Went on for hours. One city next to me did their fireworks show on the 3rd. Our city did theirs for the normal 30 - 45 minutes, ending 9:45 PM. Then personal fireworks (and gunshots) fairly steadily until midnight. Some into 1AM hour.
This lady though…needs a wellness check.
Yeah, I spent 18 months in Japan, at Misawa AFB. I was a bit shocked when I saw some of the manga sold from vending machines and bookshops. And men unselfconsciously reading them in public.
“…might…power warships.” Might? Of course they would.
A couple of things that stand out, especially if you watch the video:
Marshals have come a long way since then. In terms of the number of marshals, their placement on the track and the equipment. Especially bigger fire bottles. Even in SCCA we had 20 lb bottles.
Fire trucks placed strategically around the track. In this case, I think the fire truck had to drive against traffic.
Purley is wearing a 2 piece Nomex fire suit, with Nomex underwear. You wouldn’t see that after accidents like this, because it exposed his stomach to extreme heat. IIRC, Williamson wasn’t badly burned; he died from asphyxiation.
Excommunication, aside from burning at the stake, which they can’t do any more because of environmental rules (kidding), is the most severe punishment in the Catholic Church.
For a Catholic Bishop, it means that he can no longer conduct Mass or receive the sacraments. He is still baptized and subject to church rules but he’s pretty much already shown that he doesn’t care about that.
This guy has been a thorn in the side for a while.
When the majority of sexual assaults in the military go unreported/unpunished it doesn’t really set an example.
Also, Japan’s sentencing guidelines for rape convictions are pretty weak. They need to set meaningful sentencing.
Australian SAR (Australian Tier 1) also were there. They, with some Americans, including Army Special Forces and USAF Combat Controllers, walked in, over two days of incredibly difficult rucking, but with out helicopters giving away their route and positions.
They sniped and called in air strikes, including several air strikes on Roberts Ridge.
Because:
- Fun to shoot
- Have a legal right to do so
- All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good [people] do nothing.
- I am reasonably confident that law enforcement and the military (if it came to that) would do the right thing in the case of right wing provocation
- At the same time, the far right seems to think that liberals don’t have guns, don’t know how to use guns, would be unwilling to use a gun in self-defense. Many of us would prove those assumptions wrong.
Thank you. It was a great job that I lucked into during boot camp.
Yeah, listening to Soviet Nuclear War drills during the Cold War. And participating in U.S. drills (can you still hear call sign so and so? Yeah? Ok, we will hit them again.)
Of course I would imagine signal quality would be really bad during and after a nuclear exchange.
Excessive negative camber doesn’t improve performance. The correct negative camber is less than -2 degrees.
Yes.
I’ve been saying for several years that the book “The Handmaid’s Tale” was the GOP’s wet dream.
Project 2025 lays the legislative groundwork to turn the United States of America into Gilead.
Yeah. My Jetta had DSG and I would manually shift often. It had Bilstein PS 9 suspension and APR Stage 1 Tune. My CC R-Line has APR Stage 1 and paddles. So that’s fun.
Many years ago, when I had a fairly heavily modified Golf GT (manual, full exhaust system, some modifications to the suspension including roll bars that gave it absolutely neutral handling).
Some work friends and I were going from Northern VA to WVA for white water rafting. There were 3 of them and they had been drinking a lot. They were supposed to be the navigators but were passed out/semi-conscious. I drove to where we had put in on two previous trips. No one there.
The 3, now aware that they should have been paying attention finally found the phone number and we called.
They were launching in 20 minutes, with or without us. They were 15 miles away.
The route there was a freshly paved rural road, down hill, at times steeply so.
We took off. I told them to put their seat belts on. I don’t know if it was F1 like, it wasn’t quite rallying, I wasn’t doing handbrake turns. At least not yet.
It was, initially, fun. I had a little bit of road racing experience so I was picking and hitting apexes and picking brake points.
I kept checking the time and it was close. I noticed the road leveling out, so we were getting close to the river valley.
That’s when I realized that my brakes were fading. Like I had to put my toe under the pedal to lift it.
The last few miles were a challenge. I had to brake much earlier and, yes, use the handbrake. At the bottom of the road there was a crossing and the brake pedal went to the floor. I ran through a stop sign and oversteered a left turn and then a right into the parking lot. A passenger said “You just ran a stop sign” and I said “Nope…ran out of brakes.”
We piled out, running to the rafting office to change into wet suits. I looked over my shoulder and saw smoke flowing from all 4 corners of the car.
The rafting trip was a bust. I spent a lot of it worrying about my car. The other three guys were in no shape to raft. The raft has to be rowed faster than the current to be able to control it and they couldn’t coordinate.
We got back, 5 hours later, and I took the car on a spin around the parking lot, delighted to feel firm brakes.
A few weeks later the car went into the shop for new brakes and I got racing brakes. They were a little noisy but very good.
In the Pacific war, they could use radios (not the Walkie Talkie) to call the carrier and the carrier could launch a mission or radio already airborne aircraft to strafe, rocket or bomb a target based on grid coordinates, terrain features or signals (flare or smoke/WP grenades). They could not talk to the planes directly as their radios would not work in the same frequency range and signal amplitude required.
Please provide details of how the Finnish Army did this? Big radios maybe, like those requiring dedicated radio men and lots of batteries/power. Radios that transmit/receive Morse code require less power than radios transmitting voice.
The SC536 Walkie Talkie had about 1/3 of power. Range was several hundred feet to 1 mile over clear terrain and 3 miles over water.
If you are talking the VRHAG M-10/11 radios, they are short wave sets requiring a dedicated radio team and 20 meters of antenna strung in the trees. Hardly a squad sized radio and not available to Americans. They were available to the Germans, since the Finns made them for the German Army.
The Pakistani ISI was happy though, with all the bribe money UBL paid to pass through the border.
The picture is so out of focus I don’t think they needed to blur the faces.
Great information presented very well!
And think, 80 years later, a guy can talk into a radio integrated into his helmet. Shine a laser, get an exact coordinate, send the coordinate to a plane and wait for the plane to tell him “Bomb away” and give him time of flight.
Then, ‘boom’ and off they go.
Not so much drama, but no allied casualties.
The AM SCR536 (Walkie Talkie) or FM (backpack SCR300 radio) would not be able to talk to aircraft, which used HF/VHF frequencies.
The handheld unit had 20 channels, but you could only pick one at a time and would have to change the crystal to change channels.
At most, they could talk to a forward controller who would use his dedicated radio to talk to planes, or to an artillery observer/naval gunfire support observer to call in fires. But to do that they would have to be known to the observers so they observer would know that they were allied troops and not Germans who captured a unit and were calling in fires on allied positions.
Who were they supposed to talk to? They were not assigned to a specific unit in the field, once they started on their mission.
Radio use was fairly limited in WW2. They had heavy battery consumption, and required certain crystals to communicate on the correct frequency.
In addition, call signs changed frequently.
Keep eyes closed, try to relax, from the toes up. Breathe deeply. Don’t toss and turn. Find a comfortable position and stay in it.
They would remove a slumping Perez and replace him with a slumped Ricciardo? Makes perfect sense.
[Tobi Gruner] Driver market still in full swing. We hear Sergio Perez could be in danger of losing his seat if he doesn’t improve his performance. Daniel Ricciardo would be first on the list to take over the Red Bull cockpit.
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