Well I can't run for the Senate in Mass because I don't live in that state, while that didn't bother Senator Clinton with New York, it keeps me from running.
Senator Kerry ran around saying how much of a war-criminal he was in Vietnam, then said Vietnam didn't matter, then said that service shouldn't divide us, then said the US was a war-criminal in Vietnam and now he's back to being a war-hero again for his service in Vietnam.
I'm confused there with the Vietnam thing as to if we were suppose to serve or not and if those who did were war-criminals there.
Damn right I'm a better person that John Kerry, I'm not a wishy-washy politician.
When I say Kerry didn't show up, you toss out Cancer as if Cancer is the end-all-be-all excuse. But it ain't. So when I say that you kick in the attacks.
Let me guess, Deanite who jumped ship following the Iowa-Sceam to Kerry.
As for it being about me, well of course is it, after all I'm on/. talking about politics and in the long run, it's always about you.
If I, as a young boy with cancer, actually cancer, a relapse and cancer again between the ages of 7 and 18, while going to chemo 3 times a week could make it to school, why couldn't Senator Kerry suck it up and go to vote in the Senate?
After all, I wasn't getting over a hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year to do my job like Kerry was, and what I had was much worse on the sliding scale of howmuch cancer sucks than Kerry's prostate cancer.
Actually in my circle of hardcore cancer survivors we consider that to be about as bad as having the flu.
So then, explain why Kerry couldn't show for the Senate but he could fly around and give speeches.
My reply was to a post about looking at a Candidate's website as a source of information. If I'm reading on Kerry's site about something, then the otherside of the coin would be National Review now wouldn't it?
Here is something from the Wall Street Journal http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=1 10004646
Kerry on Service in the Military - 1992 "The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them; that one help identify the positive things that we learned about ourselves and about our nation, not play to the divisions and differences of that crucible of our generation."
"We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways. Someone who was deeply against the war in 1969 or 1970 may well have served their country with equal passion and patriotism by opposing the war as by fighting in it."
As for using the NR, I didn't want to, but I was pressed for time and had recalled reading about Kerry's voting record there.
When I had cancer, I had a choice. I could have gotten free Federal Health Care from the local BIA clinic and hosptial or I could use my insurance to go to the Mayo Clinic for treatment.
I went to the Mayo Clinic and lived, for the most part because I was able to take part in a Federally funded "windfall" drug program with a pharma company.
While I don't like the current system much, I sure as shit don't think any of the Democratic plans in the last 12 years would have done the country any better when it comes to a health system. In fact, due to my close proximity to Federal programs in Education, having attended a BIA/Dept Ed schooll I think the best thing we could do as a nation is for education is to limit the Dept of Ed's role to that of setting loose national standards for the states and maintaining the Title programs.
You know what, I had cancer too, and I showed up for school. In fact over 5 years of chemo, the majority of it carried out either 90 or 550 miles from home, I only missed 30 days of class in 5 years. The worst year of my cancer I missed 4 days of school, now the Senate doesn't meet near as often as 5th grade does, but I'd expect he could make more votes, as he was able to campaign at the same time and his treatments took place in D.C.
The cancer card doesn't get my sympathies for Kerry, if he was really into serving the country and carred for his family, he would have retired from the Senate to get treated.
No, looking at a candidate's website is a good way to see what they want you to think they think is important.
Take a look at John Kerry - http://www.johnkerry.com/about/
His dad was a volunteer, he was a volunteer, but he was in the wrong war! Then he went on to be a senate stud.
But that's not accurate, not really, and I think it's important to look around the web to learn what is important.
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200401220 83 5.asp "The publication Congressional Quarterly examined 119 recorded votes held in 2003 in which the president had taken a position. CQ found that Kerry was present for just 28 percent of those votes. In contrast, Kerry's colleague from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, was present for 97 percent of the votes."
As for his voting for war, he voted against the First Gulf War, then voted for the Second Gulf War, but he claims he didn't really understand what power that vote was going to give the President. And in the 1990s he called for an end to the Iraqi government as it was.
Speech by John Kerry, delivered on the Senate floor on Nov. 9, 1997, as recorded in the Congressional Record.
"Plainly and simply, Saddam Hussein cannot be permitted to get away with his antics, or with this latest excuse for avoidance of international responsibility."
"We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of enormous consequence, an obligation to guarantee that Saddam Hussein cannot ignore the United Nations. He cannot be permitted to go unobserved and unimpeded toward his horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. This is not a matter about which there should be any debate whatsoever in the Security Council, or, certainly, in this Nation. If he remains obdurate, I believe that the United Nations must take, and should authorize immediately, whatever steps are necessary to force him to relent -- and that the United States should support and participate in those steps."
This is just a single example and I used a single source for my rebuttals. The point of this is, if you use the canidate's sites and ther suporters and organizer's sites, you won't learn anything real about the canidate.
"Having to pay $3K for a system to play the latest FPS (which is what I suspect the Mac version of Halo requires from the posts about it) is just asinine."
I bought and played Halo on a 2 GHz Athlon, it's still slow as shit. A guy I know has a DP 1.8 GHz G5 with 4 gigs of ram, Halo is as slow on that as it is on his 867 MHz G4 Powerbook, from what I saw when I played on the PC (I finished it) the port it's self is buggered up.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041841/ Sgt. John M. Stryker
But actually the name comes from two Medal of Honor citations http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/mohiib1.htm
"Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company E, 513th Parachute Infantry, 17th Airborne Division. Place and date: Near Wesel, Germany, 24 March 1945. Entered service at: Portland, Oreg. Birth. Portland, Oreg. G.O. No.: 117, 11 December 1945. Citation. He was a platoon runner, when the unit assembled near Wesel, Germany after a descent east of the Rhine. Attacking along a railroad, Company E reached a point about 250 yards from a large building used as an enemy headquarters and manned by a powerful force of Germans with rifles, machineguns, and 4 field pieces. One platoon made a frontal assault but was pinned down by intense fire from the house after advancing only 50 yards. So badly stricken that it could not return the raking fire, the platoon was at the mercy of German machine gunners when Pfc. Stryker voluntarily left a place of comparative safety, and, armed with a carbine, ran to the head of the unit. In full view of the enemy and under constant fire, he exhorted the men to get to their feet and follow him. Inspired by his fearlessness, they rushed after him in a desperate charge through an increased hail of bullets. Twenty-five yards from the objective the heroic soldier was killed by the enemy fusillades. His gallant and wholly voluntary action in the face of overwhelming firepower, however, so encouraged his comrades and diverted the enemy's attention that other elements of the company were able to surround the house, capturing more than 200 hostile soldiers and much equipment, besides freeing 3 members of an American bomber crew held prisoner there. The intrepidity and unhesitating self-sacrifice of Pfc. Stryker were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service."
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/mohviet2.htm
"Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army, Company C, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Loc Ninh, Republic of Vietnam, 7 November 1967. Entered service at: Throop, N.Y. Born: 9 November 1944, Auburn, N.Y. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Sp4c. Stryker, U.S. Army, distinguished himself while serving with Company C. Sp4c. Stryker was serving as a grenadier in a multicompany reconnaissance in force near Loc Ninh. As his unit moved through the dense underbrush, it was suddenly met with a hail of rocket, automatic weapons and small arms fire from enemy forces concealed in fortified bunkers and in the surrounding trees. Reacting quickly, Sp4c. Stryker fired into the enemy positions with his grenade launcher. During the devastating exchange of fire, Sp4c. Stryker detected enemy elements attempting to encircle his company and isolate it from the main body of the friendly force. Undaunted by the enemy machinegun and small-arms fire, Sp4c. Stryker repeatedly fired grenades into the trees, killing enemy snipers and enabling his comrades to sever the attempted encirclement. As the battle continued, Sp4c. Stryker observed several wounded members of his squad in the killing zone of an enemy claymore mine. With complete disregard for his safety, he threw himself upon the mine as it was detonated. He was mortally wounded as his body absorbed the blast and shielded his comrades from the explosion. His unselfish actions were responsible for saving the lives of at least 6 of his fellow soldiers. Sp4c. Stryker's great personal bravery was in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflects great credit upon himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army."
"How ironic that your sig contains a quote by Sherman, who did exactly that in his famous "march to the sea"."
Ah, but he didn't. The popular understanding of Sherman's March to the Sea is that he raped and pillaged Georgia. He didn't. The Army attacked Confederate infrastructure while on the march, freed slaves and burned cotton and other goods the state depended on while knocking out communication (railroads and telegraph) while living off the land as they marched.
The living off the land by foraging was a time-honored tradition for an army it's just been made controversal during the March to the Sea.
Yes...sniping at officers who are in uniform by other solider is acceptable.
Sniping at civilians isn't. Now if you are an irregular not in uniform and snipe and are caught, you can be summarily executed.
That's an accepted fact for the last...3-400 years.
Now during the American Revolution...very limited warcrimes were carried out by both sides as did irregular operations against other irregulars and against uniformed soldiers. Fellas like Nathan Hale were hung by the British for being soldiers out of uniform...thus a spy.
The North did carry out military operations against logistical targets in the war, however they did not attack civilian targets for the sake of attacking civilian targets, and the North isn't hailed for it's operations in the war...it's considered an agressor and in large parts of the country...they are considered war criminals...no matter how clean a campaign might have been.
"Alas, it looks like Dubya's "mars or bust" program will drain the funding from many of the most exciting future space science missions,"
Did you watch his speech or read the text of it?
He talked about robotic missions like the Mercury and Europa missions and proposals along with the manned operations as well as the new Space Telescope.
SOCOM snipers on a map like Crossroads have a great advantage.
But snipers are creatures of habit and once you've gotten capped once or twice you make it your life's work to kill the damned sniper.
I'm a fan of the M-203 to the sniper or the sneak-up and shotgun the shit out of the sniper.
Sounds like the writer of the piece about snipers is whining. Why I'm a fan of laying a mine or three in SOCOM, which can give me a ludicrous advantage because I can kill people after I'm dead, just like the real world.
It would have been very costly to the Germans to do that.
Say in July 1944 had the V1s and later on V2s been equiped with chemical weapons it might have killed...twice as many British citizens as the conventional warheads did, seeing as a V weapon's warhead was 1,870 pounds in the V-1 and 2,000 pounds in a V-2.
http://www.ww2guide.com/vweapon.shtml V-1 Number lauched: 10,000 against the UK, 12,000 against Western Europe (up to 18,000 V-1s launched total.)
V-2s - 1,120 were launched against England (1,050 actually impacting the ground in that country )
"About 4,320 V-2 rockets were fired by March 27, 1945 with another 600 expended in training which mainly took place near Blizna, Poland."
"The total bomb tonnage for the Second World War dropped by both the RAF and the 8th and 15th Air Forces in Europe on Germany totalled 1,234,767 tons of bombs more than 60 percent of which were dropped between July 1944 and April 1945."
Slashdot Mirror
"We need a new term for this kind of journalistic troll."
No talent assclown.
I've played with one in the stores, it's kind of cheesy, the Lacie drive, they didn't do a good job with the molding
Lord of the Rings is set in the present? Battlefield 1942? Medal of Honor?
Well I can't run for the Senate in Mass because I don't live in that state, while that didn't bother Senator Clinton with New York, it keeps me from running.
/. talking about politics and in the long run, it's always about you.
Senator Kerry ran around saying how much of a war-criminal he was in Vietnam, then said Vietnam didn't matter, then said that service shouldn't divide us, then said the US was a war-criminal in Vietnam and now he's back to being a war-hero again for his service in Vietnam.
I'm confused there with the Vietnam thing as to if we were suppose to serve or not and if those who did were war-criminals there.
Damn right I'm a better person that John Kerry, I'm not a wishy-washy politician.
When I say Kerry didn't show up, you toss out Cancer as if Cancer is the end-all-be-all excuse. But it ain't. So when I say that you kick in the attacks.
Let me guess, Deanite who jumped ship following the Iowa-Sceam to Kerry.
As for it being about me, well of course is it, after all I'm on
You dodged the entire point of my post.
If I, as a young boy with cancer, actually cancer, a relapse and cancer again between the ages of 7 and 18, while going to chemo 3 times a week could make it to school, why couldn't Senator Kerry suck it up and go to vote in the Senate?
After all, I wasn't getting over a hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year to do my job like Kerry was, and what I had was much worse on the sliding scale of howmuch cancer sucks than Kerry's prostate cancer.
Actually in my circle of hardcore cancer survivors we consider that to be about as bad as having the flu.
So then, explain why Kerry couldn't show for the Senate but he could fly around and give speeches.
My reply was to a post about looking at a Candidate's website as a source of information. If I'm reading on Kerry's site about something, then the otherside of the coin would be National Review now wouldn't it?
1 10004646
Here is something from the Wall Street Journal
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=
Kerry on Service in the Military - 1992
"The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them; that one help identify the positive things that we learned about ourselves and about our nation, not play to the divisions and differences of that crucible of our generation."
"We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways. Someone who was deeply against the war in 1969 or 1970 may well have served their country with equal passion and patriotism by opposing the war as by fighting in it."
As for using the NR, I didn't want to, but I was pressed for time and had recalled reading about Kerry's voting record there.
When I had cancer, I had a choice. I could have gotten free Federal Health Care from the local BIA clinic and hosptial or I could use my insurance to go to the Mayo Clinic for treatment.
I went to the Mayo Clinic and lived, for the most part because I was able to take part in a Federally funded "windfall" drug program with a pharma company.
While I don't like the current system much, I sure as shit don't think any of the Democratic plans in the last 12 years would have done the country any better when it comes to a health system. In fact, due to my close proximity to Federal programs in Education, having attended a BIA/Dept Ed schooll I think the best thing we could do as a nation is for education is to limit the Dept of Ed's role to that of setting loose national standards for the states and maintaining the Title programs.
You know what, I had cancer too, and I showed up for school. In fact over 5 years of chemo, the majority of it carried out either 90 or 550 miles from home, I only missed 30 days of class in 5 years. The worst year of my cancer I missed 4 days of school, now the Senate doesn't meet near as often as 5th grade does, but I'd expect he could make more votes, as he was able to campaign at the same time and his treatments took place in D.C.
The cancer card doesn't get my sympathies for Kerry, if he was really into serving the country and carred for his family, he would have retired from the Senate to get treated.
No, looking at a candidate's website is a good way to see what they want you to think they think is important.
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Take a look at John Kerry - http://www.johnkerry.com/about/
His dad was a volunteer, he was a volunteer, but he was in the wrong war! Then he went on to be a senate stud.
But that's not accurate, not really, and I think it's important to look around the web to learn what is important.
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york20040122
"The publication Congressional Quarterly examined 119 recorded votes held in 2003 in which the president had taken a position. CQ found that Kerry was present for just 28 percent of those votes. In contrast, Kerry's colleague from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, was present for 97 percent of the votes."
As for his voting for war, he voted against the First Gulf War, then voted for the Second Gulf War, but he claims he didn't really understand what power that vote was going to give the President. And in the 1990s he called for an end to the Iraqi government as it was.
http://www.nationalreview.com/document/kerry200
Speech by John Kerry, delivered on the Senate floor on Nov. 9, 1997, as recorded in the Congressional Record.
"Plainly and simply, Saddam Hussein cannot be permitted to get away with his antics, or with this latest excuse for avoidance of international responsibility."
"We must recognize that there is no indication that Saddam Hussein has any intention of relenting. So we have an obligation of enormous consequence, an obligation to guarantee that Saddam Hussein cannot ignore the United Nations. He cannot be permitted to go unobserved and unimpeded toward his horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. This is not a matter about which there should be any debate whatsoever in the Security Council, or, certainly, in this Nation. If he remains obdurate, I believe that the United Nations must take, and should authorize immediately, whatever steps are necessary to force him to relent -- and that the United States should support and participate in those steps."
This is just a single example and I used a single source for my rebuttals. The point of this is, if you use the canidate's sites and ther suporters and organizer's sites, you won't learn anything real about the canidate.
I had it, I'm cured.
Twice and cured twice.
"Having to pay $3K for a system to play the latest FPS (which is what I suspect the Mac version of Halo requires from the posts about it) is just asinine."
I bought and played Halo on a 2 GHz Athlon, it's still slow as shit. A guy I know has a DP 1.8 GHz G5 with 4 gigs of ram, Halo is as slow on that as it is on his 867 MHz G4 Powerbook, from what I saw when I played on the PC (I finished it) the port it's self is buggered up.
Giving control of something to the UN is the best way to insure it'll get censored and controlled the most in the near future.
"Yes, except that a nicer car usually means more bang for your buck"
Not always.
For 27K I could buy a Mustang GT that will stomp all over a 40K BMW horsepower and acceleration wise.
"Macs are the best alternative in exactly the same way a $1,000 MontBlanc pen is the best alternative to a $0.10 Bic."
No a better comparison would be...
Macs are the best alternative in exactly the same way a $35,000 Cadillac, Audi or BMW is the best alternative to a $16,000 Kia, Ford or Chevy
I like Savitar for OS 9/X
http://www.heynow.com/Savitar/index.html
If /. and Spaceflightnow are still running in 2014, I will look foreward to the coverage
For me, Sands of Iwo Jima comes to mind
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041841/
Sgt. John M. Stryker
But actually the name comes from two Medal of Honor citations
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/mohiib1.htm
"Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company E, 513th Parachute Infantry, 17th Airborne Division. Place and date: Near Wesel, Germany, 24 March 1945. Entered service at: Portland, Oreg. Birth. Portland, Oreg. G.O. No.: 117, 11 December 1945. Citation. He was a platoon runner, when the unit assembled near Wesel, Germany after a descent east of the Rhine. Attacking along a railroad, Company E reached a point about 250 yards from a large building used as an enemy headquarters and manned by a powerful force of Germans with rifles, machineguns, and 4 field pieces. One platoon made a frontal assault but was pinned down by intense fire from the house after advancing only 50 yards. So badly stricken that it could not return the raking fire, the platoon was at the mercy of German machine gunners when Pfc. Stryker voluntarily left a place of comparative safety, and, armed with a carbine, ran to the head of the unit. In full view of the enemy and under constant fire, he exhorted the men to get to their feet and follow him. Inspired by his fearlessness, they rushed after him in a desperate charge through an increased hail of bullets. Twenty-five yards from the objective the heroic soldier was killed by the enemy fusillades. His gallant and wholly voluntary action in the face of overwhelming firepower, however, so encouraged his comrades and diverted the enemy's attention that other elements of the company were able to surround the house, capturing more than 200 hostile soldiers and much equipment, besides freeing 3 members of an American bomber crew held prisoner there. The intrepidity and unhesitating self-sacrifice of Pfc. Stryker were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service."
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/mohviet2.htm
"Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army, Company C, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Loc Ninh, Republic of Vietnam, 7 November 1967. Entered service at: Throop, N.Y. Born: 9 November 1944, Auburn, N.Y. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Sp4c. Stryker, U.S. Army, distinguished himself while serving with Company C. Sp4c. Stryker was serving as a grenadier in a multicompany reconnaissance in force near Loc Ninh. As his unit moved through the dense underbrush, it was suddenly met with a hail of rocket, automatic weapons and small arms fire from enemy forces concealed in fortified bunkers and in the surrounding trees. Reacting quickly, Sp4c. Stryker fired into the enemy positions with his grenade launcher. During the devastating exchange of fire, Sp4c. Stryker detected enemy elements attempting to encircle his company and isolate it from the main body of the friendly force. Undaunted by the enemy machinegun and small-arms fire, Sp4c. Stryker repeatedly fired grenades into the trees, killing enemy snipers and enabling his comrades to sever the attempted encirclement. As the battle continued, Sp4c. Stryker observed several wounded members of his squad in the killing zone of an enemy claymore mine. With complete disregard for his safety, he threw himself upon the mine as it was detonated. He was mortally wounded as his body absorbed the blast and shielded his comrades from the explosion. His unselfish actions were responsible for saving the lives of at least 6 of his fellow soldiers. Sp4c. Stryker's great personal bravery was in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflects great credit upon himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army."
"How ironic that your sig contains a quote by Sherman, who did exactly that in his famous "march to the sea"."
Ah, but he didn't. The popular understanding of Sherman's March to the Sea is that he raped and pillaged Georgia. He didn't. The Army attacked Confederate infrastructure while on the march, freed slaves and burned cotton and other goods the state depended on while knocking out communication (railroads and telegraph) while living off the land as they marched.
The living off the land by foraging was a time-honored tradition for an army it's just been made controversal during the March to the Sea.
Yes...sniping at officers who are in uniform by other solider is acceptable.
Sniping at civilians isn't. Now if you are an irregular not in uniform and snipe and are caught, you can be summarily executed.
That's an accepted fact for the last...3-400 years.
Now during the American Revolution...very limited warcrimes were carried out by both sides as did irregular operations against other irregulars and against uniformed soldiers. Fellas like Nathan Hale were hung by the British for being soldiers out of uniform...thus a spy.
The North did carry out military operations against logistical targets in the war, however they did not attack civilian targets for the sake of attacking civilian targets, and the North isn't hailed for it's operations in the war...it's considered an agressor and in large parts of the country...they are considered war criminals...no matter how clean a campaign might have been.
"Alas, it looks like Dubya's "mars or bust" program will drain the funding from many of the most exciting future space science missions,"
Did you watch his speech or read the text of it?
He talked about robotic missions like the Mercury and Europa missions and proposals along with the manned operations as well as the new Space Telescope.
Why would I need to do a case mod for an 1984 Mac?
I just pulled out my low SN Fat Mac (512K) from 1984 and booted her up from floppy...not the original disks and played some Missile Command on it.
There is a 10 user licence and an unlimited user licence.
SOCOM snipers on a map like Crossroads have a great advantage.
But snipers are creatures of habit and once you've gotten capped once or twice you make it your life's work to kill the damned sniper.
I'm a fan of the M-203 to the sniper or the sneak-up and shotgun the shit out of the sniper.
Sounds like the writer of the piece about snipers is whining. Why I'm a fan of laying a mine or three in SOCOM, which can give me a ludicrous advantage because I can kill people after I'm dead, just like the real world.
They are getting around to it.
The awards will be presented when Wired has the time and manpower to get them finished.
Or...
The awards are on order and the award store says they will call us when they are finished.
On chemical weapons in the rockets.
It would have been very costly to the Germans to do that.
Say in July 1944 had the V1s and later on V2s been equiped with chemical weapons it might have killed...twice as many British citizens as the conventional warheads did, seeing as a V weapon's warhead was 1,870 pounds in the V-1 and 2,000 pounds in a V-2.
http://www.ww2guide.com/vweapon.shtml
V-1 Number lauched: 10,000 against the UK, 12,000 against Western Europe (up to 18,000 V-1s launched total.)
V-2s - 1,120 were launched against England (1,050 actually impacting the ground in that country )
"About 4,320 V-2 rockets were fired by March 27, 1945 with another 600 expended in training which mainly took place near Blizna, Poland."
"The total bomb tonnage for the Second World War dropped by both the RAF and the 8th and 15th Air Forces in Europe on Germany totalled 1,234,767 tons of bombs more than 60 percent of which were dropped between July 1944 and April 1945."