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Stars Wars story: Rogue Juan.

 
   Star Wars: Rogue Juan is bold new movie showing grim reality of Mexican immigrants trying to sneak through the border of Space Unite Stats. In the movie white males understood that walls don't work, so they decided to send United States into space and surround it will walls from every direction, thus creating sphere, which is called a Death Star. A white male (wearing white clothes) is building new space station and plans to arm it with giant space laser to insure dominance of patriarchy.
   One group of very diverse heroes (Indians, Mexicans, Asians, Afro-Spacians) lead by strong and independent woman now need to team up in very original story of rebels taking down Imperial giant super weapon, where a black guy dies first, secondary characters dies later and only main character and her love interest survive long enough to see results, later to be killed because movie is grim and realistic.
   Rogue Juan brings a lot of moral question about building giant space laser-firing space stations, sending countries to the space and isolating it from the rest of people by spheres, white man oppression of aliens such as Mexicans and Indians, destruction of Muslim cultural artifacts like Al-Jedi town and many others. 
 

Since everyone is excited and talking about it, here is my review of the upcoming movie Deadpool.
 
In the last installment of the Dirty Harry franchise, Inspector Callahan investigates a series of celebrity murders which are tied to a game guessing which celebrity will die next. Little does he know, Dirty Harry is on the list and is in the sights of a serial killer who aims to check him off.
 
Along the way, Callahan is attacked by mobsters, the liberal media and is forced to outrun a bomb-laden remote control car all while enduring the acting quality Patricia Clarkson, the love interest in the film.
 
Amazingly, this film also features Liam Neeson and Jim Carrey the rocker Johnny Squares (a slightly less-strung out Axl Rose).
 
Somewhere along the way the ubiquitous Smith and Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum is traded in by Dirty Harry in exchange for a harpoon gun where he dispatches the villain while uttering the unforgettable line "You're Shit Out of Luck".
 
Truly a cinematic tour de force and one that I would recommend to any viewer.
 
Sadly, the services of Albert Popwell weren't utilized which is the only drawback to the film.

In a world gone mad, where a single state holds an entire country captive because of a demographic time bomb of 38 million passive aggressive jerks who don't know how to drive or vaccinate their children, they said all hope was lost. Until a single continental transform fault forming a tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and North American Plate with a right-lateral strike-slip motion said "No more".
 
San Andreas. The romantic comedy we've been waiting decades to see. And Superman isn't coming to save your sorry asses this time either.   Californians. You've artificially driven up property and rental prices in Portland and you've transformed the scenic vistas of Colorado into a gaudy strip mall and now you want to steal water from Washington state. But guess what? Mother nature has something else in store for you. 
 
Fuck you Californians! Do you like the taste of water? I've got some water for you! Glub-glub! Glub-glub!

"Your face when you have 4th military budge in the world and get your ass kicked by dudes chewing drugs and wearing slippers in combat"

Thanks to Iran and Houthis for support of Russian economy, haha.

Robert Mugabe now bathes in the waters of the Phlegethon 
 

Oh boy look what arrived today.

Connecticut man arrested after a tip to the FBI. He expressed interest in committing a mass shooting on Facebook. He possessed “high capacity” magazines and was trying to build a rifle from parts bought online.
 
Warrants were issued via Red Flag law in CT.
 
https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-norwalk-arsenal-seized-20190815-5qgugfpudjerbhuc6ueob4nad4-story.html
 
Claimed to be a Marine but wasn’t, confirming him to be one of THOSE kind of guys online. 

AI algorithm built to detect hate speech/racism on social media, flags African Americans at twice the rate as whites.
 
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/8/15/20806384/social-media-hate-speech-bias-black-african-american-facebook-twitter
 
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@Toxn
 
Was in Renton to celebrate a friend's birthday party last night and they insisted on going to a Bavarian themed bar. On the plus side, there was grapefruit beer!
 

 

 
 

If this country was serious about stopping mass shootings, the shooters would be hung from a rope in the town square 48 hours later, after being given a speedy and fair trial.
But America is no longer a civilized society.

If this country was serious about stopping mass shootings, the shooters would be hung from a rope in the town square 48 hours later, after being given a speedy and fair trial.
But America is no longer a civilized society.

So long Rutger
 
https://variety.com/2019/film/obituaries-people-news/rutger-hauer-dead-dies-blade-runner-co-star-1203278050/amp/?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR0Bep6o72NpURTN47ZPRa3CDBaRdDsFAEkxoBDPsmZT4FSau9VacdyOe7g
 
 

La Minerve has been found.
The submarine and it's 52 crew members sank in 1968 when returning to Toulon.
 
http://www.opex360.com/2019/07/22/lepave-du-sous-marin-la-minerve-a-ete-retrouvee-plus-de-50-ans-apres-sa-disparition/

What causes the seasons is the interplay between Idun, the Norse goddess of Spring and Hoor, the god of Winter and how they keep getting tricked somehow by Loki.
 
Like. Doy!

All I know is whatever Trump’s actions will be, he’ll be criticized for it by the Orange Man Bad crowd.
Even if it means they have to assume to polar opposite opinions in the same day.
 
(My only news on this til right now has been via NPR rebroadcasted on our rural Alaska AM station on the newscasters could have made pretzels with their logic had they added oil, salt, and mustard.

Here's a fairly comprehensive overview of the Iranian mine incident

Fuckwits are still proposing blanket bans.  Via executive fiat.. Batshit fuckwit wants to get people shot
"Is a revolution what you want, because this is how you get one".

That's pretty much my understanding of the situation.  Teledyne was working with Renk by the late 1970's to get a Renk transmission into their "Super M60".  So I'm not sure if Teledyne pitched the Renk transmission to the Israelis, or if the Israelis picked the Renk transmission independently.  

Paper panzer, so colors are still being decided upon. 
 
Current model aims at a high cd coefficent. 
A more track orientated model might be developed later. 
 
I never really get why people have this kind of dirty pleasure about Crossovers in my country, or SUVs as they are called here.
 
Reasons people state that they like them are:
1. They have a lot of cargo space.
2. They have better ground clearance.
3. They need it go visit their cabin.
4. They feel they have a better view of the surroundings. 
5. They like sitting more upright.
6. They like stepping into the vehicle. 
 
1. This is simply not true for 99% of European models.  They are pretty much raised hatchbacks, and actually have smaller cargo space, car manufacturers usually use liters to measure the cargo volume, but because of the taller trunk, the number gets inflated.  Often the station wagon provides equal or more trunk space. 
 
2. Again, I have never needed extra ground clearance in my country, even with out sometimes miserable road quality. I even know people that slammed their cars and still got to their cabins in the winter. If it is really important, you can simply buy the off road variant of the station wagon. 
 
3. Again a lie, since they have managed to go to their cabins for a few years with their FWD hatchbacks with no problems. Simply learn to not slam the gas pedal and buy proper winter tires and you will have no issues. 4x4 is extremely overrated, especially in most Crossovers. Besides, most, if not all other car models comes with 4x4. 
 
4. While true that you can look above some low cars, you will for the most part be just looking at peoples car roofs, instead of their windshields.  This comes at the cost of lower close up visibility, which is so bad in some cases that back up cameras are almost mandatory. 
 
5. Though this is person taste, most comfort chairs are more layed back. Like car seats. 
 
6. I remember before the crossover thing took off, it was considered a hassle to climb into taller vehicles. 
 
 
For the most part, a off road station wagon should be able to fill in all the above needs, minus sitting upright,  and better vision. 
It would be cheaper, safer and much better in performance. 
 
If you want the taller vehicle with the bigger trunk, buy a MPV, it literally fulfills all the above requirements much better than a crossover. 
A crossover is typically almost 40% more expensive, weights more, breaks down more often, costs more in maintenance, requires a bigger engine, has worse fuel economy, requires wider tires which causes more road noise and "trailing",  has a higher center of gravity which makes it much more dangerous in accidents and has worse overall close in vision increasing the risk of running over children or hitting small objects. They are usually also sold as a hybrid, making their long range fuel economy even worse, having worse range and poorer towing. 
 
If you want a bigger car, buy a bigger car, but don't go around telling bullshit lies because you are too ashamed to admit you want a bigger car. 

Not mine, sadly.
 

 

Oops.
 
https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/17537164.all-knives-stolen-from-avon-and-somerset-police-knife-amnesty-bin/?fbclid=IwAR1qcM4UjZ4e-BgUZySqpNJgTTYXMMGhoGLCsJq-GHpewT3nsnpQf7eRYYQ
 
All knives stolen from Avon and Somerset Police knife amnesty bin
By Amy Cole  @GazetteAmyReporter CONCERN: One of the knife amnesty bins
       0 comment   POLICE are investigating after a knife amnesty bin was ransacked - and all the knives stolen.

So I picked up a copy of Dave Hobbs, British Aircraft Carrier Design, and read up a little on the "Armored Deck" Carriers, and boy, I may have been wrong about them being overrated, they simply may in fact, just be horrible designs. 
 
One thing he mentions, is the Royal Navy designed the armored deck carriers, not with the Med in mind, though that at least gives a decent argument for these bad designs, it's wrong if what Hobbs is saying is true, they designed these ships, thinking no amount of CAP could ever stop a raid from getting to the ship before they could attack. The carrier could also not get its interceptors launched, and high enough to stop the attack, so it decided armor and AA guns were the way to defend the ship. This was only a valid idea pre-radar, and even then, they didn't get enough AA firepower or armor on these ships for it to help much. The few times the armored deck was tested, it didn't really live up to its reputation. Once radar was a thing, even the Brits realized this would allow enough time to launch interceptors once the tech matured, and by wars start radar was there.  Now, this gets us into Fleet Air Arms aircraft choices, and this whole area is a nightmare, of poor planning, doctrine, and interservice idiocy.  
 
So the only real test of the Armor came when the Illustrious, was attacked by Stukas, supposedly, elite ship hunters, in January of 1941. Since her CAP got suckered down by a low-level attack, the Stukas had a free hand, and they hit the Illustrious six times, four 1100 pounders, one was a dud, and three 550 pounders,  one near miss. What's interesting here is only one bomb hit the armored deck,  and it went right through the armor, and blew up in the hanger, causing serious damage to the ship's structure. The near miss may have damaged the hull.  She limped to Malta on fire and took another bomb a week later. Once they got her Sea Worthy, they eventually had to send her to the USA for a rebuild. Even the US Shipyards could not fix the ship all the way, she suffered vibration problems from these attacks that eventually required the center shaft to be removed, and the ship limited to 26 knots, later the vibrations got bad again and she had to be limited to 24 knots! She was out of action 10 months and was never right again. 
 
Even the argument that these carriers were good for the Kamikaze threat is a myth since the US Navy deemed them almost not worth the trouble of having around, because of their small air groups, small bunker stores, and stupidly small avgas and ordnance storage.   People do not think about the logistical side of the carrier much. The US Navy designed their carriers around an 80 to 90 plane air group, with enough gas and ord to operate them about five days of moderate operations before they need to refuel and rearm. The Essex class could do 20,000 miles at 15 knots on 6160tons of fuel oil. The Illustrious class was 12,000 NM at 14 knots with 4640 tons of fuel oil. That means the Illustrious class had to pull off the line and refuel, a lot. 
 
The Essex class had 240,000 gallons of avgas.  The Illustrious class only had 50,000 gallons of avgas!  That's a small gas load even for a small air wing. It was stored very safely though... Now, this problem is bigger than you think, because they realized the errors in their thinking and did everything they could to increase the air group size on the ships. They eventually got them up to about 60 planes, Corsairs, and Avengers, and Spits later... They did this by adopting the American style deck storage, and a multi-barrier landing system.  This made problems worse in several ways for these ships, the first, they were already cramped, by packing in more pilots and ground crew to work on the planes, they ended up packing these things like sardines, and their living standards were NOT up to US Navy standards. Maybe US Navy WWI standards. This also made the fuel problem almost unworkable. They would have to take on Avgas daily!  Or they would if they could keep any airplanes working. 
 
So another problem with these ships is their layout. For some reason, the Brits decided these things needed two story hangers. Why? Who knows, on the first four ships, the hangers were different heights, but still to short for good planes. One was 16 feet and one 14. Only the 16-foot hanger could take clipped Corsairs.  Why not one larger normal sized hanger deck?  No idea.  
So the British figured out these were not great ships after the first four, and in the next four tried to fix them, and messed them up much worse. They decided the armored box concept was too much and thinned out the sides. They also decided 30 knots was to slow, and added more boilers and a fourth shaft, in an only slightly bigger ship. This compounded the low living space problems. They did not really increase the bunker fuel or avgas loads much.  Even better, they made both hangers 14 feet, so now they could operate Seafires or Hellcats, but the US Navy didn’t have enough kitties to go around, so they operated the Spits, or more crashed them over and over into the deck, destroying them far faster than enemy action.
If you look at these ships post-war, the ones that took damage didn’t get rebuilds, the ones that did still didn’t operate long after the war. Granted the Brits were broke, but the Essex lasted in US Service well into the 90s and were a bargain compared to a new forrestal class.
Another point was made that the Armored deck Carriers were supposed to take bomb damage better, and then US Carriers get shit talked for their wooden decks. As if they didn’t have an armored deck in the Hanger.  They also forget the Enterprise, the greatest carrier in history, took three bombs, four near misses, and retired under her own power and was back in action in a little over a month.  Later in the Battle of Santa Cruz, her terrible wooden deck took two bombs but was repaired, during the fight, and she was able to land her aircraft and the Hornets and continued to operated.  When she retired from the fight, she was only laid up ten days for repairs before going back out for operations.  One of the selling points of the wooden deck was ease of repair, and her machinery was all just fine after all that.
 
Granted, two Essex class Carriers caught bombs or Kamikazes at the absolute worst possible time and suffered horrendous damage. That still doesn’t make the case for the Brit Armored CVs being good since they never got tested having a whole, loaded for a strike, deck park going up on them. I bet neither the Bunker Hill or Franklin took ten months to fix either, and both were in “New” condition when mothballed.
I think the US Navy was right, they did a bunch of studies that said the carrier would need to be 60k tons of more to have a viable armored deck, and usable airwing, and thus the Midways were born.
 
Sources: Anotomy of the Ship, The Aircraft Carrier Victorious, Anatomy of the Ship The Aircraft Carrier Intrepid, British Aircraft Carrier Design and History by David Hobbs, and Fleets of WWII by Richard Worth plus that armored carriers apologist site.