Disable Spybot's TeaTimer to make sure it won't interfere with fixes. You can re-enable it when you're clean again:. Run Spybot-S&D in Advanced Mode. If it is not already set to do this, go to the Mode menuselectAdvanced Mode.

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On the left hand side, click on Tools. Then click on the Resident icon in the list.

UncheckResident TeaTimerand OK any prompts.1. Double-click My Computer, and then right-click the hard disk that you want to check. Click Properties, and then click Tools.3. Under Error-checking, click Check Now.

A dialog box that shows the Check disk options is displayed,4. Check both boxes and then click Start.You will receive the following message:The disk check could not be performed because the disk check utility needs exclusive access to some Windows files on the disk. These files can be accessed by restarting Windows. Do you want to schedule the disk check to occur the next time you restart the computer?Click Yes to schedule the disk check, but don't restart yet.Right click on (My) Computer and select Manage (Continue) Then the Event Viewer. Next select Windows Logs. Right click on System and Clear Log, Clear. Repeat for Application.

The disk check will run and will probably take an hour or more to finish.Start, All Programs, Accessories then right click on Command Prompt and Run as Administrator. Then type (with an Enter after each line).sfc /scannow(SPACE after sfc. This will check your critical system files. Does this finish without complaint? IF it says it couldn't fix everything then:Copy the next two lines:findstr /c:'SR' windowslogscbscbs.log windowslogscbsjunk.txtnotepad windowslogscbsjunk.txtStart, All Programs, Accessories, right click on Command Prompt and Run as Administrator, Continue. Right click and Paste or Edit then Paste and the copied line should appear.Hit Enter if notepad does not open. Copy and paste the text from notepad into a reply.

Close nOtepad. Close the Command Window.1. Please download the Event Viewer Tool by Vino Rossoand save it to your Desktop:2. Right-click VEW.exe and Run AS Administrator3. Under 'Select log to query', select:.

System4. Under 'Select type to list', select:. Error. WarningThen use the 'Number of events' as follows:1. Click the radio button for 'Number of events'Type 20 in the 1 to 20 boxThen click the Run button.Notepad will open with the output log.Please post the Output log in your next reply then repeat but select Application.Download: to your desktop. Make sure you get the correct Download button.

Sometimes the ads on BleepingComputer will mimic the real Download button which should say: Download Now @BleepingComputerNOTE: If using Internet Explorer and you get an alert that stops the program downloading, click on the warning and allow the download to complete.Close all programs, pause your anti-virus and run AdwCleaner (Vista or Win 7 = right click and Run As Administrator).Click on Scan and follow the prompts. Let it run unhindered. When done, click on the Clean button, and follow the prompts.

Allow the system to reboot. You will then be presented with the report. Copy & Paste this report on your next reply.The report will be saved in the C:AdwCleaner folder.Junkware-Removal-ToolPlease download to your desktop. Make sure you get the correct Download button. Sometimes the ads on BleepingComputer will mimic the real Download button which should say: Download Now @Author's site.

Pause your anti-virus. Close all browsers. Run the tool by double-clicking it. If you are using Windows Vista, 7, or 8; instead of double-clicking, right-mouse click JRT.exe and select 'Run as Administrator'.

The tool will open and start scanning your system. Please be patient as this can take a while to complete depending on your system's specifications. On completion, a log (JRT.txt) is saved to your desktop and will automatically open. Post the contents of JRT.txt into your next message.Please download and save it to your Desktop.Note: You need to run the version compatible with your system. If you are not sure which version applies to your system download both of them and try to run them. Only one of them will run on your system, that will be the right version.

Right click to run as administrator (XP users click run after receipt of Windows Security Warning - Open File). When the tool opens click Yes to disclaimer.

Press Scan button. It will produce a log called FRST.txt in the same directory the tool is run from. Please copy and paste log back here. The first time the tool is run it generates another log ( Addition.txt - also located in the same directory as FRST.exe/FRST64.exe).

Please also paste that along with the FRST.txt into your reply.Copy the text in the code box:DRIVESnnetsvcs%SYSTEMDRIVE%.exe%systemroot%assemblyGAC32.ini%systemroot%assemblyGAC64.inimsconfigsafebootminimalsafebootnetworkactivexdrivers32%SYSTEMDRIVE%.exe%ALLUSERSPROFILE%Application Data.exe%APPDATA%./md5startrsvpsp.dllpnrpnsp.dllnwprovau.dllnlaapi.dllnapinsp.dllmswsock.dllwinrnr.dllwshelper.dllservices.exeatapi.sysexplorer.exewinlogon.exeUserinit.exesvchost.execsrss.exePrintIsolationHost.execonsrv.dlluser32.dll/md5stopdir C: /S /A:L /CC:WindowsassemblytmpU. /s%systemroot%. /mp /shklmsoftwareclientsstartmenuinternet command /rshklmsoftwareclientsstartmenuinternet command /64 /rs%systemroot%system32.dll /lockedfiles%systemroot%Tasks.job /lockedfiles%ProgramFiles%WINDOWS NT. /s%systemroot%system32drivers.sys /lockedfilesCREATERESTOREPOINTRun OTL (Vista or Win 7 = right click and Run As Administrator)Paste (Ctrl + v) the copied text in the box where it says Custom Scan/FixesSelect the All option in the Extra Registry group then Run Scan.You should get two logs. Please copy and paste both of them.Get Process ExplorerSave it to your desktop then run it (Vista or Win7 - right click and Run As Administrator).View, Select Column, check Verified Signer, OKOptions, Verify Image SignaturesClick twice on the CPU column header to sort things by CPU usage with the big hitters at the top.Wait a full minute then:File, Save As, Save.

Open the file Procexp.txt on your desktop and copy and paste the text to a reply.Get the free version of Speccy:(Look in the upper right for the DownloadLatest Version button - Do NOT press the large Start Download button on the upper left!) Download, Save and Install it. When it finishes (the little icon in the bottom left will stop moving), File, Save as Text File, (to your desktop) note the name it gives. Open the file in notepad and delete the line that gives the serial number of your Operating System. (It will be near the top about 10 lines down.) Attach the file to your next post. VEW System Log:Vino's Event Viewer v01c run on Windows Vista in EnglishReport run at 9:46:24 PMNote: All dates below are in the format dd/mm/yyyy'System' Log - Error TypeLog: 'System' Date/Time: 2:26:58 AMType: Error Category: 0Event: 2001 Source: Microsoft AntimalwareMicrosoft Antimalware has encountered an error trying to update signatures. New Signature Version: Previous Signature Version: 1.161.1475.0 Update Source: Microsoft Update Server Update Stage: Search Source Path: Signature Type: AntiVirus Update Type: Full User: NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM Current Engine Version: Previous Engine Version: 1.1.10003.0 Error code: 0x80096001 Error description: A system-level error occurred while verifying trust.'

System' Log - Warning TypeLog: 'System' Date/Time: 1:35:12 AMType: Warning Category: 2Event: 57 Source: volmgrThe system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.Log: 'System' Date/Time: 1:31:21 AMType: Warning Category: 2Event: 57 Source: volmgrThe system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.Log: 'System' Date/Time: 1:30:46 AMType: Warning Category: 2Event: 57 Source: volmgrThe system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.Log: 'System' Date/Time: 1:29:26 AMType: Warning Category: 2Event: 57 Source: volmgrThe system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur. VEW Application Log:Vino's Event Viewer v01c run on Windows Vista in EnglishReport run at 9:48:18 PMNote: All dates below are in the format dd/mm/yyyy'Application' Log - Error TypeLog: 'Application' Date/Time: 2:18:20 AMType: Error Category: 0Event: 33 Source: SideBySideActivation context generation failed for 'C:Program FilesOrigin GamesBattlefield 4 Betabf4.exe'. Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC90.CRT,processorArchitecture='amd64',publicKeyToken='1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b',type='win32',version='9.0.21022.8' could not be found.

Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.Log: 'Application' Date/Time: 2:17:15 AMType: Error Category: 0Event: 33 Source: SideBySideActivation context generation failed for 'C:Program FilesOrigin GamesBattlefield 4 Betabf4.exe'. Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC90.CRT,processorArchitecture='amd64',publicKeyToken='1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b',type='win32',version='9.0.21022.8' could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.Log: 'Application' Date/Time: 2:16:56 AMType: Error Category: 0Event: 10 Source: Microsoft-Windows-WMIEvent filter with query 'SELECT.

FROM InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 60 WHERE TargetInstance ISA 'Win32Processor' AND TargetInstance.LoadPercentage 99' could not be reactivated in namespace '//./root/CIMV2' because of error 0x80041003. Events cannot be delivered through this filter until the problem is corrected.' Application' Log - Warning TypeLog: 'Application' Date/Time: 1:30:48 AMType: Warning Category: 0Event: 1530 Source: Microsoft-Windows-User Profiles ServiceWindows detected your registry file is still in use by other applications or services. The file will be unloaded now. The applications or services that hold your registry file may not function properly afterwards. DETAIL - 1 user registry handles leaked from RegistryUserS-1-5-833-1001Classes:Process 12 (DeviceHarddiskVolume3WindowsSystem32spoolsv.exe) has opened key REGISTRYUSERS-1-5-833-1001CLASSESLocal SettingsSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsShellMuiCache.

Download the attached fixlist.txt to the same location as FRSTRun FRST and press FixA fix log will be generated please post that.Download, Save and Run (win 7 or Vista = Right click and Run as Admin.)Tick ' All' options.Press ' Scan'.It will create a log ( FSS.txt) in the same directory the tool is run.Please copy and paste the log to your reply.The SFC is normal for Vista. Nothing wrong that I can see there.Did I miss the Speccy log?I'm a little worried that the disk check won't run.

Moving on, is writing a science fiction story:I’m attempting to deal with the central problem Star Trek solves by its most egregious handwavium: in a super cool high tech socialist paradise, what do people.do.? Some tiny percent explore strange new worlds, etc., but most, it is implied, become Trobriand Islanders, only with better toys and manners.

They have no hope to better themselves or the world in any objective sense, so they raise yams, figuratively, and screw, trade ‘art’ to reinforce social standing and improve self-esteem, and scheme for enhanced social position.Trobriand Islanders live on the (duh) which are down in the South Pacific near New Guinea (!). The introduction to has some interesting bits.The people of the Trobriand Islands are mostly subsistence horticulturalists who live in traditional settlements.

The social structure is based on matrilineal clans that control land and resources. People participate in the regional circuit of exchange of shells called kula, sailing to visit trade partners on seagoing canoes. In the late twentieth century, anti-colonial and cultural autonomy movements gained followers from the Trobriand societies. When inter-group warfare was forbidden by colonial rulers, the islanders developed a unique, aggressive form of cricket.Although an understanding of reproduction and modern medicine is widespread in Trobriand society, their traditional beliefs have been remarkably resilient. For example, the real cause of pregnancy is believed to be a baloma, or ancestral spirit, that enters the body of a woman, and without whose existence a woman could not become pregnant; all babies are made or come into existence (ibubulisi) in Tuma. These tenets form the main stratum of what can be termed popular or universal belief.

In the past, many held this traditional belief because the yam, a major food of the island, included chemicals (phytoestrogens and plant sterols) whose effects are contraceptive, so the practical link between sex and pregnancy was not very evident.Living in a High Tech Socialist Paradise reminds me of:'Weird' Al Yankovic - Amish Paradise (Official Parody of 'Gangsta's Paradise')I've heard Al's version, but have I ever heard the original?Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise (feat. L.V.) Official Music VideoWhich leads to all kinds of connections:In case you don't recognize her (I didn't). The blond in is. Michelle get's mentioned in. Coolio got his tune from.

I started reading it a while back, got about half way through and put it down, but then I picked it up a couple of days ago and I started reading it again. It has some problems, it's a little confusing and some of the technical details are wrong, but overall it's a pretty good story about skulduggery and power politics in the near-future Mideast.Somewhere in the last half of the book somebody sets off half a dozen in the city which destroys all of the electronic devices and basically brings the city to a halt. People (mostly US and Soviet researchers) have been mucking about with these things since the 1950's. I don't know if anyone has ever used one as a weapon, though there was a rumor that a staged demonstration failed to stop a tank, but when the observers tried to leave, none of their cars would start. Of course, an EMP wouldn't stop a diesel powered tank as diesel engines don't rely on computers.The big problem is we don't know what the range of such a weapon might be. Well, I'm sure somebody knows, but it's probably classified. The range of a magnetic pulse that would be strong enough to damage an electronic device might not be any greater than the size of the physical explosion.

Of course, it would depend on the electronic devices. Smart phones, with their nano-scale transistors would likely be very susceptible. Anything inside of a metal box, like automobile controllers, should be immune. Lightning creates an EMP (electro-magnetic pulse), but you don't hear about everyones cell-phone dying every time there's a thunderstorm.The only time I have seen it used effectively was in. We have a brilliant, mildly autistic young woman who is in charge of a new power-generating reactor project. We have a state religion whose hierarchy is staffed with cyberneticly enhanced humans known as angels.

We have a galaxy spanning civilization supported by highly advanced technology like faster-than-light-speed spaceships, 'portals' that allow people to teleport instantaneously across vast distances (but only to other already established portals, hence the need for space ships) and ansibles that allow instantaneous communication anywhere within their reach, which might only be hundreds of light years.The angels provide the advanced technology. Ordinary humans (mortals) can make use of it, but are not allowed to build their own. That would be heresy, and the angels have their own contingent devoted to rooting out and destroying any and all forms of heresy. Humans are not allowed to have 'real' computers. The computer our heroine is using at least partly depends on vacuum tubes.

But she carries a pocket calculator with her, so there is some kind of line between what is allowed and what is not. I think the gating factor is that humans are not allowed any computers that would be powerful enough to run an ansible or a portal as those evidently take an enormous amount of processing power.So our girl has designed this reactor and all the equations check out. The reactor is going to be the power source for a human built space station.

The space station is a conventional spinning wheel design. It's a big project with a staff of engineers and scientists, and they have all checked over the design of this new reactor as well. However, this reactor is a new design, possibly even using new principles, and something about it doesn't feel right to our girl.

When they power it up, things get interesting.There is one theory of reality that's been kicking around for a while that says everything is a construct of our minds. Everything in our lives, our world, our reality, is there only because we collectively agree on what we imagine. For instance, back in the stone age, the universe was only a few million miles in diameter. Stars were just dots of light. When people started messing about with telescopes and started measuring things they found they needed a bigger universe to explain what they saw, so they imagined it and the universe reacted by expanding to accommodate their imaginings.We sometimes get distorted views of reality, sometimes it's due to drugs or alcohol, or maybe it's just a dream our subconscious has cooked up, or maybe we're looking in a fun house mirror.

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But what would you think if something impossible happened when you were wide awake, sober and your vision was working properly? For instance, a rock the size of a house appears in your front yard, or the street starts rippling, or a hole appears in front of you that apparently leads to outer space? You might look for plausible explanations like earthquakes or volcanoes and think that you just missed normal sounds and vibrations that accompany such events. I have no plausible explanation for a hole that leads to outer space, especially if it goes through a bunch of buildings. You will probably write it off as your brain playing tricks on you. But if these things keep happening, you might be a little perturbed.

Some people might go crazy. Some people might start to think we are living in.Or maybe the very fabric of reality has somehow collapsed, and has wandered in.

Carpentry 'Magic': Draw a Circle. With a SQUARE?!I'm reading, a very spacey science fiction novel and it's pretty great. One of the first things that comes up is knowledge versus understanding. Geometry and algebra might be a good example. It is possible to learn the rules for manipulating algebraic equations and by applying these rules you can 'solve' an equation, but just because you solved it does not necessarily mean you understand what the equation means. If you took algebra in school you probably solved a couple zillion equations.

I know I did, but it wasn't until I got into geometry that these equations started to make any kind of sense. The first step in political understanding is to see that every society has a ruling class, and that the myth of popular government is an opiate of the masses.

If you need help taking this step, I suggest you consult Main’s Popular Government (1886) or Burnham’s Machiavellians (1943).I like what JMSmith writes, (though not all posts tagged with Orthosphere quote JMSmith)., historical power structures and power structures in general. It's good to step back from the day to day bullshit and get a good overview of what's really going on.To properly represent the struggle for power we need a game that combines chess and Chinese checkers so we can have three opponents instead of just two. But a game like that might never end, and while it might mirror the real world, it wouldn't be much fun.New words, or new meanings for old words, for me:.

quondam - adjective, that once was; former. regnant - adjective, reigning; ruling. sacerdotal - adjective, relating to priests or the priesthood; priestly. Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas and Sudras - plural nouns, Indian classes and possibly Hindu castes.

OK, Brahmans isn't new to me. primate - noun (CHRISTIAN CHURCH), the chief bishop or archbishop of a province. I can't verify this because I don't go on Facebook anymore. I think I made 'friends' with too many people that I knew nothing about and so whenever I went there I found all sorts of stuff, but nothing of any interest.

Now to make it at least usable I would have to cull all these unknowns and I am not sure it is worth the effort.I remember seeing this album back when it was in the stores (about a zillion years ago). I thought it was a little odd, but not very interesting. Little kids are just as likely to be a nuisance as to be enjoyable company. I imagined they were put on this cover to symbolize innocence or something other high-falutin concept.But Facebook has banned it, so in your face Facebook.

Maybe this tempest-in-a-teapot will expand into a real storm that will consume Facebook and possibly the whole Social Justice Warrior crap festival. I'm reading and I come across this line:' grew up in Seattle, and he was only thirteen when four Douglas World Cruisers took off from a nearby lake in the successful attempt to circumnavigate the globe by air.' last page of chapter 3.? Never heard of them before.

Seems the Army was eager to make it big in the flying game so they contracted the Douglas Aircraft Company to build them four airplanes specifically to fly around the world. They made it all the way around, or at least some of them did, though it took them six months. They were going to try going this year, the 95th anniversary, but they've decided to wait one more year.A couple other round-the-world flight have made been mentioned in this blog., there was, and then there were.

His first job is assessing the current state of that Air Force, which is very bad. He delivers this report to. Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. There's a brief overview of the internal politics of China.

Chiang's wife, is force of her own.Sun Yat-sen gets mentioned. That's another name I haven't heard in a coon's age.Anyway, the Japanese have been raising hell in China for years, but now we have the, and the war begins in earnest.The name 'Marco Polo Bridge' derives from its appearance in 's, where he praised it highly.So the current bridge isn't the one that Marco Polo saw, but it's in the same place, and it's the one where the Chinese and Japanese clashed. Damaged Oil Tanker Andrea Victory in the Gulf of OmanSomeone has attacked four oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman recently. The United States accuses Iran and Iran denies it. It seems the Houthis from Yemen claimed the earlier attacks (about a month ago). There is some kind of civil war going on Yemen, which looks like a proxy for war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and that conflict is kind of a proxy for competition between Russia and the US.

So if we (the US) want to accuse anybody, we should be accusing Russia of supporting Iran, but then Russia might turn around and accuse us of supporting Saudi Arabia's attacks on the rebels in Yemen.I'm surprised to see a ship registered in Norway operating here. I suppose if you are in the oil business you go where the money sends you. I didn't think too much about the price ($36) when I bought it, but I was exploring not shopping. When I thought about it later, I thought 'that's a heck of a lot of money for a 5th of bourbon'. It was very smooth, though, so maybe it was worth it.Went to the liquor store a couple of weeks ago and picked up a bottle of Four Roses ($25)and a bottle of Jack Daniels ($20).

I used to drink Jim Beam because it was cheaper, but it had a bit of a bite to it. When I thought I could afford it (after the kids were all through with school), I decided I could splurge a little and moved up to Jack Daniels.

Much smoother. I drank the bottle of Four Roses first and it was very good. And then I turned to the Jack Daniels and it wasn't quite as smooth. It has just a hint of a bite to it. So I'm thinking there is a pretty definite relationship between price and smoothness, or lack of bite if you prefer. So generally, you're going to drink the cheapest whiskey you can tolerate.But alcohol is a chemical and if you are buying your alcohol from, I'm thinking it wouldn't have any bite at all.

So could it be that distillers who are selling cheap whiskey are making it themselves because it's cheaper than buying it from ADM? Or maybe stills come with performance / quality controls, where you can turn up the speed but you get more in your product. Which means more bite, or you can turn down the speed and turn up the quality and get smoother whiskey. Iaman reports:I'm making motions to move to AZ for a bit to get my biters fixed (teeth) fixed in Mexico, today I talked to a guy, Randy, my age who built a big house in the mountains, got divorced and now has a wing of the house for rent, sound's good.I've been looking at the news of the area.

Is building plants on both sides of the border for production of their 1000hp electric 235mph car, I'd never heard of such a company or car.Cool spring means rush of Mexican grapes before threatened tariffs. Almost all grapes imported from Mexico passed through Nogales ports last year, data show.He might be exaggerating about the number of tunnels under the border. The story just tells us they found 3 tunnels back in January.

3 tunnels a month times 12 months is 36 tunnels. At that rate, three years would put you over a 100, and this has been going for how long? There's probably thousand's of tunnels. I wouldn't be surprised that to hear that whole sections of the town collapsed due to the number of tunnels.I got nuthin' on grapes. They make wine and raisins out of grapes. I add raisins to my oatmeal, makes it much more palatable.The car factory is going to built in,.

Also, from way back in the cold war, it was home to the. And just to tie this up, I used to drive a.Elon Musk (the Tesla electric car billionaire) was going to build his big battery factory in Casa Grande. He's also got a big tunnel boring machine project going on. Drugs smugglers are digging tunnels under the border. There might be big money in big, car-size tunnels, but smaller tunnels, like tubes big enough to transport a small package of, I dunno, maybe cocaine or heroin, could be a real money maker. Since the drugs the smugglers are smuggling are probably hard drugs, which take up much less space than evil marijuana, I am surprised they haven't started using pneumatic tubes to get their drugs across the border. A ditch witch should be able to send a four inch pipe a couple hundred yards under the border in matter of hours.

Or maybe they are already doing that, but they just dig a man-sized tunnel every so often so the DEA can claim a victory.Can't say as I am impressed with the. I am sure it will be very wonderful, but I ain't got that kind of dough. I mean look at the picture at top. Their target demographic is people who have their own jetliners. And even if I did have the money, I am not sure I would want one. Driving is getting to be more of a pain every day. I like my back yard, my computer, and my big screen TV.(link goes to YouTube video)Younger son borrowed my car to drive to Bend over the weekend.

He didn't leave me stranded, he left me his 30-year-old Ford pickup truck. Good lord, what a beast. Anyway, I take and they are working on the wires, so there is a 10 minute delay because traffic is down to one lane and we have to take turns.

I don't make it through with the first pack, so I have to wait another ten minutes or so. After that it was smooth sailing.

On the way back I took I-5 and as soon as I got pn the interstate the traffic got all creepy-crawly. 20 MPH all the way to highway 26. Can't win for losing.It came to me that while cruising down the highway, where you aren't crowded and traffic is flowing freely, is pleasant, enjoyable, even relaxing, driving in downtown or creeping along in a traffic jam is a whole lot like work, and it isn't enjoyable work either. To this end he buys two houses that are situated on opposite sides of the block, 28 Leicester Square and 19 Charing Cross Road, their backs face each other. He then has a structure built that bridges the space between the two houses.

It looks like it is still there. This is all in London, England.The conjoined house is still there. The 'front' faces Leicester Square and is marked by the orange spot labeled 'The Moon Under Water'. The back fronts on Charing Cross Road and is marked by the orange spot labeled 'Maharaja of India'.Some people think this house was the basis for Dr.

Jekyll's house in. There are certainly enough similarities.The house looks to be about 200 feet from front to back and maybe 50 feet wide, which means each floor would be about 10,000 square feet. Wendy tells us that the house was four stories tall which would give him 40,000 square feet of floor space, not counting the stables in the basement(!). Currently, it appears to be seven stories tall. I suppose in the intervening 200 years the top three stories could have been added. KakistocracyA kakistocracy is a system of government that is run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.

The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century. It also was used by English author Thomas Love Peacock in 1829, but gained significant use in the first decades of the twenty-first century to criticize populist governments emerging in different democracies around the world.What a fine word. Not to be confused with, which is a government of thieves who are stealing everything they can get their mitts on.From, who mentions. Ross paid a visit to the USS Independence and came away with this photo of the.

It looks like they took a Phalanx system and replaced the gun with a big box of rockets.SeaRAM Anti-Ship Missile Defense Systembeware annoying upbeat musicThe is supposed to be able to shoot down incoming anti-ship missiles before they hit the ship, the same thing the was supposed to do. I would think using missiles instead of bullets should give you better range. You might be able to reach out a couple of miles with bullets, but missiles might give you ten times that. You are limited by the number of missiles you have, but the Phalanx has a limited supply of ammunition.

It's large, but it's still limited, and it uses it at a. The Stearman (Boeing) Model 75 is a formerly used as a military, of which at least 10,626 were built in the during the 1930s and 1940s. Became a of in 1934. Widely known as the Stearman, Boeing Stearman or Kaydet, it served as a primary trainer for the, the (as the NS and N2S), and with the as the Kaydet throughout. After the conflict was over, thousands of surplus aircraft were sold on the civilian market. In the immediate postwar years they became popular as, sports planes, and for and use in.The engine is a ' 7-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine, 220 hp'.

Radial engines have an odd number of cylinders, it makes for evenly spaced power strokes. 9 cylinders is most common and is also easier to layout as 360 degrees is evenly divisible by 9.

Seven cylinders is not as popular and one reason for that might be that nothing is evenly divisible by 7. Iaman (who spent a couple of years in the Air Force) has a couple of things to say about the Veteran's Administration:Hi, got an email about and several robocalls inviting me to attend a conference call announcing this improvement to my VA benefits.The always-delusional Drumpf has taken steps to increase the privatization of the VA health system. This will cost the 140 million tax payers each about $1,300 a year each.My experience at the existing VA has been a wonderful extravagance, now it gets better by pumping more-deficit money into these urgent care palaces we see sprouting on the street corners.

I was wondering what they saw that I did not, now I know.By the way, the number of vets having actually seen combat, at least as close as a safe, is a hard figure to nail down. The military doesn't want people to know how fat it is. Some say 10%, my experience says, for those that actually hear high velocity whizzing by, is closer to 1%.A interesting picture of disciplined future combat veterans graduating from West Point, getting a piece of the pie is increasingly equal opportunity. Go Girl!I'm always glad to see women doing more than might be expected of them. I am not sure why this might be, other than it might be that women are generally smarter than men and I am always happier to be talking with someone who has a brain than some dunderhead who doesn't.Yes, the military might be fat, and they are probably preparing for the wrong war, but they have a big organization and they know how to get things done and one of these days we might need them to do something and then we will be very glad to have them. Right now there might be a lot of button polishing going on, but what else have they got to do? We don't have any real threats.

Maybe that's why we are in Afghanistan. By continuing to fight against the Taliban, our guys are getting some combat experience which could prove to be invaluable. Yes, it's a shame that our people are getting killed over there, but that's part of combat, isn't it? These constant low level reminders that war causes death might be enough to keep us from getting involved in a more extensive conflict.

For a long time I was super annoyed at the fancy buildings fast-food franchises erected to house their businesses. I thought it was an extravagant waste of money: if they didn't spend so much money on the building, they could afford to pay their employees a decent wage.

Eventually I did some rough calculations and realized the cost of the fancy building was a small fraction of their monthly expenses. Wages are the big factor.

Walk into a McDonald's most any time and you are liable to see a dozen people working. Figuring. $10 an hour. times 10 people. times 16 hours a day. times 30 days a month.

comes to $48,000 a month for wages. What we need is more people willing to step up and start a business. Not everyone has what it takes to start a business, and that might be what the problem is. Starting a business requires an idea, which isn't too hard to come by, but it also takes drive, commitment and a thick enough skin to deal with all the petty bullshit you are going to run into. So the next time you are offended by an obnoxious bull headed person charging through the public plaza, remember, that is exactly the kind of person we need because they are the ones who get things going.

(You might ask why they can't be nice about it, but that might just be the straw that breaks that camel's back. Step back, give them some room. You don't want to get any on you.). One problem in big cities in the USA is the large number of homeless people.

Many of the proposed solutions to this problem suffer from their own problem, to wit,they presume is that all a homeless person needs a chance, a leg up, a helping hand, and they could get back on straight and narrow and become contributing members of society. I bought into that idea for a long time. Now I realize that while there may be some people like that, they are a distinct minority. There are a fair number of people whose mental problems make them incapable of holding down a job.

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But the biggest problem might be those people who are not interested in working and are perfectly happy eking out an existence on the fringes of society.I'm thinking what we need is a campground for the homeless. I suspect the only reason the homeless congregate in downtown areas is because that's where the soup kitchens are. If we could find an area outside of town that would make a suitable campground and persuade one of these soup kitchens to set up shop there, we might find that the homeless would migrate there of their own accord. Basically we would be setting up a refugee camp for our own citizens who can't, or won't, hack it in our dog-eat-dog capitalist society.Sorting out who would pay for it and who would govern it would give all concerned plenty to argue about in the coming months (years), but it would alleviate the immediate problem for all concerned.

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I can't imagine camping on city sidewalks or on the shoulder of Interstate freeways is something people aspire to. Okay, there's one in every crowd, but aside from the occasional nut-case, I think everyone would prefer camping where you aren't getting told to 'move on' by the police, or worrying about whether a stray motor vehicle is going to flatten you.P.S. About the picture. I looked for a picture of a nice small refugee camp, one you would be happy to send your lay-about friends to, but all I found were pictures of ginormous tent cities.

Maybe it's time we got on board the express train to purgatory.