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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 8:53:39 AM

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Also, an interesting tidbit. I decided to watch Band of Brothers for the umpteenth time the other day, and then went to Google a few things I was wondering about. Came upon a bit of info I found facinating. It seems that the neither the 506 PIR nor the 501 were part of 101 ABD TO&E for the entire war (seems it was only the 502, the two glider regts and an airborne arty btn, everything else was attched). The 506 was officially attached only after the German surrender and the 501 never was. Although when the division was reactivated in the 50s, it was made up of the 501, 502 and 506.

It was even stranger with the 82nd. They started the war with 505, 504 and 2 glider regts). Seems they left the 504 in Italy and jumped into Normandy with 2 attached PIRs, one of which they kept for the duration. Not sure what happened to the second one.

Anyway, thought someone would find that interesting.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, I'm not sure if the 82nd had one glider regiment or 2.

Interesting stuff. The 501st and the 506th went on to Fight in Vietnam at Hamburger Hill and at the battle of FSB Ripcord I believe.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 8:54:08 AM

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And a new Page

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 12:10:39 PM

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Good morning - tithe.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 12:15:37 PM

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Good afternoon. Just finished authoring my first managemant pack for Ops Manager. My head hurts.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 12:21:04 PM

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Morning tithe.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 12:22:05 PM

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Good afternoon. Just finished authoring my first managemant pack for Ops Manager. My head hurts.

I'm not sure what that is but I imagine youre glad its done.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 2:31:35 PM

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As a side note... anyone here playing "EVE Online"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Online

No answers... thus it is most likely that nobody here played it... I heard it is Elite-sque and I loved Elite 20+ years ago... my first truly "drug" game...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 2:54:33 PM

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I Loved "Elite", apart from matching rotation with that space station.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 3:09:06 PM

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Not sure which is worse an EF-3 or F-5
14 were killed in my hometown
http://charlescitypress.blogspot.com/2008/04/1968-charles-city-tornado.html
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/?n=may151968newspapersaccounts
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/Image/arx/May_15_1968/newspaper/cedarrapidsgazette/05161968page1.pdf
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/Image/arx/May_15_1968/newspaper/cedarrapidsgazette/05171968page1.pdf

EF-5 is pretty nasty stuff. Pretty rare. IIRC, sustained winds of >200MPH, pulls up pavement, no standing structures of pretty much any sort survive.

When I lived in Dallas in 1979, Wichita Falls and N. Texas got whalloped by a tornado cluster. April 10th, 1979 sucked if you lived around there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Red_River_Valley_tornado_outbreak

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 3:10:20 PM

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And a good morning tithe.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 4:22:09 PM

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Not sure which is worse an EF-3 or F-5
14 were killed in my hometown
http://charlescitypress.blogspot.com/2008/04/1968-charles-city-tornado.html
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/?n=may151968newspapersaccounts
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/Image/arx/May_15_1968/newspaper/cedarrapidsgazette/05161968page1.pdf
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/Image/arx/May_15_1968/newspaper/cedarrapidsgazette/05171968page1.pdf

EF-5 is pretty nasty stuff. Pretty rare. IIRC, sustained winds of >200MPH, pulls up pavement, no standing structures of pretty much any sort survive.

When I lived in Dallas in 1979, Wichita Falls and N. Texas got whalloped by a tornado cluster. April 10th, 1979 sucked if you lived around there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Red_River_Valley_tornado_outbreak

Today's the 10th anniversary of the tornado that went through Ft. Worth. Could see the clouds from the office at the time.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 4:39:03 PM

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 4:39:35 PM

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 4:40:51 PM

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 4:41:13 PM

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 4:43:57 PM

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College Math

Math Department Math

1000 + 1000 = 2000

Psychology Department Math

100 minutes > 60 minutes, sorry, we'll have to continue this next week.

Accounting Department Math

$1000 = $725 after taxes.

Accounting Department Honors Program Math

$1000 = $1275 after taxes.

Economics Department Math

1000 + 1000 = 1650, adjusting for diminishing marginal utility, but assume 2000.

English Department Math

2000 words = 4 pages.

+Double Spacing = 8 pages.

+Offset block quotes = 9 pages.

+Courier New = Required 10 page minimum.

Philosophy Department Math

1000 = Distance to the door.

500 = Half the distance.

250 = Half that.

125 = Half that.

62.5 = Half that, etc, ad infinitium, you can never reach the door, but I see all of you leaving, and thus we know that our entire experitial existence is mere illusion. QED. See you next week, please don't drop the class, it's an easy A.

Education Department Math

1 to 10 = Ratio of future teachers to future house wives.

Theater Department Math

1 to 1000 = Ratio of future actors to future actor/waiters.

Gender Studies Department Math

$1.00 = $0.70 for women doing the same work, where $0.70 = $0.97 when taking into consideration education, experience, seniority, job title and statistical integrity.

Law School Math

$160,000 = $350,000, a BMW, and bottle poppin' girls (if I'd have gone to business school instead).

Graduate Math Department Math

Induced subgraphs of a graph all have simple vertices if and only if the graph is a sun-free chordal graph, because each property holds if and only if the maximal cliques of the graph form a totally balanced hypergraph. Screw numbers.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 4:45:08 PM

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 4:53:56 PM

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 5:47:52 PM

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Drive-by tithe... One more day, and then it's five-day weekend time...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 6:11:15 PM

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: scott1964

Not sure which is worse an EF-3 or F-5
14 were killed in my hometown
http://charlescitypress.blogspot.com/2008/04/1968-charles-city-tornado.html
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/?n=may151968newspapersaccounts
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/Image/arx/May_15_1968/newspaper/cedarrapidsgazette/05161968page1.pdf
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/Image/arx/May_15_1968/newspaper/cedarrapidsgazette/05171968page1.pdf

EF-5 is pretty nasty stuff. Pretty rare. IIRC, sustained winds of >200MPH, pulls up pavement, no standing structures of pretty much any sort survive.

When I lived in Dallas in 1979, Wichita Falls and N. Texas got whalloped by a tornado cluster. April 10th, 1979 sucked if you lived around there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Red_River_Valley_tornado_outbreak

The tornado that hit High Point Sunday night had estimated internal winds that barely put it into a category EF-3. Those produce damage that is generally destructive. EF-4 and EF-5 are more in the castastrophic range--whatever they hit gets gone..

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 6:49:40 PM

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: scott1964

Not sure which is worse an EF-3 or F-5
14 were killed in my hometown
http://charlescitypress.blogspot.com/2008/04/1968-charles-city-tornado.html
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/?n=may151968newspapersaccounts
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/Image/arx/May_15_1968/newspaper/cedarrapidsgazette/05161968page1.pdf
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/Image/arx/May_15_1968/newspaper/cedarrapidsgazette/05171968page1.pdf

EF-5 is pretty nasty stuff. Pretty rare. IIRC, sustained winds of >200MPH, pulls up pavement, no standing structures of pretty much any sort survive.

When I lived in Dallas in 1979, Wichita Falls and N. Texas got whalloped by a tornado cluster. April 10th, 1979 sucked if you lived around there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Red_River_Valley_tornado_outbreak

The tornado that hit High Point Sunday night had estimated internal winds that barely put it into a category EF-3. Those produce damage that is generally destructive. EF-4 and EF-5 are more in the castastrophic range--whatever they hit gets gone..

One f-5 is way too much, but my hometown had two at once.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 7:12:25 PM

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Today and tomorrow and then a five-day weekend tithe...

Have a nice Easter vacation Kristian!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 8:52:52 PM

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I Loved "Elite", apart from matching rotation with that space station.

I had it on Commodore 64... played it for hours and hours...

At the beginning when you had no money (and no docking computer) you had to manually dock on station... it was pure joy to rotate and match the station rotation and then enter it...

Leo "Apollo11"

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 9:02:06 PM

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I had it on a speccy.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 9:49:40 PM

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Ooooo...someone who actually used a Sinclair......

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 10:18:32 PM

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Taxes are finally done.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 10:33:02 PM

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Hi all,

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ORIGINAL: sprior

I Loved "Elite", apart from matching rotation with that space station.

I had it on Commodore 64... played it for hours and hours...

At the beginning when you had no money (and no docking computer) you had to manually dock on station... it was pure joy to rotate and match the station rotation and then enter it...

Leo "Apollo11"

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 10:33:31 PM

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G'night gents

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 11:09:54 PM

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Post work tithe.

You wouldnt believe how hard it is to find a decent tea kettle in this town.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/30/2010 11:10:50 PM

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Hi all,

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As a side note... anyone here playing "EVE Online"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Online

No answers... thus it is most likely that nobody here played it... I heard it is Elite-sque and I loved Elite 20+ years ago... my first truly "drug" game...

Leo "Apollo11"

I've certainly heard of it. What I heard is that the older, established players gang up on the noobs, making it virtually unplayable. But I never had the interest to find out.

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