History, Politics And Current Affairs

Poohbah wrote: ↑Sat May 24, 2025 1:52 am To absent friends.

May we do the best we can with the time they bought us.

I get that on my iPhone, I believe it’s the iCloud private relay service that is causing it. It keeps changing the IP-adress to mask it from the website, causing the logouts. With a (paid) VPN service enabled or with the private relay just disabled you won’t get it. How long has it been doing that?...

Is anyone else who predominantly access the Board on the browser of their cell phone noticing that it will routinely log you out when trying to navigate the board? Yes. Probably when your IP address changes. I don’t think it’s that, even considering the Third World nature of California’s cell netwo...

Is anyone else who predominantly access the Board on the browser of their cell phone noticing that it will routinely log you out when trying to navigate the board?

It's the Alaska class of armored vehicles. And a M1 is air droppable. Once. I don’t think the M10 is intended to be air dropped by parachute, even if theoretically capable of it. I think the plan is to have the paratroopers secure an airhead and then fly these things in to expand the perimeter. So ...

See the Chieftain’s video on why the Booker is NOT a tank. The main AT weapon of Airborne and air-mobile forces are the infantry anti-tank missiles (or the helos and zoomies supporting them). This thing’s an assault gun, more like an SU-76, or a souped-up Bradley or Stryker with a bigger gun. They w...

MikeKozlowski wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 11:05 pm "Gunslinger".

I like it. A year or so back, the Powers That Be wouldn't have even given it a name, lest we offend one of the nations we would be shooting it at.

Mike

More PC than ASRAAM.

....Somebody in a blue suit needs to tell me NOW why we can't use the existing holes. If the missile can't/won't fit, that's Boeing's problem. If the holes can't be used because of their condition then the entire USAF leadership from the CSAF down need to be held responsible. Mike Especially in lig...

Eaglenine2 wrote: ↑Sun May 04, 2025 7:45 pm Question how is the Soviet reinforcements going to get to Iraq?

From the conversation amongst the Soviet officers, it looks like the Soviets have set up an air corridor over the eastern part of Turkey.

While the science fiction nurd in me applauds the idea, the Old Navy in me thinks about the many good sailors and Marines who were KIA with citations for heroism that such ships are normally named for. Yes, acknowledging the excursions in recent years for “heroes of political correctness” that shou...

Shep, another one for your list - YouTube. We have seen a massive revolution in how academic levers researchers can reach an audience. It was beginning in the 2010s, but COVID really kicked it into gear as all aspects of academia grappled with how to keep going when we couldn’t get together in perso...

I still waiting when USS William J. Clinton (CVN-82) and USS George W. Bush (CVN-83) are going to be renamed, ore is CVN going to be named the USS Donald J Trump and they do not change the name as the next president can change the names again. I certainly hope so. Just because you're President does...

I have an alter Ego. The me I really wish I was. The type of me who intrigues me. The type of me who represents my ideal of professional competence and humanity. Captain Francis Thompson :twisted: Lucky there is only one of you Senior Chief, do not think we can handle two of you. I take that as a s...

It does get the job done if your tax situation is not too overly complicated At a price, naturally. The whole thing is a shell game for what should be pretty simple. I have to file a personal tax return in the U.K., it’s one form (2 pages, 4 sides) and takes me a day. Turbotax took me roughly an ho...

Nightwatch2 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 4:46 pm

Bob Dedmon wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 11:33 am

Poohbah wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 3:38 am TurboTax is the worst video game ever.

yeah

It does get the job done if your tax situation is not too overly complicated

At a price, naturally.

The whole thing is a shell game for what should be pretty simple.

John, The full-scale fleet actions would have ended at 2310, but if one looks at it, 1701-C is responding to a raid involving three Romulan vessels, and BOP's at that. Raids could well have been happening on a regular basis all the way through to the Dominion War. Mike It could be similar to the Fe...

To be honest, Enterprise killed my love of Star Trek. The Kelvin Timeline movies, the first couldn't quite suspend my disbelief enough, the second using Khan was lazy, enjoyed parts of three. If they had shown Kirk growing into be the Captain in three movies under Pike, I think would have been a be...

Did something dangerous, I thought. Source https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/174950/during-star-trek-tos-were-there-only-12-constitution-class-starships-in-all-of-s During TOS The following ships were destroyed or badly damaged. USS Constellation (TOS: The Doomsday Machine) destroyed USS De...

At least there isn't a SPINNAKER GOLD message (starship damaged and requiring unscheduled yard availability to repair to minimal spaceworthiness). SPINNAKER BLACK is "starship destroyed, likely with all hands lost," and that's not in play, either. I thought BLACK codes involved JAG? JAG w...

Poohbah wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 10:22 pm At least there isn't a SPINNAKER GOLD message (starship damaged and requiring unscheduled yard availability to repair to minimal spaceworthiness). SPINNAKER BLACK is "starship destroyed, likely with all hands lost," and that's not in play, either.

I thought BLACK codes involved JAG?