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ection of cutting edge tech was not the prices blowing through the roof but the disdain for 99 of the improvements that were making the new stuff not better for me i don t need it this kind of reminds me of watching the tactical action officer simply reach out and hit reject every time the satellite navigation system updated our geographic location on the planet mind you he was rejecting the navigation data that showed where we actually were on the planet and he did it over and over again why we have 300 sonobuoys out there all shown in our master plot relative to where we thought we were back when they were dropped if we let the system change our position it will adjust all of them too since we were hunting soviet ballistic missile submarines very quietly this seemed on the face of it reasonable as i thought it over though the obvious question floated to the top and wondered what kind of idiot designs a navigation system that seamlessly adjusts everything on a plot just because the master reference location shifted obviously its exactly the thing a software developer would do and never think twice about our ability to guide sensors to target based on a relative plot would be destroyed the instant we converted it to a true plot nevertheless it used to gall me that i all of microsoft word 4 0 fit on a single floppy disk and that it has now grown into such a kluge of a tool that it takes over your entire computer fortunately for me when microsoft destroyed my ownership of office i simply gave it up and went elsewhere for my software needs that was over 30 years ago and i never looked back posted by hms defiant at 12 05 pm 4 comments tuesday june 2 2026 idling the war machine as i heard it one of the reasons that the democrats did not get away with stealing the vote in 202 4 was because trump and his team had lawyers guns and money standing by in every precinct to make sure that the vote was fairly and honestly held administered counted and reported i think he made that happen is that same machine going to be in place for the next presidential election or are we going straight back to precincts and cities that take 48 hours to count the vote and exercise exclusive control using democrats on the counting and reporting i think that the republican verifty the vote machine is the exact same shower of feces that the save act is showing us it still remains the squishy party will go back to doing what it does so tolerantly well viewing with alarm and doing nothing posted by hms defiant at 9 50 am 2 comments saturday may 30 2026 in the dark i see that we may be moving back into a shooting war with iran and it strikes me that we never hear about america applying the dark arts to our enemies when are we going to see the ebo of our cyber warriors or will we all through the 90s we were told that our enemies had the power to remotely shut down our electrical distribution and generation simply by sending commands over the internet can we do that the best part of the dark war is that i spent the last couple of years of the last millennium fighting bravely in the y2k trenches at space and naval warfare systems command where we diligently went crazy doing every kind of regression testing you could imagine and then doing it again and again and again and tried to justify hooking up to an otcixs network while also using the internal network to merge our graphical data fusion sensors c2 and otcixs over a purely one way link our method and our approach didn t fail any arcane tests they just got disconnected by fiat it was way too dangerous to our national cyber security we d point out that there was no physical means for any data to leave our network computers because they were fully isolated all to no avail the connection was severed and that was that the nation was once again cyberly secure so as we move into more explodey operations in the gulf and iran is it possible that they will be proceeded or accompanied by a sort of network fire that wreaks havoc on the oil pumping distribution and storage systems via the computers that control all that in iran and lays them waste or do we actually have to bomb the crap out of all that just asking for a friend effects based operations a cruel mirage perped by the planning class who brought you coas posted by hms defiant at 2 26 pm 4 comments thursday may 28 2026 marching to tycho purple penal colony well it seems we are finally back on track to establishing penal colonies on the moon first step of course was to set up the means to get there and then it is just a matter of time before some bright spark discovers that sending the dregs of humanity to the moon is the answer to the question that has dogged liberals since they were dropped on their heads as babies what do we do with the people who are truly horrible despite the fact that there is no such thing as a bad kid that s right comrade we send them to the moon i enjoyed the ring of charon by roger macbride allen and was really delighted to find both that book and the sequel the shattered sphere in a very odd used book store south and east of zanesville the story featured some wonderful bits from the naked purple movement and their takeover of the soviet penal colony on the moon once the purples hit there was no coming back so now it looks like at long last we are on our way to penal colonies on the moon and i for one wonder if they ll take after the place described by heinlein in the moon is a harsh mistress or something else along those lines but you know there s going to be people that find the idea of sending horrible people to the moon is a grand idea out of sight is out of mind on the gripping hand which is closer the moon or chicago well duuh you can see the moon posted by hms defiant at 5 30 am 4 comments wednesday may 27 2026 interpretive smoke signals there is another feel good story out of the the new york post that could use a little modifier or explanation for those who are not familiar with the term process is the punishment on the face of it bolt ceo fired his human resources department because they were creating problems that didn t exist he s not wrong in his thinking merely in his approach hr is the modern version of the process that used to require a record of at least 2 counseling sessions before lowering the boom on a man who was screwing things up in the workplace what i learned as a new officer was that if it wasn t documented previously it could not be used as justification for non administrative punishment with some of the knuckleheads this was not a problem you could literally tell them not to do x any more and they d do it before they left my office and 4 more times walking back to the workcenter as i used to see it hr was the permanent recording secretary documenting the little crimes that would safely see you rid of people that you and your colleagues really did not want to work with anymore they were the corporate version of the ship s xo they would mandate training on a given topic record who was present and then when there was a failure to adhere to the mandates and your peers and work colleagues despised you the hr department was there to chop you into pieces and walk them out of the building i had several issues with the hr process the first was the obvious one that the rules only applied to the people that they didn t like the second was that any given training on for instance sexual harassment could be safely and comprehensively covered in something less than 5 minutes it did not take an hour and need to be repeated and beaten to death my final issue with the hr is perhaps only one of my imagination in that place i would just assume that the hr we re talking about was staffed entirely by people who met all the specifications for enrolling in the witchfinder s general assembly and frankly i never liked those guys the hr was top cover for getting rid of people that you no longer wanted to work with and getting rid of hr means you re stuck with those people because there are arcane rules about disposing firing workers you no longer like or can t tolerate so we re back to where i was as a young junior officer being told by the xo that no i cannot throw fireman x over the side or shitcan him because i need to document that he was counseled and i must also have a record showing that his counseling included all the steps he must take to avoid becoming shark food only after repeated failures to stay off the menu could i get rid of him in strict accordance with procedures the upshot though was a day after that little chat the engineer sent me note asking if i wanted to keep another particular bane of my existence who had just left my office after trying to explain how it was that he missed the last liberty boat back to the ship and was forced to remain overnight on diego garcia it seems his background investigation had finally come in and he had a rap sheet 22 pages long and had therefore fraudulently enlisted he was on the next boat back to diego garcia and the next plane back to the united states what mr breslow and his hr failed to comprehend was that his hr was supposed to work for him i m sure he ll be able to replace them with something ten times better but then when we are talking about hr we can be talking about multiplying by zero posted by hms defiant at 11 19 am 3 comments tuesday may 26 2026 legitimate peaceful democrats it speaks volumes that on seeing this i immediately concurred honestly who would assassinate a candidate for mayor in america as i read those words very early this morning at chicago boyz i was struck by the thought this was the very first time i have ever seen somebody suggesting that a man doing nothing more than standing for public office as mayor of some crappy little town in the united states could be assassinated for daring to stand up for himself and others in the environment created by liberal democrats i remember sitting in the airport in manila as i was waiting to leave the country and reading about the discovery of this election massacre and thinking wow this sort of thing could never happen in america i m beginning to get the distinct feeling that i m wrong posted by hms defiant at 12 58 pm 5 comments monday may 25 2026 remembrance while the day comes around every year i find that it takes forever to write anything because once i start digging in i find hours pass as i look through the things i have and the places i have been to see what calls forth the memory this time these were some of the most evocative words i ever ran across it really doesn t take very much to evoke them sometimes it s the wind on the water or the leaves rustling and other times it s as simple as seeing something you ve seen a dozen times in a different light and then there is an item from sippican s cottage posted by hms defiant at 3 30 am 3 comments saturday may 23 2026 strange happenings i see from the news so take that for what it s worth that uss nimitz is now operating in the caribbean which you must admit is a strange place to find an aircraft carrier based out of bremerton washington on the very point of a dignified retirement i know she is underway to her final homeport for decommissioning but it still seems odd to send a nuclear ship all the way around south america to commence its final act those who have read the fighting words to the top right know my connection with the ship but i liked this picture and i never saw this one until now catherine nimitz lay christened nimitz on 13 may 1972 she was the very first person outside the family that i worked for i slaved away all through 7th grade as one of the assistant librarians at thomson junior high school in newport ri where she was the head librarian she was a fascinating lady as the war got out of control and more and more wounded soldiers returned to the states i read about the disgraceful conditions at walter reed hospital and winced because i knew from one of my officers that closed down nas alameda and treasure island that the immediate effect of appearing on the brac list was deterioration of the buildings and infrastructure because nobody would approve contracts to spend money on dead facilities it was a shambles one can only hope that this is not how the delayed decommissioning has affected uss nimitz getting jerked around like that at the end of service life is bound to have been a major pain in the ass i saw that with the msos an lst and the poor destroyers bean counters are never kind but they are positively vicious at the end good luck and good night cuba posted by hms defiant at 2 51 am 4 comments friday may 22 2026 more foolish immortals i get some kind of weird kick out of taking a few minutes every now and then to listen to npr i know i keep hoping that one day i ll turn the radio on and hear nothing but static on their channels but they still give that kind of amusement that draws a snort from most intelligent people today was no different the moderator got another moderate to discuss those whacky rethuglicans and how they are viciously turning on the sainted john thune and his lackey cornyn and it was kind of nice to hear the two lockstep fascists excoriating the rethuglicans for being anti democratic and so stuffed with hate that they are tearing demselves apart i used to wonder at how anyone could be so simple as to believe a word they hear on npr but this kind of thing makes me think there is still some room for idiots it s as if the only way democrats can think about politics is always 150 lockstep and any who ever doubt or waver or vote other than as directed by the leadership are cast into the outer darkness forthwith with no dillydallying or foot dragging they just cannot comprehend a party that allows for diverse opinions on every single topic and really does largely consist of a big tent in which all are welcome they see any failure to obey as the rightful kiss of death and start cutting off heads throwing firebombs and burning down anything that they haven t already toppled and peed on notice how they never set fire to universities or schools republicans just see it as a time to winnow out some of the democrats who have been masquerading as republicans for too long i don t know what it will take to get those idiots to finally approve a law that 85 of the entire country wants but they will one day and unlike the useless democrats it s not going to involve a man with a gun shooting at politicians i m looking forward to an actual flight of the starship tonight so the weather better hold on posted by hms defiant at 5 47 pm 2 comments thursday may 21 2026 it was may 1919 it was a fascinating time but then i say that about every time this one though was special one of those things i like about real sailors is that no matter what at the end of the day a real sailor never gives up give them a chance to hoist sail and be a hero and they do it the nc flying boats were designed as aircraft that 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