Being soldier that has been in combat I can tell you that I loved the gadgets, however they have to make them so that they don't affect the speed, weight, comfort, and most importantly mobility of us. NVG's (Night vision goggles) are a great boon in night time warfare, however after you wear them for a couple hours your head feels like it's going to explode.
Two pounds is significant. Have you ever cleared a building with one? Why do you think we all went to the M4? It's smaller lighter and much better for urban combat due to its weight than the M16. I have carried both and even though the M4 is just a shorter lighter version of the M16 with a stock that collapses I still prefer it in the urban environment because of the weight. Also desert dust is ugly to firearms like both of them, that's why I had a can of WD40 with me, best thing for cleaning them that I ever found.
Another interesting possibility is that you could learn to defend yourself instead of expecting everyone to be nice and then have the government fix all the problems. For instance I carry a firearm and am well versed in its care and use, a person walks into a building where I am and starts spraying bullets around I'll put a quick end to it provided I'm don't get shot in the first few seconds. I'm a big fan of communities policing themselves, after all someone on/. once put it the Police are only there to do the paperwork after you were unable to protect yourself.
It's easy, fire up your p2p of choice and start to download as many linux distros as you can into the/home/me/distro folder then make this little script a daemon.
(find/home/me/distro -n *) >/dev/null
and let it go ad infinitum
Why do people still wade through the horror that is AOL? I once found AOL standing over some files in my computer with a bloody knife shouting maniacally "All your information is belong to me!", thankfully I had a boot nuke disk to destroy that horror.
Having been a highschool student not that long ago I can agree with you for the most part. However, too many teenagers abuse their rights and have no sense of common decency or respect. Let me put it like this in the real world you may not like your boss all that much but you give him respect because he can fire you and most times he did earn his position, so you have repurcussions for your actions. However in the school system you can't truly be "fired" for being an idiot so they have other forms of punishment that your "boss" can give you. I agree wholeheartedly with you that outside of school you should have all the constitutional rights of a citizen (by the way drinking, smoking, and several other activities are not rights) but that being true students should also have to pay the price if they abuse said freedoms. Basically what it boils down to is don't be an asshole and you have nothing to worry about. Oh and if you want the freedoms of an adult, be an adult and stand up and fight for them. Write to congress, the courts and be an active participant or focal point for what you believe in.
I think that most scientists are aware of that and what they're actually getting at are planets that could support life similar to our own. Life that we could recognize and interact with, perhaps even coexist with in some unknown future. There are many unproven forms that life can exist in, however we probably wouldn't recognize them if we saw them so we naturally stick with what we know.
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Because it's the first step. Think about it, people will get used to having the cameras in public places. The more they get used to them and the more a part of the landscape they are the less people will mind having them around. Then some idiot will start wanting it in his/her house "just in case"... do you see where this is going? Mod me down or put a tinfoil hat on me, but I firmly believe that it is a community responsibility to watch out for your neighbor, take care of them when they need it and scold them when they need that too. If society these days wasn't so hell bent on being nice to eachother every second of every day and weren't afraid to take care of a problem when they see it, systems like this would never happen.
Exactly, most sheeple think that for some reason they need protection from their own stupidity, lack of ethics, and completely missing moral fiber. Who better to turn to when you need your life regulated than the government, that way you don't have to think for yourself or actually take an active part of your community, Big Brother will do it for you so in the new wonderful politically correct world all forms of conflict including the kind that has a positive impact can be avoided. In all honesty if I lived anywhere there were cameras like this I would wander around at night with paint and start coating the lenses.
I agree with you whole heartedly. My parents did the same thing, for instance when I found my Dad's porn stash they sat me down and explained it to me. They didn't tell me not to look at it because they knew I would find a way sooner or later anyway, that way they had a little control over it. Another wonderful thing that my parents did for me was instill respect, courtesy, and the ability to think for myself. I believe in that wholeheartedly as well. It also starts when they're little, as soon as my daughter started to try and form words at 7 months old we started to teach her about please and thank you... something that seems to be absent from so many kids these days in this gimme gimme society. Naked people is trivial, after all you're born naked, you don't care about clothes until you're old enough to be taught about them, other than most of the people here (sorry I had to) you're going to have sex someday. So why not teach your kids what it is and at least steer them towards healthier behavior towards it is beyond me. I for one will encourage the use of healthy sexual practices in my children rather than forbidding it outright.
I can understand both points here. The main parent is right that with some cards it actually is rather difficult to get it working think Broadcom. A typical user is going to think that modprobe means they're about to get ass fscked by an alien(not the packaging app either). On the other hand though most other chipsets do work with a few rare exceptions.
.308...check
Pinstripe camoflage suit....check
Congress brand spray on scent....check
Expensive car blind....check
Now all I need is a lobbyist hunting liscense.
They are good for morale, having run one they're not actually that bad. Some of the airbases that I was stationed at had larger perimeters than the distance of the marathon. Although when I was in Ramadi if I'd run it there I would have died of boredom before the race was over as there was just a small stretch that I could run on and it was only about 1/8th of a mile long.
to using a phone to talk to people? I have a cell phone under protest and that's all I use it for. My camera takes better pictures and my mobile music player holds much more music and can be strapped to my arm. So why this insistance on making a phone a small computer. Some use it for work sure, and I don't get that really. Work stays at work for me, family is much more important.
Gee you sue your customer base, "liscense" a product that Joe Manguy can't figure out how to use due to DRM and wonder why you don't make any money. I just don't understand how pissing off and confusing your customers to the point of forcing piracy does not a good business model make.
Now that I agree with. Example: In my family my wife is college educated and all that, but she's a stay at home mom because it's better for our kids and I can make more money than her. A lot more money actually, and despite having a great job and all that we still live well beneath our means. After bills including allowances and groceries and a couple other things we may want once in a while I still have an excess of more than 1000 dollars a month. This is because I buy things secondhand a lot, I love shopping around Goodwill because I can find some really great stuff for pretty cheap there. We sale shop and all of that. The best part of all this is that we're a young couple(both 22), and what's nice is that since neither of us think we need to have a lot of really nice "things" to be rich (a happy family is worth more than any amount of money) it doesn't break us if we want to buy something nice say drop cash for new furniture.
What about all these rural areas that run fiber to a central box within a mile of the houses that it is linked to? Pretty common where I grew up. I'm sure that some smart person out there can figure out how to get copper carried data to play nice with fiber carried data.
Has anyone noticed that the more the MAFIAA litigates and implements DRM the lower their sales drop? I think it's simple to understand, litigation pisses off their customers (bad idea in business I thought) and DRM makes it damn near impossible for Joe Schmoe to figure out how to use the media that he "liscensed" so he talks to his/. savvy buddy and gets the DRM gone or just pirates what he wants to avoid paying for unusable media.
Clap, Clap, Clap. About fscking time a person with influence in lawmaking didn't have his head up his ass clear to the waist. Make parents somewhat accountable and quit shifting the blame around.
(Note: I do understand that some kids are just bad, but for the most part that's not the case.)
Exactly, that seems to be a major problem today. I don't understand the people in my peer group, I'm 22 work in the tech industry and make really good money because I'm good at what I do. The problem that I have is that I see so many people in my age group that don't even understand what being on time means. I always make it a point to be 15 minutes early to work, and I leave on time if there's no fires that need to be put out. The one thing that I do understand about my peer is that the majority of them want a job like mine where I get paid very very well, only work 7 days out of 14 and have great bennies. What they don't want though is to have to work for it like I did, I got the job because I worked my ass of when I was a teenager and while I was in the Army to do it, they want it without doing anything to earn it.
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Being soldier that has been in combat I can tell you that I loved the gadgets, however they have to make them so that they don't affect the speed, weight, comfort, and most importantly mobility of us. NVG's (Night vision goggles) are a great boon in night time warfare, however after you wear them for a couple hours your head feels like it's going to explode.
Two pounds is significant. Have you ever cleared a building with one? Why do you think we all went to the M4? It's smaller lighter and much better for urban combat due to its weight than the M16. I have carried both and even though the M4 is just a shorter lighter version of the M16 with a stock that collapses I still prefer it in the urban environment because of the weight. Also desert dust is ugly to firearms like both of them, that's why I had a can of WD40 with me, best thing for cleaning them that I ever found.
Another interesting possibility is that you could learn to defend yourself instead of expecting everyone to be nice and then have the government fix all the problems. For instance I carry a firearm and am well versed in its care and use, a person walks into a building where I am and starts spraying bullets around I'll put a quick end to it provided I'm don't get shot in the first few seconds. I'm a big fan of communities policing themselves, after all someone on /. once put it the Police are only there to do the paperwork after you were unable to protect yourself.
It's easy, fire up your p2p of choice and start to download as many linux distros as you can into the /home/me/distro folder then make this little script a daemon.
(find /home/me/distro -n *) > /dev/null
and let it go ad infinitum
Why do people still wade through the horror that is AOL? I once found AOL standing over some files in my computer with a bloody knife shouting maniacally "All your information is belong to me!", thankfully I had a boot nuke disk to destroy that horror.
Having been a highschool student not that long ago I can agree with you for the most part. However, too many teenagers abuse their rights and have no sense of common decency or respect. Let me put it like this in the real world you may not like your boss all that much but you give him respect because he can fire you and most times he did earn his position, so you have repurcussions for your actions. However in the school system you can't truly be "fired" for being an idiot so they have other forms of punishment that your "boss" can give you. I agree wholeheartedly with you that outside of school you should have all the constitutional rights of a citizen (by the way drinking, smoking, and several other activities are not rights) but that being true students should also have to pay the price if they abuse said freedoms. Basically what it boils down to is don't be an asshole and you have nothing to worry about. Oh and if you want the freedoms of an adult, be an adult and stand up and fight for them. Write to congress, the courts and be an active participant or focal point for what you believe in.
Don't forget that we have to subjugate some natives.
I think that most scientists are aware of that and what they're actually getting at are planets that could support life similar to our own. Life that we could recognize and interact with, perhaps even coexist with in some unknown future. There are many unproven forms that life can exist in, however we probably wouldn't recognize them if we saw them so we naturally stick with what we know.
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A fatal exception 0E has occured at 0137:BFFA21C9. The current
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* Press CTRL+ALT+DEL again to restart your computer. You will
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Because it's the first step. Think about it, people will get used to having the cameras in public places. The more they get used to them and the more a part of the landscape they are the less people will mind having them around. Then some idiot will start wanting it in his/her house "just in case"... do you see where this is going? Mod me down or put a tinfoil hat on me, but I firmly believe that it is a community responsibility to watch out for your neighbor, take care of them when they need it and scold them when they need that too. If society these days wasn't so hell bent on being nice to eachother every second of every day and weren't afraid to take care of a problem when they see it, systems like this would never happen.
The more civil liberties are taken from me, the more ammunition I stockpile into my parents very very rural basement.
Exactly, most sheeple think that for some reason they need protection from their own stupidity, lack of ethics, and completely missing moral fiber. Who better to turn to when you need your life regulated than the government, that way you don't have to think for yourself or actually take an active part of your community, Big Brother will do it for you so in the new wonderful politically correct world all forms of conflict including the kind that has a positive impact can be avoided. In all honesty if I lived anywhere there were cameras like this I would wander around at night with paint and start coating the lenses.
I agree with you whole heartedly. My parents did the same thing, for instance when I found my Dad's porn stash they sat me down and explained it to me. They didn't tell me not to look at it because they knew I would find a way sooner or later anyway, that way they had a little control over it. Another wonderful thing that my parents did for me was instill respect, courtesy, and the ability to think for myself. I believe in that wholeheartedly as well. It also starts when they're little, as soon as my daughter started to try and form words at 7 months old we started to teach her about please and thank you... something that seems to be absent from so many kids these days in this gimme gimme society. Naked people is trivial, after all you're born naked, you don't care about clothes until you're old enough to be taught about them, other than most of the people here (sorry I had to) you're going to have sex someday. So why not teach your kids what it is and at least steer them towards healthier behavior towards it is beyond me. I for one will encourage the use of healthy sexual practices in my children rather than forbidding it outright.
I'm fairly new and could use some positive mod points.
I can understand both points here. The main parent is right that with some cards it actually is rather difficult to get it working think Broadcom. A typical user is going to think that modprobe means they're about to get ass fscked by an alien(not the packaging app either). On the other hand though most other chipsets do work with a few rare exceptions.
.308...check Pinstripe camoflage suit....check Congress brand spray on scent....check Expensive car blind....check Now all I need is a lobbyist hunting liscense.
They are good for morale, having run one they're not actually that bad. Some of the airbases that I was stationed at had larger perimeters than the distance of the marathon. Although when I was in Ramadi if I'd run it there I would have died of boredom before the race was over as there was just a small stretch that I could run on and it was only about 1/8th of a mile long.
to using a phone to talk to people? I have a cell phone under protest and that's all I use it for. My camera takes better pictures and my mobile music player holds much more music and can be strapped to my arm. So why this insistance on making a phone a small computer. Some use it for work sure, and I don't get that really. Work stays at work for me, family is much more important.
Actually it's a Microsoft Marketing campaign disguised as a Symantech press release disguised as a psuedo scientific research report.
Gee you sue your customer base, "liscense" a product that Joe Manguy can't figure out how to use due to DRM and wonder why you don't make any money. I just don't understand how pissing off and confusing your customers to the point of forcing piracy does not a good business model make.
Now that I agree with. Example: In my family my wife is college educated and all that, but she's a stay at home mom because it's better for our kids and I can make more money than her. A lot more money actually, and despite having a great job and all that we still live well beneath our means. After bills including allowances and groceries and a couple other things we may want once in a while I still have an excess of more than 1000 dollars a month. This is because I buy things secondhand a lot, I love shopping around Goodwill because I can find some really great stuff for pretty cheap there. We sale shop and all of that. The best part of all this is that we're a young couple(both 22), and what's nice is that since neither of us think we need to have a lot of really nice "things" to be rich (a happy family is worth more than any amount of money) it doesn't break us if we want to buy something nice say drop cash for new furniture.
What about all these rural areas that run fiber to a central box within a mile of the houses that it is linked to? Pretty common where I grew up. I'm sure that some smart person out there can figure out how to get copper carried data to play nice with fiber carried data.
Has anyone noticed that the more the MAFIAA litigates and implements DRM the lower their sales drop? I think it's simple to understand, litigation pisses off their customers (bad idea in business I thought) and DRM makes it damn near impossible for Joe Schmoe to figure out how to use the media that he "liscensed" so he talks to his /. savvy buddy and gets the DRM gone or just pirates what he wants to avoid paying for unusable media.
Clap, Clap, Clap. About fscking time a person with influence in lawmaking didn't have his head up his ass clear to the waist. Make parents somewhat accountable and quit shifting the blame around. (Note: I do understand that some kids are just bad, but for the most part that's not the case.)
Exactly, that seems to be a major problem today. I don't understand the people in my peer group, I'm 22 work in the tech industry and make really good money because I'm good at what I do. The problem that I have is that I see so many people in my age group that don't even understand what being on time means. I always make it a point to be 15 minutes early to work, and I leave on time if there's no fires that need to be put out. The one thing that I do understand about my peer is that the majority of them want a job like mine where I get paid very very well, only work 7 days out of 14 and have great bennies. What they don't want though is to have to work for it like I did, I got the job because I worked my ass of when I was a teenager and while I was in the Army to do it, they want it without doing anything to earn it.