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Government scientists looking for a way to communicate. I think he meant the internet. With regard to energy, I think both of them are echoing Tom Friedman's belief that alternative energy is the next big economic revolution.

And this is relevant how? I'm about 5 minutes behind on tivo, but are you just taunting for the hell of it? Ah I see it. All he's saying is that he's lived next to one. Fair point. He's not claiming to be a nuclear engineer.

So you don't see a difference between thinking that Warren Buffett is qualified to run the treasury, and tacitly approving of his choice of president? He approves of his professional expertise, not of his vote. Obama was the first to invoke 9/11. Huh. OTOH, why exactly does defense and...

Well, I can see your mind certainly isn't already made up.:icon_wink

Got about half of it in the freezer.

I dunno, but these paint chips sure are delicious!

I'm pretty sure I live next door. The guys that just left both got their #1 choice, 1 jets, 1 E-6. Nice place, quiet neighbors.

Mustache Warthog Palin

I don't know about the OP, but I'm considering a shoulder holster for when I'm riding. With a zipped up 2-piece suit IWB isn't an option, and even if it were, the hip is a bad place to land on a pistol if I took a fall. The armpit seems like the safest place to stash a hunk of steel in the event...

At least for the Marines, officers are only eligible for the bonus if actively using that language in their current assignment. Prior enlisted keep their designation as an interpreter and can draw DLPT pay regardless of whether their current billet uses it. Don't know if it's similar on the...

+1 to Otto, it's the most effective self-education, I think, it mimics the interactivity of the classroom environment very well. I've found that I'm much slower to pick up reading non-roman alphabets (Chinese and arabic), and am looking for an introduction to their character system to supplement...

Finally catching up to AKO, we now have free rosetta stone courses available to Marines. Available languages: Arabic Chinese English (Britain) English (USA) French German Hebrew Irish Italian Japanese Portuguese Russian Spanish (Latin...

We were just debating why the V-22 poster in the ready room had Navy on it.

I find it deliciously ironic that the same folks who demean the media and journalism are so quick to jump to the defense of a lady with a journalism degree. :icon_wink

Laying out quantitatively McCain's voting history is a "yawn"? Yes, granted, Obama doesn't have much of a history to go on, but Biden definitely presented a stronger case by drawing on McCain's record. Well, she certainly didn't disabuse us of the notion that she doesn't understand the issues...

She was rather ineffective - the questions sucked and she didn't really control the direction of the debate and let them get off topic and avoid answering the questions.

She didn't get thrashed, so politically, it's a win for her.

I suspect it will end up like Bush's performance against Gore. Everyone expects a thrashing that a wash or a slight advantage to Biden will end up as a perceived win by Palin. Did Biden just say "Bosniac"? And urge a no-fly zone over Darfur?

And as we roll in to foreign policy, she's holding her own. She's not doing well, but given the lowered expectations going into this, it's a wash so far. No gaffes yet (that' I've spotted) from Biden, either.

He can plead ignorance like the rest of us?

You forgot, he's a veteran and POW so anyone questioning him is anti-military and hence anti-American, and she's a woman so anyone questioning her is a sexist pig. :)

Well, he did claim that the turnaround in Iraq was due not to the surge but instead to the Democrat wins in 2006 placing pressure of withdrawal on Iraqi leaders.

I thought it was the conservatives that were crying that Obama was a recipient of affirmative action and hence not really all that smart. I mean, why make fun of a 40-year old's college record if you don't care about it? Biden aside, who do you see more, conservatives demeaning "elite/elitist...

As a non honors 3.73 graduate of Columbia, that link is complete bullshit. Carry on.

And lest anyone think otherwise, it's all coming out of self-interest. Efficiency gains from insulating tents, for example, means fewer convoys and a lighter logistical footprint, which is the real endstate.

By my count there were three lately(I think 1 has been banned, though).

DoD is going green? http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/07/28/army-green-us-military-gunning-to-curb-carbon-bootprint/

No, affirmative action. I am less familiar with the Navy/Marine history, but I do know that the Army has long had an official policy of affirmative action since the 1970s, and I believe it was across the services.

Ahem, you do realize that the military lead the way (for better or worse) in affirmative action?

So....don't take a quantitative look at the numbers? Take only a look at the numbers that you like? No, its oil we're 90% certain we can recover. That would be a subset deemed Producing Proved Developed Reserves - with the added caveat that there is a pipe there (developed).....and oil is being...

Did you read the EIA report, or do you just throw out numbers you like and reject the ones you don't? Nobody disputes that there is an estimated 120 billion barrels there, physically present and capable of being removed. The same EIA study that you dismiss gives a figure of 60 billion barrels in...

Don't worry, they'll get everything egregiously wrong and spend way too much time oogling gizmos. At least, that's what I hope happens. Edit: on a quick web search, I see the tinfoil-hatters are already up in a furor over it.

Ah, the old "I don't agree with the info, so I'll just attack the source" trick. How exactly is it "misleading" or even "intentionally so", sir? All the ecogeek picture do was superimpose the DoE data on global production, which is what is relevant when considering prices. This was the original...

Because the reflexive conservative response to any sort of alternative energy plan is "offshore drilling". In the short term this fails, because the marginal increase in production won't even be enough to disturb oil prices. More dangerously, conservatives use it as a reason to reject...

But we don't need to replace oil 100% - just drive it down to a point where our supply (and the Canadians and some other friendly nations) will be enough to support it, and each of those methods will materially reduce that consumption. Sure there are a few niche uses where oil is not wholly...

Source? And are you talking about the energy required to make ethanol or that required for the chemical processes? If the former, view it as a distribution mechanism, like hydrogen or batteries, and compare it in that regard (which I suspect sucks compared to either of the two - but at least you...

Buy CPO; I can't imagine paying new prices for a Sig, even though by now I've put $500 of work (functional improvements, not cosmetic or repairs) into a $300 used Sig.

This seems like a reflexive but ill-informed response to any attempt to wean us off the consumption of oil. The benefit of electric/hydrogen cars is that they shift the burden of power generation to the grid, which can be generated more efficiently at a central location, can be generated by...

Then you'll understand that us not importing oil from Chavez will not make a dent in his finances - any faster than we make a dent in the Saudis' or Kuwaitis' bottom lines. And in comparison to the world, we don't have enough oil reserves to make a dent. On the other hand, if we can reduce the...

I was curious about this, going from bald to new tires. But judging by my GPS, my speedometer hasn't changed noticeably in relation to groundspeed.

Your response to that is to buy us all drinks?

I hear the Iranians have some nifty wooden stealth seaplanes I'm sure they'd be happy to sell to those undermining the great Satan.

Well, to be fair, it's the first time they've been on their own as an adult outside of a controlled or at least heavily regimented environment, especially given how the A-pool used to be. We saw that sort of stuff occasionally on the Green side too, guys go from high school, to the Academy, to...

I'm going to try muttering IDDQD IDDQD IDDQD during my next HAPL and see if that helps things.:eek:

There are ideas floating around of essentially taking a turboprop trainer like the Super Tucano (or T-6!) and arming it to make a modern SPAD as a versatile CAS and recon aircraft for partner nations like Iraq. The appeal is that it would be cheap and relatively easy to fly - neither of which...

But we have likely reached the limit of supply of college-ready individuals. At the bottom rungs, what's available bears little resemblance to the ideals of a liberal education. Take a look at this perspective from the bottom: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200806/college What exactly are we...

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Well, it's not like I woke up today and decided I all of a sudden didn't want to fly jets. It's just been moving toward that point for a long time - this was pretty much the tipping point, and the short answer is always more amusing than the whole story. Besides, since they're all based...

Between this and driving through kingsville this weekend, jets just moved below C-130's on my dream sheet.

No but we did cozy up with plenty of former Soviet republics......like Georgia.