Crap Throwing Monkey

2-2, split decision so far. I'll assume IowaBill's a "no", since I don't have a PhD...but no one else has an opinion?

...and socially well-adjusted. Hell, he makes ME appear socially well-adjusted.

Of course, a bacteriophage isn't going to hurt anyone who isn't an infectious microbe. So aside from BF or T-Bone, we're all safe...

Iran doesn't have "warships". They have rowboats stocked with RPGs. The lucky ones get outboard motors.

That's why daughters are God's revenge on fathers. Or, as I once heard a father of 3 boys tell a father of 2 girls: "I'm so lucky, I've only got three dicks to worry about. You've got thousands." (That one's for you, JSP.)

Hey, they're letting KurtGoebbels stick around. Just because they spew nonsense doesn't mean they don't add value to the board. Specifically, the value of being a counter-example to others.

You're my hero...

That's just wrong...

I think I'd hate growing up nowadays (hell, I hate to see kids growing up nowadays as it is). The tendency now is to keep children too sheltered, too protected...and too distracted so parents don't have to deal with them (why else to minivans come with DVD players standard now?) A big side-effect of all that is that, generally speaking, being a child today requires much less imagination than it did when I was a kid in the '70s. Kids I see these days are being brought up unprepared for the unexpected - their experience of growing up is more about avoiding experiences that test their limits and encourage varied social interaction, and about play and leisure that stimulate the senses rather than the mind. I contrast that to when I grew up, reading books instead of watching DVDs and cable TV, or playing board or card games (or Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots ) instead of XBox. Then I contrast that to my grandmother's generation, who grew up in the Depression entertaining themselves with a barrel hoop and a stick for hours. One could make a case that the relative "strength" of a generation is very dependent on the imagination the were required to exercise growing up ("The Greatest Generation", after all, had to exercise a lot of imagination at play during the Depression, and learned a lot of responsibility and resourcefulness doing so). In which case, our current generation of children, being raised as they are in an anti-bacterial, risk averse, "You stubbed your toe, I'm going to sue, now shut up and play your video game" society, is royally screwed. Which makes me glad I was only partially screwed up by the '70s, and not totally screwed up by the 2000's.

What the !@#$? Someone needs to remind her that the Divine Right of Kings went out of vogue with the Renaissance.

If you want to read it, fine. I can just as easily PM it to you. The question, though, is not "Who wants to read it?" It's "Who wants KurtGoebbels to read it?"

So I finally unpacked my library, got to all my source material on Dresden, and wrote up a LONG post explaining in detail Dresden's industrial role in WWII, it's importance as a rail yard, the details of the raid, and various other discussion of points that KurtGoebbels, in his inimitable idiocy, consistently gets completely incorrect. Who here thinks I should post it and cure his ignorance? And who, on the other hand, would like to continue to see him remain greviously uninformed and flounder some more in his stupidity?

PCRM is not an excellent resource for information. They're a front for PETA - not just "affiliated with", but actually run by PETA - intended solely to promote and advance PETA's platform.

Doesn't matter. All triangles have an area of half the base times height.

I'll give you that...if you also realize that achieving that level of rank is often as much (or more so) a result of political ability as it is military ability. Batiste, I actually have a measure of respect for, as I actually know something about how he handled his division. The rest of them...Becton, for example, did command VII Corps. He also retired a quarter-century ago. His knowledge of the Iran situation may very well be little better than any of ours. Ditto Johns and Shanahan. Most of them aren't just retired, they're long retired (quite a few - Shanahan, for instance - before anti-American Islamic extremism and the modern Middle East even existed). If many of these people had been on the ball for the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis, Iran wouldn't be an issue now. The only two I'd truly trust at face value off that letter TPS linked to are Generals Hoar and Kennedy...though it's also important to note that their performance directly related to the issue they're commenting on is spotty, at best. CENTCOM's performance under Hoar - Somalia, anyone? - was questionable; Kennedy, due to her rank and position in the late 90's, has to share some blame for 9/11, and maybe even Iraq. (Doubt it...but I could make a case for it.) It's also important to note that Kennedy also seems to have had a rabidly pro-Clinton, anti-Bush axe to grind since before Bush was even president; her justifications keep changing, but she's consistently against Bush.

You have to excuse mead107, he's...uh...well, he's something you have to excuse.

Or a little simpler, I think: you have two unknowns, the original height of the triangle (call it "h"), and the original area of the triangle ("a"). You know that half of the quantity base times height is the area, so a = (8*h)/2, and (a + 96) = (24*h)/2 ("24" coming from 8*3*h). Solve the first for "a" in terms of "h", which is just completing the division by two on the right hand side, so a = 4*h. Then substitute that into the second equation: 4*h + 96 = (24*h)/2 ...and solve (complete division by 2 on the RHS to get 4h + 96 = 12h, subtract 4h from each side to get 96 = 8h, divide by 8 and h = 12). That's nothing different from what anyone else did above me...but it might be clearer to some people the way I wrote it out.

"Impressive"? How many of them had you actually heard of before you read that link?

Shhhhhh. Not now, dear. The wife's avatar just got home...

Right. Let's compare avatars...

"What do you make of this?" "Well, I can make a hat...or a brooch...or a pterodactyl..."

Norman Einstein, specifically...

Every day's a great day not having to deal with Da Big Bonehead. Wish you could have a great day once in a while, NG...

USACE, however, is one of the few government organizations I'd trust to be competent.