She just needs to be quick. Engage AP, move to new winch and trim as her cabin boy (you) releases the sheet, move back to wheel and turn off AP, steer with one hand while doing final trim with the other. Easy peasy.

You can be mixing cocktails while she finishes the tack.

Oh, and just make sure you compliment her on a job well done.

And, be prepared to buy electric winches next.

Just remember to get the real pharmaceutical stuff, not the research grade stuff from List. There was a dermatologist who did that, then shot up himself, his wife, and a couple they were friends with. Calculated the dosage wrong and IIRC they all ended up on ventilators for a while.

But their faces looked so young!

All this talk of LSS's and cabin boys, I read that as 'electric wenches'.

Hey man nice shot

Crucial data of the day:

https://public.tableau.com/app/profi...rs?publish=yes

I remember that event.

More fun with eclectic wenches.

This happened at a time when the company I was then working for was involved in Biodefense, which was a big damned deal in 2001-2003, but by 2006 the US Government had lost interest. We looked at Botulinum toxin as a potential target, but it turns out to be a very complex picture, and by 2006 it was clear that AQ did not in fact have bio labs squirrelled away in caves producing bioterror agents.

Interesting. I remember the US supply of bot tox, which we were injecting for focal dystonias, dried up during the first Iraq war and we speculated it was being used to raise antibodies in animals or something. I was detailed to the HHS secretary’s office in 2004 as an advisor on medical countermeasures for chem terrorism. By then, toxins were discussed for the sake of completeness, but were not among the money scenarios. I don’t think I’m revealing anything too highly classified if I say AQ would have been hard put to make and deploy an effective cyanide generating device, let alone weaponize bot tx.

We on the Bioterror side were told the USG was very scared of Botulinum toxin, because 1) the lethal dose is about 0.2 micrograms for a big strapping guy like me; 2) the antitoxin they had is limited, AND old, and horse, AND it only stops progression, it doesn't reverse it; 3) There's no vaccine nor is there likely to be because 4) it takes multiple antibodies binding to it to inactivate it and 5) there are a number of serotypes. So they really didn't have anything for it, and since the usual treatment is to put people on ventilators while they rewire the synapses that allow them to breathe, in a large attack we'd have run out of ventilators. Remember 2020?

Production and dispersal are only a problem until somebody figures out how, and the last thing you want to do is assume your opponent is stupider than you are. So by all accounts they were kinda spooked by Bot. But then nothing happened and the USG lost interest in biodefense.

Oh hey, speaking of Rock n Roll High School, Yesterday was P. J. Soles' birthday :bday:

72 years young.

https://scontent.fphx1-2.fna.fbcdn.n...aQ&oe=62DA85F2

Not another 2, but I’ll take it.

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Same. I am happy with 3, lately been a 4-5 guy.

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I'm happy to not be a zero. It's been happening a lot lately

Four. :(

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No greens in the first 4 guesses.

Yeah, they're no friken joke! I was stuck in the driveway 2 weeks ago after MMM, that was bad, couldn't move away from the car. I might have screamed a little....maybe....:cry:. I think they just have to get used to the work load. I don't believe my old position on the bike was engaging them enough.

:thumb:. Nice!

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Been there done that! I learned not to put my feet under the chair that day! Lol

Biodefense is now a conspiracy to manipulate people's DNA, inject microchips and enslave the population!

Every company with a countermeasure thinks their thing is gonna happen before Xmas and they can't all be right. In my time downtown I sat through lots commercial presentations and fielded inquiries from congresspeople who had been convinced by their entrepreneurial constituents that this or that was a huge lacuna in the national defense.

Bot is a high consequence, but vanishingly low probability, scenario. No need for a bad guy to invest millions of dollars in a dicey R & D program that would be beyond the capabilities of anyone but a fully industrialized state with a substantial research base. An efficient attack with an off-the-shelf nerve agent on a civilian population could produce thousands of critically ill casualties and occupy every vent in a large city plus the entire capacity of the Strategic National Stockpile if there were even a way to get it there in time. And even that's a very low probability event. I can't share what the high probability stuff is, beyond blowing **** up and shooting people, but it's pretty mundane and not what most people think.

Biodefense is now a conspiracy to enrich Tony Fauci and Big Pharma, manipulate people's DNA, inject microchips and enslave the population!

Every company with a countermeasure thinks their thing is gonna happen before Xmas and they can't all be right. In my time downtown I sat through lots commercial presentations and fielded inquiries from congresspeople who had been convinced by their entrepreneurial constituents that this or that was a huge lacuna in the national defense.

Bot is a high consequence, but vanishingly low probability, scenario. No need for a bad guy to invest millions of dollars in a dicey R & D program that would be beyond the capabilities of anyone but a fully industrialized state with a substantial research base. An efficient attack with an off-the-shelf nerve agent on a civilian population could produce thousands of critically ill casualties and occupy every vent in a large city plus the entire capacity of the Strategic National Stockpile if there were even a way to get it there in time. And even that's a very low probability event. I can't share what the high probability stuff is (or rather was), beyond blowing **** up and shooting people, but it's pretty mundane and not what most people think.

I can tell you, based on working with a company with a substantial actual contract, the USG simply stopped giving a crap about biodefense, between 2004 and 2006. And even when they cared, their approach was profoundly unserious, and not based in any understanding of commercial scale biotech, or what is possible. You can't radically change the requirements by fiat and demand the same timelines. Let's just say, the USG was an untrustworthy partner.

I'll take it!
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