All of the Siri commercials are annoying and half of them Siri doesn't even answer the asked question. What's the best way to Santa Cruz. Fly you moron! You're in fucking New York City. With just you and your girlfriend it'll take you two weeks to drive there, and if you're horny little minks you may never get there!

They might not be. Train is, by far, the most economical way to transport heavy military vehicles - particularly tracked ones. These may be on their way from a base to a training area.

Tracked vehicles need an insane amount of maintenance - upwards of 12 man-hours for every hour they are driven. Driving these across the country would be inordinately expensive.>> ^Yogi:

I drive through Watsonville on my way to Santa Cruz from the 5. I never knew these things were even built in California.

I drive through Watsonville on my way to Santa Cruz from the 5. I never knew these things were even built in California.

>> ^Issykitty:

Where is this? This totally looks like Santa Cruz...
edit: looked at the vid desc on YT and it IS Santa Cruz.


No, that's obviously Santa Carla.. murder capital of the world.

We love Santa Cruz!

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Where is this? This totally looks like Santa Cruz...

edit: looked at the vid desc on YT and it IS Santa Cruz. :

Where is this? This totally looks like Santa Cruz...

edit: looked at the vid desc on YT and it IS Santa Cruz.

>> ^skinnydaddy1:

>> ^sme4r:
A desk job? That really sucks, he must have saved the British government a cool million dollars or (or like 6 pounds, 7 quid these days) and some shame by landing it on a boat rather then crashing it out at sea.>> ^oritteropo:
One of the comments tells the rest of the story:
"In 2007, Britain’s National Archives released a number of Royal Navy files, and the second inquiry report was finally made public. Noting that Watson had completed only 75 percent of his training before he had been sent to sea, the board blamed Watson’s inexperience, and his commanders for assigning him an airplane “not fully prepared for the sortie,” a reference to radio problems. Nonetheless, Watson was reprimanded and given a desk job.


Well sort of, He saved the plane (Good) he saved his life (Great job) but as for money.
When the Alraigo, with the jet atop the containers, docked at Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a horde of reporters was on hand. The ship’s crew and owners filed a salvage claim and were awarded some £570,000 ($1.14 million at the time) as compensation for the “rescue.” When Watson returned to the Illustrious, a Board of Inquiry essentially did nothing. But when the Illustrious returned to port, Watson underwent a second Board of Inquiry.
It kind of sucks that the Capt of the cargo ship was more interested in the salvage claim than anything else. (This is my personal opinion and it may be that the capt was a good guy but instead of waiting for the royal navy he made damn sure he got to a friendly port to guarantee his money.)


Do you have any idea how much a Harrier costs?

>> ^sme4r:

A desk job? That really sucks, he must have saved the British government a cool million dollars or (or like 6 pounds, 7 quid these days) and some shame by landing it on a boat rather then crashing it out at sea.>> ^oritteropo:
One of the comments tells the rest of the story:
"In 2007, Britain’s National Archives released a number of Royal Navy files, and the second inquiry report was finally made public. Noting that Watson had completed only 75 percent of his training before he had been sent to sea, the board blamed Watson’s inexperience, and his commanders for assigning him an airplane “not fully prepared for the sortie,” a reference to radio problems. Nonetheless, Watson was reprimanded and given a desk job.



Well sort of, He saved the plane (Good) he saved his life (Great job) but as for money.

When the Alraigo, with the jet atop the containers, docked at Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a horde of reporters was on hand. The ship’s crew and owners filed a salvage claim and were awarded some £570,000 ($1.14 million at the time) as compensation for the “rescue.” When Watson returned to the Illustrious, a Board of Inquiry essentially did nothing. But when the Illustrious returned to port, Watson underwent a second Board of Inquiry.

It kind of sucks that the Capt of the cargo ship was more interested in the salvage claim than anything else. (This is my personal opinion and it may be that the capt was a good guy but instead of waiting for the royal navy he made damn sure he got to a friendly port to guarantee his money.)

@Mikus_Aurelius

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_10084756

http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-08-04/news/17121852_1_uc-santa-cruz-animal-rights-firebombs

In reply to your question, perhaps the Left and Right have incentive to not draw attention to those on the wings of their ideology, but I personally think it's best to be first in line to criticize such people, lest their excesses taint our own arguments.

@dgandhi I know a few years ago nearby me in Santa Cruz, CA, A/ELF lit the house of a UCSC professor on fire while he, his wife, and their children were sleeping. I think it was regarded by the police as attempted murder, which seems reasonable.

ALF's spokesman's response was that children of professors are fair game to be murdered: "If their father is willing to continue risking his livelihood in order to continue chopping up animals in a laboratory than his children are old enough to recognize the consequences." http://www.targetofopportunity.com/alf.htm

TSUNAMIS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY, GOODNIGHT!
http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~nat_haz/tsunamis/surfing.php
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

A friend in Santa Cruz went surfing in the tsunami waves.

A friend in Santa Cruz went surfing in the tsunami waves.

>> ^dag:

Just passed Over this bridge a few hours ago on the way to Santa Cruz. It's a pretty spot.
Wait, what are you doing over here?! Aren't you supposed to be where the toilets flush the other way?

I agree.. have been there many times myself.

didn't know you were in town.. we should grab drinks and base jump.

>> ^dag:

Just passed Over this bridge a few hours ago on the way to Santa Cruz. It's a pretty spot.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Yeah - family holiday obligations - we're off to see my aunt in Sacramento. We had never driven highway one- we did it through the Big Sur which was pretty cool.

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Nice, so what are you doing in this part of the world? You got peeps in Santa Cruz?

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Just passed Over this bridge a few hours ago on the way to Santa Cruz. It's a pretty spot.