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    Capt. Robert Semrau Charged With Murder in Afghanistan

    +1 ... he's just about the last person I could imagine ...
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    Banned in Canada - Mark Steyn`s America Alone

    WTF are you talking about?!?  The US supported (well sort-of, in Carter's ridiculously mealy-mouthed way) the Shah (who was the last of a series monarchic dynasties which had existed since the Middle Ages) against a popular theocratic revolution.  The revolution was successful and eventually...
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    Insoles & Foot Supports

    I switched from Superfeet to Sole a couple of years ago - them is gold (I think there's comments about them in the running thread) ... if you buy direct online, they give quantity discounts (and have max. selection & have a clearance section for deals) ... no, I don't work for them! Link to...
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    Running

    A good place to start: http://runnersworld.com/subtopic/0,7123,s6-380-381-386-0,00.html P.S> Running every day is generally not a good way to start.
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    The Chuck Cadman Merged Thread

    Herculean struggle?  Look at it this way: if the "irreducible core" is 30 seats (i.e., guaranteed minimum) either of the major parties would only need an additional 125 of 210 "available" seats: slightly less than 60%.  Ergo, either can enjoy complete tyranny with the support of only 60% of the...
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    History's Greatest Army?

    /snicker/
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    History's Greatest Army?

    Temper-tantrums aside, is it too late to vote for The Scourge of God?!?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_military_tactics_and_organization Incredibly successful in their time, often despite being out-numbered, out-equipped and far from home ...
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    F-15 Inflight Emergency

    Delta wings are a moot point: they can achieve lower speeds prior to touchdown, but no wing produces induced drag on the ground roll, by definition!  Here is a video of a Concorde in which you can see the vortices disappear as the wheels touch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBtLix4xqdI  It is...
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    F-15 Inflight Emergency

    This still doesn't make sense to me: on the ground (actually near the ground) induced drag is near zero: induced drag has very little to do with stopping an aircraft.
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    F-15 Inflight Emergency

    Unless everything I've been taught is a lie, the vast majority of speed decay is caused by aerodynamic drag, not brake friction!  Given the properties of drag, this relationship would be even higher with excessive touchdown speed.  Moreover, the Brake Fluid will boil (causing a loss of braking...
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    The Chuck Cadman Merged Thread

    Continually abstaining from votes and refusing to engage in actual debate is, as the official Opposition, negligent.  Using libel and slander instead of principled debate is lazy.  There seems to be a lot of legal-minded people (of which I am not one) who seem to think that Harper's suit has...
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    The Chuck Cadman Merged Thread

    This is what drives me nuts about Liberals (and why I cannot bring myself to trust them even when they say things that I agree with): on the one hand you are trying to tell us that Harper (in opposition) was negligent and lazy, but on the other he was working so hard to defeat the government...
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    OJT opportunities

    There really isn't.  The best you can do is talk to your 'career manager' (for the pilot trade, he isn't a 'real' career manager: dunno about AEC) and people that are doing/have done it.  The only other possibility is to contact places where you are interested in doing it (although you'll really...
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    Presidential election may be up for grabs

    There I was, opening the lid of my Becel, when: Joy to the World!!! He is come!!!! http://blogquebecois.com/2008/03/and_ebay_saw_that_it_was_good.html
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    The Chuck Cadman Merged Thread

    It is not a question of agreeing or disagreeing; it is a simple statement of fact!  ::) Let me put it this way: if I decide to buy a car tomorrow, does that mean the taxpayer has an additional cost to bear?
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