Comment Re:Carrier stumbles over chair, 1000's Embarresed (Score 1) 314
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CV 42
They did name one after Daddy Bush though
... fair enough because he did fight in WWII in the Navy.
My apologies, I assumed everyone would know that, but you are right, we should explain that here.
In the US Navy's defense, they do have a "theme" where many aircraft carriers are named after U.S. Presidents:
USS John F Kennedy
USS Dwight D Eisenhower
USS Thodore Roosevelt
USS Abraham Lincoln
USS George Washington
USS Harry S. Truman
USS Ronald Reagan
USS George H.W. Bush
USS Gerald R. Ford
"Daddy Bush" was indeed a real honest-to-god carrier pilot, and actually did real honest-to-god fighting. He had already been admitted to Yale, with the war time draft deferment to go with it, but joined the Navy instead. He became the Navy's youngest pilot. He was shot down while bombing a Japanese radio tower on Chichi Jima, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross. (His plane was hit and on fire but he finished his bombing run first before bailing out).
My not so funny joke was pointing out that things were going to get a lot less defensible if they continued to follow the calendar and named the next two after Clinton and Baby Bush. (See, ma, bipartisan dissing!)
USS Gerald R. Ford? You have to be kidding me. What's next. USS Chevy Chase?
They wanted to name one after Bush, but they didn't want it to look bad. Solution: name a different one after Gerald.
we can't seem to fight a ground war against a 14th century tribal rabble armed with 1950's eastern bloc shit without getting our stuff blown up all the time...
The problem is, we want to fight the war without blowing THEIR stuff up. Obviously we could "glass" the place. The Mongol's conquered that place (and just about every other place) easily. Their approach: "kiss our toes or we will kill every single person in your entire tribe." The longstanding way to conquer Afghanistan is to just drive through. If someone shoots at you from the hills, drive to the nearest village and shoot everyone there, then burn the crops and kill/steal all the livestock. As a matter of fact, you don't really need to shoot the people. Taking away their food clothing and shelter works well enough. The "warriors" in those hills will starve to death, and the "warriors" in the next set of hills will decide not to shoot. They are utterly incapable of defending their farms/villages in a stand up fight. What we are trying to do is track down gang members without blowing up the civilian population's stuff. We have to do it because any central government we set up will be too corrupt to do it themselves. If we pull out, the punks will go back to setting up schools to teach brainwashed American kids how to build car bombs to explode in Times Square or Portland tree lighting ceremonies.
Who is freaking writing these web pages? It would have been easier to NOT include photo's and names
I'm not defending their choices, but there is a legitimate reason why they would do this. Some users mistype their username, not their password. This results in a "failed login" screen. If there is no photo (or name) they may assume they have mistyped their password, and keep trying it over and over. Throwing up the picture associated with that account helps the user figure out that the reason they can't log in is because they are mistyping their username, not their password.
...counter the asymmetric warfare
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"Swarm[ing] our aircraft carriers with airplanes and missiles" is NOT "asymmetric" warfare. That is your basic nation to nation warfare, where someone has the guts and sense of honor to fight in compliance with the rules of the Geneva Convention. Asymmetric warfare would be someone floating a civilian boat up the the warship and setting off a suicide bomb. Google "USS Cole (DDG 67) on October 12, 2000" for an example.
The best suggestion for your wife is to see if her office will set up a call relay
Or use a sacrificial Google Voice account. Call back through that, with it set up to show your Google Voice number as the caller ID. Leave that account set to always go straight to voice mail. That way, you never get bothered by a call back, but you still can review your email to see if any of the messages the patient left really were important. Never ever let patients find out your home number. God knows what they would say to your kids if they answered the phone.
...many ISPs operate within state lines...
There is not a single solitary ISP anywhere in this country that carries ONLY communications between two computers that are both in the same state. There can't be. If that is all they do, then they are not providing "Internet Service" They would be a KSP (Kentucky service provider) or whatever.
No amount of careful planning will ever replace dumb luck.