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2 minutes ago, redtail hawk said:
make up your mind: good or bad?. Was the bag incident near the Eiffel Tower? you're never alone with a schizophrenic...
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There's no incongruency in the post.
Versailles, Mont St. Michel and Normandy are not Paris.
I kind of like Paris, but there are unpleasant elements.
Been to the others as well.
Normandy is really cool.
Got to fold the flag when it was hauled down at the American cemetery at Taps.
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10 hours ago, That's No Moon said:
A 6 year old in VA shot his teacher during class. Direct me to the Legislature's effort to fix that. Protect the children though. 🙄
The mother was charged, under existing Virginia law, with felony child neglect and recklessly leaving a fire arm to endanger a child.
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1 hour ago, The Frankish Reich said:
So ... you disagree with another poster who quoted an article saying that we need to eliminate all these "buy American" things, and you favor a "buy American" thing?
Is it possible for you to not extend what I said with something I didn't?
What I said is that China has tilted the trade table far in its favor vis a vis the US, and when that occurs, response is reasonable and necessary.
Walk around Beijing or Shanghai and find the prices charged for genuine US products.
It's outrageous how they put tariffs on them, and that doesn't even address the piracy they practice in producing patented US goods.
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3 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:
Oh, you mean the CONTINUATION of the Trump tariffs that drove up the cost of my new fridge?
Is there a free trader anywhere among the Republican candidates?? Please find me one.
In order for there to be free trade, there has to be fair trade, ie., both sides have to play fair.
Have you ever been to China?
Have you seen what they do to American products sold there?
Of course that doesn't include the products they stole and knocked off.
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48 minutes ago, redtail hawk said:
keep trying to get traction. maybe a log under the back wheels. or buy a 4 wheel drive next time....
Interesting you should offer unsolicited advice on "traction."
I seem to being just fine in that regard in both ambulatory and verbal pursuits, unlike the subject at hand, who stumbles near daily in both.
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15 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
Biden ain't the one running like a Putin away from debating. This cry baby is blubbering out that everything, and everyone is unfair to him. MAGA agrees, because they agree with everything Trump does and says
His isn't running, they are hiding him because of his obvious to everyone infirmity.
It has noting to do with Trump.
Biden is significantly diminished, and he didn't start from a high point to begin with.
and God save the queen.
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The Christmas bombing of Hanoi, mentioned above, resulted in the ceasefire a month later.
Prior to that the North was torturing POWs and refused to discuss release, resulting in the White House decision to launce operation Linebacker II.
Anybody who understands anything about that debacle lays it flat of the feet of LBJ and Robert McNamara.
Pure governmental insanity.
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On 6/24/2023 at 10:40 PM, ExiledInIllinois said:
You'd think... They'd have a REMOTE "BlackBox" and sound bouy in place nearby to record every detail up until the last 40th millisecond the implosion went off. Would help the investigation.
It didn't have a data recorder, but did have a transponder which was completely autonomous from the vessel, ie., had its own separate power supply etc.
Given that the transponder stopped signaling at the same time communication was lost and research as well as intel listening devices picked up the big bang was a very strong indication the rescue attempt was irrelevant.
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5 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
Where Is Putin? His Presidential Jets Have Left Moscow
Who cares, and why does it matter?
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2 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said:
Nature of the news cycle.
I don't think the Navy had any grand conspiracy plans.
The Navy doesn't have a conspiracy component.
They do what they are tasked to do, and busy enough with that.
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1 minute ago, boyst said:
The story hid a bunch of other crap, more importantly.
What exactly are you inferring?
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7 hours ago, SCBills said:
I think we knew almost immediately and maybe didn’t realize how big the story would get and/or weren’t 100% sure so we let it play out.
I also hate that I can’t rule out psy-op.
Not that it was planned, just that letting this play out was very convenient for the leader of this country.
I am certain that they didn't know for certain that what they heard was the hull failure.
Now that the failure is confirmed they are probably sure that was it, but they hear lots of stuff all the time.
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6 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said:
SUPPOSEDLY the US Navy picked up the acoustics right after the sub went missing.
Wow... That's scary. How does the Navy hear that?
The US runs a very effective underwater listening system.
That's why the Walker Spy Ring, which revealed in to the Soviets, along with daily Naval communication codes was so incredibly damaging.
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3 hours ago, Limeaid said:
Deep sea. Not sure I could withstand the G forces of liftoff.
Not in that little craft which is probably lost though.
In a bathyscaphe - I have been in once when working. Did not go very deep however.
The forces at liftoff are not that great.
Space for me, but not the way it is now.
I am more an a Apollo era guy.
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Evening before. Unwrap, rinse, dry, remove bone-side membrane, put on any rub and let sit, uncovered in refrigerator.
Day of. Take out of refrigerator for an hour and a half before putting on grill.
Use only lump charcoal, never briquettes. A chimney starter full of lump get lit, once it's going good into the grill on one side only, making certain large lumps are at bottom to ensure better air flow. Add about have a chimney more lump and mix it in.
Set the grill up for indirect cooking. Heat on one side, ribs on the other. I use a Primo XL Kamado,
Put temp probe on grill grate where ribs will be. I use 225f. Once its stabilized at 225 at the meat height, on they go, meat side up.
After three hours check them and put them in foil, adding any moisture if I want. Now in foil, back on grill meat side down.
After one hour, and no more, take them out of foil and decide how to finish them. Usually I don't add anything. Back on grill meat side up for one hour.
I don't sauce them on grill. I let each person do that on their plate, but the sauce is at room temp.
If doing more ribs than I have room to lay down on grill, I put the rack in a circle and use a metal skewer to hold them in that position. For the last 15 mins I take out skewer and lay them flat over coals.
I'm not a fan of briquettes because of the amount of binder used in them. Haven't used them for years. Only lump.
I don't put any smoking wood in. I don't think they need it. The Komados are very efficient charcoal consumers, so it really doesn't take that much.
I used a DigiQ tem controller for years, but now I don't always use one because I've gotten good at holding 225 by vent placement. I do use it when I want extremely accurate temp control, like on a higher end beef on weck low and slow with a top sirloin roast.
I don't know if it's me or what, but it seems the quality and taste of the ribs has diminished slightly since covid.
I get them at Cosco, which is always better than retail grocery stores for meat,
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1 hour ago, Tiberius said:
Are you talking about proximity fuses?
Ya.
They all use active proximity fuses, but without getting into a huge discussion on fusing a missile, the objective is to keep the warhead as small as possible so the missile is lighter and more maneuverable.
In the old days of butt shots, if the shooter and the target were roughly the same speed, the closure would be simply the missiles speed, nominally, a bit more than mach. The two aircraft would cancel each other out.
In a head on shot, a Sidewinder L variant or later, for example, the closure speed is (launch aircraft+missile velocity+target velocity), so let's say close to mach 2 to 3.
That means the fuse has tremendously less time to determine where the target is, (these are "aimed" blasts, not simply explosions), send the command and allow for detonation and get the shrap into the target.
A US F-18 drilled an Iraqi Mig with a Sidewinder right at the min range for a headon, and is was figured to be right around a mach 3 end game.
Obviously, a hyper would challenge to solve a mach 6 kill zone time period.
That is really, really hard.
Still, there are other ways.
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Typically, the most challenging problem is not tracking, it is fusing.
The closure speeds are so incredible that the kill zone time is milliseconds or less, and fuses just aren't fast enough.
Solving that problem is what allowed the US to pioneer all aspect heat seekers, ie., no more need to bbe looking up the tailpipe when firing, you could shoot them in the face.
That's why we called the Sidewinder variant that was developed as an all aspect missile the "Lipwinder."
There are other ways to engage hypers.
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1 hour ago, BillsShredder83 said:
Not defending a Pat and who knows dude could just be a scumbag. But federal gun laws are tricky af. Hunters and law abiding gun owners get popped on the confusion of these all the time.
No if he was trying to carry it on sure, f him. But if it was checked, I'll reserve judgement till we hear more.
The link claims it was in a carry on, so not checked.
Checked isn't a problem, if you know the rules.
Having one in a bag at a TSA screening area is, unless you are in the group that it is allowed.
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6 hours ago, B-Man said:
GOD SAVE US ALL
Maybe there is a good reason why Joe Biden would wind up a speech in Connecticut with “God save the Queen.”
Although I can’t imagine, offhand, what it might be. And maybe Joe hasn’t gotten the news about the Queen’s demise. It’s hard to say. He leaves the stage with his usual panache, too:
BIDEN: “God save the Queen!"
He’s in Connecticut. And the Queen is dead…Karine Jean-Pierre will probably claim that he wasn't talking about "that" queen.
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I'm over the guy.
He's past the point of no return.
I hope he comes around and does well for us, but I'm done with him.
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3 minutes ago, John from Riverside said:
I have not heard her speak since the last debates that is how little I actually see of her on a script. She knows how to talk.
but talking doesn’t make a vice president I would not be comfortable with her being the president United States
Are you serious?
There is an entire youtube industry based on her incompetent and incomprehensible quotes.
She is a laughing stock.
Pure brilliance, and this is the norm for her.
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8 minutes ago, Pokebball said:
The federal government simply failed in securing documents. There's an entire department responsible for this for pete's sake. It shouldn't have happened.
It is an obvious truth that some systemic problems exist and have been apparent for a number of years.
But.....There is no excuse for these people to mishandle documents that they knew were never to be in the places they were ultimately found.
There is no excuse that "my staff did it and I didn't know."
You know, the Nancy Pelosi horsecrap that she didn't know about enhanced interrogation techniques while a member of the House Intel Committee because she sent a staff member to the CIA brief that explained that, and that staff member never told her?
Disgraceful.
That is gross BS that would get any military officer fired within minutes.
I don't think indictments are in order unless someone committed obvious sabotage or tried to make money or gain some other advantage off of them, but this is pure nonsense.
Prosecutorial discretion should prevail, but there is no excuse.
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45 minutes ago, Boatdrinks said:
Fat useless bloviator.
Yet way more intelligent, qualified and mentally functional than the frontrunners of either party.
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Kamikaze candidate.
Aimed at Trump, and I hope it works out.
Either way, all better than Biden.
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France.. Y’all good?
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Funniest thing I ever saw there.
Right after 9/11, US airline crews had to stay at an airport instead of the normal, contractual downtown hotels, and Charles De Gaulle airport is far away from anything fun.
So, they set up this thing where two times a day a bus would drive you downtown and drop off at L'Opera, picking up twice a day much later.
I always did that.
One day on the bus, we had arrived in the city. Most everyone on the bus was asleep, but I wasn't. I was on the right side and I could see this little battle going on between this old guy in a small car with his wife and our driver. The traffic was quite heavy and the old guy was trying to get into our lane. The bus driver wouldn't let him in. I could see the guy and the bus driver gesturing unkindly to each other.
After about three traffic lights of this escalating situation, we were stopped at a light and the old guy gets out of his car and approaches the bus. The bus driver opens the door, goes down the stairs and while they scream at each other, our bus driver head buts the guy. The guy's head is bleeding and his wife gets out and they start screaming. Bus driver comes up the stairs and gets in his seat and off we go. About two lights later, a cop blocks the bus, comes in and arrests the driver, leaving our bus about two blocks from L'Opera in the left turn lane.
We all just got out and walked.