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He Hit The Brakes And I Flew Right By

May 14, 2015, 4:59 pm
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Yesterday while I was hanging with the boys I missed that it was Top Gun Day.

I must have been pinned against the canopy.

I can't believe that it got past me this year, my breath has been taken away, my nerves are shaken, my brain rattled.

There's nothing left but to haul rubber dog shit from Hong Kong, that is if I ever get out of hack.
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Florida National Guard Mosin

May 14, 2015, 8:30 pm
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The $1,900 Mosin could very well be one of the guns shipped to the Florida guard during the run-up for World War One.

There's one on display at the Florida Capital Building.




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Wait What?

May 14, 2015, 8:40 pm
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse and not a valid defense.

Qualified immunity is checking to see if it's reasonable for a cop to be ignorant of the laws he's breaking?  And if so, then it's OK for him to violate the law and or my rights?

That can't be right, can it?
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Resolved

May 15, 2015, 4:56 am
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The silence from the seller was broken by an email containing a tracking number.

Hurray!  Their printer works and UPS has accepted their money!

It's now in the purgatory of labeled and ready to ship, but not yet subject to the tender mercies of the UPS driver.
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Which Will Get More Coverage

May 15, 2015, 11:51 am
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Charles Manson gets paroled to Hell the same day BB King heads up.

I'm guessing BB because the source for Chuckie is specious.  Still, too good to fact check!
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Remember

May 15, 2015, 1:11 pm
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If you're paying to see a film, you're paying for more than the film.

Not once cent of my money is going to be spent watching anything Eve Ensler is attached to, especially if it's great.

Better to not see it than to give her any reward at all.
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Apathy

May 15, 2015, 2:21 pm
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"Have you eaten anything today?"

Why would I?
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You Can WHAT?

May 15, 2015, 7:14 pm
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Apparently you can order custom M&M's with a photo on them.

FuzzyGeff suggested traditional USMC artwork.

If they fill the order, you can literally have someone eat a bag of dicks.

Mind.

Blown.
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Language

May 16, 2015, 4:53 am
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That might be the most times I've heard a friend say "fucking" since I met him, and all in one paragraph.

Points for proper military usage!

I have to say that his wife earned whatever retaliation he deems appropriate for this one.

For fuck's sake.
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Modern Example

May 17, 2015, 10:04 am
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Link to FoxNews.

If the Air Force does have such a rule then they've issued an order demanding prior restraint on speech.

That particular legal road is very well paved.

You give up a lot of your everyday rights when you serve, but you don't give up the right to worship or the right to believe in your faith.

Him saying that he believes his talent and success come from God isn't proselytizing any more than a football player yelling, "thanks Mom!" after making a goal is a demand that we begin to worship a wide receiver's female parent.

Proselytizing is an active attempt to recruit someone to your religion.

I think the Air Force has issued an unlawful order here.

Also, the people who demand to never even hear about the faith of others are fucking morons.

Cue the What About Islam Dancers and I'll note that those fucking morons are getting their panties in a wad over a Christian's passive attribution of success to his faith while actively ignoring far more egregious active work by Muslims here and abroad.

When I see Freedom From Religion (and like organizations) surrounding a mosque protesting honor killings I will, perhaps, believe that they're not just pure anti-Christian whackos.

PS:  MRFF's STATED target is exactly and explicitly anti-Christian...
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Dear Google

May 17, 2015, 10:42 am
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Dear Google...

When searching for a shift knob, and I specify a thread like "9/16-18" that means I want to see results with those threads.

3/8-16 is not the same at all.

I know, I know it's more common; but that's why put the 9/16-18 modifier in the search.
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Wrong ID Sir

May 17, 2015, 12:41 pm
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Katerina is not a cut-down Mosin-Nagant Model 1891 Infantry Rifle.



She's an upgraded Mosin Nagant Model 1891 Dragoon Rifle; also known as an ex-Dragoon.  The upgrade most likely took place in the late 1960's to early 1970's!  Wow.

This also explains the Chatellerault receiver since by 1922 many older 1891 guns were being broken down and parts recycled back into the production line.

Collecting is fun because you keep learning about the things you collect.
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A Vote In The UN You Say

May 17, 2015, 1:23 pm
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I Said What Now?

May 17, 2015, 5:02 pm
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I think I've mastered a new form of non-communication.

I'll say something that seems thoughtful or clever at the moment of creation; that upon review is a non-sequitur.

Instead of babbling incoherently, I am clearly enunciating incoherently.
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Tracking Numbers

May 17, 2015, 6:22 pm
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When you're expecting something you're excited about...

Click - No change in status.

Wait, at most, an hour...

Click - No change in status.

Wait, at most, an hour...

Click - No change in status.

Wait, at most, an hour...

Click - No change in status.

Wait, at most, an hour...

Click - No change in status.

Wait, at most, an hour...

Click - No change in status.

Wait, at most, an hour...

Click - No change in status.

Wait, at most, an hour...

Click - No change in status.

Wait, at most, an hour...

Click - No change in status.

Wait, at most, an hour...

Click - Package has been scanned in the same place it was before.

Scream.

Wait, at most, an hour...

Click - No change in status.
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Oh That's It

May 17, 2015, 8:21 pm
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It suddenly occurs to me that many of the people I've given up talking politics with don't know or understand the theory that our government is supposed to operate under.

Without that theoretical understanding, of course, they cannot see why I say it's broken or why their cherished laws and programs would be unconstitutional.

I'm willing to bet they're uninterested in learning the theory too.  Not least of which because it might include an admission that I knew what I was talking about.
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Lancers Dragoons and Cavalry

May 18, 2015, 10:22 am
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Or in America, Cavalry... because any soldier on a horse is cavalry.

But out west the cavalry is more accurately described as dragoons.

Dragoons are mounted infantry, that is they ride up to where the battle will take place, dismount and fight.

Cavalry stays mounted for the battle.

Lancers are cavalry who use a spear or lance instead of a saber.

In the US it's muddied because we issued a saber to our dragoons and called them cavalry.  I am sure there were some Civil War vets who grumbled that things were different in the old Cav.

In Europe the lines were more sharply drawn.  Dragoons got carbines or short rifles and a bayonet.  Lancers got a spear they called a lance and may or may not have gotten a carbine.  Cavalry got a carbine and a saber.

At one point there was a different long arm for each of them (although lancers and cavalry tended to share rifle designs), and another for the cannon cockers.

It was all of these fine distinctions that drove England to the idea of a short rifle, or one rifle for all troops, infantry, artillery, cavalry, dragoons...  That became the Short Magazine Lee Enfield derived from the much longer Lee-Metford.

The short rifle idea really caught on and by WW2 everyone was doing it.

Another funny bit is modern mechanized infantry are also something of dragoons.  They ride up to where the fight is, dismount and fight.
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Can Someone Explain

May 18, 2015, 6:15 pm
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Communication

May 18, 2015, 7:33 pm
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Sellers, when you generate the tracking number and send it to the buyer, you're not finished communicating.

Getting that tracking number establishes an expectation that the parcel will begin moving in the system.

If the shipper you've selected fails to pick up the package two days running, you should really send out a message to the buyers that it will be delayed somewhat and to adjust their expectations.
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Computators

May 19, 2015, 5:00 am
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The standard Traveller shipboard computer is positively ancient in design.  Like a couple of hundred years old by Imperial 1110.

Where computers ship-board are actually state of the art are in places that don't deal with space traffic control and routine operations; like gunnery.  Targeting will be state of the art because there's an edge there.

A huge plus to the age of the hardware is that every line of code has been tested in every combination.  You don't get a blue screen of death from a software glitch, if something is wrong it's physical.  A failed component.

As an aside... while the components are very solid and reliable, space is such that you need to carry spares (Paging Malcolm Reynolds... pick up the white courtesy phone) or be able to make your own replacement parts.

An item I include in every ship design I've made with GURPS: Traveller's modular ship design system is a complete shop.  At GURPS TL10 it's an amazing piece of kit, and it only sucks up a whopping dTon of space.  Small enough to fit even a Type-S.  If something breaks in hyperspace, where are you going to go for parts?  Wouldn't it have been nice to have been able to make a replacement catalyzer rather than get gut-shot?

A additive manufacturing process will definitely include the means to make replacement, standard computer components.
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