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Problem for boaters and APRS?
A friend sent me the link below. At first I thought it had to be an April Fool
joke, but apparently The Shrub really IS that stupid! http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...58c48975 9881 |
K=D8HB wrote: A friend sent me the link below. At first I thought it had to be an April Fool joke, but apparently The Shrub really IS that stupid! http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...lites.html?ex= =3D1104168601&ei=3D1&en=3D4e6b58c489759881 Asinine beyond belief. I'm thinking maybe I should trash my 300 page National Georgraphic world atlas before Kerik catches me with it. But QRX a minnit, there's some new incoming stuff about Kerick . . |
K=D8HB wrote:
A friend sent me the link below. At first I thought it had to be an April Fool joke, but apparently The Shrub really IS that stupid! http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...lites.html?ex= =3D1104168601&ei=3D1&en=3D4e6b58c489759881 Check this one: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6728968/ "Military weapons system"? Myabe in 1985. This is not 1985. Heh.=20 w3rv |
"""Military weapons system"? Myabe in 1985. This is not 1985. Heh.
w3rv""" Wonder when the B-52 was built? |
bb wrote: """Military weapons system"? Myabe in 1985. This is not 1985. Heh. w3rv""" Wonder when the B-52 was built? Burke I just gotta give you an A+ for all the effort you put into tossing out the most irrelevant posts in this NG and making sure all we all know that you're the Commander of the Village Idiots. Sir. w3rv |
K=D8HB wrote: A friend sent me the link below. At first I thought it had to be an April Fool joke, but apparently The Shrub really IS that stupid! http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...lites.html?ex= =3D1104168601&ei=3D1&en=3D4e6b58c489759881 Like I been saying . . . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4115761.stm w3rv |
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Like I been saying . . . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4115761.stm "By the end of the decade, a global independent satellite navigation system, under civil control, will be available to all." but..... but..... Brain said it's supposed to be a "weapons system"!?!? Not to worry, the Shrub will send up some B58's to bomb them out of the sky. dit dit de Hans, K0HB |
K=D8HB wrote: wrote Like I been saying . . . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4115761.stm "By the end of the decade, a global independent satellite navigation system, under civil control, will be available to all." but..... but..... Brain said it's supposed to be a "weapons system"!?!? He specializes in cluelessness and being bass ackward. Along with a few others around here. Fact is that GPS has grown far beyond it's original design purpose and into another example of the old "swords into plowshares" phenomenon Micollis likes to cite. Back when integrated circuit chips were developed as part of the 1960s race for the moon there were nitwits who wanted them kept secret for "national security purposes". Flat Earth Society mindsets. Not to worry, the Shrub will send up some B58's to bomb them out of the sky. The Russsians and the Chinese would would "get up in arms" if anything like that went down. literally. Since they'll own big pieces of our beloved "GPS weapons system". dit dit Right on.=20 =20 de Hans, K0HB w3rv |
Homer wrote: "The Shrub" as you call him is entirely right in what he does as commander-in-chief, no where in the CFRs nor the Constitution is there an implied right that GPS belongs to all the peoples of the world. The system was funded with DOD monies and is used by the general public at the discretion of the controlling agency, namely the U.S. Air Force. Homer I have a couple clues for you. Those "DoD monies" came from us taxpayers. The Constitution sez that anything the military does with OUR money in this country is ultimately done under the command and control of us taxpayers via our representatives in Congress, the Oval Office and in the courts. In other words it's US who "own" the GPS system, NOT the USAF. GPS has proven to have a huge range of public benefits which is why the USAF is being relieved of command of the system and is why it's being moved into the public domain. Globally. The Shrub doesn't undestand a lotta things. GPS is one, Arabs is another . . I guess everyone will have to negivate the way it was done for many years by map and compass. Nah, I liked the GPS rcvr I carried when I flitting around in my ultralight 14-15 years ago. I didn't worry about any maps, compasses or any of that old crap, all I had to do to get back to the rwy was tap the "get home" button and keep the LCD needle centered. If Kerry ("The Idiot") was in office he would most certainly do the same thing in the same situation. So quit bitchin' and go buy a compass and topograpical map to find out where in hell you are at. duh! Homer "Duh" is right . . connect some dots dude. "K=D8HB" wrote in message k.net... A friend sent me the link below. At first I thought it had to be an April Fool joke, but apparently The Shrub really IS that stupid! http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...lites.html?ex= =3D1104168601&ei=3D1&en=3D4e6b58c489759881 w3rv |
K=D8HB wrote: wrote Like I been saying . . . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4115761.stm "By the end of the decade, a global independent satellite navigation system, under civil control, will be available to all." but..... but..... Brain said it's supposed to be a "weapons system"!?!? Not to worry, the Shrub will send up some B58's to bomb them out of the sky. dit dit de Hans, K0HB Here's another piece of it: It has taken *bloody forever* for the FAA to finally even alow GPS to be used for navigation in the skies. I was using it before before my hangermate who had a nice old Cessna 140 was allowed to have a GPS xvcr anywhere in the 140 during flight ops never mind in his panel. I was legal because my ultralight was not a certificated A/C, his 140 is certificated. Somebody had to be on the leading edge. Heh. Thus it was in the early 1990s. It's all changed now. Commercial GPS airliner navigation has enormous implications as they relate to a reduction in fuel consumption and flight durations. Has to do with the airliners FINALLY being able to get off the twisted 1930s Victor airways system and it's archaic and expensive-to-maintain FAA ground-mounted electronic waypoints, omnis, VORs, etc. and instead fly point-to-point via GPS. I'm rattling on too much here. It's happening, precision GPS is coming to the airline biz, bye-bye omnis, FAA jobs, whatever. It's all about money. Let's say that at some given moment a few years out after GPS has become the nav aid of choice and that there are 20 airliners jammed with citizens on final in cruddy WX and some intellectual giant like Rumsfeld shuts off the pieces of GPS the pilots are using to find the runway . . w3rv |
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