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U.S. Plans Targeted Draft for Computer Personnel
waytoomuchcoffee writes "The US Selective Service System is drawing up plans for a 'special skills draft'. There is already a system in place to draft health care personnel, and this system would be expanded in order to 'rapidly register and draft' computer specialists."
i would rather join the military any day than have diabetes!
- hcir
FUCK THE WAR!
FUCK THE DRAFT!
FUCK THIS BULLSHIT!
1 in 5 of the current "youth" generation is enslaved by the Bush Dictatorship! I guess this is there way to "get the rest of us".
Run, hide, do what ever you can to evade this bullshit! These bastards will have you kill without a second thought. Run to Canada, Europe, the Ocean, U.S. free cities (San Francisco, etc), wherever you can -- run for your lives!!!!
Is it possible that this is a plot for the government to get cheap programmers without the appearance of the national security risk associated with outsourcing to a foreign country? Will those drafted be placed under the supervision of a "manager" who works for a major contractor?
Or is it a way for the government to phase drafts back in, in a way that most people won't care about?
"You spoony bard!" -Tellah
2 years of military duty might teach our nations emerging adults a thing or two about self disipline, respect, hard work, and preparedness.
You almost certainly meant that as a troll, but, I'll bite...
Damned lot of good those "skills" will do a corpse. And before you say that this wouldn't necessarily mean going off to war, I'd point out that in GW1, Afghanistan, and GW2, more people died before and after primary combat, than during.
Suggestions like this absolutely sicken me. Forcing someone to join a group of government sanctioned murderers against their will, in my book, counts as one of most "evil" acts possible. Ted Bundy had nothing on Rumsfeld.
And I don't write this just because it means I may well end up drafted - I would have a hard choice to make, between moving to Canada or going in willingly with the goal of rooting and taking down as many military systems as I could (as Thomas Hobbes wrote, "The prisoner being led to death by his jailers has the right and obligation to resist with whatever force is necessary". If, in such a situation, it took the complete subversive dismantlement of the US military's IT infrastructure, so it goes).
Disgusting, pure and simple. If you want to join, good for you. If so few people want to go off to die that the government needs to institute a draft, well, I can think of no better indication that we should not go off to "see the world, meet interesting people and kill them".
And just for the record, spare me the trouble of invoking Godwin's law. Yes, sometimes war appears justified - Though only to defend against an immediate mortal threat to one's self.
2 years of military duty might teach our nations emerging adults a thing or two about self disipline, respect, hard work, and preparedness.
That's quite a tradeoff for their independance, self-reliance, creativity and personal freedom.
Quick question, all those people who are too apathetic to vote and who didn't vote in the last few elections because "there's no difference between a Democrat and a Republican", can we get them to go first? Please?
Ooh Ooh, even better, how about we get all the people who were in favor of invading Iraq to go first?
[o]_O
Someone from the Constituion Party calling Libertarians the lunatic fringe is rich, sweet irony.
Keep your filthy, imaginary, shit-throwing sky ape out of my government.
Slashdot is jumping the shark. I'm just driving the boat.
But who do you vote for? In most elections, there are zero "good" candidates, it's always picking the lesser of the two evils. So why waste the time? You can't vote for an outsider, they won't win, and the two major parties will both cause more harm than good. You'll either be taxed to death, lose your job and starve, be killed by terrorists, or be killed because the government says you ARE a terrorist. Hell, Janet Reno already ate the bill of rights, and Ashcroft is burning the constitution, so we now have an elected dictatorship.
Tinfoil hat note: My theory is that the government knew about 9/11 before it happened, possibly even directly provoked it, just to get things like the PATRIOT act passed, and distract people from what their true intentions were. It's an old political tactic (think British parliament vs. royal families), just with a new spin. Want to take away your citizen's rights, make them think they need some of them taken away for protection from someone else.
To paraphrase Microsoft's old slogan, "What basic human rights do you want us to violate today?"
--That's the point of being root, you can do anything you want, even if it's stupid.