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Well, if it is armored, seems like a noise sensor of some sort would be able to pick up a high-frequency “ping” or “pop” off of the hull (compared to wave noise).

That is the theory for now and according to the article. I would have to disagree. I do not remember the decline in the bee population happening before genetically engineered foods took over the farm.

Can’t wait until the first time somali pirates take over one of these drones.... hopefully just as the shooting starts.

I wonder if they have a drone that the Royal Navy sailors can practice surrendering to. But then, they seem do that quite well as it is.

I would like to see where you found this information.

I would like to see where you found this information.

They record hits? Sounds like they don’t use live ammunition.

They should have called Mythbusters instead, much cheaper plus they get air time.

Oerlikon twin 20mm: The suicide boat killer.

Happy Cajuns

Sounds like fun!

Fast Marine Target Drones: Good target practice for Royal Navy sailors.

Wed column ping

Mumbles stumbles into con-flagration
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, December 23, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists

Here’s one big difference between the final days of two almost-mayors-for-life - Kevin White and Mumbles Menino.

Kevin from Heaven preferred to hire proven criminals - ex-cons. With four years to go, Mumbles seems to be bringing on wet-behind-the-ears apprentices in serious need of on-the-job training.

Of course some of this corruption stuff you have to pick up as you go along. For instance, City Councilor Sal Lamattina has learned too late not to refer to anyone as an “altar boy” - in the who-will-inherit-the-Mumbles-machine-in-2013 sweepstakes, Sal has now slipped at least a couple of lengths behind Councilor Mini-Me, Rob Consalvo of Hyde Park.

What Mayor DeLuxe understood was that doing a bit or two tends to make most thugs more careful. A jailbird emeritus has learned the basics - you flee before the indictment, so they can’t get you for flight, plus you don’t forfeit bail money because you haven’t posted any. You never carry a lot of cash with you when the cops are closing in, because everything is forfeited after they arrest you.

This is all very basic Hoodlum 101 stuff. But the baby-faced “Forbes” did everything wrong. Hey, he was working for Mumbles, how smart could he possibly be? As one of the posters on a Herald message board said, “And here I thought the only dope at City Hall was Mumbles.”

By the way, isn’t the perp’s name “John Forbes” a knee-slapper - two-thirds of the moniker of the senior senator, who served in Vietnam. Brings to mind Eddie McCormack’s line about Ted Kennedy: “If your name were Edward Moore, your candidacy would be a joke.”

Sen. Kerry, if your name were John Forbes, you’d be... under arrest!

And now we find out that Forbes was cruising Ward 1 with a convicted murderer who was allegedly looking for someone to burn down the rat’s house. Now that’s old East Boston. Joe Barboza always dreamed of burning down somebody’s house, and then shooting the rat as he tried to escape through the front door. Alas, the Office nixed it.

Actually, though, White did have at least one guy working for him who was linked to a Mob hit, although our only word on that comes from Whitey Bulger, who himself used to be on the Suffolk County payroll. And then of course there was Kevin’s chief fundraiser - he had once been a Mob lawyer. Plus it’s always helpful to have a lawyer handling cash for you - that old attorney-client privilege can come in very handy when the subpoenas start flying.

If you ever run into Jack Williams from Ch. 4, ask him who Kevin’s ward boss in Uphams Corner was. He’ll remember for sure. It was... Jack Williams. I’m sure Jack from Soldiers Field Road laughs about it, now. Then, it was probably not so funny.

Kevin had another ward boss in Roxbury named Reggie. One day I casually mentioned in the paper that Reggie was an ex-con - but so what? Back then, if you were indicted, you were invited. The morning my story appeared, he showed up on the eighth floor in City Hall - the press room - and started yelling at me.

“My wife didn’t know I was an ex-con ‘til she read it in the paper,” he said, as the 4-inch scar on his neck throbbed, and I started wondering. How exactly did Mrs. Reggie think he got that gash - shaving, or shanking?

As the feds would close in on White’s jailbirds-turned-hacks, they’d file for phony disability pensions. The G-men got wise, but a few hacks escaped the dragnet. That won’t happen this time around. They’re already flipping secretaries down on Northampton Street; it’s not a very merry Christmas at Florian Hall.

But here’s another change over the last 30 years, as the rats fleeing Mumbles’ sinking ship will soon learn to their eternal chagrin. The feds used to get you for one count of mail fraud for each kiss-in-the-mail on your phony disability. Now there’s direct deposit, but that just makes it a different felony - wire fraud. Five years per.

Hey Mumbles, you better forget about looking for your crutches and start looking for a parachute.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1220661

Can his wife fly to Tahiti on your dime?

Three in the morning. Bad kidneys woke me up. I was having this dream that someone responded, finally, to a really old post I made on FR.

Must be a full moon.

This reminds me of the plot for an episode of "Better off Ted", Racial Sensitivity The series’ corporation, Veridian Dynamics, installed a series of money-saving motion sensors linked to every door, light switch, water fountain and elevator in the building, but with one flaw: the sensors could not recognize African Americans. Instead of immediately fixing it, they hired uneducated whites to follow the black employees. It was brilliant.

BTW, ABC's "Better off Ted" is one of the best shows on TV.

This is yet another country which the US and other countries have poured gobs of money into, without any sort of success. The people won't do anything to help themselves; instead they rely on their personal ATMs — the US and other countries foolish enough to throw money at them.

It's time for the US to stop wasting taxpayer money on these “developing” countries and force them to actually develop a source of income for themselves.

Slavery is a disgusting practice. Those who promote it should be shot in the head!

Our future.

I think one of those kids played the banjo in Deliverance.

Black slavery in the western hemisphere and not a peep from people like the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Sharpton, and all the other phonies in the civil rights industry.

There's only ONE thing Clinton's good at.

Yeah, I thought it was now a Communist paradise almost as wonderful as Cuba.

I thought Bill Clinton fixed this.

It would be nice if those who report on French-speaking countries would know some French. “Restavek,” indeed.

Quelle fromage! ;)

Chris Needham is a clueless punk who writes drivel for nbc. I’m surpised he’s employed; his writing is awful.

reste avec, in French.

WVa. is one of the most beautiful states in the Union.

Typical arrogant and ignorant NY/DC yuppie.

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I don’t know about the source either, but I DO know that there is no criminal activity that the commie CIC and his cabal in DC would not engage in. I put absolutely nothing past him, ergo the name Zero.

I’m betting the 2010 election will have already been ‘fixed’, one way or another.

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Hey, if those same camera elements are used in urban security cams, then what's the problem?

-PJ

>>But when Desi’s white co-worker, Wanda, enters the scene the camera follows her. “As soon as my blackness enters the frame, it stopped,” says Desi. “Black Desi gets in there, no face recognition anymore buddy,” says Desi.<<

I’m calling shenanigans on the basis that there’s no such thing as a white chick named Wanda.

When is a fine not a fine?

It may not be a very merry Christmas for Balloon Boy parents Richard and Mayumi Heene this year - they've just been hit with a $42,000 bill....

... A judge could determine then what they owe in restitution to the agencies that responded, from police to the National Guard and the Federal Aviation Administration

When it is a BILL for RESTITUTION.

Sheesh; ignant jernelrismists!

While I was there; we went out to eat and the W Virginians thought it was funny that I had a baked potato with chives, butter, bacon, cheese and sour cream. They ate theirs with butter only. Of this was back in the late 60s.

That it is. Funny how a lot of the elites flock to White Suplpher Springs for vacations.

That photo looks much like the place I was raised. We had a swinging bridge across the creek dissecting a dirt road.
Had an outhouse too sans the flapping pj's.

This Needham kid (has to be a kid) needs to be fired. And his editor with him. The article was totally unprofessional -- bordering on juvenile.

A serious news organization shouldn't be paying good money to high school sophomores. Even if they've got a journalism degree...

Funny thing is that in WV and Kentucky you will find some of the best looking banks, white pillars, two story brick with excellent landscaping. None of the banks built with stryrofoam and cement spray.

WV state flower is the satellite dish. WV state bird is the fly. How do you win the WV lottery? You just have to know 7 numbers.

Before flaming me, I own a beautiful chunk of land just south of Romney that I will be building and living on. Let ‘em joke—I hear plenty where I work—just as long as the stuck-up Washington elitists say the hell away.

It is beautiful.....Some places are beyond belief....

I can see a million hillbillies descending on Washington to take vengeance. It won’t be pretty.

Our daughters were born in Arkansas and any time they are asked where they were born, when they say “Arkansas”, the person asking automatically looks down to see if they are wearing shoes.
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Been living with that since I moved to Pennsylvania. Sometimes I take my shoes off and walk around work in just my socks. It entertains the guys at work.

They won’t let up will they? They just have to continue their childess games to try and make us mad.

Morgana, anyone that would say what this simpleton said doesn’t deserve to be acknowledged.

I know WV very well and I will say; it is a beautiful state with many wonderful people.

Go to any major city espically those run by liberals (most) and you will see people living and crapping on the streets. Oh but that is the lovely homeless people. WE DO NOT have homeless people in the rural areas. Also if he was writing about some eco-nut who crapped in their compost pile to save the water and the planet he would be all gushy, gushy about getting back to nature. These yankees are NUTS. Always have been and always will be.

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If they were mutants they might not survive. Let’s hope they’re not mutants, based on what we’ve seen so far.

Is that what Botox does to you??? Makes you a mutant? That is not what the counselors at Carbide Camp told us! Well..well...well.....that will make for an interesting camp fire ghost story!!!

I go to WV on business all the time. There’s a lot of good people down there. I wish I could say the same of DC, but from what I read and see, I just can’t.