Bronze Star Medals have a lot of cache, so the officers got together and made those the end of tour awards for E7 and up. E6 and below got ARCOM's. Thing is, people who know, know that the BSM without a "V" device (for valor, indicating it's for a combat action) is just BS. I'm sure they'd go for higher awards, but you can get a BSM for non-combat action, and that's not true with higher awards what the Silver Star.
My experience was a bit odd. Getting an ARCOM with false information (maybe just confusion as to the part I played on that mission) for not getting NJP'd on the deployment is cool; but a Combat Action Badge for what I actually did during a rocket attack would somehow "cheapen" the award. However, it's not new. I remember my grandfather mentioning how messed up the award system was during WWII, and my guess is there's some dudes at Valley Forge that didn't get anything because they're Platoon SGT thought they were a shit bird.
It happened in the Marines, too, but it wasn't as bad, I think because promotion points weren't tied to awards. When they help you get promoted faster, there's more incentive to game the system to get more awards. Oh, well, I ETS'd a while back, so all those awards don't really mean a damn thing now, anyway.
I've had a gun pointed at my head for trying to ask directions, but when I get robbed, they won't even take a report because "the phone system is down and you have to drive 40 minutes to make the report in person".
The cops pulled a gun on you for asking directions? I'm glad I live in Detroit, where it's safe. I mean, seriously... I look at a lot of these comments, and I never experienced anything like it in Detroit (Brightmoor, for those familiar with the city) in the 80's and 90's
Sure, some of my reports went a bit unnoticed, but back when the murder rate was 70 / 100,000 people; bicycle thefts aren't that important. I feel bad that so many people have to deal with shit like that, and I'm glad I don't.
Administrative searches, such as an in custody search, are designed to prevent people from bringing weapons and contraband into the cells.
In that light, I can see why Ohio ruled the way it did. I don't think there is yet an app for making your phone into a noose or a shank, but I could be wrong. You want to limit what people have access to in jail, but things in cloud are dodgy...
At some point, especially with a half decent lawyer, some dude in California is going to go at least to the lowest federal level over this, since Ohio ruled the opposite. Going back to GP about how the phone is different because it's on your person... If your phone is linked to your email and such, that should not be viewable without a warrant, since we can't go look at all the stuff that the keys in your pocket unlock.
It would be a bit hairy if they open your phone and see an email from jluis@medallin.co... at which point, I would go get a warrant for your email, just for CYA.
I have yet to see a police department with an evidence room that's a Fardaday cage. Many happen to be in the basements of very old buildings, with almost the same effect though. With municipal budgets being as tight as they are, I don't see any building such things in the near future.
Also, your average doper, addict, or cop probably isn't wise to what a remote wipe is anyway.
It's wild how much it looks like Feodosia, Allushta, and Sudak... all of which have been continuously inhabited.
Of course, the Soviets weren't really known for pushing the architectural envelope.
These do work pretty well.
Got to do a simulated mass casualty exercise this summer, which used these, and also some other ones that weighed about 165 lbs. to simulate corpses. That's not a very heavy load for two people carrying a box, but when it flops around and shifts on you constantly...
Much easier to "practice how you play" with them. They are freaking expensive, though.
"The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars
and its warriors, will have its thinking done by cowards and its
fighting done by fools."
Yes, that sort of thing requires a manufacturing capability that much of the world, who could access wikileaks, would not have.
However, someone could post unit numbers, troop movements, perhaps names of ships that supplies are being sent on, or routes used for supply convoys in country. If I was planning to blow up some people, it would be real handy to know where they will be, and if possible, when they are expected to be there. Or how about names and homes of record of people serving overseas? Mohammed and Akbar may not be able to build a jet, but I don't see what would stop them from paying a local thug or gang to shoot up your house. How many troops are going to duck deployments if they think their family would get killed? Information is more powerful than people think. The biggest bomb in the world won't do anything unless you know who to drop it on.
That's not to say that wikileaks does not serve an important purpose. There are some forms of classified and sensitive information that the world at large does not need to know.
My guess, in addition to price, people with Down syndrome, and other neurological disorders probably have trouble getting jobs, and thus would have a low income stream.
Can't work the drivethru at Taco Bell if you can't talk...
"it involves typing with your thumbs, which I just don't approve of. Shit, I don't know about you, but I don't have time to read nothin' that a motherfucker typed with his thumbs. Fun fact: Nothing typed by someone's thumbs has ever been important." -- The Boondocks, "Let's Nab Oprah"
Many of my old comrades cannot watch war-related movies or watch/play FPS video games like COD, GRAW, etc.
May not be PTSD. I can't watch or play them because something really simple gets jacked up, e.g. uniforms, or the sound is off. (An AK-47 does NOT sound like an M16.)
When I was in some even rural parts of the Dominican Republic, we always had great signal strength from CLARO. Small country... people wouldn't have shoes, but EVERYONE has a cell phone.
Cell phones in shanty towns do exist now. In fact, there is a company in Kenya marketing ones that can be recharged by solar power. And even in the third world, EVERYONE has bad ass cell phones. Maybe not shoes, running water or electricity, but they have that.
And they do prefer animals for precisely that reason; gas is expensive, grass is everywhere.
Sometimes, weird developments actually occur in the real world, so why not in imaginary one?
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Bronze Star Medals have a lot of cache, so the officers got together and made those the end of tour awards for E7 and up. E6 and below got ARCOM's. Thing is, people who know, know that the BSM without a "V" device (for valor, indicating it's for a combat action) is just BS. I'm sure they'd go for higher awards, but you can get a BSM for non-combat action, and that's not true with higher awards what the Silver Star.
My experience was a bit odd. Getting an ARCOM with false information (maybe just confusion as to the part I played on that mission) for not getting NJP'd on the deployment is cool; but a Combat Action Badge for what I actually did during a rocket attack would somehow "cheapen" the award. However, it's not new. I remember my grandfather mentioning how messed up the award system was during WWII, and my guess is there's some dudes at Valley Forge that didn't get anything because they're Platoon SGT thought they were a shit bird.
It happened in the Marines, too, but it wasn't as bad, I think because promotion points weren't tied to awards. When they help you get promoted faster, there's more incentive to game the system to get more awards. Oh, well, I ETS'd a while back, so all those awards don't really mean a damn thing now, anyway.
Gravity never loses. The best you can hope for a is a draw. -- old pilot axiom
I've had a gun pointed at my head for trying to ask directions, but when I get robbed, they won't even take a report because "the phone system is down and you have to drive 40 minutes to make the report in person".
The cops pulled a gun on you for asking directions? I'm glad I live in Detroit, where it's safe. I mean, seriously... I look at a lot of these comments, and I never experienced anything like it in Detroit (Brightmoor, for those familiar with the city) in the 80's and 90's Sure, some of my reports went a bit unnoticed, but back when the murder rate was 70 / 100,000 people; bicycle thefts aren't that important. I feel bad that so many people have to deal with shit like that, and I'm glad I don't.
In that light, I can see why Ohio ruled the way it did. I don't think there is yet an app for making your phone into a noose or a shank, but I could be wrong. You want to limit what people have access to in jail, but things in cloud are dodgy...
At some point, especially with a half decent lawyer, some dude in California is going to go at least to the lowest federal level over this, since Ohio ruled the opposite. Going back to GP about how the phone is different because it's on your person... If your phone is linked to your email and such, that should not be viewable without a warrant, since we can't go look at all the stuff that the keys in your pocket unlock.
It would be a bit hairy if they open your phone and see an email from jluis@medallin.co... at which point, I would go get a warrant for your email, just for CYA.
I have yet to see a police department with an evidence room that's a Fardaday cage. Many happen to be in the basements of very old buildings, with almost the same effect though. With municipal budgets being as tight as they are, I don't see any building such things in the near future. Also, your average doper, addict, or cop probably isn't wise to what a remote wipe is anyway.
Two douches in one box.
I think I saw that video...
Hush now. Postal was awesome.
...and Far Cry was even better!
It's wild how much it looks like Feodosia, Allushta, and Sudak... all of which have been continuously inhabited. Of course, the Soviets weren't really known for pushing the architectural envelope.
These do work pretty well. Got to do a simulated mass casualty exercise this summer, which used these, and also some other ones that weighed about 165 lbs. to simulate corpses. That's not a very heavy load for two people carrying a box, but when it flops around and shifts on you constantly... Much easier to "practice how you play" with them. They are freaking expensive, though.
"The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors, will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
Yes, that sort of thing requires a manufacturing capability that much of the world, who could access wikileaks, would not have.
However, someone could post unit numbers, troop movements, perhaps names of ships that supplies are being sent on, or routes used for supply convoys in country. If I was planning to blow up some people, it would be real handy to know where they will be, and if possible, when they are expected to be there. Or how about names and homes of record of people serving overseas? Mohammed and Akbar may not be able to build a jet, but I don't see what would stop them from paying a local thug or gang to shoot up your house. How many troops are going to duck deployments if they think their family would get killed? Information is more powerful than people think. The biggest bomb in the world won't do anything unless you know who to drop it on.
That's not to say that wikileaks does not serve an important purpose. There are some forms of classified and sensitive information that the world at large does not need to know.
Let's hope the kill switch is not a lysine dependency.
At least not any that would get passed along to anyone who could do anything, if they maintain that list like the no fly one.
(nor much expectation for there to be)?
You would probably be utterly amazed at where people will keep their stash. It most likely wasn't the case here, as the Wii still worked.
My guess, in addition to price, people with Down syndrome, and other neurological disorders probably have trouble getting jobs, and thus would have a low income stream. Can't work the drivethru at Taco Bell if you can't talk...
They can also infect by being swallowed, so don't drink the shower water, or maybe even brush your teeth with it.
"it involves typing with your thumbs, which I just don't approve of. Shit, I don't know about you, but I don't have time to read nothin' that a motherfucker typed with his thumbs. Fun fact: Nothing typed by someone's thumbs has ever been important." -- The Boondocks, "Let's Nab Oprah"
I thought more like the Accuracy International AW50 http://www.50bmgstore.com/ai50bmg.htm
Many of my old comrades cannot watch war-related movies or watch/play FPS video games like COD, GRAW, etc.
May not be PTSD. I can't watch or play them because something really simple gets jacked up, e.g. uniforms, or the sound is off. (An AK-47 does NOT sound like an M16.)
I'm surprised it's taken this long for the VA to figure this out.
As a vet and recovering addict, I would have thought you'd be more familiar with the VA than that.
"Nothing typed with someone's thumbs has ever been important." -- Gin Rummy, "The Boondocks"
Actually about $15,333... for some reason everyone decided that 1/3 retail is the going rate for stolen goods; at least in Michigan.
Those doors are not a strong a people would think. I've seen them break from getting torqued funny while closing.
I know ghetto gates don't look inviting, but would have prevented this or made them work harder. I bet they had inside help though...
When I was in some even rural parts of the Dominican Republic, we always had great signal strength from CLARO. Small country... people wouldn't have shoes, but EVERYONE has a cell phone.
Cell phones in shanty towns do exist now. In fact, there is a company in Kenya marketing ones that can be recharged by solar power. And even in the third world, EVERYONE has bad ass cell phones. Maybe not shoes, running water or electricity, but they have that.
And they do prefer animals for precisely that reason; gas is expensive, grass is everywhere.
Sometimes, weird developments actually occur in the real world, so why not in imaginary one?