The number of military members in combat arms is actually fairly small. Most serve in support roles and essentially have little to no firearms training or small unit tactics training past boot camp, particularly among the USAF and USN. The marines of course are different. The USAF recognized this a few years back and boot camp was extended.
If there was an armed insurrection in the US and 10% of the populace took up arms, the entire US military, both Active and Reserve/NG would be outnumbered 10-1. That's even magically assuming that somehow all the US forces came home from overseas and actually agreed to fight domestically. Its even more dramatic if you look only at the Marines and Army; they would be outnumbered 25-1. Given that there are somewhere about 22 million veterans in the US (at a wide variety of ages), there is a huge amount of military knowledge out there. If 10% of them joined a rebellion, you would have a tremendous number of people who could plan and train civilians via institutional knowledge as well as operate captured equipment.
The type of tactics that the US military would have to adopt to deal with such overwhelming numbers would quickly loose support of the majority of the public.
As to your questions, if someone me and 20 of my buddies somehow wanted to formulate a revolution, obviously not much of a chance, but if even 1% of the US population took up arms, the US military would still be slightly outnumbered, and the US Army and Marines alone would be outnumbered 2-1.
They're called sales engineers, who are sometimes supported by "pre"-sales engineers who might have a bit more product knowledge or spend time working on or supporting the product.
The sales engineer's purpose is to sell directly to the end user and thus needs technical knowledge. The sale's rep should be selling to the end user's boss who lacks the technical knowledge. I used to work in technical sales, and our company actually became more successfull by transitioning away from sales engineers to sales reps who sold directly to the guys with the purse strings.
It worked well for the company, but probably does not address the needs of the client as well, at least not without pre-sales engineer's help.
Indeed the examiner cited a whole bunch of prior art, including:
PRwire; "Matchmaker.com Creates Business Development Unit for Gift Sales"; Jan. 20, 2000: pp. 1 and 2. cited by examiner . "GiftCardSwapping.com"; http://web.archive.org/web/20070520051410/http://www.giftcardswapping.com-/; Sunday, May 20, 2007; p. 1. cited by examiner . "Gift Card Exchange, Buy Gift Card, Discount Gift Cards, Cash Gift Card Swap"; http://web.archive.org/web/20080724163511/http:giftcardrescue.com/- ; Apr. 12, 2008-Jul. 11, 2011; pp. 1-3. cited by examiner . "CBLS.www.cbls.com.(World Web Watch)."; Advanced Materials & Processes, v160, n6; Jun. 2002; p. 1. cited by examiner . "Eugene Science"; Edgar Online; May 23, 2006; pp. 1-5. cited by examiner . Mathieu, Elizabeth; "Opinion: Delaware: An unparalleled home for your trust"; Private Asset Management, v5, n20; Oct. 5, 1998; pp. 1 and 2. cited by examiner . US Fed News Service, Including US State News;"Publication No. WO/2009/109949 Published on Sep. 11, Assigned to France Telecom for Electronic Gifting System (American Inventor)"; Sep. 15, 2009; p. 1. cited by examiner
There a whole load more patent documents listed in the patent as prior art.
Anyways, if sued I would probably just request a re-exam by the office, its only a couple of thousand bucks.
There are all different ways, cue tones, fades to black, commericals in mono rather than stereo, entitlement msgs. Those are just a few ways. The old replay tv's worked off of black frames for commercial skipping, which worked fine most of the time, but had issues with some scene changes.
Dish network owns most of replay's patent portfolio, but the above methods have been known for a long time.
in 2003 there was telecommuting (they started in 1997), it was just for trademark examiners and a small patent examiner pilot.
As of 2012 more than half of the examiners are either telecomutting 1 day a week or working from home full time (about 1/3rd or more of all examiners hotel). There are examiners working from home in hawaii, cali, texas, etc.
You need to be a gs-12 patent examiner with 2 years in the office to work form home fulltime. Telework might be less time, but im not sure.
The USPTO right now has tons of people knocking at their door trying to get in to become examiners.... Go read on various IP blogs and you will find all sorts of stories about it, though at the moment the office is giving preference to those with IP experience.
The pay is pretty good actually, people start at 50-80k with 1-2 years out of school (and are eligble for up to two promotions within their first year up to gs-11), and make 100k before bonuses and overtime within 3-5 years depending on what paygrade they were hired at. You get paid overtime (up to 50 hours every two weeks if authorized, up to a max of 155k a year) , flextime etc. Its pretty easy to go on several month long vacations each year if you want by simply working hours in advance. You get 13 days of vacation to start, 20 after 3 years and 26 after 15 years. The flexible work schedules enable you to basically set your own hours, you could work one week straight for 12 hours a day and not need to show up the next week. You could do the same thing the next biweek and work all your hours the secondweek, congrats now you have a 2 week vacation!
Plus after two years you can work from home anywhere in the continental 48 states. There is a new office opening in detroit in july and potentially other regional offices as well. So you can make a DC wage and live somewhere cheap if you really want.
If you had waited another year or two, you would have been eligible for the 10k a year for 4 year signing bonuses that they were offering.
Look overseas, in europe and asia it is much more common. In china it is becoming less common, though much of the government political class has technical degrees.
In the USA, it seems that the second generation of CEOs in tech companies lack tech degrees, and then the downhill slide begins.
Why the heck doesn't anyone who has a CAC/PID, the government's trusted ID card used by civilians, military and contractors have access to these lines? The government already spent plenty of cash doing background checks on these people.
My card (the standard gov issued one) gets me into the whitehouse (even the west wing) with an escort, with the security screen process being less intrusive than going through an airport. Heck, the west wing doesn't even have any screening. The guard just opens the gate and lets you in.
The problem with some of the generic OBD 2 scanners is that they can't handle, or don't have the proper definitions for manufacturer specific codes. On the otherhand one can go get an OBD 2 cable off ebay and run vag-com or other manufacturer specific software and read those codes.
Still depends on the VW. I believe GTI's are still built in Wolfsburg while jettas are built in Puebla. Passat production for the US market is no longer in Germany.
JD power's problems aren't really problems anymore. They will count difficulty of a user interface as a problem the same as if you have an electrical failure, or brake dust the same as brake failure.
You used to pay a premium for Sony quality for consumer grade equipment, wether it was in TVs, monitors, audio etc. When that quality went away, in part when Sony's exports came from places other than Japan, it became hard to justify that premium.
Increase the output of doctors from medical schools by increasing federal funding. Have lots more internists and GPs, or more nurse practitioners. It might not make the AMA happy as it may depress salaries.
Of course if billing wasn't as complex, then providers could lay off all the people they have on staff to deal with those issues.
I have relatives from out of the country staying with us. One of them had a medical issue. We took her to several doctors, got x-rays, and perscriptions. Everything was surprisingly cheap, unless we were purchasing brand name medication.
Of course, surgical procedures and chronis conditions may be another story, but we didn't pay all that much more than 200 bucks for 3 doctors visits, medication, and the x-rays. I figured it was going to be closer to 1,000 based off what I see insurance is billed for on my own visits.
It is pretty wacky that our economy rewards those who don't actually create, more so than those who do. It doesn't seem like a formula for long term success.
I'm always amused by some of the comments here as it shows a profound ignorance (not yours). Heck anyone who has seen Bill Maher's "religulous" will hear senior vatican officals saying something like "Its all hooey, people need their stories." Even senior officals in the anglican community say the same thing:
The whole bible being taken literally is a recent phenominom. One should be taking the central message from the bible, not viewing it as a historical truth, a set of laws etc.
As for myself, I am religious but I don't push my faith on other people, nor do I want them pushing other people's faiths on me.
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I was in the USAFR years ago.
The number of military members in combat arms is actually fairly small. Most serve in support roles and essentially have little to no firearms training or small unit tactics training past boot camp, particularly among the USAF and USN. The marines of course are different. The USAF recognized this a few years back and boot camp was extended.
If there was an armed insurrection in the US and 10% of the populace took up arms, the entire US military, both Active and Reserve/NG would be outnumbered 10-1. That's even magically assuming that somehow all the US forces came home from overseas and actually agreed to fight domestically. Its even more dramatic if you look only at the Marines and Army; they would be outnumbered 25-1. Given that there are somewhere about 22 million veterans in the US (at a wide variety of ages), there is a huge amount of military knowledge out there. If 10% of them joined a rebellion, you would have a tremendous number of people who could plan and train civilians via institutional knowledge as well as operate captured equipment.
The type of tactics that the US military would have to adopt to deal with such overwhelming numbers would quickly loose support of the majority of the public.
As to your questions, if someone me and 20 of my buddies somehow wanted to formulate a revolution, obviously not much of a chance, but if even 1% of the US population took up arms, the US military would still be slightly outnumbered, and the US Army and Marines alone would be outnumbered 2-1.
They're called sales engineers, who are sometimes supported by "pre"-sales engineers who might have a bit more product knowledge or spend time working on or supporting the product.
The sales engineer's purpose is to sell directly to the end user and thus needs technical knowledge. The sale's rep should be selling to the end user's boss who lacks the technical knowledge. I used to work in technical sales, and our company actually became more successfull by transitioning away from sales engineers to sales reps who sold directly to the guys with the purse strings.
It worked well for the company, but probably does not address the needs of the client as well, at least not without pre-sales engineer's help.
I thought estimates for deaths under stalin was 20 million on the low side to 40 million on the high side?
Indeed the examiner cited a whole bunch of prior art, including:
PRwire; "Matchmaker.com Creates Business Development Unit for Gift Sales"; Jan. 20, 2000: pp. 1 and 2. cited by examiner . /; Sunday, May 20, 2007; p. 1. cited by examiner .
"GiftCardSwapping.com"; http://web.archive.org/web/20070520051410/http://www.giftcardswapping.com-
"Gift Card Exchange, Buy Gift Card, Discount Gift Cards, Cash Gift Card Swap"; http://web.archive.org/web/20080724163511/http:giftcardrescue.com/- ; Apr. 12, 2008-Jul. 11, 2011; pp. 1-3. cited by examiner .
"CBLS.www.cbls.com.(World Web Watch)."; Advanced Materials & Processes, v160, n6; Jun. 2002; p. 1. cited by examiner .
"Eugene Science"; Edgar Online; May 23, 2006; pp. 1-5. cited by examiner .
Mathieu, Elizabeth; "Opinion: Delaware: An unparalleled home for your trust"; Private Asset Management, v5, n20; Oct. 5, 1998; pp. 1 and 2. cited by examiner .
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;"Publication No. WO/2009/109949 Published on Sep. 11, Assigned to France Telecom for Electronic Gifting System (American Inventor)"; Sep. 15, 2009; p. 1. cited by examiner
There a whole load more patent documents listed in the patent as prior art.
Anyways, if sued I would probably just request a re-exam by the office, its only a couple of thousand bucks.
I wonder why this application was not initially examined in class 725, but was instead searched only in business methods class 705?
There are all different ways, cue tones, fades to black, commericals in mono rather than stereo, entitlement msgs. Those are just a few ways. The old replay tv's worked off of black frames for commercial skipping, which worked fine most of the time, but had issues with some scene changes.
Dish network owns most of replay's patent portfolio, but the above methods have been known for a long time.
in 2003 there was telecommuting (they started in 1997), it was just for trademark examiners and a small patent examiner pilot.
As of 2012 more than half of the examiners are either telecomutting 1 day a week or working from home full time (about 1/3rd or more of all examiners hotel). There are examiners working from home in hawaii, cali, texas, etc.
You need to be a gs-12 patent examiner with 2 years in the office to work form home fulltime. Telework might be less time, but im not sure.
The USPTO right now has tons of people knocking at their door trying to get in to become examiners.... Go read on various IP blogs and you will find all sorts of stories about it, though at the moment the office is giving preference to those with IP experience.
The pay is pretty good actually, people start at 50-80k with 1-2 years out of school (and are eligble for up to two promotions within their first year up to gs-11), and make 100k before bonuses and overtime within 3-5 years depending on what paygrade they were hired at. You get paid overtime (up to 50 hours every two weeks if authorized, up to a max of 155k a year) , flextime etc. Its pretty easy to go on several month long vacations each year if you want by simply working hours in advance. You get 13 days of vacation to start, 20 after 3 years and 26 after 15 years. The flexible work schedules enable you to basically set your own hours, you could work one week straight for 12 hours a day and not need to show up the next week. You could do the same thing the next biweek and work all your hours the secondweek, congrats now you have a 2 week vacation!
Plus after two years you can work from home anywhere in the continental 48 states. There is a new office opening in detroit in july and potentially other regional offices as well. So you can make a DC wage and live somewhere cheap if you really want.
If you had waited another year or two, you would have been eligible for the 10k a year for 4 year signing bonuses that they were offering.
Look overseas, in europe and asia it is much more common. In china it is becoming less common, though much of the government political class has technical degrees.
In the USA, it seems that the second generation of CEOs in tech companies lack tech degrees, and then the downhill slide begins.
so just like they do in japan, except their old cars just get sold overseas
Hardly a mention of the kid who was covered in gas and lit on fire in retaliation, nor the beating of a 78 year old man.
What about fallout 1-2? The ending was pretty specific as to what exactly you did in each town....
Why the heck doesn't anyone who has a CAC/PID, the government's trusted ID card used by civilians, military and contractors have access to these lines? The government already spent plenty of cash doing background checks on these people.
My card (the standard gov issued one) gets me into the whitehouse (even the west wing) with an escort, with the security screen process being less intrusive than going through an airport. Heck, the west wing doesn't even have any screening. The guard just opens the gate and lets you in.
How are you getting yourr am's MPG that high? I thought that the old 7.3l F250's were able to get low/mid 20's.
I'm in the market for a diesel pickup right now, but I want to buy used.
The problem with some of the generic OBD 2 scanners is that they can't handle, or don't have the proper definitions for manufacturer specific codes. On the otherhand one can go get an OBD 2 cable off ebay and run vag-com or other manufacturer specific software and read those codes.
Still depends on the VW. I believe GTI's are still built in Wolfsburg while jettas are built in Puebla. Passat production for the US market is no longer in Germany.
JD power's problems aren't really problems anymore. They will count difficulty of a user interface as a problem the same as if you have an electrical failure, or brake dust the same as brake failure.
This changed at least 5 years back.
True, but that doesnt pay, in theory, for NASA.
You used to pay a premium for Sony quality for consumer grade equipment, wether it was in TVs, monitors, audio etc. When that quality went away, in part when Sony's exports came from places other than Japan, it became hard to justify that premium.
Increase the output of doctors from medical schools by increasing federal funding. Have lots more internists and GPs, or more nurse practitioners. It might not make the AMA happy as it may depress salaries.
Of course if billing wasn't as complex, then providers could lay off all the people they have on staff to deal with those issues.
I have relatives from out of the country staying with us. One of them had a medical issue. We took her to several doctors, got x-rays, and perscriptions. Everything was surprisingly cheap, unless we were purchasing brand name medication.
Of course, surgical procedures and chronis conditions may be another story, but we didn't pay all that much more than 200 bucks for 3 doctors visits, medication, and the x-rays. I figured it was going to be closer to 1,000 based off what I see insurance is billed for on my own visits.
It is pretty wacky that our economy rewards those who don't actually create, more so than those who do. It doesn't seem like a formula for long term success.
It says authors rather than owners too...
I'm always amused by some of the comments here as it shows a profound ignorance (not yours). Heck anyone who has seen Bill Maher's "religulous" will hear senior vatican officals saying something like "Its all hooey, people need their stories." Even senior officals in the anglican community say the same thing:
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/29/my-take-the-3-biggest-biblical-misconceptions/
The whole bible being taken literally is a recent phenominom. One should be taking the central message from the bible, not viewing it as a historical truth, a set of laws etc.
As for myself, I am religious but I don't push my faith on other people, nor do I want them pushing other people's faiths on me.
buddism?