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    Federal wages are reduced!

    Last post in this topic since I'm getting a hat trick... We live on one income and have done so for the past seven years. We don't have the nicest cars (2005 Jeep and now a 2009 Ford), and we live in a townhome instead of a single family house. Our daughter goes to public school, but we...
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    Federal wages are reduced!

    Obviously, you're working in a developmental position which is not what the majority of people are doing (there are also 5-7-9 developmental positions). Most jobs are hired at specific GS levels, and the job progression is through the Steps, not Grades. Steps 1-4: Start at 1 and increase by...
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    Federal wages are reduced!

    All of DoD is moving to NSPS or has already done so. The last employees to move under the pay banding were under DCIPS, which has just recently been implemented in the Army, for a similar pay banding. The push is being made at DoD (read: Secretary Gates) despite pressue from Congress to hold...
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    Federal wages are reduced!

    Maybe if you read the news, you'd read that the government is set to grow even more in the next couple years because the government as a whole is moving away from outside contractors who perform essential government functions, instead hiring permanent government employees to do those jobs (at a...
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    Higher Education Insanity -- 8th Circuit Court rules that a poor guy can't discharge $350,000 student loan debt.

    That is part of my view, too, in conjunction with what I wrote above. There is no incentive for the banks to deny loans because they know they are protected by the federal government. There is no incentive for the schools to lower costs because the students have access to these massive loans...
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    Israeli soldiers speak out on Gaza

    With regard to AQ, that's naive. The initial reason for AQ forming was the presence of "foreign occupiers" in the holy land of Islam (Arabia). We have since pulled out troops out of there so now there are other reasons. There will ALWAYS be reasons for some terrorists, even if their initial...
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    What would happen if we completely stopped deficit spending by the federal government?

    Snow removal is done at the local level, and there are enough people with trucks who enjoy plowing that communities could take up any slack with a loss of federal dollars. Salt application would be hindered, I imagine. Roads and bridges are ALREADY crumbling, which means that the money is...
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    What would happen if we completely stopped deficit spending by the federal government?

    If we had to make the REALLY HARD choices, what would happen? Perhaps we could institute a law which allowed for deficit spending in times of national crises, to account for war or economic calamity, but which necessarily were limited in time, perhaps requiring a national referendum for an...
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    Poll: Majority In U.S. Favors Healthcare Reform By Wide Margin

    They also have an unsustainable socialist society which is slowly going bankrupt. Also, if someone can afford the best medical care in the world, they are typically taking a flight to the United States, not Stockholm.
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    Israeli soldiers speak out on Gaza

    The US government exists to protect the people of the United States and manage the laws which are the basis of our society. AQ exists to kill infidels and apostate Muslims and to re-establish the Caliphate from Africa to Asia, encompassing "Muslim lands". The people of the United States can...
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    Poll: Majority In U.S. Favors Healthcare Reform By Wide Margin

    [/b] Ah, yes, leave it to a partisan hack to ignore the other salient aspect to the poll. 52% Controlling costs 42% Expanding coverage Still think that Americans are clamoring for the Obama plan? A MAJORITY of Americans want to lower the costs, not institute universal healthcare, in...
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    Deployment Orders Revoked For Soldier Who Questioned Obama Birth

    Hawaii actually does have the "long form" -- it's simply a separate application instead of the Certification of Live Birth which the Obama campaign released last year. (Yes, I did look into this issue because I hadn't realized it had taken on a life of its own.) I'm somewhat familiar with this...
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    Higher Education Insanity -- 8th Circuit Court rules that a poor guy can't discharge $350,000 student loan debt.

    No, it's not that at all. Of course this moron is responsible for his own actions, just as the idiots who took out interest-only jumbo mortgages are to blame for their actions in the housing market. However, just as in the housing market, the student loan lenders bear some responsibility in...
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    Deployment Orders Revoked For Soldier Who Questioned Obama Birth

    Well, if they would release the long form of the President's birth certificate, I think it would clear up most of the questions from the conspiracy crowd. I'm not giving any credence to the theories surrounding his citizenship, but I'm curious why that hasn't been done already to shut these...
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    Premier US Jet has major shortcomings

    Long range SAMs do factor in, but keep in mind that if the SAM is near the of its range, it will be easier for electronic warfare assets to defeat it. AWACS will likely operate with EW support if it's near any sort of danger like that. If anyone looks at the MASSIVE Chinese military build-up...
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    Israeli soldiers speak out on Gaza

    Naive much? Al Qaida has given money to families of its fighters as compensation and has done much "humanitarian" work to gain the support of locals. If you want a source, look up the book "Holy Land, Inc." by Peter L. Bergen. I guess that makes AQ good, then.
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    Premier US Jet has major shortcomings

    The acronym you're looking for is "High Value Airborne Asset", HVAA. ;) Ours will be defended by F-22s, and the enemy will be attacking it outside of the protection of their EW aircraft, which is exactly the scenario you described from Red Flag, right?
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    Premier US Jet has major shortcomings

    There's no such thing as a "full stealth" aircraft. Stealth REDUCES the aircraft signature thereby REDUCING the detection range of adversary sensors. The key is to reduce the capability of adversary sensors to either enable the stealth aircraft to bypass the defensive system (for ground based)...
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    Premier US Jet has major shortcomings

    As someone pointed out above, it's not 20-1 but more like 5-1. Regardless of the number, though, there is a lot more to consider than the cost of the aircraft. For each aircraft, you have to train a pilot and maintain facilities for equipping, maintaining, and supplying the aircraft. All of...
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    Premier US Jet has major shortcomings

    Do you have any references for those engagements? I don't doubt your recitation of the circumstances, but I'm not familiar with the exercise in detail (remember reading some fluff about it but that's all). Do you know offhand what radar the Eagles were using or which unit was flying them...
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    Only six percent of scientists are Republicans

    A great many scientists are academicians, and most people in academia are not exactly conservative by any stretch of the imagination. This isn't terribly surprising to me. Overall margin of sampling error is reported as 2.5% While still weighted heavily toward the Left, considering the...
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    Anne Hathaway on Fallon...

    Come back and post when your tanned girlfriend or wife is in her thirties and forties. THEN see how much you like all that "good for her skin" sun she received in her younger days. ;)
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    REM wants u 2 save water

    Uh, no. I pay for the processing of the water to support the infrastructure necessary to do so. My usage of water does not destroy the water, unless I'm conducting electrolysis experiments and trying to produce large amounts of hydrogen. Besides, when we move either very soon or in a few...
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    REM wants u 2 save water

    The idea of saving water EVERYWHERE is just ridiculous. Here on the East Coast (mid-Atlantic to be more specific) we have enough water for everyone for quite some time. We had something like 15" of rain in the last 2-3 months, and crops are dying or rotting as a result of all the water. Why...
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    Anne Hathaway on Fallon...

    Maybe she has something against skin cancer? Just a thought.
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    The year without a summer

    Crap, I'm headed to San Antonio in less than two weeks (for work, not voluntarily). Why the organizers decided to have a conference in SA in the middle of summer is beyond me. Hey, guys? Maybe have people come down to Texas in early spring or fall? Hmm?
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    Thinking about joining the military, need serious advice please

    1) Actually, yes. I did it (admittedly, times could have changed in the last 15 yrs). You'll have to double up on the 300 and 400 level ROTC and then take an extended summer training after you graduate (with USAF, it was 6 weeks instead of 4...the extra two weeks were the 100 and 200 level...
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    why are commercial pilots salary so low?

    Think about it...how many pilots have you seen on commercial airlines that are fifty plus years old? How many pilots are leaving the military each year and entering the commercial market? How many pilots are taking private pilot training and entering the market? Supply and demand.
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    Damn People for training their animals to bite on site

    You're rather silly for approaching an unknown dog in car without the dog's owner nearby, and your reaction time is atrocious if the dog was able to bite you. Life lesson learned!
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    can someone explain this facebook oddity?

    I just read an article about how Facebook has changed their algorithm to pull from the contacts so that these kinds of things are more likely than before. Some women were freaking out about ex-husbands or abusive boyfriends appearing, etc. Once you click the "X", they won't reappear apparently.
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    Married People: Do you like your in-laws?

    In small doses, they are fine. After a week in Residence Inn with them recently, my wife and I were both ready to kill them. Would have been the same with my parents, too, though.
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    So it looks like our neighbour is filming us

    I'd go with the IR light idea, which is brilliant. Rig up an IR light source and mount it on top of the fence, pointed at her camera. It'll completely screw up her camera image, but there won't be much, if any, visible light. We used to have an IR camera set up as a baby monitor so I know...
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    What's the best bang for your buck DSLR deal right now?

    A bargain? That's one of the best camera deals in recent years hands down. (just had to repeat the hackneyed phrase) ;) For the price, you get 18-200mm with SSS, fast LiveView with a movable LCD screen, AND a vertical grip to hold double the batteries. Sure, they're consumer-grade lenses...
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    Lense hood quality

    I was rather surprised to learn awhile ago that all Canon lenses do not come with hoods -- is Nikon the same way? All Sony (and previously, all Minolta) lenses comes with hoods, which is something that's pointed out when doing price comparison by some people on other sites (higher end Sony...
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    Army recruiting station attacked in Arkansas

    Actually, no. Reread his post: He specifically says, "Iraq did nothing to us," which to me implies that they were innocent with regard to US interests. My post listed several instances proving that's not the case. Perhaps my choice of words was hyperbole, but he does, in fact, imply that...
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    Army recruiting station attacked in Arkansas

    Pardon me, but your ignorance is showing. I know USAF pilots who had their aircraft shot at by Iraqi forces between 1992-2003. Iraq also invaded Kuwait prior to that, conducted genocidal operations against the Kurds (and to an extent, later against the Shia as well), funded terrorist...
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    Lense hood quality

    I'd point out, for those advocating cheap or no hoods, that the hood can go a LONG way toward protecting your front element in the event of a dropped lens. Spoken from experience. The hood also protects against inadvertent bumps when the camera is swinging from the strap. I don't use UV...
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    Abu Ghraib abuse photos show rape

    The former general never actually saw the photos in question at the moment? How odd...
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    California now faces budget cuts ?beyond draconian?

    And yet we have this thread. The only lesson it's teaching right now is that no other state should emulate it. I also love how when Republicans are in charge, they are the problem, yet when Democrats are in charge, the Republicans are at fault. THAT's comedy. In actuality, nearly ALL...
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    Illegal to possess body armor?

    Perfect. There is no way that body armor is threatening unless accompanied by a firearm, and body armor cannot in any way be used offensively by itself (unless you swing it like a club, but then a sledgehammer would be far more effective). I have no problem with prohibition against criminals...
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