Good article, but its forgetting a key item... The best lockpick tool is C4. Its a little noisy, and the property damage is likely to get noticed, but for speed and ease of use, it can't be beat.
The torque lever and pick are for people who can't afford the property damage but can afford the time.
I was always taught to never point a gun at someone unless you were ready to kill them. And I've always felt that the best way to deal with someone trying to kill me is to kill them first. So crazy guy with gun is going to be crazy guy in casket. And don't preach about the innocent bystanders. Little tip, don't be around crazy guy with gun. Remove the threat, either by running for it, or show some backbone and take him down. If your worried about yourself, run and get outta the way for those of us willing to do something.
S.Korea is in charge of talks with N.Korea. While the US has influence, in the end we defer to S.Korea. It is the S.Korea goal to reunite the two Koreas without killing anyone. Remeber, Korea split reletivly recently, and most Korean families have someone on the other side. Personally, I think that S.Korea is just waiting for Ol'Looney up north to die off, and hoping for a peacefull reuninification after that.
Ahmen. I'm one of the worse procrastinators I know. I'm forever doing my Calc homework in the hour before the class its due. The Astronomy homework thats supposed to take a week gets started 4 hours before class. I need pressure, otherwise I get distracted by anything shiney or bouncy.
I spent most of last year in Iraq, and the stress created by the my immpending death would focus me and get my mind working on a completely diffrent level. That state of mind, that combat high, is something that I'm sometimes able to get myself into, and thats when I make the most in understanding programming concepts. I'm probably the only coder whose progress can be judged by the volume of my hard rock. The louder the better. And when I'm screaming Dopes "Die MF Die" I just made a breakthrough:-)
OK, if your planning something realize that A) you can only please some of the people all of the time B) and sometimes, you can please everyone. Abe Lincoln said that, I think.
If you're attending something realize that A) your boss can only please some of the people all of the time and B) sometimes, he can please everyone.
When the boss plans something, don't bail just because you don't drink, or you don't like football. Show up, and have fun. Make fun of Football. The next day, make fun of everyones drunken actions. Its not the bosses job to make you have fun. He's going out of his way to provide the entertainment and atmosphere. The least you can do is try.
You can't start traditions, one day you just look around and realize that you've been doing them. But you want to raise moral? You control only two things that your employees want. Money and Time. Take everyone out to the bar, or to a picnic, or to the rifle range, or get everyone tickets to an NFL game. Thats the money part. The time part? Do it on company time. If your not doing it on company time, invite family, and its not compulsory.
After reading the rests of the posts, and seeing what everyone is expecting from the MMORPG, I think that they should at least look at the MUSH'es and MUSE's. I used to be on tos.tos.net, a long time ago, and it was a blast. Some things needed to get worked on (orbiting StarBaseOne at warp 6 inna cloaked BOP during diplomatic talks). But the ships needed at least 3 people, (you could do it with one, but that was ALOT of running around between engineering, weapons, sensors, navigation, and the bathroom), battle happened on planets, in starbases, between ships, and in the bar.
I don't see how a MMORPG could pull the same RPG experiance off. Every MMORPG I've seen is about getting into the fight now, while Trek has alot of, "Lets study this" or "Lets argue this" or "lets talk about the 20th centery socological/moral rammifications of this". And while everyone wants to work on thier own ship, its going to be diffrent when it takes 30 min to get between star systems. You going to enter the system at warp 9 only to find out your navigator ducked off to the corner store for some grub.
One of the entire reasons OSS is such a great thing is that becuase its OpenSourced, if can be adapted for use in ways that the original coder never though of. And dispite the fact that most soldiers have a hard time with an excel function, the fact that they might have acess to the source could allow for in theater modifications. Adaptability is a great thing.
Of course, this includes ways the orignial coder might object to, but I'm sure they'll get over it. If your going to bitch about your software being used by the Department of Defense, remind me to not lift a finger when your getting your ass beat in some back alley. If your willing to help everyone but me, at no cost to you, why should I lift a finger to help you? Doesn't that fly in the face of OpenSource? I do give this to you in the HOPE that you might do something that might help me?
I've voted, from overseas using absentee ballots before. However, in Iraq the mail system is unpredicatably unreliable. Sometimes I would get mail 2-3 weeks after it was sent, sometimes I would get mail 6 months after it was sent. And sometimes I wouldn't get it. Its a problem that they are trying to fix, however, untill no one is blowing up the mail convoys, units aren't being detached, attached, and moved around like a big shell game, and OIF/OEF turns into a cakewalk, USPS isn't a serious option.
Ok, so in addition to managing engine RPM and steering wheel direction (which translates to speed and direction of travel, most of the time), my headlights, my turn signals, my radio, my foglights, seat heaters, moon roof, and however many passangers I've got (go ahead, add to that list with everything else you have to do while driving), I'm going going to have to manage the automoticons of my car too? And instead of just noticing speed and direction of travel, brake lights, and turn signals of other cars, traffic lights, road signs, road markings, path of the road, quality of the road, the signage, lights, markings and paths of intersecting roads. I have to add the emotion of the other cars to the list of things I have to observe and take note off? Can we say operater saturation, if not overload. Pilot saturation in figherjets is a well known phenominon, to the point where they won't even hear audio alarms or see blinking red lights. And I can't count the number of times I've seen it in everyday drivers.
Somehow humanity has managed to drive for a hundred years without using automoticons to commincate. If oncoming traffic had left their brights on, we didn't tell the car to squint... we flashed our brights. Granted, we might also be telling them about the speed trap, but thats for them to figure out. And if a dangerous condition existed on someones car, we would honk and point. Sometimes we would even convince them to pull over and actually help them fix the problem.
So lets recognize this for what it is. The next generation of 'look at my car' It started with a eyecatching and technically difficult paint job, lots of body mods and chrome. Then it was a horsepower proving exhaust, chromed out engine, and tires that could provide enough traction to get the space shuttle into orbit. Now days its underbody neon, LED windshield wipers, and complexe vinyl decals and chrome wheels. Next it will be the automoticons (doesn't that just sound like the Pokemon version of the Transformers?)
UPS accepts 13.5 million packages a day. They have about 35 million packages in the system at any one moment in time. If they had only 99.9% flawless service at any one time, that would be 1,300 problems a day, 30,000 a month (I woulda thought it would mean 39,000 a month, but those are the numbers I've heard from UPS)
So yeah, there would be alot of horror stories. I'm willing to bet of the 39,000 a month, mabey 40 are the really bad kind that you tell your children around the campfire. I personally have been using UPS religiously for several years now, and haven't ever had a single problem. How many system admins could say that with a load of 35million users at any moment, they wouldn't have a single glitch?
Sigh... I can't believe I'm actually responding to this troll. Anyways
The code looks like it was designed by some one who just learned C because, well, it was. The code is something called a proof of concept. A proof of concept, for those that are unfamiliar with the idea, is when something is quickly done just to prove that it might work and is feasible. Its usually the first step that leads to larger projects that address concerns like segfaulting.
And NO security measures, short of pulling the plug, is immune to DoS. So ignoring a security messure that is succeptable to an attack that almost all security measures are not immune to is idiotic. Perhaps I should stop using my firewall because my poor 56k modem can get DoSed.
This isn't an attempt to redefine a problem, this is an attempt to provide a diffrent solution to a known problem. Two sided ssh security negotiation might work great for your application, but it might not be so hot for mine. Diffrent solutions have diffrent strenghts and weaknesses, and the more solutions we have, the better able we are to select one which matches our security needs. Options are a/good/ thing.
And honestly, its a damn good idea with a simple implementation. Because its so simple to implement, there will be more than one portknock server. How would an external attacker know if a broken version of portknock was being used, or if there wasn't even a computer there?
Pay attention to portknock, because you will see it again.
A) Label pays radio station to play song B) Radio station plays several less ads to play song C) Because Song was played during ad time, Radio Station doesn't play it during regular Music time D) Ignorant Masses (ie, Me) hear More music, Less ads, and are generally happy.
Ya know, I might be stupid, but I'll never publically condon someone bussiness practices if they make my life and life in general better.
Helicopters ARE fragile. But they are a shitload more flexable than fixed wings could ever be. Combat air operations are about ALOT more than shoot and be shot at. Fixed wing aircraft don't have the low speed manuverabilty for Overwatch operations of a few city blocks or high speed car chases. Fixed wing aircraft also do not have the options for bases of operations. My AirCav unit is currently operating out of an old Iraqi war school. We used the old parade grounds as our flight line and the old rifle range as our hot refuel/rearm point. Being a 5 min flight from anywhere in the city, our responce time is alot quicker than any Airforce craft could hope to get.
While we might not have the weapons payload of a B-52 bomber, we are not trying the win the battle with one aircraft. We are a part of several unit involved in whatever operation it is we are doing. We provide an eye in the sky with a very flexable delivery of a shit load of fire-power.
The Commanche failed, not because they keep trying to upgrade it, but because they where trying to build it from the ground up. Instead of taking a known good design (Say the AH-1Z Cobra) and improving it to handle the newer technology and weapons. How many times will they re-invent the wheel?
--Cam
PS During the battle of Mogadishu, soldiers on the ground ran out of ammo. The solution? Pilots flew with cases on 5.56 in their laps, and kicked them out the door when passing over US Soldiers. Lets see a Warthawg show that kinda on the spot flexability.
Call me a warmonger. Call me a simplton. Call me what you will. I base my opinions and views on experiance. As a soldier, I spend more time than is healthy contemplating and discussing wrong or right and current events. And the scales I use is the worth of my own life.
I'm not talking about the small stuff. I'm not talking about stealing a loaf of bread so your sister can feed her son. I'm talking about the big stuff. Like slaughtering innocents, and then using more innocents to hide behind. If you killed 3000 people, if you helped kill 3000 people... then your dead. And your not dead because your morally wrong. Your dead because the peace, harmony, and saftey of my people is more important than the peace, harmony, and saftey of you and yours. My people are more important because you came into my sandbox. And in the case of Mr Saddam Hussien, if I think that your going come into my sandbox and torch the damn place, you better believe I'm gonna take the gasoline away. Even if I have to send you and all your buddies into the hospital.
Mr Bellings, this is not a letter to you, because I think that your happy in you sandbox, and don't want to kick down anyone elses sand castle. I think that your someone who would rather die than let some immoral action take place. And I think that after you've been burned alive in a building, or choked to death on antrax or whatever else Mr. Hussien has cooked up for you. I think that I will honor your wishes, and do nothing. I will do nothing because there is someone on the other side willing to die for what he thinks is right. In fact, he was probably thinking that killing an infidel such as you was a moral thing as he put a nuke onto a missle.
Its not about black or white. Its not about right or wrong. The bigger picture is not a moral issue. Its about my people and your people. And my people will be safe to live life as they please, in a fashion regulated by an (idealy) Fair and Moral Goverment. Even if the rest of the planet has to burn in hell.
--Cam PS This really isn't a personal attack, just my own opinion on things:-)
I answer this pretty sure that I'm not treading on any "confidentiality issues"
A Stinger has NO means of identifing anything except heat. However, the launcher can be equiped with an IFF interigator.
The IFF is just anouther transponder, which are used by most aircraft to give basic identification, altitude, and to help radar distinguish between an aircraft, and some other radar blip.
I doubt that the IFF itself is supersecret. However, the IFF code is. With it Hostile Agencies could use it as additional information to break the IFF code generation algorithm, which is a Bad Thing.
As a member of the military, I am ~really~ curious to know what they could do with that info.
Someone mentioned immunization records. But who cares if some 80 yr old retired Sgt Major had his TB recently? And untill you correlate Soldiers with Units, that info won't do you much good. If you wanted to know that, why not steal if from the Unit... it wouldn't be to much harder; and would provide/alot/ more info. Alot.
I personally think that they where after SSN's, and just happened to view a haul of 500k as too good to pass up. I don't believe that the fact it was military was of consequence. Which is why I also believe that it was American Civilians that did it, not some Foreign Agent. If so, I'm f*'ing pissed.
I don't need to say how well you can screw someone over with thier SSN; imagine the entire Military preoccupied with sorting out thier lifes; worried about a wife (or husband) and children having to deal with identity thieft while the soldier is busy overseas.
Actually, judging from the amount of wood and leather needed for some of his inventions, I doubt that he cared more about a rabbit than his fellow man. So I can't call him a treehugger.
And, as noted in posts by others, he volunteered his work for military application, so I believe he supported soldiers fighting for him. As such, he is clearly not a hippie.
However, while I can find plenty of refrences to Da Vinci painting female nudes, a quick search on google for "Da Vinci sex exploits" is quite dissapointing. So obviously he is gay:-)
--Cam Onna those modern Right-wing, gun-toting, baby-killing Army types.
Well, I guess I'm just a dyed-in-the-wool Northerner, but I happen to think "the preservation of the Union" is a pure motive.
As a soldier, I agree. However, as an American, and I'm sure you can look at history and in todays newspapers for examples to support me, I am more than willing to fight for what I think of as my way of life.
I do not support slavery based upon race, gender, religion, birth, or shape of ones nose. However, at the time, the southern economy required the cheap labor provided by slavery. And at the time, the South was the economic powerhouse of America. The North, in order to build an economic base, imposed import taxes upon the South, forcing the South to buy inferior American products at a higher cost. So when the North threatened to remove the Souths means making money, they where slightly upset.
The War of Northern Agression didn't come about in order to save slavery, nor was it because we had to perserve the Union. It happened because the North was a dick to the South. And the South had enough. Personally, I am glad that the North won, just as I'm glad the South had the balls to stand up for themselfs fight it. The only thing I regret about the War is that we couldn't find a way to achive the same results without the economic damage or loss of life caused by the War. And I can't stand the holier than thou attitude of Northerners.
Ok, someone else posted it first... but I'll back them up:-)
Autocross is fun. True car racing. None of this "My car can drive in a straight line faster than your car can" BS. Autocross is about you, the driver. You don't need any special equipment, but if you want to spend time and money on your car, it'll pay off.
Congress intended the existence of a disability to be determined in such a case-by-case manner. ... An individualized assessment of the effect of an impairment is particularly necessary when the impairment is one such as carpal tunnel syndrome, in which symptoms vary widely from person to person.
It was not decided that the Americans with Disabilities Act didn't protect CTS. It was decided that in this woman's case, her specific form of CTS wasn't a disability under the ADA. In order for someone with CTS to be protected by the ADA, their form of CTS must "severely limit major life actives."
Rather, the central inquiry must be whether the claimant is unable to perform the variety of tasks central to most people's daily lives. Also without support is the Sixth Circuit's assertion that the question whether an impairment constitutes a disability is to be answered only by analyzing the impairment's effect in the workplace. ... Moreover, because the manual tasks unique to any particular job are not necessarily important parts of most people's lives, occupation-specific tasks may have only limited relevance to the manual task inquiry
That speaks for itself. Just because your impairment won't let you perform your job, its not a disability, and your not protected by the ADA. So, we return to CTS. For many of us, it WOULD impair MAJOR life activity. IANAL, however I think that you would have a hard time of it in court.
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Good article, but its forgetting a key item... The best lockpick tool is C4. Its a little noisy, and the property damage is likely to get noticed, but for speed and ease of use, it can't be beat.
The torque lever and pick are for people who can't afford the property damage but can afford the time.
--Cam
I was always taught to never point a gun at someone unless you were ready to kill them. And I've always felt that the best way to deal with someone trying to kill me is to kill them first. So crazy guy with gun is going to be crazy guy in casket. And don't preach about the innocent bystanders. Little tip, don't be around crazy guy with gun. Remove the threat, either by running for it, or show some backbone and take him down. If your worried about yourself, run and get outta the way for those of us willing to do something.
S.Korea is in charge of talks with N.Korea. While the US has influence, in the end we defer to S.Korea. It is the S.Korea goal to reunite the two Koreas without killing anyone. Remeber, Korea split reletivly recently, and most Korean families have someone on the other side. Personally, I think that S.Korea is just waiting for Ol'Looney up north to die off, and hoping for a peacefull reuninification after that.
--Cam
Ahmen. I'm one of the worse procrastinators I know. I'm forever doing my Calc homework in the hour before the class its due. The Astronomy homework thats supposed to take a week gets started 4 hours before class. I need pressure, otherwise I get distracted by anything shiney or bouncy.
I spent most of last year in Iraq, and the stress created by the my immpending death would focus me and get my mind working on a completely diffrent level. That state of mind, that combat high, is something that I'm sometimes able to get myself into, and thats when I make the most in understanding programming concepts. I'm probably the only coder whose progress can be judged by the volume of my hard rock. The louder the better. And when I'm screaming Dopes "Die MF Die" I just made a breakthrough:-)
--Cam
OK, if your planning something realize that A) you can only please some of the people all of the time B) and sometimes, you can please everyone. Abe Lincoln said that, I think.
If you're attending something realize that A) your boss can only please some of the people all of the time and B) sometimes, he can please everyone.
When the boss plans something, don't bail just because you don't drink, or you don't like football. Show up, and have fun. Make fun of Football. The next day, make fun of everyones drunken actions. Its not the bosses job to make you have fun. He's going out of his way to provide the entertainment and atmosphere. The least you can do is try.
--Cam
You can't start traditions, one day you just look around and realize that you've been doing them. But you want to raise moral?
You control only two things that your employees want. Money and Time. Take everyone out to the bar, or to a picnic, or to the rifle range, or get everyone tickets to an NFL game. Thats the money part. The time part? Do it on company time. If your not doing it on company time, invite family, and its not compulsory.
--Cam
After reading the rests of the posts, and seeing what everyone is expecting from the MMORPG, I think that they should at least look at the MUSH'es and MUSE's. I used to be on tos.tos.net, a long time ago, and it was a blast. Some things needed to get worked on (orbiting StarBaseOne at warp 6 inna cloaked BOP during diplomatic talks). But the ships needed at least 3 people, (you could do it with one, but that was ALOT of running around between engineering, weapons, sensors, navigation, and the bathroom), battle happened on planets, in starbases, between ships, and in the bar.
I don't see how a MMORPG could pull the same RPG experiance off. Every MMORPG I've seen is about getting into the fight now, while Trek has alot of, "Lets study this" or "Lets argue this" or "lets talk about the 20th centery socological/moral rammifications of this". And while everyone wants to work on thier own ship, its going to be diffrent when it takes 30 min to get between star systems. You going to enter the system at warp 9 only to find out your navigator ducked off to the corner store for some grub.
--Cam
One of the entire reasons OSS is such a great thing is that becuase its OpenSourced, if can be adapted for use in ways that the original coder never though of. And dispite the fact that most soldiers have a hard time with an excel function, the fact that they might have acess to the source could allow for in theater modifications. Adaptability is a great thing.
Of course, this includes ways the orignial coder might object to, but I'm sure they'll get over it. If your going to bitch about your software being used by the Department of Defense, remind me to not lift a finger when your getting your ass beat in some back alley. If your willing to help everyone but me, at no cost to you, why should I lift a finger to help you? Doesn't that fly in the face of OpenSource? I do give this to you in the HOPE that you might do something that might help me?
--Cam
I've voted, from overseas using absentee ballots before. However, in Iraq the mail system is unpredicatably unreliable. Sometimes I would get mail 2-3 weeks after it was sent, sometimes I would get mail 6 months after it was sent. And sometimes I wouldn't get it. Its a problem that they are trying to fix, however, untill no one is blowing up the mail convoys, units aren't being detached, attached, and moved around like a big shell game, and OIF/OEF turns into a cakewalk, USPS isn't a serious option.
Of course, its still better than Email.
--Cam
Ok, so in addition to managing engine RPM and steering wheel direction (which translates to speed and direction of travel, most of the time), my headlights, my turn signals, my radio, my foglights, seat heaters, moon roof, and however many passangers I've got (go ahead, add to that list with everything else you have to do while driving), I'm going going to have to manage the automoticons of my car too? And instead of just noticing speed and direction of travel, brake lights, and turn signals of other cars, traffic lights, road signs, road markings, path of the road, quality of the road, the signage, lights, markings and paths of intersecting roads. I have to add the emotion of the other cars to the list of things I have to observe and take note off? Can we say operater saturation, if not overload. Pilot saturation in figherjets is a well known phenominon, to the point where they won't even hear audio alarms or see blinking red lights. And I can't count the number of times I've seen it in everyday drivers.
Somehow humanity has managed to drive for a hundred years without using automoticons to commincate. If oncoming traffic had left their brights on, we didn't tell the car to squint... we flashed our brights. Granted, we might also be telling them about the speed trap, but thats for them to figure out. And if a dangerous condition existed on someones car, we would honk and point. Sometimes we would even convince them to pull over and actually help them fix the problem.
So lets recognize this for what it is. The next generation of 'look at my car' It started with a eyecatching and technically difficult paint job, lots of body mods and chrome. Then it was a horsepower proving exhaust, chromed out engine, and tires that could provide enough traction to get the space shuttle into orbit. Now days its underbody neon, LED windshield wipers, and complexe vinyl decals and chrome wheels. Next it will be the automoticons (doesn't that just sound like the Pokemon version of the Transformers?)
--Cam
Well, the offical UPS numbers are as such.
UPS accepts 13.5 million packages a day. They have about 35 million packages in the system at any one moment in time. If they had only 99.9% flawless service at any one time, that would be 1,300 problems a day, 30,000 a month (I woulda thought it would mean 39,000 a month, but those are the numbers I've heard from UPS)
So yeah, there would be alot of horror stories. I'm willing to bet of the 39,000 a month, mabey 40 are the really bad kind that you tell your children around the campfire. I personally have been using UPS religiously for several years now, and haven't ever had a single problem. How many system admins could say that with a load of 35million users at any moment, they wouldn't have a single glitch?
--Cam
Sigh... I can't believe I'm actually responding to this troll. Anyways
The code looks like it was designed by some one who just learned C because, well, it was. The code is something called a proof of concept. A proof of concept, for those that are unfamiliar with the idea, is when something is quickly done just to prove that it might work and is feasible. Its usually the first step that leads to larger projects that address concerns like segfaulting.
And NO security measures, short of pulling the plug, is immune to DoS. So ignoring a security messure that is succeptable to an attack that almost all security measures are not immune to is idiotic. Perhaps I should stop using my firewall because my poor 56k modem can get DoSed.
--Cam
This isn't an attempt to redefine a problem, this is an attempt to provide a diffrent solution to a known problem. Two sided ssh security negotiation might work great for your application, but it might not be so hot for mine. Diffrent solutions have diffrent strenghts and weaknesses, and the more solutions we have, the better able we are to select one which matches our security needs. Options are a /good/ thing.
And honestly, its a damn good idea with a simple implementation. Because its so simple to implement, there will be more than one portknock server. How would an external attacker know if a broken version of portknock was being used, or if there wasn't even a computer there?
Pay attention to portknock, because you will see it again.
--Cam
The small tactical nuke encourages the fault line to shift earlier and with more force than it would have naturally.
Most of California, despite heroic attempts by the Govinator, violently slips into the pages of History.
Washington and all other civilization on the west coast is saved.
--Cam
PS The Church rewrites the Soddom and Gamora tale to reflect current events.
Ok, to make sure I got this right
A) Label pays radio station to play song
B) Radio station plays several less ads to play song
C) Because Song was played during ad time, Radio Station doesn't play it during regular Music time
D) Ignorant Masses (ie, Me) hear More music, Less ads, and are generally happy.
Ya know, I might be stupid, but I'll never publically condon someone bussiness practices if they make my life and life in general better.
--Cam
Helicopters ARE fragile. But they are a shitload more flexable than fixed wings could ever be. Combat air operations are about ALOT more than shoot and be shot at. Fixed wing aircraft don't have the low speed manuverabilty for Overwatch operations of a few city blocks or high speed car chases. Fixed wing aircraft also do not have the options for bases of operations. My AirCav unit is currently operating out of an old Iraqi war school. We used the old parade grounds as our flight line and the old rifle range as our hot refuel/rearm point. Being a 5 min flight from anywhere in the city, our responce time is alot quicker than any Airforce craft could hope to get.
While we might not have the weapons payload of a B-52 bomber, we are not trying the win the battle with one aircraft. We are a part of several unit involved in whatever operation it is we are doing. We provide an eye in the sky with a very flexable delivery of a shit load of fire-power.
The Commanche failed, not because they keep trying to upgrade it, but because they where trying to build it from the ground up. Instead of taking a known good design (Say the AH-1Z Cobra) and improving it to handle the newer technology and weapons. How many times will they re-invent the wheel?
--Cam
PS During the battle of Mogadishu, soldiers on the ground ran out of ammo. The solution? Pilots flew with cases on 5.56 in their laps, and kicked them out the door when passing over US Soldiers. Lets see a Warthawg show that kinda on the spot flexability.
Call me a warmonger. Call me a simplton. Call me what you will. I base my opinions and views on experiance. As a soldier, I spend more time than is healthy contemplating and discussing wrong or right and current events. And the scales I use is the worth of my own life.
I'm not talking about the small stuff. I'm not talking about stealing a loaf of bread so your sister can feed her son. I'm talking about the big stuff. Like slaughtering innocents, and then using more innocents to hide behind. If you killed 3000 people, if you helped kill 3000 people... then your dead. And your not dead because your morally wrong. Your dead because the peace, harmony, and saftey of my people is more important than the peace, harmony, and saftey of you and yours. My people are more important because you came into my sandbox. And in the case of Mr Saddam Hussien, if I think that your going come into my sandbox and torch the damn place, you better believe I'm gonna take the gasoline away. Even if I have to send you and all your buddies into the hospital.
Mr Bellings, this is not a letter to you, because I think that your happy in you sandbox, and don't want to kick down anyone elses sand castle. I think that your someone who would rather die than let some immoral action take place. And I think that after you've been burned alive in a building, or choked to death on antrax or whatever else Mr. Hussien has cooked up for you. I think that I will honor your wishes, and do nothing. I will do nothing because there is someone on the other side willing to die for what he thinks is right. In fact, he was probably thinking that killing an infidel such as you was a moral thing as he put a nuke onto a missle.
Its not about black or white. Its not about right or wrong. The bigger picture is not a moral issue. Its about my people and your people. And my people will be safe to live life as they please, in a fashion regulated by an (idealy) Fair and Moral Goverment. Even if the rest of the planet has to burn in hell.
--Cam
PS This really isn't a personal attack, just my own opinion on things:-)
I answer this pretty sure that I'm not treading on any "confidentiality issues"
A Stinger has NO means of identifing anything except heat. However, the launcher can be equiped with an IFF interigator.
The IFF is just anouther transponder, which are used by most aircraft to give basic identification, altitude, and to help radar distinguish between an aircraft, and some other radar blip.
I doubt that the IFF itself is supersecret. However, the IFF code is. With it Hostile Agencies could use it as additional information to break the IFF code generation algorithm, which is a Bad Thing.
--Cam
As a member of the military, I am ~really~ curious to know what they could do with that info.
/alot/ more info. Alot.
Someone mentioned immunization records. But who cares if some 80 yr old retired Sgt Major had his TB recently? And untill you correlate Soldiers with Units, that info won't do you much good. If you wanted to know that, why not steal if from the Unit... it wouldn't be to much harder; and would provide
I personally think that they where after SSN's, and just happened to view a haul of 500k as too good to pass up. I don't believe that the fact it was military was of consequence. Which is why I also believe that it was American Civilians that did it, not some Foreign Agent. If so, I'm f*'ing pissed.
I don't need to say how well you can screw someone over with thier SSN; imagine the entire Military preoccupied with sorting out thier lifes; worried about a wife (or husband) and children having to deal with identity thieft while the soldier is busy overseas.
--Cam
Actually, judging from the amount of wood and leather needed for some of his inventions, I doubt that he cared more about a rabbit than his fellow man. So I can't call him a treehugger.
And, as noted in posts by others, he volunteered his work for military application, so I believe he supported soldiers fighting for him. As such, he is clearly not a hippie.
However, while I can find plenty of refrences to Da Vinci painting female nudes, a quick search on google for "Da Vinci sex exploits" is quite dissapointing. So obviously he is gay:-)
--Cam
Onna those modern Right-wing, gun-toting, baby-killing Army types.
Well, I guess I'm just a dyed-in-the-wool Northerner, but I happen to think "the preservation of the Union" is a pure motive.
As a soldier, I agree. However, as an American, and I'm sure you can look at history and in todays newspapers for examples to support me, I am more than willing to fight for what I think of as my way of life.
I do not support slavery based upon race, gender, religion, birth, or shape of ones nose. However, at the time, the southern economy required the cheap labor provided by slavery. And at the time, the South was the economic powerhouse of America. The North, in order to build an economic base, imposed import taxes upon the South, forcing the South to buy inferior American products at a higher cost. So when the North threatened to remove the Souths means making money, they where slightly upset.
The War of Northern Agression didn't come about in order to save slavery, nor was it because we had to perserve the Union. It happened because the North was a dick to the South. And the South had enough. Personally, I am glad that the North won, just as I'm glad the South had the balls to stand up for themselfs fight it. The only thing I regret about the War is that we couldn't find a way to achive the same results without the economic damage or loss of life caused by the War. And I can't stand the holier than thou attitude of Northerners.
--Cam
Southern, and Damn proud of it.
That is funny, everyone knows that Canadians don't have indoor plumbing... its so cold the pipes would break:-)
--Cam
Ok, someone else posted it first... but I'll back them up:-)
Autocross is fun. True car racing. None of this "My car can drive in a straight line faster than your car can" BS. Autocross is about you, the driver. You don't need any special equipment, but if you want to spend time and money on your car, it'll pay off.
Check out the SCCA site.
RTFA
Congress intended the existence of a disability to be determined in such a case-by-case manner.
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An individualized assessment of the effect of an impairment is particularly necessary when the impairment is one such as carpal tunnel syndrome, in which symptoms vary widely from person to person.
It was not decided that the Americans with Disabilities Act didn't protect CTS. It was decided that in this woman's case, her specific form of CTS wasn't a disability under the ADA. In order for someone with CTS to be protected by the ADA, their form of CTS must "severely limit major life actives."
Rather, the central inquiry must be whether the claimant is unable to perform the variety of tasks central to most people's daily lives. Also without support is the Sixth Circuit's assertion that the question whether an impairment constitutes a disability is to be answered only by analyzing the impairment's effect in the workplace.
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Moreover, because the manual tasks unique to any particular job are not necessarily important parts of most people's lives, occupation-specific tasks may have only limited relevance to the manual task inquiry
That speaks for itself. Just because your impairment won't let you perform your job, its not a disability, and your not protected by the ADA. So, we return to CTS. For many of us, it WOULD impair MAJOR life activity. IANAL, however I think that you would have a hard time of it in court.
--Cam
I can't wait to see the first Coffee powered server.
After the demise of the potato powered server, it'll be great to see anouther organically powered server.
--Cam
According to Desler, Microsoft has rigorous processes in place during the development of Windows to ensure the security and integrity of source code.
Which consists of releasing it to the public and ignoring the bug reports.
--Cam