[NewsMax] An employee with the Salt Lake City division of the FBI was arrested and charged last week with sexually abusing several children.
Robert Alexander Smith, 65, was arrested Wednesday at his home in Stansbury Park, Utah, where the alleged abuse is believed to have occurred. According to KSL-TV, Utah authorities booked Smith after the Tooele County Sheriff's Office investigated. The inquiry included interviews with five girls who accuse Smith of sexual abuse.
"He was booked on four counts of aggravated sex abuse of a child without incident," court documents state.
According to Fox 13, the federal employee was charged with "four 1st-degree felony counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, four class-A misdemeanor counts of lewdness involving a child, and two class-B misdemeanor counts of lewdness."
Smith's arrest was first indicated when one of the girls, who was 6 or 7 years old at the time of the alleged abuse, told her mother about something "very uncomfortable." The girl told investigators that Smith asked her to touch him multiple times under his clothes in 2020.
Another girl said that Smith asked her to do the same to him, and still others stated that Smith touched them inappropriately under their clothes.
The National Pulse reported that the girls range in age from preteen to high school.
"We are aware of the arrest of an FBI employee,'' the bureau stated. ''The FBI takes allegations of misconduct very seriously. As such, the incident has been referred to the FBI's Internal Affairs Section."
[LegalInsurrection] Hopefully the long, hard road Gibson’s Bakery has traveled in its fight with Oberlin College has come to an end. The Gibsons now can collect approximately $36 million.
Hopefully the long, hard road Gibson’s Bakery has traveled in its fight with Oberlin College has come to an end.
The Ohio Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... just refused to accept jurisdiction over Oberlin College’s appeal (the Court also refused to hear the Gibsons’ appeal seeking to reinstate the full punitive damages award). It was a 4-3 decision, and it means the Gibsons now can collect approximately $36 million. Read the rest at the link
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Hopefully their lawyers have all the paperwork complete and just need to file asap for leans against income and property along with paperwork for foreclosure proceedings.
#6
Speaking very generally, the surety on an appeal bond has to pay if the defendant doesn't. But then the surety can step into the shoes of the plaintiff and proceed against the defendant. Also, for a bond this size it's likely that the surety got a pile of collateral before signing the bond. It's sort of like mom co-signing your car loan if mom didn't like you very much. (boring, boring...)
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Not to mention, the cost of similar bonds for other similar institutions goes up because algorithm.
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Oberlin has a huge endowment and a lot of other assets.
They will survive. There will be a long running fund raising appeal however. Wonder how stupid their alumni will be.
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#6 - trust Matt, who knows what he's talking about. I have a lotta shit to say on this, but no paper cred
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Women business owners flee crime-hit Chicago for the suburbs after increase in lawlessness downtown - and slam Mayor Lori Lightfoot for doing nothing about it
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...but you felt good about yourself for voting for a gay minority for the office rather than look for someone competent first and foremost regardless of attributes.
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The notion that Chiraq is too big to wind up like Detoilet is laughable...
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Affluent White Female Liberals.
Kind of eating our own barf here in Kansas. During and following the 'big abortion vote', there is a movement basically Turning Kansas Blue.
Stepping on their own dick, they released an advertisement in the form of a PSA, "If you are a woman, how do you navigate after dark without getting assaulted."
Hey assholes!...when Kansas was Solid Red, it wasn't an issue! Certainly not as an outbreak of violence against women Public Safety Announcement, so what changed?
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*these are the same people who rah rah'd Governess Catlady of the Queer Initiative, and love them some inclusiveness so long as they are not in their neighborhood.
[GEO.TV] Prince Harry 's wife Princess Meghan Markle ...unlikable American former starlet married to the formerly likable Prince Harry. Chock full of lefty political opinions, Markle's most important characteristic is that she is Black, even though she doesn't look it. Her mother, y'see, is half black and her father is white, which would make her a quarter Black. Her half brother described her (to her husband, before their marriage) as a jaded, shallow, conceited woman that will make a joke of you and the royal family heritage. Once married, she was too good for the Royals and she and Harry decamped to Beverly Hills, kind of like the Clampetts did, thus making a joke of Harry and the royal family heritage... seemingly took a jibe at the royal family as she dubbed herself 'real-life princess' despite quitting the royal job two years ago.
The Duchess of Sussex in an interview with US magazine The Cut this week, discussed everything from her exit from the royal family to her new life in Montecito.
The Cut's journalist Allison P. Davies, who interviewed Meghan, says the Duchess is "still very aware" of her royal status despite her high-profile exit from the Royal Family.
Meghan, during the chat, claimed: "It’s important to be thoughtful about it because — even with the Oprah interview, I was conscious of the fact that there are little girls that I meet and they’re just like, "Oh my God, it’s a real-life princess."
"I just look at all of them and think, You have the power within you to create a life greater than any fairy tale you’ve ever read," she added. Deep Thoughts™ by Kamala Harris Meghan Markle However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... Archie and Lilibet's mom has come under fire for the comments. While some royal experts and fans see it as a warning to the royal family.
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..even with the Oprah interview
Two millionaires meeting with a Billionaire talking about how oppressed they were.
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I have never watched any of the three of them, but I have watch the Nathan's hotdog eating contest. If Oprah interviewed Joey Chestnut and challenged him to a head to head eating contest I might watch. Not really the fairy tale experience that Meghan is talking about, but my money would still be Joey.
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I don't care if she stops or not. I just don't want to hear about it.
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No reason she couldn't have the same sort of accident Ghislane Maxwell's father did.
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You have the power within you to create a life greater than any fairy tale you’ve ever read,
If this garbage is really true, then please explain the absence of Super Bowl rings on my fingers???
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(His Pic) Quite a handsome fellow, nice smile, honest looking face, looks you right in the eye; I'm sure he will be missed by his family. RIP, Mr. Mon Key Pox, finally, in all your life, you finished first in something and may even be remembered for that accomplishment.
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The way they talk around his background, I'm going to go with "died with Monkeypox".
15 deaths worldwide in 6 months. Boy howdy, if the International Disease Gong Bangers didn't lose it with Covid, the credibility is in the trash with the Monkeypox.
[USNInews] The biggest barrier to adding more ships to the Navy is industrial base capacity, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said Thursday.The service’s top officer said shipbuilders need indicators from the service before they’re able to make the investments required to build, for example, three destroyers per year.
"We have an industrial capacity that’s limited. In other words, we can only get so many ships off the production line a year. My goal would be to optimize those production lines for destroyers, for frigates, for amphibious ships, for the light amphibious ships, for supply ships," Gilday said at a Heritage Foundation event.
"We need to give a signal to industry that we need to get to three destroyers a year, instead of 1.5, that we need to maintain two submarines a year. And so part of this is on us to give them a clear set of — a clear aim point so they can plan a work force and infrastructure that’s going to be able to meet the demand. But again, no industry is going to make those kinds of investments unless we give them a higher degree of confidence."
Asked by USNI News after the event if the reason the Navy isn’t ready to send that signal to industry is because of funding, Gilday said, "it depends on the class of ships. Sometimes it’s affordability. Sometimes it’s industrial capacity."
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80 years ago we could build a Liberty ship in 6 weeks and had were launching at a rate of 2 per day. I think it was Admiral Raeder who said in 1943 that he knew the war was lost because Anerica was building ships faster than Germany could build torpedoes.
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^^^ I enjoy your direction & thinking friend, but the USA military has a 1930s frame of mind. The world can be crippled by cyber, not guns, bombs, attacks (didn't you learn anything from Afghanistan, and Iraq?) -- drones, small EMPs and "natural petulance" they rule the world/ not big boats
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Liberty ships were crap ships slapped together quickly and even more quickly scrapped the moment the war was over.
Today's Navy ships are handcrafted, gold-plated monuments to the military-industrial complex's love of itself. They cost billions and take years to construct, and that's the way they like it. Ever notice that America has deindustrialized - except for weapons? We still export those everywhere.
[AlAhram] The fertility rate in Egypt declined to 2.85 births per woman in 2021, down from 3.5 births in 2014, the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) said, citing findings from its Health of the Egyptian Family Survey.
[REMIX] The Equality Division of the Supreme Court in South Africa has ruled that the song "Kill the Boers" was not a case of "hate speech." The hateful song, which celebrates the killing of Dutch settlers in South Africa, is protected by freedom of expression and must be left to the political debate within society, according to the court.
The song says, among other things, "The cowards are afraid. Shoot the Boers, shoot, shoot." The case was brought before the court by the organization AfriForum, an advocacy group for the minority White population living in the country, reported the South African news portal IOL.
EFF WANTS TO DISPOSSESS BOERS IN SOUTH AFRICA
In particular, the AfriForum group accused the left-wing Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party under its president, Julius Malema, of playing the song at their rallies and thus calling for violence against the Boer population, which is the term used for the Dutch population in the country. One of the political goals of EFF is the expropriation of large White landowners. However, according to the court, AfriForum could not prove that the song’s lyrics were intended to harm people despite the line: "The cowards are afraid. Shoot the Boers, shoot, shoot."
EFF criticized the organization, stating that AfriForum was trying to give the impression that there was a "White genocide" in the country. In addition, AfriForum is based on a "racist narrative," they said, according to which all Black people are irrational and therefore willing to kill because of a song.
"The attempt by the racists to erase the cultural element of the liberation struggle in South Africa has failed miserably," emphasized EFF spokesman Sinawo Thambo.
Since the end of apartheid, Black gangs have repeatedly murdered White farmers and their families in South Africa. Often, the victims are raped or tortured before being murdered. Their goal is to drive the Boers out of the country and transfer their land holdings to Blacks.
South Africa is beset by crime and features one of the highest rape rates in the world. An estimated 115 rapes occur every single day, and that figure has remained more or less consistent for the last 10 years. Murder and violence are also endemic, leaving many Whites and Indians scared to travel outside their gated communities. Blacks are the biggest target of crime in the country, as they make up the vast majority of the population, but Whites are often seen as being either wealthy or legitimate targets due to apartheid, making them targets for crime.
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It could be argued that making a residence or geographic region untenable is a step just short of genocide. No farms or small businesses... no 'Plaas Moorde.'
Of course a two-fold strategy is also effective. Ask an Armenian for details.
[Citizen Free Press] Brazil is suffering from a plague of motorcycle riding robbers. They zoom up to a car or pedestrians and rob them at gunpoint, then zoom off. Brazilians have had enough.
[Washington Examiner] The top spy chief for former President Donald Trump revealed he has a "high degree of confidence" that COVID-19 emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China as the Chinese government continues to stonewall investigations into the pandemic’s origins.
John Ratcliffe said his access to high-level intelligence led him to believe that COVID-19 got its start in the Chinese lab.
NIH FINALLY ENDS SUBAWARD TO WUHAN LAB
"Let me just say this: As the person that had the most access to the most intelligence — you know, in the intelligence community we talk about degrees of confidence, low degree of confidence, moderate degrees of confidence, high degrees of confidence," Ratcliffe told CBS News over the weekend. "I had a high degree of confidence that the origins of COVID-19 were in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Now, I was the top intelligence official, and that was my opinion."
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Mid March of 2020 was at a breakfast meeting with an ex SOCOM leadership DC insider wheeler dealer. He flatly declared, "It's a lab bug and we are all going to get locked down." He was so clear and definitive that we took this at face value.
Plenty of people inside the system know the real deal. No degrees of confidence necessary on lab origin. *Which* lab is a better inquiry.
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^ Pretty much anyone ever busted for selling snake oil deserves a pardon and reimbursement for their legal fees, time spent in jail and loss of business capital.
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[Boston National] The elite force’s selection course is so punishing that few make it through, and many of those who do resort to illicit tactics.
Kyle Mullen always had the natural drive and talent that made success look easy. Until he tried out for the Navy SEALs.
The 24-year-old arrived on the California coast in January for the SEALs’ punishing selection course in the best shape of his life — even better than when he was a state champion defensive end in high school or the captain of the football team at Yale.
But by the middle of the course’s third week — a continual gut punch of physical and mental hardship, sleep deprivation and hypothermia that the SEALs call Hell Week — the 6-foot-4 athlete from Manalapan, New Jersey, was dead-eyed with exhaustion, riddled with infection and coughing up blood from lungs that were so full of fluid that others who were there said later that he sounded like he was gargling.
The course began with 210 men. By the middle of Hell Week, 189 had quit or been brought down by injury. But Mullen kept on slogging for days, spitting blood all the while. The instructors and medics conducting the course, perhaps out of admiration for his grit, did not stop him.
And he made it. When he struggled out of the cold ocean at the end of Hell Week, SEAL leaders shook his hand, gave him a pizza and told him to get some rest. Then he went back to his barracks and laid down on the floor. A few hours later, his heart stopped beating and he died. The USN definitely has a problem. Author Matthew Cole pretty well lays it out in 'Code over Country.' Not a happy story. Not a happy story at all.
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SEAL teams used to be cool. But now they are nothing more than mafia enforcers for a corrupt organization that extorts the world. Al Capone only operated in three districts of Chicago, these people operate over the entire planet.
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The problem became obvious when the head of the SEALs refused to carry out President Trump's orders on that one servicemenber they were railroading. It's just not the SEALs. Milley's subversion of the Goldwater–Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act is another BFO that says a whole house cleaning is in order.
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The training issue has little to do with the Navy leadership and the comment before mine. The training is supposed to take you to your limits. The Army had this issue with SF and Ranger training a few years ago. The medical monitoring needs to get better. These men, as well as the rangers and SF, will never quit, its not in their nature. The 90% failure rates are about average across SOCOM. SF has a song about the 97% failure rates. Rangers have RIP to help screen out the failures. The 160th recruitment process screens out over 90%. All this is for a reason, when America can not lose, they send these guys. Training them is costly, in money and sometimes in lives.
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Ref #2: Milley's subversion of the Goldwater–Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act is another BFO that says a whole house cleaning is in order.
The subversion of a ..... subversion. No longer responsive to the "civilian leadership" or Big Army. New day, new handler.
Whatever the COS or Deputy COS wants, he gets. Embassy party at 1900. The van is leaving at 1830. Plenty of Monkey Shoulder to go around. No weapons, no cellies.
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“They killed him,” his mother, Regina Mullen, who is a registered nurse, said in an interview. “They say it’s training, but it’s torture. And then they didn’t even give them the proper medical care. They treat these guys worse than they are allowed to treat prisoners of war.”
Thanks, mommy.
The training is supposed to take you to your limits.
Man Things be tough. The cerebral things too, punching a 12 hour shift on a slide rule to properly span a bridge, etc.
A few hours later, his heart stopped beating and he died.
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Maybe. To play Devil's Advocate, I'm sure coughing and such is part of the deal, and so it bit cheeks/tongues. Hell, I've coughed up blood doing less, so if the guy wasn't flat out puking it up, who knows? Know of regular people, less than physical specimens if you will, pass off pneumonia until they were in the emergency room.
Article says that only afterwards were teammates like, "yeah, did hear him having troubles now that you mention it."
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Some years ago, Mr. Wife left home against my advice with untreated walking pneumonia — because he didn’t have time to spend waiting in the ER for antibiotics in the midst of preparations — to do a two-week, round-the-world business trip. Back-to-back meetings all day followed by business dinners into the wee hours so everything and everyone could be heard and told. Very efficient. Upon his return he ended up in the hospital with IV antibiotics, exactly as the idiot had planned for. Possibly strong hysterics on my part could have persuaded him to let me take him to the ER for antibiotics before he left, but I’m not sure even that would have worked.
Not within miles of being as challenging as Hell Week, but for those for whom achieving the goal is the only thing that matters, ignoring warning signs is just the killing reality.
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Well said, TW and SwksvolFF. Man stuff do indeed be hard and in the end that's the main attraction. I feel bad for his mother. She's not thinking about the football star or wannabe bad ass, she's thinking about her little boy. True, he grew up with all the once normal masculine tendencies but it's inevitable she has those feelings.
I'm no Navy guy, but the Teams aren't what once they were. There is an increasingly pronounced streak of mobster-think. They tend to lay it off on a 'culture that devalues sleep'. Possibly. But I think it worth questioning their place, their motivation in this scene.
'The Navy needs an active land force'. You mean like the Marine Corps? No, we need elite soldiers for rescues and assaults. And, the Rangers, Delta, and Special Forces Regiment were otherwise occupied...doing what exactly?
Probably outdated thinking, but the only reason I can think for there to be a sailor in the Hindu Kush is as a corpsman for the Marines, or Naval aviator who ought not have a ground role.
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I have questions too. Died of pneumonia, or with pneumonia? And the paraphernalia in the car, its not like he was sneaking out to the parking lot to get a bump.
Yale:
The university requires all students, faculty, staff, and postdoctoral/postgraduate trainees — other than those with an approved medical or religious exemption — to be fully vaccinated and to obtain a booster shot within 14 days of eligibility.
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Man stuff do indeed be hard and in the end that's the main attraction.
Yeah.
The coughing, choking, shortness of breath and vomiting with blood didn't bother me as much as being busted at the portal with my home made trac kit, a razor knife and 3" of 1/2" tubing.
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I feel bad for him and his family. The SEALS are NOT what they used to be, and I have known more than a few. The ones I met/worked with were mostly demigods. Awesome. Some were very much not.
That said, I was a hypothermia casualty in Ranger School in the Everglades when it froze over. Plus a dislocated knee.
People died in this class (maybe 3-4). I hate cold water. Ignorant evil CO. It was completely preventable.
It was the beginning of the end for me.
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Was he vaxx'd?
Now, that's a good question.
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#12 Well Skid, few swallowed more, whole, or deeper than I, I'm just not sayimg it was right. Mission first, Mission only, Mission to the end. I know (knew) that tune. I am lucky to be alive with as many functioning features as I have.
#13 W/M I will go to my last day appalled at the casual disposal of some of the most motivated men I have ever known in similar circumstances. Warriors to the core who had a simple bad physical break and were more than salvageable.
They say nice things about the guys who make it, and it is mostly deserved. But the guys who often don't often showed unflinching courage and real heart, American heart. Not always, but I'm not referencing quitters or chow thieves.
There was something of a culture that vaguely suggested that those who made it were somehow superior or chosen in spite of obvious chance. I always wondered if I was really as tough or as good as some of my classmates who went down to happenstance.
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#13W/M I will go to my last day appalled at the casual disposal of some of the most motivated men I have ever known in similar circumstances. Warriors to the core who had a simple bad physical break and were more than salvageable.
Amen
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[GreaterKashmir] Indian graziers were stopped by Chinese troops from moving ahead near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Demchok region of eastern Ladakh over a week ago, people familiar with the development said on Monday.
There was no face-off or confrontation between the Indian and Chinese forces in view of the incident as such objections by both sides happen routinely, they said.
The people said some Indian graziers were on the Indian side of the LAC in the region but the Chinese People’s Liberation Army(PLA) objected to their presence claiming the area to be on their side. The incident is understood to have taken place on August 21.
"Such incidents happen in those areas because of differing perceptions about the LAC by both sides," said one of the people cited above, adding the incident figured in subsequent talks between area commanders of the two armies.
The incident took place amid the prolonged military standoff between the two sides at a number of friction points in eastern Ladakh.
India has been consistently maintaining that peace and tranquillity along the LAC is key for the overall development of Sino-India bilateral ties.
The Indian and Chinese militaries have held 16 rounds of talks to resolve the eastern Ladakh border standoff that erupted on May 5, 2020, following a violent mostly peaceful clash in the Pangong lake areas.
Both sides gradually enhanced their deployment by rushing in tens of thousands of soldiers as well as heavy weaponry.
As a result of a series of military and diplomatic talks, the two sides completed the disengagement process last year on the north and south banks of the Pangong lake and in the Gogra area.
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All they did with Ship 24 today was pressurize it then pump it clear again. More road closures scheduled for tomorrow -- a sign something is going to happen -- but I didn't hear if Boca Chica residents received an "overpressure" warning. That's notice of a potential boom, they're required to give it the day before any testing.
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Not an engine problem; a parts procurement problem.
O-rings are used to seal parts of an engine to prevent fuel leaks. None of the pieces found in the affected Chinooks had been produced by Honeywell, the company that makes the engines for the helicopters. It remains unclear who did, or how they ended up in the aircraft.
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Friends who flew as passengers in 'Sh*thooks' 50-odd years ago tell me that every other grunt was issued a fire extinguisher during flights, and the others a grease gun.
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Quality control decline and actual failure escalated by orders of magnitude during the COVID Debacle. You can see it in a wide array of consumer goods, from appliances from Name Brands to food packaging, to service sector. This falls directly on the manufacturer, but Honeywell gets a bite of that apple too.
During my time in the State Homeland Security Office, we visited the nuclear plants at Diablo Canyon and San Onofre to talk about threats and vulnerabilities. Behind one of the sites was a huge transformer farm where the initial output from the reactor was stepped down for the transmission towers that moved to into the grid. Behind the 30-40 huge transformers for that process there was a block of spares, perhaps 1/2 the number of those in operation. In talking to the onsite engineer, I noted that they were all of friendly foreign manufacture (not Chinese by the way). In discussion about it I learned that the spares we in large number because it was a product that had very limited on hand availability at the point of manufacture overseas. So they were built on order, and took several months to manufacture and ship, hence the large spare inventory at the power plant. I was curious about the lifespan of the transformers and learned it was now 3-5 years, unlike the older US made GE models which had far longer lifespans, as much as 3 times as long, for roughly the same current purchase price. As an aside about limited US policy wisdom, he explained that the foreign manufacturer moved into this small but very lucrative product niche, and sold their units at a much, much lower initial price than GE, convinced the US Energy Dept to allow foreign sales in lieu of US only manufacture, and continued the lower pricing until GE closed down the facility that made these parts after a number of years of failed competition. Then the prices began to rise until the time of the conversation when he admitted that the net unit cost/lifespan numbers made it MORE expensive than the old GE product line by orders of magnitude. The foreign supplier had taken a loss in product pricing on the front end to freeze out the US manufacturer, used political influence to negate the sole sourcing rules for US only manufacture, and now netted a profit to cover the upfront costing by being now the only manufacturer for this high end, limited use product, a plan that had the vision to think in terms of years, not ROI for the next quarter. American market share defeated by short term thinking, which is how we have become a virtually non-industrial manufacturing nation dependent on our primary world rival for much of our consumer economy.
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Quality control decline and actual failure escalated by orders of magnitude during the COVID Debacle.
Definitely. I have unboxed more DOA / infant mortality hardware since the coof hit than I did in the previous 40 years of turning screwdrivers. Stuff that used to get RMA'ed now goes straight in the trash and the customer takes the loss, as the vendors say "talk to the manufacturer" and the manufacturers don't respond at all.
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Snipers will do it for me. I hate snipers.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Modern video games are designed to be as immersive as possible, so it can be easy to get caught up in the moment when you lose a level or don't beat your high score.
So much so, that nearly 56.3 per cent of regular gamers experience bouts of extreme, uncontrollable anger at least once a week, according to new research.
Data collected by online gambling site Time2Play indicates that the most angry are those who play on an Xbox, as more than one in five said they rage at their games daily.
Additional research from the University of Eastern Finland revealed that common triggers include last-minute game failures, cheating opponents and out of game interruptions.
Project Researcher Juho Kahila said: 'In addition, troubles in daily life, such as having a bad day at school, or feeling hungry, were also recognised as factors contributing to rage.' Read the rest at the link
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I have said it for over 30+ years.
Too many Teen games are basically programming teens to be Type "A" over aggressive personalities. Eg. "14 known Mass Murder Gamers"
The constant WARFARE gaming scenarios have programmed them to be more acceptable to mass killing, wrecking havoc and fantasizing of performing deadly/hero-suicidal activities.
They must learn that REAL LIFE does not come with Bonus Lives or a REDO.
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They must learn that REAL LIFE does not come with Bonus Lives or a REDO
Annnnnd... Real life is learned by getting out there in the real world. Not by sitting on a couch in front of a flat screen TV. Or in a classroom, for that matter...
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Worst I've suffered is annoyance, of the "Really?!?" variety; usually when the designers run out of interesting tactical problems and just teleport hordes of baddies behind you. Referred to as "the cockroach syndrome" in my house. Usually the indicator I need to look for a new game.
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It gawdammmedfarknpissmeoff Galaga first move is dual ships! snnnfabitczs!
-starts punching wall0!!111
Additional research from the University of Eastern Finland revealed that common triggers include last-minute game failures, cheating opponents and out of game interruptions.
Doesn't sound like the game theory failure, but outside interruptions to said theory. Like 3am voting counts.
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The constant WARFARE gaming scenarios have programmed them to be more acceptable to mass killing
Just like the previous generations were primed for shootouts in the middle of the street, cattle rustling and sending people to reservations by playing "cowboys and Indians", right?
Sitting on your ass and twiddling a controller or keyboard is nothing like running around and getting into it with your entire body, after all.
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Good one Skid.
I don't play games that easily allow cheaters / twinks.
Presently World of Warships has my 'focus'. Although I DO get my butt kicked a lot in some scenarios.
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I play a bit of World of Warships, so if you see Silentbrick, that's me:p
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I'd go with Profound Lack of Empathy as the cause, who are then attracted to a FPS, rather than the FPS itself.
Video games are rather new; people who slaughter innocents without remorse have always existed and, when they achieve positions of power, try to fill that hole with bodies.
In the last 20 years just about everyone games at some level, and gamers usually have some time put into some FPS.
Hell, some people got so emotionally involved with Pinball games they had to develop The Tilt.
I'll give you a shout if that happens Silentbrick; my handle is different. Will say its tough to get smoked in the first 3 minutes and have to watch some knucklehead wander into the finals and get straight blasted.
I've had moments over the years, so I did giggle at that meme which went something like, "The face I make when I'm on my last controller and get smoked by a noob."
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Not sure that's really news. Washington DC has been doing that for multiple decades, and the in-breeding has led to a decline in mental aptitude and cognitive skills on Capitol Hill.
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I seen dis movie. premiered in 1972.
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