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[Truean]

So long as they both sink, I'm happy.

[Aklyon]

Seems to be a lot of suddenly appearing political poison lately. Wisconsin thing, that, SOPA/E-PARASITE, who knows what else.

[Lord Shonus]

This is somewhat simplified, but works. Up until a few years ago, there were much stricter limits to how much money could be funneled into political activism than there are now, because the Supreme Court ruled many of these restrictions illegal. This allowed the ultra-rich to pump massive amounts of money into their pet causes. This is what created the Tea Party in the first place. Surprising nobody except the ultra-rich, these pet causes proved to be less than popular among those who didn't directly benefit from them, unless they were cloaked in deceptive language, astroturfing, and vague (but not quite false) promises. The electorate has proved to be more adept at seeing through these cloaks than their authors intended, resulting in a nasty backlash.

[alway]

Yeah, here's a list of more of them. http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/ops/broken-arrow.htm
The official name for such incidents are 'Broken Arrows.'

The notable ones are the ones involving actual nuclear capsules rather than dry runs with the bombs armed with only the HE casing. Like this one, in which 2 nuclear bomb cores went missing:

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March 10, 1956 /B-47/ Mediterranean Sea:

The aircraft was one of a flight of four scheduled for non-stop deployment from MacDill AFB to an overseas air base. Takeoff from MacDill and first refueling was normal. The second refueling point was over the Mediterranean Sea. In preparation for this, the flight penetrated solid cloud formation to descend to the refueling level of 14,000 feet. Base of the clouds was 14,000 feet and visibility was poor. The aircraft, carrying two nuclear capsules in carrying cases, never made contact with the tanker.

An extensive search failed to locate any traces of the missing aircraft or crew. No weapons were aboard the aircraft; only two capsules of nuclear weapons material in carrying cases. A nuclear detonation was not possible.

Or this one in Texas, in which the bomb's HE casing exploded on impact:

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November 4, 1958/B-47/Dyess AFB, Texas:

A B-47 caught fire on takeoff. Three crew members successfully ejected; one was killed when the aircraft crashed from an altitude of 1,500 feet. One nuclear weapon was aboard when the aircraft crashed. The resultant detonation of the high explosive made a crater 35 feet in diameter and six feet deep. Nuclear materials were recovered near the crash site. (*1; **2)

There are also several cases of nuclear weapons falling into the ocean.

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There were two Mark 45 ASTOR torpedoes with nuclear warheads aboard SCORPION when she was lost in 1968. The warheads were low-yield tactical nuclear weapons. The special nuclear material from the warheads has not been recovered.

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December 5, 1965/A-4/At Sea, Pacific:

An A-4 aircraft loaded with one nuclear weapon rolled off the elevator of a U.S. aircraft carrier and fell into the sea. The pilot, aircraft, and weapon were lost. The incident occurred more than 500 miles from land.

[kaijyuu]

Oh, what you can find on the internet.

[Aqizzar]

So I just tried to make a gmail account.  I've been using a Yahoo account I made in 2004 for all personal email I don't want a real name on, which has mostly been signing up for forums, Steam, and so forth.  Not coincidentally, it is spammed to Hell and back.

Turns out, apparently "aqizzar(at)gmail.com" is already taken.

What?  No really, what?

The whole reason I made this username was because when I typed it in for this forum, Google said that particular string of letters had never been typed before on all the Internet.  And now there's somebody running around with my name.  This is unacceptable.

More than unacceptable though, it's fucking confusing.  Why would anybody but me register that?

[scriver]

Ehr.. No idea. I definitely didn't need a good, trustful name to trick the forum peopuls into giving me bank account information and buying me games. *shifty eyes*

[SalmonGod]

I don't like it when I encounter other SalmonGods...  Half the reason I've hung onto this name is I have almost no competition for it (I think it's happened twice).  The other half is because I've been using it for 15 years.

[ECrownofFire]

I always thought it was weird seeing people with the same username as people I know or have seen elsewhere.

[Greiger]

Friend bought parts for a new computer, had me put them together.    Though it's been awhile since I had last done it I put together computers from parts all the time for other people back when I worked at a tech shop, and I was confident I knew what I was doing.

Three hours later, I finally get the computer completely together despite very little working room and only one tiny little light source and an unusual case design.  I check all the connections and everything looks good.  We hook it up and I make a joke about releasing the magic blue smoke.

Fans start, power light turns on, no beeps, no POST, no video.  And a little debug screen on the motherboard is indicating Internal CPU error.  CPU is installed properly, it is keyed so it would not have gone in otherwise, heatsink is installed properly and fan is spinning.  What the FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. 

That is the last thing I expected to go wrong, I expected his hard drive to possibly be going bad, or his double wide graphics card to not fit, not a mysterious CPU error.

[Comp112]

Double check the four pin power plug for the CPU. Perhaps it is loose?

Yeah never know...

[Strange guy]

A connection error with steam? Annoying, but this uni accommodation network has been causing all sorts of occasional problems, like youtube not working at the moment for me. Just go into offline mode... "Could not connect to Steam network". That's the entire point of offline mode it doesn't require connection. But apparently it now does. I even had offline mode working fine for about a week where it wouldn't connect, but now it isn't.  Why the hell does that happen?

[Truean]

Also weird, I've seen "Truean" taken on certain email servers. I thought I was kinda being original....

[Virex]

I've had to resort to the name Phy Rex to sign up for LoL. Virex, Vyrex Phyrex and Tharem (my other standard nick) were all taken...

[Lord Shonus]

The few times I've seen my username used somewhere else, it turned out to be somewhere I signed up for while drunk and forgot about.