Lt. James Cater

Thanks a bunch! I'll check it out more once i get my gear set up again.

What a read! Thanks for the nice link.

Thanks for some nice stuff!

For starters, try not to justify being a thief merely because you are from Eastern Europe. I could give you the names of quite a number of Metal bands from your area and you could go discuss small band economics with them. http://www.negativland.com/albini.html Perhaps if i ever do get things going again, i'll invite you over to be road crew and you too can experience the (infamous) joys of touring North America in a van while making less than a kid working at McDonalds with no guarantees of food or a place to sleep. But before we get on the road we need some music. Maybe those people downloading all that free stuff might decide to donate a few cents towards studio costs since we (the band) have to pay for that out of our pockets as well as the costs of all gear involved.

Looks like i'll be back in action within two weeks. I've recently moved and i have to go get my gear out of storage and set up in my new location.

Just read about Megaupload being busted. I'm not to thrilled about the SOPA and all but i'm equally not all warm to those who act like everything should be free to download. Over the last few months i've realized the futility of doing anything musicwise for the simple reason that illegal downloading would make decent sales of any kind impossible. When a new CD comes out, within 24 hours you can find it in a blogspot or file sharing site with ease and i've run into many people throughout the years who see absolutly nothing wrong with this. The only thing i've downloaded is stuff that has been out of print for years and is either virtually impossible to find or is priced way out of reach.

I flew F-111s in ODs quite a bit and it's no easy thing. Routing and timing is easily overlooked but is very crucial. Don't go in amongst the leading edge of a Coalition strike and you'll be able to avoid the worst of the hassles. That'll give plenty of time for SEAD flights to do their thing as well as having other flights in the target area attract SAMs that would otherwise be launched at you. In and out routes are the worst possible thing you can do. You want to be able to skirt the edges of the enemy defense until it's time to drop down to begin your attack. As you are popping up for ordnance release, hit chaff and flares repeatedly and if you get radar activity turn on ECM. As soon as the bombs are gone, more flares and chaff as you drop back to the deck. Ideally, egress should be along your attack heading for at least 10 miles. 20 miles preferable.

Keep the speed up as much as possible and never turn with a MIG. Don't get low and slow. If you sense yourself doing so, hit burners,extend and re-engage.

Just figured i'd ask around here in the course of my search. Tommorow, i'm going to pull everything down to the minimum deposit in my BOA checking account. Usually it's a no brainer changing banks, but since more than a few these days are not exactly on the level it's better to take a good long look. Any recomendations?

I'm out of action until who knows when, but i'll be back as soon as i can!

Nice pics, mine of the very same aircraft a couple of years ago came out so bad, i never even mentioned them here.

Remember the thread on the Canadian football league that was going wimpy? Here's another story along those lines. http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Youth-league-institutes-TD-limit-to-hold-back-11?urn=highschool-wp6562 Can't stand all this PC bull@^%$ going on these days.

I was asleep! I worked the swingshift at a rent-a-car place near Mccarran airport and so was sawing logs when it all went down. When i went out to catch the bus to work i cut through a casino that was in front of my apartment complex and i quickly noticed something was wrong. EVERYONE not behind a table game was watching the TVs and so i found out somethig was wrong in NYC. My first reaction was "what again?" remembering the earlier attack a few years prior There was a lot of talk on the bus but it didn't really hit me until i got to work. We faced an onslaught of customers. Air activity over the US being shut down, people needed to get home one way or another. Especially from a place like Las Vegas, which is basically out in the middle of nowhere geographically speaking. Every car for hire in the whole valley was gone within 24 hours.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14712548 http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/aug/30/david-honeyboy-edwards-obituary David "Honeyboy" Edwards (June 28, 1915 – August 29, 2011) Friend and partner of the legendary Robert Johnson

I wish more ill on those who let him out in the first place.

Saw it on the news. Man what a crazy scene. BTW for those of you in the NYC metro area, you have three faultlines in the area the last time i checked. Hope one doesn't slip anytime soon. Where i'm at, we have a faultline within a mile of us and the State has been checking it out for the last few years.

Found something interesting while looking up one round stops. "In Street Stoppers by Evan Marshall & Ed Sanow, they reprint the results of 5 different studies of handgun ammunition effectiveness: The infamous Strasbourg Goat Tests The Navy-Crane 9mm ammo test The Police Marksman/Fairburn study (not Fairbairn) The Royal Canadian Mounted Police test The Secret Service test The Navy-Crane test involved 10 types of commercial 9mm hollowpoint ammunition, and was used to determine the issue ammunition for the Naval Investigative Service in 1991. Functional reliability was 50% of the criteria (not totally objective, some subjective opinions were counted); penetration into bare gelatin and bare gelatin after going through glass was 25%, expansion in gelatin and group size at 50yds were worth 10% each and retained bullet weight was 5%. (Note, I do not recommend these exact percentages for selecting personal defense ammo). The conclusion was to select a Federal 147gr JHP. And it was a bad decision, due to unrealistic weighting and the inclusion of subjective data in the weighting. When the data is analyzed with more realistic weighting and no subjective observations, 115gr and 124gr JHP ammo performs best. Police Marksman magazine published a 4-year study of ammo performance in 1993. It wasn’t a test; they solicited information on shooting incidents from police officers. While the man who conducted and tabulated the survey was a proponent of slow heavy expanding bullets, his study showed them to be inferior to lighter faster expanding bullets. The 1994 RCMP tests compared the performance of 9mm and .40S&W ammo (in 4″ pistols and a 9mm HK MP5 with 9″ barrel) to the then-issue .38+P 158gr LSWCHP (lead semi-wadcutter hollowpoint, fired from a 5″ barrel) in gelatin, in clothed gelatin, and in gelatin with a section of pig rib embedded in it. The tests were conducted at 3 meters and 50 meters. The researchers were looking at total penetration, recovered bullet diameter, weight retention and % of retained weight. Penetration of less than 12″ or more than 18″ into bare gelatin disqualified a round, as did expanded diameters less than the issue .38 round. While the researchers did not recommend a specific replacement ammo, the results were interesting; the issue .38 ammo overpenetrated bare & clothed gelatin when fired from a 2″ barrel. Light 9mm rounds that tend to fragment (and have excellent real-world performance) were deemed unacceptable based upon the test criteria. The Secret Service (which does not share much information) tested .38 ammo in 1972 and did some testing of 9mm ammo in 1987. Bear in mind that the Secret Service and the FBI have different roles and are likely to have to use their weapons in different environments. The FBI overreacted to the Miami Shootout and overemphasized penetration in setting its criteria for ammunition testing. Conclusions: hollowpoints are most effective, FMJ were least effective, and JSP fell in between the two. The Strasbourg Goat Tests (which some claim were a hoax) took place in 1991, and used goats (with bone composition similar to humans, unlike pigs which have more fat and less calcium in their bones causing them to affect bullets differently) wired for electroencephelography (EEG) and arterial transducers to record the animals’ responses before during and after bullet impact. The point of aim was the goats’ chest cavity, with the intent of hitting a lung. The goats were not anesthetized. They tested .380, .38+p, 9mm, .357mag, .40s&w, 10mm and .45acp; ammunition designs included Black Talon, Hydra-Shok, Glaser, MagSafe, Silvertip, XTP, Nyclad and standard jacketed & unjacketed hollowpoints. The conclusions: 1) prefragmented/frangible rounds worked best for an unobstructed lung shot. 2) rounds that expand and then fragment incapacitated faster than rounds that only expanded. 3) hollowpoints that expand immediately incapacitated faster than bullets designed for controlled/delayed expansion. 4) more rapid rates of bullet expansion caused more organ damage. 5) higher impact velocity that caused more rapid expansion led to the highest blood-pressure spikes and greatest blood loss. 6) non-expanding bullet designs took the longest to incapacitate, if they were even able to incapacitate. 7) bullets that struck a rib took longer to incapacitate (usually twice as long) than bullets that entered cleanly. Round-nose bullets and hollowpoints with small openings performed the worst after hitting bone; wide hollowpoints were least affected by bone impacts Regarding Glaser/MagSafe ammo, they were part of the Strasbourg tests. The point of the tests was to see what ammo would incapacitate a target fastest. For the calibers that were tested: .380 – MagSafe and Glaser Blue were the fastest and second-fastest incapacitators .38SPL (4″ BBL) – Glaser Blue was #1 and MagSafe was #2. .45acp – MagSafe and Glaser Blue were #1 and #2 .40S&W – MagSafe and Glaser Blue were #1 and #2 10mm – MagSafe was #1 and Glaser Blue was #3 .357mag – QuickShok (prefragmented) was #1, MagSafe was #2 and Glaser Blue was #3 9mm – MagSafe was #1, QuickShok was #2, Glaser Blue was #3 Given the test methodology (straight-in, chest/lung shot placement, no clothing), the results are compelling"

Yes, shot placement is of utmost importance in many situations. Someone wired on crank or pcp will keep right on coming if you don't hit anything crucial. People can also reach a beserker like rage that makes them pretty much impervious to pain for a short while. Seeing as it's 1970s US police Macelena is studying, the most common cop round was .38 Special. Good luck with that round in a fight unless you get a head or heart shot. As for the .45 vs .357 question? Can't really give an opinion as i've only used M1911s with standard ball ammo.

First off, go to the range and practice some to get your timing right concerning weapons release. My usual style with the F-111 is to take off and go high to conserve fuel while flying the most roundabout way possible to the enemy backyard. Then you drop down to the deck and away you go. IP is usually about 20-25 miles out. Once weapons are selected you are comitted, full power all the way until about 5-10 miles from the target (It depends) pull up hard to about 1000ft Any radars tracking you, activate ECM and pump some chaff. Right at bombs away it's not unusual to get SAM activity so return quickly to the deck, pumping chaff and flares as you do and also go full burners to get out of the area.

For one thing, tickets and such are a joke. Also, it depends on the discretion of the cop. For minor league BS, the last thing the majority of cops want to do is make an issue of it if there are more important things to be concerned about in the area.

Looks like a lot of bodies are going to be drop after that attack. Find 'em, fix 'em, destroy 'em.

Something i just realized. this morning i tried signing in to my E-mail but had no joy. Figuring it was a minor hangup i went about getting set for work. Well i get home and after a while decide to check my E-mail. As it turns out, not only does my password no longer work, but the security question has been changed as well. Yahoo has all kinds of support but the catch is that you have to sign in to get help, something that i cannot do. Anyone have any ideas? Personally, i hope to find a way to get back into my account, copy important stuff to an external HD, then shut down the account and go to G-mail, which i've heard is more secure. Until then i'm cut off from any kind of commo from friends and family since i don't have a phone and i can't remember all their e-mail adresses.