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by bdunbar 9y ago
Interesting. I'm not sure I could do that: I'd want to talk shop, badly. I read - years ago - that the most active combat was in the area around London. Not a small area, but it allowed RAF to move squadrons to lower threat areas
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by bdunbar 9y ago
- In 1991 4th Brigade was kept afloat in the Gulf, forcing the Iraqi army to devote resources to protecting beaches in and around Kuwait, and away from the border where the actual assault took place. Then they snuck the brigade ashore and
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by bdunbar 9y ago
They forget their own history, too. A battle in 1942 was lost, badly, because the USN crews were zonked from a routine that gave them almost no chance for sleep.
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by bdunbar 10y ago
> > Everyone knows someone > No they don't. Could be you are a deaf and mute yak herder in Outer Mongolia and suffer the heartbreak of psoriasis. Your situation is unique and you have my pity. For those of us in the mart of co
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by bdunbar 10y ago
Everyone knows someone. Build on that. You work with people. Those people know people. They know other people. Someone says 'I need a good PHP guy' and a guy in the network replies 'I know a guy, SadWebDeveloper - here is
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by bdunbar 10y ago
Thanks, and thank you for the link.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
Emacs.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
Waiting for chow, waiting for a range, waiting for the trucks to come back .. and waiting .. and waiting .. but nobody told any _drivers_ they needed to make a second run to pick up twenty marines and a small mountain of gear. Then it start
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by bdunbar 12y ago
> except to the extent that people in 1955 apparently didn't know what a "rerun" was. I believe they did not: teevee was broadcast live, and mostly not recorded. IIRC.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
> NB The novel "Arc Light" Ah! I read that '95, and recently got to wondering what the title was. Could not think of it for the life of me.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
He was with a rifle company, in mortar squad. The company was over-run during an attack, at night: Marines in fighting holes, bad guys running around in the open, a very chaotic situation. To eradicate the enemy, and save his company, he p
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by bdunbar 12y ago
"We promise SkyStrider 6 - no short rounds this time."
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by bdunbar 12y ago
> the USMC didn't buy up all of these things There was, iirc, an article in the Gazette about this. Guy ran the numbers, and it worked out okay: the Corps could run X squadrons per wing, at cost Y per year, plus buy up the spare pa
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by bdunbar 12y ago
Phht - just run some extension cords on the outside. Problem solved. Man, the DoD is just not thinking outside the box.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
My company gunny (1988) got a bronze star when, as an 19-year old mortarman in 1969, aimed his tube straight up and dropped rounds all over his company's position, saving the day. I know this because he grabbed me by the scruff of my n
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by bdunbar 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_West_Agreement
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by bdunbar 12y ago
> shun higher education in favor of strict adherence to the bible. Which passage in the Bible tells Christians to shun higher education?
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by bdunbar 12y ago
Ha. I wasn't thinking of mixing the two. Just ... while I'm at the store picking up a stick of RAM, pick up a new magazine, or a brick of .22 ammunition. Guns and drones are, however, an interesting subject. Wildly impractical,
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by bdunbar 12y ago
> Granted, they've branched off quite a bit and sell firearms and ammo A RS that sells electronics and guns. I would patronize that store so _hard_.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
It does for me.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
It ran on my 8.1 Pro 64-bit guest VM without issue.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
In my heart, Oracle will forever be a database company that was eaten alive by their sales and service organization.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
> Cisco isn't just a technology company. They're a giant sales and services organization. I recall hearing that about Sun, too. Now they're just a minor cog of a database maker.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
It's working for me.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
> While the US people thought, that their Minuteman, other missiles and strategic bombers would give some protection, Well .. _I_ never thought that. MAD is great theory, but it's got some some really bad failure modes.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
> No way to justify that. Sure there is. Like this .. We need to be able to destroy a lot of Russian tanks, and logistic tail. We'd like to be able to do this when they are beyond artillery range. Rockets are unreliable. Airplane
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by bdunbar 12y ago
Missiles. Lots and lots of missiles up there.
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by bdunbar 12y ago
> We feared an accidental launch, For a while I stood sentry at a post that, I always felt, was a candidate for attack. At least, we had a bomb shelter and drilled on relocating, and living in that thing. At 03:00 on cold mornings I wo
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by bdunbar 12y ago
> truly bizarre notions that happened during their youth: duck and cover, public bomb shelter drills, etc. Duck and cover wasn't bizarre, in context: it's a way to survive a nuclear explosion that isn't in one's lap.

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