You say that, but I may have to stop using it. Mako's eyes follow you around the desktop. She knows your darkest secrets. Knows, and enjoys knowing that you know she knows.

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But if you know that she enjoys knowing that you know she knows, is it really that bad? After all, you knowing would sort of neutralize her knowing that you know. No?

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Gott's Leetle Feesh in Trousers!

So they have rather aggressively noise-cancelling headsets that are also hearing protection, tied into the vehicle-to-vehicle intercom (usually using voice activation, and usually working!), and a PTT button that routes audio to the radio..

I'm starting to see "industrial bluetooth" wireless versions of this equipment, which I think is a grand thing, provided it _works_

Don't forget one other important thing at the time: Radios were not general issue, most of the infantrymen wouldn't even have one.

Adding an external access for the intercom system meant that anyone stuck on foot could talk to the tank crew, not just the one guy in the squad with a radio.

even as recent as a few years ago, only elite units like the seals would have squad level radio communications.

In WW2, IIRC, maybe your platoon or company commander had a radio link back to your parent unit; it certainly wasn't originally intended to provide links to other units. That was one of the things they learned during ww2, how usefull it could be for the grunts to be able to pass information such as forward spotting of artillery or look out for the panther at 2 o'clock, etc.

EDIT: Additionally, since we're talking about the Rainbow Codes (Britain's official Department Of Weird Shit What Blows Up Good), I've recently discovered a program from the '50s to make an anti-ship nuke. Its name, randomly generated in accordance with Rainbow Code standards?

Green Cheese.

Make your own jokes about British cooking here. =]

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

Let's just say the original script for Chicken Run had a considerably darker ending and leave it at that.

Certainly it worked better than the plan to firebomb Japanese cities with swarms of incendiary bats.

No... really.

(Although apart from the bats' poor IFF discrimination, that actually worked fairly well in testing.)

>See, they needed a means of keeping components warm when they were
>buried under the ground in Germany in case of Soviet invasion. Ideas
>of how to do this ranged from the fairly normal (giving the gigantic
>landmines snuggly blankies, which is also adorable) to... well,
>see for yourself.

Money quote: "The Civil Service does not do jokes."

--G.
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But yeah, between them and the Soviet dog mines, WWII wasn't a good place to be if you were an animal. It did, however, give us this picture:

Which people who like dogs will presumably find less than objectionable. =]

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

i have a phobia this was hard

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Let's all be thankful they didn't go for one of the other common nicknames for cats.

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

Knowing the CIA, that was a separate project.

--G.
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Someone else remembers H.O.L!

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-Pasha
"Don't change the subject"
"Too slow, already did."

Never even read the book but that story on the back cover stuck with me. =)

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Fearless creatures, we all learn to fight the Reaper
Can't defeat Her, so instead I'll have to be Her

When I was a kid I used to have a radio-controlled Sherman tank. The gun would even make little puffs of smoke on command if you filled a little reservoir in the turret with cooking oil. I wonder what ever happened to that...

--G.
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Isn't that the cunning plan that had the minor operational drawback that the dogs were trained to run at their own side's tanks instead of the German ones? Oops...

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Unable to save the day: File is read-only.

Dogs are not generally renowned for their tank recognition skills.

--G.
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It is indeed. Also they trained in relatively calm training fields, which bear little resemblance to the roaring and booming of a pitched tank battle. So if the dogs didn't freak out over the loud noises, they did when their masters tried to shoot at them for running towards their own tanks, leading to the poor creatures seeking out the nearest safe harbor...which tended to be the underside of a T-34.

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CdrMike, Renegade Time Lord

--G.
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Michael

Michael C. Fortner
"Maxim 37: There is no such thing as "overkill".
There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload".