Politics

[Altitude sickness]

The planet has had 5 major extinction events. 99% of all species that have ever lived here are extinct. It’s man’s arrogance that lets us believe we can harm this planet. It will be here doing just fine. Long after we have killed ourselves off.

George Carlin explains it better than I in this hilarious video. Be forewarned to turn down the speaker. Warning. Contains foul language

 

[USN]

This page is both informative and hilarious at the same time. It seems to have returned to a place where differing opinions can be aired without getting into personal attacks. We can only hope it stays that way.

 

[Doubleplay]

This has been going on for a long time at our universities. I saw it myself in the mid 1980s, being surrounded in classes by Iranians, Saudis, Pakistanis, etc…. Our universities have become whores for foreign students and the money they bring.

Perhaps it is well past the time that universities are forced to do what the western states are doing about hunting opportunities. More and more, western states are holding back a large percentage of limited hunting opportunities for state residents. When I started outfitting in 1991, there were no nonresident restrictions in the Colorado draws at all. There were elk units where 90% of the licenses were being drawn by nonresidents (10/90) because there were no restrictions. This was changed to 60/40, then 65/35 and for some hunts to 80/20 and 90/10.

Perhaps noncitizen enrollment should be limited at our universities. Are we not just educating some of our enemies to develop systems to be used against us?

If we limit non citizen enrollment, our universities will be unaffordable for the residents specially state universities.
Also no state or federal government should dictate what our universities should or should not do unless they're receiving federal or state funds.
I understand your point but unfortunately "democracy is the only system which harbors it's own enemies" because of it's nature.

 

[mdwest]

 

[Wheels]

The planet has had 5 major extinction events. 99% of all species that have ever lived here are extinct. It’s man’s arrogance that lets us believe we can harm this planet. It will be here doing just fine. Long after we have killed ourselves off.

George Carlin explains it better than I in this hilarious video. Be forewarned to turn down the speaker. Warning. Contains foul language

Carlin was one of a kind. He would have a blast with society today.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Only in Texas! For those that aren't familiar with H-E-B, it's a grocery store chain.

The City of San Antonio offered residents H-E-B gift cards, in exchange for each gun they surrendered, though the drive-through exchange set a strict limit of twenty weapons per vehicle.

 

[BSO Dave]

I’ve been a union member. Wasn’t my cup of tea watching idiots get promoted before me because they had worked there a month longer than me.

Unfortunately, the paradigm you stated above can and does happen in any workplace, union or non-represented... In all reality, it's probably much less prevalent in represented labor organizations where in the vast majority of instances labor negotiates with management on promotional rules and eligibility in the deliberate effort to keep promotions merit based. If an idiot got promoted a head of you based solely on seniority, the union concept wasn't the problem... The promotional terms your union negotiated were the problem..

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

 

[Tundra Tiger]

Only in Texas! For those that aren't familiar with H-E-B, it's a grocery store chain.

The City of San Antonio offered residents H-E-B gift cards, in exchange for each gun they surrendered, though the drive-through exchange set a strict limit of twenty weapons per vehicle.

Food? For guns? Well, THAT'S bass-ackwards. With my guns I can go GET food... Those wacky City of San Antonio folks sure are confusing.

 

[Scott CWO]

If we limit non citizen enrollment, our universities will be unaffordable for the residents specially state universities.
Also no state or federal government should dictate what our universities should or should not do unless they're receiving federal or state funds.
I understand your point but unfortunately "democracy is the only system which harbors it's own enemies" because of it's nature.

States already exchange tuition reciprocity between lots of states. I don't buy this affordability argument.

Heck, Biden just told energy companies that they can't sell LNG overseas! We can't tell universities (almost all receive public funding or contracts) to limit foreigners? Hogwash.

 

[Scott CWO]

Unfortunately, the paradigm you stated above can and does happen in any workplace, union or non-represented... In all reality, it's probably much less prevalent in represented labor organizations where in the vast majority of instances labor negotiates with management on promotional rules and eligibility in the deliberate effort to keep promotions merit based. If an idiot got promoted a head of you based solely on seniority, the union concept wasn't the problem... The promotional terms your union negotiated were the problem..

It happens all the time in union shops. Not nearly as often elsewhere. It shouldn't be up to the union who gets promoted. I can tell that you have never run a business or a large one. And how do individual workers that don't think seniority should be the biggest factor in promotions get that changed in a union's thinking? The union bosses just laugh. They have more control than the OWNERS often times. I was told by the company that I would have gotten the job, but for the union's seniority stance. That's BS.

 

[Wheels]

Only in Texas! For those that aren't familiar with H-E-B, it's a grocery store chain.

The City of San Antonio offered residents H-E-B gift cards, in exchange for each gun they surrendered, though the drive-through exchange set a strict limit of twenty weapons per vehicle.

Some enterprising individual is going to make a lot of money.

Man makes $21,000 selling 3D-printed guns during NY AG gun buyback program

A man traded in 110 3D-printed lower receivers for over $20,000 in gift cards at a New York Attorney General's Office gun buyback program in Utica, New York.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Doubleplay]

States already exchange tuition reciprocity between lots of states. I don't buy this affordability argument.

Heck, Biden just told energy companies that they can't sell LNG overseas! We can't tell universities (almost all receive public funding or contracts) to limit foreigners? Hogwash.

I don't like what Biden did and don't approve it.
But If government starts telling private organizations what to do, what's next?
Price controls?
Who to hire?
What to manufacture?
How much to pay?
You can't pick and choose what government can force private companies to do!
It's not hogwash it's a slippery slope to more government control and socialism.

 

[Jfet]

 

[Corey0372]

The US has owned the night since Desert Storm

That used to be the case, I wouldn't really say it's a sure thing at all anymore. In Afghanistan we more or less "rented" the night. By 2011 most forces hardly did anything at night (especially in Helmand), this was due to the IED threat. Not only does it become extremely difficult to see ground sign under nods, the Taliban would turn on a lot more IEDs at night by applying power sources to the ones they turned off during the day. They would power down a lot of them during the day so locals could tend their farms and use footpaths and stuff. Most night ops (outside of major offensives like the insert into Marjah) were only done by Special Operations, and only after a couple days of MASINT flights to determine where IEDs were around whatever compound was going to be hit, or occupied for something like a 72 hour mission. Even then it was usually only a night insert, and then movement along a certain route to a certain objective, and a white light search of the compound for IEDs was usually still conducted.

Not to mention the thousands upon thousands of PVS14s and even PVS15s the Taliban inherited from the ANA after we left.

The Ukrainians are equipped with night vision (you can see the helmet mounted devices at the end of the clip) and the Russians clearly or not.

Doesn't appear these Russians have them (maybe they're being complacent and didn't have them on?) but the Russians definitely have night vision goggles for their individual soldiers, maybe not all but a substantial amount. So much so that some of the guys my buddy was over there with came back to the states and are attempting to get the military to take hard look at the use of PEQ15's and similar devices. If the enemy can see your IR aiming device, that's not good because obviously now he knows exactly where you are, especially in the case of something in a more fixed position like a machine gun position or sniper rifle.

I can not tell from the clip, but I suspect the rifles are equipped with thermals along with the clearly visible suppressors.

They're probably just looking through their Eotech/Aimpoint set to NVG mode with their nods.

Funny thing I've been hearing about the more widespread use of suppressors in this war...
In a raid like this, they for sure have a place, but the guys in the trenches are giving mixed reviews. Any of us that have ran or own silencers know how hot they get.... this becomes a serious problem on the battlefield when you're moving, taking cover, pilling into a truck, etc. Guys are getting serious burns, gear melted and messed up, etc..

The Ukrainians are also using thermal equipped grenade dropping drones as their close air support.

US needs to be practicing and developing this capability, we aren't.

 

[steve white]

Only in Texas! For those that aren't familiar with H-E-B, it's a grocery store chain.

The City of San Antonio offered residents H-E-B gift cards, in exchange for each gun they surrendered, though the drive-through exchange set a strict limit of twenty weapons per vehicle.

So don't throw away ANY gun no matter how ridiculous or endangering to life and limb--it can be turned into food---or cash if they are having a Saturday night special buy back. I learned that the hard way when an acquaintance gave me a sawed off .22 single shot rifle/now pistol. It had blowback upon firing, and was as ugly as Bella Abzug on her worst day. I threw it in the trash can. Wouldn't you know they had a $50 buy back the next month or so--and the friend wanted it back. Hard enough to tell him you appreciated his gift so much you threw it in the trash....

 

[Red Leg]

That used to be the case, I wouldn't really say it's a sure thing at all anymore. In Afghanistan we more or less "rented" the night. By 2011 most forces hardly did anything at night (especially in Helmand), this was due to the IED threat. Not only does it become extremely difficult to see ground sign under nods, the Taliban would turn on a lot more IEDs at night by applying power sources to the ones they turned off during the day. They would power down a lot of them during the day so locals could tend their farms and use footpaths and stuff. Most night ops (outside of major offensives like the insert into Marjah) were only done by Special Operations, and only after a couple days of MASINT flights to determine where IEDs were around whatever compound was going to be hit, or occupied for something like a 72 hour mission. Even then it was usually only a night insert, and then movement along a certain route to a certain objective, and a white light search of the compound for IEDs was usually still conducted.

Not to mention the thousands upon thousands of PVS14s and even PVS15s the Taliban inherited from the ANA after we left.


Doesn't appear these Russians have them (maybe they're being complacent and didn't have them on?) but the Russians definitely have night vision goggles for their individual soldiers, maybe not all but a substantial amount. So much so that some of the guys my buddy was over there with came back to the states and are attempting to get the military to take hard look at the use of PEQ15's and similar devices. If the enemy can see your IR aiming device, that's not good because obviously now he knows exactly where you are, especially in the case of something in a more fixed position like a machine gun position or sniper rifle.


They're probably just looking through their Eotech/Aimpoint set to NVG mode with their nods.

Funny thing I've been hearing about the more widespread use of suppressors in this war...
In a raid like this, they for sure have a place, but the guys in the trenches are giving mixed reviews. Any of us that have ran or own silencers know how hot they get.... this becomes a serious problem on the battlefield when you're moving, taking cover, pilling into a truck, etc. Guys are getting serious burns, gear melted and messed up, etc..



US needs to be practicing and developing this capability, we aren't.

After the first few months of the war, the only Russian troops that seem to be regularly equipped with them are the VDV and Naval Infantry, certainly not the Storm Z formations making up most of their current casualty lists. Would seem they have not sourced the Taliban yet. Somewhere deep in the pages of this thread, I mentioned that was the "left behind" that caused me the most concern.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Another day at the salt mine.........comrade

 

[Scott CWO]

I don't like what Biden did and don't approve it.
But If government starts telling private organizations what to do, what's next?
Price controls?
Who to hire?
What to manufacture?
How much to pay?
You can't pick and choose what government can force private companies to do!
It's not hogwash it's a slippery slope to more government control and socialism.

This already is the case.

With Federal permits, we are told who we cannot hire, even though they let millions of them cross the border. We are told what we have to pay since we have a federal permit.

Auto companies are told what they can manufacture indirectly through CAFE MPG standards. Thousands of companies are told what they can produce. Ever try to build a house and get gas appliances and toilets that actually flush? The slope has already slipped!

 

[Altitude sickness]

Doubleplay, you are correct our government should not be telling business or colleges how much to charge.

BUT!!!!

When the government is taking my money and paying peoples college debt off with it. Then that is no longer a free capitalist enterprise. It’s socialism.