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From Google's cache of "CLOSE AIR SUPPORT SUMMARY SHEET"10. There are three types of CAS terminal attack control:
1. TYPE 1- Is used when the risk assessment requires the JTAC (Joint Terminal Attack Controller) to visually acquire the attacking aircraft and the target under attack. The most restrictive of all three for A/C and JTAC.
2. TYPE 2- Is used when the JTAC is not required to see the aircraft or the target at weapons release. CAS attacks under these conditions depend upon timely and accurate targeting data. The most common type used.
3. TYPE 3- Is used when the tactical risk assessment indicates that CAS attacks impose low risk of fratricide.
The least restrictive of all three, also known as a blanket control.
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Where were we? Oh, yes, the People´s Jihad and the Islamistic Liberation Army of Red China just invaded Formosa.
My answers:
B, B, A, B, B
The (a) in Q4 seems to be at the wrong place. Shouldn´t it come after "allies"?
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I had to check what the phrase actual meant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool_Aid_DrinkerKool-Aid Drinker is a pejorative term originating in 1978. It is most often used as a political or personal put-down to describe someone who blindly adheres to a set of beliefs or political system, or who follows an authoritative figure without question.I think that description fits a lot of people, including Tagwyn who started using the phrase in this thread.
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Is Tagwyn for real or is he just satirizing the right-wing nuts? :confused:
And what does his ramblings have to do with a conflict between China (People's Republic of) and the United States (of America)? Can we expect to hear from the People's Jihad or somefink?
:confused: :confused: :confused:
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That's not a very constructive post , Tagwyn.
What's the saying? Pot..Kettle..something....
China is not "a most serious threat to the Western way of life". China is necessary to maintain "the Western way of life".
But I suppose you don't buy stuff Made in China? Your computer, or parts of it is not Made in China by any chance? Take a look around you in your basement room, are there any devices from Red China, monitoring your every action and reporting them back to their Evil Communist Masters in the Far East? No? Nothing made in China? Only stuff made in the USA?
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I wonder who a blockade or war will hurt the most; US/EU or China?
I turned my mouse and keyboard around and found a sticker which said "made in China" (on a Microsoft mouse). What would happen to Wal-Mart wihout a steady supply of cheap trinkets made in China? What would happen to the prices of stuff 'made in China' in case of a conflict (or threat of conflict) in the area?
The Chinese and US/EU economies are so hard tied together you can't hurt one without hurting the other.
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By the way, I'm sure there are lots of evidence for the geocentric model of the Solar system.
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I have Googled and looked at a bunch of sites. But since I'm not familiar with the technical details, there isn't much use in reading them. I don't have enough knowledge in nuclear physics to seperate the wheat from the chaff. I have no idea which of the sites are credible and which are false or just biased. That's why I want peer review. I want some scientist with the appropriate knowledge to follow the instructions and repeat the cold fusion. I glanced at the book "Fire and Ice" and saw it was from 1991. I suppose something must have happened in 15 years?
Looking at the sites, I get the impression this free energy business attracts a lot of loonies, and wouldn't be surprised if the lab trashings etc you mention is performed by some of these people in revenge for something or the other. But of course they blame it all on The Great Conspiracy
If it is so easy to get free energy, why don't we?
Why isn't Big Business filing patents for cold fusionall over the place to prevent us mortals from possibly making a buck?
I think there isn't much interest in energy research at all, because energy is cheap. Sure, the gasoline prices have increased, but it's not expensive. If energy really was expensive, there would be a real interest in saving energy.
People are not willing to pay a higher initial cost in order to save in the long run. It possible to build houses that use excess heat from people and appliances for heating. Good insulation, heat exchangers but still good ventilation. To bad it's a few percent more expensive to build this way. Actually, in Sweden the energy consumtion for new houses have increased something like 10% since 1990. No need to save on something that's cheap.
I'm planning on buying a new fridge and find it's cheaper to buy an older model with high energy consumtion than to buy a newer model with lower consumtion. The higher price of the newer model will take away the saving made by the lower electricity bill. Unless I keep the fridge for 20 years or so, which isn't likely.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtora
http://www.defense-update.com/products/s/shtora-1.htm
I detects laser from rangefinders (and target designators), which probably is why M1A1TankCommander doesn't like it.
The missile countermeasure is probably not effective against modern ATGMs (unless they are laser beam riders). The signal between missile and launcher is encoded to be more resistant against this type of jamming.
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I'm sorry John, but I don't think a few people's perceived maltreatment is proof of anything. As you said, there are lots of conferences going on and even prizes for those who make a working device. Blaming a government/big business conspiracy for your failures isn't a reasonable explanation when your're trying to violate the laws of physics. If you want to change the laws of physics (which is possible) you need proof. Lots of proof.
But I can see why noone takes Cold Fusion seriously anymore. Pons & Fleischmann is responsible for that when they made astonishing claims and failed to back them up.
I just read about the "100-mile carburateror";
http://www.snopes.com/autos/business/carburetor.asp
I wonder why Hot fusion is an accepted line of research when cold fusion isn't? There is nothing to prevent the governments from spending their money on CF rather than HF, such as the ITER project.Claim: A miraculous car that gets 200 miles to the gallon is reclaimed by the factory and never seen again after its owner calls to congratulate the manufacturers about its fabulous performance.Status: False.
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Alas, one can get by on mere smoke and mirrors for only so long. Those with sense enough to not be deafened by the hyperbole were not long kept at bay with tales of wolfhounds, thieves, and mysterious briefcase-toting moneymen. They wanted to see the carburetor.
That, of course, was never permitted.
No one reputable was allowed to see the mechanical miracle in action, let alone have a chance to measure its results. After the initial excitement over Pogue's 1936 announcement had faded, more serious types began to openly doubt that the carburetor would work as described. In the December 1936 issue of Automotive Industries magazine, its engineering editor, P.M. Heldt, said of a sketch of the Pogue carburetor: "The sketch fails to show any features hitherto unknown in carburetor practice, and absolutely gives no warrant for crediting the remarkable results claimed." Other journalists were beginning to voice similar opinions.
In response to calls to put up or shut up, Pogue's miracle carburetor was heard of no more. Faced with the choice of believing someone had made claims his invention couldn't later live up to or that a monied bad guy had bought up a technology to forever keep it off the market, at least some chose to believe the suppression theory. That the carburetor never made it to the public, they said, was proof enough of its existence.
And why isn't Big Business trying to take over this? Why don't they fund research and get patents (after all, they control the government and shouldn't have any problem in convincing the Patent Office that they should get patents). When they have patents, they can get money everytime a CF device is made.
Anyway, bring me proof of a working device and I'll accept it. But you should also bring along two things:
Reproducability and Peer review
Saying "it won't work 'cuz the stars aren't right" , "the men in black ate my homework" or "it worked fine yesterday" isn't proof of anything.
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:eek:From: Barrister Bernard Akume
Akume Inneh Law Firm
Legal Practitioners
10, Adelabu Street
Surulere, Lagos
Nigeria
Contact: Barrister Bernard Akume
Confidential Proposal/Investment Assistance for Cold Fusion Energy Device.
Greetings to you in the name of the most high God, from my beloved country Nigeria. I am sorry and I solicit your permission into your privacy. I am Barrister Bernard Akume, lawyer to the late Dr. Koffi Abacha, a brilliant Nigerian physicist.
My former client, late Dr. Koffi Abacha, died in a mysterious plane crash in the year 1994 on the way to a scientific conference to make an announcement of the utmost importance to mankind. He was planning to present a paper regarding his extensive work on cold fusion. It is said the cold fusion device he had developed, produced 10-times more energy than the energy source that fed into it. The device was about the size of a steamer trunk.
Dr. Stanley Pons and Professor Martin Fleischman of Southampton University in the UK consulted the late Dr. Abacha regarding their ongoing cold fusion experiments. While enroute to the Paris scientific conference, the plane carrying Dr. Koffi Abacha mysteriously exploded over the ocean. Without the wise Dr. Abachas guidance, Dr. Pons and Professor Fleischman made no further progress in their cold fusion research.
Upon the death of my former client and unknown to his colleagues, two trunk boxes came into my possession. One trunk box contains some type of energy producing device. The late Doctor called it his cold fusion fuel cell. The second trunk box contains thousands of pages of scientific papers and notes. The trunk boxes had been placed in storage, for safe keeping, at a Lagos security storage firm in 1994 just before the late Dr. Abacha left on his ill fated flight to Paris.
The security storage firm does not know the actual content of the trunk boxes. My client and I told them that the boxes contain old African artifacts to be delivered to a client outside the country via Air Courier Services. For now it is only you and I that is having knowledge of this wonderful invention.
The only assistance I require from you is to help me send these trunks out of Nigeria and receive these trunk boxes in either Sydney, London or New York, depending on your country of agreement. Once these trunk boxes are out of Nigeria, I shall seek your advice in obtaining a local patent in your name and licensing the device to investors.
I need $ 10,000 U.S. dollars to pay past due storage fees, freight charges, and possible bribes to local customs officers.
Once this device is licensed, the resulting funds shall be disbursed accordingly as follows: 25-percent for the recipient (you) from the total sum. 2-percent for the courier officer in the country where you shall receive the trunk boxes. 5-percent set aside from the entire sum for expenses incurred by both parties in due course of executing this transaction (home and abroad). 68-percent for me. If you are not satisfied with the percentage sharing of the fund feel free to let me know. In compliance with this you are to immediately forward to me by mail the following: Your full names and address Confidential telephone and fax numbers.
With this information I will immediately commence all necessary documentation for a successful shipment of the first trunk box to your country of choice as all the modalities have already been worked out by me. I will also give you full details of this whole transaction which I have already perfected in due course.
Please note that you are to treat this with utmost confidentiality willing or not willing to assist me in this transaction as nobody knows about this invention and I am still an active lawyer in this country.
THE CHOICE IS YOURS, IF I WERE YOU I WOULD, BECAUSE IT WILL COST YOU LITTLE OR NOTHING TO ACHIEVE THIS AND THE BENEFIT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER.
Remain blessed in the name of GOD.
Yours faithfully, Barrister Bernard Akume
Happy new year, everyone!
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Reproducability and peer review. That´s all I ask for from anyone who claims to be a scientist.
But playing the "the Establishment is trying to stop us"-card isn't proof of anything.
- Martin Fleischmann in Wired"What you have to ask yourself is, who wants this discovery? Do you imagine the seven sisters [the world's top oil companies] want it? Does it fit into any idea of macroeconomics or microeconomics? I don't think so. And do you really think that the Department of Defense wants electrochemists producing nuclear reactions in test tubes? Eh?"Not very convincing, IMO.
The burden of proof is on the person who claims to have an invention that contravenes established knowledge.
There was a new claim a couple of years ago, something about cavitation in acetone, but I haven't heard anything about CF since then.
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Until the "free energy from vacuum"-people put up their findings for peer review and repetition by other scientists I'll put their findings on the "Cold Fusion"-shelf. a.k.a "things that would be really nice if they worked but they don't".
We have an established method in science, it might not be flawless, but that's what we demand today. Reproducability and peer review. Without those components, new findings won't be accepted, no matter how happy everyone would be if they worked.
How to spot "free energy scams":
http://www.amasci.com/freenrg/fnrg.html
http://www.phact.org/e/con_man.htm
I know, the formatting on those pages are horrible.
From the last link:
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true.How to deal with skeptics and detractors:There are a number of approaches to deal with self righteous people who like to point out your flaws of reason, lists of previous victims, etc. out on the internet:
* Label your detractors as CIA agents, or stupid or part of the great conspiracy.
* say they are unqualified unless they are experts in your crazy theory.
* try to restrict your message to newsletters and limited forums where the skeptical voice can be filtered out.
* in a public forum deaden the audiences interest with tons of distracting counter "information".
* try to delete their pages from the search engines, or bury their objections in enough distractions to make people avoid the debate
* trying threatening your detractors with lawsuits - it will make some of them shut up
* give up and only try to market to people too old or stupid to get on the internet. - or try selling to the Amish or more stupid ethnic groups.
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It's quite funny when someone makes what's supposed to be a German technical drawing and they don't use German characters in it.
Why would a German spell a word with "ue" or "ae" when they have the proper characters "ü" and "ä"?
OK, no more nazi ufos today. I'm off to read some crackpot science. Energy from vacuum? Of course, no problems at all. But how do you create vacuum without energy input?
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In other news:
AMERICA faces invasion by an armada of Nazi flying saucers -- launched from a secret underground base in Antarctica where they've been housed since World War II!That's the horrifying claim of a National Security Agency source, who says global warming is to blame.
"Because of excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the Antarctic ice is rapidly melting -- depriving German scientists, SS officers and their families of their sanctuary,' declares the source.
"Their 'final solution' is to conquer America."
The source claims that images collected by U.S. spy satellites reveal that at least 420 of the menacing saucers, each about 90-feet in diameter, emerged from the now-partially exposed base and are hovering over the continent -- waiting to attack.
"Radio messages we've intercepted and decoded suggest that each saucer is packed with enough super-advanced weaponry to destroy 10 American cities," warns the source.
From Weekly World News. Sounds like a trustworthy source. Good thing the Germans never learned the Enigma code was broken, otherwise we wouldn't have any knowledge of this menacing threat.
The article is from June, I guess the saucers are still hovering over Antarctica.
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Should be easy enough to reproduce this experiment. Reproducibility is very important in science, as you probably know.Originally posted by John Kettler:I saw a brief piece in a physics journal once, which described a fascinating experiment. Take a gyro. Say it weighs 1 kg at rest. Spin it clockwise at 20,000 rpm. Still weighs 1 kg. Spin it counterclockwise at same speed. Voila! Weighs less than 1 kg!
Meanwhile, more pictures of nazi ufos, now in Antarctica:
Good point.Originally posted by Rollstoy:PS: As long as there are more people trying to sell me books about ET tech than people trying to sell me said ET tech, I doubt the existence of the latter. Sorry.
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What is this, don't we have more important things to discuss. Like, say, why there where no nazi ufo:s in the first three CM games.
It was real funny reading about the wonder weapons.
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In the 1970's, when the Swedish military contemplated buying more G3's or switching to 5.56, the calculations indicated a 40% lower cost during the weapon's expected lifetime for the 5.56 alternative.
Lower cost / weapon, less ammo needed for training, cheaper ammo and a longer expected lifetime (!) were the factors in this calculation.
There are of course costs when introducing a new system, but in the long run it'll be cheaper.
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I really touched a nerve, didn't I?
But the logistical issue isn't an issue, right?Originally posted by Michael Dorosh:...dead soldiers are also a logistical burden.
The main difference is that the dead doesn't need as much attention as the wounded. And they don't need it this very second. Once you have found out that your buddy is dead, you can continue the fight. But if he's still screaming and bleeding all over the place, it would be quite rude not to help him.
And just to make things clear: I have never said that the 5.56 is specifially designed to wound, not to kill. That's you trying to put words in my mouth again. (unless I have been unclear in some post).
Anyway, as I have mentioned before, the logistical issue applies in a conventional war, and so do a lot of the other factors considering 5.56 vs 7.62.
In a situation like Iraq, other factors may be more important.
Come to think about it: the 5.56 wepaons are probably cheaper as well, which I guess mostly is from a shift in production techniques (e.g. from machined to stamped metal). Some armies were in the process of replacing older weapons, and had to make a decision whether to relace them with the standard rifle at the time (7.62) or replace all weapons with 5.56. Since 5.56 weapons generally are lighter and smaller (especially if they have a folding stock), they can replace the submachinegun for vehicle crews, cooks and officers.
With 7.62 for the infantry, you probably need someting ligther for REMFs. With 5.56, the entire army can have the same weapon.
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- Robert A. HeinleinAn armed society is a polite societyJust look at Albania when everyone got guns a couple of years ago.
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I read it. In a book.
Don't remember where I read it, Consider it "anecdotal evidence" or somefink. I think the availability of ammo was a factor.
Again, this is an unexpected situation and that's why I remembered reading it.
If the US in Vietnam had been issued with AK-47s and the Vietnamese with the M16, I'm sure some US troops would have preferred the M16.
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And from the same war there are stories about Vietnamese who prefered the M16. The grass is always greener on the other side.Originally posted by juan_gigante:And this isn't new. As far back as Vietnam, Special Forces units (who generally have more control over their equipment loadout than regular Army) often chose AK-47s over M16s (although to be fair, early M16s shouldn't really count against 5.56mm). I will close with a quote from a Navy SEAL in Vietnam: "Happiness is 3 kills and a warm AK-47 before breakfast."
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What more evidence do you need, Dorosh?
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No sources for you.
My military-related literature (which mostly is in Swedish anyway) is stored away and I have no intention if digging it up for this argument. And I'm way too lazy to trawl the internet and trying to assess the credibility of various sources.
You think I'm perpetuating an "dumb sounding urban myth". Fine, I think I'll be able to sleep tonight despite that.
And I don´t think it sounds dumb at all. From a logistic point of view it makes sense.
However, I don't think reduced lethality was the main argument (you're putting words in my mouth again) for the switch to 5.56.
Battle for Taiwan.
in Combat Mission Shock Force 1
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Since this thread has left Taiwan and drifted out in the realm of GOVERNMENT NAZI UFO MIND CONTROL CONSPIRACY you might want read this article about mind control parasites