Ok first you have to understand, I can't give you specific answers on some questions, as it is classified, and my career frankly isn't worth it. As far as the missing the Scud. well, I can show you the actual scud that was shot down in the early days.

PAC System... Call It patriot. PAC stands for PATRIOT Advanced Capability and is nothing more than a "version" of Patriot.

I cant tell you its coverage, but believe me when I say its nothing to laugh at.
A single Patriot Firing Battery (usually 8 launcher) can handle allot of tracks. (again can't give you exact numbers, sorry)
Our system differentiates between different kinds of track in a few different ways. Primarily we use IFF. Some tracks, like missiles, are judged and evaluated based on their flight path. For example, Moodonia, the British pilot who was shot down by PATRIOT. That guy is a winner of a Darwin Award and heres why. ALLLLLL friendly forces are briefed as to how to fly, how to approach certain areas where these areas are etc, and with blatant disregard to these briefings, he pulled a hot head stunt jockey move and while heading RIGHT AT a PATRIOT unit, he pulled into a sharp dive and accelerated, causing the system to register him as an ANTI Radiation Missile. For PATRIOT, who uses a giant radar, this was bad. The system automatically engaged in self defense. SO in essence it is proof that out system works. Ill be back to answer more later, I have to go to work.

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^ Disagree with that statement MG. Although Macs are easier to use- I find them much more powerful and versatile for the productive, expert users.

People talk about "intuitiveness" and "look and feel" but what it means when you get those things right- is that you can get more of whatever your work is done in less time. Macs are pretty, shiny, lickable- but they are also damn useful machines.

I work in IT- and I know many more Mac users who are hardcore developers and DBAs than Windows users. The Windows users tend to be the Office jockeys, content to fiddle with PowerPoint and Excel.

Of course this is just my totally subjective opinion.

A while ago a Milwaukee disc jockey announced that a shipment of Tickle Me Elmos was coming into port on the Edmund Fitzgerald. Hundreds of people showed up.

@bighead,

I didn't say Shermer was belligerent (quite the opposite), and I made that very clear. Either your first line demonstrates your belligerence, or your inability to read and follow simple sentences.

I don't think I've ever seen a comment with so many ridiculous, uninformed, paranoid, and moronic statements. Line after line of complete and utter foolishness. I encourage you to stick around and continue to "contribute" comments to the discussions here on VS, as they will no doubt be a source of great hilarity.

I do apologize for assuming your lack of understanding of so many things was due to ignorance. You aren't ignorant. Ignorance can be addressed. Ignorance can be overcome, cured. No, I think you are just rather dim-witted. A Wiki-jockey with right-click->Thesaurus. Luckily, society grades on a curve. You push average Joes like me up into solid "A" territory. Thanks for that.

Have a nice day. May the Force be with you.

No fair, that horse won the race !
poo... who needs jockeys anyways :-)

dook is to jockeys...

Why do you call him a "DJ". A DJ is a "Disk Jockey"...as in someone that just spins records. Is he just spinning records of someone else's music here? Or was he creating his own music from scratch? If from scratch, then call him a Musician or keyboard player or whatever. He's not a DJ. DJ's are wanna-be musicians that don't have the patience to learn an actual instrument...so people trump up their "skillz" to make them into these pseudo celebrities. The Emperor has no clothes...sorry.

This is already here, but in longer <Ahref="http://www.videosift.com/video/Jockeys-Something-mustve-spooked-em">form

I'm not sure what to do *blog

More Big Train...

http://www.videosift.com/video/Do-You-Speak-English
http://www.videosift.com/video/Big-Train-Bike-lessons
http://www.videosift.com/video/Big-Train-Cant-cut-it-in-the-real-world
http://www.videosift.com/video/Jockeys-Something-mustve-spooked-em
http://www.videosift.com/video/Big-Train-Working-Class

From Laura Hillenbrand's "Seabiscuit":

He told Woolf to gun to the lead but to keep him in check on the backstretch. When jockey Kurtsinger launched War Admiral in his final drive for the wire, Pollard said, do something completely unexpected and probably unprecedented: Let him catch up. ...

Pollard was sure that if Woolf let War Admiral challenge him, Seabiscuit would run faster and try harder than if Woolf tried to hold the lead alone. "Seabiscuit is the gamer horse. I know that." From there on in, the instructions were simple. Once War Admiral hooked Seabiscuit, "race him into the ground". ...

[The race]: For thirty yards, the two horse hurried down the homestretch side by side ... War Admiral, straining with all he had, was losing ground. ... After a sixteenth of a mile, Seabiscuit was half a length ahead. ... Kurtsinger made a new game plan. He would let Seabiscuit exhaust himself on the lead, then run him down. ...

Seabiscuit cruised into the backstretch on a one-length lead ... [Woolf] called back to Kurtsinger: "Hey, get on up here with me! We're supposed to have a horse race here!" ... War Admiral swooped up alongside him, his head pressing Seabiscuit's shoulder. Kurtsinger thought: I'm going to win it. ...

Woolf loosened his fingers and let an inch or two of the reins slide through. ... Pollard's startegy, Woolf's cunning and Smith's training had given Seabiscuit a chance in a race he otherwise could not have won. ...

Another clip from the excellent and sorely missed Big Train.

I think the horses spooked the jockeys.

From Wikipedia:

Barton Lee Hazlewood (born July 9, 1929 in Mannford, Oklahoma) is an American country singer, songwriter, and record producer....

Following discharge from the military, Hazlewood worked as a disc jockey whilst honing his songwriting skills. Among his early hits was The Fool recorded by rockabilly artist Sanford Clark. Hazlewood also worked with pioneering rock guitarist Duane Eddy.

Hazlewood is perhaps most famous for writing the Nancy Sinatra hit, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'". However, his own output has also achieved a cult status in the underground rock scene, with songs covered by artists such as Lydia Lunch, Primal Scream, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and Boyd Rice.

Hazlewood has a distinctive baritone voice that adds an ominous resonance to his music. Hazlewood's collaborations with Nancy Sinatra as well as his solo output in the late 1960s and early 1970s have been praised as an essential contribution to a sound often described as 'Cowboy Psychedelia' or 'Saccharine Underground'. In 2006 Lee sung for Bela B's first solo album "Bingo" the song "Lee Hazlewood und das erste Lied des Tages" ("Lee Hazlewood and the first song of the day").

In 2006 he was diagnosed with terminal renal cancer with a life expectancy of less than one year.