Technological advances quickly outdate training, tactics, logistics and strategy. Civil War generals fought battles the way they were taught at West Point; with Antoine-Henri Jomini's "Theories of War." Jomini was a Swiss officer in Napoleon's army, and he emphasized "mass." So masses of soldiers marched to within one hundred yards of each other, fired their muskets, and charged with bayonets through the smoke.
One little problem: in 1846 a French inventor and military instructor came up with the rifled bullet, or Minie ball, greatly increasing the accuracy, range, and destructive power of the muskets then in general use (Springfield and Enfield). The shocking casualties of the Civil War were directly because technological change had been ignored. It took the troops themselves more than three years in to dig in: the siege of Petersburg looked a lot more like 1915 than 1862.
The unmanned revolution has changed the way of war. When I was a unmanned platform manager from 2005-2011, I met constant resistance from people with wings on their uniforms--every block they could muster was used against the program. Now, platoons don't go on patrol without small drones in support. The Ukrainian War has turned drones, which were considered reconnaissance assets, into suicide killers, and they fly in swarms. There is no human limitation (think G-force) on a drone: an F-35 can't outturn one and even if it gets lucky, there are ten more waiting for it.
In nearly every aspect of my life, I'm old school, and washing dishes is no exception. I wash everything by hand right after every meal and leave it in the drainer to dry. I live alone, so I usually don't have a lot of dishes to wash.
I have a dishwasher (it came with the house), but I've only used it about half a dozen times in as many years. It would take me a few days to use enough dishes to fill it, by which time I would already have wanted to use some of them again. Also, my pans are not dishwasher safe, so I would have to hand wash them anyway.
I have been married for over 30 years to this man who still cannot load a dishwasher correctly. I have to redo it every. single. time. I open it. At one point I suspected it was malignant incompetence; the man is an electrician, stuff has to match and he bends pipes in matching arrays. One day he verbalized being annoyed that I again, reorganized the dishwasher and asked me why - I said so the dishes would come clean in the most efficient manner possible. I even gave him a mantra for dishwasher loading: Back to Front, Like with Like. I figure I will spring the whole "separate the cutlery" later once he masters the large pieces. I hoped this would improve his DW game. I don't have a Bosch but it is on my bucket list for when we redo our kitchen.
Come for the protection of liberal democracy, stay for the authoritarian dishwasher rules!! (I kid, I kid - full disclosure: my wife maintains I don't load the dishwasher right.)
I don't load teh dishwasher, my roomie does...I have no idea how he loads it and frankly, I don't care...lol...( blasphemy, I know)I am not much of a germaphobe and the dishes are always clean, that is enough for me.
( He actually prefers to hand wash some of the daily stuff, it is only the two of us and we don't get much dirty often...when we do, even then we fill it up for a few days before running it...)
I have fancy front loading washer and dryer, most of it's fanciness electronically doesn't impress me, then I am at a point in my life where I am looking more for simplicity and not having to learn new techy things anymore...
My sis-in-law, who is a tax account, responded to your article....."People who put silverware in the basket, handles down, either (1) have 100% control over their dishwasher or (2) have a an unreasonable faith in humanity. Although our lovely Bosch machine probably cleans better with handles down, all that good work is wiped out in a nanosecond by the bio-hazard-hands of the helpful person unloading. I’d rather not have raw chicken juice or kitty litter dust on the tines of my fork, thank you very much. Please save other important debates until after tax season so I can respond more promptly, and with footnotes."
For many years, my mission was to discourage my country from launching hubristic unjustifiable wars. Then along came a justifiable war (Ukraine). For many years, my mission was to support creation of an equitable, diverse, uncomfortably culturally nimble society. Along came new allies; who'd have thunk it? Mission; not plan.
For whatever reason - after the first of the year I no longer get my newsletters via email. May be messing with engagement.
And I had seen the fesshole post and read it to my DW loading obsessed husband. He doesn't do social media, but if he did, he'd be hanging out there. At any holiday gathering, there is a tradition for us to stare at the huge pile of dishes and announce "there's NO WAY ALL THAT is fitting in the dishwasher". And then we step aside...
Just replaced a 22-year-old Miele with a Bosch 800 Series. Still morning the Miele. God, was that thing built. Sleek, reliable, screaming quality. And now, now, where am I left? With a box filled with irrelevant electronics. A connect to Wi-Fi, for no other reason other, than you can connect to Wi-Fi. We are lost. Lost. And that rinse cycle. Why have things become so incredibly complex and confusing? Why????
Then one mustn't have teenagers in the house responsible for washing dishes. If I or my wife need to remain in the kitchen to make sure the child in question washes pans the proper & traditional way, leisure time management suggests we handle it ourselves.
The B-52 entered service in the 1950s and is expected to remain in service until 2050. The A-6 entered Navy service in the early 1970s as an attack aircraft, and it's still in use in its EA-6B variant. FWIW, odds are the EA-6B and other similar aircraft are going to be modified to deal with drones.
Tangent: given the average COST of aircraft carriers, missile and attack submarines, it may be a stretch to say the Air Force is more platform-dependent than the Navy.
Anyway, drones are anti-personnel, anti-battery, and anti-tank, not so much anti-other aircraft. If drones home in on EM signals, the US military is going to have to think of ways around that. One obvious way would be thousands of relay receiver/transmitters dropped into combat areas, creating a network to pass signals around the network. Being conservative, those may cost US$2K each. 1K of them would cost US$2 million (a bargain in terms of US military spending). Unlikely each US$16K Sunflower-200 would take out 1 such receiver/transmitter, so such networks could make mass drone usage uneconomical.
Does technological change suck for militaries? Absolutely. Ask anyone else from the Bronze Age what they thought about the Hittites' new iron swords.
Technological advances quickly outdate training, tactics, logistics and strategy. Civil War generals fought battles the way they were taught at West Point; with Antoine-Henri Jomini's "Theories of War." Jomini was a Swiss officer in Napoleon's army, and he emphasized "mass." So masses of soldiers marched to within one hundred yards of each other, fired their muskets, and charged with bayonets through the smoke.
One little problem: in 1846 a French inventor and military instructor came up with the rifled bullet, or Minie ball, greatly increasing the accuracy, range, and destructive power of the muskets then in general use (Springfield and Enfield). The shocking casualties of the Civil War were directly because technological change had been ignored. It took the troops themselves more than three years in to dig in: the siege of Petersburg looked a lot more like 1915 than 1862.
The unmanned revolution has changed the way of war. When I was a unmanned platform manager from 2005-2011, I met constant resistance from people with wings on their uniforms--every block they could muster was used against the program. Now, platoons don't go on patrol without small drones in support. The Ukrainian War has turned drones, which were considered reconnaissance assets, into suicide killers, and they fly in swarms. There is no human limitation (think G-force) on a drone: an F-35 can't outturn one and even if it gets lucky, there are ten more waiting for it.
In nearly every aspect of my life, I'm old school, and washing dishes is no exception. I wash everything by hand right after every meal and leave it in the drainer to dry. I live alone, so I usually don't have a lot of dishes to wash.
I have a dishwasher (it came with the house), but I've only used it about half a dozen times in as many years. It would take me a few days to use enough dishes to fill it, by which time I would already have wanted to use some of them again. Also, my pans are not dishwasher safe, so I would have to hand wash them anyway.
I have been married for over 30 years to this man who still cannot load a dishwasher correctly. I have to redo it every. single. time. I open it. At one point I suspected it was malignant incompetence; the man is an electrician, stuff has to match and he bends pipes in matching arrays. One day he verbalized being annoyed that I again, reorganized the dishwasher and asked me why - I said so the dishes would come clean in the most efficient manner possible. I even gave him a mantra for dishwasher loading: Back to Front, Like with Like. I figure I will spring the whole "separate the cutlery" later once he masters the large pieces. I hoped this would improve his DW game. I don't have a Bosch but it is on my bucket list for when we redo our kitchen.
Come for the protection of liberal democracy, stay for the authoritarian dishwasher rules!! (I kid, I kid - full disclosure: my wife maintains I don't load the dishwasher right.)
I don't load teh dishwasher, my roomie does...I have no idea how he loads it and frankly, I don't care...lol...( blasphemy, I know)I am not much of a germaphobe and the dishes are always clean, that is enough for me.
( He actually prefers to hand wash some of the daily stuff, it is only the two of us and we don't get much dirty often...when we do, even then we fill it up for a few days before running it...)
I have fancy front loading washer and dryer, most of it's fanciness electronically doesn't impress me, then I am at a point in my life where I am looking more for simplicity and not having to learn new techy things anymore...
Will do.
What about an unloading club? Can anyone make that more enjoyable?
My sis-in-law, who is a tax account, responded to your article....."People who put silverware in the basket, handles down, either (1) have 100% control over their dishwasher or (2) have a an unreasonable faith in humanity. Although our lovely Bosch machine probably cleans better with handles down, all that good work is wiped out in a nanosecond by the bio-hazard-hands of the helpful person unloading. I’d rather not have raw chicken juice or kitty litter dust on the tines of my fork, thank you very much. Please save other important debates until after tax season so I can respond more promptly, and with footnotes."
For many years, my mission was to discourage my country from launching hubristic unjustifiable wars. Then along came a justifiable war (Ukraine). For many years, my mission was to support creation of an equitable, diverse, uncomfortably culturally nimble society. Along came new allies; who'd have thunk it? Mission; not plan.
For whatever reason - after the first of the year I no longer get my newsletters via email. May be messing with engagement.
And I had seen the fesshole post and read it to my DW loading obsessed husband. He doesn't do social media, but if he did, he'd be hanging out there. At any holiday gathering, there is a tradition for us to stare at the huge pile of dishes and announce "there's NO WAY ALL THAT is fitting in the dishwasher". And then we step aside...
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Just replaced a 22-year-old Miele with a Bosch 800 Series. Still morning the Miele. God, was that thing built. Sleek, reliable, screaming quality. And now, now, where am I left? With a box filled with irrelevant electronics. A connect to Wi-Fi, for no other reason other, than you can connect to Wi-Fi. We are lost. Lost. And that rinse cycle. Why have things become so incredibly complex and confusing? Why????
| No pots or pans.
Then one mustn't have teenagers in the house responsible for washing dishes. If I or my wife need to remain in the kitchen to make sure the child in question washes pans the proper & traditional way, leisure time management suggests we handle it ourselves.
F-35 expected to remain in service until 2070?
BFD.
The B-52 entered service in the 1950s and is expected to remain in service until 2050. The A-6 entered Navy service in the early 1970s as an attack aircraft, and it's still in use in its EA-6B variant. FWIW, odds are the EA-6B and other similar aircraft are going to be modified to deal with drones.
Tangent: given the average COST of aircraft carriers, missile and attack submarines, it may be a stretch to say the Air Force is more platform-dependent than the Navy.
Anyway, drones are anti-personnel, anti-battery, and anti-tank, not so much anti-other aircraft. If drones home in on EM signals, the US military is going to have to think of ways around that. One obvious way would be thousands of relay receiver/transmitters dropped into combat areas, creating a network to pass signals around the network. Being conservative, those may cost US$2K each. 1K of them would cost US$2 million (a bargain in terms of US military spending). Unlikely each US$16K Sunflower-200 would take out 1 such receiver/transmitter, so such networks could make mass drone usage uneconomical.
Does technological change suck for militaries? Absolutely. Ask anyone else from the Bronze Age what they thought about the Hittites' new iron swords.
Read it twice!
Here’s a little conscientiousness raising. I don’t own a dishwasher, and I also no longer use social media.