Durka-Durka-Muhammed-Jihad!!
Tribune Co. to Show Circ Losses; 'L.A. Times' Down More than 5.5%Gee....that wouldn't be because the Times likes to print complete crap, would it? Naw...I doubt that media circus right before the recall election back in 2003 had anything to do with it....NEW YORK Circulation at Tribune Co. papers will show declines in the next Fas-Fax report, with the most troubling plunge at the Los Angeles Times, Tribune Publishing President Scott Smith confirmed during a conference call with analysts this morning.
Though executives declined to break out individual paper's Fas-Fax numbers, which are due out in May, Smith acknowledged the Times will drop slightly more than 5.5%.
Smith said that for the entire group, home-delivered copies are down about 4% while the drop in single-copy sales is even greater.
Because someone suggested I give this a try....
Help Mike deal with his mounting medical bills
Found something over at Smash's place about living here in San Diego that got me thinking - could I find the places I haven't seen in 15 years from an overhead image?
Here's what I found:
Since it was easier to locate due to it's proximity to the Capital Beltway in Northern Virginia, I located George C. Marshall High Schoool (my old high school).
From there, I was able to follow the local roads back to the apartment complex I used to live in (two different times) and also the high-rise I used to live in. I lived in the southern building on the left-hand side on the 8th floor where I'd attempt to zing pennies across the way to the northern building.
Damn - Walt was right: It's a Small World After All.
The funny/strange thing is that from this high up everything looks pretty much the same. But I know for a fact that I'd get lost attempting to find my way around there; I definitely did when I went back 13 years ago.
I was talking to my study-buddy about the Joint Strike Fighter the other day and started digging around on the Internet to find information about the variants of this aircraft.
I hit paydirt when I found the official Joint Strike Fighter Program web site.
What's really interesting about this aircraft and the (so far) three variations of it is that 70% of the parts are compatible/interchangeable between the three versions.
SIDENOTE: For some reason, the 70% number sticks in my mind although I cannot find this particular figure on the JSF site. If I'm in error on this number, please forgive me.
Commonality(Not to mention this graphic might be why I'm thinking ~70%.)
Commonality is the key to affordability – on the assembly line; in shared-wing planforms; in common systems that enhance maintenance, field support and service interoperability; and in almost 100 percent commonality of the avionics suite. Component commonality across all three variants reduces unique spares requirements and the logistics footprint. In addition to reduced flyaway costs, the F-35 is designed to affordably integrate new technology during its entire life cycle.
This increase in redundancy will not only allow the Defense Department to reduce the necessity of spare parts for all sorts of front-line aircraft in the 21st century, but it will also enable 'cross-decking' (pardon me, it's a Navy term) of spare parts AND maintenance personell between the services.
The differences between them might not be obvious:
As I said to my friend about this: Overall, freaking cool.
GrouchyMedia.com has a new video up on it's site: Infantry.
Download it, slip on those headphones, and let 'er rip!!
And if you like that one, definitely take a gander at the other ones. My favorites are 'Die Terrorist Die' and 'Harrier Boom'.
From the insightful Chris Muir at 'Day by Day':
I can't tell you how many times I used to lock horns with some of the women I worked with over the heating/cooling issue; I'd be sweating bullets while it's 90+ degrees outside (right outside of MCAS Miramar here in San Diego) and I'd be an oppresive ogre for putting on the air conditioning.
These women would typically be close to 90 lbs wet and would FREEZE!!; it's much better to work with over-weight couch potato engineers who can agree on what the ambient air temperature should be....
Damn - read this and be prepared for what happens....
Continue to be enlightened while reading "Coming Home" »Got a question for y'all:
Should I embrace the Dark Side of the Blogsphere and put ads up here?While I was sitting in class this morning - not taking notes like I should have been - I got IM'd by an entity that for the moment shall remain nameless that basically pitched the idea of putting up an ad on my site.
Huh I thought - Never really thought about that too much.
Actually, I have thought of it - back when I was debating the format of this blog, i.e. two column format or three columns. I basically decided that having three columns would be good if I had a buttload of links to slap up here, but I don't. I could/would also use that extra column to put up some sort of ads that might - might garner some funding for me. Not enough to buy anything really...just enough to offset my blogging addiction.
So the question is: should I?
It would be nice to do something constructive in a financial manner from all the blogging I do. But the thing that makes me wonder is do I get enough traffic here to generate any appreciable income from those ads?
Additionally, for the most part I've always considered my *cough* contribution(s) to the blogsphere to be mainly for my personal enjoyment; it's not like I've influenced anyone with any of my thought-provoking quips about not being an ass-hatted clown - created a few chuckles, but no apparent influence. In my blogging experience(s), I've mostly gained more personal insight into politics and some-what improved my righting skillz.
As I said - it's just a thought.....but a thought that makes you think Hmmmm....maybe, just maybe I could....
UPDATE: At the advice of several commenters, I've submitted applications for two different ad sponsors - Google Ads and the other one that's still being discretely not named.
Will I be approved? Dunno, but I figured what the hell, let's see if anything comes of this and maybe - just maybe - I'll be able to generate enough income through this that I can do some things with this site and a domain I've reserved that I've been wanting to do for some time.
Thanks to all that made recommendations!! I really DO appreciate the feedback!
Just got the domain e-mail account configured using Mozilla Thunderbird.
My new e-mail address is: mikey-AT-madmikey-DOT-mu-DOT-nu so be sure to update your address books!!
Sanders paid wife, stepdaughter for campaign effortsTom Delay does it - a 'messed up' situation IMO - and he's practically the Anti-Christ. But dollars-to-donuts that you won't see even a blip on the radar screen from anyone left-of-center on this.
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Bernard Sanders used campaign donations to pay his wife and stepdaughter more than $150,000 for campaign-related work since 2000, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Jane O'Meara Sanders, his wife, received $91,020 between 2002 and 2004 for "consultation" and for negotiating the purchase of television and radio time-slots for Sanders' advertisements, according to records and interviews.
[...]
Jim Barrett, chairman of the Vermont Republican Party, used Sanders' family payments to highlight what he said is Democratic "hypocrisy" for fiercely attacking DeLay. "It's the standard hypocrisy from the left," Barrett said. "When a Republican does it, it's inappropriate and front page news. But now it turns out, our own Bernie Sanders has been doing it for a long time."
He added: "If it's corruption when Tom DeLay does it, then it's corruption when Bernie Sanders does it."
I'm not going to defend Delay for this - IMO it's bad politics and it smacks of Jesse Jackson putting his entire family on the dole of the Rainbow Coalition (I think that's the group), but before anyone starts to froath-at-the-mouth and sputter inconsistent sentences about the 'evil that is Tom Delay', they'd better take a serious look at their own houses and make sure they're in order.
Make issue of significant instantances of crappy politics, but for the love of Mikey, stop slinging crap just for the ripple-effect in the pond, huh?
Another chunk of humor for this slightly cold Wednesday morning.
Please, save the you male chauvinistic pig!! comments - it's humor.
It's great to be a man:
Just when you thought you'd heard the most depraved thing ever happening, along comes something new:
Disabled Girl Punched In Face, Forced To Perform Sex ActsSounds like these four boys need to be taught what being quartered is like....and I'm serious: these kids just need to be taken out of the gene pool and taken to room temperature immediately.COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A 16-year-old disabled girl was punched and forced to engage in videotaped sexual acts with several boys in a high school auditorium as dozens of students watched, according to witnesses.
Authorities are investigating and no charges have been filed in the alleged attack last month at Mifflin High School. Four boys suspected of involvement were sent home and have not returned to class.
And the kid with the video camera?? He needs to be sodomized by angry goats.
On second thought - naw, let's just waste his ass too.
UPDATE: Just to let you know that as harsh as I may have sounded about punishing these kids - I wasn't kidding. Although the thought that this might just be something less-than-truthful did occur to me.
Because I just thought this was fracking funny...
50 Fun Things To Do In An Elevator
Just found out that Alan Colmes is no longer on KFMB 760 here in San Diego. He's been replaced with Mr. Michael Garibaldi otherwise known as Jerry Doyle:
Now if I can only get everything in the world done in time each evening to listen for more than 10 minutes....Jerry Doyle hosts a nationally syndicated evening radio show. Listeners enjoy Jerry's anecdotal humor, satirical observations and well-rounded social commentary. Jerry's ability to choose compelling topics provokes lively conversations on the issues of the day. The program is caller-driven, issue-oriented, and fast-paced. Listeners enjoy Jerry's wit, as well as his ability to seriously engage callers from across the nation in fascinating conversations.
Huh.
Flight Plans? DHS May Resume Airlifting Mexican Illegals Back HomeAs an eco-friendly type person, I feel I should point out that this would just be introducing more flurocarbons into the atmosphere from the jet engine's exhaust.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is thinking about resuming a program to transport illegal aliens back to their hometowns in Mexico, rather than the present practice of expelling them at the Arizona border.
The main clue that it might renew a program that was tried out last year was an unheralded notice from the department’s Bureau of Customs and Border Protection that it is looking for a firm to provide charter flights from Tucson to Mexico, posted online April 6.
Queried about the initiative, DHS officials, legally barred from releasing details of a procurement before an official solicitation, would not confirm that the notice referred to last year’s interior repatriation program. But the similarities are uniform.
Use a trebuchet: it's much more eco-friendly and there's ZERO emissions....
What a waste of science & technology:
Scientists Create Remote-Controlled FliesThis ranks right up there with the engineers that create such wonderful inventions that benefit all humanity like the Singing Bass, the Pocket Fisherman, and my favorite: the Karaoke Machine.
Yale University researchers say their study that used lasers to create remote-controlled fruit flies could lead to a better understanding of overeating and violence in humans.
Using the lasers to stimulate specific brain cells, researchers say they were able to make the flies jump, walk, flap their wings and fly.
Even headless flies took flight when researchers stimulated the correct neurons, according to the study, published in the April 7 issue of the journal Cell.
These people should be made to pay for introducing such crap to the world...
Of course, I should inform everyone that for my senior engineering project, I plan on creating a Rap/Hip-Hop Seeking Missile and I might be able to tie it in with a chem majors project and have it yield a powerful explosive....
Stevie is one lady that you don't want to aggravate - ever....especially when she's "having a day"
Oh yeah... Reba.Man-o-man does she ever know how to zing em.
Die bitch.
Nobody'd miss ya.
Yer band is pissed and waiting...Big-earred, no lips havin', horse hatin' hag.
Die.
Oh, and for God's sake: do NOT slaughter a song in someone's name least you want an entire freakin BARN to fall on you.
Here's a man that cannot let somethings go:
Kerry cites voter intimidation examplesThere's 'voter intimidation' only when Republicans win - if Dems win any specific election, everything is hunky-dory.
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- Many voters in last year's presidential election were denied access to the polls through trickery and intimidation, former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry told a voters' group Sunday.
"Last year too many people were denied their right to vote, too many who tried to vote were intimidated," the Massachusetts senator said at an event sponsored by the state League of Women Voters.
Puh-leaze.....I loose IQ points readin drivel like this.
This is fracking cool!!
U.S. Navy tests Wasp micro air vehicleAnd some people think that farting around with RC planes is 'childish'....heh!
If the Wasp buzzed your backyard barbecue and sent out a live video feed, you probably wouldn't notice.
The new robotic plane is designed for troops who need a peek at the enemy before going in.
The diminutive drone, about the size of a magazine, was tested recently during Navy exercises off Southern California, according to Monday's edition of the C4ISR Journal, part of the Army Times publishing group. The journal covers military intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
Though made with off-the-shelf products, the Wasp is nothing like remote-control planes sold at hobby shops. Its wings, which span 13 inches (33 centimeters), carry 4.25 ounces (120 grams) of lithium-ion batteries. The whole rest of the plane — including video cameras front and back — adds just 1.75 ounces (50 grams) to the total takeoff weight.
It is launched by hand.
In 2002, a rudimentary Wasp set an endurance record for micro air vehicles of 1 hour and 47 minutes. It has since been outfitted with an autopilot feature that uses the Global Positioning System.
The drone was built by AeroVironment in Simi Valley, Calif. with funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
One application might be to check out enemy ships when no helicopters are available for the task.
Ah yes, the inevitable quagmire that the U.S. was supposed to be sucked into in Iraq:
U.S. Commanders See Possible Cut in Troops in IraqThe main thrust of why I'm posting about this isn't the troop reduction - plans are always made for one reason or another and if this happens soon, great - it's about how there isn't much attention being paid to how the terrorist attacks have dropped since the January 2005 elections.
WASHINGTON, April 10 - Two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the American-led military campaign in Iraq is making enough progress in fighting insurgents and training Iraqi security forces to allow the Pentagon to plan for significant troop reductions by early next year, senior commanders and Pentagon officials say.
Senior American officers are wary of declaring success too soon against an insurgency they say still has perhaps 12,000 to 20,000 hard-core fighters, plentiful financing and the ability to change tactics quickly to carry out deadly attacks. But there is a consensus emerging among these top officers and other senior defense officials about several positive developing trends, although each carries a cautionary note.
Attacks on allied forces have dropped to 30 to 40 a day, down from an average daily peak of 140 in the prelude to the Jan. 30 elections but still roughly at the levels of a year ago. Only about half the attacks cause casualties or damage, but on average one or more Americans die in Iraq every day, often from roadside bombs. Thirty-six American troops died there in March, the lowest monthly death toll since 21 died in February 2004.
Not much to report, huh?
No, not since everyone left-of-center was convinced that Iraq would become another [tired cliche alert] quagmire and that we'd never make any progress in Iraq.
Surprisingly, this story comes from The New York Times where quagmire was THE buzzword two years ago.
And while there are still attacks happening and killing U.S. troops on the ground, you'd think that someone would take notice of the decrease in Islamo-psycho attacks....but if it isn't bleeding, it isn't leading.
Freedom - 1, Quagmire - 0
I'm sitting in the Science & Engineering Library waiting for MATLAB to get fired up on the school's computer and reading the news in the meantime. The first thing to escape my lips - very LOUDLY - as I read this in the library was: Are they f*cking HIGH!?
Man's Conviction for Threatening Bush NixedYou know, this is just dandy - telling any would-be assassins that talking about it is now okay.....SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court Friday overturned an inmate's conviction for writing a crude, rambling letter endorsing President Bush's death at the hands of terrorists — two weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The letter from Oregon State Penitentiary prisoner Jonathan Lincoln, who was charged with threatening the president and given an 18-month sentence last year, read, in part: "You will die too George W Bush real Soon they Promised That you would Long Live Bin Laden."
Corrections officials intercepted the letter; Lincoln had been serving a 46-month sentence for robbery.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the letter was protected under the First Amendment, calling it "Lincoln's crude and offensive method of stating a political opposition to the president." The court noted "such political hyperbole does not constitute a 'threat."'
Then again, this comes from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Insane Judicial Thought....
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Tribune Co. to Show Circ Losses; 'L.A. Times' Down More than 5.5%Gee....that wouldn't be because the Times likes to print complete crap, would it? Naw...I doubt that media circus right before the recall election back in 2003 had anything to do with it....NEW YORK Circulation at Tribune Co. papers will show declines in the next Fas-Fax report, with the most troubling plunge at the Los Angeles Times, Tribune Publishing President Scott Smith confirmed during a conference call with analysts this morning.
Though executives declined to break out individual paper's Fas-Fax numbers, which are due out in May, Smith acknowledged the Times will drop slightly more than 5.5%.
Smith said that for the entire group, home-delivered copies are down about 4% while the drop in single-copy sales is even greater.
Because someone suggested I give this a try....
Help Mike deal with his mounting medical bills
Found something over at Smash's place about living here in San Diego that got me thinking - could I find the places I haven't seen in 15 years from an overhead image?
Here's what I found:
Since it was easier to locate due to it's proximity to the Capital Beltway in Northern Virginia, I located George C. Marshall High Schoool (my old high school).
From there, I was able to follow the local roads back to the apartment complex I used to live in (two different times) and also the high-rise I used to live in. I lived in the southern building on the left-hand side on the 8th floor where I'd attempt to zing pennies across the way to the northern building.
Damn - Walt was right: It's a Small World After All.
The funny/strange thing is that from this high up everything looks pretty much the same. But I know for a fact that I'd get lost attempting to find my way around there; I definitely did when I went back 13 years ago.
I was talking to my study-buddy about the Joint Strike Fighter the other day and started digging around on the Internet to find information about the variants of this aircraft.
I hit paydirt when I found the official Joint Strike Fighter Program web site.
What's really interesting about this aircraft and the (so far) three variations of it is that 70% of the parts are compatible/interchangeable between the three versions.
SIDENOTE: For some reason, the 70% number sticks in my mind although I cannot find this particular figure on the JSF site. If I'm in error on this number, please forgive me.
Commonality(Not to mention this graphic might be why I'm thinking ~70%.)
Commonality is the key to affordability – on the assembly line; in shared-wing planforms; in common systems that enhance maintenance, field support and service interoperability; and in almost 100 percent commonality of the avionics suite. Component commonality across all three variants reduces unique spares requirements and the logistics footprint. In addition to reduced flyaway costs, the F-35 is designed to affordably integrate new technology during its entire life cycle.
This increase in redundancy will not only allow the Defense Department to reduce the necessity of spare parts for all sorts of front-line aircraft in the 21st century, but it will also enable 'cross-decking' (pardon me, it's a Navy term) of spare parts AND maintenance personell between the services.
The differences between them might not be obvious:
As I said to my friend about this: Overall, freaking cool.
GrouchyMedia.com has a new video up on it's site: Infantry.
Download it, slip on those headphones, and let 'er rip!!
And if you like that one, definitely take a gander at the other ones. My favorites are 'Die Terrorist Die' and 'Harrier Boom'.
From the insightful Chris Muir at 'Day by Day':
I can't tell you how many times I used to lock horns with some of the women I worked with over the heating/cooling issue; I'd be sweating bullets while it's 90+ degrees outside (right outside of MCAS Miramar here in San Diego) and I'd be an oppresive ogre for putting on the air conditioning.
These women would typically be close to 90 lbs wet and would FREEZE!!; it's much better to work with over-weight couch potato engineers who can agree on what the ambient air temperature should be....
Damn - read this and be prepared for what happens....
Continue to be enlightened while reading "Coming Home" »Got a question for y'all:
Should I embrace the Dark Side of the Blogsphere and put ads up here?While I was sitting in class this morning - not taking notes like I should have been - I got IM'd by an entity that for the moment shall remain nameless that basically pitched the idea of putting up an ad on my site.
Huh I thought - Never really thought about that too much.
Actually, I have thought of it - back when I was debating the format of this blog, i.e. two column format or three columns. I basically decided that having three columns would be good if I had a buttload of links to slap up here, but I don't. I could/would also use that extra column to put up some sort of ads that might - might garner some funding for me. Not enough to buy anything really...just enough to offset my blogging addiction.
So the question is: should I?
It would be nice to do something constructive in a financial manner from all the blogging I do. But the thing that makes me wonder is do I get enough traffic here to generate any appreciable income from those ads?
Additionally, for the most part I've always considered my *cough* contribution(s) to the blogsphere to be mainly for my personal enjoyment; it's not like I've influenced anyone with any of my thought-provoking quips about not being an ass-hatted clown - created a few chuckles, but no apparent influence. In my blogging experience(s), I've mostly gained more personal insight into politics and some-what improved my righting skillz.
As I said - it's just a thought.....but a thought that makes you think Hmmmm....maybe, just maybe I could....
UPDATE: At the advice of several commenters, I've submitted applications for two different ad sponsors - Google Ads and the other one that's still being discretely not named.
Will I be approved? Dunno, but I figured what the hell, let's see if anything comes of this and maybe - just maybe - I'll be able to generate enough income through this that I can do some things with this site and a domain I've reserved that I've been wanting to do for some time.
Thanks to all that made recommendations!! I really DO appreciate the feedback!
Just got the domain e-mail account configured using Mozilla Thunderbird.
My new e-mail address is: mikey-AT-madmikey-DOT-mu-DOT-nu so be sure to update your address books!!
Sanders paid wife, stepdaughter for campaign effortsTom Delay does it - a 'messed up' situation IMO - and he's practically the Anti-Christ. But dollars-to-donuts that you won't see even a blip on the radar screen from anyone left-of-center on this.
Jane O'Meara Sanders, his wife, received $91,020 between 2002 and 2004 for "consultation" and for negotiating the purchase of television and radio time-slots for Sanders' advertisements, according to records and interviews.
[...]
He added: "If it's corruption when Tom DeLay does it, then it's corruption when Bernie Sanders does it."
I'm not going to defend Delay for this - IMO it's bad politics and it smacks of Jesse Jackson putting his entire family on the dole of the Rainbow Coalition (I think that's the group), but before anyone starts to froath-at-the-mouth and sputter inconsistent sentences about the 'evil that is Tom Delay', they'd better take a serious look at their own houses and make sure they're in order.
Make issue of significant instantances of crappy politics, but for the love of Mikey, stop slinging crap just for the ripple-effect in the pond, huh?
Another chunk of humor for this slightly cold Wednesday morning.
Please, save the you male chauvinistic pig!! comments - it's humor.
It's great to be a man:
Just when you thought you'd heard the most depraved thing ever happening, along comes something new:
Disabled Girl Punched In Face, Forced To Perform Sex ActsSounds like these four boys need to be taught what being quartered is like....and I'm serious: these kids just need to be taken out of the gene pool and taken to room temperature immediately.COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A 16-year-old disabled girl was punched and forced to engage in videotaped sexual acts with several boys in a high school auditorium as dozens of students watched, according to witnesses.
Authorities are investigating and no charges have been filed in the alleged attack last month at Mifflin High School. Four boys suspected of involvement were sent home and have not returned to class.
And the kid with the video camera?? He needs to be sodomized by angry goats.
On second thought - naw, let's just waste his ass too.
UPDATE: Just to let you know that as harsh as I may have sounded about punishing these kids - I wasn't kidding. Although the thought that this might just be something less-than-truthful did occur to me.
Because I just thought this was fracking funny...
50 Fun Things To Do In An Elevator
Just found out that Alan Colmes is no longer on KFMB 760 here in San Diego. He's been replaced with Mr. Michael Garibaldi otherwise known as Jerry Doyle:
Now if I can only get everything in the world done in time each evening to listen for more than 10 minutes....
Huh.
Flight Plans? DHS May Resume Airlifting Mexican Illegals Back HomeAs an eco-friendly type person, I feel I should point out that this would just be introducing more flurocarbons into the atmosphere from the jet engine's exhaust.
The main clue that it might renew a program that was tried out last year was an unheralded notice from the department’s Bureau of Customs and Border Protection that it is looking for a firm to provide charter flights from Tucson to Mexico, posted online April 6.
Queried about the initiative, DHS officials, legally barred from releasing details of a procurement before an official solicitation, would not confirm that the notice referred to last year’s interior repatriation program. But the similarities are uniform.
Use a trebuchet: it's much more eco-friendly and there's ZERO emissions....
What a waste of science & technology:
Scientists Create Remote-Controlled FliesThis ranks right up there with the engineers that create such wonderful inventions that benefit all humanity like the Singing Bass, the Pocket Fisherman, and my favorite: the Karaoke Machine.
Using the lasers to stimulate specific brain cells, researchers say they were able to make the flies jump, walk, flap their wings and fly.
Even headless flies took flight when researchers stimulated the correct neurons, according to the study, published in the April 7 issue of the journal Cell.
These people should be made to pay for introducing such crap to the world...
Of course, I should inform everyone that for my senior engineering project, I plan on creating a Rap/Hip-Hop Seeking Missile and I might be able to tie it in with a chem majors project and have it yield a powerful explosive....
Stevie is one lady that you don't want to aggravate - ever....especially when she's "having a day"
Oh yeah... Reba.Man-o-man does she ever know how to zing em.
Die bitch.
Nobody'd miss ya.
Yer band is pissed and waiting...Big-earred, no lips havin', horse hatin' hag.
Die.
Oh, and for God's sake: do NOT slaughter a song in someone's name least you want an entire freakin BARN to fall on you.
Here's a man that cannot let somethings go:
Kerry cites voter intimidation examplesThere's 'voter intimidation' only when Republicans win - if Dems win any specific election, everything is hunky-dory.
"Last year too many people were denied their right to vote, too many who tried to vote were intimidated," the Massachusetts senator said at an event sponsored by the state League of Women Voters.
Puh-leaze.....I loose IQ points readin drivel like this.
This is fracking cool!!
U.S. Navy tests Wasp micro air vehicleAnd some people think that farting around with RC planes is 'childish'....heh!
The new robotic plane is designed for troops who need a peek at the enemy before going in.
The diminutive drone, about the size of a magazine, was tested recently during Navy exercises off Southern California, according to Monday's edition of the C4ISR Journal, part of the Army Times publishing group. The journal covers military intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
Though made with off-the-shelf products, the Wasp is nothing like remote-control planes sold at hobby shops. Its wings, which span 13 inches (33 centimeters), carry 4.25 ounces (120 grams) of lithium-ion batteries. The whole rest of the plane — including video cameras front and back — adds just 1.75 ounces (50 grams) to the total takeoff weight.
It is launched by hand.
In 2002, a rudimentary Wasp set an endurance record for micro air vehicles of 1 hour and 47 minutes. It has since been outfitted with an autopilot feature that uses the Global Positioning System.
The drone was built by AeroVironment in Simi Valley, Calif. with funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
One application might be to check out enemy ships when no helicopters are available for the task.
Ah yes, the inevitable quagmire that the U.S. was supposed to be sucked into in Iraq:
U.S. Commanders See Possible Cut in Troops in IraqThe main thrust of why I'm posting about this isn't the troop reduction - plans are always made for one reason or another and if this happens soon, great - it's about how there isn't much attention being paid to how the terrorist attacks have dropped since the January 2005 elections.
Senior American officers are wary of declaring success too soon against an insurgency they say still has perhaps 12,000 to 20,000 hard-core fighters, plentiful financing and the ability to change tactics quickly to carry out deadly attacks. But there is a consensus emerging among these top officers and other senior defense officials about several positive developing trends, although each carries a cautionary note.
Attacks on allied forces have dropped to 30 to 40 a day, down from an average daily peak of 140 in the prelude to the Jan. 30 elections but still roughly at the levels of a year ago. Only about half the attacks cause casualties or damage, but on average one or more Americans die in Iraq every day, often from roadside bombs. Thirty-six American troops died there in March, the lowest monthly death toll since 21 died in February 2004.
Not much to report, huh?
No, not since everyone left-of-center was convinced that Iraq would become another [tired cliche alert] quagmire and that we'd never make any progress in Iraq.
Surprisingly, this story comes from The New York Times where quagmire was THE buzzword two years ago.
And while there are still attacks happening and killing U.S. troops on the ground, you'd think that someone would take notice of the decrease in Islamo-psycho attacks....but if it isn't bleeding, it isn't leading.
Freedom - 1, Quagmire - 0
I'm sitting in the Science & Engineering Library waiting for MATLAB to get fired up on the school's computer and reading the news in the meantime. The first thing to escape my lips - very LOUDLY - as I read this in the library was: Are they f*cking HIGH!?
Man's Conviction for Threatening Bush NixedYou know, this is just dandy - telling any would-be assassins that talking about it is now okay.....SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court Friday overturned an inmate's conviction for writing a crude, rambling letter endorsing President Bush's death at the hands of terrorists — two weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The letter from Oregon State Penitentiary prisoner Jonathan Lincoln, who was charged with threatening the president and given an 18-month sentence last year, read, in part: "You will die too George W Bush real Soon they Promised That you would Long Live Bin Laden."
Corrections officials intercepted the letter; Lincoln had been serving a 46-month sentence for robbery.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the letter was protected under the First Amendment, calling it "Lincoln's crude and offensive method of stating a political opposition to the president." The court noted "such political hyperbole does not constitute a 'threat."'
Then again, this comes from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Insane Judicial Thought....
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