Cobol - Re: Making money from Java

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Re: Making money from Java

Alistair

2005-11-23, 6:55 pm

Just read your blog about Cindy Sheehan (that's two of us now). I agree
with you whole-heartedly. We have people in the UK behaving much as CS
is in the US and their message appears to be "bring the boys home now".
Is it just me or do others feel that by withdrawing now then we will
disrespect the sacrifices made by servicemen already?

Richard

2005-12-02, 9:04 pm

> The Navy flies E2 Hawkeye AWACS.

And they would be stuck on the deck in the south atlantic more often
than not.

> Our main AWACS command ..
> From there, they can, and do, fly to any point on
> the globe and remain on station indefinitely.

Bullshit. They need to be refuelled and replaced at frequent intervals.
Ascention is the closest base that would accept Allied forces, the US
would not get a closer one, and it required the longest operational
flight ever to get a bomber down there.

An E-3 Sentury AWACS has a range of 1000 miles for a 6 hour patrol.
>From Ascension to Falklands is 3250 NM or 6050 km. To get one Vulcan
over Falklands for 10 minutes required 28 refuelling sorties, the
refuellers needed refueling on the way out and back.

While it may be true that an E-3 can fly anywhere it can only do so if
it can land or be refuelled in order to be able to get back to
somewhere it can land. Same with refuellers. An E-3 can fly direct to
Iraq because it can have a full refueller waiting in Europe.

Richard

2005-12-02, 9:04 pm

> Come to think of it, there would only be one religion,

Well, exactly. That there were and are several thousands of
incompatible and varied religions merely indicates that they are all in
the same box: groups of people at various times in the past and present
that just makes stuff up 'cause it sounds like a really good idea. The
deities mostly did exist: Zeus, Ra, Woden, Jehovah, Bhrama, Baal, Ras
Tafari, Hirohito, as a whole raft of territorial leaders, ancestors,
warlords, emperors, around which stories were woven and deification
occurred.

Alistair

2005-12-03, 7:55 am

Richard wrote:
>
> "From treetop height, 18.6 miles (30km); from greater height, 37.2
> miles (60km)."
>
> Enough to allow it to be fired from over the horizon with just a few
> seconds above to aquire the target then drop back down to fire. As it
> is a surface skimmer it gets lost in the wave clutter.

I stand corrected, thanks. Strange that the French produced a missile
that exposes pilots to such danger.

Alistair

2005-12-06, 6:55 pm

docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
> In article <vZhlf.1571$kt5.341744@news20.bellglobal.com>,
> Donald Tees <donald_tees@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>

Judson's statement is not incompatible with the term. However, those of
a religious mind may find the "Unlike you..." presumptious and
offensive.
[color=darkred]
> a) I know the King of England.
> b) I represent the King of England.
> c) I represent the King of England and you must allow me to use the Royal
> Suite without recompense lest I turn you over to the Blackhoods.

Doc, we don't have a King of England (or Scotland...). I do recall,
although my memory is imperfect, that you have previously claimed that
title for yourself.

>
> The first might be made by any social acquaintance; common use might
> include a stableboy's ''Is Majesty? 'E comes 'ere every w

to roid,
> know 'Im rogith well, Oi do, down to th' pattern on 'Is crop!'

Wrong accent. Most likely to be a Cockney.

2005-12-06, 6:55 pm

In article <1133891379.840622.254200@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
Alistair <alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>docdwarf@panix.com wrote:

[snip]

>
>Doc, we don't have a King of England (or Scotland...).

Plural majestatus est, Mr Maclean... as my Drill Sergeant used to say,
'Who 'we', you got a mouse in your pocket?'

>I do recall,
>although my memory is imperfect, that you have previously claimed that
>title for yourself.

Claimed and demonstrated, as documented in
<http://groups.google.com/group/comp...de=source&hl=en>

>
>
>Wrong accent. Most likely to be a Cockney.

We have found it best to use the practises of equal-accent-opportunity
employment.

DD

Alistair

2005-12-11, 6:55 pm

Judson McClendon wrote:
> I apparently offended a number of folks with they way I expressed that, and
> I apologize. I hope it is clear in the context of my comments that I did not
> mean to claim any kind of exclusivity to myself, because God wants a
> personal relationship with all of us. Nor did I mean the comparison (I know
> God and you don't) to be pejorative, but only to illustrate a basis for a
> difference in perspective. But I can see how my unfortunate phrasing could
> easily sound arrogant and offensive, and I sincerely apologize for it. :-)
> --

I doubt that any apology is really necessary (except to those of the
most sensitive egotistical state of mind). We are all guilty of
unfortunate phrasing, me especially.

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