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This has been widely reported on here in Washington State too as the problem doesn't stop at the border.

GrosseAdmiralFox wrote: ↑2019-01-25 06:37am You might not, but from what I've heard the shear number of commitments has strained the US military to the breaking point and people starting to act like this is inevitable.

Once again, who exactly is telling you this?

Too many commitments (many of which is vital in not turning the world into a pre-Great War Fallout quagmire), too little personnel and equipment, shit like this is basically inevitable... or so I've heard. Who told you this? I use to be in a high demand low density combat unit and it never occurred...

Even before Sandy Hook there were the 9/11 conspiracies, and before that Pearl Harbor conspiracies, and before that probably many more that have been lost to obscurity. People are and have always been stupid. And a lot of them own guns.

MKSheppard wrote: ↑2018-02-23 09:35pmThat's another idea. Issue M-1 Garands to the JROTC detachments across schools for drill and "ancillary purposes".

Among many other problems with that idea, I'd like to point out that Nikolas Cruz was a JROTC cadet.

Airplane tries to hijack itself, armed captain shows it who's boss. Didn't realize disconnecting the autopilot would have done the trick too...

I'm sure from the gun advocates' perspective the solution is to arm all the staff. There was an armed officer on campus during the shooting. He chickened out and didn't engage. The fact of the matter is that most of us would have done the same, or would have been ineffective even if we did. https:/...

I have not maxed out my 401k. Yearly contribution is $18,000, I put more into it beyond my employers match. I have heard competing advice on matching percentage wise on 401k vs maxing it out. I have considered it. Well matching is a no brainer as that's free money. I would max out your 401k and IRA...

My advice: You have an emergency fund correct? If not, that is your first priority. Max out your 401k contributions. Whether to do Roth or transitional depends on your current tax bracket and how it compares to what bracket you think you'll be in at retirement. With all your retirement funds, may su...

Man down, man down!

Broomstick wrote: ↑2018-01-13 01:11pm Can they also move furniture, walk the dog, and take out the garbage? I don't want sex all the time, but I sure would find satisfaction in having a 'bot to do routine chores!

Well the female ones can pick out our wardrobes and tell us to chew with our mouths closed. We all must compromise.

UPS6 was brought down by a lithium ion battery fire. Though in that case it was a large quantity of them packed as cargo. I doubt there would be any fire suppression on the 787 batteries, or on any batteries on any other aircraft. The AD issued added a more protective casing and ducting to contain a...

Soontir C'boath wrote: ↑2018-01-05 08:53pm Hot damn Wicked Pilot out of the shadows!

I log in every now and then looking for a thread I could put some good info into.

I have to wonder, how well can a commercial twinjet fly after losing one engine? You can lose an engine on the runway during your takeoff run and still climb out safely. I'm assuming it can be done, of course, but I'd assume the chances of a safe landing would be smaller than a quadjet like the 747...

Seeking to prove that a conspiracy of astronauts fabricated the shape of the Earth, a California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a rocket he built from scrap metal.

Not going to see much at 1800 feet.

As for "sensitives", I would wager that the issue is psychological. People who work a lot through cellphones and/or wifi internet and have a lot of stressful work from it. They associate those things with stress and thus feel awful. When those things are away, they can't be stressed by th...

It has been such a success that the dolls are booked around 12 times a day, costing €80 (£71) per hour. My facts could be wrong on this, but couldn't you get some level of service from a real woman in a legal brothel in Europe for about that amount? Not like an hour's worth, or anything goes, but e...

My dad got to go to Vietnam. I still got to go to Iraq and Afghanistan, but those were comparative vacations. And free internet porn, can't beat that. Nope, not switching.

Someone checking into a hotel, with a bell cart piled high with crap, is not gonna garner any attention. I spend half my month in hotels, I see it all the time, especially in places that are automobile centric.

Bwuh? I missed that particular weirdness - not that I seek out atheist postings by reason of them being atheist. Not that I want to spend time viewing these things either, so in a nutshell, how could feminists destroy atheism? At the risk of speaking for people whom I disagree with, there are those...

We operated under very strict rules of engagement, and every time we shot we had to turn the tapes over to JAG. But this is unfortunately a war and we're not going to prosecute people every time we level a building the ground team was taking fire from. Not that aren't many cases were people clear cu...

Sarah Palin's a retard.

I'm mean the 'R-word', don't want to offend anyone.

Where's the NRA on this? If there's any time I'd love to see them throw a bitch fit...

What about some kind of spectacular nuclear technology where you could separate CO2, and then 'break' the carbon atoms into something more useful like hydrogen?

I wonder how anyone who's been injured or lost loved ones or gave up the best years of their lives serving (or just having the misfortune of living in) in Iraq in the course of the past decade must feel over this whole debacle. Part of me is kinda glad this is happening. Iraq is nothing more than a...