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Guadaloopy

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  1. Find one remotely positive comment I have made about Cybertruck or Elon Musk himself. I’ll wait.
  2. Making fun of aggy is best done while not making one's self look like an idiot as well.
  3. It really is fascinating how the aggy rollercoaster scenario plays out year after year. I’d say we have enough observation and data to promote the coaster from a scientific theory to a law.
  4. The only thing missing from that game was a pimp cane.
  5. Yeah… I barely made it into the 2nd quarter, but slept soundly knowing that aggy would aggy it up.
  6. Don’t forget that Navy’s first TD came after being gifted a short field when BV went for it on 4th down on his own side of the field with a 14-pt lead.
  7. ‘Twas a 2-pt attempt.
  8. You can't tell from radar if an AC is piloted or not. You can get clues from size and flight profile, but it can't distinguish piloted vs unpiloted. Aegis is good, but not that good. But this also goes back to my theory... operator had one contact "hooked," somehow got mixed up, and made engagement decision based on data from another contact. That's what happened with VINCENNES.
  9. Ever hear of Houthis?
  10. See above post.
  11. I would be shocked if it was CIWS that engaged. CIWS only engages threats with very specific flight profile and closing speed indexed to own ship. It is a 100% self-defense weapon and cannot be used to engage targets headed towards other ships in company. I highly doubt that a friendly F/A-18F would fly a path towards the CG that would meet engagement criteria for CIWS. My Navy SWO speculation is that this smells a lot like VINCENNES incident where an operator had one contact hooked but was reading data for another contact and engaged with SM-2 based on the wrong data.
  12. Coulda thrown a “real UT” gag in there, but they continue to have no clue how to deal with the Texas dilemma. They know they can’t really claim us as SEC, nor can they acknowledge that Texas has repeatedly shat upon the SEC dominance argument over the past six years. So yeah, go ahead and tell yourselves that the Tennessee loss set that argument back if it makes you feel better. Mentioning Texas would have ruined the already weak bit.
  13. I am so disappointed in myself for not catching this reference sooner.
  14. Guadaloopy

    Colonoscopy

    Not 100% true. I went for a nice brunch after my procedure and before chowing down made a stop in the restroom to "decompress", and it came out a bit "lubey".
  15. Lifestyle choices are not limited to food choices or drug and alcohol use. They are not necessarily a judgment on "character." The fact that we are an automobile society with limited public transportation means that traffic deaths contribute significantly to our lower life expectancy. The fact that we are a gun culture with the attendant homicides, suicides, and accidental deaths brings our life expectancy down - could be argued that this speaks to character.
  16. I didn't mean to paint a rosy picture of the US Healthcare system. It's pretty bleak. I'm just pointing out that a country with a 70+ year old universal health care system has major problems as well. Which takes me back to my initial point I started with. Health care is a hard problem to solve.
  17. That's not the point I was making in my post, but I think you know that. My point was that the relatively poor numbers for US life expectancy and health outcomes as compared to other countries have more to do with lifestyle choices than the quality and quantity of care provided by our healthcare system.
  18. I'm not insane... I just live in the real world where governments are hamstrung when it comes to cutting budgets when the economy tanks. When a business hits hard times, it can cut costs and make adjustments. If the government is in the business of being a single payer for a health care system, it does not have the luxury of immediately cutting spending when revenues go down. It goes into deficit spending. NHS took it in the shorts from 2007-2009. The reductions in 2010 had to happen for austerity purposes. The fact that there weren't actually cuts was a testament to the government's dedication to the program. Now this is being thrown back in the government's face as a "slash" in spending.
  19. But that's not how GOVERNMENTS work.
  20. I have a minor in economics and consider it a bit of a hobby. Not to mention that I also have an MBA. I fully understand the math and the mechanisms being discussed. What I question is the hyperbolic language being applied and the assumptions that go into declaring a "funding gap."
  21. No.... I'm not bad at math at all. But I am intimately familiar with the inefficiencies of government agencies that work outside the constraints of profit. I've been in the belly of the beast. Your example has faulty assumptions. It assumes that 1) I need X amount of goods and 2) that every dollar spent on X amount of goods was spent efficiently to maximize utility. It also assumes that my employer has an unlimited capacity to continue salary increases.
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