I agree with what you say that one should not infringe upon the ideals of another. We should not force the Chinese to adhere to our standards of openness and censorship...
But I think you fail to see that generally as users of Slashdot, we're nerds. As early adopters, we're denizens of the 'Net itself.
"This is our world now. The world of the electron and the switch; the beauty of the baud. We exist without nationality, skin color, or religious bias. You wage wars, murder, cheat, lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good."
Your post is well thought out and I agree with everything you said. Thank you, sir.
The only statement I would make is that personally, and I emphasize personal, I'm of the opinion if you're a grunt it's almost expected that you're a 17-23yr old kid still wet behind the ears at life. You don't pay for where you live (and it's really not that bad), if you want you can eat at the mess hall ($2/meal when I was in back in 2006) and if you're doing your finances correctly you generally pay next to nothing for living. I lived pretty damn good on 24k/yr at 18. That being said... hellz yeah you're right. I wish they would pay them more. They'd get a higher quality soldier if the benefits were more in line with the responsibilities and expectations.
That's the point I'm trying to make, sir. People who give you the coffee and cigarettes line like it happens every day are exaggerating because they want to sound 'hard' or tough. It's not really like that. I'm not saying it was a picnic and there wasn't some times where I didn't get screwed without a meal or something, but generally speaking even if you were in the suck at a FOBs in the Korengal Valley you could get at least 2 hot squares a day.
I think your comment is hilarious, but in the words of the instructor who kicked my ass during hand to hand several times... Skill and speed can only account for so much. Eventually, size wins...
The SEALs aren't some demigods like the movies would have you believe. They're much more like the team of network admins that's been working together in the basement together for several years. They're so good because they work together so fluidly and so efficently.
You disgust me and the fact that you got modded +5 irritates me to the point of irrationality. People, listen - these stories that guys like this regurgitate are generally from washed out medical rolls who couldn't snuff it the first 5 minutes into Basic. There's a reason that his post reads like the transcript from a homeless man in the subway.
Please, please, please don't allow him to disparage the military that I love and accept as fact. I was discharged too, after getting wounded
TL;DR : This dude is a crybaby. Army life isn't that bad. News at 11.
It is certainly not the business of a private to determine...
Sir, you are wrong. In the United States Military, and the Army specifically I was made to recite our creeds every day through training. The Army training regimen consists of instilling belief in the 7 core values: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage. Can you honestly tell me that what Bradley Manning did was not the embodiment of what he was trained for? As a vet I will tell you I respect him more than most of the rest of his chain of command. He wasn't perfect - but he had the courage to do something that should have been done.
"all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing..."
I'm not sure how it is where you work, but on top of getting an admittedly pitiful sum (Usually $40/day for a Federal Trial) for actually serving as a juror I'm fairly certain most places of work will pay you at least a reduced amount, as well.
Starship Troopers was perfect and damn your eyes for pretending it wasn't. Do you really think it would be better with current actors? Hell, maybe you'll suggest we somehow get the cast of How I Met Your Mother involved...
I hate to reply to myself, but one shot of caffeine later and the results are in:
Projected budget for FY12 for NASA: $17,770m, or 0.48% of the total Fed budget.
Projected budget for FY12 for the Military: $1,030,000m – $1,415,000m, or potentially 33% of the Fed budget.
So now the question is, what has NASA spent historically? Well, if you normalize dollar amounts over the course of NASA's almost 60 years the grand total is 870,709m or a healthy 160,000m dollars below the lowest estimated cost for the military this year...
Haha, I apologize sincerely. I don't usually troll but I did find it fun today. I do believe earnestly that I would consider Jobs in the same league as Edison. I don't think it's right, but I do think it's how history will remember him.
You know, I actually can't argue with that. I secceed from my argument. Good show.
That being said: I would like to make a gentleman's wager with you. Four score years from this moment Steve will have departed for as long as Edison has. My wager is simple. At that time, if Steve Jobs fails to receive mention in the same breath as Edison than you will be permitted a single slap across my face. On the hand, if I'm in the right then a reddening of your cheek by man hand will be the toll.
My god you're uppity and stupid - how quaint. So I'll spell it out for you because I'm in a troll smacking kind of mood today.
There was once this guy named Thomas Edison. Still with me? Hang on to your pants because guess what - that bastard didn't "invent" the idea of a light powered by electricity. Holy shit! An analogous situation is about to blow your mind - take cover!
So the point that I was contesting - that Jobs won't be compared favorably to EDISON is not only totally valid and supported through an ability to undertand the past while simultaneously being able to speculate about the future but... you know what. I'm bored now. Troll elsewhere or learn to read the entire post before getting your panties in a bunch.
Yeah, it's not as if he and Apple are largely responsible for making personal computing mobile thereby changing the day to day routines of a good portion of the developed world or anything.
All kidding aside despite the content - could you honestly tell me when the last time you went 24 hours without using a smartphone? Unless you're a cave dwelling neckbeard who refuses to use a smartphone for monetary, physical or philosophical reasons (or because you're a dirty, dirty hipster) - your life has been irrevocably changed along with the majority (50.4%) of the United States population.
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As long as your wife hasn't found a "way" to classify you as Asian...
I agree with what you say that one should not infringe upon the ideals of another. We should not force the Chinese to adhere to our standards of openness and censorship...
But I think you fail to see that generally as users of Slashdot, we're nerds. As early adopters, we're denizens of the 'Net itself.
"This is our world now. The world of the electron and the switch; the beauty of the baud. We exist without nationality, skin color, or religious bias. You wage wars, murder, cheat, lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good."
Your post is well thought out and I agree with everything you said. Thank you, sir.
The only statement I would make is that personally, and I emphasize personal, I'm of the opinion if you're a grunt it's almost expected that you're a 17-23yr old kid still wet behind the ears at life. You don't pay for where you live (and it's really not that bad), if you want you can eat at the mess hall ($2/meal when I was in back in 2006) and if you're doing your finances correctly you generally pay next to nothing for living. I lived pretty damn good on 24k/yr at 18. That being said... hellz yeah you're right. I wish they would pay them more. They'd get a higher quality soldier if the benefits were more in line with the responsibilities and expectations.
That's the point I'm trying to make, sir. People who give you the coffee and cigarettes line like it happens every day are exaggerating because they want to sound 'hard' or tough. It's not really like that. I'm not saying it was a picnic and there wasn't some times where I didn't get screwed without a meal or something, but generally speaking even if you were in the suck at a FOBs in the Korengal Valley you could get at least 2 hot squares a day.
Side note: for people who want an accurate depiction of the non-glamorized, non-SpecOps BS check out Restrepo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrepo_(film)
I think your comment is hilarious, but in the words of the instructor who kicked my ass during hand to hand several times... Skill and speed can only account for so much. Eventually, size wins...
The SEALs aren't some demigods like the movies would have you believe. They're much more like the team of network admins that's been working together in the basement together for several years. They're so good because they work together so fluidly and so efficently.
You disgust me and the fact that you got modded +5 irritates me to the point of irrationality. People, listen - these stories that guys like this regurgitate are generally from washed out medical rolls who couldn't snuff it the first 5 minutes into Basic. There's a reason that his post reads like the transcript from a homeless man in the subway.
Please, please, please don't allow him to disparage the military that I love and accept as fact. I was discharged too, after getting wounded
TL;DR : This dude is a crybaby. Army life isn't that bad. News at 11.
It is certainly not the business of a private to determine...
Sir, you are wrong. In the United States Military, and the Army specifically I was made to recite our creeds every day through training. The Army training regimen consists of instilling belief in the 7 core values: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage. Can you honestly tell me that what Bradley Manning did was not the embodiment of what he was trained for? As a vet I will tell you I respect him more than most of the rest of his chain of command. He wasn't perfect - but he had the courage to do something that should have been done.
"all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing..."
Source: Vet and this little thing: http://www.army.mil/values/
It's a hidden code in a movie where every, so taboo!
Oblig ref: http://xkcd.com/981/
I'm not sure how it is where you work, but on top of getting an admittedly pitiful sum (Usually $40/day for a Federal Trial) for actually serving as a juror I'm fairly certain most places of work will pay you at least a reduced amount, as well.
Starship Troopers was perfect and damn your eyes for pretending it wasn't. Do you really think it would be better with current actors? Hell, maybe you'll suggest we somehow get the cast of How I Met Your Mother involved...
It doesn't feel like it's been that long.
Not to mention that maybe a stipulation for said kid adventuring out on his own is to have his phone with him, and charged.
I hate to reply to myself, but one shot of caffeine later and the results are in:
Projected budget for FY12 for NASA: $17,770m, or 0.48% of the total Fed budget.
Projected budget for FY12 for the Military: $1,030,000m – $1,415,000m, or potentially 33% of the Fed budget.
So now the question is, what has NASA spent historically? Well, if you normalize dollar amounts over the course of NASA's almost 60 years the grand total is 870,709m or a healthy 160,000m dollars below the lowest estimated cost for the military this year...
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States
Is that actually true? I'd love to see a citation on that. It would be incredible if it was. My Google-Fu is weak today, apparently.
What makes you think the businesses who make the blocked calls are upstanding enough not to just start using burner cellphones then?
Welcome to the internet, former AOL or Compuserve user.
I would certainly be labeled a sports porn head gear fetish enthusiast
I would watch that sport. I mean really, if it came down to that or an Idol competition?
Oh wow... I hadn't noticed I did that. That's a pretty bad one. :(
You're right...
I guess you could say they're up the creek with a... Padd-le.... YEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Haha, I apologize sincerely. I don't usually troll but I did find it fun today. I do believe earnestly that I would consider Jobs in the same league as Edison. I don't think it's right, but I do think it's how history will remember him.
You know, I actually can't argue with that. I secceed from my argument. Good show.
That being said: I would like to make a gentleman's wager with you. Four score years from this moment Steve will have departed for as long as Edison has. My wager is simple. At that time, if Steve Jobs fails to receive mention in the same breath as Edison than you will be permitted a single slap across my face. On the hand, if I'm in the right then a reddening of your cheek by man hand will be the toll.
My god you're uppity and stupid - how quaint. So I'll spell it out for you because I'm in a troll smacking kind of mood today.
There was once this guy named Thomas Edison. Still with me? Hang on to your pants because guess what - that bastard didn't "invent" the idea of a light powered by electricity. Holy shit! An analogous situation is about to blow your mind - take cover!
So the point that I was contesting - that Jobs won't be compared favorably to EDISON is not only totally valid and supported through an ability to undertand the past while simultaneously being able to speculate about the future but... you know what. I'm bored now. Troll elsewhere or learn to read the entire post before getting your panties in a bunch.
Edison did the same. You'll see how history treated that. I'm not saying it's right, it simply is.
Yeah, it's not as if he and Apple are largely responsible for making personal computing mobile thereby changing the day to day routines of a good portion of the developed world or anything.
All kidding aside despite the content - could you honestly tell me when the last time you went 24 hours without using a smartphone? Unless you're a cave dwelling neckbeard who refuses to use a smartphone for monetary, physical or philosophical reasons (or because you're a dirty, dirty hipster) - your life has been irrevocably changed along with the majority (50.4%) of the United States population.
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/07/nielsen-smartphones-used-by-50-4-of-u-s-consumers-android-48-5-of-them/
On the other hand, it is riotously funny to watch with a room full of tipsy geologists.
The problem with that is they won't shut up about how much the floor is tilting or the world is spinning... and drinking just makes it worse.
/ducks
Fair point, it was poorly worded on my part. I meant to imply that while there are PHBs out there, not every business savvy leader is as incompetent.
Thanks for helping me clarify.