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MIflyer
Captain
A friend of mine picked up an original condition (i.e., covered with rust) 8 cylinder 1947 Mercury. He figures that if he can get it running it'll be worth $11K or more. He just found out that the engine will not turn over so he's going to yank it. Sounds like a fun project.
MIflyer
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Back in the 1990's Gen Horner, AF Space Command Commander, had trouble recalling which launch pad was on which coast and which booster used it. He wanted to renumber the pads so that everyone else would be just as confused as he was (my explanation). Then one day I get a call from Space Command HQ.
They asked what the azimuth numbers were for the launch pads. In other words, what direction were the pads "pointed." Runways have Azimuth numbers and so do ICBM silos, to a degree so they figured that would be a "logical" way to designate the launch pads, especially when you are desperately trying to pretend that space boosters are basically the same as airplanes.
I responded that while the launch pads may have been designed to more or less fire the missiles in a particular direction, nowadays, when the space boosters lift off they roll onto whatever launch azimuth they need for the trajectory. So that produced an absurd and complex designation system that covered the range of azimuths, the equivalent of calling a runway 0-180 or something like that. Fortunately this all went away after our general officer told Gen Horner that his redesignating the pad would be seen in the same light as Gen McPeek redesigning the USAF uniform.
They asked what the azimuth numbers were for the launch pads. In other words, what direction were the pads "pointed." Runways have Azimuth numbers and so do ICBM silos, to a degree so they figured that would be a "logical" way to designate the launch pads, especially when you are desperately trying to pretend that space boosters are basically the same as airplanes.
I responded that while the launch pads may have been designed to more or less fire the missiles in a particular direction, nowadays, when the space boosters lift off they roll onto whatever launch azimuth they need for the trajectory. So that produced an absurd and complex designation system that covered the range of azimuths, the equivalent of calling a runway 0-180 or something like that. Fortunately this all went away after our general officer told Gen Horner that his redesignating the pad would be seen in the same light as Gen McPeek redesigning the USAF uniform.
cammerjeff
Staff Sergeant
That ones easy to spot! Its got a Plymouth Superbird's Nose on it!
Greg Boeser
1st Lieutenant
Awkward:
When you tell the girl you've been hanging out with that you could only love her like a sister, and she says, "Kinky!"
When you tell the girl you've been hanging out with that you could only love her like a sister, and she says, "Kinky!"
fubar57
General
MIflyer
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The Defense Accounting Service requires us to change our passwords to access our retirement accounts, not once a year but more like every 10 months or something. And they have grown more strict as the years have passed. So this time of year when you want to go in and download your Form 1099 to use in your tax calculations the first thing you have to do is come up with a new password. Such fun.
And several years back if you had an subscription to Aviation Week you could log into their website, but they suddenly required you to come up with a new password with 8 to 13 parts that had at least one letter and one number and one special character and at least one capital letter. And no matter what you entered it told you that it was not complex enough and to try again. I finally resorted to using a word followed by the entire symbol row of the keyboard, !@#$%^&*()_ and it said that still was not good enough.
And several years back if you had an subscription to Aviation Week you could log into their website, but they suddenly required you to come up with a new password with 8 to 13 parts that had at least one letter and one number and one special character and at least one capital letter. And no matter what you entered it told you that it was not complex enough and to try again. I finally resorted to using a word followed by the entire symbol row of the keyboard, !@#$%^&*()_ and it said that still was not good enough.
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Greg Boeser
1st Lieutenant
It's 60 days. And you can't use the same characters you used in your last 12 passwords.
fubar57
General
We had to do this every six months with the payroll app in the mine. What's a hacker going to do, give me extra vacation time?
Snautzer01
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- Mar 26, 2007
Snautzer01
Marshal
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- Mar 26, 2007
I would be so doing that.
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