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PowerPoint Rant Costs Colonel His Job
twoallbeefpatties writes "Wired reports that a 61-year-old reservist in Afghanistan was fired from his job as a staff officer after writing a sardonic op-ed criticizing the daily briefings provided by his taskforce, portraying them as little more than a neverending stream of redundant PowerPoint slideshows. This came after attempts to reform the process by giving his superiors a presentation that, of course, included five PowerPoint slides." Maybe he should have presented it as an art project instead of a complaint.
He should be happy to be fired. If he's 61 then what the hell is he doing in Afghanistan? If he isn't a terrorist in training, scoring heroin, or actively engaged in killing people because they wear rags on their heads and cut the noses off little girls, then he has no business being there.
And if he's 61 then he's old enough to understand this and he shouldn't be bullshitting himself and everyone else pretending that there is any reason for him to be there.
So, yeah, dude, come home and get a life.
Roughly 2 trillion American tax dollars spent killing tens of thousands of innocents in an attempt to clobber a single fanatic who committed a crime that could have been easily prevented for a few million dollars in high tech padlocks.
The fact that they sacked this guy is a good indication that he disagrees with the above facts. Powerpoint? Every U.S. citizen should be required to watch the Wikileaks footage on OmniMax with Sensurround.
Proper US governance would put and end to NYC, DC, and LA. Think about it.
He was asserting that it is too easy for people to use stupidly. Very common with Microsoft products.
I don't expect morality, equality, consistency, or justice from the law. I expect only legality.