JamesSavik

I'm having fun. If you want to join an online game that is very well done, try Outer Core. I'm jamessavik there too and I run the Company. You don't have to be amoral or evil to join but it helps.

Why do we enjoy seeing epic failures? Because we're human and have all failed at some point. But when we look at EPIC failures, we can say "Ha, ha", confident that when we fail, at least we don't fail epically.

USS Sulaco, Colonial Marines The Sulaco is a Conestoga class Marine Assault ship typical of the ships used by the Colonial Marines as they patrol the outer rim and respond to crisis. She is equipped to cope with land, air and deep space threats. Sulaco can combat land two platoons of Colonial Marines and provide air support with everything from laser guided smart munitions all the way up to W-2000 variable yield fusion warheads. Schematic of a Conestago class Marine Assault Ship (MAS). courtesy Weyland-Yatani Military Technologies Division

There won't be an update this weekend. I decided to get it right and not just get it out. Will return next week.

Don't worry Vic- us evil guys are great in the sack.

One trick that you might try: when you are communicating with an editor, both of you save your word file in RTF (rich text format). All versions of word can read rtf and you'll maintain your formatting (for the most part) *crosses fingers*.

>>I wonder what it is that compels so many people to tune in to Fox News and why so few (comparatively) watch CNN and MSNBC. Maybe they are tired of hearing from Obama's propaganda arm? Not only are CNN and pMSNBC cheerleading for the left, they are critical of anyone that has their doubts so people are voting with their remote.

As someone who does a lot of this sort of thing, my only advice is not too fall off of ladders or use power tools on yourself. It takes longer to heal at our age and scars are no longer sexy; just disfiguring.

While you are out there exploiting new worlds, please don't wipe out the native wildlife. That's sooo 20th century. There are unique species and ecosystems that took eons to evolve. It's a crime against nature and science to destroy them. Besides- you never know what creature may become the next Siamese Cat or Golden Retriever and have great value. Here's a little pup I found on a survey in the Rho Andromeda system. I found this cute little fellow on a survey of an ugly little moon called LV-426 and boy has he grown! You wouldn't believe how affectionate he is. He follows me everywhere. Of course I have to feed him a few under-performing middle managers a month. I call it a performance incentive. Don't be short sighted. We can profit without destroying native ecosystems. You never know where you'll find the next profit center. PETA- People for the Ethical Treatment of Aliens

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This rocket scientist was arrested in California on drug and explosives charges.

Hi! I'm JamesSavik. I am an administrator for the Company but I'm really a nice guy. You don't have to be an amoral, manipulative and evil to work here but it sure helps. Some of our perks: Exotic Pets! Interesting Duty Stations Retirement packages! If you think you've got what it takes to be an associate of the Company, message me and we'll see. Our stock is on the rise and there are plenty of new worlds to exploit.

George Soros doesn't live here and you can't tax his money because it is wrapped up tight in his businesses.

Here's what its ALL about Nick. This is why the media jammed an unknown like Obama down our throats without anywhere near the scrutiny that most candidates are subjected too. It's why when you questionhim the pat answer is well f**k you, you're just a racist. __________________________________________________ Cloward-Piven Strategy * Strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis Source Link First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. Inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts in Los Angeles (which erupted after police had used batons to subdue a black man suspected of drunk driving), Cloward and Piven published an article titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty" in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation. Following its publication, The Nation sold an unprecedented 30,000 reprints. Activists were abuzz over the so-called "crisis strategy" or "Cloward-Piven Strategy," as it came to be called. Many were eager to put it into effect. In their 1966 article, Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people can advance only when "the rest of society is afraid of them," Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970. Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would "the rest of society" accept their demands. The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inadequacy of the welfare state. Cloward-Piven's early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. "Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1972 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judaeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one. The authors noted that the number of Americans subsisting on welfare -- about 8 million, at the time -- probably represented less than half the number who were technically eligible for full benefits. They proposed a "massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls." Cloward and Piven calculated that persuading even a fraction of potential welfare recipients to demand their entitlements would bankrupt the system. The result, they predicted, would be "a profound financial and political crisis" that would unleash "powerful forces

Tiger- I can't give you an easy answer to this question. I'll tell you what I've done in similar circumstances and see if it makes sense to you. When a family has a crisis like this, their time becomes precious. They may be saying goodbye to a loved one and little mundane day-to-day things just become a nuisance. I have: -Volunteered to move the lawn -Carpooled family members between the house/hospital/hotel -Collected mail, delivered it to the hospital -delivered food to the family It all depends on what they need and what you have time to do.

The key was having the industrial and economic strength to quickly replace the ships and planes that were lost in the early battles with new and improved models. The Japanese were not able to keep up and lagged badly in aviation technology.

Of course the cat hates you. You put a pink bonnet on him.

Aug. 9, 1942 The United States and her Allies are on their heels in the Pacific. Japan looks invincible. From December until June, Japanese forces had over run Wake, Guam, the Philippines, Java, Malaysia, the Caroline Islands, the Marshall Islands, Everything had been going Japan's way up until they were turned back at the Battle of the Coral Sea and were defeated soundly at Midway on Jun 4th. The United States and her allies Great Britain and Australia decided on a time and place to launch their first offensive. The time: August, 1942. The place was an island that no one had ever heard of in the Solomon Islands called Guadalcanal. Nimitz staff called it Operation Watchtower. The men of the 1st Marine Division called it Operation Shoestring: everything was a mixture of WWI leftovers, troops and specialists gathered from as far away as British Isle and a collection of aircraft that were overdue for retirement for the most part. The navy put together the best cruiser/destroyer force that it could and gathered up as many transports as they could find. On August 7th, the Marines landed on Guadalcanal. They surprised a small Japanese advanced force of engineers that had already landed on the island and were preparing an airfield. The land battle for the island was joined. The Marines were equipped with old WWI era Enfield rifles and were under-strength in machine guns. Guadalcanal, like most of the Solomon Islands is a rugged and dominated by thick jungle, miserable swamps and malaria carrying mosquitoes. Over the years it had been home to an aborted sugar plantation, a way station, a mission, a trading post and finally an Australian cattle ranch. When the Marines landed they found themselves in a fast moving fire fight with an enemy that was not prepared or dug in. Both sides found themselves short on supplies. They raided the barbed wire fences of the cattle plantation for materials to build their perimeter with. In a series of actions, the Marines and the Japanese fought a number of small unit battles- and one that both sides had to call off because of a cattle stampede. Over the next day the Marines continued landing troops, supplies, artillery and combat engineers. They established a firm bridgehead and formed a firm perimeter around the unfinished airfield. The Japanese were not sitting on their hands. The same day of the invasion, area commander Admiral Mikawa dispatched two fast transports with crack Naval Special Landing Force but recalled them when reconnaissance determined the scale of the allied incursion. Frustrated, he had to wait a day to fuel his ships and gather his forces to attempt to repel the invasion. At Guadalcanal the US Navy continued with support activities and continued to unload transports onto the beachhead. At night on August 8th, Admiral Turner's Task Force 62 and Australian Rear-Admiral Victor A.C. Crutchley's combined support/escort force broke into three groups: a Northern force to cover the pass north of Savo Island, A Southern force to cover the pass south of Savo island and a pair of destroyers to cover to Weatern approaches. Northern Force: cruisers USS Vincennes, USS Astoria and USS Quincy, and destroyers USS Helm and USS Wilson Southern Force: cruisers HMAS Australia and HMAS Canberra, cruiser USS Chicago, and destroyers USS Patterson and USS Bagley Western Screen: destroyers USS Talbot and Blue Mikawa set sail from Rabaul in the heavy cruiser Chokai, light cruisers Tenryu and Yubari and the destroyer Yunagi. They rendezvoused with Admiral Goto's Cruiser Division 6 composed of heavy cruisers Aboa, Kinugasa, Kako and Furutaka. Their goal: to take on the US Navy in a night action. Mikawa's Approach. The US Navy was just deploying radar on their ships but the first generation sets were unreliable and there were few technicians and no experienced operators. Mikawa's run down the body of water that would come to be known as "the Slot" was undetected- or at least unreported. Australian seaplanes spotted the ships as did the US sub S-38 but this information did not make it to Admiral Turner's staff. US Navy identification page for Mikawa's flagship the Chokai. The Japanese arrived just before midnight and slipped past the destroyer Blue and savaged the Southern Force, turned North and savaged the Northern force and left the area the way that they arrived. The Battle of Savo Island Japanese long-lance torpedoes destroyed the USS Vincennes, USS Astoria and USS Quincy and damaged the HMAS Canberra so severely, she had to be scuttled. The Chicago was severely damaged but she would fight again. The USS Quincy (CA-39) days before the battle. The submarine S-44 exacted a bit of payback sinking the cruiser Kako as she retired to her home base at Kavieng. It was the worst defeat in US Navy history in a stand up fight. The Navy lost 1,207 men: more men than than the Marines lost during the entire 6 month campaign. This battle was the beginning of a six month long air, land and sea campaign that turned out to be a meat grinder for both sides. The body of water around Savo Island was nicknamed "Ironbottom sound" and would be the scene of several pitched naval battles. The Guadalcanal campaign became a battle of attrition and by the time Japan gave up on recapturing the island in early '43, much of her naval power, best commanders and army units had been expended. In 1943 the US Navy court of inquiry was held called the Hepburn Investigation. Only one officer was singled out for offical censure- the captain of one of the cruisers. He killed himself when he learned of the boards results. The board stopped short of calling for action against Admirals Fletcher, Turner, McCain, and Crutchley who went on to perform brilliantly later in the war. The board of inquiry determined that US ships required more training in night fighting and training and standardization of radar equipment. Both radar picket ships (radar range about 10 miles) were at the extreme ends of their patrols sailing away from the Japanese fleet. San Juan had modern search radar, but was at the other end of the Sound. After the war, Admiral Turner wrote: The (U.S.) Navy was still obsessed with a strong feeling of technical and mental superiority over the enemy. In spite of ample evidence as to enemy capabilities, most of our officers and men despised the enemy and felt themselves sure victors in all encounters under any circumstances. The net result of all this was a fatal lethargy of mind which induced a confidence without readiness, and a routine acceptance of outworn peacetime standards of conduct. I believe that this psychological factor, as a cause of our defeat, was even more important than the element of surprise. __________________________________________________________ The Battle of Savo Island, Wikipedia entry. Guadalcanal Frank, Richard B., Penguin, 1993. 0140165614 The Two Ocean War Morrison, Samuel Eliot US Naval Institute, 1963. 1591145244 History of US Navyal Operations in World War II: Volume V. The Struggle for Guadalcanal Morrison, Samuel Eliot US Naval Institute, 1949. 0785813063

I'm going to hell though, that's for sure. VIP section of course. I'll have to push an old lady out into traffic to get an upgrade.

Tiger>>You're a real man. Too bad you're too old for me. Who says that you're not too old for me? :king:

How can I say this without being offensive? If gay people went to gay school, I would ride the gay short bus. I must be the most incompetent gay man in North America. I would rather hunt than shop. When I'm in a new city, I check out the hardware stores to see if they have magical kung-fu tools that I've never seen before. My wardrobe has more in common with Walmart and Target than Pierre Cardin or Brooks Brothers. I drive a truck with a big steel toolbox that has everything in it that I would need to build a space shuttle in the field out of spare parts. I'd rather watch Monday Night Football than Desperate Housewives. If forced to watch Desperate Housewives or any musical, I would probably chew off an arm or a leg to escape. My GayDar is a defunct East German model that Boy George wouldn't set off. I hate gay bars because they play music that makes me want to hurl and I've got better in my truck. *listening to Stone Temple Pilots* Several Home Depots and Lowes have my picture in the back and send me Christmas cards. I would be more likely to decorate your house with a potato gun than track lighting. When I'm bored, I take my tools out, clean, oil and organize them. Mexicans don't like it when I'm on a construction site because I work too hard and make them look bad. If I don't show up at my local Borders at least once a month, they call my house to make sure I'm all right. One of my favorite possessions is a Makita Reciprocating Saw I call Shiva, destroyer of worlds. I like cats buts it's because they have enough attitude to draw blood and don't brown-nose. I cook but if I did not, I wouldn't eat. Who would feed me? Yo mama? *laughs hysterically at cleverly inserting a yo mama joke* I cruise Home Depot. Who needs to work out when you work hard? I got carded when I bought smokes last week. I get cruised by "old men", get annoyed and realize that we're the same age. I am in no shape, form or fashion what some people might call fabulous. I am in the best shape of my life while people that I went to high school with look like shit. I declare myself the winner. :king:

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This isn't an insult. Irish people are entirely too diverse to make any generalizations about... except that they are world class horn-dogs when they are drunk.