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  1. Re:Clip on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 0

    The Army sees fit to issue 30 round magazines to every soldier. The typical combat load is at least 7 of these magazines.

  2. Right won't be simple. on Ideas For a Great Control Room? · · Score: 0

    After my experience in satellite control centers, I have seen both good and bad. Video Walls. are a cool idea, but not always practical. I won't explain to much, but as these systems not usually are pieced together based on requirements, thena bout version 3 or 4 they start to become usable as the user and complained enough. There is a lot more to consider in it all. Message me if you want more info, but there is so much info. Air handler placement alone can cuse problems. I now have a ringing in one ear. But if you do nothing else to talk to techs and users. (blurry eye tonight can't chase the typo's)

  3. Still Not Economical on Electric Car Subsidies As Handouts For the Rich · · Score: 0

    Well some stated, make the government buy electric verticals, It is not economical, think, most cops can drive 100-200 easy in a day, no matter where they are & public transportation is even more. Also, I don't know about the "rich people" but my poor self, (maybe $45 a year, I am a solider, and that counts my housing allowance for me and my family, still low enough to get subsidies, like WIC), I can not own a vehicle that would require me to one another one to go more than 60 mi. I drive on average 60-100+ mi a day, just work related, how in the world, can I justify an electric car, it will never work with my life style , unless it can go 300 mi in a day charge, then it might be useful. Then it would have to be big, do you see how much stuff a solider has, that is a lot. I know some smart a** is gonna say live closer, but that is not practical, nor possible. I have one of the shorter commutes in my unit. In the end, it is not the cost, but how far can I drive, and can I afford another car for when this won't cut it. That is why these cars will go to the rich, and rich to me is $75 +. Do not complain about your being middle class with 100K, go look up the median salary, I bet then you $75+ will feel rich.

  4. It is all about employment. on Who Is Downloading the Torrented Facebook Files? · · Score: 0

    I know for a fact, that at least def contractors, look into your background. It is common practice among a lot of people out there to when they enter the job market to "hide it all", by either deleting their profile, or suspending it. This provides a look and a way to compare a prospective employees profile they had at one time vs what they have now. The information is all out there, but someone figure out how to mine it and keep a record, just like google did with everything else. For somone doing a background check, or research on a person, it provides a way to go back and look at what is floating out there in the past.

  5. Re:Not just Tokyo on The Puzzle of Japanese Web Design · · Score: 1

    Good for them, just like the english language, there are exceptions. But overall most americans there are jarheads, with a few other serives hiding out. There is a reason all US personell were not allowed off base for a few months a few years back. And don't get me started on the knife laws.

  6. Not just Tokyo on The Puzzle of Japanese Web Design · · Score: 0

    I got to spend some time living in Okinawa, Japan, a small southern island where the US military has a lot of bases. The culture there, while leaning towards being very conservative, does pack a lot stuff anywhere they can. Most stores & shops are small, with a lot of stuff, the tv news programs, are almost like there websites. Yet families live as generational, (everyone from great grandma to her great great great baby granddaughter live under one roof most of the time) family honor is first, meaning lie to everyone else. People know how to save, and when you do start to understand the language, and ask the guy your age what that says, he doesn't either, since the younger generations are not learning the more advanced characters. I find that though my experiences that Japanese culture has many contradictions. While the occasional person would talk to you with the little English they know to test it out, (usually a tourist from mainland japan, as in winter Okinawa is there Florida Keys) they practice what is considered in the US, discrimination. You submit a photo with your application for a job, appearance is everything. You do not date, nor marries a gaijin (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gaijin). It is hard to say for sure why it seems that Japanese websites have so much on them, but with out translating the pages, it might just be that they are using more a simplified kanji. But if you the look a photos of Tokyo, the same can be said, in simpler terms of Okinawa Japan. It was so bright there, that you would walk out and only see a bright radiating haze from all the lights, and coke machines. (Rumor was that there was 1 vending machine for every 3 people on the island.)

  7. Re:My laptop security on Retrieving a Stolen Laptop By IP Address Alone? · · Score: 1

    At what price would you allow it, or would you even be smart enough to know.

  8. Re:My laptop security on Retrieving a Stolen Laptop By IP Address Alone? · · Score: 1

    I have heard about this via mobile me, but your approach sounds even better, can you advise me more knowledgeable one on how i can do this. Maybe I will get a candid of my wife for once.