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DA, I read what you said, but the fact still remains that more air changes in the passenger compartment of a commercial airliner costs more fuel.

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DA, I read what you said, but the fact still remains that more air changes in the passenger compartment of a commercial airliner costs more fuel.

Term, no sorry that is not a fact nor is it correct, nor is it even possible with the way in which an isobaric pressurization system operates. Turbine bleed air is continually pumped into the cabin and continually dumped overboard. I am type rated to fly several turbine aircraft including the B727, 737, 747, and 777. I have a Flight Engineer - Turbojet certificate. I also have an mechanics certificate with airframe and powerplant ratings. I know the systems... I instruct for the type ratings.  What you are saying is simply not possible. If an isobaric system were not continually dumping air, the plane would litterally POP like an overinflated balloon.  

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

Ever see the movie made out of the book :

Will: G. Gordon Liddy

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On topic ... my son was a freshman in high school this past year.  We live in an affluent upper middle class neighborhood, yet there are the usual fights and issues with the high schoolers - no biggie, really.  The kids were told that if someone started with them, and took a swing, they were to assume the fetal position on the floor, covering their heads with their arms for protection, until help came.  When my 6'1" son came home telling me that this is what their vice principal recommended in case of a fight, we had a quick discussion about how I expected him to handle himself .. and it was all about fighting back and standing up for his smaller friends (should they find themselves in a bad spot) and that I'd support them all the way, even if it meant a suspension or something because of zero tolerance policies.  Can you imagine? 

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Sadly I can imagine, this is the same crap that my former step son was taught about how to handle his bully problem with a tough little Katrina thug who thought he was the king of the elementary school...  "Curl into a ball so as to protect your face and internal organs, and wait for a teacher". I ammended the policy to

1) Deliver a hard back handed slap to the bridge of the nose / eyes so as to blur the adversaries vision and get him bleeding profusely. If a man cannot see he cannot fight.
2) Deliver an elbow strike to the throat.  If a man cannot breath he cannot fight
3) Deliver a sharp kick to the kneecap. If a man cannot stand he cannot fight..
once he goes down
4) Repeatedly kick him in the groin and face and do not stop until a teacher or school cop arrives to separate you. Show no mercy and do not give the little bastard a chance to get up.  If he gets up you've got a problem.

Unlike those who followed the schools official  "pretend you are a pinata" philosophy... His bully problem ended right then, right there... The principal didnt like it very much, but oh well its her job to maintain order and if she cannot do so then its survival of the fittest.

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How strangely familiar those rules sound.  I instructed my kid to deal with a bully in a strangely similar way and then informed the superintendent that those were the new rules.  This was after three attempts to work through the system.  Upon hearing the new rules, these pantywaists at his school finally took care of the problem.
Let's see if I remember the conversation.
"Since you refuse to move my child away from the child who keeps hitting him, I have instructed my son to beat him bloody and to not stop until physically pulled off by an adult."
"Sir, you can't do that."
"Wrong.  It's already done.  The next choice is yours.  Let my kid who has been in martial arts since the age of 4 defend himself and beat this little bastard half to death or take care of the problem."
"Sir, you can't call the other child a bastard."

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As usual DA, you prompt a response.

They guy who told me about the booby traps is not stupid, however that does not mean that many state statutes don't exist banning them. But the thing there is if it is true that the ruling allows for them, it could mean a battle to the supreme court. Now you sound like you got money, and do well. But then you did just buy a house a couple years ago. Would you like to go throught the expense of all this litigation ? Plus the fact that many states are declared 'home rule' states and can defy the national Constitution, and if so it would follow that they will write laws that contradict the court's ruling, even if that's what it is.

He is not stupid, but I am even less stupid. I will grill him about this point. I actually don't disagree with you, I would not recommend booby traps. People are much better. Know how to be quiet, let someone borrow your car, fuck a booby trap, build a REAL trap. And leaving someone else to guard your house is bullshit, first of all you have to say that you were letting them live there, and at least half of the people I know are incapable of pulling the trigger because of the stupid social engineering they were not able to discard. This can make for a very bad situation.

But, consider this, electrified fences are legal. If they have the ability to kill, in essence there is no difference.

There is a way, with mirrors properly positioned to protect any opening in your house. With a laser beam, not all that high powered but very small diameter and concentrated, and coherent, that anyone putting their hand through the opening would suffer burns and such, which would make them detectable BTW. The problem is that it is not all that efficient. The energy must be dissipated and in the summer that can be a problem. Also the breaking of the beam is detectable for like a silent alarm.

There are also forms of construction that are very easy to beat. I dunno bout down there but up here they let them build mansions almost with steel studs, styrafoam insulation, no sheathing at all and vinyl siding attached right to the studs. These houses are junk and it is literally easier to break through a wall than a window or door. But the perception of a burglar might not make them aware of this. But these houses are junk for more reasons than just that.

Here's a trip, they cost a fortune to heat and cool, and they know the insulation sucks. So they build them with the high vaulted cielings and thirty foot high vestibules so they can blame it on that to cover up the facts. But it is now I who digress. Back to the point.

Anything you have can be taken from you. By hook, by crook, by legal means, illegal means. It is up to you to defend yourself, which is something else that has been decided by the supreme court. As far as I am concerned, this ruling just expounds on that one, and is intended to allow Citizens to do just that.

And just to show just why I am called the Terminator, booby traps do not have to look like booby traps. A window over the bathtub ? Don't get me started on ideas for that. It could be alot of things. "Well officer, that was a piece of art, and I was cleaning it in the tub" . Things like that. And then tell them I want a copy of the police report because I want the insurance company to pay to remove this dead motherfucker and restore my piece. Think I am bullshitting ? 

Buy a hundred Gintzu knifes and make a stand for them, blades up. When you find a dead motherfucker there, tell the cops that you were in the process of heat treating the cutting edge and tip and needed water to do that. That you would get a torch and heat them and then spray them with water and were going to sell them with a really long warranty. Watch the cop say "Yeah, my olady has been bitching about how quick knives go dull":. Want one ? " Maybe, how much ?" and then I would say "With blood or without ?".

Back to simplicity, the old bucket over the door trick. People, don't use water, use gasoline. And make sure they get soaked with it. I almost used a technique similar against someone and now I am glad I didn't. Alliances changed, everything changed. And the castle law may have prevented it. Somebody pissed me off and I was going to have certain members of the posse, the ones not known around here, to dump five gallons of gasoline on someone's floor, and leave a no smoking sign.

When you want revenge you have to think it out. It has been said that revenge is a dish best served cold, and I agree. You can't figure out a revenge operation until you can think clearly. You may notice that I have very few problems in life. Think first.

Think first, perhaps those are the most important words.

T

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As usual DA, you prompt a response.

They guy who told me about the booby traps is not stupid, however that does not mean that many state statutes don't exist banning them.

But, consider this, electrified fences are legal. If they have the ability to kill, in essence there is no difference.

There is a way, with mirrors properly positioned to protect any opening in your house. With a laser beam, not all that high powered but very small diameter and concentrated, and coherent, that anyone putting their hand through the opening would suffer burns and such, which would make them detectable BTW.

There are also forms of construction that are very easy to beat. I dunno bout down there but up here they let them build mansions almost with steel studs, styrafoam insulation, no sheathing at all and vinyl siding attached right to the studs. These houses are junk and it is literally easier to break through a wall than a window or door. But the perception of a burglar might not make them aware of this. But these houses are junk for more reasons than just that.

Here's a trip, they cost a fortune to heat and cool, and they know the insulation sucks. So they build them with the high vaulted cielings and thirty foot high vestibules so they can blame it on that to cover up the facts. But it is now I who digress. Back to the point.

you cannot put booby traps on your property, especially if you have them hidden and have reason to believe that people might come onto said property, with or without your permission.