And you've just walked out of life and death...

strawman

strawman

A fascinating short audio clip from a former drone pilot talking about a few aspects of the day to day business of piloting drones in war zones.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-24522150[DOUBLEPOST=1381771954,1381771743][/DOUBLEPOST]One part of this made me think that our soldiers and others who fly drones are less involved and can more effectively be kept in the dark due to the way they are handled.

One pilot could be briefed enough to get the plane to the target, then they could switch out while the next takes the shot, then they could be switched out for the return journey. The first and last don't need to know there was a strike. The middle doesn't need to know where the strike was placed, they were just handed a plane already hanging above a target.

Unlike a fighter pilot who was involved from start to finish, there's no lead up to the strike that might cause them to question the validity of the strike.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

stienman said:
Unlike a fighter pilot who was involved from start to finish, there's no lead up to the strike that might cause them to question the validity of the strike.
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Which is irrelevant to the strike itself since I'm pretty sure most of the time they're going to follow orders unless something comes in to disrupt those orders. That's what you're trained for, according to the military men in my family. It's not like in movies.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

stienman said:
YOU CHANGED YOUR USERNAME!?!

:eek:
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Now instead of looking at my pokemon friends list and wondering who the fuck Zero Esc is because he doesn't use his halforums handle, I'll look at both pokemon -and- halforums and wonder who the fuck the guy with quotemander's avatar is.

And that's not even counting how long it took me to get used to him changing to quotemander to begin with...
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Ravenpoe said:
Now instead of looking at my pokemon friends list and wondering who the fuck Zero Esc is because he doesn't use his halforums handle, I'll look at both pokemon -and- halforums and wonder who the fuck the guy with quotemander's avatar is.

And that's not even counting how long it took me to get used to him changing to quotemander to begin with...
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Now just wait until I change my avatar.



 
PatrThom

PatrThom

I...don't understand the disagree?
I mean, I haven't seen the movie yet, and that's a fact. How do you disagree with a fact?
Or are you disagreeing with the explanation provided by @stienman?
I'm confused.

--Patrick
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

Staff member
PatrThom said:
I...don't understand the disagree?
I mean, I haven't seen the movie yet, and that's a fact. How do you disagree with a fact?
Or are you disagreeing with the explanation provided by @stienman?
I'm confused.

--Patrick
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I think he's trying to express disapproval for your having not seen The Emperor's New Groove.

"Pull the lever, Kronk!"

*chtunk*
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(splash)


... "Why do we even HAVE that lever?"
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

I haven't seen it because I haven't had the opportunity to see it.

I might as well have just been censured for being poor.

--Patrick
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Would you like me to send you an IPTorrents invite?
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You can if you like, but I doubt I would use it all that much. I'm all ethical and stuff, would probably only torrent stuff I already legally own or that isn't copyrighted.
The opportunity will present itself in the future, I'm sure of it. I *think* we have a copy around here, though I might be confusing it with The Prince of Egypt (which I also haven't seen yet), or else we have both. We have a LOT of movies around here we haven't seen yet. I've accumulated a lot of 'gotta see this some day," so has she, we're getting lots of donations of kids' movies, and her dad works for the library and gets to take home all the discards. In all honesty, we accumulate more hours of content than we have the time to watch right now.

--Patrick
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

PatrThom said:
You can if you like, but I doubt I would use it all that much. I'm all ethical and stuff, would probably only torrent stuff I already legally own or that isn't copyrighted.
The opportunity will present itself in the future, I'm sure of it. I *think* we have a copy around here, though I might be confusing it with The Prince of Egypt (which I also haven't seen yet), or else we have both. We have a LOT of movies around here we haven't seen yet. I've accumulated a lot of 'gotta see this some day," so has she, we're getting lots of donations of kids' movies, and her dad works for the library and gets to take home all the discards. In all honesty, we accumulate more hours of content than we have the time to watch right now.

--Patrick
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All of Disney's stuff is streaming on Netflix.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

Staff member
PatrThom said:
You can if you like, but I doubt I would use it all that much. I'm all ethical and stuff, would probably only torrent stuff I already legally own or that isn't copyrighted.
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Pat, I detest you less than I do most people, but if you're going to sail these waters, you're going to need to know your way around a cutlass.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Pat, I detest you less than I do most people, but if you're going to sail these waters, you're going to need to know your way around a cutlass.
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If ever my fortunes fall so far that I must needs join a private tier, you'd only be fooling yourself to underestimate my skills, but I have not yet reached the end of my rope.

--Patrick
 
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