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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/18/2011 7:35:07 PM

Chickenboy

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...I can't just let USS Mike get *all* the INPs around here.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/18/2011 7:35:27 PM

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Ah, much better. Do carry on...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/18/2011 7:42:54 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: USS America

Here's a shot I lifted from some twitter post from the show:

i like this !! nice

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/18/2011 7:58:14 PM

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Surprised the A-10 can keep up.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/18/2011 8:08:53 PM

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: USS America

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: USS America

It's the best kind of Monday.� My son is on Spring Break, and I have hope of a good job starting soon.� We both slept in. �

Without queering the deal, what can you tell us about your optimistic job prospects, dude?

6 month contract to hire......seems 75% or more tech jobs are this way these days.....place has a software QA team in place, but needs someone as the team lead to implement best practices, etc. Right up my alley, and it would be a raise.

Sounds pretty good. Won't you miss not working though? Maybe just a little more unemployment?

Only if I have a turn to keep me occupied every day.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/18/2011 8:28:24 PM

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i like this !! nice

Me too. Being an old Army puke, the Hog is the only one that really floats my boat. Just one hell of a beautiful airplane! Especially when you are on the ground and Wonder Warthog comes wandering by.

Gee Dr Gates, I know the Air Farce are the only ones allowed to have combat airplanes; except for the Marines that belong to the Navy, and their air support frikkin works, and our (Army) air support is only on CNN, where we don't see it and it's frikkin worthless, but it helps your media re-election numbers. So could you please let the combat services have the means necessary to perform their mission? Or are you as much of an @(^^$*@% as the @(^^$*@%'s who did this in the first damn place?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/18/2011 8:38:47 PM

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Good night friends

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/18/2011 8:59:04 PM

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ORIGINAL: JWE

quote:

ORIGINAL: gladiatt
i like this !! nice

Me too. Being an old Army puke, the Hog is the only one that really floats my boat. Just one hell of a beautiful airplane! Especially when you are on the ground and Wonder Warthog comes wandering by.

Gee Dr Gates, I know the Air Farce are the only ones allowed to have combat airplanes; except for the Marines that belong to the Navy, and their air support frikkin works, and our (Army) air support is only on CNN, where we don't see it and it's frikkin worthless, but it helps your media re-election numbers. So could you please let the combat services have the means necessary to perform their mission? Or are you as much of an @(^^$*@% as the @(^^$*@%'s who did this in the first damn place?

Part of the discussion I've seen over the years regarding keeping the Air Force separate from the Army is that having three major services doing the bureaucratic infighting is more politically stable than having two.

If anything should be exempt from Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy it's national defense. Alas the Iron Law is akin to a law of physics about humans.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/18/2011 9:03:30 PM

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: JWE

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ORIGINAL: gladiatt
i like this !! nice

Me too. Being an old Army puke, the Hog is the only one that really floats my boat. Just one hell of a beautiful airplane! Especially when you are on the ground and Wonder Warthog comes wandering by.

Gee Dr Gates, I know the Air Farce are the only ones allowed to have combat airplanes; except for the Marines that belong to the Navy, and their air support frikkin works, and our (Army) air support is only on CNN, where we don't see it and it's frikkin worthless, but it helps your media re-election numbers. So could you please let the combat services have the means necessary to perform their mission? Or are you as much of an @(^^$*@% as the @(^^$*@%'s who did this in the first damn place?

Part of the discussion I've seen over the years regarding keeping the Air Force separate from the Army is that having three major services doing the bureaucratic infighting is more politically stable than having two.

If anything should be exempt from Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy it's national defense. Alas the Iron Law is akin to a law of physics about humans.

"Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions."

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/18/2011 9:17:50 PM

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Sounds about right. That plus the 'Peter principle' seem to be incorruptible dictums around some of these parts.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 2:04:25 AM

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No posts since 4?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 2:04:45 AM

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This would be the perfect time for a faber.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 2:04:59 AM

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Except that I'm too tired.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 2:05:17 AM

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And no faber material comes to mind.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 2:05:29 AM

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Maybe I could try poetry.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 2:05:41 AM

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Ah, screw it....

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 2:05:58 AM

Onime No Kyo

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Can I at least get an INP?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 2:06:48 AM

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Nah, too far to go....

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 2:24:25 AM

Chickenboy

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Lazy boy...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 2:35:39 AM

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I love O'Brianisms...

"On Thursday the doctor allowed him 'a very little swine's flesh', and since his dinner consisted of most of a sucking pig, the flesh was, indeed, that of a very little swine".

"The signal 'am charged with dispatches'....or perhaps 'Merry Christmas'...broke out on the Industry, but everyone understood it in the spirit in which it was intended, which was 'ready to part company'".

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 3:04:00 AM

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

No posts since 4?

Where 'ya been?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 3:17:02 AM

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Very bad stuff in the news today.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 3:41:21 AM

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Local weather damage? Saw some of it yesterday on the NE side of Raleigh.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 7:56:54 AM

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Good morning friends.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 8:10:24 AM

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Hi all,

Good morning!

Leo "Apollo11"

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 8:39:29 AM

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Another sunny day tithe...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 10:29:17 AM

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Hi all,

Just bought 5x "PCMCIA to USB" cards for 25 US$ including shipment via eBay for my company... plenty of old(er) IBM ThinkPad NotebBooks with just 2 USB v2.0 ports...

Leo "Apollo11"

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 12:47:08 PM

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Wow... How do you cope with such an actionpacked life?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 1:11:12 PM

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Morning tithe.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 4/19/2011 1:30:38 PM

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Hi all,

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

Wow... How do you cope with such an actionpacked life?

Leo "Apollo11"

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