Has it ever occured to you that we might be pitching all this high tech gear as a means of throwing the enemy off? Think about it, for a few million we can get the enemy to develop all this elaborate but otherwise harmless technology. In the mean time we have never given up on basic marksmanship, and we still have TONS of technology from WWII in mothballs that can be tossed back into service in a matter of months.
The US is simply not geared to handle invasion and occupation. That's not our MO. We have territory, foodstocks, and natural resources out the yinyang. The only reason we would have to engage in warfare is if someone was disrupting our trade, or swiping our territory overseas, or attacking one of our allies.
Basically, if you are planning on occupying a country you need an entirely different military structure. Ours is designed for strategic victory over a standing army. I view our incompetance in occupying another nation as proof that we mean no harm.
This is actually an important part of training. The Army regularly puts their troops up against some of the best live opponents that can find. It's called "Opfor." My spend 2 years in the Mojave desert, knocking off one battalian after another as the bad guys.
In full scale war games, they actually bolt electronics onto the Serviceman's actual rifle that essentially plays laser-tag with blanks. You have to have a clip to make the gun fire, and the guns do actually Jam, and they have simulated land mines, IED's, morter attacks, air strikes, etc. It's all in a real environtment, so you have heat and cold, dirt, body odor, everything.
Some reserve units are actually pretty experienced and can beat Opfor. They are the minority. Most newer units get schooled, and they have the experience of having died in battle to teach them what not to do.
"You die at Fort Irvin so you survive your real battles."
People bad mouth the Aircraft carrier as outmoded and expensive. But in support of your argument, we have them and nobody else does, at least in the quantity and quality of the US Navy. Beyond the Nuclear carriers that carry entire fighter squadrens, the US also has numerous "Amphibious Assault" ships that are essentially carriers without the jets.
Before anyone starts on about the need for a carbon tax, we need to address the Billions that go into subsidizing our consumption habits. I'm speaking of Americans in particular, beyond the war on "terror", highway funding, and preferential tax status of oil companies, we also directly subsidize these companies that are taking us for billions in retail.
I say eliminate all of the special subsidies, odd tax loopholes, and other artificial advantages that make Fossil fuel desireable. And then the market will finally be able to sort it all out.
You can't spell Lawyer without layer. The answer is to simplify the legal system, not add on yet another veil for the powers that be to pierce and misuse.
The fact that you need an advocate to find an advocate to talk to a representitive who may be able to help is stupid.
Ironically, I copy the movies off DVDs then erase the files from my hard drive just so I don't have to watch the movies.
Ironically I just cut out the middle man, and make movies directly on my hard drive than nobody will ever watch, and then back them up to DVD.
What's wrong with AquaEmacs?
And if you get some water up into that crack, you might just get the sand out. Seriously, if you are ever serious about actually LEARNING to play with the mac on it's own terms, Xcode and darwinports are your friends.
As far as running OS X as a server, I like Tiger Server so much my Xserve G5s running UbuntuPPC.
You'll get OS X off my MacBook when you pry it from my dead hand though. I'm hard core at work, but at home I really can't give a flying hoot what is doing what as long as it works.
Only it has nothing to do with television, and everything to do with the FCC being able to auction off all the old television bandwidth to wireless carriers.
That's only a problem when the sheer the poor girl down to bare skin an nuthin else.
Dear god there is a reason people have hair in some places. And for better or for worse once you've seen one naked beaver, the next 100 add nothing. Especially if it shot after shot of some love sausage diving in and out.
The problem is they'll be recording modern porn at 1080p. I want my old grainy, barely color balanced, and sure as hell not a model porn. Back before they could do all those really raunchy camera angles. Or just stuff shot today in that style.
Genital shot after genital shot in perfect color gets old after the first 20 seconds. God help us if medical imaging ever advances to the point they could follow Mr. Happy inside for his little trip through the flesh tunnel.
And yet when I mention TCL to people they look at me like I'm crazy. "Isn't TCL dead?" they ask. "Tcl has been at 8.4 for eons." "Rivet doesn't run under Apache 2".
And oddly all of my stuff continues to run, year after year. When I started web programming Perl was big and Java was up and coming. I've seen Ruby flash in the pan, Python pop up, and now this PHP which seems to be the latest crack cocaine for programming. And non of them stress a back to the basics "And how is this going to work in 5 years time" that makes them at all sustainable for business to invest any serious time in.
Ok, Java does. The rest is amateur hour, and I don't care how much you make.
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You had better be talking about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, because I've never seen a civilian casualty count top 100,000 from Iraq.
Look closely. They arent't targeting the house. That shot is just showing off the fireball.
Cry in the Dojo, Laugh on the battlefield.
The best warriors are those who live for combat daily in simulation. What do you think the sport of fencing is? Or most sports for that matter?
Ever play chess? Chess was designed as a simulation for training field commanders. No joke, look it up.
Has it ever occured to you that we might be pitching all this high tech gear as a means of throwing the enemy off? Think about it, for a few million we can get the enemy to develop all this elaborate but otherwise harmless technology. In the mean time we have never given up on basic marksmanship, and we still have TONS of technology from WWII in mothballs that can be tossed back into service in a matter of months.
And aside from mine clearing and scaring the enemy it is tactically useless.
And they aren't particularly good at mine clearing.
No, US Army Doctrine is not obsolete.
The US is simply not geared to handle invasion and occupation. That's not our MO. We have territory, foodstocks, and natural resources out the yinyang. The only reason we would have to engage in warfare is if someone was disrupting our trade, or swiping our territory overseas, or attacking one of our allies.
Basically, if you are planning on occupying a country you need an entirely different military structure. Ours is designed for strategic victory over a standing army. I view our incompetance in occupying another nation as proof that we mean no harm.
This is actually an important part of training. The Army regularly puts their troops up against some of the best live opponents that can find. It's called "Opfor." My spend 2 years in the Mojave desert, knocking off one battalian after another as the bad guys.
In full scale war games, they actually bolt electronics onto the Serviceman's actual rifle that essentially plays laser-tag with blanks. You have to have a clip to make the gun fire, and the guns do actually Jam, and they have simulated land mines, IED's, morter attacks, air strikes, etc. It's all in a real environtment, so you have heat and cold, dirt, body odor, everything.
Some reserve units are actually pretty experienced and can beat Opfor. They are the minority. Most newer units get schooled, and they have the experience of having died in battle to teach them what not to do.
"You die at Fort Irvin so you survive your real battles."
Except that you have to deliver your horde into the belly of the infidel.
Last I checked there was about 6000 miles of Ocean between the US and China. And the US has a deep water navy, while China does not.
People bad mouth the Aircraft carrier as outmoded and expensive. But in support of your argument, we have them and nobody else does, at least in the quantity and quality of the US Navy. Beyond the Nuclear carriers that carry entire fighter squadrens, the US also has numerous "Amphibious Assault" ships that are essentially carriers without the jets.
Before anyone starts on about the need for a carbon tax, we need to address the Billions that go into subsidizing our consumption habits. I'm speaking of Americans in particular, beyond the war on "terror", highway funding, and preferential tax status of oil companies, we also directly subsidize these companies that are taking us for billions in retail.
I say eliminate all of the special subsidies, odd tax loopholes, and other artificial advantages that make Fossil fuel desireable. And then the market will finally be able to sort it all out.
Good luck with that. It's so big it can't be carried by any of our bombers. It has to be air dropped from a cargo plane.
The fact that you need an advocate to find an advocate to talk to a representitive who may be able to help is stupid.
And Fark is SlashDot's speculative prediction algorithm.
Ironically, I copy the movies off DVDs then erase the files from my hard drive just so I don't have to watch the movies. Ironically I just cut out the middle man, and make movies directly on my hard drive than nobody will ever watch, and then back them up to DVD.
After about 4 posts to various videos, I dare say I seem to have stumbled across the next big thing in porn.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to stock up on brain bleach.
What's wrong with AquaEmacs? And if you get some water up into that crack, you might just get the sand out. Seriously, if you are ever serious about actually LEARNING to play with the mac on it's own terms, Xcode and darwinports are your friends. As far as running OS X as a server, I like Tiger Server so much my Xserve G5s running UbuntuPPC. You'll get OS X off my MacBook when you pry it from my dead hand though. I'm hard core at work, but at home I really can't give a flying hoot what is doing what as long as it works.
(And I thought I had a fun job.)
But I like watching the big men hit each other!
Don't make me invent a device to thwart that.
Actually there is a business case for it.
Only it has nothing to do with television, and everything to do with the FCC being able to auction off all the old television bandwidth to wireless carriers.
And yes, I do have that in writing.
That's only a problem when the sheer the poor girl down to bare skin an nuthin else.
Dear god there is a reason people have hair in some places. And for better or for worse once you've seen one naked beaver, the next 100 add nothing. Especially if it shot after shot of some love sausage diving in and out.
Bring back real looking chicks!
Hey, and some of us even prefer to old fuzzy channels. /No joy on satellite...
Meh.
The problem is they'll be recording modern porn at 1080p. I want my old grainy, barely color balanced, and sure as hell not a model porn. Back before they could do all those really raunchy camera angles. Or just stuff shot today in that style.
Genital shot after genital shot in perfect color gets old after the first 20 seconds. God help us if medical imaging ever advances to the point they could follow Mr. Happy inside for his little trip through the flesh tunnel.
And yet when I mention TCL to people they look at me like I'm crazy. "Isn't TCL dead?" they ask. "Tcl has been at 8.4 for eons." "Rivet doesn't run under Apache 2". And oddly all of my stuff continues to run, year after year. When I started web programming Perl was big and Java was up and coming. I've seen Ruby flash in the pan, Python pop up, and now this PHP which seems to be the latest crack cocaine for programming. And non of them stress a back to the basics "And how is this going to work in 5 years time" that makes them at all sustainable for business to invest any serious time in. Ok, Java does. The rest is amateur hour, and I don't care how much you make.
Meh. Do what I do: Harmon Kardon speaker and New Age music on a loop. And nothing good like Velvet Underground. I'm tallking crappy piano New age.