More shooter harassment

Okay, then. "The Mighty Wolfgang" -- God of bluster!

Continuing our super-hero theme (and being a "Marvel" fan), I'd prefer
to visualize you as the princely "Sub-Mariner"...who's normally rather
contentious, after all.

Nobody beats American ingenuity, you pretzel-pushin' piker!

 

The making of aluminum foil requires negligible amounts of tin

 

Naah. *I* didn't claim nuclear subs were 'toy boats in my
bathtub', so clearly I wasn't blustering.

BTW, you *could* be more respectful if I'm a god. You know,
even the old guy in the bible (you'll find him alone in the far
corner, away from the other gods) did drown everyone when people
he claimed he made them were just as he made them.

You really need to have Washington burned again.
Beaten everywhere up to the moon landing.
Shown how to properly land on Venus.
Need another Korea and Vietnam.
Maybe bought out by China.


"Es gibt nichts, was ein deutscher Offizier nicht kann!"

-Wolfgang

 

Compared to the prices of similar commercial machines, RepRaps
are quite low cost. And while there are not that many objects
in the thingiverse yet, there are lens caps and lens hoods (for
example) ... and since many of the designs are free, they can be
copied and improved.

-Wolfgang

 

On 2012-01-18 15:19:14 -0800, Wolfgang Weisselberg
<> said:

Not without being given an order they can't.
The exception in the last 97 years, being the ability to sign an
unconditional surrender.

 

Hmmm. I cannot claim I'm knowledgeable in that area, but I
have 2 impressions:

a) The US Army method versus the German Army (whatever it's name)
method. The US Army is very procedure taken. It has quite
intelligent and resourceful people spell out every step to
be taken, written down in triplicate. Works very well until
something goes wrong. (No plan survives contact with the
enemy.) The German Army, AFAICT, is more "capture that hill"
than telling you exactly when to start and stop the motars.

b) As I understand it, the fact that the US Army is by procedure
hampers individual thinking and lower levels deviating from
procedure, even if they think and *know* the procedure is
wrong for this specific situation.

BTW, you should look up the film cite. It demonstrates very well
*why* being procedure-locked does allow untrained personell to
do things, but also the drawbacks.

-Wolfgang

 

I wouldn't be so confident. From where I sit, the American patent
system seems to be doing it just fine.

Regards,

Eric Stevens

 

Having been in the Army, which I daresay you have not been, I
affirmatively state that:

Your impression is just plain wrong.

 

I have a feeling that Wolfgang's military experience is based on
cinematic fantasy.

 

Wouldn't you like to name the person who wrote what you
quoted instead of naming me, who didn't?

-Wolfgang

 

I stand corrected: the US Army does not live by procedure.

-Wolfgang

 

Wouldn't it have been easier to write and say that those were John
Turco's words, not yours?

Regards,

Eric Stevens

 

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Nope. It *would* have been easier if you hadn't deleted the
attributions which were there, though. Then I'd not needed
to disavow words I did not write.

-Wolfgang

 

I can't understand how the first line of the attributions came to be
deleted, leaving the second line, your name, at the top of the
article. My news reader shouldn't behave in this way and I certainly
wouldn't have done it deliberately.

In any case, it still would have been easier for you to merely point
out that they were not your words and leave to me the job of
straightening it all out. I would have been quite happy to do that.

I know the real reason: you love an argument and are prepared to
create one where none would otherwise exist, simply by being
difficult.

Regards,

Eric Stevens

 

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Ah, OK.

So I should have said "I didn't write that!"?

Hmmm, that's bad. Real bad. Now that you have found out The
Truth About Me, I'll have to kill you, quick, before you tell
anyone else.

And I planned to have a nice evening of programming instead.
*sigh*

-Wolfgang