How is all this Republican overreach going to play out in November 2014?

[Sean Renaud]

As in "repairs"?

No, as in maintain. You don't refer to a pit crew as "repairing" a vehicle. The reality is that weapons break down all on their own if you don't perform proper maintenance on them.

Yes you do repair them if it comes to that but a the bulk of your job is trying to catch as many things early as possible so that you don't have to repair things. Shit breaking in the field (even during training) can be fatal.

 

[KingOrfeo]

No, as in maintain. You don't refer to a pit crew as "repairing" a vehicle. The reality is that weapons break down all on their own if you don't perform proper maintenance on them.

Aren't the soldiers who carry them supposed to do that themselves? Or is there something analogous to changing the oil in your car, that you could do yourself but you're probably better off taking it to a quiklube/armorer to have it done properly?

 

[Sean]

No, no, no switching around the burden of proof. Especially since I already have posted, many times and not in this thread alone, considerable evidence that all evidence to the contrary is bullshit. Now it's your turn to bring it, and, no, just calling No Child Left Behind a failure does not jump the bar.

Forget it, he's a moron. It doesn't matter how much you show that Murray et all were frauds, he won't take any notice. Just ridicule him and move on.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Aren't the soldiers who carry them supposed to do that themselves? Or is there something analogous to changing the oil in your car, that you could do yourself but your probably better off taking it to a quiklube/armorer to have it done properly?

Kinda sorta. For starters not all weapons are carried by soldiers. The weapons you see for example on aircraft are generally checked out from the Armory and then returned in between.

Even when they aren't there are lots of weapons that aren't in use at any given time and just because a given unit isn't using their weapons doesn't stop things like rust.

Ironically there are guns that you DO have to change the oil on but it's not that it's an all day process (well for some of them it can be. Fuck a GAU-17) but (especially on the Air Wing side) that simply isn't the job of those people. The guy who flies a helicopter is expected to fly a helicopter not work on the guns for it. You could probably train them to but that's hardly the point. As as been pointed out in a few threads as of late there are a lot of behind the scenes folks that don't get noticed. Armorers are amongst those people.

To use your car analogy in general the people driving Humm V's don't do anything more complicated than fueling em up. It's not that they couldn't change the breaks or check the oil, it's that int's simply not their job to do so.

 

[The_Trouvere]

No, no, no switching around the burden of proof. Especially since I already have posted, many times and not in this thread alone, considerable evidence that all evidence to the contrary is bullshit. Now it's your turn to bring it, and, no, just calling No Child Left Behind a failure does not jump the bar.

Since the school year of 1986-87 the gap in SAT scores between whites and blacks has grown.

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=171

ACT scores reveal the same gap.

http://www.blackexcel.org/06-sat-act-scores-by-race-ethnicity.htm

Why isn't the failure of No Child Left Behind meaningful? One of the goals, if not the main goal of NCLB was to erase the race gap.

I have talked to people who have tried to teach blacks in public schools. They have told me that they are usually years behind whites. Many have trouble understanding concepts as simple as fractions and negative numbers.

In his book Intelligence and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations Richard Lynn provides estimates based on all available data on average IQ's in various countries. Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and Singapore are at the top. Black countries are at the bottom.

http://www.sq.4mg.com/NationIQ.htm

 

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[Sean Renaud]

Some repairs can be made in the field, others require the skills of an armorer. Armorers also maintain weapons stored in armories, they certify that all weapons issued are in fact serviceable and functioning properly and recheck and repair weapons that are returned to the armory.

What he said if you prefer short and concise to my more rambling nature.

Some also require the time of an armorer, field repairs aren't always about ease some times you have to wait for a part and in the meanwhile they don't just bench you so to speak. You turn in your busted shit, grab a new one and get back out there.

And again not all weapons are carried by individuals.

 

[KingOrfeo]

You turn in your busted shit, grab a new one and get back out there.

All of life should be like that . . .

 

[Sean Renaud]

All of life should be like that . . .

Perhaps one day it will be. I know it's not exactly the same thing but didn't "we" have a conversation about how electric cars should be done like that? Instead of focusing on ways to quick charge the battery just have swap stations?

 

[KingOrfeo]

Perhaps one day it will be. I know it's not exactly the same thing but didn't "we" have a conversation about how electric cars should be done like that? Instead of focusing on ways to quick charge the battery just have swap stations?

I was thinking of body parts, but, yeah.

 

[BotanyBoy]

All of life should be like that . . .

Until you realize it would cost such an ridiculously astro fucking nomical amount's of money to operate like that.

Oh I forgot, you could give a fuck about how much is spent....as long as it's someone else footing the bill.

 

[dan_c00000]

Since the school year of 1986-87 the gap in SAT scores between whites and blacks has grown.

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=171

ACT scores reveal the same gap.

http://www.blackexcel.org/06-sat-act-scores-by-race-ethnicity.htm

Why isn't the failure of No Child Left Behind meaningful? One of the goals, if not the main goal of NCLB was to erase the race gap.

I have talked to people who have tried to teach blacks in public schools. They have told me that they are usually years behind whites. Many have trouble understanding concepts as simple as fractions and negative numbers.

In his book Intelligence and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations Richard Lynn provides estimates based on all available data on average IQ's in various countries. Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and Singapore are at the top. Black countries are at the bottom.

http://www.sq.4mg.com/NationIQ.htm

And Asian people have much higher IQs then white people, Jews have higher IQs than whites and Asians. Also the U.S. sucks at math. What's your point? That whites are better? Well 1. it isn't true and 2. way to be racist.

 

[The_Trouvere]

And Asian people have much higher IQs then white people, Jews have higher IQs than whites and Asians. Also the U.S. sucks at math. What's your point? That whites are better? Well 1. it isn't true and 2. way to be racist.

My point is certainly not that Nordics, Aryans, or whatever you want to call Gentiles of north west European origins are superior to other peoples.

My point is that race is a meaningful human classification, and that the various races and sub races within the larger races differ in average ability levels and behavior. Moreover, they differ in ways that indicate genetic causation.

As you point out, on the average Ashkenazi Jews are more intelligent than Orientals, who are more intelligent that white Gentiles of European origins, who are more intelligent than Hispanics, who are more intelligent than blacks.

Racial differences have legitimate policy implications. There should be no sanctions against discussing them publicly. Those who impose the sanctions privately agree with me and those of my persuasion. If it was easy to prove us mistaken, that is what they would be doing. Instead they try to suppress the discussion.