Erik

Well the punch is ruined. I suggest the red and blue coolers where you'll find something refreshing. So let's address the floating object. The Article - Nothing top level about it, it's an uneducated view of the problem. Economically suicidal for ISP's - Let's explain that to the many companies that have been subject to such "suicide": ISPs blocked Google Wallet on smartphones because they were developing Softcard. ISPs have and do manipulate the way you can tether your devices. Starting 2012 Verizon was charging $20 for this service to extort a per device connection rate. AT&T still restricts it unless you are on a special plan. AT&T blocked FaceTime on Apple devices and Google Hangouts on Android devices. Comcast throttled BitTorret connections and if you were found to use BitTorret it dialed back your personal connection regardless of what plan you were on. They still do as well as other ISPs. Comcast and Netflix which was extorted to pay Comcast to remove the throttling to continue to be able to provide their services to their customers. ISPs and streaming music, Sony PSN, YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Google. and the list goes on and on ... No net neutrality means that ISPs can decide which businesses they will allow traffic from and at which speeds. It's a life or death issue for small business ... oh you want to start an electronic card service, nope we want to only promote ours ... oh you want to stream using our internet, nope we have our own that is much better than yours anyway... oh you want to start up some gaming, no if our customers want to game they can use our apps. There are numerous ISP's out there - ahhhhhh yes but how many of them service your physical address with a physical connection? Just because I want to use TimeWarner and they are out there doesn't mean that connection is available to me, same for Google fiber, Verizon Fiber, DSL, etc, etc, etc. And the technology has advanced by leaps and bounds without any help or hindrance from the Feds. - Yeah there was no Federal involvement in advancement at all, unless you count stuff like this: http://www.fiercetelecom.com/special-report/at-t-frontier-others-accept-1-5b-caf-ii-funding-despite-fcc-s-changing-broadband The whole net-neutrality scam was really about suckering people into handing control of the internet to a cabal of insiders within the FCC. There was and is no reason for it. - This is not true in the least, we asked the FCC to protect the internet under Title II which means that the FCC maintains its ability to oversee and address problems within the market. Control of the internet is and has always been with the people that own the core structure and routers and that is the governments themselves. Competition is alive and well without any help from the Feds. - That's called capitalism and you can bet your backside the Feds are involved in that. Local example - there are at least 4 local providers here who all offer 1 gb/sec service. if you don't like one, go with another. The options are increasing all the time. - 1 Gbps services is 125 MB/s. Local providers all have coverage maps and depending where you are means that your accessibility to those providers varies but in land based services those are generally not duplicated. Generally you'll have one cable option and one telephone option but you may only have one or none of those and some fortunate people have access to fiber optics giving them a potential third or whatever. Wireless to date doesn't have the channels available to offer higher speeds like you'd see in land based options. The FCC is trying to free up channels that are currently in use by the older satellite system but that's not done yet. Maybe in the future we'll see some competition between wireless and wired connections. The last option is geo satellite service which is adequate for some services but not for anything that requires a constant connection as the lag between your router and the first hop is 100-1200 miles away. Let Freedom reign, it works every time. - I agree whole heartedly ... that's why eliminating the Title II protections of the internet are just the opposite. Removing Title II means that ISPs will be in control of themselves, a for profit business that are against net neutrality and ague they can and only will do what is right for the communities they serve. Nobody believes that. IOW they will be self policing as a private non public system to allow the traffic they want to, at the speed they want, and at the price they want.

We didn't slow down our site today but big ISPs will if they win their fight to roll back internet regulations at the FCC. American businesses and citizens are in the biggest protest against the FCC to date. The FCC is planning on rolling back regulations from 2015 that classified ISPs and safeguarded our internet. Trump appointed FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has made it his mission to deregulate the internet and thereby giving complete authority and power back to big business ISPs like Comcast and Verizon. The protest starts internet wide on July 12, 2017. Millions of people and businesses are fighting for your rights and we need you to spend a few minutes sharing your vote to help us keep the internet net neutral. You may say to yourself this doesn't involve me but you'd be dead wrong. Once the regulations are removed there's no going back and big ISPs will control everything from what they mine from your content to the speed at which they deliver it. You can't sit this one out we need you! GO NOW!!! ----> https://www.battleforthenet.com/ Background Info: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/07/11/535804285/internet-companies-plan-online-campaign-to-keep-net-neutrality-rules

We didn't slow down our site today but big ISPs will if they win their fight to roll back internet regulations at the FCC. American businesses and citizens are in the biggest protest against the FCC to date. The FCC is planning on rolling back regulations from 2015 that classified ISPs and safeguarded our internet. Trump appointed FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has made it his mission to deregulate the internet and thereby giving complete authority and power back to big business ISPs like Comcast and Verizon. The protest starts internet wide on July 12, 2017. Millions of people and businesses are fighting for your rights and we need you to spend a few minutes sharing your vote to help us keep the internet net neutral. You may say to yourself this doesn't involve me but you'd be dead wrong. Once the regulations are removed there's no going back and big ISPs will control everything from what they mine from your content to the speed at which they deliver it. You can't sit this one out we need you! GO NOW!!! ----> https://www.battleforthenet.com/ Background Info: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/07/11/535804285/internet-companies-plan-online-campaign-to-keep-net-neutrality-rules

The Wordpress source code Column5's site was based on was ancient, out of date, and highly exploitable so it was compressed, moved off disk, and archived. It will no longer be available to any public access. Whiteknight is correct the content of C5 resides here and I thank him for his reply.

Dear Wife, I’m writing you this letter to tell you that I’m leaving you forever. I’ve been a good man to you for 7 years and I have nothing to show for it. These last 2 weeks have been hell. This morning your boss called to tell me that you quit your job today and that was the last straw. Last week, you came home and didn’t even notice I had a new haircut, had cooked your favorite meal, and even wore a brand new pair of silk boxers. You ate in 2 minutes and went straight to sleep after watching all of your soaps. You don’t tell me you love me anymore, you don’t want sex, or anything that connects us as husband and wife. Either you’re cheating on me or you don’t love me anymore. Whatever the case, I’m gone. Your EX-Husband P.S. don’t try to find me. Your SISTER and I are moving away to West Virginia together! Have a great life! Dear Ex-Husband Nothing has made my day more than receiving your letter. It’s true you and I have been married for 7 years, although a good man is a far cry from what you’ve been. I watch my soaps so much because they drown out your constant whining and griping, too bad that it doesn’t work. I DID notice when you got a hair cut last week, but the 1st thing that came to mind was ‘You look just like a girl!’ Since my mother raised me not to say anything if you can’t say something nice, I didn’t comment. And when you cooked my favorite meal, you must have gotten me confused with MY SISTER, because I stopped eating pork 7 years ago. About those new silk boxers: I turned away from you because the $49.99 price tag was still on them and I prayed it was a coincidence that my sister had just borrowed $50 from me that morning. After all of this, I still loved you and felt we could work it out. So when I hit the lotto for 10 million dollars I quit my job and bought us 2 tickets to Jamaica but when I got home you were gone. Everything happens for a reason, I guess. I hope you have the fulfilling life you always wanted. My lawyer said that the letter you wrote ensures you won’t get a dime from me. So take care. Signed, Your Ex-Wife, Rich As Hell & Free! P.S. I don’t know if I ever told you this, but my sister Carla was born Carl. I hope that’s not a problem.

My darling husband, Before you return from your business trip, I want to let you know about the small accident I had with the pick-up truck this afternoon. Fortunately, it's not too bad and I really didn't get hurt, so please don't worry too much about me. The doctors say I'll be just fine in 10 to 12 months after all this is behind me. I was coming home from Wal-Mart because I wanted to make sure to have your favorite cookies and a hot cooked meal when you return next week. The shopping and the ride home was fine but when I turned into the driveway I accidentally pushed down on the accelerator instead of the brake. The garage door is slightly bent but fortunately the pickup came to a stop when it bumped into your car. I am really sorry, but I know with your kind-hearted personality you will forgive me. You know how much I love you and care for you my sweetheart. I am enclosing a picture of the damage for you. I cannot wait to hold you in my arms again. Your loving wife. XXXOOO Oh and before I forget. Your girlfriend called this morning.

I'm sure since it's linked on each and every download you have read the following: http://combatace.com/topic/26131-freeware-licensing/ That's a good place to start.

*watches as the movers bring in my rocker recliner* *puts ice cold twelver in mini fridge that's in arms reach of my chair* *unpacks his order of ghost pepper chicken wings on the side table* *throws the recliner back into cruise mode* *gives a "hey what's up" to GR* *tucks 1911 down next to the cushion* *settles in for the big show* Finally some worth watching on this channel. Hey can you grab some napkins while you're up?

It's going to take a solid month of flying to complete the first mission. I can't wait to see what the second mission is.

Long long ago in an HQ not so far away lived a community of Strike Fighter fans and modders. These wonderful proud but noble people existed for one purpose, to have fun. All was going great and they had the largest group of most active individuals in the HQ. One day a mean sheriff, a real deputy dog type, decided that if it was fun it wasn't allowed in the HQ. You see the mean sheriff person hated laughter, smiles, and sharing of great information among the type A personalities of the community. So our sheriff with his fuzz in ruffle had a brief encounter with a would be enthusiast. He enjoyed the thought of reaching for and pulling from hip his chrome plated 38 special which shot enthusiasts between the eyes with insults, bans, and rules. Oh the rules so many of them that they were legendary throughout the land of HQ. One day a defiant and short fused fellow named Dave decided enough was enough. History tells the tales of the Dave to this day. How he found a place so full of biohaz that it was central to his idea and with his great luck he knew it was for sale. In the beginning the place we all now call home was found at biohazcentral.com. The Dave knowing what he had to do reached out to the great alien wrangler known as Alex. See Alex was the guy who trapped all them aliens and put them in a box and called them boxes Alienware. Alex was powerful and wise and he enjoyed the HQ community so he reached out to this story teller and together we birthed what is today CombatACE.com. The Alex didn't stop wanting people to enjoy themselves and it was then he reached out a Polish fellow who had a group of Winged Orphaned Fellow Fliers who at the time were having problems of their own having just been kicked out of their village. We called them graceful enthusiasts of the canvas WOFF'ers for short. Together the prop fans and turbo jet fans built a home of their own and it continues here today. We've all been in the penalty box and we all understand that it's a badge of honor among us. The moral of the story; from a band of misfit toys with good intentions and motivation comes wonderful things where anything is possible. Welcome home you're among friends.

The abundance of caution entering and exiting choke points like the area of the accident would be to have a manned bridge at all times. However the entire crew of the container ship was probably no more than twenty and at that hour it is possible that only a few crew members were responsible for the entire oversight of the vessel that was on autopilot, a common practice for these types of merchant vessels. It is speculated that the bridge of the Crystal was unmanned or the crew was doing other duties during that shift and wasn't 100% attentive to obstacle avoidance. This common practice may change after this accident. I have not read anywhere that the Fitzgerald heard collision warning horns nor were they contacted by radio communication from the Crystal. It is also unknown if the Fitzgerald even knew of the impending collision and what actions they took if any. It is hard to believe that they knew or knew with enough warning to do anything. In the dark of night it is likely the first warning they had was the sight of the bow of the Crystal coming out of the darkness in almost silence. Both bridges were at fault for collision avoidance but more so the Fitzgerald because it had an active mid-watch that included not only crew on the bridge but crew in the CIC below deck manning the many radar detection devices. To answer you question directly it is a common practice to leave the navigation to the autopilot on these large oceanic vessels. The ACX Crystal was most likely in this state of operation when the accident occurred. There is a pretty full review of all the AIS data and some common sense speculation here: http://www.vesselofinterest.com/2017/06/mapping-acx-crystals-collision-with-uss.html I still find it hard to imagine that the navigation of the Fitzgerald was so causal especially given the fact that one of their primary roles is early detection and mitigation of missile launches. With the heightened activity in North Korea you would have thought any ship operating in the area would have been on a higher alert than what it appeared to have been. That said maybe a larger review and corrective actions will be taken to avoid these types of situations in the future because as of now they seem almost common place.

Excellent video!!!

We know it was one of two causes; faulty equipment on the Fitzgerald or dereliction of duty by the mid-watch. Nobody has reported that prior to the collision there was faulty gear and if there was the Fitzgerald should have posted manned lookouts. The Fitzgerald is nothing but radar gear so failure would mean a complete failure of multiple systems on multiple platforms when no loss of electrical power existed. If I have to use Occam's Razor to examine these two causes it looks more and more like the crew on the Fitzgerald. So I have to agree the bridge watch failed and failed on multiple levels of redundancy. This conclusion is disturbing to say the least.

https://dcs.megaphone.fm/BUR6679441634.mp3?key=276747d6095168c8d13dc8b20bdfcfd8

No politics but "ban"? You? What kind of drugs are they passing around over there?

That audio clip sounded like a young crew. Listening to the helm explain himself over and over like he was 12 was astonishing. Maybe he should be driving a dinghy and not a 1.5 billion dollar destroyer. He knew he was in over his head when he cried to slow to 5 knots which if he hadn't done that maybe they'd have cleared the tanker which was probably gauging his position and speed on the destroyers until it slowed abruptly. I would have hoped these kids would have had better training. Lack of experience and sheer terror of his duties was ultimately the captain's responsibility. It's no surprise he lost his command. The Fitzgerald's Captain was bunked up for the night and the accident impacted his sleeping quarters which is why they airlifted him off the boat. So those poor guys not only harpooned themselves on one of the biggest boats in the ocean but almost killed the captain in the process. There's probably a few bad reviews in that crew's immediate future. We should do better that's a fact and if the President doesn't have the top brass of the Navy sitting in his office right now he's absent on the job. Don't get me wrong I'm proud of these kids but if we don't give them the training, knowledge, and experience it's our own damn fault if half our total fleet ends up beached and broken somewhere.

The green track is the position reported by the ACX Crystal. Red star is where the incident occurred approximately but you can clearly see the track sharply move right and then again back left to an on course position accounting for the auto pilot. This is very similar to an accident that happened in 2012. Notice the almost exact same strike location on the starboard side. You'd think those Raytheon radar array panels were targets. Damage to the USS Porter after colliding with a supertanker in the Persian Gulf in August 2012. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan Sunderman/Released) On August 12, 2012, the U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Porter collided with a Mitsui OSK Lines’ supertanker M/T Otowasan near the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. The collision tore a 3 by 3 meter (9.8 ft — 9.8 ft) hole in the starboard side of the destroyer, forcing it to Jebel Ali, Dubai for repairs. No one was injured however. The ship’s captain, Cmdr. Martin Arriola, was subsequently relieved of command and replaced by Cmdr. Dave Richardson. On 12 October 2012, the Porter rejoined Carrier Strike Group Twelve for its transit through the Suez Canal following extensive repairs to the ship. Below is the audio soundtrack from the bridge. Be prepared for something that will make most sailors blow a gasket. At the end of the track you'll hear one of the crew announce the strike location. https://soundcloud.com/the-virginian-pilot/audio-from-the-guided-missile-destroyer-porters-collision-in-the-strait-of-hormuz

The latest update I read is the cargo ship was on autopilot with nobody manning the helm. The accident occurred at 01:30 AM an hour earlier than previously stated. The US Navy has yet to clarify their reported time of 02:30 AM. It is understandable that notification was delayed due to the all hands on deck muster required immediately following the impact. The cargo ship being on auto-pilot returned to course after almost coming to a complete stop after impact and only 30 minutes later once a damage assessment had concluded did they make a u-turn to find out what they hit. Upon arriving at the badly damaged USS Fitzgerald at 02:30 AM an hour after the collision did both vessels decide to call this in to the Japanese Coast Guard. The utter chaos that ensued on the Fitzgerald immediately after the compartments were ruptured just above the keel must have been an incredible scene. My hat goes off to the Navy sailors who risked everything to keep the Fitzgerald afloat when all odds were against them. It is also reported that a vessel should never be struck on the starboard side as it is common maritime law that the ship giving way should have been the Fitzgerald because of it's position to the impending traffic. I expect that a very close review of the duty logs and crew of that Mid Watch manning the Fitzgerald wheel house will be closely examined as a special JAG investigation is underway. The loss of life is the most important factor here and to those men and their families my sincerest condolences and grateful appreciation of their service for the United States of America.

You never see officer Fife there holster his weapon or see his severed fingers as he re-swings that door square to the opening. Besides the law abiding citizens who just got done skiing gathered around that bar thought it was rude how he interrupted their country guitar music playing friend.

Reuters makes this claim, "International maritime rules for collision avoidance do not define right of way for any one vessel, but provide common standards for signaling between ships, as well as regulations on posting lookouts." While I was doing some research I came across this interesting cut away. The Fitzgerald (starboard strike) was hit in almost the identical spot as the Cole (port strike) at the electrical compartment oddly. You can see how close this accident came to the ammo stores on the Fitzgerald, dicey.

I see it differently. I colored the strike points I see and the yellow line shows the displacement of the hull from the bulb on the ACX Crystal. I'm not sure how the keel of the Fitzgerald would be where you say it was. Happy to listen to the speculation though.

The damage to the ACX Crystal is substantial and so incredibly high above the waterline compared to the much smaller Fitzgerald. It almost appears to me the bulbous bow of the ACX Crystal was forced down below the keel of the Fitzgerald and it's a miracle the Fitzgerald didn't sink. If the impact to the Fitzgerald had happened just forward midships this could have been a completely different kind of story. The findings from the investigation hopefully one day will be told. Were the tragic deaths of the crew due to the immediate impact in berthing compartments, due to heroic efforts to seal water tight compartments, or due to fact that they couldn't get out of the way of danger, doing their jobs or otherwise, before the orders to seal compartments were given. The crews and vessels both were truly blessed that night and to quote screen legend Mr. Sean Connery playing Captain Ramius, "Hey, Ryan, be careful what you shoot at. Most things in here don't react too well to bullets." Nor to cargo vessels striking them I'd imagine.

Yeah but do they have one on how to get rid of them? *laughs*

Let me get back to you..... ***starts novel*** ... book one, chapter one

I'm confused. There's an opinion that the cargo ship should give way to DDG 62? I'm not following that conclusion. This incident happened at 02:30 AM local time so it was dark outside. How would the cargo ship know this was a USN Boat? We don't broadcast that information on any radar return the cargo vessel would have been getting. I would have hoped that there were voice communications but that's questionable as well. Turn the boat or wreck a 1.5 billion dollar investment? Seems like a fairly easy decision for anyone to make but I admit I have little knowledge of maritime rules. Maybe someone can help me understand.