I don't know how many times I've heard the young earth creationists and intelligent designers say that since man can't make life, life must be special. Dear FSM, I wish I could send this article to all those IDiots on all the message boards to which I've posted over the years.
I don't where you're getting that, but when I was in the Corps, it was not only unacceptable but bizarre. You can say Gunny, Gunnery Sergeant, or maybe even Guns if you know him/her well and were close in rank. But Gunny Sergeant is right out. If he said Sergeant, he could at least lie and say he was used to dealing with the Army.
But I'll take ignorance of obscure forms of address
Addressing your client non-offensively is not obscure.
Satellite-enabled gear are tools every Marine should damn well understand because their lives could depend on it.
In any case, this story sounds apocryphal to me, for that reason. Marines know their gear to the level they need in order to carry out their mission, which would include knowing satellites are in space. Of course, even if it were true, it's still anecdotal.
We've had a long glut period recently, and money is rarely invested in discovery during gluts. As the price of oil rises, more money will be invested in discovery. The long history of rising oil reserves show us we really don't know how much oil is down there.
Because producing energy locally still costs something, and oil is cheap, easy, and works with existing infrastructure. When the world's hundreds of millions of gas-powered cars, diesel trains, and aircraft are all retro-fitted with solar panels or dumped in the sea and new ones made, then maybe, maybe the demand for oil would approach zero. So when the year of the Linux desktop arrives basically.
Uh, yeah. That's what the peak supply people have been saying since the 1930s when the world supply of oil was estimated in the tens of millions of barrels. The U.S. uses over 20 million barrels of oil per day. We've been discovering oil faster than we've been using it, and for the last 80 years we've been warned that peak oil is right around the corner. I'll believe it when I see it.
Wow, never heard of supply and demand before. I guess by underreporting supply, demand would remain high for perceived supply. It would probably affect sales of futures as well.
Yeah, it's been well-documented that BP and other oil companies in Saudi Arabia in particular have been under-reporting oil reserves for 40 years or more to keep oil prices down. They likely have WAY more oil than that. Thanks for bringing that up. That's a good point.
That's a big if. Oil is cheap and plentiful, and not likely to be replaced in third world countries or in good ol' fashioned American pickup trucks for that matter. I don't see time "running out" any time soon for oil producing countries any time soon.
Hey kids, math and facts can be fun! Try them! Saudi Arabia has about 260 billion barrels of oil in proven reserves (which means they likely have more they haven't found yet). They produce about 10 million barrels of oil per day. That means their oil lifespan is about 70 years, just on what we know they have right now. And let's no forget that as they've increased production over the years, the lifespan keep getting longer, not shorter, due to increased amounts of oil being found. So...how is time running out for them again?
I'm not a fan of oil, and I'd rather see us go to more sustainable solutions and all that, but let's not gloss over the glaring facts just because we don't like them.
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No. No, it doesn't. Gun ownership has been part of our national identity since its birth, with romantic stories of frontiersmen, revolutionaries, cowboys, gangsters, etc telling our collective story. Germany, England, etc haven't been a frontier for thousands of years. But areas in the US that have banned guns have seen increases in crime, and areas that have legalized guns have seen crime lowered. Keeping guns out of the hands of criminals would be great, but is nearly impossible, at least so far. Next best thing is to let law-abiding citizens have guns, at least in the US. Other countries need to figure out solutions that work for them.
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Good points that I haven't previously heard. However, what I am frequently told is that I am safer without a gun since it can be used against me. As a former Marine, I find this hard to swallow. With just a little training, it is easy to draw fast and shoot well. Most gunfights occur fewer than 9 feet, so you don't have to be a crackshot to be effective. I carry a small-caliber automatic in my back wallet pocket in case I am mugged, so it would look like I am reaching for my wallet. I also sometimes carry it in my jacket pocket in winter time with my finger off the trigger. Haven't timed myself, but I think I could respond pretty fast if I had to. There are over 6 million defensive uses of handguns per year in the US by average citizens, so while criminals might be more effective, it's not like handguns in the hands of citizens aren't providing benefit.
There is a great book called More Guns, Less Crime written by an admitted left-wing liberal Harvard professor who started researching the book to show how owning guns is just plain bad. It is an extremely in-depth thorough academic work. His research led him to the inescapable conclusion that it is the reverse, and he ended up buying a gun. Legal gun ownership lowers crime, and it lowers it safer and cheaper than any other method available.
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Technology is the key that gets us out of that box
Name one technology that has not created more problems than it solved.
or the fact that I didn't properly proofread by one sentence post
Even more fail would be not proofreading a post commenting on not proofreading.
Yeah, but it's hard to argue that it will never happen now.
I don't know how many times I've heard the young earth creationists and intelligent designers say that since man can't make life, life must be special. Dear FSM, I wish I could send this article to all those IDiots on all the message boards to which I've posted over the years.
What about Android overtaking iPhone sales? There's a glimmer of hope there.
What if everyone on earth pointed their laser pointers at it at the same time? It would have at least as good a chance as sending the space shuttle.
But maybe a ghost can give advice to fire more accurately using only your brain.
So how many times in that 4 years did you hear the "federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison" joke?
All four bases are belong to us!
"Gunny Sergeant" is unusual but not unacceptable
I don't where you're getting that, but when I was in the Corps, it was not only unacceptable but bizarre. You can say Gunny, Gunnery Sergeant, or maybe even Guns if you know him/her well and were close in rank. But Gunny Sergeant is right out. If he said Sergeant, he could at least lie and say he was used to dealing with the Army.
But I'll take ignorance of obscure forms of address
Addressing your client non-offensively is not obscure.
Satellite-enabled gear are tools every Marine should damn well understand because their lives could depend on it.
In any case, this story sounds apocryphal to me, for that reason. Marines know their gear to the level they need in order to carry out their mission, which would include knowing satellites are in space. Of course, even if it were true, it's still anecdotal.
It ain't your daddy's Navy anymore
And it never was. It's the Marine Corps.
Not everyone sells out. Look at craigslist. Just sayin.
In a bizarre and ironic twist, they are called weekly meetings.
the first sentence. Felt like a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick.
I thought they meant the lack of a micro SD slot.
Well, don't leave me hanging! What kind of router was it? I have to know!
And while NotAlwaysRight is laughing at the Marine for not knowing about satellites, the Marine is laughing at him for calling him a "Gunny Sergeant."
We've had a long glut period recently, and money is rarely invested in discovery during gluts. As the price of oil rises, more money will be invested in discovery. The long history of rising oil reserves show us we really don't know how much oil is down there.
Because producing energy locally still costs something, and oil is cheap, easy, and works with existing infrastructure. When the world's hundreds of millions of gas-powered cars, diesel trains, and aircraft are all retro-fitted with solar panels or dumped in the sea and new ones made, then maybe, maybe the demand for oil would approach zero. So when the year of the Linux desktop arrives basically.
Uh, yeah. That's what the peak supply people have been saying since the 1930s when the world supply of oil was estimated in the tens of millions of barrels. The U.S. uses over 20 million barrels of oil per day. We've been discovering oil faster than we've been using it, and for the last 80 years we've been warned that peak oil is right around the corner. I'll believe it when I see it.
Wow, never heard of supply and demand before. I guess by underreporting supply, demand would remain high for perceived supply. It would probably affect sales of futures as well.
Yeah, it's been well-documented that BP and other oil companies in Saudi Arabia in particular have been under-reporting oil reserves for 40 years or more to keep oil prices down. They likely have WAY more oil than that. Thanks for bringing that up. That's a good point.
That's a big if. Oil is cheap and plentiful, and not likely to be replaced in third world countries or in good ol' fashioned American pickup trucks for that matter. I don't see time "running out" any time soon for oil producing countries any time soon.
Hey kids, math and facts can be fun! Try them! Saudi Arabia has about 260 billion barrels of oil in proven reserves (which means they likely have more they haven't found yet). They produce about 10 million barrels of oil per day. That means their oil lifespan is about 70 years, just on what we know they have right now. And let's no forget that as they've increased production over the years, the lifespan keep getting longer, not shorter, due to increased amounts of oil being found. So...how is time running out for them again?
I'm not a fan of oil, and I'd rather see us go to more sustainable solutions and all that, but let's not gloss over the glaring facts just because we don't like them.
No. No, it doesn't. Gun ownership has been part of our national identity since its birth, with romantic stories of frontiersmen, revolutionaries, cowboys, gangsters, etc telling our collective story. Germany, England, etc haven't been a frontier for thousands of years. But areas in the US that have banned guns have seen increases in crime, and areas that have legalized guns have seen crime lowered. Keeping guns out of the hands of criminals would be great, but is nearly impossible, at least so far. Next best thing is to let law-abiding citizens have guns, at least in the US. Other countries need to figure out solutions that work for them.
Good points that I haven't previously heard. However, what I am frequently told is that I am safer without a gun since it can be used against me. As a former Marine, I find this hard to swallow. With just a little training, it is easy to draw fast and shoot well. Most gunfights occur fewer than 9 feet, so you don't have to be a crackshot to be effective. I carry a small-caliber automatic in my back wallet pocket in case I am mugged, so it would look like I am reaching for my wallet. I also sometimes carry it in my jacket pocket in winter time with my finger off the trigger. Haven't timed myself, but I think I could respond pretty fast if I had to. There are over 6 million defensive uses of handguns per year in the US by average citizens, so while criminals might be more effective, it's not like handguns in the hands of citizens aren't providing benefit.
There is a great book called More Guns, Less Crime written by an admitted left-wing liberal Harvard professor who started researching the book to show how owning guns is just plain bad. It is an extremely in-depth thorough academic work. His research led him to the inescapable conclusion that it is the reverse, and he ended up buying a gun. Legal gun ownership lowers crime, and it lowers it safer and cheaper than any other method available.