I agree, I'm actually right now (as in I put it down to type this) reading "The Secret History of the American Empire" by John Perkins. I have yet to read his original, "Confessions of an economic Hit Man". Despite my original skepticism, it really is an eye opener to how we plunder and rape and pillage, but don't break any laws (or just a little bit), where banks and other members of the corporatocracy reap benefits in the billions, this really does pale in comparison.
"Cyber-Crime" has the majority of the benefits of a traditional robbery without many of the downfalls. For those of you who don't know, ATM skimming in the US is even more prevalent and more harmful, and the majority of e-crime originates in OCONUS. The thing is, it is easy to get bank and CC info in the dark underbellies of the internet, the hard part is turning that info into money you can use. That's why large bot-net operators skim large amounts of data, and organize by "value" for example a black card will sell for 150+ $. Usually they try to sell in bulk, to someone else, who then hires a cashier, or someone who can basically "launder" the money back (with various methods, E-gold, offshore gambling, etc), often these cashiers charge over 50 points or more, because that is where the real danger is. The point is, even if you start somehow nabbing or stopping the cashiers, you still have the botnet ops and the real person making the money in the background. Again, most of this being from countries like Russia (stereotypes do exist for a reason sometimes). Want to stop cybercrime? Start making financial institutions at least attempt at having security protocols in place that can stop this sort of thing, and do something to educate and simplify secure computing for the consumer.
The current problem they are having with it is that it is very fragile. If they can figure out how to apply this technique and keep it durable and mass producible then this really will change a lot of things. Its also pretty interesting how they note that we imagine things like this to have some uniformity, but they found that the pattern is strangely abstract, with some fibers being curved and some not etc. Anyway, cool stuff regardless.
Seriously, who makes these kinds of laws. Maybe there is some kind of byzantine reasoning regarding British legalities but if you put something on a publicly accessible webpage good luck enforcing who can have that content! Car analagy, your vin is in plain view, but if you pass a law that people cannot write down a vin unless you own the vehicle... good luck with that.
Yep, its funny when Christians don't even know what they are saying, stuff like Lucifer is Satan! A simple Wikipedia search would tell you about how there is little correlation between Lucifer and Satan besides *gasp* people mixing them up. Sigh @ religion, it encourages blindness.
it is not meant to directly compete with wow, a common misconception about any new mmo is that it aims to compete with the big wigs. Some games are just fine with 100k subscribers. UO was (especially in later years) a niche game as well (although more widely accepted because of lack of competitors). The thread is about UO and its sucessors, not WOW.
jump over to http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/206045 Basically UO was one of the first sandbox style persistent worlds. When we say UO like we generally mean the entire world is PVP and is full loot. Full loot meaning, when I kill Abe, and abe is wearing a sword and armor, I get EVERYTHING he had on him. It makes death a serious thing and not to be taken lightly. Also sandbox in that you are not forced intoa role, such as "tank" or "Mage". Actually it is basically about breaking down barriers of all sorts and giving the player freedom to choose as much as possible, their style, their skills, their adventures.
If you want a UO like game, Mortal Online is where it is at. The summary is very unfair, because unlike darkfall, MO is still in beta, with plenty of want for polish. Despite this, I did a long evauluation of current and future MMO's, and keeping in mind I have little time to play in the first place, I wanted one and only one, I ended up getting MO. It is a great game, is very user unfriendly at the moment, but I really love having to theorize about this and that and not having everything handed to me in a cookie cutter style. So I highly suggest you ignore the quick dismissal of MO, and give it a shot. It should be noted that there are massive patches to the beta almost weekly.
Totally offtopic note: I have been to crete and it is one of my favorite places in the world. There is something about visiting the place where Zeus supposedly came into being is quite cool.
Although they state that the tools have been dated to be around 230-190k years ago, but that tools could have been made far prior to that, giving a possible estimate of the tools being up to 700k years old. Despite this, they never really say why this changes their view on sea-faring of ancient times. Currently the north shore of Africa is about 200 miles from crete, but what they seem to have failed to take into account (or at least mention in the article) is that in ancient times sea levels were much much lower. This is estimated to be due to deglacification around 7k years ago. The National Institute of Oceanography states that in studies the sea level of India's coast were about 100m lower about 14k years ago, so extrapolating (a dangerous game I know =) we could say it may be possible that at some point the voyage to Crete was either walkable, or a very short sea voyage. It should also be noted that the technology is of the Acheulean type. Regardless it is still a fascinating discovery, and it never ceases to amaze me at how much we underestimate our ancestors, until we slowly find things that we never thought possible before, for example the Antikythera mechanism. Who knows what we'll find out tomorrow.
I think the issue is not the technology at hand, but rather the privacy implications of it. What should really be looked into is the privacy policy of the work-place. If it is one of those "We will try to protect your data but can not be help responsible and may share it with third-parties without your consent" situations I would never agree. This is the problem with personal information today, the sharing of information that is your info to other people without proper consent or notification. If someone has a warrant it is not a problem, other than that, I want to know that nobody else will ever obtain this type of data. I have been fingerprinted exactly three times in my life, of which I was still hesitant but had little choice. These were, joining the military, applying for security clearance, and when I got my concealed weapon permit. But at the same time, I am the guy that doesnt have facebook or myspace or twatter and I like to keep my personal info personal, so call me paranoid if you want.
I happen to be one of these people, so I have some knowledge about the subject. Although I cannot speak for everyone, in my cause there was a very strong correlation between my fear of math (or my lack of math ability) and my performance. At a younger age (elementary school) I simply found math to be non-practical, and therefore ignored it(which is to say I did the bare minimum to get by in class). Once I did this however, by the time I got to highschool, I had severely fallen behind in math all around. My first and only class I failed was algebra, which I retook and finally passed with a C. To me, it was such an abstract thing that it seemed pointless in its difficulty. I should qualify that in all other subjects I excelled, including things like networking (boolean functions and binary, that I saw had practical benifit, I could do in my head no problem) Now, after serving in the military, and going back to college, it has been over 7 years since I had a college level math course, and still struggle, but I have found something that helps me tremendously. Finding practical applications that require whatever level of math I'm studying. My main tool for this at the moment, however bizarre this may sound, is building things in Garry's Mod, via the Wire Mod tool. It requires some very complicated mathmatical procedures to do something such as build a 10 cyclinder engine wiring to fire off in the correct sequence at high speed. In short, I believe it is a matter of learning types, I am a visual/kinetic learner, and need some substantial problem to wrap my head around and things have slowly (not without hard work) falling into place for me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one in a similar situation.
As a youngster I did a tour with my Computer class at the Intel plant in phoenix. I specifically remember two things. 1)The water was so pure that if you drank it you would get sick and die if you drank enough of it (lack of electolytes, and I'm not sure if its true but it was cool to hear) and 2)If I ever wanted to steal a lot of gold that had a bit less security than fort knox, it would be at a processor plant.
Treat every weapon as if it were loaded.
Never point a weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot.
Keep your weapon on safe until you are ready to fire.
Keep your finger straight and off the trigger until you intend to fire.
And Know your target and what's behind it. (People see too many movies and forget that bullets go beyond what you are aiming at all the time, whether it be ricochets, or going through drywall like its paper)
*More lessons upon request =)
Sounds like some bigwigs with enough lobbying power in DC decided they wanted to rape the USA for more money. I mean, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are the perfect models for contracting to civilians agencies, who take a 110 million dollar contract, and subcontract it, paying the subcontractors about 10% and they get to pocket the rest. Of course with such public program, this could never happen you say. All it takes is some byzantine law that says they arent required to disclose budgets and suddenly we have no idea where the money goes (besides the pockets of corrupt politicians and greedy C level officers) They say in TFA they wan't to increase "entrepreneurial interests" WTF. I'm so sick and tired of washington politics it makes me so disappointed in my country. With the public fighting over partisanship ("Obama's the antichrist","Bush done it") people need to wake up and realize that the problem is greed for money and power. Both fucking parties are just as at fault for everything that is wrong with the USA right now. First step to a better America IMO is to completely stop the ability for corporations to make donations to any type of political party or anyone with political affiliation. Lobbying should be an intellectual exercise, not a who can buy off who exercise. This would proportionately seem to put more power back in the people hands, at least as a start. Second? American people need to start using their brains. Stop watching 5 hours of TV a day and read a good non-fiction book about the middle east, american politics, anything to expand your mind. Learn how to stop being so damn religious and start thinking rationally and objectively (all of these things are also parts of basic education, something which is also failing horribly) Washington needs to stop using their own heads and start listening to Think Tanks and people with practical experience equally. Have accountability in everything. The sad part? It will more than likely never happen. Its a prisoners dilemma sort of situation. Most of use know the government and corporations are horribly corrupt and inefficient, they screw us over all the time. So what is your response? "Well all I can do is look out for me and my family" which is the same thought process the corrupts people have. Everyone (with exceptions of course, comon, I'm making a bunch a generalizations to get my point across) has this attitude and it never changes. If you were that C level person, what would you do? Even if you think you would do the right thing, studies show that by nature to higher you get the more likely you are to be stricter about moral issues on other people but more lax on them with yourself. The problem is that it seems to be human nature. Send 50 people to colonize a new earth duplicate planet, and within months I guarantee there would be thievery, repression, greed ect. Yep, pretty much humanity seems to be like a virus, and one of these millennium the universe is likely to swallow us whole and try and start over.
Ok first of all, you have no idea who he is or what he does. There are far more practical applications and uses for good cell encryption technology than you seem to be giving credit. Businessmen who deal with trade secrets, government officials or contractors, and any number of other sensitive areas of work, for example often people now do some level of banking on their phones. Often there are materials that are marked as "Confidential" and require little to no official compartmentalization, but still require the person with that knowledge to do his/her best to keep the information out of the public's' hands. (Which is also why we love Wikileak and should donate) Also encryption seems to me to be a vital part of a free society in this modern age, as it is one of the tools used to route around censorship and other Orwellian government controls and repressions of freedom. Also, you statement that "You aren't that special" is eerily close to the "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." argument which has thoroughly been debunked as being complete bullshit by people smarter than me (Bruce Schneier ect) So in effect, you have completely dismissed the idea that a person could find their own information valuable with no sort of reasons given? Even the most mundane of information over a phone could add up to be quite a comprehensive list about a person. Call it the "Google Effect" if you may. Imagine for a second I had recordings of every phone conversation you ever had in the past 6 months, it would be fairly simple to automate grabbing the telling data with minimal manpower, and I could combine information to make a profile of you. Where and who you call, and how often, would probably also tell me the places you do business and where to go to. What kind of travel and what airlines you use. Called your bank? I know you last 4 and your credit card number. Starting to get the picture? Now next time, before just posting a knee-jerk reaction, use that (semi)intelligent brain of your sand form a rational argument. I recommend http://www.roanestate.edu/owl&writingcenter/OWL/Argument.html as a starting point for anyone who tends to post on/. often.
You should try googling instead of grokking. I simple search turns up lots of info about GM Tree being used, and even more about how dangerous they are. Look this one article is from 1999! http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/GEessays/GMtrees.html
Is not that technology can't sift through some language as easy as it wants to. The problem is that (I am speaking for US and some allies) we have moved away from HUMAN intel. All the technology in the world can be rendered useless when for example, terrorists cells start to use face to face only communication in a tree like scheme. Only a few people ever talk to the people that pull the strings, and they talk to only a few people, only by passing letters or by talking face to face. I took a counter-surveillance course where I was amazed at the relative ease it took to shake even trained professionals. (It was also very fun to learn how to make drops and such) The point being that if someone really doesn't want to get caught, especially in a foreign country, its not too difficult. Humans are vulnerable, weak, and irrational beings capable of cognitive dissonance at every corner. If you want real intel, start focusing on HUMINT again. I read a very good book written by the guy whom the movie "Syriana" was based. Basically it boiled down to the CIA moving away from tried and true practices of gathering intel through human means, and becoming heavily reliant on both technology and politics to get stuff done, a major factor why he retired. Anyway, just my two cents.
My buddies and I have always postured what we would do if and when a zombie apocalypse broke out. All being military or former military, with the ability to bear arms and the survival skills (not to mention the remote getaway) already at our disposal, we all voted the human race as generally despicable and that it was about time there was some event to clean the slate. It's time to kick zombie ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all outa gum.
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I agree, I'm actually right now (as in I put it down to type this) reading "The Secret History of the American Empire" by John Perkins. I have yet to read his original, "Confessions of an economic Hit Man". Despite my original skepticism, it really is an eye opener to how we plunder and rape and pillage, but don't break any laws (or just a little bit), where banks and other members of the corporatocracy reap benefits in the billions, this really does pale in comparison.
"Cyber-Crime" has the majority of the benefits of a traditional robbery without many of the downfalls. For those of you who don't know, ATM skimming in the US is even more prevalent and more harmful, and the majority of e-crime originates in OCONUS. The thing is, it is easy to get bank and CC info in the dark underbellies of the internet, the hard part is turning that info into money you can use. That's why large bot-net operators skim large amounts of data, and organize by "value" for example a black card will sell for 150+ $. Usually they try to sell in bulk, to someone else, who then hires a cashier, or someone who can basically "launder" the money back (with various methods, E-gold, offshore gambling, etc), often these cashiers charge over 50 points or more, because that is where the real danger is. The point is, even if you start somehow nabbing or stopping the cashiers, you still have the botnet ops and the real person making the money in the background. Again, most of this being from countries like Russia (stereotypes do exist for a reason sometimes). Want to stop cybercrime? Start making financial institutions at least attempt at having security protocols in place that can stop this sort of thing, and do something to educate and simplify secure computing for the consumer.
The current problem they are having with it is that it is very fragile. If they can figure out how to apply this technique and keep it durable and mass producible then this really will change a lot of things. Its also pretty interesting how they note that we imagine things like this to have some uniformity, but they found that the pattern is strangely abstract, with some fibers being curved and some not etc. Anyway, cool stuff regardless.
I'm not arguing that it is legal. I'm saying that it is nigh impossible to enforce.
Seriously, who makes these kinds of laws. Maybe there is some kind of byzantine reasoning regarding British legalities but if you put something on a publicly accessible webpage good luck enforcing who can have that content! Car analagy, your vin is in plain view, but if you pass a law that people cannot write down a vin unless you own the vehicle... good luck with that.
I would argue far more people get robbed daily worldwide with the fountain pen.
Boom- Turducken!!
Yep, its funny when Christians don't even know what they are saying, stuff like Lucifer is Satan! A simple Wikipedia search would tell you about how there is little correlation between Lucifer and Satan besides *gasp* people mixing them up. Sigh @ religion, it encourages blindness.
it is not meant to directly compete with wow, a common misconception about any new mmo is that it aims to compete with the big wigs. Some games are just fine with 100k subscribers. UO was (especially in later years) a niche game as well (although more widely accepted because of lack of competitors). The thread is about UO and its sucessors, not WOW.
jump over to http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/206045 Basically UO was one of the first sandbox style persistent worlds. When we say UO like we generally mean the entire world is PVP and is full loot. Full loot meaning, when I kill Abe, and abe is wearing a sword and armor, I get EVERYTHING he had on him. It makes death a serious thing and not to be taken lightly. Also sandbox in that you are not forced intoa role, such as "tank" or "Mage". Actually it is basically about breaking down barriers of all sorts and giving the player freedom to choose as much as possible, their style, their skills, their adventures.
Take a look at MO. It is very much a game World.
If you want a UO like game, Mortal Online is where it is at. The summary is very unfair, because unlike darkfall, MO is still in beta, with plenty of want for polish. Despite this, I did a long evauluation of current and future MMO's, and keeping in mind I have little time to play in the first place, I wanted one and only one, I ended up getting MO. It is a great game, is very user unfriendly at the moment, but I really love having to theorize about this and that and not having everything handed to me in a cookie cutter style. So I highly suggest you ignore the quick dismissal of MO, and give it a shot. It should be noted that there are massive patches to the beta almost weekly.
Totally offtopic note: I have been to crete and it is one of my favorite places in the world. There is something about visiting the place where Zeus supposedly came into being is quite cool.
Although they state that the tools have been dated to be around 230-190k years ago, but that tools could have been made far prior to that, giving a possible estimate of the tools being up to 700k years old. Despite this, they never really say why this changes their view on sea-faring of ancient times. Currently the north shore of Africa is about 200 miles from crete, but what they seem to have failed to take into account (or at least mention in the article) is that in ancient times sea levels were much much lower. This is estimated to be due to deglacification around 7k years ago. The National Institute of Oceanography states that in studies the sea level of India's coast were about 100m lower about 14k years ago, so extrapolating (a dangerous game I know =) we could say it may be possible that at some point the voyage to Crete was either walkable, or a very short sea voyage. It should also be noted that the technology is of the Acheulean type. Regardless it is still a fascinating discovery, and it never ceases to amaze me at how much we underestimate our ancestors, until we slowly find things that we never thought possible before, for example the Antikythera mechanism. Who knows what we'll find out tomorrow.
I think the issue is not the technology at hand, but rather the privacy implications of it. What should really be looked into is the privacy policy of the work-place. If it is one of those "We will try to protect your data but can not be help responsible and may share it with third-parties without your consent" situations I would never agree. This is the problem with personal information today, the sharing of information that is your info to other people without proper consent or notification. If someone has a warrant it is not a problem, other than that, I want to know that nobody else will ever obtain this type of data. I have been fingerprinted exactly three times in my life, of which I was still hesitant but had little choice. These were, joining the military, applying for security clearance, and when I got my concealed weapon permit. But at the same time, I am the guy that doesnt have facebook or myspace or twatter and I like to keep my personal info personal, so call me paranoid if you want.
I happen to be one of these people, so I have some knowledge about the subject. Although I cannot speak for everyone, in my cause there was a very strong correlation between my fear of math (or my lack of math ability) and my performance. At a younger age (elementary school) I simply found math to be non-practical, and therefore ignored it(which is to say I did the bare minimum to get by in class). Once I did this however, by the time I got to highschool, I had severely fallen behind in math all around. My first and only class I failed was algebra, which I retook and finally passed with a C. To me, it was such an abstract thing that it seemed pointless in its difficulty. I should qualify that in all other subjects I excelled, including things like networking (boolean functions and binary, that I saw had practical benifit, I could do in my head no problem) Now, after serving in the military, and going back to college, it has been over 7 years since I had a college level math course, and still struggle, but I have found something that helps me tremendously. Finding practical applications that require whatever level of math I'm studying. My main tool for this at the moment, however bizarre this may sound, is building things in Garry's Mod, via the Wire Mod tool. It requires some very complicated mathmatical procedures to do something such as build a 10 cyclinder engine wiring to fire off in the correct sequence at high speed. In short, I believe it is a matter of learning types, I am a visual/kinetic learner, and need some substantial problem to wrap my head around and things have slowly (not without hard work) falling into place for me, and I'm sure I'm not the only one in a similar situation.
As a youngster I did a tour with my Computer class at the Intel plant in phoenix. I specifically remember two things. 1)The water was so pure that if you drank it you would get sick and die if you drank enough of it (lack of electolytes, and I'm not sure if its true but it was cool to hear) and 2)If I ever wanted to steal a lot of gold that had a bit less security than fort knox, it would be at a processor plant.
Treat every weapon as if it were loaded. Never point a weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot. Keep your weapon on safe until you are ready to fire. Keep your finger straight and off the trigger until you intend to fire. And Know your target and what's behind it. (People see too many movies and forget that bullets go beyond what you are aiming at all the time, whether it be ricochets, or going through drywall like its paper) *More lessons upon request =)
Well mine have always been blue(d). =)
Sounds like some bigwigs with enough lobbying power in DC decided they wanted to rape the USA for more money. I mean, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are the perfect models for contracting to civilians agencies, who take a 110 million dollar contract, and subcontract it, paying the subcontractors about 10% and they get to pocket the rest. Of course with such public program, this could never happen you say. All it takes is some byzantine law that says they arent required to disclose budgets and suddenly we have no idea where the money goes (besides the pockets of corrupt politicians and greedy C level officers) They say in TFA they wan't to increase "entrepreneurial interests" WTF. I'm so sick and tired of washington politics it makes me so disappointed in my country. With the public fighting over partisanship ("Obama's the antichrist","Bush done it") people need to wake up and realize that the problem is greed for money and power. Both fucking parties are just as at fault for everything that is wrong with the USA right now. First step to a better America IMO is to completely stop the ability for corporations to make donations to any type of political party or anyone with political affiliation. Lobbying should be an intellectual exercise, not a who can buy off who exercise. This would proportionately seem to put more power back in the people hands, at least as a start. Second? American people need to start using their brains. Stop watching 5 hours of TV a day and read a good non-fiction book about the middle east, american politics, anything to expand your mind. Learn how to stop being so damn religious and start thinking rationally and objectively (all of these things are also parts of basic education, something which is also failing horribly) Washington needs to stop using their own heads and start listening to Think Tanks and people with practical experience equally. Have accountability in everything. The sad part? It will more than likely never happen. Its a prisoners dilemma sort of situation. Most of use know the government and corporations are horribly corrupt and inefficient, they screw us over all the time. So what is your response? "Well all I can do is look out for me and my family" which is the same thought process the corrupts people have. Everyone (with exceptions of course, comon, I'm making a bunch a generalizations to get my point across) has this attitude and it never changes. If you were that C level person, what would you do? Even if you think you would do the right thing, studies show that by nature to higher you get the more likely you are to be stricter about moral issues on other people but more lax on them with yourself. The problem is that it seems to be human nature. Send 50 people to colonize a new earth duplicate planet, and within months I guarantee there would be thievery, repression, greed ect. Yep, pretty much humanity seems to be like a virus, and one of these millennium the universe is likely to swallow us whole and try and start over.
Ok first of all, you have no idea who he is or what he does. There are far more practical applications and uses for good cell encryption technology than you seem to be giving credit. Businessmen who deal with trade secrets, government officials or contractors, and any number of other sensitive areas of work, for example often people now do some level of banking on their phones. Often there are materials that are marked as "Confidential" and require little to no official compartmentalization, but still require the person with that knowledge to do his/her best to keep the information out of the public's' hands. (Which is also why we love Wikileak and should donate) Also encryption seems to me to be a vital part of a free society in this modern age, as it is one of the tools used to route around censorship and other Orwellian government controls and repressions of freedom. Also, you statement that "You aren't that special" is eerily close to the "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." argument which has thoroughly been debunked as being complete bullshit by people smarter than me (Bruce Schneier ect) So in effect, you have completely dismissed the idea that a person could find their own information valuable with no sort of reasons given? Even the most mundane of information over a phone could add up to be quite a comprehensive list about a person. Call it the "Google Effect" if you may. Imagine for a second I had recordings of every phone conversation you ever had in the past 6 months, it would be fairly simple to automate grabbing the telling data with minimal manpower, and I could combine information to make a profile of you. Where and who you call, and how often, would probably also tell me the places you do business and where to go to. What kind of travel and what airlines you use. Called your bank? I know you last 4 and your credit card number. Starting to get the picture? Now next time, before just posting a knee-jerk reaction, use that (semi)intelligent brain of your sand form a rational argument. I recommend http://www.roanestate.edu/owl&writingcenter/OWL/Argument.html as a starting point for anyone who tends to post on /. often.
You should try googling instead of grokking. I simple search turns up lots of info about GM Tree being used, and even more about how dangerous they are. Look this one article is from 1999! http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/GEessays/GMtrees.html
Is not that technology can't sift through some language as easy as it wants to. The problem is that (I am speaking for US and some allies) we have moved away from HUMAN intel. All the technology in the world can be rendered useless when for example, terrorists cells start to use face to face only communication in a tree like scheme. Only a few people ever talk to the people that pull the strings, and they talk to only a few people, only by passing letters or by talking face to face. I took a counter-surveillance course where I was amazed at the relative ease it took to shake even trained professionals. (It was also very fun to learn how to make drops and such) The point being that if someone really doesn't want to get caught, especially in a foreign country, its not too difficult. Humans are vulnerable, weak, and irrational beings capable of cognitive dissonance at every corner. If you want real intel, start focusing on HUMINT again. I read a very good book written by the guy whom the movie "Syriana" was based. Basically it boiled down to the CIA moving away from tried and true practices of gathering intel through human means, and becoming heavily reliant on both technology and politics to get stuff done, a major factor why he retired. Anyway, just my two cents.
Stop bursting my bubble of zombie Apocalypse hope!
My buddies and I have always postured what we would do if and when a zombie apocalypse broke out. All being military or former military, with the ability to bear arms and the survival skills (not to mention the remote getaway) already at our disposal, we all voted the human race as generally despicable and that it was about time there was some event to clean the slate. It's time to kick zombie ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all outa gum.