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There will be some downtime on our systems briefly as a reboot is necessary. The majority of the reboot time will be the integrity file check. Thank you for understanding.

I've been pretty happy with the new mobile skin and making updates as I find them. Your feedback is always helpful.

Should be fixed. Enjoy.

This is an ISP problem. I've contacted Windstream if this persists please open a new ticket with them. Thank you.

This is part of the preparation for new software but won't be solution. The new software was recently released and I won't be upgrading until they've worked through all the bugs and had a few point revisions. It's in the pipe though so things are looking up.

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I agree this is just unforgivable. In port with calm weather. Reassigned to kitchen duty I hope. Then again the military sent out 22 shipments via FedEx of LIVE ANTHRAX. What's going on these days?

Jarhead you've done a lot already. Couldn't want or expect more. Thank you. Stary you're good until October 2016 from what I can see. Thank you. Thanks all for the support.

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Sending you a PM.

Indeed a tremendous loss. He will be missed. Clear skies and tailwinds my friend.

In an exciting announcement CombatACE is proud to introduce our new theme music. More on that in a moment. In a heated debate this morning over stale donuts and wrongful coffee we had a discussion about the ads on our site and ad blocker extensions or plugins. We learned a tremendous amount from our time this morning and our discussion brought in experts and viewpoints for both the pros and cons of ad blocking software. Our focus group enlisted the past experiences from ARS Technica who like us have been online for 12 years or more. This is without a doubt one very interesting and well written editorial comment. I encourage you to take a few moments to read this: BLOCKING ADS AND OUR FUTURE I'm proud to announce that our decision falls directly in line with ARS Technica. While we could nag, or mention when we know software is being used we have elected not to. We have found no reason to force anyone to do anything because in today's world we know it's about choice. However like ARS Technica we hope you understand why our ads pay the bills and what we face every month to provide our services. Like ARS we are very grateful for everything you all do to help out, and we know our strength is in our community, and that's where we should focus our time. If you have taken the time to whitelist combatace.com in your adblocker or view our ads we want to recognize you as well, thank you. Now as promised, our new theme music. THEME MUSIC

For the next 24 days we will be running a count down timer on all our pages to show you when the most important vote the FCC will ever make is made. If you haven't heard yet, the cable giants want to charge customers who stream movies, videos, play games, video chat, (basically everything the internet is great at) for faster speeds thereby undermining everything the internet stands for. This means not only do you pay for the speed of service you want at home but you will then have the choice of class of service which will cost more money. We need you to get involved. Click the link on the clock and fill out simple information like your name and the app will automatically send your elected officials an email on your behalf. You can read the letter or decide to contact them on your own, but this is something that we can't lose. If we do lose what we know as the open and free internet today will be forever changed. Don't let big business win! Fight with us to defend net neutrality and all it stands for. If you need to know more watch this video and then click the link in the clock above. Do it today we're counting on each of you.

I'm sorry you feel this way. Call your congressman and complain about it. It's been offered that this is the way the FCC can regulate the internet under the Title II jurisdiction it has while offering the public and private business the safeguards it can. This will help private business from being extorted by the cable providers. Just recently Sony released that their PS4 / HBO GO customers on Comcast won't be able to use this service because Comcast blocked it. This after they extorted Netflix last year. Regardless of the examples provided that internet service providers like Comcast are up to no good you're still "stanning" for them. Comcast is fearful that the internet will take over their TV customers. Why pay $140 to Comcast when you can stream it over the internet and pay for exactly what you want in an al la carte type service. This is off track however but the rules are now public and they will be challenged by the cable companies and I wouldn't doubt that within the year SCOTUS will rule on it's legality. So please stop yelling fire in a crowded theater it doesn't help your arguments in the slightest. I mean first you complain about only wanting to only pay for what you use and we fought to give you just that now you're complaining this is exactly what you didn't want because it's "invasive and oppressive". I mean how else could it be? The way it is right now with no regulation and running under the free commerce idea can't continue because the cable companies challenged it. We didn't challenge the ideas and founding principals of the internet. The cable providers couldn't resist extorting new business, we didn't start this fight, they did. We worked to have our voice heard, it was, and the decisions are in our favor. I appreciate you sticking with this, but you of all people should recognize when you're swimming with the sharks. Keep swimming they promise they won't eat you.

Good news. This morning, the FCC released the full text of the historic new net neutrality rules, and now it’s clearer than ever that these rules will protect free speech, and that Comcast and their allies in Congress have been lying to you. You can read them in full here -- but since it's 313 pages (of fiery, Comcast-slaying justice), we wanted to give you a quick rundown of what the rules do and don't do. But don't stop reading after the summary, because Comcast is already on the attack and there's more to do right now. • ISP’s and their friends in government can't block you from visiting a website. So you can visit any site that you want. • They can't slow down access to websites. So the sites you want to visit will come to you as quickly as the sites Comcast wishes you were visiting. • They can't speed up or make certain websites load faster. This is absolutely critical, because if they could speed up certain sites, that functionally means slowing down other sites. • They can’t get between you and any content, application, service, or anything else that you want to access online. That is explicitly one of the rules. Just in case the other rules don’t cover something. • There are no new taxes or fees anywhere in the rules, and there’s nothing limiting investment. At all. Period. All of that is to say two simple, wonderful words: we won.

Resolved.

You guys are confused it seems like to me. I know it's a difficult topic to handle in one sitting but if you don't think a "class" of service ever existed you never read anything about the Netflix shake down by Comcast. It doesn't matter how big of a package you buy from your ISP to download movies from Netflix if Netflix is throttled on the upstream your download speeds go in the toilet. Personally I'm going to wait until I can read the reclassification by the FCC to draw any conclusions. The two safety valves we now have are congress and the courts where before we had none because it was in private business hands. From what's said this is just a reclassification of the service not the providers.

There's links to outside journalism reporting on the case starting with Dave's post on February 4, 2015. There's plenty of information on this you should read. Secondly whatever the FCC does will be challenged in a court of law by the cable companies. So by the time this is done it will be combed through with a fine toothed comb. Seems like good steps in the right direction.

I certainly have never blocked your content or anyone else's (that wasn't being a troll) for that matter. However this is typical politician rhetoric from a position that is unfounded without fact or references. The real story is nobody will know what the FCC rules will look until they are written and reviewed. The FCC does have legal standing under Title II and the expansion to include the internet based on the regulations they wish to adopt seem a reasonable solution. Everything like this is flawed to some extent but this appears at face value to be a win for the people not big business. Whatever the case it's certainly better than letting congress get a hold of it and attaching tons of pork to it for things like bridges from Florida to Africa. Thanks for your "last words" though. PS next time you take personal shots at me don't be so vague, it's annoying.

Sounds a lot like touch-buddy.com which is a free application on a site we run. I'd suggest contacting Snacko over there via the boards or PM and see if he can help. If nothing else Touch-Buddy could do what you're looking for maybe. Good luck.

Can you pass me your IP at home in PM and let me know if it's static or not? Thank you.

First there was this gun... It was developed by General Electric, the "We bring good things to life" people. It's one of the modern-day Gatling guns. It shoots very big bullets... It shoots them very quickly... Someone said, "Let's put it in an airplane." Someone else said, "Better still, let's build an airplane around it." So they did. And "they" were the Fairchild Republic airplane people. And they had done such a good job with an airplane they developed back in WWII .....called the P-47 Thunderbolt! They decided to call it the A10 Thunderbolt. They made it so it was very good at flying low and slow and shooting things with that fabulous gun. But since it did fly low and slow, they made it bulletproof, or almost so. A lot of bad guys have found you can shoot an A10 with anything from a pistol to a 23mm Soviet cannon and it just keeps on flying and shooting. When they got through, it looked like this. It's not sleek and sexy like an F18 or the stealthy Raptors and such, but I think it's such a great airplane because it does what it does better than any other plane in the world. It kills tanks. Not only tanks, as Sadam Hussein's boys found out to their horror, but armored personnel carriers, radar stations, locomotives, bunkers, fuel depots... just about anything the bad guys thought was bulletproof turned out to be easy pickings for this beast. See those engines. One of them alone will fly this plane. The pilot sits in a very thick titanium alloy "bathtub." That's typical of the design. They were smart enough to make every part the same whether mounted on the left side or right side of the plane, like landing gear, for instance. Because the engines are mounted so high (away from ground debris) and the landing gear uses such low pressure tires, it can operate from a damaged airport, interstate highway, plowed field, or dirt road. Everything is redundant. They have two of almost everything. Sometimes they have three of something. Like flight controls, there's triple redundancy of those, and even if there is a total failure of the double hydraulic system, there is a set of manual flying controls. Capt. Kim Campbell sustained this damage over Bagdad and flew for another hour before returning to base. But, back to that gun. It's so hard to grasp just how powerful it is. This is the closest I could find to showing you just what this cartridge is all about. What the guy is holding is NOT the 30mm round, but a"little" 50 Browning machine gun roundand the 20mm cannon round which has been around for a long time. The 30mm is MUCH bigger. Down at the bottom are the .50 BMG and 20x102 Vulcan the fellow was holding. At the bottom right is the bad boy we're discussing. Let's get some perspective here: The .223 Rem (M16 rifle round) is fast. It shoots a 55 or so grain bullet at about 3300 feet/sec, give or take. It's the fastest of all those rounds shown (except one). When you move up to the ..30 caliber rounds, the bullets jump up in weight to 160-200 grains. Speeds run from about 2600 to 3000 fps or so. The .338 Lapua is the king of the sniper rifles these days and shoots a 350 grain bullet at 2800 fps or so. They kill bad guys at over a mile with that one. The 50 BMG is really big. Mike Beasley has one on his desk. Everyone who picks it up thinks it's some sort of fake, unless they know big ammo. It's really huge with a bullet that weighs 750 grains and goes as fast the Lapua. I don't have data on the Vulcan, but hang on to your hat. The bullet for the 30x173 Avenger has an aluminum jacket around a spent uranium core and weighs 6560 grains (yes, over 100 times as heavy as the M16 bullet, and flies through the air at 3500 fps (which is faster than the M16 as well). The gun shoots at a rate of 4200 rounds per minute, Yes, four thousand. Pilots typically shoot either one- or two-second burst which set loose 70 to 150 rounds. The system is optimized for shooting at 4,000 feet. OK, the best for last. You've got a pretty good idea of how big that cartridge is, but I'll bet you're like me and you don't fully appreciate how big the GA GAU-8 Avenger really is. Take a look. Each of those seven barrels is 112" long. That's almost ten feet. The entire gun is 19-1/2 feet long. Think how impressive it would look set up in your living room. Oh, by the way, it doesn't eject the empty shells but runs them back into the storage drum. There's just so dang many flying out, they felt it might damage the aircraft. Oh yeah, I forgot, they can hang those bomb and rocket things on 'em too, just in case. After all, it is an "airplane"! Like I said, this is a beautiful design. I'm glad it's ours.

LEMONS At a local bar in downtown Bemidji, MN, the owner was so sure that his bartender was the strongest man around, that he offered a standing $1000 bet. The bartender would squeeze a lemon until all the juice ran into a glass, and then hand the lemon to the patron. Anyone who could squeeze two more drops of juice out of it would win the money. Many people had tried over the years: weightlifters, longshoremen, etc., but nobody had ever been able to do it. One day, this scrawny little fellow came into the bar, wearing thick glasses and a polyester suit. He sat down, ordered a glass of draft, & started looking around the bar. After reading the sign on the wall about the lemon challenge, he said in a small voice: "I was just reading your sign, and I'd like to try the bet." After the laughter had died down, the bartender said: "Ok..." He grabbed a lemon and squeezed the heck out of it. Then he handed the wrinkled remains of the rind to the little fellow. But the Crowd's laughter turned to total silence… as the man clenched his little fist around the lemon, and six drops fell into the glass. As the crowd cheered, the bartender paid the guy his $1000, and then asked the little man: "Do you mind if I ask what you do for a living? Are you a lumberjack, a weight-lifter, or what?" The little fellow quietly replied: "I work for the IRS." ~ Everyone knows this is so painfully true. You know we left a country for being over taxed what the heck happened to us? Government is big business and we're feeding the machine. If this sounds like the Matrix you might think about taking the blue pill. Enjoy.