"Those messages are a lot less funny when your brother/sister/mom/dad/cousin/bff/whatever really *has* just died of dysentery/starvation/typhoid/whatever."
My brother, sister, mom, dad, cousin, bff, and house pets DID just die of dysentery, typhoid, and starvation, you insensitive clod!
Single EPRs (or even Article 15s, Non-Judicial Punishment) are not career enders unless someone in in a very senior grade. He's only a Tech, so a "meh" EPR shouldn't stop him from making MSgt. One PCS move and no one will care anyway.
Attaining market penetration by replacing the standard program with an expiring version is pretty blatant fuckery though. Once the program (which affects Unit Manning Documents) was in place, holding the UMD info hostage in expectation of financial reward was both greedy and stupid.
If the rest of his work is fine, I doubt he'll run into any serious flack for it. He doesn't get a "review board", just a performance report, and enlisted careers are much more damage-tolerant than those of officers.
He should have used the suggestion program, made a buck that way, and used the positive outcome to further his career. (Opinion based on 26 years enlisted service.)
Sounds like a talented guy, but for some reason clueless outside of his field of expertise.
"I maybe borrowing someone else's uninsured vehicle and my insurance is covering my public liability or public damage incurred during the operation."
If the vehicle is uninsured it is highly likely the operator is also not covered. Some states anticipate such deliberate insurance coverage avoidance ruses:
"Any person who is the operator of such an uninsured motor vehicle and not the titled owner, who knows that the required fee has not been paid to the Commissioner, shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor."
Their country is heavily iniltrated with genuine, committed cultural enemies who want it destroyed and to push the Jews into the Med.
Slashdotian ideals of total freedom to do absolutely anything absolutely un-monitored by anyone (and by the way, fuck the Maaaan!!!) work fine when everyone are good buddies in a social monoculture, and less fine in a society in a permanent and inevitable state of war.
It makes perfect sense for Israel to have the systems necessary to track and confirm the identities of all its citizens, so the enemy Arabs may be watched and dealt with. (That's no troll, merely a blunt observation of fact.)
The moral rightness of this policy (especially now that Israel is the bad guy for resisting internal warfare instead of the pluck good guy for resisting external attack) is debatable, but the logic behind it is flawless.
"and, just because they do have insurance doesn't mean that you will be compensated, either. Do you think your insurance company is not going to try and find some sort of out so that they don't have to pay you?"
I've had USAA for 27 years, and they paid every time. When the shop that repeatedly fucked up the repaint on my wifes truck wouldn't make it good, they sent an adjuster who promptly refunded her the additional money she had put in for custom work. (It still looks OK by non-expert standards, so we were content and will shoot it ourselves.)
When my F-150 was hit by a young bitch chattering with her crew instead of driving, her insurance adjuster (GEICO) compensated me generously and paid me for a rental car. (I'm a mechanic and would know if I were being shortchanged.)
"The point is that it's better to have a few uninsured idiots breaking the law than to have innocent people's privacy infringed upon."
The MANY uninsured idiots are a greater real threat than the theoretical threat of privacy infringement. I don't mind being "on camera" because I can potentially use that to prove my innocence. I do mind not being compensated when some bottom-feeder with no assets runs into my ride...or me.
If the man wants to track you, he can do it old-school and actually follow you. Plate scanners don't facilitate "following" because they merely confirm presence at the point of scanning.
They can do so in THEORY, but it isn't likely that I'd recover anything without going to court (costly to me) and then, if they are poor (the probable reason they are uninsured in the first place) I won't actually get squat.
When some bottom-feeder in a car with no insurance and expired tags hits you, unless you carry full coverage (more expensive than liability) you are likely out of luck.
I shouldn't have to make that effort. I carry liability insurance, and there is IMO no reason not to hammer those who don't.
"People did it in the past, yes, but that doesn't mean the sin magically transfers to all the people still alive, like some sort of "original sin" from the bible."
Stop that! I can't use your guilt to rule you if you don't buy into the guilt.
Dead peeps who don't perish in mediagenic ways aren't a great result (excepting in places like Iraq where this can be repeated often) worthy of much terrorist effort.
Terrorism is theater designed to scare simple people with frightful drama.
Plane crashes are dramatic. Bombed crowds are old news. Look at the entertainment people fap to such as disaster movies and you'll understand why aircraft are tasty targets from a terr POV.
"however, rabid, paranoid schizophrenic musings on all evil in the world falling at the government's doorstep is not anywhere near the definition of "healthy distrust". more like pathological hobbling distrust"
Hobbling? If the gummint is responsible for all the evil in the world, and I have the special insight to see that, than everything is understandable. My special insight explains everything, and is more comforting than not knowing why some things happen. Uncertainty is terrifying.
"GNAA posts are worthless and hurtful, but they are the least of this site's neuroses."
Worth mentioning is the time CNN fell for the "Jews did WTC" GNAA troll site. I find their posts boring, but watching Paula Zahn showcase their satire is a howl.
"... she's so hot she could power all of Canada indefinitely!"
Brilliant idea!
Fat-chick-o-thermal power could be tapped (heh, tapped) by running stainless steel boiler tubes through her folds, and the waste heat could pyrolize her liposuction residue!
"How can education be fixed when their is a war on critical thinking?"
It can't. The Christian Taliban are against critical thinking and science itself. The general public crave Britney Spears and wrasslin' as entertainment and have no idea what critical thinking means.
There is no saving the public from itself, so if you have kids, rescue them from the system and ensure they are learned enough to rise above their intellectual inferiors.
"With XP no longer available anywhere else, people who really want it will have to get it from OLPCs, rendering them unusable. In this way, MS will satisfy customers who really want XP, while destroying the OLPC. "
No longer available? It's easier to download a copy or a key than go buy one. Anyone geeky enough to bother with an OLPC is geeky enough to have multiple copies of every MSFT OS since DOS...
"I hope they can get enough capital to stop Apple's legal department."
You can de-fund Apple by not buying their software, and avoid supporting Apple by not using warez copies. There are Free and Open alternatives after all.
"The only way to avoid this is to get a law passed that requires DRM manufacturers to put DRM unlockers in escrow somewhere and in the event that they close shop, go out of business, their servers burn down, etc, the public is given the keys so they can unlock and strip the DRM from their purchases."
Sounds like a good reason not to suggest such a law. IMO DRM should make the user experience suck so much that they will reject it.
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"Those messages are a lot less funny when your brother/sister/mom/dad/cousin/bff/whatever really *has* just died of dysentery/starvation/typhoid/whatever."
My brother, sister, mom, dad, cousin, bff, and house pets DID just die of dysentery, typhoid, and starvation, you insensitive clod!
I did my 26 IN the USAF, ending 2007.
Single EPRs (or even Article 15s, Non-Judicial Punishment) are not career enders unless someone in in a very senior grade. He's only a Tech, so a "meh" EPR shouldn't stop him from making MSgt. One PCS move and no one will care anyway.
Attaining market penetration by replacing the standard program with an expiring version is pretty blatant fuckery though. Once the program (which affects Unit Manning Documents) was in place, holding the UMD info hostage in expectation of financial reward was both greedy and stupid.
If the rest of his work is fine, I doubt he'll run into any serious flack for it. He doesn't get a "review board", just a performance report, and enlisted careers are much more damage-tolerant than those of officers.
He should have used the suggestion program, made a buck that way, and used the positive outcome to further his career. (Opinion based on 26 years enlisted service.)
Sounds like a talented guy, but for some reason clueless outside of his field of expertise.
"Ouch! It almost sounds like there are no consequences for perpetrating a successful genocide."
The consequence is known as "victory".
"I maybe borrowing someone else's uninsured vehicle and my insurance is covering my public liability or public damage incurred during the operation."
If the vehicle is uninsured it is highly likely the operator is also not covered.
Some states anticipate such deliberate insurance coverage avoidance ruses:
Example:
http://law.justia.com/virginia/codes/toc4602000/46.2-707.html
"Any person who is the operator of such an uninsured motor vehicle and not the titled owner, who knows that the required fee has not been paid to the Commissioner, shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor."
The Israelis have an interesting problem:
Their country is heavily iniltrated with genuine, committed cultural enemies who want it destroyed and to push the Jews into the Med.
Slashdotian ideals of total freedom to do absolutely anything absolutely un-monitored by anyone (and by the way, fuck the Maaaan!!!) work fine when everyone are good buddies in a social monoculture, and less fine in a society in a permanent and inevitable state of war.
It makes perfect sense for Israel to have the systems necessary to track and confirm the identities of all its citizens, so the enemy Arabs may be watched and dealt with. (That's no troll, merely a blunt observation of fact.)
The moral rightness of this policy (especially now that Israel is the bad guy for resisting internal warfare instead of the pluck good guy for resisting external attack) is debatable, but the logic behind it is flawless.
"and, just because they do have insurance doesn't mean that you will be compensated, either. Do you think your insurance company is not going to try and find some sort of out so that they don't have to pay you?"
I've had USAA for 27 years, and they paid every time.
When the shop that repeatedly fucked up the repaint on my wifes truck wouldn't make it good, they sent an adjuster who promptly refunded her the additional money she had put in for custom work. (It still looks OK by non-expert standards, so we were content and will shoot it ourselves.)
When my F-150 was hit by a young bitch chattering with her crew instead of driving, her insurance adjuster (GEICO) compensated me generously and paid me for a rental car. (I'm a mechanic and would know if I were being shortchanged.)
"The point is that it's better to have a few uninsured idiots breaking the law than to have innocent people's privacy infringed upon."
The MANY uninsured idiots are a greater real threat than the theoretical threat of privacy infringement. I don't mind being "on camera" because I can potentially use that to prove my innocence. I do mind not being compensated when some bottom-feeder with no assets runs into my ride...or me.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3DB163CF930A3575AC0A966958260
http://www.roadandtravel.com/autonewsandviews/2006/uninsureddrivers.htm
If the man wants to track you, he can do it old-school and actually follow you. Plate scanners don't facilitate "following" because they merely confirm presence at the point of scanning.
They can do so in THEORY, but it isn't likely that I'd recover anything without going to court (costly to me) and then, if they are poor (the probable reason they are uninsured in the first place) I won't actually get squat.
When some bottom-feeder in a car with no insurance and expired tags hits you, unless you carry full coverage (more expensive than liability) you are likely out of luck.
I shouldn't have to make that effort. I carry liability insurance, and there is IMO no reason not to hammer those who don't.
Fine with me, since I keep insurance and don't want uninsured drivers (who cannot compensate me for any damage they do) on the roads.
"we're already seeing people incapable of thinking outside of bullet points?"
If all they relate to is the familiar bullet point presentation, and you want to sell them something, then that is what to use.
"People did it in the past, yes, but that doesn't mean the sin magically transfers to all the people still alive, like some sort of "original sin" from the bible."
Stop that! I can't use your guilt to rule you if you don't buy into the guilt.
Dead peeps who don't perish in mediagenic ways aren't a great result (excepting in places like Iraq where this can be repeated often) worthy of much terrorist effort.
Terrorism is theater designed to scare simple people with frightful drama.
Plane crashes are dramatic. Bombed crowds are old news. Look at the entertainment people fap to such as disaster movies and you'll understand why aircraft are tasty targets from a terr POV.
"however, rabid, paranoid schizophrenic musings on all evil in the world falling at the government's doorstep is not anywhere near the definition of "healthy distrust". more like pathological hobbling distrust"
Hobbling? If the gummint is responsible for all the evil in the world, and I have the special insight to see that, than everything is understandable. My special insight explains everything, and is more comforting than not knowing why some things happen. Uncertainty is terrifying.
"GNAA posts are worthless and hurtful, but they are the least of this site's neuroses."
Worth mentioning is the time CNN fell for the "Jews did WTC" GNAA troll site. I find their posts boring, but
watching Paula Zahn showcase their satire is a howl.
You must have sampled American beer.
"I don't feel comfortable posting a comment."
Now all the world sees this weakness and will forever revile you for it!
"What are you, some kind of Godwin's Law Nazi? You know, Hitler was always accusing people of pushing the boundaries of Godwin's Law."
First they came for the Godwin's Law Nazis,
- but I was not a Godwin's Law Nazi so I did not speak out...
"... she's so hot she could power all of Canada indefinitely!"
Brilliant idea!
Fat-chick-o-thermal power could be tapped (heh, tapped) by running stainless steel boiler tubes through her folds, and the waste heat could pyrolize her liposuction residue!
"How can education be fixed when their is a war on critical thinking?"
It can't. The Christian Taliban are against critical thinking and science itself. The general public crave Britney Spears and wrasslin' as entertainment and have no idea what critical thinking means.
There is no saving the public from itself, so if you have kids, rescue them from the system and ensure they are learned enough to rise above their intellectual inferiors.
"Next time your child asks why the sky is blue or why GNU/Linux is cool, don't say "I have no time to tell you"."
Most parents have no idea why the sky is blue and "GNU/Linux" is gibberish to them.
"With XP no longer available anywhere else, people who really want it will have to get it from OLPCs, rendering them unusable. In this way, MS will satisfy customers who really want XP, while destroying the OLPC. "
No longer available? It's easier to download a copy or a key than go buy one. Anyone geeky enough to bother with an OLPC is geeky enough to have multiple copies of every MSFT OS since DOS...
"I hope they can get enough capital to stop Apple's legal department."
You can de-fund Apple by not buying their software, and avoid supporting Apple by not using warez copies.
There are Free and Open alternatives after all.
"The only way to avoid this is to get a law passed that requires DRM manufacturers to put DRM unlockers in escrow somewhere and in the event that they close shop, go out of business, their servers burn down, etc, the public is given the keys so they can unlock and strip the DRM from their purchases."
Sounds like a good reason not to suggest such a law. IMO DRM should make the user experience suck so much that they will reject it.
"Return it and buy from a manufacturer... no need to disassemble the BIOS, your time is worth more than that."
He was curious, investigated the problem, found the answer, and informed the rest of us.
He learned something useful, then helped others, and probably had fun/satisfaction doing that.
That would fit my definition of time well spent.