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  1. Well only a 4-star admiral told me that's precisely what we did.  It accidentally drifted where it shouldn't have (altitude/course-wise, supposed to be invisible to radar and sat. comms.).  So it was followed by aircraft which picked up all kinda cool shit from it.  Then for a show-of-force, it was destroyed at perhaps the highest altitude tactical missile detonation ever performed in aviation history.  He indicated that when your future enemy loses a recon resource and you can learn everything you can from it, so long as it's not dropping mustard gas on urban areas, and can they detonate in an unfathomably high altitude priorly unknown to traditional fighter jet engagements, that's what you do.  
    But yeah, some folks on here read some shit on reddit and 4chan that said it learned all of our nuclear secrets and is going to come back to murder all of us in the name of the Chicoms.  It is remarkable some of you are this fucking stupid. 
     

    Is it though?
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  2. 1 hour ago, Celery Man said:

    I listed the Katana plus a boss FS-6 switch pedal for $125. I think that's pretty reasonable, I'm not trying to squeeze a bunch of money out of the amp (it's a mk1 probably 4 or 5 years old, a brand new mk2 is like $250) but even just the pedal is $80 new. I've got a guy trying to haggle with me, started at $90 and I said "no", he keeps insisting that it's today. $90 today. He worked up to $100 today. Another guy asked how far I am from Myrtle Beach (different state, like 4 hours or something). Another wanted to give me a Yamaha acoustic. And the most reasonable offer is a guy who wants me to drive it to Durham for $135. But I'm not going to do that. I really wish you could flag this for strictly local.

    I'm here for these stories though.  

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  3. Judge has to approve any plan of reorganization.  A minimum requirement is that one class of creditors has to approve the plan, a class of creditors that will take a haircut under the plan or is impaired. 
    Generally speaking, secured creditors are not impaired unless they were under secured as of the petition date (collateral worth less than debt). That leaves unsecured creditors. 
    I don't know what other impaired creditors may exist that might approve or object to the plan. 
    This is a nice start, though. 
    I find it difficult to believe that a judge will approve a plan that lets Jones live lavishly while delaying payment to the Sandy Hook plaintiffs.
     
    But often, legitimate businesses are permitted to operate as normal or close to it while funding a chapter 11 plan.  But those creditors getting hosed are voluntary meaning they extended some form of credit to the debtor and deserve to take a haircut, while these creditors are involuntary.  Then again the amount owed is somewhat arbitrary. 
    As a general observation, a bankruptcy judge can be pro-debtor or pro-creditor, and most start a case as the former because that's the purpose of it.  But they can turn on the debtor for a variety of reasons, mostly related to a sense of abuse of the bankruptcy code.  This would seem to be a good candidate for that. 
    [mention=699]Chad Fuck[/mention] can confirm or deny the accuracy of this. There are some special provisions related to small businesses that are implicated here that I don't know much about, but I think the above is generally accurate. 

    Agree with this take. It’s been a long long while since I’ve dealt with what is essentially a personal bk masking as a corporate bk. I will say there is a tremendous amount of scrutiny on the SDTX BK court right now. So this judge is going to be very deliberate (slow) in processing this case. It will draw the kind of attention the Judges there don’t want. SDTX already has a rep of being friendly to debtors - too friendly in a lot of people’s eyes. Bad publicity from this could cause problems. I know the law shouldn’t be influenced this way, but bk courts are particularly sensitive to it for myriad reasons.
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  4. Russia making a move on Transnistria? He thinks this will lend more domestic support for his election and mass conscription? Or is he feeling good about where things are heading with western political support? 
    [/url] ️The so-called "Transnistrian congress" will ask Moscow to annex Transnistria to Russia — Transnistrian opposition.
     
    According to a Transnistrian opponent Ghenadie Ciorba, quoted by INFOTAG, the so-called MPs of all levels of Transnistria are going to adopt a request to Moscow regarding the accession of the separatist region to the Russian Federation.
     
    Ciorba drew attention to the fact that the meeting will take place one day before the address of Putin to the Federal Assembly. The Transnistrian opposition does not rule out that this directive to organize the congress comes from Moscow itself.
     
    Ciorba assumes that the next day, on February 29, Putin will announce this request to the Assembly Federal, which will decide to proceed with the request.
     
    The opponent believes that the assembly in Tiraspol and the protest organized there recently against the so-called economic pressures of the Republic of Moldova are aimed at showing that the residents of Transnistria are against Chisinau.
     
    "This is where the recent statement of the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, comes from, that Moscow will not let its citizens in Transnistria suffer," Ciorba said.
     
    He called on the so-called MPs of the region to prevent the adoption of this decision, which would give Putin "a legitimate excuse to strike the territory of the Republic of Moldova, including Transnistria, under any pretext."
     
    Link to the article: 
    https://deschide.md/ro/stiri/23/145323/Opozant-transnistrean-Congresul-a#google_vignette

    Im surprised this hasn’t happened already.
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  5. 1 hour ago, Macanudo said:

    For those who say the B-17 couldn't handle like that....

     

     

     

    Same plane mentioned in both but different narrators with different styles.

    Old 666 is a great tale and they have their own panel at the NMUSAF, and rightly so.  That said, there's not a whole lot about the actual maneuvering here but to say that the pilot banked the plane hard/steeply to give his rear gunners a shot at the attackers.  What does that mean?  30 degree bank angle?  45? 60?  Who knows.  

    9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    If you watch it again, it’s not quite like a fighter. I’ve spent way too much time on the 100th Facebook group, and a few other sites (including the 100th’s main site), but apparently Rosenthal’s son and another crew member or two confirmed that Rosenthal flew the shit out of the plane on that return.

    I think it was his son who said the maneuvers were more violent than shown in the show - because they were solo at that point, Rosenthal was doing everything he could to keep as many guns on the Germans as possible and so he couldn’t fly it in a straight line until they ran the Germans off (or they ran low on fuel).  The turns/spiral he did managed to keep an additional gunner or two covering the approaches of the fighters - the gunners were screaming out positions and Rosie was trying to turn the plane to keep them from a straight-on tail and frontal attack.

    Rosie was a badass through and through.  

    On a side note, there is a 102 year-old airmen still alive who is the last remaining person who was in the tower when Rosie and his crew landed.

    https://www.facebook.com/100thBGFoundation/posts/pfbid02GAtQDAaquvApMUri5WQonpempjdtmo9UKwbXBYtc68UHJ4Qct9GvyrMsejyJmyCWl

     

    I will watch it again, as I started again at Ep 1 last night.  I have no doubt Rosenthal flew the shit out of the airplane.  Zero.  None.  But a "violent maneuver" in a B-17 may look drastically different than a "violent maneuver" in a P-51 or Me 109.  

    Further, I am not expressing doubt that the veterans are telling the truth about what they perceived.  I have interviewed literally hundreds of vets for my work.  They are people like any other people, and they may be unaware of certain facts, they may embellish, come to change their minds or believe embellishments.  I'm not saying that they're lying or that we shouldn't believe them.  I'm saying that reality may be slightly different from what they perceive.  For example, I had a Sunday school teacher shot down in a B-24 over Wewak.  Every Japanese plane as a "Zero" to him, and he insisted his plane was shot down by a Zero.  Turns out, reserach showed that there were no Navy aircraft (the Zero is a Navy aircraft) at Wewak at the time he was shot down.  He was most likely shot down by a Ki 43 Oscar (an Army aircraft).   Maybe the research was wrong, maybe he misidentified in the heat of the moment.  

    Bottom line, I am not doubting that an extraordinary bit of flying occurred as described in the episode.  However, I remain skeptical that the "violent maneuvers" which Rosie undertook look in real life like it did with the CGI on the television.  

     

  6. One of the singers in my Dad's band had an Ovation Adamas.  It was their top of the line back in the late 70s.  It was a fine guitar, as long as you were standing up.

     

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  7. 9 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    The drummer in my dad band wanted to buy a guitar so he could learn what the bass player and I would talk about (chord progressions, basic theory, etc.).

    He bought a fucking Ovation.

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    Very hard to sit down and play.  They go wandering off your lap.

    In other news, I had a red letter date yesterday.  Chad Jr. has been taking piano lessons for a long while.  Way back during covid, he got interested in guitar and we tried to do the Fender lessons together, but he got frustrated, then I got frustrated and didn't handle it so well.  So I just left it alone hoping I hadn't fucked it up for life.  Last night we had made a deal to practice together (he on piano, me on guitar) and after about an hour of that, he asked me to show him some basics on guitar.  You could have knocked me over with a feather.  One of my great dad moments showing him how a C on the guitar was just like a C on the piano.  Thought I'd share that will y'all.  

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