I’ve flown on a C5 - they’re amazingly huge. The inside is essentially a two-lane road down the middle of the aircraft, with another deck above it for the passengers.

Yep. But you can ask for fresh ones. It’ll annoy them, but they should do it.

Almost makes me want to remix the “Redneck” jokes.

I’m not going to discount the possibility of terrible executives grossly underestimating the cost. But part of the job of their security people is to present the numbers so the execs can make an informed decision based on the risk (impact times probability) versus the cost of the control. The cost isn’t zero, so you…

Families were united my a**. Someone needs to school that dipsh*t about where the phrase “sold down the river” really came from. There’s so many heartbreaking stories about slave families being broken up because someone got sold off, and having to try and later find them and reunite after emancipation, like so: http://…

As others have pointed out, you’re ignoring the cost of the stuff you’re proposing. It’s absolutely necessary to balance the expense of a security control with the risk you’re mitigating. Security has to be budgeted for just like everything else, and it makes no sense to funnel endless cash towards something without…

Same. I do miss the weather there though.. so perfect year round really. Course the cost of living there is insane, so without the military paying for it, not quite so easy. :)

I was Army a year or two before that. And yeah, it was crazy. There was a class a few rotations ahead of ours that took the DLPT and had like a 20% pass rate (never-mind washouts that didn’t make it that far). At that point it was a 63 week class (intended to go to 2/2/1+), though I heard they later upped it to…

Fellow DLI Korean grad, and yes. Also I want to say the washout rate in that class was really high, both in terms of failing out at some point in the course, or in final proficiency testing. My class lost something like 50% of its starting numbers, and we did comparatively well on that metric.

Learning written Korean wasn’t hard. The difficult part was more the grammar and vocabulary and such. I had an easy time learning it, but that was largely because I’d already been exposed to many similar rules due to having previously learned Japanese (which has similar sentence structure, topic markers, as well as…

Gross shortsightedness and extreme selfishness. They want the benefits of what others pay for, without having to pay for it themselves. People like this are the real leeches on society. I’ve got nothing against someone being successful and getting wealthy, but if society sets things up so you can succeed, you owe…

Racism is everywhere in the US, it just takes different forms. Jim Crow gets a lot of the attention and the history; and while not undeservedly, the more subtle things that went on outside the South deserve attention too. Racist housing policy (for instance) isn’t quite as visceral as church bombings, lynchings, to be…

It was in response to the comment about (almost always white) people complaining “why can’t they just speak perfect english” about people of color, generally in terms of immigrants. They, of course, are certainly “not racist” according to their own opinion - they just have racist attitudes.

Probably second after “Birth of a Nation”, but yeah.

English is hard - really really hard, especially when you consider the standard to be idiomatic colloquial American English with all its quirks and exceptions. It borrows from so many languages that the rules almost don’t exist, and even when they do there’s so many things that don’t work that way. Learning even hard…

You’re entirely mistaking the issue. Removing Net Neutrality makes the potential problem you’re seeing -worse-. If Youtube or Facebook have too much of a monopoly on video or social media etc, then the lack of Net Neutrality means that they’re going to be far more powerful, because alternatives are likely not going to…

“Sooner or later, the day comes when you can’t hide from the things that you’ve done anymore.” 

Yeah - I was lucky in that my brush with PTSD was both a mild case and for something not so nearly traumatizing as yours, but it was still years before I really was anything approaching “normal” in any sense around those triggers. I’m no expert by any means, but you might try looking into someone that specializes in…

Sounds pretty understandable to me, in terms of post-traumatic stress. Little things like that can trigger that fear reaction. The fact that it’s such an uncommon stimulus in your case, as opposed to something you deal with every day, means it’s nowhere near as likely or quick to go away, too (at least not short of…

I also imagine that modern manufacturing with 3d printing and additive methods makes this a lot cheaper to do, since you could potentially do it on demand even.