My favorite general...
...Jim Thompson
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What do you call a basement full of leftists?
A whine cellar.
and...
and this...
...Jim Thompson
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I'm looking for work... see my website.
Tell us about your service in the Marines.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
-- Cheap shot. Quoting John Milton irreverently, who are you to say that "They also serve who also stand and wait." faults Jim more than it does you? John Fields
Of course it is... what do you expect from Larkin? Larkin is your pluperfect asshole... a true Californicator >:-}
I had a secret clearance within one month of graduating MIT, and helped design _many_ weapons as well as the first helmet radio.
I did my part, though I did resist being involved with the Claymore mine design... that was just a bit too much for me.
The one I did enjoy was the aircraft machine gun controls to put exactly one bullet per square foot on the ground... efficient !>:-}
...Jim Thompson
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I'm looking for work... see my website.
Well, I was in the US Navy for a week.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
-- No, you weren't. You were a guest of the US Navy for a week, you never signed a contract to serve, and you were only along for the merry-go-round. John Fields.
Sheeeesh! If you count that... spent many a week in the Navy research bunkers built into the San Diego beaches... plus many weeks at NRL DC. ...Jim Thompson
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Californica: Losers voting for losers.
Hey, you never talk about electronics any more either. I'd be sad to ever give up electronics and just rant about politics.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
"Be polite. Be professional. Have a plan to kill everyone you meet."
I was expecting the follow-up to be something like "Secretary of Defense is a good job, mate...you'll never go hungry, cuz as long as there are two people left on the planet, someone is gonna want someone dead."
But why pick one when you can have both here at sci.electronics.design.and.partisan.politics.chatte.
First rule of government spending: why buy one when you can buy two at twice the price.
You're wrong about that (as you are everything else). To save money , government buys two of something at the same price as they would pay for three.
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and then pays extra for a guarantee that they can buy a third if they need one
Bingo! ...plus spares.
This is exactly what happens. I worked on a small piece (target trackers and color and FLIR cameras) of the Zumwalt destroyer. The original contract was $6B for three copies[*]. Before the first weld was made, Congress decided that they only needed two. Cost? $6B.
[*] A dumb plan to begin with. Destroyers are intended to be targets, not capital ships.
I joined the USAF, the universally-decried "pussy force" in 1971.
When we went for target practice in Basic, our T. I. (the equivalent of D . I. for "real soldiers") gave us general instruction in how to avoid shoot ing him, the range personnel, and each other, then asked for questions.
A couple weeks earlier he had explained that no matter what fighter-pilot dreams our recruiters had given us, the Air Force needed mechanics and adm inistrators just then so that's what we were going to be.
With that in mind I asked the Sergeant why a bunch of grease monkeys and paper shufflers needed to know how to use a rifle.
He said "You really want to know?"
I said yes.
He said "You may be deployed to an overseas base supplied with nuclear we apons. If your base comes under ground attack and it looks like you're goin g to be overrun, your job will be to hold off the attackers long enough for the nuclear techs to disable the nukes so the enemy can't use them.
"Then you can die. Not before."
All of us took Basic a lot more seriously after that.
So, kiss my ass.
Mark L. Fergerson
I th "You may be deployed to an overseas base supplied with nuclear weapons. If your base comes under ground attack and it looks like you're going to be overrun, your job will be to hold off the attackers long enough for the nuclear techs to detonate them."
I think that would dissuade such aspersions once and for all.
r weapons. If your base comes under ground attack and it looks like you're going to be overrun, your job will be to hold off the attackers long enough for the nuclear techs to disable the nukes so the enemy can't use them.
hold off the attackers _or_ the nuclear techs will detonate them. ;)
Most of the cost of the B2 stealth bomber was development cost, so we could have bought twice as many for 20% more, but Democrats wouldn't have it.
I know some guys who design nukes. One says that the safeguards are so extensive that he's surprised that they can ever be detonated.
The value of stealing a nuke is probably to get the plutonium, not to try to use the gadget itself.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
Except where explicitly circumvented :(
The infamous example is, of course, the "Permissive Activation Links" that Hollywood and the politicians liked, and the generals hated. The general's implementation of their orders was, um, suboptimal: the PAL codes were all set to 00000000
A much better terror weapon :(
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