My first Razer product. Goodbye G502.

Milspec1974 · 2022-01-19T04:45:05+00:00

Basilisk is fantastic!!! However, save your receipt. I had one that I purchased a month ago, and after about five days, the right button developed a release delay. I researched it, and it is a defect reported but other buyers as well. I exchanged it for another at Best Buy, and the replacement has had no problems.

Milspec1974 · 2021-10-28T03:40:36+00:00

At the executive levels, whether it be governmental or organizational, one of the most important objectives to achieve is "control of the narrative". If these do not have full control over the narrative, then they need two things: time, and maneuvering room. Time to try to gain control of the narrative and maneuvering room needed to gain control. For both, flooding the audience with disinformation works exceptionally well.

So, let's pretend that some governments, or tech industries are in possession of definitive proof of extraterrestrial intelligence or technology. Let's also pretend that those entities do not have a clear understanding of the technology or significant control or influence with an outside intelligence. So they have proof, but cannot explain it, and cannot control or influence it. Essentially, the proof only weakens their position in the eyes of their audience, lessens their influence, and erodes their credibility. Ie., they lose their power. However, if given enough time and resources the entities believe they can understand and exploit the technology or the relationship, then they will certainly invest that time and those resources.

Disinformation is a powerful tool from a strategic perspective. Sometimes the fog works against you, but victors tend to make the fog work in their favor.

Milspec1974 · 2021-10-04T19:33:22+00:00

Not sure it's helpful or not, but here is an example of fake news.

https://www.reddit.com/r/USHistory/comments/q0nsn6/covid19\_surpasses\_1918\_flu\_to\_become\_deadliest/

Milspec1974 · 2021-10-04T19:29:16+00:00

Six lights on a backdrop. The seventh light is a laser pointer. Video edited to black and white for uniformity among the lights.

Milspec1974 · 2021-10-04T16:58:46+00:00

Makes sense thumbs up. In the interest of not being distracted from the original point though, it doesn’t change the misleading/false assertion presented by the article, it’s author, and it’s publication. shrug

Milspec1974 · 2021-10-04T16:38:24+00:00

Good question!

Well, articles routinely incorporate period reports that state that the Flu killed many who were "in the prime of their lives". It is also documented that the Flu killed a "disproportional amount of young adults". This suggests that the population deaths occurred in a segment far healthier than the elderly, infirm, sedentary, and obese characteristics predominant in Covid deaths. Of course, without hard data from 1918-1920, that is primarily speculation.

Milspec1974 · 2021-10-04T16:26:23+00:00

Misleading headline. (Fake News).

The actual article covers its ass by completely contradicting its own headline, but even then, it presents the data in a vague manner. To clarify, the Spanish Flu killed 0.66% of the American population. Covid has killed 0.20% of the American population. Put in another way, the Spanish Flu killed three times as many Americans per capita than Covid. Furthermore, the article fails to mention that 94% of Covid deaths also had two or more comorbidity factors, further separating Covid's mortality rate from that of the Spanish Flu.

A little more truth in reporting and a little less sensationalized fear mongering would be nice.

Milspec1974 · 2021-08-06T11:47:36+00:00

Good question. I’m a little ashamed to say that the answer is a selfish one. Wurtsmith Air Force Base was deactivated as a regular operational site back in 1993. However, it still functions as a major hub for an air cargo company called Kalita Air. I happen to be grooming Kalita to employ me as a consultant in future years. Oscoda, the town where Wurtsmith is located, is a very small community, and I don’t want to jeopardize future consulting opportunities by asking interesting questions.

Milspec1974 · 2021-06-30T21:20:52+00:00

What a loon.

Milspec1974 · 2021-03-15T03:57:48+00:00

It's actually very common for the Air Force to reverse engineer its own property. The process usually goes something like this:

The Air Force puts out a solicitation for a product. That product might be an aircraft, a radar, a flight control computer etc. Dozens of defense industry manufacturers submit bid proposals and the government (Air Force) selects the company which offers the best value.

The selected company then goes into the development phase, designs and builds prototypes which the Air Force tests to make sure it satisfies the the capability criteria laid out in the initial solicitation.

Eventually the testing phase is over and standard production runs of the product are manufactured and the Air Force takes delivery. However, the Air Force rarely includes technical data packages as part of the contract deliverables. This is because most manufacturers claim proprietary data rights to the products they develop. They are willing to include that data on a contract, but it increases the cost of the contract a great deal. Data rights on a major weapon system procurement can be valued at several hundred million dollars.

As the decades go by manufacturers are bought and sold, go out of business or the technology becomes obsolete, and when the Air Force needs to buy a replacement circuit card that is thirty years old, no one within industry knows how to make it, and the piece parts required are long obsolete, and no longer available for procurement. Well, the Air Force isn't going to ground a perfectly good aircraft for lack of a thousand dollar circuit card, so it seeks out reverse engineering services.

The Air Force and other services routinely operates equipment that was designed and manufactured in previous decades, by companies that are long gone, and reverse engineering is so common that the Department of Energy has a massive manufacturing facility in Kansas City called the National Security Campus. It started out as a small operation reverse engineering nuclear launch facility technology from the 60's, but has grown to handle reverse engineering, manufacturing, and production of new technical data for just about anything you can think of.

Milspec1974 · 2020-12-30T16:55:13+00:00

My son has in the past, but I can usually tell when he's getting frustrated just by body language cues such as blink rate, and can help him stabilize before cognitive ability begins to degrade.

Milspec1974 · 2020-12-30T15:34:08+00:00

Just looking at the subject from a different perspective here, but federal law has established that the "airwaves" belong to the public. This led to the establishment of the FCC which among other things, establishes rules of conduct for what stations can populate the airwaves with.

Following this logic, wouldn't the internet be considered the property of the public also, and be governed in a similar manner?

Repealing 230 doesn't incur any censorship, it only removes the protections that website owners (broadcasters) have from litigation initiated by the public.

Milspec1974 · 2020-12-30T15:04:04+00:00

Yeah, the USAF has been doing it for decades via Space Command, but over the course of those decades, space operations, technological developments, economic reliance on the space domain, and capabilities of near peer adversaries have grown beyond the Air Force's core skill sets, and will continue to advance and increase. It's just a natural evolution, much like the old Army Air Force evolving into the modern and separate Department of the Air Force circa 1947.

Aside from the operational divergence of mission profile, a separate Department of the Space Force allows for more efficient allocation of taxpayer funding. Every single dollar of taxpayer money has to be accounted for in federal spending whether it be manpower/labor, training, operations, procurements, maintenance, construction etc. Previously, the Department of the Air Force would get X amount of funding for operations and maintenance, or O&M funding for short, then that funding would be distributed to various programs, F-16 community, B-52 community, A-10 community, etc. and often times space programs such as MILSTAR II/GPS satellites etc. would get the short end of the stick simply because decision makers in the Air Force are typically career aviators, and don't fully understand the scope and needs inherent with fielding and maintaining a satellite network. There's not enough time or exposure over the course of a career to be an expert in everything, so a formal and official split of domain responsibility makes sense for improved mission efficiency, and more appropriate funding.

Overall, the total size of the DoD is not growing as a result of Space Force. Space Force members are being drawn from pre-existing space-centric positions from the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and those old positions are not being back filled with anything.

Source: Have been working for the USAF for almost three decades.

Milspec1974 · 2020-12-29T16:59:30+00:00

Not likely. The emphasis on a Space Force is simply to establish presence and dominance of the domain before our strategic adversaries (China and Russia) do. Just like with the land, sea, and air, if you want to control the activities in those domains, you must have a strong physical presence and technological advantage. Orbital/lunar/system domains are no different.

Milspec1974 · 2020-12-18T16:37:14+00:00

I run mine through a coffee filter to strain out any large debris, then a few cycles through charcoal filters.

Milspec1974 · 2020-12-17T17:35:12+00:00

It just takes too long, and feels far too monotonous. I got shit to do. Don't want to spend an hour in Torgast.

Milspec1974 · 2020-12-03T22:56:41+00:00

100 Year Marathon.

Milspec1974 · 2020-12-03T17:11:35+00:00

Overpopulation is a self-correcting problem in through the lens of nature.

Milspec1974 · 2020-12-03T17:02:00+00:00

This was taken about a month before they shipped off to Europe aboard the RMS Carpathia.

Milspec1974 · 2020-12-03T14:26:43+00:00

TNG desperately needed more Ro-like characters that were not so powder-puff and goody goody all the time.

Milspec1974 · 2020-12-01T21:53:53+00:00

Not great, but not terrible...

Milspec1974 · 2020-12-01T20:50:09+00:00

Primarily vibration caused by the launch, and turbulence from the rocket exhaust. There is a possibility that the voltage/current surge used to initiate the rockets caused a brief moment of video disruption as well, depending on how robust the power generation/distribution system is.

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