Wow...the Navy makes "sergeants" squadron commanders these days? That is what you gave as your example, you know - not fulfilling your statement that you had already differentiated between high ranking officers and a weapons system's end users - particularly not when the rank of a squadron commander is typically O-5 or O-6, which equally typically means career unless a civilian job offering is much more lucrative...for some reason.
I'll overlook the fact that the Navy doesn't have "sergeants"; perhaps you were referring to the Marines.
a) The revolving door between government and "Corporate America" when it involves government personnel who were in a position to directly affect a entity from "Corporate America's" profits is just as bad whether it involve military procurement or the FCC and Comcast.
b) There is a difference between an "end user" - one who gains "expertise" through using the weapons of war - being hired by a military supplier and someone who has been involved in contracts benefiting that supplier being subsequently employed by that supplier/contractor.
And I really don't believe that I should have had to point that out; the fact that I had to rather saddens me.
You peel away the bullshit, and "Corporate America" doesn't like "government" because "government" is competition for wealth "Corporate America" wants. You can't replace duty, honor, and country with the profit motive and expect duty, honor, and country to be the priority.
I've always felt that an argument that essentially is "I don't believe in anthropomorphic global warming, and you can't make me." is more impressive if it includes the line "I do not make any money - directly, or indirectly - from the harvesting, distribution, markets in, or combustion of carbonaceous forms of energy.".
Anything Google can do in the arena works to benefit all of humanity (admittedly it works to benefit those who are not getting wealthier creating a need for war in the Middle East the most).
Now if somebody would just put together a project to find more efficient thermalelectric materials so we can take advantage of heat energy represented by the smaller but significant geothermal gradient that is present "everywhere"....
Gotta love any form of energy which can be tapped by going under existing arable land, buildings, and Ma Nature's ecosystems without a subsequent risk of spilling crap everywhere and pollution through combustion.
We are ever the first to use "it" (whatever "it" is), we roar and soar for a while, and then the monopolies began to form...although since monopolies are now forming that impact the use and spread of information and technology, we are likely to be technology followers from here on out.
lolll..yeah, I remember when I was a kid the little town I was from suffered pretty seriously from the 1969-1970 recession. Money was scarce - and suddenly instead of new bikes, there was a wave of "custom" bikes being made by extending the forks of an existing bike with the forks of another and so on and so forth.
But the bottom line was still the same: Because of an inability to afford the purchase of something designed specifically for the job at hand, people "made do" by slapping together parts from old systems.
Both performance and, more importantly, reliability were issues with those bikes.
I tell you what. You can have your stupid fucking geese back. We'll take the satellite.
Ain't up to me - although I've met many a goose that was happy to provide me with their opinion (and bites), I've never met one that would listen to mine. Although I'm thinking they should have geese guiding the satellite to a safe splashdown; after all, the geese could routinely crap on my car right dead in the middle of the driver side windshield from an altitude of hundreds of feet without even looking.
...and you didn't want to wear your older brother's patched jeans to school?
Now - under the expert leadership that contaminating politics with money yields - the space program of the United States of America is going to wear patched satellites in outer space...that's progress.
In the form of "Microsoft either needs to move everything else to India, or O/S, Office, and development tools should be split apart and individually sold off to enhance shareholder value. We can call what is left DEC."
The digital works wouldn't be deleted, but [the author's coalition] wants to see "any computer system storing the digital copies powered down and disconnected from any network, pending an appropriate act of Congress." (Note that they want them shut down and unplugged, just to be sure.)
Stopping the computers from running may be as simple as unplugging them, but getting Congress running takes a lot more money than the author's coalition is likely to have.
Turnitin analyzes student papers for suspicious elements in order to spot the plagiarism, scanning for things like lifted quotations or clever rephrasing.
Wonder if teachers and professors are cheaper to buy than judges? With hundreds of millions of people writing billions of lines of...whatever...every year, is going to get as sticky out with homework and school papers as it is with software now.
Just how many words are in human language [pick one] that are pertinent to subject [pick one]? How many different ways/different humans can use those words to cover that subject before someone unintentionally duplicates past work? Or gets close enough that some piece of software decides it is just "clever rephrasing" and flags that paper? Particularly given the stunning lack of originality of both teachers and curriculum across so many schools in many different nations, which reduces the "subject" side of the equation?
"That is just clever rephrasing!" can be an entirely arbitrary - and untrue - accusation..so I do hope teachers and professors come cheaper than judges...
lollll...good thing I didn't add "Conservatives are into killing species off, not using embryonic-anything to save something!" like I was thinking about. I'd have got modded down from flamebait to nuclear waste.
The "conservatives" are going to go off...science, playing with life? Ain't nobody allowed to usurp the powers of their God.
'Cept them, of course, if it is something that they can deploy against scientists and other forms of liberals...e.g., taking an inanimate object like an article of incorporation, breathing "life" into it, and giving it so many rights that it becomes a supercitizen that can overwhelm the voices of millions of the *old-fashioned kind of citizens.
Money that could have saved a very large number of people if invested in improving safety/health in other areas.
You mean the Republicans are going to spend the money saved on improving the safety/health of the American people?
I hadn't realized that; I had rather assumed their declared intent of reducing or eliminating existing social safety nets precluded new safety/health initiatives in other areas.
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OK, OK...O-4 or O-5 for squadron commanders in both the Navy and the Air Force. Again, career path.
Wow...the Navy makes "sergeants" squadron commanders these days? That is what you gave as your example, you know - not fulfilling your statement that you had already differentiated between high ranking officers and a weapons system's end users - particularly not when the rank of a squadron commander is typically O-5 or O-6, which equally typically means career unless a civilian job offering is much more lucrative...for some reason.
I'll overlook the fact that the Navy doesn't have "sergeants"; perhaps you were referring to the Marines.
a) The revolving door between government and "Corporate America" when it involves government personnel who were in a position to directly affect a entity from "Corporate America's" profits is just as bad whether it involve military procurement or the FCC and Comcast. b) There is a difference between an "end user" - one who gains "expertise" through using the weapons of war - being hired by a military supplier and someone who has been involved in contracts benefiting that supplier being subsequently employed by that supplier/contractor.
And I really don't believe that I should have had to point that out; the fact that I had to rather saddens me.
You peel away the bullshit, and "Corporate America" doesn't like "government" because "government" is competition for wealth "Corporate America" wants. You can't replace duty, honor, and country with the profit motive and expect duty, honor, and country to be the priority.
What do you suppose would be the impact upon the taxpayer's "bang for their buck" (and the warfighter's "bang", in general) if military personnel who had any involvement throughout their careers with procurement, specification, or contract awarding were prohibited from taking jobs in the defense industry - to include the energy industry - after leaving the service? And I would include such phenomena as astoundingly large "speaking fees" in that ban...
You're not supposed to reveal that "privatization" is a scam...that's "top secret".
I've always felt that an argument that essentially is "I don't believe in anthropomorphic global warming, and you can't make me." is more impressive if it includes the line "I do not make any money - directly, or indirectly - from the harvesting, distribution, markets in, or combustion of carbonaceous forms of energy.".
...when somebody mangles "It's not heart surgery." and "It's not rocket science." into "It's not rocket surgery." anymore.
Anything Google can do in the arena works to benefit all of humanity (admittedly it works to benefit those who are not getting wealthier creating a need for war in the Middle East the most).
Now if somebody would just put together a project to find more efficient thermalelectric materials so we can take advantage of heat energy represented by the smaller but significant geothermal gradient that is present "everywhere"....
Gotta love any form of energy which can be tapped by going under existing arable land, buildings, and Ma Nature's ecosystems without a subsequent risk of spilling crap everywhere and pollution through combustion.
We are ever the first to use "it" (whatever "it" is), we roar and soar for a while, and then the monopolies began to form...although since monopolies are now forming that impact the use and spread of information and technology, we are likely to be technology followers from here on out.
lolll..yeah, I remember when I was a kid the little town I was from suffered pretty seriously from the 1969-1970 recession. Money was scarce - and suddenly instead of new bikes, there was a wave of "custom" bikes being made by extending the forks of an existing bike with the forks of another and so on and so forth.
But the bottom line was still the same: Because of an inability to afford the purchase of something designed specifically for the job at hand, people "made do" by slapping together parts from old systems.
Both performance and, more importantly, reliability were issues with those bikes.
I tell you what. You can have your stupid fucking geese back. We'll take the satellite.
Ain't up to me - although I've met many a goose that was happy to provide me with their opinion (and bites), I've never met one that would listen to mine. Although I'm thinking they should have geese guiding the satellite to a safe splashdown; after all, the geese could routinely crap on my car right dead in the middle of the driver side windshield from an altitude of hundreds of feet without even looking.
...and you didn't want to wear your older brother's patched jeans to school?
Now - under the expert leadership that contaminating politics with money yields - the space program of the United States of America is going to wear patched satellites in outer space...that's progress.
I way didn't want to trade ounces of geese crap for tons of space crap on my car.
lollll...but not at the speed of the 'net...
Not very many steps to "That casts my ancestors in a bad light, and so casts me in a bad light. I am offended."
In the form of "Microsoft either needs to move everything else to India, or O/S, Office, and development tools should be split apart and individually sold off to enhance shareholder value. We can call what is left DEC."
The digital works wouldn't be deleted, but [the author's coalition] wants to see "any computer system storing the digital copies powered down and disconnected from any network, pending an appropriate act of Congress." (Note that they want them shut down and unplugged, just to be sure.)
Stopping the computers from running may be as simple as unplugging them, but getting Congress running takes a lot more money than the author's coalition is likely to have.
It read a Gartner report and outsourced itself to another galaxy.
Turnitin analyzes student papers for suspicious elements in order to spot the plagiarism, scanning for things like lifted quotations or clever rephrasing.
Wonder if teachers and professors are cheaper to buy than judges? With hundreds of millions of people writing billions of lines of...whatever...every year, is going to get as sticky out with homework and school papers as it is with software now.
Just how many words are in human language [pick one] that are pertinent to subject [pick one]? How many different ways/different humans can use those words to cover that subject before someone unintentionally duplicates past work? Or gets close enough that some piece of software decides it is just "clever rephrasing" and flags that paper? Particularly given the stunning lack of originality of both teachers and curriculum across so many schools in many different nations, which reduces the "subject" side of the equation?
"That is just clever rephrasing!" can be an entirely arbitrary - and untrue - accusation..so I do hope teachers and professors come cheaper than judges...
lollll...good thing I didn't add "Conservatives are into killing species off, not using embryonic-anything to save something!" like I was thinking about. I'd have got modded down from flamebait to nuclear waste.
The "conservatives" are going to go off...science, playing with life? Ain't nobody allowed to usurp the powers of their God.
'Cept them, of course, if it is something that they can deploy against scientists and other forms of liberals...e.g., taking an inanimate object like an article of incorporation, breathing "life" into it, and giving it so many rights that it becomes a supercitizen that can overwhelm the voices of millions of the *old-fashioned kind of citizens.
(*You know, the human kind?).
Is getting confusing out, when only Americans get sent to the gulag for pissing the ruling elite off.
Money that could have saved a very large number of people if invested in improving safety/health in other areas.
You mean the Republicans are going to spend the money saved on improving the safety/health of the American people?
I hadn't realized that; I had rather assumed their declared intent of reducing or eliminating existing social safety nets precluded new safety/health initiatives in other areas.
S&P researchers apparently weren't a fan of the deal.
lollll...is that Wall Street lingo for S&P had invested in a different direction?