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Abilene Slim SASS 81783
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Question asked and answered. Maybe it’s time to close this thread.
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Fox News has been on the skids with me for some time. The content just isn’t there anymore. This bump in accessing it is trivial, but also the final straw. It’s just not worth reading, like this front page gem:
“Suzanne Somers' widower says 'strange things' are happening after her death”
my 2 cents, nothing more.
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Some things are just too much effort. Fox News is one of them.
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7 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:
Never struggle with American accents, REALLY struggle sometimes with British accents.
New Zealanders......well they just talk damn funny.
Abilene Youtube has a button marked CC, if you hit that captions will come up mate.
Yep they do and I use it, but the text often lags the narrator by quite a bit. Annoying, but it works better than my hearing.
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I watch a lot of military documentaries on YouTube which are often narrated by folks in England. Some of the accents are thick enough to make understanding with my feeble hearing difficult.
Do folks in Australia and New Zealand sometimes struggle with English accents? What about American?
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4 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
Strange. I have the 13 Pro Max. I never get a message telling me I must download an App.
I do see messages asking me if I want the App but I just ignore them.It's not the phone, but the content provider (Fox) that causes that. No different than the New York Times or Wall Street Journal blocking you from reading an article without a subscription.
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Joe, you may already be familiar with this channel, Tank Chats from the Tank Museum. Pretty interesting stuff. My only beef is some the English accents are so heavy that it's hard for my feeble hearing to understand. Closed captions help some, but the text is often way behind the narrator.
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A B-17 tail gunner crawled to his station from the inside when it was time for combat. It appears this guy would have to sit there for the duration of the flight. I also wonder which was easier to get out of when it was time to hit the silk? My guess is the He-117?
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38 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
Where’s the cooling system and tranny?
It’s probably electric.
These days the tranny could be the one sitting on top...
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Great pics. It's an orientation ride though, not flight training. Awesome for PR. I've given a lot orientation rides to USAF ROTC cadets, but not in an F-16!
I'd kill for a ride like that!
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5 minutes ago, J-BAR #18287 said:
Glad it works for you, but when I use that link most of the articles require the App. Somehow it knows it's me and not you!!It’s not you.
I’ve a feeling this is a market test and not everyone is seeing the same thing. I wonder if their web traffic has dropped off?
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13 minutes ago, Calamity Kris said:
One thing Fox news has started doing recently is requiring you to sign up for their mailing list in order to read one of their articles. I click on the article I'm interested in and after the re-direct a window pops up and says "Read this article for free. Sign up here" and gives you a box to enter your email address. The number of these articles has increased recently so I'm starting to look for another news source. I don't need my email address spread all over kingdom come.
That’s been my experience as well, Kris. It started with just an article or two, but is now almost of them. I’m not giving them my email address either.
I also grew tired of their clickbait salacious headline format and have since moved on to other sources. A lot of their articles seemed more like gossip than news.
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24 minutes ago, Redleg Reilly, SASS #46372 said:
I am being critical to a point. People who attend our military academies need to get in the trenches and serve as the leaders they are supposed to be. Shouldn't be allowed to have their obligation changed or shortened because of being able to play a sport or win a beauty pageant. The only reason the academies exist is to provide officers for their various branches.
She’s been a commissioned officer for just 7 months. How or where is her obligation being shortened or changed? The military is paying for her masters degree which will lengthen her obligation by one year for each year of post grad education.
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4 minutes ago, Redleg Reilly, SASS #46372 said:
Won't matter for a while. She's at Harvard getting her master's degree. Hasn't even been to flight school yet. Sure glad we paid for her education....
She won’t be going to flight school anytime soon, that’s why she’s going to Harvard. BTW, it’s very common for service academy grads to attend post-graduate school outside the military. And very few USAFA grads are selected for flight training anyway. The vast majority have careers not directly related to aviation.
Hope you’re not being critical. She’s an impressive woman regardless of her looks.
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I admire your diligence and tenacity!
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4 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:
Well, he wasn't going supersonic, either.
I guarantee that his flight was far more perilous.
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I read the obit, but don’t know his connection to this forum. If he was a friend of yours, I’m sorry for your loss. I seem to be losing more friends these days too.
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5 hours ago, Trailrider #896 said:
The interesting thing about the X-59 is it has no forward windscreen!
Neither did Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis. Since TV hadn’t been invented yet, he had a periscope. Amazing.
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36 minutes ago, Shawnee Hills said:
That's a recent development. Perhaps they simply shut the site down because there wasn't enough business to be done through it anyway or they got tired of dealing with it. Jim has a pair of my revolvers so I guess I'll give him a call this week. Hopefully health is not an issue with either of them.
I was looking at the site a couple of weeks ago, but very little inventory. I have two of his kits and was considering a third, but then I saw this two days ago.
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52 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Kinda resembles the VW Thing.
Yup. And the VW Thing was based on its Type 82 from WW2.
It’s too bad they didn’t do any corrosion protection on the Things. Almost all of those fun little cars have rotted away.
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3 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
“Miss America” has a busy schedule. I wonder how that will clash with the Air Force.
It’ll likely mesh very well. What a great bit of positive public relations and recruiting for the Air Force.
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Hertz car rental just announced it’s selling a third of its global EV car fleet due to low demand and higher maintenance costs than its ICE fleet.
In 2021 they announced EVs were the wave of the future and would buy 100,000 EVs. They stopped at 60,000 and will sell a third of those. I’m betting they’ll sell more as time goes by.
Sooner or later, the laws of economics poke thru the layers of distorted govt. policies.
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17 hours ago, Cactus Jack Calder said:
Pat,
That looks like Cass, WV to me. Any luck I’m right?
CJ
Pretty sure that’s European, most likely German. Note the number plate which is different from US locomotives. I have a Marklin train set that has an engine and cars just like it.
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18 hours ago, Alpo said:
“Anyone driving slower than you is an idiot. Anyone driving faster than you is a maniac.”
- George Carlin
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I miss Hannity and Colmes
in SASS Wire Saloon
Posted · Edited by Abilene Slim SASS 81783
Colmes died in 2017