We went active one time against a real target in over 3 years. This was against a US Sub that we had visual on as we both left Norfolk at the same time and we pinged the hell out of them to bother them.
Other than that, we only went active in port during maintenance, or underway at night when we were bored on the mid-watch and wanted to wake the ship up.
Our real combat training was all accomplished via a computer simulator, no active transmission was required... This was good because the system was broken most of the time anyway. It was painted though, the captain was adamant about that.
If we warn people, they will avoid those areas when they try to escape from the initial Psychlos invasion, Johnnie Goodboy will never be born and the human race will be doomed.
From the LRH documents in TFA, it's a pretty good read. I read "Battlefield Earth" and his big-ol decalogy when I was 16 and I liked them. As an approach to handling criticism, defamation, "subversive activity," government investigation, etc... I can't find much fault with his directives.
If you were him, what would you have suggested? It's all pretty brilliant.
They need to keep a low profile so that the general public (their recruiting pool) doesn't know much about them. They have to protect themselves against all the people who know the scam and want to "out" them. At the time (apparently), the government was after them, so they had to fight that battle as well.
The end result is that your detractors are silenced (I think that, at the time, this was easier to accomplish by insinuating that a link to Communism existed... I don't know how well it works today), the government forgets about you and your organization continues.
As a set of marching orders, it apparently succeeded since we are still talking about them.
The rest of it is pretty creepy and it's nice to see this sort of information available.
The only thing that will destroy the CoS is this sort of open, public knowledge of the nature of the organization. My money is on them though. They'll be around for a long time and that's a good thing because, if you are ever in a car wreck and one drives by, they are the only ones who can help you.
Generally, if I am looking for a solution in a syntactical way, I may cut and paste a FOR LOOP (for example), then change the variable names to my own and move on.
If I actually lift a framework or process from the web, I make sure I link the website and author in the comment section.
If source code is on the web, it's free game. It's not realistic to think that, if you post your code and it's good, that it won't end up in the code repository of some large corporation.
I did run into a situation like this at my old work. A main routine we used was lifted from the web and, while it was probably legal, the person that lifted it replaced the author's name with his own.
After a couple of years I found the original on the web and lost respect for the person that did it. I think it's a great skill to be able to find and use things on the web and reduce the cost of your project, but if you didn't write it you have to give the credit to the author.
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I'll go watch Apatow get stoned before I'd see Transformers 2, so at least one of those movies sounds like a money maker to me.
We went active one time against a real target in over 3 years. This was against a US Sub that we had visual on as we both left Norfolk at the same time and we pinged the hell out of them to bother them.
Other than that, we only went active in port during maintenance, or underway at night when we were bored on the mid-watch and wanted to wake the ship up.
Our real combat training was all accomplished via a computer simulator, no active transmission was required... This was good because the system was broken most of the time anyway. It was painted though, the captain was adamant about that.
Going there is so 20th century. Unless they blow it up, it's !news.
Warm drinkable toxic chemicals?
If we warn people, they will avoid those areas when they try to escape from the initial Psychlos invasion, Johnnie Goodboy will never be born and the human race will be doomed.
He should have been a Senator in the pocket of the Pharmaceutical Lobbyists. He could have had more money and nobody would have blinked an eye.
From the LRH documents in TFA, it's a pretty good read. I read "Battlefield Earth" and his big-ol decalogy when I was 16 and I liked them. As an approach to handling criticism, defamation, "subversive activity," government investigation, etc... I can't find much fault with his directives.
If you were him, what would you have suggested? It's all pretty brilliant.
They need to keep a low profile so that the general public (their recruiting pool) doesn't know much about them. They have to protect themselves against all the people who know the scam and want to "out" them. At the time (apparently), the government was after them, so they had to fight that battle as well.
The end result is that your detractors are silenced (I think that, at the time, this was easier to accomplish by insinuating that a link to Communism existed... I don't know how well it works today), the government forgets about you and your organization continues.
As a set of marching orders, it apparently succeeded since we are still talking about them.
The rest of it is pretty creepy and it's nice to see this sort of information available.
The only thing that will destroy the CoS is this sort of open, public knowledge of the nature of the organization. My money is on them though. They'll be around for a long time and that's a good thing because, if you are ever in a car wreck and one drives by, they are the only ones who can help you.
Generally, if I am looking for a solution in a syntactical way, I may cut and paste a FOR LOOP (for example), then change the variable names to my own and move on.
If I actually lift a framework or process from the web, I make sure I link the website and author in the comment section.
If source code is on the web, it's free game. It's not realistic to think that, if you post your code and it's good, that it won't end up in the code repository of some large corporation.
I did run into a situation like this at my old work. A main routine we used was lifted from the web and, while it was probably legal, the person that lifted it replaced the author's name with his own.
After a couple of years I found the original on the web and lost respect for the person that did it. I think it's a great skill to be able to find and use things on the web and reduce the cost of your project, but if you didn't write it you have to give the credit to the author.