Tim McDermott

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• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  I'm pretty sure that the DOD pork barrel predate LBJ administration by two decades or so. I ran into it in the seventies, but it was very highly refined by then. And important projects, such as a next generation aircraft...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  A couple of asides: The Caribs did not survive the European conquest of the Caribbean. One side effect of the clearance of the highlands and the Ulster plantation was that circa 1800, Irish was the dominant language on Barbados....
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  OOC - how would you program a computer to track all of the concurrent biochem, cellular and tissue reactions in a living human body? My first reading of your query is that you are asking for a way to track...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Nobody expected or planned for a lengthy war in the first place, and nobody expected it to get stuck in a permanently entrenched siege condition. I think you let them off too easily. They had ample evidence that the glorious...
• Commented on Place your bets
  "BMDO, as represented by DIA, really didn't like that and insisted that the PRC could never synchronize their launches to achieve time on target." I watched All Quiet on the Western Front (was mostly war porn, awful; not even the...
• Commented on Place your bets
  The tune for Lord of the Dance" is taken from the Shaker hymn "'Tis the Gift to Be Simple."...
• Commented on Place your bets
  "By the way, if you want the newest in splatter-tech, Lockheed Martin is installing a 60 KW laser on a US Destroyer. Only five mile range, but if it can aim fast enough, it's an anti-hypersonic thingie defense. " What...
• Commented on Place your bets
  "then the battleship Iowa crossed Nevada."<\i> This is entirely possible, if discussing naval maneuver, that the Iowa may have crossed the Nevada. They both served in the Pacific in WWII. This is one of the reasons that natural language is...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  he was considered unfit for any duty other than nuclear weapons security, I don't believe that. I was ships company on JFK, CV 67 though the end of Viet Nam. Sailors never had anything to do with nukes security. Marines...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Sorry, my html is rusty so I wanted to see if my tags were correct. Then I hit submit. What I intended to include was that it is reported that Hanford, WA has radioactive rabbit droppings....
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Holy radioactive emus Batman!...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  The first phrase in the second amendment is nominative absolute, an affectation imported to English from Latin and Greek. It is grammatically independent, used to provide additional circumstances for the main sentence. So the founders, most of whom were schooled...
• Commented on The gathering crisis
  I think, Charlie, that we will be very lucky if we get to the other side of this mess with merely the fall of a few nation states. My pessimism has two roots. First is climate change. The public seems...