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Guard Dog

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  1. 13 hours ago, Pidesco said:

    Curious as to what point was made, exactly? 

    That Mencken was right when he said “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

    Nailed it 80 years before it happened!

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  2. 45 minutes ago, BruceVC said:

    As long as you making progress with that old house and addressing the problems as they appear I would say its worth it ?

    Trust comes hard to people who have lost it. People who have been hard used in the past expect it in the future. I read a book once that said people only accept the love they feel they deserve. But I think anything can be worked through. 

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  3. US Marines transitions from Harrier to F-35B

    The Harrier is, if I'm not mistaken, the longest serving fixed wing airframe in the history of US military aviation. Even longer than the Catalina.  Obviously there have been numerous versions of it since it's first deployment in the sixties.  On another not it's extremely cool to see VMA-214 is still around. That unit is legendary among the "wingers". 

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  4. New relationships in middle age is like trying to renovate an old house. It might have looked good on the outside and there was definite curb appeal but once you are in you have to find and repair all the damage done by the previous residents. And sometimes it's a lot of damage. Leaky pipes behind the drywall. Asbestos in the attic. Cracked foundation. 

    Not that it isn't worth fixing. But sometimes you wonder if you even can.

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  5. @GorthHey we made it to the Rugby Sevens WC finals several times. Now the actual Rugby WC, that is a different story. In fact I suspect the FIFA Team USA could beat the Rugby Team USA.... in rugby!

    But our women's team could beat them both. In EITHER sport! 

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  6. 15 hours ago, Hurlsnot said:

    My daughter actually called me with an update shortly after I posted that. The teacher accepted her apology, but she ended up with 3/14 on the test. That was her score even with the cheating issue, so I assume she has learned that cheating is bad, and she's also not very good at it, so it isn't worth the risk. :blink:

     

    So she cheated and still failed? I think the lesson isn't that cheating is bad, it's that she's bad at cheating! :lol:

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  7. We use a software tool call TAP to plan site builds and radio deployment of private 5G networks. My job is to optimize performance on completed project sites. Mainly indoors or on premises outdoors.  More and more I'm finding that TAP has been causing some... miscalculations in propagation distance. the thing about 5G is it's utilizing channels in the EHF band. So wavelength is really, really, short. Less than a centimeter. As wavelength is directly proportional to propagation distance where power is constant distance from radios to handsets is a big deal. Well, the finished projects have blind spots and when I load them in TAP there shouldn't be. So I stopped using TAP, broke out the ol' faithful TI-36X (29 years old it's still the best calculator I've ever used) and channeled my inner Friis and calculated free space path loss and coverage arc. TAP was wrong. Every single time wrong. 

    I know a lot of my colleagues think I'm a grouchy old man who does not trust computers. Not that it isn't true. But the best computer is the one between your ears! 

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  8. 30 minutes ago, Hurlsnot said:

    I mean, that's fine if all you want to do is date. At some point you need to realize that step 3 goes both ways, and if you want a relationship, you need to work at it and accept the flaws. Honestly it's the flaws that tend to keep it interesting. 

    Said the man who got it right the first try! :lol:

    Getting it wrong a few times changes your perspective.

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  9. 3 hours ago, Mamoulian War said:

    Tanks are pretty slow to outrun it, aren't they? And NLAW should have some kind of auto targeting system. Correct me if I am wrong.

    No idea I'm afraid. The LAW & AT-4 were manually sighted. The TOW was guided. None are currently in use as far as I know. Out running a tank is not hard. Out running .30 caliber small arms fire or 105mm tank sabot is much, much harder. 

    Edit: Of course if the tank is firing HE or WP don't even both running. You'll just die tired. 

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