Let me say it again: Stolen valor. If you're wearing our uniform, you are stealing from these guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

What does a man deserve from me, if he is willing to steal from my brother's corpse?

I can't say whether this panhandler was homeless, or anything of the nature. The Marine wasn't picking on him though. The weather didn't warrant a jacket, the panhandler admitted that he was not a veteran, and he admitted to the Marine that he wore the jacket because people gave him more money when he wore it. Stolen valor.

Personally, I wouldn't have chased a panhandler down. But I would LOVE the opportunity to chase down some of the freaks who commericalize their non-existent war wounds, fake flashbacks, even write books. Can we start with John Kerry? A self admitted war criminal who bartered a handful of bogus purple hearts into one office after another in Washington D.C.

Go ahead, call the police. They'll draw some chalk lines around your body, before the coroner has the carcass bagged up and transported to the morgue.

Veterans in general, and Marines in particular, tend to MAKE stuff their business. No one tells us what our business is, or is not.

Enjoy a nice video - listen carefully to the lyrics.

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Keep dreaming. However old you are, when your generation takes power, it's going to be the same old cesspool inside the beltway. But, you go ahead and dream. That's one of the good things about youth.

Hey, Old Man - maybe you're a millenial, and didn't know it? I'm 59, and I fall just short of admiring Edward Snowden. If I were the sort to admire people, then I would admire the man. I just can't quite bring myself to the level of a cult fan, or groupie, that's all.

So, from one aging Millenial to another, "How are ya!"

There are men - and women too, I suppose - who hunt down people who claim to be veterans. Watched video just recently, some old Marine chased down some panhandler posing as a veteran, and made him take the Marine Corps jacket off. Told him if he EVER saw him with it on again, he was going to stomp the shit out of him.

This woman deserves as much as any fake veteran has ever received at the hands of real veterans.

Because women are sure to put a different spin on bullshit than males. Because women don't fart, and their shit don't stink. Just because women. But, you're mostly right - stupid is stupid.

Lemme think here. If the primary goal of the site is to spy on you, that site puts out some kind of bait for you to take. Failing to take the bait means you win. But, you see winning as breaking the internet?

It's like, you're a spy. The enemy puts the most beautiful woman on earth at your disposal, as bait. Use whichever movie plot you like - if you sleep with her, you die. If you don't sleep with her - then what? She's broken? You're broken? WTF?

Just don't take the bait. That doesn't "break the web".

Actually I've had Seagate, WD (I wrote an article about a WD drive about ten years ago, it will be in Random Scribblings), Maxtor, and others, and I haven't been disappointed with any of them.

According to TFA (I know, I know, who reads the article)

That's the best explanation yet - but I don''t think it's accurate. They'll have to demonstrate before I buy into it. Remember, the skin of a spacecraft is thin. Getting the surface hot enough to melt and sublime will necessarily mean that the skin is just about the same temperature on the other side. Your molten metallic material is going to be subliming into space in equal and opposite directions. Net sum? No change in inertia.

A thicker skin would actually be better, because the laser could burn into it, effectively scooping out a poorly shaped jet or rocket nozzle that would focus all of the hot metal and gasses in the direction that the laser came from.

If a satellite has a few hard points on it that the laser can be focused on, then I can see how your view would work. But, we gotta remember, everything sent into space is as light as technology can make it. There's no metal body panels as thick and heavy as is found on our cars. It's all paper thin!

We see this on earth all the time. Heat a pan of water, and it jumps off of the kitchen range.

Changing the temperature of an item doesn't change it's trajectory, or orbit. Thermal energy doesn't magically change itself into kinetic energy. All that is going to happen is, the cold bits of scrap will turn into warm bits of scrap.

Two points for having more of a clue than the author. Yes, the laser will poke holes through most of the space junk. A laser isn't going to blast anything out of the sky. That crap is floating in vacuum. Laser hits, it burns through, a little bit of the skin is vaporized into the vacuum, and you're left with just as much debris up there as you started with. Some of it has been heated, liquified, and "evaporated" into space is all.

Uh-huh - that is right.

My own experience with crushing cans? I was a runt, so I didn't crush cans when I was a kid. Not even when I was a "big kid" in high school. I joined the Navy in '75, made a couple cruises, and during that time, aluminum cans became ubiquitous. (The Navy had them everywhere, at least.) I came home one summer weekend, and visited an uncle's bar. There were a couple people in there that I knew from high school - one growing fat and soft, another who looked pretty good shape. We all had Iron City beers, which were still in steel cans. Fat guy crushed his can with some strain. The other guy crushed his with less strain. These guys were jocks in high school - they used to crush those cans effortlessly. Me? The runt? I never could crush those cans with one hand. Imagine my own surprise, when I actually crushed that stupid steel can, apparently with less effort than either of the other guys.

Yes, it took either strength, or real effort to crush those steel cans. Personally, I didn't have that strength until I was about 22 or 23, with a few years of hard life at sea behind me.

And, I'm sitting here, right this moment, wondering If I could crush a can today. No - I'm not as strong as I was back in '78, '79, and '80. I developed even more muscle after I got out of the Navy, but the past decade has been pretty sedentary, and I'm not in the same shape anymore.

Moreover, you seem to think that musicians are special because they *gasp* work hard (at least some of them).

Researchers work just as hard as musicians, if not more so. And they do it for less money than a musician is hoping to get for his little contribution to creativity in the world.

People who work hard get no pity from me. I work hard too, as do millions of people. How about your musician just say screw it, and let's not let the door hit him on the ass on his way out. There are thousands of others out there who can take his place, and they won't complain about working hard. Entitlement generation. Etc.

The setting of Einstein's initial salary at Princeton illustrates his humility and attitude toward wealth. According to "Albert Einstein: Creator & Rebel" by Banesh Hoffmann, (1972), the 1932 negotiations went as follows: "[Abraham] Flexner invited [Einstein] to name his own salary. A few days later Einstein wrote to suggest what, in view of his needs and . . . fame, he thought was a reasonable figure. Flexner was dismayed. . . . He could not possibly recruit outstanding American scholars at such a salary. . . . To Flexner, though perhaps not to Einstein, it was unthinkable [that other scholars' salaries would exceed Einstein's.] This being explained, Einstein reluctantly consented to a much higher figure, and he left the detailed negotiations to his wife."

The reasonable figure that Einstein suggested was the modest sum of $3,000 [about $46,800 in today's dollars]. Flexner upped it to $10,000 and offered Einstein an annual pension of $7,500, which he refused as "too generous," so it was reduced to $6,000. When the Institute hired a mathematician at an annual salary of $15,000, with an annual pension of $8,000, Einstein's compensation was increased to those amounts.