| Wednesday,
May 26, 2004 Subject:
Large.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040524.html
- Roland Dobbins
And growing...
What are ``cloud nines?''
http://www.cjfearnley.com/fuller-faq.html#toc5.2
[``Cloud nines'' are floating geodesic spheres. The
following extract from a paper posted to GEODESIC by Robert T. Bowers
explains the idea.] ``When considering a geodesic sphere, the weight of the
sphere is a function of the surface of the sphere. The amount the sphere is
lifted by warm air is a function of the volume of the sphere. In
mathematical terms, weight is a function of the radius squared, while volume
is a function of the radius cubed. This is very significant. Even as the
radius of a sphere increases, thus increasing the sphere's weight, the lift
of the sphere increases more. If you image a sphere that could grow larger,
as the sphere gained a little weight, it would gain much lift.
``Buckminster Fuller proposed that as spheres of great
size are considered, the amount of air enclosed grows huge compared to the
weight of the sphere. Of a sphere with a radius of 1320 feet, the weight of
the enclosed air is 1000 times greater than the weight of the sphere's
structure. If that volume of air was heated only one degree, the sphere
would begin to float!
``Of course, domes of even greater sizes would be
required if that sphere were to carry any additional weight. But it is not
inconceivable that floating geodesic spheres could carry aloft entire
communities. Perhaps the concept of a floating dome of one half a mile
diameter is too much for most people to seriously consider. Regardless, it
does demonstrate the scope of projects that are made possible with geodesic
domes.'' -Robert T. Bowers Fuller quote from I Seem To Be A Verb
Came across this small description which I thought
might interest some people who haven't seen it before ...
Geodesic spheres larger than half-a-mile in diameter
can be floated in the air, like clouds. Draped with polyethylene curtains --
to retard night-time air intake -- the spheres would be light enough to
remain aloft, at preferred altitudes.
``Cloud nines'' one mile in diameter could house
thousands of people, whose weight would be negligible. Passengers could pass
from ``cloud'' to ``cloud,'' or from ``cloud'' to ground, as the ``clouds''
float around the Earth or are anchored to mountain tops. The ``clouds''
could become food factories by impounding sunlight.''
-- David Paschall-Zimbel
http://www.cjfearnley.com/fuller-faq-5.html#ss5.2
And of course Poul Anderson among others wrote
stories making use of this concept. They are certainly possible. They are
also quite vulnerable to any kind of attack or natural disaster.
The Blimps to Orbit concept looks feasible; the
re-entry speeds are great, but the re-entry times are long and the surface
areas are very large. I've been following this concept and it looks
reasonable, but it needs testing.
The fact that it is being tested is encouraging.
Subject: Space blimps
$1/ton to LEO? Ion drive?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5025388/
Chris C
All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.
Stephen Wright
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Jerry,
An interesting piece on the RPG, which has proved
devastating both in Iraq and also against its inventors, in Chechnya:
http://www.exile.ru/189/war_nerd.html
Best regards,
Alun
==
Dr Alun J. Carr Phone:
Mechanical Engineering Dept
University College Dublin
Indeed. Thanks.
===============
On Nemourlon Armor
Subj: M5 - towards the fiber component of Nemourlon?
I think this goes alongside the earlier articles about
Sheer Thickening Fluid impregnation to enhance the performance of Kevlar (R)
armor:
http://www.rdecom.army.mil/rdemagazine/200401/itl_nsc_armor.html
[== According to Cunniff's mathematical model for the
estimation of impact performance based on the mechanical properties of armor
materials, ... M5 could cut weight by at least 35 percent compared to
currently available fragmentation armor at the same protection level. So
far, ballistic impact test results with a limited, relatively low-strength
sample of M5 are glowing.
"We shot it, and it came out better than we expected,"
Cunniff said. "We found there was something wrong with the model; we
underpredicted the performance of the material. Of everything we looked at,
it looks like M5 will be a really big improvement in reducing the weight of
armor." ==]
How many more 35% improvements in fiber performance do
they need before they impregnate it with STF to make Nemourlon? 8-)
Rod Montgomery==monty@sprintmail.com
For those unfortunate few not familiar with my
science fiction works, Nemourlon is the name I gave to a flexible body armor
I postulated for Falkenberg's Mercenary Legion in stories that take place
later in this century. I first wrote about it in 1973.
We also have Cerebrus
Subj: Cerberus for force protection duties
http://www.rdecom.army.mil/rdemagazine/200401/itl_cerdec_sensor.html
A new, low-cost mobile sensor suite tower that offers
multiple detection and assessment capabilities will extend the eyes and ears
of current force protection personnel, and reduce manpower demands. The
descriptive name Cerberus, for the mythical three-headed dog that guarded
the entrance to the Underworld, “seemed appropriate as the tower is made up
of three different cameras,” said Mike Jennings, deputy director of the
Special Products and Prototyping Division. ... Cerberus accomplishes all of
this through the use of its three detection modes:
* Perimeter Ground Radar, which presents an alarm and
tracking of the target; * Unattended Ground Sensors, for coverage in radar
skip zones or in heavily vegetated areas that the radar cannot penetrate; *
Video Motion Detection, which uses staring cameras that can be independently
positioned to fill gaps in radar, or to cover avenues of approach.
In either application, the VMD software offers an
alarm to any motion in its field of view and presents an image and a track
of the target, representing the first time NVESD has integrated the VMD
component. ... Once fully fabricated, Cerberus will offer a new solution to
rising force protection needs worldwide. It also opens up the possibility
for application in civil Homeland Security roles in areas of protection such
as borders, ports, and infrastructures. ...
Rod Montgomery==monty@sprintmail.com
It might better be called Argus; in any event it's
a potent system.
========================
Your NASA tax dollars at
work:
Subject: NASA Space Suit Problems
Whenever anyone presses NASA to shift money from
current programs and take a bet on competition and going outside the system
they say if we don't keep spending the money we'll be left without crucial
capabilities. What no one realizes is that we no longer have any
capabilities.
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-
hsspac253818348may25,0,4272419.story?coll=ny-health-headlines
NASA ruled yesterday that U.S. spacesuits on the
International Space Station are unusable and ordered the crew to use Russian
gear instead, adding considerable time and distance to a critical spacewalk
next month.
The crew wanted to wear American suits and go out the
much closer American hatch to get to a broken power supply unit on the
exterior of the space station, but a cooling problem with the outfits made
that impossible.
R
When, way back in the 1980's, I suggested in a BYTE
column that NASA's space suits were not very good, a Hamilton Standard
official actually tried to get McGraw Hill to fire me for such insolence.
The suits aren't much improved now. The Hamilton Standard axis of evil with
the Astronaut Office is notorious. The stupid suits we use cost billions in
mission effectiveness, since they use low pressure pure oxygen and thus
require pure oxygen pre-breathing for any mission on which an EVA is
scheduled. You can't run the Shuttle on pure oxygen at atmospheric pressure,
which means that you have fewer gas molecules in the Shuttle, which means
cooling efficiencies fall, which means that many electronic components have
to be shut down until the EVA portion of the mission is over.
It is well known that we know how to build better
suits.
Better suits would use some 12 psi of enriched air
rather than 3.5 psi pure oxygen, or just go with 14 pounds of air and be
done with it. But elderly astronauts tire when required to do much work in
12 - 14 psi suits. Since the astronauts all tend to be 40+ year old Ph.D.
types rather than 20 year old riggers and mechanics, and the astronaut
office controls the missions, and Hamilton Standard and the higher ranking
NASA people in the astronaut office are thick as, well, are good buddies,
the NASA Ames people who know how to build suits are never given any money,
Houston keeps control of any suit advancement program, and there has been
little to zero progress since the 1980's.
It is one of the scandals of the space program, one
well known to anyone who bothers to look into it. Hamilton Standard makes
more per year maintaining the useless suits we have than it would cost for a
full development program to make better ones. Think on that for a while.
I wonder if a RICO suit is in order? It is coming
to that. It may take that to get the NASA bureaucracy and the industrial
complex out of bed together and start a program that allows us to have
decent EVA equipment that will allow us to do on-orbit assembly.
On-orbit construction is the key to the planets.
Everyone knows this. And NASA does not care.
Jerry:
You said, regarding the unsuitability of current space
suits:
On-orbit construction is the key to the planets.
Everyone knows this. And NASA does not care.
At this point, on-orbit construction appears essential
to the President's long term vision in space. While it may never happen, if
the suits are a weak point, they need to be addressed NOW. Not in six years
or ten years.
Jim Woosley
That is certainly the case; although I doubt NASA
gives a rip.
==============================
While looking for a link for the
Strategic Studies Institute's "Reconstructing Iraq" report (http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ssi/pubs/2003/reconirq/reconirq.htm)
that Frances Hamit mentioned in the email you posted at the end of Monday, I
found a different page that made clear the fact that even though computers
can be relied upon to apply templates with unerring precision, a webmaster
should never underestimate the value of a good copy editor.
It was on the U.S. Government's National Technical
Information Service (NTIS) web site -- most likely constructed by a computer
from a template:
http://www.ntis.gov/hottopics/wartorn.asp?loc=5-0-0
"Hot Topic: Rebuilding War-Torn Countries
"NTIS has a wealth of information relating to this
topic, following are some of the categories for which we have
information...."
Aside from the fact that the lead sentence of the page
should have been two sentences (change the comma after "topic" to a period
and capitalize "following"), a good copy editor would have raised a question
about the ironic nature of saying that this particular agency has a "wealth
of information" about rebuilding war-torn countries.
By the way, the Strategic Studies Institute also has a
paper that tries to illuminate the Chinese approach to strategy. The author
seems to have his bona fides.
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ssi/pubs/2004/stones/stones.htm
--Gary Pavek
=========================================== "The biggest problem with
communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished," -- George
Bernard Shaw
Possony and I were for years Fellows of the
Institute for Strategic Studies (later the International Institute for
Strategic Studies, but always a British organization with international
membership). When I left active professional work on such matters after the
publication of Strategy of Technology, I let my membership lapse because
IISS was trying to get a balance with fewer US members and more European
members, and to do that they were encouraging American Fellows to become
honorary. I sometimes regret doing that since I don't think I can renew that
again.
IISS publishes some good papers and does some good
studies, and at least some care is taken: they don't have an automatic
viewpoint although they are "International" not American and one must never
forget that. The membership is about half US, I believe, but the actual
staff is mostly British and European.
==============
Subject: Exit Strategy - How to leave Iraq in three
simple steps. By George Saunders
http://slate.msn.com/id/2100933
Exit Strategy - How to leave Iraq in three
simple steps. By George Saunders
This has a certain perverse logic
Mike Z
Very Typical Slate piece. I can't say I am better
off for having read it. But that sort of thing passes for cleverness over
there.
From a Swedish physician friend:
Hi, a scientific debate seems to be going on over a
perhaps possible new form of nuclear energy from an isomere of the isotope
hafnium 178. What are the real facts? What is KNOWN? What are the latest
facts and what has been prooven to date? Sorry to bother you, but it seems
difficult to dig out the facts here! Thanks!Best regards! Take care! Claes.
And I fear I have no reliable sources on this at
all.
See
http://popularmechanics.com/science/
aviation/2004/5/atomic_wings/index3.phtml
and read between the lines. This is a energy storage
mechanism like hydrogen or a battery.
New data from
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-08/llnl-pcr081301.php
disputes
this claim.
Use a linear accelerator to convert the hafnium 178
nucleus to an isomer. Strike the isomer with soft X rays and get hard Gamma
rays. Reap the heat from the shielding. One would have to design a specific
mechanism to fluoresce in soft X rays when exposed to hard Gamma Rays to get
a chain reaction. I vaguely remember that one or two other elements are less
likely to supply useable isomers.
Bob Parker
==========================
From Sue:
Judge Says Bullying 'Should Have Been Cleared Up' by
School: A middle-school student who stabbed a classmate with a pencil after
the other boy struck him was sentenced to probation May 5 by a judge who
said more than two years of bullying of the youngster at Pointe South Middle
School in Clayton County, Georgia, "should have been cleared up before it
got to this court."
http://www.healthinschools.org/2004/may07_alert.asp
Of course it should have been, but does anyone
expect that now?
Jerry
I once worked in a psych ER. This story below is true.
Ed
Unruly students dumped on hospitals, doctors
charge
The Associated Press 5/17/04 4:38 AM
NEW YORK (AP) -- Public school students who
have committed only minor infractions are being rushed to emergency rooms
for psychiatric help, flooding hospitals with unnecessary work, hospital
officials said.
"A child gets in a food fight, pulls off a
teacher's toupee, throws things, creates a ruckus and gets packed off to the
ER. None of these examples are psychiatric emergencies," Andrew Bell,
director of the Child and Adolescent Crisis Intervention Program at North
Central Bronx Hospital, told The Daily News for Monday editions.
Bell said the hospital had received an average
of 42 students a month since the beginning of the school year. Officials at
North Central Bronx and New York-Presbyterian hospitals told the News that
at least a third of the students who visited ERs did not need treatment --
and that the experience could prove traumatic for many.
The number of visits had increased in the wake
of the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, officials told the News.
In a statement, the city Education Department
countered that school principals were often forced to make decisions about
how to handle unruly students in "extreme" circumstances. In most cases, the
department said, parents were involved in treatment decisions.
Education Department policy dictates that
students labeled a "clear threat" to school safety must receive immediate
psychiatric attention.
Sensitive New Age Schools....
And another letter from Iraq:
What follows is another e-mail from M. E., now
stationed in Iraq. Mike wants us to forward his email to as many people as
possible. I'd say that's the least we can do for him....
Hey Everyone,
Checking in from northern Baghdad on a Sunday
to say what's up and let you know what's going on over seas. The past week
or so has been filled with a lot of little victories. That's what being
deployed is all about. We've been gone from Fort Hood for over 2 months now.
We got here on a Wednesday, so every Wednesday is another week complete.
It's weird to think that little things like that matter, but they do. Before
I forget....please feel free to send these emails to anyone you want....the
way I see it is that the more people that know the real story, the better.
A lot of people replied to my last email and
were glad to get a better understanding of the situation over here, so I
figured I would explain some more things about the situation in Iraq. This
time, I'll focus on the ways the Anti-Coalition Forces (ACF) attack us. The
first way is by indirect fire, either rockets or mortars. Mortars are much
more deadly, but they have to get within 3 miles of Camp Cooke to have a
chance at doing any damage. It's a bold move because we have a radar that
tracks the point of origin of the mortar within 30 seconds. When that
happens, we either get an attack helicopter up right away or send the QRF
(quick reaction force) to the site. Sometimes they get away when we have no
aviation assets available....but when the apaches are in the area, they run
them down. Because they have to be so close to fire mortars, the ACF have
adapted and fire rockets at Camp Cooke because they can shoot them from 6-14
miles away. The accuracy is worse as they fire further from the FOB, but
once in a while they get lucky. And even with the Apaches, it takes about 5
minutes to get that far away....so they often get away.
The next threat is small arms fire (SAF). This
means either AK-47's (a rifle) or RPG's (rocket propelled grenades). The
guys who carry out these attacks have to be pretty stupid because they have
to be within 200 meters of a US vehicle to have a chance at doing any
damage. Sometimes they fire from a mosque or a hospital, so we can't return
fire. They also like to fire from a ditch on the other side of a canal,
which eliminates the chance for us to chase them down. But even then, we
usually will engage them with our machine guns and get them. Sometimes they
get away, but never without hearing bullets all around them. RPG's and SAF
rarely works against tanks or bradleys, so they usually target Hummers with
this type of fire.
The most dangerous type of attack is something
called the IED. Improvised explosive device. Basically, they take old
artillery rounds and attach electrical wire to a blasting cap....then they
bury the round in the median or just off the side of the road and run the
attached wire to a position 300 meters away from the road. They then sit
there for up to 24 hours and wait for an American vehicle to come by. They
simply touch the 2 wires, creating a charge and the round explodes. The
round is made of metal and explodes, causing it to break into little pieces
flying everywhere. That shrapnel usually hits the vehicles and sometimes
soldiers inside them. This is their most effective way to hurt us. Since
we've been here, 5 soldiers have been wounded this way in my task force. The
"triggerman" often gets away because the explosion kicks up a lot of dirt
and the situation immediately becomes chaotic. In Iraq, we find about 1 in 2
IED's and are getting better at detecting ways to find them before they
detonate.
The last type of attack is the VBIED....vehicle
borne IED. AKA a car bomb. This is the most disturbing type of attack
because there is little you can do to stop it. It is also a clear indicator
of terrorism. The typical Iraqi fighting against us wants us out so they can
go back to Sunni's in power or create a radical Muslim state (Sadr's
supporters). They don't want to die. So these suicide bombers are
terrorists, usually who come in from other countries and are either al'Queda
or part of a sister network. In Iraq, the Zarqawi terrorist cell is mostly
responsible for these VBIED's. Zarqawi was a Lieutenant under Bin Laden in
Afghanistan and now is somewhere in Iraq and helping to carry out these
attacks. The VBIED is yet another indicator that this war here is VERY MUCH
tied to the war on terrorism. The VBIED was used only a few times a month
until 2 months ago. We have seen an average of 14 VBIED's since April and
that number will only grow as June 30th approaches. The worst thing about
the VBIED is that it is a sure-fire way to take out your target, whether it
be an Iraqi working with us or an American vehicle. They pack the car with
100-500 pounds of explosives to make sure of it. So when anyone asks, make
sure that you let them know.....no, we are not fighting just Iraqi's here.
We are in a war with terrorists. And instead of having these terrorists like
Zarqawi focus their efforts and money on a way to attack innocent Americans
back home, they are focusing on it here in Iraq. At least here, it's
soldiers taking the losses....and we are killing some of them in the
process. My next email will explain exactly what we do to counter these
attacks and take them out.
Moving onto what's been going on in our
sector.....I was lucky enough to witness a haji brawl the other week....just
a reminder that a lot of these people are like us in some ways.... Last
week, I went out with the scouts to see possible locations that insurgents
could attack the canal bridge. Just as we rolled up, we saw 2 cars stopped.
Iraqi road rage. It was 6 on 2 and our soldiers went there right away to
break it up. But amidst a country at war, it was a pretty funny incident to
say the least.
Just the other day, we found 6 more huge
weapons caches. These ACF are afraid to keep the weapons and IEDs at their
house, so they pick a spot 500 meters from where they will attack....and
bury the weapons in a chest. So when we find these caches, it's a big deal
because it is essentially cutting off their supply lines. Without weapons
readily available, they have a much harder time attacking us. We found some
surface-to-air missiles (that made the aviators real happy), thousands of
rounds of ammo, weapons, RPG's, cases of TNT and explosives, you name
it....so that was a big deal. Some of the attackers have been coming north
from Baghdad and attacking us with IED's in the more rural areas we control.
But all in all, things have been relatively quiet because the insurgents are
preparing and planning for June---their last push before Iraq takes control
back of running day to day political activities for itself. We're expecting
June to be the worst month yet.
I'll end with a little take on the whole "this
is our generation's Vietnam" bullshit that we hear about over here. None of
us can stand hearing "I support the soldiers but this war is unjust." If you
think this war is unjust: a) you are wrong, this is a war on terrorism b)
you are not for the soldiers if you think that. We hear that all the time in
the news and this talk of "our Vietnam" is the worst thing we've heard yet.
This is absolutely nothing like Vietnam. We are fighting terrorists over
here. If we pack up and go home, we are sending them a message. That message
is simple: America is weak and will give up if you pressure them hard
enough. Iraq is the world stage and by standing up to these people, we are
sending a message to the world---that we are dedicated to keep innocent
Americans safe from terrorism. Hearing the comparisons to Vietnam is stupid,
but then again I've never put my trust in what the media says.
Thanks to everyone for your letters, packages,
prayers, and support. I have received so many letters, magazines, updates
from back home, care packages, pictures, cd's, you name it. I doubt there
are many soldiers who hear more from their family and friends by the mail
than me. So thank you very much, every little letter means a lot. I started
putting all the pictures mailed to me on the wall and every day, taking a
look at that wall makes me smile. I've got to get going, but I hope everyone
has a good week coming up. We'll be out here taking the fight to these
bastards.!
God didn't promise days without pain, Laughter
without sorrow, sun without rain, But He did promise strength for the day,
Comfort for the tears, and light for the way.
- Mike
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Subject: Because its digital its different
Saw a reference to this article on Slashdot:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story?
id=6066617&pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=
single1&rnd=1085518316199&has-player=true
When you review the patent, it's using digital
recording instead of analog. No new invention, just using existing
equipment. But because it's digital, it's different - a really new
innovation ;-) The USPTO reviewers don't live in the same century as the
rest of us and the SCOTUS has said you can patent a business process. Can
anyone explain to me how this promotes "the Progress of Science and useful
Arts"? And how is it an invention or discovery? The only discovery that I
can see is how to extort money from those that can't afford to litigate.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?
Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/
netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1
=6,614,729,&OS=6,614,729,&RS=6,614,729,
Dean Sanchez
Yeah...
Subject: Study on number of millionaires
I thought the most telling statistic was that the
average age is 62.
http://money.cnn.com/2003/09/29/pf/millionaire/q_millionairesmultiply/
Rich
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Dr. Pournelle,
I thought you might be interested in the article on
intellectual property on this link:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=494424
I always suspected that the Disney Corporation was a
Communist front :-)
- Mark
mark@arcabama.com
====================
The Stop Loss Program: Details
Subj: Army Stop Loss history
It's not a nobody-ever-gets-out program. The program
has two parts: one is to retain critical skills, the other is to stabilize
deploying and deployed units. They reevaluate and retune the stop-list
monthly.
The critical-skills program seems to be limited to a
one-year extension of service.
The following history is from a search of the archive
of Army Public Affairs News Releases:
[begin history]
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=1469 Army enacts
'stop-loss' for some specialties
4 Dec 2001: An Army-wide "stop-loss" program
announced today will keep soldiers in selected military occupational
specialties from leaving active duty; mainly those in special operations and
some in the aviation field. ... [release lists MOS affected]
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=1178 Stop loss
expands to Reserve components
2 Jan 2002: The "stop-loss" program implemented
in November to stop soldiers in certain specialties from leaving active duty
has been expanded to include Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers. ...
[lists MOS affected]
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=1097 Stop-loss
program adds more specialties
12 Feb 2002: The Army has just added 38 more
career-management fields and military occupational specialties to the
"stop-loss" program. ... Those numbers bring the total affected by the three
stop-loss announcements to about 3,330 active-duty, 4,450 Reserve and 4,760
National Guard troops. ... [lists MOS affected]
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=845 Stop-Loss 4
releases some soldiers, adds others
6 Jun 2002: The Army announced June 6 a fourth
increment to the Stop-Loss program ... While the new call will keep about
260 soldiers on active duty who had potential separation or retirement dates
between now and Sept. 30, it releases another 370 who had been impacted by
previous Stop-Loss decisions. Stop-Loss continues to retain about 12,000
active, Reserve and National Guard soldiers. ... [lists MOS affected]
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=664 New Stop-Loss
gives chance to separate
10 Sep 2002: ... Under the new policy, soldiers
will generally be subject to Stop-Loss for no more than 12 months -- even
though their military occupation specialty may remain affected by Stop-Loss
...
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=496 New Stop-Loss
measure freezes mobilized reservists
26 Nov 2002: The Army's newest Stop-Loss
measure will keep all mobilized Reserve and National Guard soldiers in the
Army until at least 90 days after their unit demobilizes. ...
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=488 More
specialties drop from Stop-Loss list
3 Dec 2002: The Army recently removed Stop-Loss
restrictions that impacted two warrant officer specialties and seven
enlisted military occupational specialties. ...
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=363 Latest
stop-loss freezes soldiers in deploying units
24 Feb 2003: ... The [latest] initiative is
targeted for selected units that have already deployed or have been alerted
for deployment into the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. ...
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=99 Army partially
lifts Stop-Loss order
29 May 2003: The Army has lifted "Stop Loss"
for active-component units involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom and for
soldiers in about half of the specialties that had been required to stay on
active duty. ...
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=5430 Latest ‘Stop
Loss’ keeps thousands of Soldiers in place
19 Nov 2003: Soldiers assigned to units that
have been selected to participate in the second rotation of Operation Iraqi
Freedom and the fifth rotation of Operation Enduring will not be allowed to
voluntarily leave the Army or change duty stations under the most recent
approved “Stop Loss and Stop Movement” program. ...
http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=5571 Update: Army
officially announces Stop Loss expansion
6 Jan 2004: [A]ctive-duty Soldiers currently
serving in Iraq and Afghanistan will not be allowed to change duty stations,
separate or retire until after their unit redeploys. ... Army officials
emphasize that since lifting the last Unit Stop Loss in May, more than
16,000 Soldiers have transitioned from the service. [end history]
Rod Montgomery==monty@sprintmail.com
==========================
Something is broken at Microsoft:
Jerry,
Enjoyed chatting with you yesterday evening. It was an
interesting presentation and I am looking forward to seeing the production.
On to Microsoft's folly!
Using Windows XP Home edition with an NTFS volume when
on right clicks on a folder, such as My Documents, on is presented with a
context menu that leads one to believe that the folder can be shared.
Clicking on share leads to a dialog box that ask for
the shared name and offers essentially two choices for how the folder will
be shared, read only or write access.
Choosing to give full access does not yield the
expected behavior when accessing the share over the network. In my case the
access was read only.
This is badly broken and should have been fixed long
ago.
It would appear that the only thing that Microsoft
products are truly good at is wasting the user's valuable time!
As I mentioned last night it appears that the
meretricious minions of Microsoft are busily building the world's largest
elephant trap. The hole has been completed and the sharpened stakes are
currently being installed. All that remains is for the hole to be covered
and for Microsoft to blindly walk over the hole and fall in.
Bob Holmes
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