goes WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT!
WTF is the big deal? I am flying a carbon-fiber airplane when I get home from work. There are plenty of them around, as well as CF boats and cars. It isn't exactly a new idea that might or might not work.
This happened to me and my GF. We were kicked out of the "black area" in Lexington by an undercover cop. It DOES happen.
Utter and total BS. Readup on it some - and not in lefty "10,000 reasons the USA is Satan" books either. It was a near thing for them surrendering even after 2 nukes. We were killing all their civilians and cities anyway with conventional firebombing. The ONLY thing the A-bomb did was make it easier. General LeMay would have burned every single building and person anyplace in Japan with conventional weapons sooner or latter. Also read up on what exactly the Japanese were up to. Read "Flyboys" for one . The Japanese ATE some POWs. Yes - you read that correctly - they fucking ATE some of our captured men. They also killed MORE people with SWORDS than we did with A-bombs. Given all they did, they are astoundingly lucky we didn;t nuke the home islands from one end to the other.
Idiot. I have had a 12 gauge for longer than I bet you have been alive. It has never been "abused".
Wow. So many wrong assumptions in one post. Radar breaks ALL THE TIME. GPS does not. It is 99,999 times easier to blow up a ground based radar than a satellite. IFR certified GPS systems have RAIM that gives you an indication that the fix is invalid right away. No 20 second delay. This is why you can't use a $99 GPS to navigate IFR. I have yet to fly an IFR rated airplane that used GPS as sole-source navigation. I will give you that - if we disable the existing VOR/DME?NDB infrastructure then we NEED to have a backup. Right now the solution appears to be the excellent and very hard to jam LORAN system. Speaking of jamming, that is the ONE real weakness of GPS. It is easy to jam in a small area, since the signal strenght is low. LORAN is next to impossible to jam without using a huge amount of power and a very large antenna - something on the order of an AM broadcast station. IIACP (i am a commercial pilot)
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>> likewise, you can't alter your behavior to prevent terrorist attacks. if the west acceded to every demand from violent jihadists, would violent jihadist become pastoral sheep farmers? no, they would go right on with their bloody agenda, they would just find some other lame excuse, because the root of their motivation is not the behavior of the west >> This is maybe 50% correct. It isn't what we do AT HOME that they care about. We (the West) support regimes that they HATE, like Saudi Arabia and Israel. If we nuked Tel Aviv and killed all the Saudi Princes many of the Jihadists would be satisfied. Since that isn't too likely.........
What kind of background check are you going to run on USA citizen HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS? Maybe you should have a security clearance to learn to fly airplanes or rent a Ryder truck too.
There is a pee test for terrorism? I *read about* ahem *cough* *cough* that high school kids in decades past figured this stuff out WITHOUT either the internet OR a formal class.
We have a long tradition of distrusting ANY government, even our own. We also have a shorter tradition of Marxist-Lenninist-Leftists who mainly populate colleges and college towns who think it is a sign of sophistication to look down on "patriotic flag waving truck driving gun toting stupid NASCAR fan redneck racist morons" and embrace European leftist views on the world. We had plenty of "useful idiots" who thought Stalin was a true beacon of liberty. We (the rest of us) got so used to them calling ANYONE even slightly conservative a moronic fascist that all the "Bush is an idiot- Bush is a warmonger, Bush is a fascist" rhetoric was ignored because they say that about EVERY Republican president. Just like a stopped clock, every now and then they might be right, but too late now, he got re-elected. BTW, we are SO different than any Nordic country you can't really compare. If you took a community of Swedes or Norwegians from Minnesota that have a high average income, high levels of education, and very low levels of crime and gave them their own island, THEN you would have Iceland-USA*. When Iceland starts having illegal immigrants numbering nearly 5% of the population and have elementary schools where the student body speaks 20 or more different languages at home then you might start to see what we deal with. *There was a famous quote by someone when a Swedish politician remarked on there being no poverty in Sweden and the American politician remarking that there was no poverty in Swedish communities in the USA either.
On the down side, you get Israel where the two major parties are always about 49% of the votes, so some nutcase ultra-(left/right/up/down/whatever) party calls the shots when literally 99% of the population thinks they're nuts.
By traditional I meant Marx-Lenin-Mao communism, not hippy communes. Northern Europen Socialism is MUCH different form old USSR socialism. Governments have an incentive to run their socialist programs well or be voted out. The Soviet Union could just kill their critics and sometimes did just that. The UK has nationalized and then privatized various industries as political parties came and went. By it's nature socialism run by free people lacks the odious cooercive aspetcs. You are right of course that it matters little to a dying camp inmate if Stalin or Hitler put him there, but it is much easier to MAKE a Hitler-style dictatorship than a Communist one. Hitler at first went after marginal groups and tinkered at the edge of things. Big industrial concers were co-opted, not wholesale taken over. Lenin had to "break a few eggs and then some" to turn Russia into the USSR. There was not much gradual about it.
Good post! I must point out that traditional communism WILL NOT happen in a free society. People just don't behave that way naturally to any great extent outside of small family groups. You have to MAKE THEM do it. Thus Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, blood drenched butchers all. Northern European socialism is quite different. They can vote to end it next week if they really don't like it. Also note: Dictatorship = Dictator controls population with cooperation of some major industrial powers. Communist Dictatorship - Government controls and owns industry directly. Required Bush Joke #36- Industry controls and owns government here in USA.