User talk:OuroborosCobra

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how yo doin', cobra? remember me? heh. 89.32.1.82 19:03, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Hello, how are you doing? --OuroborosCobra 19:09, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] blink-182 Pop Punk vs Punk Rock vote

As you have recently contributed to the blink-182 article you might be interested in casting your vote towards reaching a final consensus on the bands genre, Pop Punk or Punk Rock, votes can be cast here. cheers mate --Dan027 06:57, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wookieepedia

Hey Cobra, sorry I missed your message on #wookieepedia...yep, I'm the same person here and there! Cheers :) -- Huntster ^{T • @ • C} 18:59, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requested deletion

Hi, I made a user box that turns out to already exist. Could you please delete User:OuroborosCobra/UserboxAFauxo3 for me? --OuroborosCobra 00:38, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Now done. Ian Cairns 08:30, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Hi. I noticed your signature is one of those normal signatures. Do you want a 2 colored signature instead? I can make one for you. RuneWiki⁷⁷⁷ 15:36, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the reversion. ;) - Enzo Aquarius 01:32, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Sorry.

Hello, and I both thank you and apologize. The experiment was to see how long it would take for somebody to come along and correct an error, you have proven me right when I (and many others) have said that Wikipedia (and other wiki's) can be and are reliable sources of information. Thank you again.

-CyberPrime Http://www.thecompgeek.info/geekipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by CyberPrime (talk • contribs) 05:22, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] B-52#Design and development

OC, There was a particular reason for having the GREEN click to enlarge on the JPG... because a casual reader with a "casual" glance at the drawing would not notice that the first model was straight wing... not swepted back, and had 6 engines. It wasn't till after I became an editor that I noticed that clicking on a pic would enlarge it. Out of the hundreds of articles I've edited and few dozen I've created, there was on 2 occasions that a ref to the casual reader to "click to enlarge" was benificial. Please revert your edit. A dozen other aviation editors have read and seen my style and have not complained nor deleted my "click to enlarge"...on either article... if it doesn't both any or all of them , it shouldn't bother you. Thank you for understanding. Lance...LanceBarber 06:19, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

I don't understand the problem. Looking at the thumbnail without clicking, I see the straight wing and six engines just fine. All pictures on this site are in that thumbnail format, and none of them have "click to enlarge", so I don't see the reason to have it here. --OuroborosCobra 07:18, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CAP moves

Hey, I've had Golbez sort everything out. Its back at Civil Air Patrol. This was a mess and a half. -- Huntster ^{T • @ • C} 10:40, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CAP

Okay, since you're a member a CAP, maybe you can help me understand CAP by answering a couple of questions. :-)

1. is CAP a reserve component of the U.S. Air Force?
2. if so, do you hold a commissioned rank and have the same pay and grade as other uniformed services?
3. if not, does the Air Force have and other venture with CAP other than via ROTC education and do you receive funding from the Air Force?
4. Lastly why is it that CAP has U.S. Air Force Auxiliary on it's coat-of-arms if it's not part of CAP's official title?

Neovu79 (talk) 00:37, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

As for the first question, no, we are not a reserve component of the Air Force, we are strictly civilian and voluntary, and receive no pay.

Second question, we don't receive pay at all, and do not technically receive a commission.

Third, yes we receive funding from the Air Force. I'm not sure what you mean by your ROTC question. Are you asking whether we receive our commissions based on ROTC education? If so, no we do not. ROTC has no place in CAP with exception for aid that some of our pilots give to ROTC students by providing training flights for them. There is no ROTC requirement to be a CAP officer.

Fourth, probably for the same reason that the USMC title isn't "Department of the Navy United States Marine Corps", despite their seal. --OuroborosCobra (talk) 00:57, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Express Yourself!!! (Invitation to Fun)

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[edit] FAR of Civil Air Patrol

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[edit] Saddam Hussein

I'm new to Wikipedia, so if I was wrong to write what I am telling you here, I apologize. This is the only way I figured out how to respond to what you told me. On the stuff about about Saddam, I am not trying to be a vandal. I am erasing some egregious untruth. The rules here say that a source has to have a neutral point of view and a reputation for accuracy. I submit that the New York Times, the main citation for the section in question, HAS NEITHER. The NYT is frequently shown to have shoddy journalism from the days of Walter Duranty down to Jayson Blair and the recent flap with McCain.

And saying that Saddam Hussein was some kind of bulwark against Communism is ludicrous, the man was a Soviet client. All of Iraq's weaponry was SOVIET, excepting some planes from France. Soviet advisors were present in Iraq from the '60s until the Fall of the Wall.

The "sources" are making their stuff up out of whole cloth. That's a fact and the material must be deleted if this is to be a site of accuracy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by CatoUticensis (talk • contribs) 21:51, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

That's just it, Iraq was NEVER a US ally. Between 1973 and 2003 the US and Iraq did not even have diplomatic relations, excepting between 1984 and 1988. Yes, we gave some aid to Iraq in that time in order to prevent the Ayatollahs from taking over that country. It didn't make us bosom buddies. Remember, during this period of "alliance", Iraqi Mirage jets bombed the USS Stark in an "accident." I read a book by one of Reagan's Defense Department Analysts written early in 1987 BEFORE the Stark got hit and he pretty much predicted the First Gulf War.

Except for the Mirage jets, the Iraqi Military used entirely Soviet weaponry (I know, I studied it all when I was in the Army), it's Army trained in Soviet doctrine and was indeed a miniature Soviet Army. The Ba'ath Party was Socialistic and Pan-Arabist, totally Anti-American. The only thing we ever had in common with them was the crazy mullahs of Iran were high priority enemies for a brief time.

The Saddam-as-ally thing is a fiction by the political Left. He has NEVER been America's friend.

And I must disagree about NYT, I think they have many longstanding problems with the truth and they are certainly not neutral, as wikipedia's policy states they should be. Pinchy Sulzburger was asked if he saw an American soldier and a North Vietnamese soldier grappling for their lives, who would he want to win? He replied that it was the stupidest question he had ever been asked, of course he'd want the North Vietnamese soldier to win. A real dirtbag. —Preceding unsigned comment added by CatoUticensis (talk • contribs) 07:19, 1 March 2008 (UTC)