The Old Hack

Too bad Pandora isn't listening to tell us if this makes Rhoda a DD-Rank wizard.

They already did the quad mount thing for a paint ball AA gun, and of course they mad the gattling paintball gun, so it would not take much to make that.

I agree absolutely, but remember, the 'more dakka' line is used by friggin' WH40K Orks. For Orks, there is NEVER any such thing as 'enuf dakka.'
Mind you, I do like the quad Vulcan proposal. Combine the proposal in question with a good computer and targeting system, and whatever it shoots at had better have entirely unreasonable amounts of armour or it will be a flying cheese grater. That won't be flying for much longer. (The TWB has a fan forum, right? Who is with me in making a fan suggestion that we have Doc and Roger create a quad Vulcan paintball gun?)

Clearly, but I would be satisfied with just a single frame of Doc and Roger being in the process of building it and Sandy yelling at them, "NO!!!"

People talk about "more dakka".  I think, back in my Army days, I saw a serious proposal that would have been "that's enough dakka".  Quad mount Vulcan self propelled anti air craft guns.  At that time, the Army had single mount Vulcans, which could chunk out 3,000 rounds a minute.  A quad system would chunk out 12,000 RPM.  That 200 rounds of 20 mm high explosive rounds a freaking second.  They build one, but it lost out to the Sergeant York system, which ended up being, well, bad.  Bad enough that we didn't take it into service, and this was during the height of the Reagan era defense expansion.

Mounted on a stretch M113A3  the space that normally would hold 14+ grunts was mainly used for ammo.  Granted that still only gave it about 90 seconds of full power.  Normal firing rate was bursts of 100-200 rounds per gun mount.  So around 120 plus or minus shoots.  Which is about right for a SPAAG.

It's whiskey by now...

You could use it as jet fuel too.

The Ubergroup is as personal as one wants to make it, as long as your fellow Ubergroup team members go along with things. I have good friends in The Ubergroup. I'm also a moderator for the group, which means I get even more personal support from fellow moderators. Not as close support as what I get here, though.
I'm about to go through an Ubergroup "beta cycle" in a few weeks. That's where you get a team of 4 or 5 people together and everyone critiques a single novel at once, rotating through the members' works each week. My book is up for the first week of the cycle.

Well, you have us, too. So there.

I do not normally comment in person but once again I feel compelled to make an exception.
Whatever other issues of policy may be at hand, I am greatly concerned by the president-elect's apparent intention to disengage from old alliances across the world. NATO in particular has been of obvious importance to my homeland. Denmark is a small nation with little in the way of military power and is situated in a position of immense strategic importance to Russia. NATO has helped ensure a long peace in Europe, one which has lasted most of my lifetime with few interruptions. On such occasions where other nations have attacked the US, my homeland has every time reciprocated by placing forces, planes and naval vessels at the disposal of the US. Also, it is worth noting that the esteemed JML of this forum has served the US in Europe for a number of years and thus aided in extending this peace, for which I owe him my thanks and gratitude.
No alliance lasts forever, of course. But I must confess to feeling strong pangs at the thought of NATO coming apart, not to mention considerable worry at the thought of what Putin and similar strongmen might do to take advantage of it. That other similar detentes around the globe are also in danger does nothing to reassure me, I fear.

We'll crack open a 5000 year old sealed pot of grain to honor your return.

Yep

I have a massive support group. It's called The Ubergroup, and it's based on the writing site Scribophile.

Sorry I've been out of touch for the last month.
A lot of little problems just got in the way of getting my internet connextion fixed.  And I'm still not reliably back yet.
Anyhow, I saw a sign in the restaurant that seemed appropriate.
"All our customers make us happy.
Some make us happy when they enter.
Some make us happy when they leave."
 
I hope I'm still in the "happy when they enter" group.

Absolutely!  Welcome back!

I do not normally comment in person but once again I feel compelled to make an exception.
Whatever other issues of policy may be at hand, I am greatly concerned by the president-elect's apparent intention to disengage from old alliances across the world. NATO in particular has been of obvious importance to my homeland. Denmark is a small nation with little in the way of military power and is situated in a position of immense strategic importance to Russia. NATO has helped ensure a long peace in Europe, one which has lasted most of my lifetime with few interruptions. On such occasions where other nations have attacked the US, my homeland has every time reciprocated by placing forces, planes and naval vessels at the disposal of the US. Also, it is worth noting that the esteemed JML of this forum has served the US in Europe for a number of years and thus aided in extending this peace, for which I owe him my thanks and gratitude.
No alliance lasts forever, of course. But I must confess to feeling strong pangs at the thought of NATO coming apart, not to mention considerable worry at the thought of what Putin and similar strongmen might do to take advantage of it. That other similar detentes around the globe are also in danger does nothing to reassure me, I fear.

I do not normally comment in person but once again I feel compelled to make an exception.
Whatever other issues of policy may be at hand, I am greatly concerned by the president-elect's apparent intention to disengage from old alliances across the world. NATO in particular has been of obvious importance to my homeland. Denmark is a small nation with little in the way of military power and is situated in a position of immense strategic importance to Russia. NATO has helped ensure a long peace in Europe, one which has lasted most of my lifetime with few interruptions. On such occasions where other nations have attacked the US, my homeland has every time reciprocated by placing forces, planes and naval vessels at the disposal of the US. Also, it is worth noting that the esteemed JML of this forum has served the US in Europe for a number of years and thus aided in extending this peace, for which I owe him my thanks and gratitude.
No alliance lasts forever, of course. But I must confess to feeling strong pangs at the thought of NATO coming apart, not to mention considerable worry at the thought of what Putin and similar strongmen might do to take advantage of it. That other similar detentes around the globe are also in danger does nothing to reassure me, I fear.

I do not normally comment in person but once again I feel compelled to make an exception.
Whatever other issues of policy may be at hand, I am greatly concerned by the president-elect's apparent intention to disengage from old alliances across the world. NATO in particular has been of obvious importance to my homeland. Denmark is a small nation with little in the way of military power and is situated in a position of immense strategic importance to Russia. NATO has helped ensure a long peace in Europe, one which has lasted most of my lifetime with few interruptions. On such occasions where other nations have attacked the US, my homeland has every time reciprocated by placing forces, planes and naval vessels at the disposal of the US. Also, it is worth noting that the esteemed JML of this forum has served the US in Europe for a number of years and thus aided in extending this peace, for which I owe him my thanks and gratitude.
No alliance lasts forever, of course. But I must confess to feeling strong pangs at the thought of NATO coming apart, not to mention considerable worry at the thought of what Putin and similar strongmen might do to take advantage of it. That other similar detentes around the globe are also in danger does nothing to reassure me, I fear.

I do not normally comment in person but once again I feel compelled to make an exception.
Whatever other issues of policy may be at hand, I am greatly concerned by the president-elect's apparent intention to disengage from old alliances across the world. NATO in particular has been of obvious importance to my homeland. Denmark is a small nation with little in the way of military power and is situated in a position of immense strategic importance to Russia. NATO has helped ensure a long peace in Europe, one which has lasted most of my lifetime with few interruptions. On such occasions where other nations have attacked the US, my homeland has every time reciprocated by placing forces, planes and naval vessels at the disposal of the US. Also, it is worth noting that the esteemed JML of this forum has served the US in Europe for a number of years and thus aided in extending this peace, for which I owe him my thanks and gratitude.
No alliance lasts forever, of course. But I must confess to feeling strong pangs at the thought of NATO coming apart, not to mention considerable worry at the thought of what Putin and similar strongmen might do to take advantage of it. That other similar detentes around the globe are also in danger does nothing to reassure me, I fear.

I do not normally comment in person but once again I feel compelled to make an exception.
Whatever other issues of policy may be at hand, I am greatly concerned by the president-elect's apparent intention to disengage from old alliances across the world. NATO in particular has been of obvious importance to my homeland. Denmark is a small nation with little in the way of military power and is situated in a position of immense strategic importance to Russia. NATO has helped ensure a long peace in Europe, one which has lasted most of my lifetime with few interruptions. On such occasions where other nations have attacked the US, my homeland has every time reciprocated by placing forces, planes and naval vessels at the disposal of the US. Also, it is worth noting that the esteemed JML of this forum has served the US in Europe for a number of years and thus aided in extending this peace, for which I owe him my thanks and gratitude.
No alliance lasts forever, of course. But I must confess to feeling strong pangs at the thought of NATO coming apart, not to mention considerable worry at the thought of what Putin and similar strongmen might do to take advantage of it. That other similar detentes around the globe are also in danger does nothing to reassure me, I fear.

I try to present information from the public record and analysis as I see it.  If I just threw out boilerplate party rhetoric, first it'd be lazy, second I'd get stomped from 10 different sides, and third, I'd just reinforce stereotypes. 
Ehh...why bother with that?  Much better to actually challenge myself and my opponents with my A-game.
Passing the budget hasn't seemed to be a problem.  Anything else...well...nothing is perfect.

RE budget: There was that one government shutdown but the Republicans who did the shutting-down did not fare well.  (As an aside I think that shutdown was as much an internal squabble between Republican old guard elites and new guard populists as it was between Republicans and Democrats)
I think these might be decent posts to bow out of the topic for a few weeks.  While I love a good discussion, I think I might just be twisting the knife right now.
It really isn't the end of the world, just a peaceful transfer of power.

Take heart in the fact that you are not alone. True, many of us have lost or been injured by this decision. But we have one another and we will support one another. You are not forgotten and you may rely on your friends, me included.
My wife is very unhappy now. The unrelenting misogyny and and hatred that blighted the election took a harsh toll on her and she is, to put it mildly, not willing to trust the president-elect. I have supported her as best I can and for now at least she sleeps, aided by that old sovereign from the Old Country, whisky. We can only take one day at a time.
To all my friends here, you are in my thoughts no matter where you live. I trust we shall overcome the challenges ahead of us if we stand together and help one another.

Not at all.Thanks for asking!

Nobody has posted Maxim 37 yet?

"There is no overkill.  Only 'Open fire' and 'Time to reload'."