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Choose your AFSC (job) wisely... it could be the difference between cakewalk and nightmare. Of course, it's pretty safe to say that a lot of the desk jobs are where it's at. Not to mention, a lot depends on your duty station and unit.
Bottom line is: You could have the easiest job on earth... or a fairly hellish experience depending on these 2 factors alone, so don't let a recruiter talk you anything you didn't ask for, and fill out your dream sheet wisely. With a little luck, the Air Force can be a great thing.
Um, wouldn't it have been better for everyone if they had taken their money back, then called the police to take the guy in and book him so he was off the streets? By not doing that, he spent a couple weeks, or maybe months recovering from his wounds, and probably went right back to doing what he did before, whereas if the police got him, it would have been a few years before he got out and started robbing again.
There is a fatal flaw in your logic. You aren't supposed to graze them and allow escape.
Ending a criminal's petty life is, without a doubt, a much more effective way of 'taking them off the streets'.
As for the tomnraider movie, it's coz the movie was popular and made lots of money. Anyway, it had angelina jolie in it being sexy, what more do you want?
How about something thought provoking? If I wanted sexy or sexual, I'd d/l pr0n.
The concept of a "false consciousness" has been a mainstay of marxist thought since it's inception and seems to be rehashed frequently as some sort of new discovery.
Your statement suggests to me that you believe everyone finds the concept of "false consciousness" new and amazing, and that sole revelation is why they like the movie(s).
On the contrary, I enjoyed both movies despite the fact that this was not a new concept whatsoever because (aside from the slow beginning of Reloaded) it was a well presented and interesting story.
Does a movie have to create an entirely new philosophical base to be worth debating about?
How do people manage to fill their computers with so much junk that their web browser crashes? It really boggles the mind.
Are you using windows? With the exception of NT, it doesn't take much to crash any prog... I have computers that don't even connect to the net that can crash ie (local browsing and such).
Windows not crashing, now that boggles the mind...
The Wachowski bros. could easily have made a crappy movie, but they pulled this sequel off well.
They could still rip us off on the third one. Maybe Neo will wake up and the third one will simply be an Office Space clone with Neo back at his old job.
"So why don't we just use Flash memory for everything? Because the cost per megabyte for a hard disk is drastically cheaper, and the capacity is substantially more. You can buy a 40-gigabyte (40,000-MB) hard drive for less than $200, while a 192-MB CompactFlash card will generally cost you more. "
Notice how they make no mention of long term use, which would seem to support that you can rewrite flash memory to your heart's content, but I've heard otherwise. I've been told that the FM card would only last so long, as it couldn't handle all the writing (like swapping for virtual memory)... anyone have any such experience to back this up? And if so, why would this happen? Do the gates or oxide layer simply wear out? Or is it 'this brand only' problem, such as maybe a problem with the CF micro-contoller?
Pshh... I've been using XP for a whopping couple months and this thing has blue screened at least 4 or 5 times and sends error reports at least every other day.
Having used 95, 98, NT 4 and 2000, do you really expect me to buy your "probably a bad install" argument? About the only stable installation I've *ever* seen is NT 4 on my alpha, on which it seems like I can run and crash whatever buggy software I want without BSODs, CPU hangs or the general corruption one expects from Windows.
Man, what I'd give for Direct X on NT 4.... and no, don't even think about saying Windows 2000 in response.
Looks like after Iraq and Korea, we should attack ourselves, then France, Canada and then Antarctica...
Aside from the logistics of attacking ourselves, I'd like to see this in action... primarily to see the part where we attack Antarctica. It would give new meaning to that Antarctica service medal!
For anyone picturing Mostar-type conditions, I'd like to point out the that the tents: 1. Aren't open bay (used to have a room of your own, until those damn bunks came in), 2. Have TVs, VCRs, and 3. They have heating AND air/conditioning. Aside from the cramped space in the rooms... they are some pretty damn nice tents... certainly the nicest I've ever been in.
So yeah... everything is certainly relative.
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Iraq hardly parallels early 20th century Japan or Germany in world status. These were fast-rising industrial nations before the war. They had a totally, totally different socio-ecomomic outlook going for them at the time.
and some drolling morons, fortunatly they rarely go far in their service
Are you kidding? Those are the ones who always stay for 20, since they are too afraid to get out!
As for the profanity... have you ever been in the military? I used to have a chief of maintenance who didn't know how to talk without it... he literally said fuck or fuckin' at least once or twice a sentence. He once tried to censor one of his speeches for some reason and ended up tripping every other word as he tried to pull his punches...
Point is, the military ain't some old lady's tea party!
Well, Vannevar Bush was considered a pioneer with much of his historical presence lending from his differential analyzer... even though it was a Babbage retread (apparantly he was unaware of Babbage's work). So I guess that makes things even, eh?
"The country specific bullshit (you skiving student!) is easily overriden by changing your preferences."
EH! Wrong answer! You do not win the color TV! Google checks your IP, not your country preferences... plug my rj45 into your comp and www.google.com will bring up http://www.google.com.tr/ Of course, the parent could just use http://www.google.com/en (or http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/)...
Yeah, well Michael J. Miller didn't seem to ask anything out of bounds. Maybe an interview with Bill O'Reilly or some non-script reading, sycophanting journalist would be interesting like the article in question...
It's not a bad notebook. I've got a 933 and it'sok. My only complaints would be the "pointer-clit" being light blue so that it is always looking soiled, that stupid e-mail button on the left side of the screen and one jacked up itty-bitty keyboard. But those are obviously pretty minor problems. It's a bit spensive and I would only recommend it for users like myself who frequent 3rd world countries and stay in tents with no AC power...
"We're not mercenaries...USA doesn't go to war with profit in mind; not officially anyways. Well, at least we didn't before we got a CEO President with an oil addiction."
Are you kidding? Economics often plays a big part in war? Take the Civil War... it was a battle between two different economies, or the Revolutionary against high taxes, or the Gulf War, or even Bosnia... yes Bosnia... making friends in the Balkans is a good long-term investment for American business. As long as capitalism is at the heart of our nation, many of our actions are shrouded in the political, but are really the will of corporate America. It's an extension of the military industrial complex. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against it... it's a lesser evil, really.
"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson." -Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The movie he proposed for Star Treks II THROUGH VI (and I swear I am NOT making this up) consisted of the Enterprise crew travelling back in time to save JFK from being assasinated! He proposed it EVERY...SINGLE...TIME the issue of a new Trek movie came up."
Dood! Haven't you ever watched Red Dwarf? That episode was hilarious. Gene is a genius!
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Just a note to anyone who is interested after reading the parent comment:
Choose your AFSC (job) wisely... it could be the difference between cakewalk and nightmare. Of course, it's pretty safe to say that a lot of the desk jobs are where it's at. Not to mention, a lot depends on your duty station and unit.
Bottom line is: You could have the easiest job on earth... or a fairly hellish experience depending on these 2 factors alone, so don't let a recruiter talk you anything you didn't ask for, and fill out your dream sheet wisely. With a little luck, the Air Force can be a great thing.
Um, wouldn't it have been better for everyone if they had taken their money back, then called the police to take the guy in and book him so he was off the streets? By not doing that, he spent a couple weeks, or maybe months recovering from his wounds, and probably went right back to doing what he did before, whereas if the police got him, it would have been a few years before he got out and started robbing again.
There is a fatal flaw in your logic. You aren't supposed to graze them and allow escape.
Ending a criminal's petty life is, without a doubt, a much more effective way of 'taking them off the streets'.
> Drug dealers don't care about the health of other people.
>>I have pharmacists in my family. Please don't knock the profession.
They go around calling themselves drug dealers??
"So little Johnny... what does your daddy do?"
"Why, he's a drug dealer."
Suddenly, kids resolving to beat up lawyer's kid reformulate their plans...
"Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law."
-Henry David Thoreau
Oh... for a minute there, I confused you with Skip, the World Video Game Champion.
As for the tomnraider movie, it's coz the movie was popular and made lots of money. Anyway, it had angelina jolie in it being sexy, what more do you want?
How about something thought provoking? If I wanted sexy or sexual, I'd d/l pr0n.
The concept of a "false consciousness" has been a mainstay of marxist thought since it's inception and seems to be rehashed frequently as some sort of new discovery.
Your statement suggests to me that you believe everyone finds the concept of "false consciousness" new and amazing, and that sole revelation is why they like the movie(s).
On the contrary, I enjoyed both movies despite the fact that this was not a new concept whatsoever because (aside from the slow beginning of Reloaded) it was a well presented and interesting story.
Does a movie have to create an entirely new philosophical base to be worth debating about?
How do people manage to fill their computers with so much junk that their web browser crashes? It really boggles the mind.
Are you using windows? With the exception of NT, it doesn't take much to crash any prog... I have computers that don't even connect to the net that can crash ie (local browsing and such).
Windows not crashing, now that boggles the mind...
The Wachowski bros. could easily have made a crappy movie, but they pulled this sequel off well.
They could still rip us off on the third one. Maybe Neo will wake up and the third one will simply be an Office Space clone with Neo back at his old job.
I noticed in the article it mentioned:
"So why don't we just use Flash memory for everything? Because the cost per megabyte for a hard disk is drastically cheaper, and the capacity is substantially more. You can buy a 40-gigabyte (40,000-MB) hard drive for less than $200, while a 192-MB CompactFlash card will generally cost you more. "
Notice how they make no mention of long term use, which would seem to support that you can rewrite flash memory to your heart's content, but I've heard otherwise. I've been told that the FM card would only last so long, as it couldn't handle all the writing (like swapping for virtual memory)... anyone have any such experience to back this up? And if so, why would this happen? Do the gates or oxide layer simply wear out? Or is it 'this brand only' problem, such as maybe a problem with the CF micro-contoller?
Pshh... I've been using XP for a whopping couple months and this thing has blue screened at least 4 or 5 times and sends error reports at least every other day.
Having used 95, 98, NT 4 and 2000, do you really expect me to buy your "probably a bad install" argument? About the only stable installation I've *ever* seen is NT 4 on my alpha, on which it seems like I can run and crash whatever buggy software I want without BSODs, CPU hangs or the general corruption one expects from Windows.
Man, what I'd give for Direct X on NT 4.... and no, don't even think about saying Windows 2000 in response.
How about Funny Hat Day or maybe playing some Tom Jones music? That always cheers me up.
"I am the Angel of Death. The Time of Purification is at hand."
Looks like after Iraq and Korea, we should attack ourselves, then France, Canada and then Antarctica...
Aside from the logistics of attacking ourselves, I'd like to see this in action... primarily to see the part where we attack Antarctica. It would give new meaning to that Antarctica service medal!
"Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law."
-Henry David Thoreau
For anyone picturing Mostar-type conditions, I'd like to point out the that the tents: 1. Aren't open bay (used to have a room of your own, until those damn bunks came in), 2. Have TVs, VCRs, and 3. They have heating AND air/conditioning. Aside from the cramped space in the rooms... they are some pretty damn nice tents... certainly the nicest I've ever been in.
So yeah... everything is certainly relative.
Iraq hardly parallels early 20th century Japan or Germany in world status. These were fast-rising industrial nations before the war. They had a totally, totally different socio-ecomomic outlook going for them at the time.
and some drolling morons, fortunatly they rarely go far in their service
Are you kidding? Those are the ones who always stay for 20, since they are too afraid to get out!
As for the profanity... have you ever been in the military? I used to have a chief of maintenance who didn't know how to talk without it... he literally said fuck or fuckin' at least once or twice a sentence. He once tried to censor one of his speeches for some reason and ended up tripping every other word as he tried to pull his punches...
Point is, the military ain't some old lady's tea party!
Well, Vannevar Bush was considered a pioneer with much of his historical presence lending from his differential analyzer... even though it was a Babbage retread (apparantly he was unaware of Babbage's work). So I guess that makes things even, eh?
"The country specific bullshit (you skiving student!) is easily overriden by changing your preferences."
EH! Wrong answer! You do not win the color TV!
Google checks your IP, not your country preferences... plug my rj45 into your comp and www.google.com will bring up http://www.google.com.tr/
Of course, the parent could just use http://www.google.com/en (or http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/)...
It still does take imagination to play a GOOD game.
ahem...
Yeah, well Michael J. Miller didn't seem to ask anything out of bounds. Maybe an interview with Bill O'Reilly or some non-script reading, sycophanting journalist would be interesting like the article in question...
It's not a bad notebook. I've got a 933 and it'sok. My only complaints would be the "pointer-clit" being light blue so that it is always looking soiled, that stupid e-mail button on the left side of the screen and one jacked up itty-bitty keyboard. But those are obviously pretty minor problems. It's a bit spensive and I would only recommend it for users like myself who frequent 3rd world countries and stay in tents with no AC power...
P.S. - Small Pox suXors!!!!!
I want to see the flames!
That techdirt link entitled approximately 500 bounce messages, autoresponders, and angry replies should be a link to the ~500 messages!
"We're not mercenaries...USA doesn't go to war with profit in mind; not officially anyways. Well, at least we didn't before we got a CEO President with an oil addiction."
Are you kidding? Economics often plays a big part in war? Take the Civil War... it was a battle between two different economies, or the Revolutionary against high taxes, or the Gulf War, or even Bosnia... yes Bosnia... making friends in the Balkans is a good long-term investment for American business. As long as capitalism is at the heart of our nation, many of our actions are shrouded in the political, but are really the will of corporate America. It's an extension of the military industrial complex. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against it... it's a lesser evil, really.
"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The movie he proposed for Star Treks II THROUGH VI (and I swear I am NOT making this up) consisted of the Enterprise crew travelling back in time to save JFK from being assasinated! He proposed it EVERY...SINGLE...TIME the issue of a new Trek movie came up."
Dood! Haven't you ever watched Red Dwarf? That episode was hilarious. Gene is a genius!