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I'm a non fiction aficionado.
My favorite book ever is "Undaunted Courage," the story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, by Stephen Ambrose.
Just a fantastic story about a time when men dared greatly.
Another good one that isn't well known is "the Millionaire and the Bard," by Andrea Mays.
It's the story of Henry Folger's relentless pursuit of the original Shakespeare folios. Might not sound like that interesting of a story, but it is really great. It also gets into the creation of the Folger Shakespeare Museum in Washington, which houses the collection and is really a neat place to visit, very close to the Library of Congress.
Recently, and since I have an astronomy and space interest, I just finished "Death by Black Hole," by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
He is an astrophysicist with a real skill of explaining things that those of lesser skill in providing such explanations can butcher.
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51 minutes ago, ShadyBillsFan said:
Shift everyone 30 minutes and call it even
That screws a bunch of things up.
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Love my Hoos....but......
Their success always begins with defense, like all Bennett teams.
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19 minutes ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:
Haha. Good luck. I’m actually watching the game tonight with a friend who is a UVA alum (and obviously) a huge UVA hoops fan. I have a lot of respect for Tony Bennett. Great program. It will be unfortunate for them to have to lose in the dome tonight ?
We shall see.
I hate talking about games before they happen.
Both UVA uards were talking about the difficulty of playing in the Carrier Dome....Depth perception issues because of the size of the arena.
Still....UVA has had absolutely no problem with zones.
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19 minutes ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:
And every single one was a Mike Hopkins recruit. Boeheim doesn’t really actively recruit anymore. He sometimes will make a visit, but overall, he has been pretty hands off in the recruiting process for a long time.
It’s going to be a defensive battle. Perimeter shooting, rebounding, and converting on foul shots will decide this one. I am thankful Syracuse is at home for this one. A win would be huge.
Can't wait.
Go Hoos.
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I have a few friends who left service academies and went to Ivy League schools.
Universally, they claimed the service academies were much more challenging, for what that's worth, and their opinion eliminated the military demands,
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27 minutes ago, The_Dude said:
Oh. Let’s scrap our bombers then.
Missiles cannot come close to bomb effectiveness.
Way too much goes in to the thrust system, which does nothing to the target.
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2 hours ago, Kevbeau said:
Sherpa and yourself would know better, but I would imagine that the distance between the engines on a 14 would exacerbate the situation compared to another twin engine fighter where the engines are next to each other (15/18)
sherpa, I had read something along the lines that in order to keep the F-14 moving in a somewhat straight direction on one engine, the pilot almost had to go full rudder to compensate. Is that true?
Ya, the more distance between the engines, the greater the thrust asymmetry when one isn't working.
How much rudder ti takes to keep going straight is a function of how much thrust you ask of the good engine.
I have not flown the F-14, fought it a hundred times, so I can't answer the question from experience.
But for sure, you wouldn't want to be in full burner on one side with a failure on the other, and you would never do it, if you wanted to live.
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3 hours ago, DC Tom said:
I already said it was pilot error. I know she caused the compressor stall - she banked left, and disrupted the airflow to the left inlet. Her big mistake wasn't that, it was increasing thrust to the other engine, which was a big no-no because it induced yaw beyond rudder control. In her case, at landing speeds, it stalled the port wing. All obvious from the film.
What I did not know was if it was a one-time panic, or if she was truly unqualified. Which you just answered by saying she'd done it before. That makes it pretty obvious incompetence: if I know you don't firewall the remaining engine on an F-14A, it's not exactly an obscure point, and a pilot shouldn't even have to think about it.
You are not quite right on this Tom.
You are reading the accident report, which was a gross attempt to inoculate her from blame.
Watch the Youtube of the overshoot and the ejection. It's easily available, as all carrier launches and recoveries are filmed.
But the most interesting thing about it is the comments below the video.
Not the usual uninformed knuckleheads who always comment but credible folks who knew.
Extremely unusual for people to write what they wrote, and be very discerning.
There are people in those comments who were so incensed over this this that they pointed out the facts, and her history, and left their names attached to it.
Very unusual.
Still, there is no proof there was ever a compressor stall, and it didn't matter.
She didn't "bank left." She jammed the left rudder down and yawed left to try to save an un-salvageable situation.
At that point the airplane "departed controlled flight," and there was no possibility of recovery.
She then jams the throttles full forward to zone 5 afterburner, and the right engine responds, creating a gross asymmetry.
But it didn't matter. It was already too late.
And as I said, she had demonstrated" this technique before and had dis-qualled.
This isn't the first time this had happened.
The Navy wanted to get another minority guy as the first one to fly a single seater from a carrier.
Didn't work, and he killed himself in the same way.
During the accident investigation, when his training records were reviewed, it was obvious he was being moved ahead when others would have been taken out.
I'm extremely familiar with that accident, and it still irritates me.
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9 hours ago, The_Dude said:
In international waters, do we let subs get near our carriers? At what point would a warning to back up escalate? Can/do we fire on subs near carriers?
Also, are “carrier-subs” a stupid idea? The Japanese built a sub that could hold and somehow launch a couple of bombers towards the end of WWII. Not sure it was ever fully operational. Apparently we scrapped it. Not sure why we haven’t done that. Seems like an awesome idea to me though. But I know nothing of arial combat or boat war. @DC Tom you know anything about that sub the Japanese has I’m talking about? And is a carrier-sub stupid? I may want to punch your face, but I appreciate knowledge and perspective where it can be found.
I'm certain they try to track carriers, but there was a period where the Russians really didn't have many assets in shape to do it.
I'm also certain that our sub force is on them.
As I mentioned, their position relative to the task force was never mentioned.
The Soviets always had an intel ship within about 20 miles of our carrier. They always picked us up about two days out of Pearl.
I ran across two subs in my two cruises on Kitty Hawk, both in the Indian Ocean.
One was a Soviet sub on the surface who was heading to port with some obvious problem.
There were a couple of us buzzing it and the other guy asked on the intl emergency frequency if he was OK or needed any help and they answered they were OK, to which the other guy replied, "Is that why you're pulling a 75 mile long oil slick?"
Clearly it was leaking something.
The other was kind of funny. Someone spotted a surfaced Indian sub about 80 miles from the carrier, and of course we all went over for a look when we got done doing what we were doing.
Anyway, this guy gets on the intl emerge freq., and with an obvious Indian accent states something to the effect that he is the captain of this sub , and all American Naval aircraft should immediately exit the area. Someone says "Why?
He says becasue his ship is involved in an active military exercise.
Someone else says "Well, I guess you lost."
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4 minutes ago, DC Tom said:
Fine. Was there ever an official finding she was incompetent?
And you know the engine issues in the A-model made it an unforgiving airplane. Her crash was an obvious compressor stall, incorrectly handled.
Tom. I like what you you do here. but your conclusions are from reading reports.
She caused the compressor stall, which was never proven, by the way, by jamming full left rudder during an overshoot of the center line of the carrier.
This is a Cessna move, and she had done it before.
She had dis-qualled before for the same reason.
She jammed the rudder, never done in a jet airplane, stalled the airplane and the RIO command ejected the both of them.
She was totally incompetent, and the F-14, again, was a relatively easy airplane to get aboard.
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1 hour ago, The_Dude said:
I have so many questions. I’m fascinated with the Navy. I’m terrified of the air and I don’t like the open sea so I would never join the navy. I like my boots on the ground. So, stupid question, how do you guys do pretend fighting? Like in the army we’d wear awful laser gear crap, we’d set up an opfor, and then shoot at each other with blanks. Do y’all do something similar only with boats? Also, what happens when there’s a foreign sub around y’all? I know nothing of boat fighting. Forgive my ignorance.
I was a pilot, so the way we fought against ships was to set up a strike and try to get to them before they shot us down. Easy to determine who got who first.
Only at sea though.
Subs are a different breed. You know when they are around, and they are always around when there's a carrier involved. Usually get picked up as soon as we left Hawaii, but our subs and anti sub airplanes are on them at all times.
After my sea tour, I was fortunate to go to TopGun as an aggressor. Those are the guys who fight the class. In the movie, its the guys who are running the scenarios and the guys Cruz fought.
Had the great opportunity to fight many different Air Forces all over the world, as well as our own Navy and Air Force hundreds of times.
Many different scenarios.
A lot of fun.
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2 hours ago, DC Tom said:
Did anyone ever conclusively determine Hultgreen was underqualified? Certainly her crash was pilot error, and fairly obvious at that...but the F-14A wasn't exactly pilot-friendly to begin with, and has killed more than its share of pilots.
She wasn't "under qualified."
She was incompetent, and the F-14 was a relatively easy plane to bring aboard the ship.
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30 minutes ago, Hedge said:
I'm curious, is there a requirement to see if someone can (solo) carry a body that weighs ~200 lbs? It would seem to me that being able to haul someone who is wounded and can't walk would be paramount. I highly doubt any small units would want someone in them who couldn't do this.
Ground guys can answer that. I can't.
My experience is in Navy carrier based fighters, and the experiences involving females in that arena, along with other very bad experiences attempting to get other special situations into an area that has no margin for error.
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Marine Corps PRT standards to Max.
Men 3 mile Run 18 Minutes. Woman 21 minutes.
Men Pull-ups 20. Woman (arm Hang) 70 seconds.
Men Crunches 100. Woman Crunches 100
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55 minutes ago, Warcodered said:
If they can pass whatever requirements for whichever part of the military they'd end up in I don't see a problem with it.
And therein lies the problem, or at least it has been an issue in the past.
Their "requirements" were a little different, at least that was my experience.
See "Hultgreen," callsign Revlon.
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As an answer to the original question, I think a total of 40% state and federal is where we drew the line.
While living in California, our combined tax rate was in that area, and we needed to determine if my wife's career was worth it.
Combined with child care, our expenses on her additional income would be 50%.
So....She quit, became a stay at home mom and we never looked back.
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Switzerland's neutrality posture has always been for one reason only, which is to remain the world's banker.
Stay out of conflicts and provide a safe haven for the money of those involved.
Quite profitable.
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1 hour ago, BigMcD said:
I don't care about Amazon......I was commenting on a bunch of d-bags attacking someone for asking a question, without answering the question. So, ***** off asshat! How bout dat!
Are you for real?
Do you think someone wouldn't have checked?
You quoted and were commenting on a post by KD in CA that clearly stated "public companies are required to report and where to find it."
You were "commenting" on that.
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6 minutes ago, BigMcD said:
You’re right, I should just listen to you Trumptards for my info. No fake news there!
Do you realize the ridiculousness of this post?
It has been made apparent to you:
-> in this thread:
->more than once:
->in case you didn't already know,
that the financial disclosures of publicly traded companies are a matter of public record.
Easily obtainable.
You then suggest that someone has suggested that you should get your information from a group you don't like?
Do you need to be hit over the head with a bat?
Tax law is codified and easily obtainable.
Financial statements of publicly traded companies are easily obtained.
The "mystery" is in the ignorance of those who refuse to obtain the information.
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Amazon is a publicly traded company.
Its financial statements are a matter of public record, and are available.
By the way, Amazon has never been an income company, at least to date.
It has always been about accumulating market share over profit, so tax payments are what they are.
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We take them in Europe.
Used them from Munich-Vienna -Prague, three days at each place, then train to the next.
Work great in Spain also.
Italy, functional, but not as nice.
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4 hours ago, row_33 said:
He was totally outsized by guard White last night, who must be 6’8 280 by your dimensions
we saw what the Cavs did last year when it mattered
I've been thinking about this comment all day, and I think I've figured out what the issue is.
Did you watch the entire game?
Virginia did something unusual last night. They started Kihea Clark, who is 5'9", as part of a three guard lineup.
They quickly went to their usual two guard set, Ty Jerome and Kyle Guy, whose "dimensions" are what I have posted.
Jerome, at 6'5", is their point guard.
Interesting you bring up White though.
I thought he singularly screwed up the last three UNC possessions.
Do you post here from work often?
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Patiently waiting for the first "high level business meeting" reference.