Shore Leave

OK, I know what a staff puke is, having been one myself from time to time over the years. What does the other groups connotate?

The suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) mission is like playing "three-dimensional chess where cheating is legal". - unnamed Vietnam war era Wild Weasel pilot

From DefenseNews Expert: Robots Used for War Are Threat to Humanity AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Published: 27 Feb 08:18 EST (03:18 GMT) PARIS - Increasingly autonomous, gun-toting robots developed for warfare could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and may one day unleash a robot arms race, a top expert on artificial intelligence told AFP. "They pose a threat to humanity," said University of Sheffield professor Noel Sharkey ahead of a keynote address Feb. 26 before Britain's Royal United Services Institute. Intelligent machines deployed on battlefields around the world - from mobile grenade launchers to rocket-firing drones - can already identify and loc…

Now that the latest edition of American Idol is complete, the National Spelling Bee will be televised this afternoon 12p-3p on ESPN and again "PRIME TIME" on ABC-TV. BE THERE!

So, who watched the 2010 Winter Olympics? I am of course happy with how it turned out for Canada, especially the men's hockey win. Great game! (Very glad it did not end in a shootout ... Miller would probably have been the death of us). Now, just a matter of paying the huge bill that goes along with these events.

So I normally wouldn't talk up anything AOL related but they do have a defense news site that seems to have quite a bit of original content, some of it interesting. http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...DE=03&id=85

Just received my copy of IEEE Spectrum in the mail today and see that there is a fairly long article essentially chronicalling EM guns and recapping the current state of affairs. "One day in 1977, researchers at Australian National University were putting the finishing touches on an experiment that they hoped would cap nearly a decade’s worth of groundbreaking research on electromagnetic guns. Tantalized by the prospect of unleashing the pure power of electromagnetism to accelerate projectiles at rates never before achieved, countless ­researchers had been pursuing the technology since the turn of the century. But without much success." http://www.spectrum.ieee.or…

http://runway.cz/img/zbr/aim120_2.jpg 10 Amraams and 2 AIM-9's - is it only a show of maximal carrying capacity or has it any operational use? Maybe it's something like 6 Phoenix'es on Tomcat, making it unable to land with unspent missiles?

I think Bob Hope had it right. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k

Trying to gauge if the site is working well for people, and if not, any comments on geez this is frustrating and such are appreciated. This does not mean whether IRC works for you, just if the website itself (www.harpgamer.com) comes up for you or not.

It it's inexhaustive march toward the ultimate big brother state, work has cought up and finally blocked harpgamer at the office. I do not feel that those those in power would find the humor in me submitting a form for excepting harpgamer from the internet acceptable usage "policy". So be that I will now be accessing from home alone.

So, I was sorting out my links and found this amusing little video. Feeling that the Eurofighter should have a chance to hit back, I found this. While I'm a fan of both aircraft, the videos are a tad unrealistic. Who watches these things anyway? Any other suitably bombastic videos out there?

Whats up with IRC gents? is it just a select few of us that cant connect today or is this global thing? Cheers Terry

As my available time decreases I'll be pushing for all of you to make better and better issue reports. Here is a fantastic article on the topic. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000029.html I'm still not happy with the Issue Tracker here and still have a couple hundred issues to revive from the old forum format but the contents of a good issue report remain the same as they have for over a decade. Thanks all, with luck there will be a nice new stable beta for HC posted tonight in large part in response to an issue report posted last week.

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/blog/2012/09/05/beer-and-the-apocalypse/ Nod to Brains for finding this gem.

Herman pointed out to me last night on the chat that "Sortie" was a noun and that I was yet another American "butchering" the English language. Yes H, it is a noun but, per dictionary.com, can also be used correctly as an intransitive verb (see below "sortieing"). sor·tie (sôr'tÄ“, sôr-tÄ“') Pronunciation Key n. An armed attack, especially one made from a place surrounded by enemy forces. A flight of a combat aircraft on a mission. intr.v. sor·tied, sor·tie·ing, sor·ties To go on a sortie. [French, from feminine past participle of sortir, to go out, from Old French.] You Sir, stand corrected. dictionary.com's sortie

In case you missed it so far, small unit PBEM in progress... http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?/forum/68-first-strike/

Which old warrior is depicted here? Thanks to Rattler for the tip, and of course, he shouldn't answer!

This link came from Don Gilman, via the HULL. http://www.tom-phillips.info/images/cool.pics.military.3.htm Pretty good stuff. Buddha