JClark
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You know, there's a limit to free speech. Those butt wipes would tote an ass-whipping home with them, and I wouldn't give a tinkers damn if I had to spend the night in jail for the priviledge of doing it. I suspect the police would treat me well,and unless I got a real liberal judge (and nowadays, there's a better than even chance of that!) I wouldn't get much of a sentence. Even if I had to spend some time locked up, then that's the price I'm prepared to pay for my end of the bargain: If I can't serve myself, then the least I can do is honor those that do...to the fullest extent!
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Got them all, except for the dll downloads...PF was 10, IL2 expansion pack was 30, got a Radeon 256 meg DDR for 129...and the wife says if I need anything else, she'll get it for me...now all I need is some time to meet you guys for a wee bit of ACM
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Guys, getting a 256 meg video card tomorrow for my birthday. What game(s) do I need to get to hang out with you dudes...might even take a crack at the Sushi Kid
Boats, who is thinking about sneaking an AV8-B into the game, see if Chopstick Cholly can eat a 'Winder
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It's very good. The Sergeant continues to impress me, and it still amazes me that the one guy Smoke hasn't been bounced to the rear for being a grade-A cluster-you-know-what yet.
I really like their new replacement too.
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While admitting that I haven't seen it, the milbloggers aren't as enthused. Since these are the guys that have put on the uniform, I'll err on their side till I get a chance to see it.
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Hehehehehe-- You vhish!!
Errr-- vhot you flyink? Unt vhere do you meet up?
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Flying kites, you bloody Hun! And in your backyard!
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I agree that Comcast has a very good up time vice downtime rate...BUT...when things go south, as things are wont to do, that's where you separate the sheep from the goats in customer service. And down here, Comcast has a license, and the city has put them on notice that their service either improves, or ugly things will happen.
Sitting here with my 4 mps download times, just whistling along....
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It went out AGAIN for 3 days! But this time I put the Mayors office on them, got a phone call from the Customer Service Manager and this afternoon, right on time, at 1PM, a truck was pulling up in the driveway. Not only that, but the field service manager showed up, and even he got out changing connectors, all the way from the pole to the modem. Found the bad connection, was a bad install from day one that finally gave out. I'm getting one month credit for lost connectivity, and 3 months at 9.95 for my aggravation.
I strongly suggest you contact your local city council or mayor's office and ask if they have someone who handles these problems with Comcast. Comcast is a monopoly...but by license granted by the government (locally) alone. What they are allowed to charge for their service is governed by their service.
I also got the direct line phone numbers to the field superisors Nextel phone, and won't be calling the service centers anymore, and won't be dealing with 18 year olds telling me stupid things they can't back up.
Taking no prisoners, and eating the wounded....
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You got any favorite milblogs?
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Well, I got a customer no-service tech fired last night, and my service restored, and a months credit for my aggrivation. You would not believe the goat rope I went through in the past week and a half to get my service restored. Calling virtually every night when I got home at 4:30 AM, when I woke up the next afternoon, bringing my PC to my guys shop to be checked out (the NIC card), going half way across town to pick up a modem, and getting lied to by some little wonk. Well, the little liar is now unemployed, and I'm fervently hoping he comes to work for me. Comcast now has a special note in our records, that if we call again, they come a-running, because I told them I have the phone number to the Mayors special assistant in charge of making sure that Comcast stands by it's service, with the eye towards kicking them out of town or forcing them to reduce their rates if the service dips below an acceptable level.
But...I'm online now, and checking out my favorite milblogs, NASCAR news, and corny jokes again
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Dark Helmet, you have the best collection of bad puns ever. I love it.
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Wiz, don't encourage the Helmet, it's worse than feeding trolls! Some of his puns are downright disgusting!
Boats, who has been without Comcast for a week...
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Anybody heard from CFran lately? I get nervous if he doesn't show his mug now and again.
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Well, he has this little thing called "duty" going on, in what in Vietnam would have been called a "free fire zone" (at least from the terrorists point of view), and is expected to do patrols and operations and the like. He also has to wait his turn to get at a 'puter terminal.
Keep the faith, shipmate...
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Thanks for the heads-up, OldWSO. And welcome to the forum!
Hey, would you like to write a longer review for the CSim front page? I'm the book editor around here, and I'd be happy to publish your thoughts. Let me know!
BTW, does "OldWSO" mean old back-seater ... ?
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You pronounce that, "Wizzo", shipmate
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Cool dude? Really? The way I hear it Ronin, you're a flying hemmarhoid
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Man, I hate to tell you this, but that's January in Florida....
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I wasn't happy to see where Ryan ended up, but I was glad to see Dale Jr. get a win. Jr. and his team have been through a lot of crap, and they deserved a win. He's a very likeable young man, and I'm glad to see him overcome adversity and win a sweet race over Matt Kenseth and Jimmy Johnston.
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Preaching to the choir, brother, preaching to the choir!
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Sweet looking bird, Stans...shows you spent a lot of time on it. And no repaired Nip bullet holes...the aerial Ninja must have had to wash his shorts that war
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DH, for once, I really like you!
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Ronin said:
"Now one a question is this: why you boys keep a sign up theme of USA? "
Why not, riceball? Beats that meatball, unless it's painted on a Corsairs fusealage
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At least you ain't got to worry about any fireworks, shipmate!
Hang tough, Cfran, and make sure that all the rounds that count are going downrange, and
ON TARGET!
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Remember this as well:
"From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots." -- Thomas Jefferson
Boats, still at attention...
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From Commander Salamanders blog (http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/):
"Our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor"
There is always a discussion around the MilBlog part of our little universe about sacrifice. About commitment. About sharing the burden.
On July 4th, let’s go back to the beginning. Who were the signers; what did they sacrifice? All the below is from an article from a late Missouri attorney, Rush H. Limbaugh, Jr. You might know one or two of his sons. I don’t care what you think of his kids, give credit to the father.
Who were they?
Ben Franklin was the only really old man. Eighteen were under 40; three were in their 20s. Of the 56, almost half--24--were judges and lawyers. Eleven were merchants, 9 were land-owners and farmers, and the remaining 12 were doctors, ministers, and politicians.
With only a few exceptions, such as Samuel Adams of Massachusetts, these were men of substantial property. All but two had families. The vast majority were men of education and standing in their communities. They had economic security as few men had in the 18th century.
Each had more to lose from revolution than he had to gain by it. John Hancock, one of the richest men in America, already had a price of 500 pounds on his head. He signed in enormous letter so "that his Majesty could now read his name without glasses and could now double the reward." Ben Franklin wryly noted: "Indeed we must all hang together, otherwise we shall most assuredly hang separately." Fat Benjamin Harrison of Virginia told tiny Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts: "With me it will all be over in a minute, but you, you will be dancing on air an hour after I am gone."
What did they sacrifice?
Francis Lewis, New York delegate, saw his home plundered and his estates, in what is now Harlem, completely destroyed by British soldiers. Mrs. Lewis was captured and treated with great brutality. Though she was later exchanged for two British prisoners through the efforts of Congress, she died from the effects of her abuse.
William Floyd, another New York delegate, was able to escape with his wife and children across Long Island Sound to Connecticut, where they lived as refugees without income for seven years. When they came home, they found a devastated ruin.
Phillips Livingstone had all his great holdings in New York confiscated and his family driven out of their home. Livingstone died in 1778 still working in Congress for the cause.
Louis Morris, the fourth New York delegate, saw all his timber, crops, and livestock taken. For seven years he was barred from his home and family.
John Hart of Trenton, New Jersey, risked his life to return home to see his dying wife. Hessian soldiers rode after him, and he escaped in the woods. While his wife lay on her deathbed, the soldiers ruined his farm and wrecked his Homestead. Hart, 65, slept in caves and woods as he was hunted across the countryside. When at long last, emaciated by hardship, he was able to sneak home, he found his wife had already been buried, and his 13 children taken away. He never saw them again. He died a broken man in 1779, without ever finding his family.
Dr. John Witherspoon, signer, was president of the College of New Jersey, later called Princeton. The British occupied the town of Princeton, and billeted troops in the college. They trampled and burned the finest college library in the country.
Judge Richard Stockton, another New Jersey delegate signer, had rushed back to his estate in an effort to evacuate his wife and children. The family found refuge with friends, but a sympathizer betrayed them. Judge Stockton was pulled from bed in the night and brutally beaten by the arresting soldiers. Thrown into a common jail, he was deliberately starved. Congress finally arranged for Stockton's parole, but his health was ruined. The judge was released as an invalid, when he could no longer harm the British cause. He returned home to find his estate looted and did not live to see the triumph of the evolution. His family was forced to live off charity.
Robert Morris, merchant prince of Philadelphia, delegate and signer, met Washington's appeals and pleas for money year after year. He made and raised arms and provisions which made it possible for Washington to cross the Delaware at Trenton. In the process he lost 150 ships at sea, bleeding his own fortune and credit almost dry.
George Clymer, Pennsylvania signer, escaped with his family from their home, but their property was completely destroyed by the British in the Germantown and Brandywine campaigns.
Dr. Benjamin Rush, also from Pennsylvania, was forced to flee to Maryland. As a heroic surgeon with the army, Rush had several narrow escapes.
John Morton, a Tory in his views previous to the debate, lived in a strongly loyalist area of Pennsylvania. When he came out for independence, most of his neighbors and even some of his relatives ostracized him. He was a sensitive and troubled man, and many believed this action killed him. When he died in 1777, his last words to his tormentors were: "Tell them that they will live to see the hour when they shall acknowledge it [the signing] to have been the most glorious service that I rendered to my country."
William Ellery, Rhode Island delegate, saw his property and home burned to the ground.
Thomas Lynch, Jr., South Carolina delegate, had his health broken from privation and exposures while serving as a company commander in the military. His doctors ordered him to seek a cure in the West Indies and on the voyage He and his young bride were drowned at sea.
Edward Rutledge, Arthur Middleton, and Thomas Heyward, Jr., the other three South Carolina signers, were taken by the British in the siege of Charleston. They were carried as prisoners of war to St. Augustine, Florida, where they were singled out for indignities. They were exchanged at the end of the war, the British in the meantime having completely devastated their large land holdings and estates.
Thomas Nelson, signer of Virginia, was at the front in command of the Virginia military forces. With British General Charles Cornwallis in Yorktown, fire from 70 heavy American guns began to destroy Yorktown piece by piece. Lord Cornwallis and his staff moved their headquarters into Nelson's palatial home. While American cannonballs were making a shambles of the town, the house of Governor Nelson remained untouched. Nelson turned in rage to the American gunners and asked, "Why do you spare my home?" They replied, "Sir, out of respect to you." Nelson cried, "Give me the cannon!" and fired on his magnificent home himself, smashing it to bits. But Nelson's sacrifice was not quite over. He had raised $2 million for the Revolutionary cause by pledging his own estates. When the loans came due, a newer peacetime Congress refused to honor them, and Nelson's property was forfeited. He was never reimbursed. He died, impoverished, a few years later at the age of 50.
Harumph. Congress. Some things never change.
Of those 56 who signed the Declaration of Independence, nine died of wounds or hardships during the war. Five were captured and imprisoned, in each case with brutal treatment. Several lost wives, sons or entire families. One lost his 13 children. Two wives were brutally treated. All were at one time or another the victims of manhunts and driven from their homes.
Twelve signers had their homes completely burned. Seventeen lost everything they owned. Yet not one defected or went back on his pledged word. Their honor, and the nation they sacrificed so much to create, is still intact.
And, finally, there is the New Jersey signer, Abraham Clark.
He gave two sons to the officer corps in the Revolutionary Army. They were captured and sent to the infamous British prison hulk afloat in New York harbor known as the hell ship "Jersey," where 11,000 American captives were to die. The younger Clarks were treated with a special brutality because of their father. One was put in solitary and given no food. With the end almost in sight, with the war almost won, no one could have blamed Abraham Clark for acceding to the British request when they offered him his sons' lives if he would recant and come out for the King and parliament. The utter despair in this man's heart, the anguish in his very soul, must reach out to each one of us down through 200 years with his answer: "No."
Enjoy your 4th, and remember a couple of the reasons your beer is cold, your hotdog hot, and your nation free.
Boats, who is at attention, hand over heart...
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Guys, what are the minimum system specs for PF? I don't care about all the itsy bitsy details, I just want to know what I need to mort that loud mouth Nip. If I can get the details worked out, and figure out how the PF Corsair matches the characteristics of the real one, I'm going to show old rice-head about fighting in the veritical with something that's got as much horsepower as the bent wing gull. You ever get into a good vertical rolling scissors, Ronin, with someone who has a better velocity vector than you do? Get that sickening feeling when you feel your controls start to get sluggish, while your opponent is still flying, and you have to either tip your nose over with the last bit of control you have, or go into a complete tail first stall? And you know that no matter what you do, you are meat on the table?
Boats, who is thinking about reaching into his desk drawer, and polishing his his Wings of Gold, and re-reading the AARs of Lts Thach, Flatley, and Cunningham.
BTW, guys, how do you think a sled like the Phantom in Vietnam, that could run like hell, but couldn't turn inside your average state, end up waxing nimble jets like the 19, the 17, and even the Mig 21? I'll give you a hint: don't ever, never, get into a turning horizontal fight with that Nip, because that Hamp will have you for lunch.
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Donnie, remember the two most important things: Never give up, and put your worries in the Lords hands. It will all work out in the end.
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What the wife did for me...
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This is what my wife did for me for my birthday (among other things
http://www.happybirthdaytoyou.com/cards/sw...&player=windows
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