"The video amuses me, as it's 10 minutes in, and he's still futzing with DOS, bootable CDs have really changed things."
Indeed. Even when motherboards (supposedly) supported booting from CD, it was useful to have a collection of boot floppies, including one with Smart Boot Manager:
Lurking and getting support online has always been "what to do".
Fighting with video issues back in the day sucked. (I started experimenting in 1999.)
Then as now, the most efficient way was "distro churning" and throwing as many at your PC as it takes for your hardware to work. Mandrake was the least hassle in 1999 IMO.
The vets also know NBC decon and would be less fearful due to training and discipline. They have experience including work/rest cycles in hot conditions, and internalized ability to work rapidly in teams.
The old M17 masks and chemsuits were acceptable, though staying in MOPP 4 for 12 house sucked ass. You could hang in Tyvek with a SCBA more easily than a chem suit.
The military set off nukes near essentially unprotected troops to prove (it did) the practicality of nuclear warfare, and while the outcome wasn't delightful most of them made it OK. The value of the training borne of that work was/is enormous.
Most of us will live through hideous, insane, crippled "conventional" old age. I'd risk cutting that short. I'm 51 so I'll be toast in twenty years anyway.
All warfare has the objective of damaging morale because unless you break morale the enemy will require extermination.
It is popular now to distinguish between enemy civilians (they used to be called "enemy civilians" instead of "civilians" which was adopted for propaganda purposes) and "combatants", but some fighters don't shirk from disrupting civilian enemies by striking their markets (logistics) and gathering places (high yield targets).
Nuking the Pentagon has a reasonable Barrier To Entry. It is not NEGLIGENTLY exposed, and one needs a nuke and a delivery method, however crude.
Leaving ones important command/control/infrastructure assets exposed to the internet, by contrast, is well established, by experts, including many experienced admins on this forum, as being thoroughly negligent.
You can't download a script "Nuke Pentagon", execute it, then go pop a frostie.
There was NOTHING unheroic about being a Kamikaze. It's as much "sacrifice for the group" as diving on a grenade (which is Medal of Honor stuff in the US). It took a great deal of self-mastery to get that mission done.
Do note that conventional attacks have a loss rate too. One trades lives and equipment for military result. Kamikaze attacks remove the need to recover the attacking force, remove any chance of capture and interrogation (POWs are useless to the war effort, so the Bushido code of fighting to the death is ideal militarily if in conflict with individualist Western sentiment), and are a frightening demonstration of will to resist.
Teachings against utilitarian suicide are religious nonsense. We ALL DIE. Making it count vs. merely croaking is a valid choice
"Just because you're the underdog doesn't mean you're right or sane."
Your statement has nothing to do with mine. I observe there are merely variants of fighting, some of which break some taboos. It is SANE if your methods are effective. "Sanity" has nothing to do with observing a particular moral set. Being "right" has nothing to do with the effectiveness of a fighting method.
Breeding a "currently disease resistant" GMO monoculture which virally spreads and "vendor locks" the crops of those who don't want it isn't only bad business, but when (not if) a new disease hits this monoculture it can do massive damage.
Agribusiness is far too wealthy to fight in the courts. The whole idea of "peaceful change" is obsolete because the rich rule the earth, and the asymmetric response remaining is protest and force.
There is no such thing as "terrorism", just "high tech fighting" and "low tech fighting". Kings have always sought to declare the peasants low and unchivalrous.
Nothing between consenting adults sickens me, thanks be to the internet. I'll LAUGH at a lot of it, but it's all a matter of aesthetics.
I'm hetero, but I wouldn't care if guys want to ball each other in the street so long as they don't block traffic. I've fucked women in public at biker events and it's really no big deal.
REAL FREEDOM isn't when we are "sensitive" to others, it's when we don't give a shit so long as they don't interfere with us. The world would be a much better place if folks minded their own business and had a narrow, personal, restricted idea of what that if.
"It sickens me in much the same way that my eating meat sickens vegetarians."
Neither should be sickened. If people CHOOSE to be a bitch that's their problem. Vegetarianism is a valid choice (making TASTIER food would make it more popular, hint, hint) but they can stay out of my business and I'll stay out of theirs.
"When that happens, leave the movie, go to the manager's office, pound on the door, and raise a stink."
Fuck that, don't go to the theater in the first place. Sharing space with a bunch of screaming ghettoids, paying too much for crap food, and worrying about my ride getting broken into isn't worth it.
I can't hit Pause when I need to shit, my fridge isn't handy, and there is nothing compelling about a theater experience.
The US can cede Asia to China. The US has no friends there, no obligation to defend people who won't defend themselves, and US taxpayers are being bled to death for nothing.
Scrap the Pacific Fleet, arm with nukes to destroy any attack on US soil, and fuck Asia. We should have let Japan have the place and avoided provoking them into war with embargos.
The timid US clients in Asia fail to arm up, and as long as they can suck Uncle Sugars Military-Industrial cawk for Taxpayer Funded Protection they won't do anything to protect themselves.
I regard all our "allies" in Asia with contempt. Arm up or bend over. The US should leave Asia to its natural Chinese masters.
Our presence in Asia just helps destroy our economy. We get nothing and spend much.
We had plenty of Soviet Threat briefings back in the day. Nothing wrong with doing it that way, and don't forget the ChiComs and the US have crossed swords in Korea and by proxy/advisors in Nam.
I applaud their honesty, though I don't see ANYTHING or ANYONE worth fighting for in Asia. Our clients are rich, let them build nukes and serious conventional forces or kiss ChiCom ass.
Viet Nam had the balls to fight back when China attacked them (Sino-Vietnamese War), and China wisely backed off.
I'm fine with letting stupid people fuck shit up so long as I'm covered.
Really, when you work for fools just humor them, cover your ass, get paid, and laugh if they break things. It's enjoyable and much less stressful. If you do it a few times it gets addictive. You can, with a bit of social engineering, be popular while doing stupid shit for people who want it that way. It's a GAME, so play it well.
I had a moral obligation to my employers when I served in the Air Force, but business is amoral so fuck 'em and smile.
Business owes you no loyalty, and you owe it nothing in return.
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Build a bunker, large version. It isn't fucking difficult, bunkers are thermally efficient, and they can shrug off storms.
"The video amuses me, as it's 10 minutes in, and he's still futzing with DOS, bootable CDs have really changed things."
Indeed. Even when motherboards (supposedly) supported booting from CD, it was useful to have a collection of boot floppies, including one with Smart Boot Manager:
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html
I still have my floppy image collection (Winimage was my friend!) on CD. I used that to crank out boot floppies aplenty for self and friends.
Lurking and getting support online has always been "what to do".
Fighting with video issues back in the day sucked. (I started experimenting in 1999.)
Then as now, the most efficient way was "distro churning" and throwing as many at your PC as it takes for your hardware to work.
Mandrake was the least hassle in 1999 IMO.
Then the sooner we are attacked the sooner we build an immune response. Viruses and malware begat resistance by coercing countermeasures.
What we need, and it's not "nice", is an attack that does real damage and takes down enough systems to force attention.
The vets also know NBC decon and would be less fearful due to training and discipline. They have experience including work/rest cycles in hot conditions, and internalized ability to work rapidly in teams.
The old M17 masks and chemsuits were acceptable, though staying in MOPP 4 for 12 house sucked ass. You could hang in Tyvek with a SCBA more easily than a chem suit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOPP
The military set off nukes near essentially unprotected troops to prove (it did) the practicality of nuclear warfare, and while the outcome wasn't delightful most of them made it OK. The value of the training borne of that work was/is enormous.
Most of us will live through hideous, insane, crippled "conventional" old age. I'd risk cutting that short. I'm 51 so I'll be toast in twenty years anyway.
All warfare has the objective of damaging morale because unless you break morale the enemy will require extermination.
It is popular now to distinguish between enemy civilians (they used to be called "enemy civilians" instead of "civilians" which was adopted for propaganda purposes) and "combatants", but some fighters don't shirk from disrupting civilian enemies by striking their markets (logistics) and gathering places (high yield targets).
How is that comment insightful?
Nuking the Pentagon has a reasonable Barrier To Entry. It is not NEGLIGENTLY exposed, and one needs a nuke and a delivery method, however crude.
Leaving ones important command/control/infrastructure assets exposed to the internet, by contrast, is well established, by experts, including many experienced admins on this forum, as being thoroughly negligent.
You can't download a script "Nuke Pentagon", execute it, then go pop a frostie.
There was NOTHING unheroic about being a Kamikaze. It's as much "sacrifice for the group" as diving on a grenade (which is Medal of Honor stuff in the US). It took a great deal of self-mastery to get that mission done.
Do note that conventional attacks have a loss rate too. One trades lives and equipment for military result. Kamikaze attacks remove the need to recover the attacking force, remove any chance of capture and interrogation (POWs are useless to the war effort, so the Bushido code of fighting to the death is ideal militarily if in conflict with individualist Western sentiment), and are a frightening demonstration of will to resist.
Teachings against utilitarian suicide are religious nonsense. We ALL DIE. Making it count vs. merely croaking is a valid choice
Show them the hideous, slow, wretched process of Very Old Age and a quicker death for a cause should be no problem.
"Just because you're the underdog doesn't mean you're right or sane."
Your statement has nothing to do with mine. I observe there are merely variants of fighting, some of which break some taboos. It is SANE if your methods are effective. "Sanity" has nothing to do with observing a particular moral set. Being "right" has nothing to do with the effectiveness of a fighting method.
But, but, they murdered innocent PLANTS instead! This is the equivalent of burning down a lab full of cute rhesus monkeys.
Scientists aren't the problem. Corporations who OWN scientists are the problem. Scientists are serfs like the rest of us.
Breeding a "currently disease resistant" GMO monoculture which virally spreads and "vendor locks" the crops of those who don't want it isn't only bad business, but when (not if) a new disease hits this monoculture it can do massive damage.
Agribusiness is far too wealthy to fight in the courts. The whole idea of "peaceful change" is obsolete because the rich rule the earth, and the asymmetric response remaining is protest and force.
There is no such thing as "terrorism", just "high tech fighting" and "low tech fighting". Kings have always sought to declare the peasants low and unchivalrous.
If the US and China compete militarily, many people in BOTH Military-Industrial Complexes benefit.
Keep it from being a shooting war and it's one fine welfare program for the beneficiaries.
Nothing between consenting adults sickens me, thanks be to the internet. I'll LAUGH at a lot of it, but it's all a matter of aesthetics.
I'm hetero, but I wouldn't care if guys want to ball each other in the street so long as they don't block traffic. I've fucked women in public at biker events and it's really no big deal.
REAL FREEDOM isn't when we are "sensitive" to others, it's when we don't give a shit so long as they don't interfere with us.
The world would be a much better place if folks minded their own business and had a narrow, personal, restricted idea of what that if.
"It sickens me in much the same way that my eating meat sickens vegetarians."
Neither should be sickened. If people CHOOSE to be a bitch that's their problem. Vegetarianism is a valid choice (making TASTIER food would make it more popular, hint, hint) but they can stay out of my business and I'll stay out of theirs.
What surprises me is anyone who puts Command and Control functions in the internet.
Anyone who orders that be done should get the Chinese-style penalty of being shot in public.
We've not gotten to the "stabbing playwrights" stage quite yet.
"Norway isn't a member of the EU."
Given the economic troubles of the "PIGS" countries, that decision looks better every day.
Kudos to Norway for not following the lemmings.
"When that happens, leave the movie, go to the manager's office, pound on the door, and raise a stink."
Fuck that, don't go to the theater in the first place. Sharing space with a bunch of screaming ghettoids, paying too much for crap food, and worrying about my ride getting broken into isn't worth it.
I can't hit Pause when I need to shit, my fridge isn't handy, and there is nothing compelling about a theater experience.
Finally someone adopts a useful metric and they get ridiculed for it!
The US can cede Asia to China. The US has no friends there, no obligation to defend people who won't defend themselves, and US taxpayers are being bled to death for nothing.
Scrap the Pacific Fleet, arm with nukes to destroy any attack on US soil, and fuck Asia. We should have let Japan have the place and avoided provoking them into war with embargos.
The timid US clients in Asia fail to arm up, and as long as they can suck Uncle Sugars Military-Industrial cawk for Taxpayer Funded Protection they won't do anything to protect themselves.
I regard all our "allies" in Asia with contempt. Arm up or bend over. The US should leave Asia to its natural Chinese masters.
Our presence in Asia just helps destroy our economy. We get nothing and spend much.
We had plenty of Soviet Threat briefings back in the day. Nothing wrong with doing it that way, and don't forget the ChiComs and the US have crossed swords in Korea and by proxy/advisors in Nam.
I applaud their honesty, though I don't see ANYTHING or ANYONE worth fighting for in Asia. Our clients are rich, let them build nukes and serious conventional forces or kiss ChiCom ass.
Viet Nam had the balls to fight back when China attacked them (Sino-Vietnamese War), and China wisely backed off.
I'm fine with letting stupid people fuck shit up so long as I'm covered.
Really, when you work for fools just humor them, cover your ass, get paid, and laugh if they break things. It's enjoyable and much less stressful. If you do it a few times it gets addictive. You can, with a bit of social engineering, be popular while doing stupid shit for people who want it that way. It's a GAME, so play it well.
I had a moral obligation to my employers when I served in the Air Force, but business is amoral so fuck 'em and smile.
Business owes you no loyalty, and you owe it nothing in return.