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7% is an easy, healthy layoff. 10% of the workforce is in the wrong job (and thus not cost effective), burnt out and with an attitude problem, looking for another job full time, or…

JDAM's are a lot cheaper. They are a guidance kit bolted on to a MK-82 gravity bomb. There are a lot of MK-82's in stock, as they have been made since the 1940's. Problem is you pu…

An Army Captain and a Navy Captain are different things. Army Captain is an O-3, same as a Navy Lt. Commander. You make O-3 at 5 years of service, or a little less. An O-3 is a jr.…

I think every company does what they think will make the execs the most money. Look at how many companies complied with the 'trump shakedown'. Ethics are great, until it messes wit…

Assessed as 0% AI content. By me. I thought this was a wonderful 5 minute read. As for my preference, I enjoy coffee. My favorite vendor is McDonalds; although I can appreciate a p…

I yield to your experience.

a strong reason to use a pilot is to protect a large capital investment. in war, you get shot at. things are over stressed, equipment fails. a pilot has the ability to improvise, a…

US lost a lot of aircraft to the soviet provided air defense network. SAM's were all over the country.

even with mechanical controls, there is an autopilot / flight director. which has a mechanism for inserting control inputs into a mechanical flight control system.

Social Security, my friend. And there are still some pensions out there.

no airline will take the risk. they will have a check ride, with an instructor.

with respect to assessing tactics, it is very close.

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it may have not been designed to, but it has been modified to. there may not be any stealth, but there are other countermeasures against missiles, AA, and other fighters.

An aside... The automation machine at one station I worked at had 2047 programmable steps. (well, 2048, 0 was a step) As a 16 year old, I could not fathom why it was not 2400. With…

In 1980 I worked in local radio. The playlist was set by corporate (or by a consultant). You could maybe change the order of the songs, but you were not allowed to add / subtract a…

AM stations, in particular daytime only licensees, are almost free at this point. Most cases, the land value where the antenna is located is the sales price.

Not that many 50kw stations. Efficiency is up, more in the upper 70%'s now days. (of course broadcasters will use a transmitter until it is unfixable, so there are some 50 year old…

we could make a similar observation about determinism. given a set of inputs, the compiler will create the same output each time. not always true. but very close (pathological codi…

If the system was used to control something it was obvious. There would be some kind of main / idle loop. When this was running, you could see the pattern in the data buss and in t…

The academic job market is flooded. No PhD's could be produced for 10 years and it would still be flooded. Not a Problem.

the cheaper the switch, the longer the bounce.

go to switzerland. gas leaf blowers and jet ski's. not allowed

live by a railroad track. takes about 6 months till you don't notice it. at all.

What are we talking about? 5% more? 200% more?