This time next year, President Trump moves back into the Whitehouse...

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ZRX61 wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:41 am
She is such a classy player :hmmm:
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Bwana wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:07 pm
ZRX61 wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:29 pm well lets compare notes... I was Active Duty AF & then ANG... & you were...?
LOL! I graduated manga cums loudly. Which means fuck all to the argument.

I was correct and you were wrong. Given your history, you should know better about the specificity of the words you choose. You said army, it was national guard. They are two separate entities and you know it.
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Mr Moofo wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:21 pm
ZRX61 wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:41 am
She is such a classy player :hmmm:
A real Georgia peach. She loves the Donald and that's all one needs to know. The House of Representatives is slowly turning into a middle school clique and Marge is in charge.
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Bwana wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:07 pm I was correct and you were wrong. Given your history, you should know better about the specificity of the words you choose. You said army, it was national guard. They are two separate entities and you know it.
The only thing that changed when I went from Active to ANG was the color of my ID card. Same AFB, same rank, same job, same bosses.
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Mr Moofo wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:21 pm
ZRX61 wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:41 am
She is such a classy player :hmmm:
Typical "I'm caught out by someone smarter than me, so resort to aggression and walk away quickly" Bet her mum's well proud!!

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ZRX61 wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:36 pm
Bwana wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:07 pm I was correct and you were wrong. Given your history, you should know better about the specificity of the words you choose. You said army, it was national guard. They are two separate entities and you know it.
The only thing that changed when I went from Active to ANG was the color of my ID card. Same AFB, same rank, same job, same bosses.
Color me absolutely thrilled for you. Not quite to the point of sexual arousal though, so chill.

Back to the original post that started this shitshow. You claimed the army was sent to the subway in NYC. For argument's sake, you're in the Army, active duty, and you're stationed at Fort Hamilton. Your buddy, Carl, remember him, hasn't blown himself up yet and is serving in the National Guard. He resides in White Plains NY. Which one of you is the governor able to send to the NYC subway to assist in keeping weapons off the trains?
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Buckaroo wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:47 pm
Mr Moofo wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:21 pm
ZRX61 wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:41 am
She is such a classy player :hmmm:
Typical "I'm caught out by someone smarter than me, so resort to aggression and walk away quickly" Bet her mum's well proud!!

Miss Potty Mouth: kiss your Mum with them lips do we?
You may or may not be familiar with the origins of the space laser bit. Ms Greene was spouting shite about how Jews were using space lasers to start a wild fire in California. Turns out it was transmission lines, not that Q-anon loons are familiar with reality.
Texas' current big blaze has the same sort of cause.
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Bwana wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:18 am You may or may not be familiar with the origins of the space laser bit. Ms Greene was spouting shite about how Jews were using space lasers to start a wild fire in California. Turns out it was transmission lines, not that Q-anon loons are familiar with reality.
Texas' current big blaze has the same sort of cause.
Turns out that the fires *started* transmission lines are actually started by trees falling on the lines that would have been cut/trimmed/felled/managed if Benito Newsolini would just stop suing people (including the Fed Govt) for trying the manage the forests.
He also got busted for lying about how much forest clean up his program had done (it was about 10% of what he claimed).. & he also cut the fire mitigation budget by $500M just in time for one of the largest fires in State history.

but yeah, familiar with MTG's insane rantings.
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ZRX61 wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:40 am
Bwana wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:18 am You may or may not be familiar with the origins of the space laser bit. Ms Greene was spouting shite about how Jews were using space lasers to start a wild fire in California. Turns out it was transmission lines,.
Turns out that the fires *started* transmission lines are actually started by trees falling on the lines
Satellites chopping down trees? Wow! Even more impressive :)
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Horse wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:22 am
ZRX61 wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:40 am
Bwana wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:18 am You may or may not be familiar with the origins of the space laser bit. Ms Greene was spouting shite about how Jews were using space lasers to start a wild fire in California. Turns out it was transmission lines,.
Turns out that the fires *started* transmission lines are actually started by trees falling on the lines
Satellites chopping down trees? Wow! Even more impressive :)
Must be powerful. It takes a 200kW laser to do it from close by. Atmospheric scattering means the space ones must be pretty impressive and the battery packs must need some heavy lifting to get them up there. Impressive tech for MTGs terrrrists to have. You'd think we'd have spotted the launch site....maybe SpaceX is a double agent! :lol:

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Jeez. You'd need more than 'chainsaw trousers' to stop that ....
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Can you buy them from ebay yet? A low power, say 50kW, will do for what I have in mind.
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Cousin Jack wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:06 am Can you buy them from ebay yet? A low power, say 50kW, will do for what I have in mind.
Hmm. 50kW is still military grade. There are engineering ones rated at that but the trick is to get continuous output. Lots of one shot lasers are rated as high power because they release the energy in a fraction of a second pulse.

Would sir be needing pulse or continuous output for the task in mind?

(I used to faff about with lasers at work and had an argon ion tuneable (you could change the beam colour) laser to play with. It was pretty chunky and needed a decent water pressure for cooling purposes...it was probably rated at 25-50 Watts :lol: ).
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:53 am
ZRX61 wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:06 pm
It's easier to be happy in a mansion than living in a cardboard box under a freeway overpass. Money buys freedom from miserable poverty.
Imagine if your society was based around making sure nobody had to live under an overpass though, rather than the president being a figurehead for "every man for himself" :thumbup:
Hmmm Imagine that ...

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If you don't drown in the process?
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Count Steer wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:16 am
Cousin Jack wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:06 am Can you buy them from ebay yet? A low power, say 50kW, will do for what I have in mind.
Hmm. 50kW is still military grade. There are engineering ones rated at that but the trick is to get continuous output. Lots of one shot lasers are rated as high power because they release the energy in a fraction of a second pulse.

Would sir be needing pulse or continuous output for the task in mind?

(I used to faff about with lasers at work and had an argon ion tuneable (you could change the beam colour) laser to play with. It was pretty chunky and needed a decent water pressure for cooling purposes...it was probably rated at 25-50 Watts :lol: ).
Military grade was what I had in mind. Lethal, precise, silent and no worries about the beaten zone behind the target. Pulse will do, but needs to deliver significant power on the target, sufficient to vaporise it would be ideal. Hence the 50 kW.

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Taipan wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:07 pm No need to be homeless. Hop on a ferry to France, get in a dinghy to your RNLI water taxi and arrive back in the UK to a heated home and wages! :thumbup:
Not sure if you are trolling or not but just in case:
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JamJar wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:18 pm
Taipan wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:07 pm No need to be homeless. Hop on a ferry to France, get in a dinghy to your RNLI water taxi and arrive back in the UK to a heated home and wages! :thumbup:
Not sure if you are trolling or not but just in case:
RNLI wrote:This question would be better addressed to HM Coastguard and Border Force. Our crews launched 290 times to suspected Channel crossings in 2022 which equates to 3% of the total number of launches for the entire RNLI. During those shouts our volunteer crews saved the lives of 108 people.
I think he was just trying to confirm the Essex stereotype :roll:

Priti Patel did absolutely nothing about migrants, whilst talking a good game, and handing the French more money to do nothing. Braverman did nothing - but talks like she is the great migrant repeller post being sacked.
The Conservative government could actually try doing something. The Border Force are, after all, civil servants.
The RNLI, and the volunteers who work for them , should not have to rescue migrants coming across the channel - but the government and border force refuse to take any affirmative action.

Priti/Suella/ Boris/ Rees Mogg etc should be working on stopping people getting into boats and using their paid employees to do so.
But we, as the RNLI, will not let people drown - whether it is pissed up Essex boys on jetskis off Southend, or illegal migrants in the channel.

Last comment on the subject - have you had look at how many migrants get here by other methods?
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Mr Moofo wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:34 pm
JamJar wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:18 pm
Taipan wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:07 pm No need to be homeless. Hop on a ferry to France, get in a dinghy to your RNLI water taxi and arrive back in the UK to a heated home and wages! :thumbup:
Not sure if you are trolling or not but just in case:
RNLI wrote:This question would be better addressed to HM Coastguard and Border Force. Our crews launched 290 times to suspected Channel crossings in 2022 which equates to 3% of the total number of launches for the entire RNLI. During those shouts our volunteer crews saved the lives of 108 people.
I think he was just trying to confirm the Essex stereotype :roll:

Priti Patel did absolutely nothing about migrants, whilst talking a good game, and handing the French more money to do nothing. Braverman did nothing - but talks like she is the great migrant repeller post being sacked.
The Conservative government could actually try doing something. The Border Force are, after all, civil servants.
The RNLI, and the volunteers who work for them , should not have to rescue migrants coming across the channel - but the government and border force refuse to take any affirmative action.

Priti/Suella/ Boris/ Rees Mogg etc should be working on stopping people getting into boats and using their paid employees to do so.
But we, as the RNLI, will not let people drown - whether it is pissed up Essex boys on jetskis off Southend, or illegal migrants in the channel.

Last comment on the subject - have you had look at how many migrants get here by other methods?
Yes about 45 000 for the same year that the RNLI only rescued 108.
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Cousin Jack wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:11 pm Military grade was what I had in mind. Lethal, precise, silent and no worries about the beaten zone behind the target. Pulse will do, but needs to deliver significant power on the target, sufficient to vaporise it would be ideal. Hence the 50 kW.

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