"And if you're facing multiple bad guys with no possibility of escape, the only credible strategy is to try to put at least all-but-one of them down so hard they no longer present a threat."
That's why we make firearms. All that unarmed combat bullshit is entertaining, but if you want to stop an opponent from functioning, kill him.
Training, supervision, and gradual increase of unmanaged activities allows people to grow and become highly competent and empowered. The military/barracks model, done right, is actually a great way to produce effective people who can function independently meeting challenges far beyond those in (most) civilian life.
The only way to internalize self-discipline (self-mastery, the key to personal effectiveness) is challenge under imposed discipline.
The Marines also killed their Broncos, due to paranoia at losing a couple of them during Desert Storm.
The USAF FAC community died out as the Bronco and Skymaster were surplused (Broncos are still flying counterdrug ops, the airframes weren't worn out) and the OA-10 designation was created as a sop. (I worked OVs at Sembach, and was later stationed at Shaw as they and the 0-2s were boneyarded.}
"Unfortunately, Key West is essentially an iron collar on the Army's neck, and the Air Force holds the leash."
The Army isn't exactly tugging on that leash. It's more like mutual rice bowl protection.
"If this kind of thing bothers you and you want to take a swipe back at Apple, "
It's fine with me. I don't care for Apple or Microsoft, and the more difficult Apple makes it for people to use their software on non-Apple systems the better. I prefer Free and Open software on generic hardware, and will not spend my money to support anything else.
I do think the Army should shitcan the Key West agreement and get its own smaller CAS/BAS birds, but it seems like no one wants to risk pilots so they are moving to UAVs. Recon and strike with UAVs gets rid of airborne FACs and doesn't require expensive SAR assets since there are no downed aircrew to rescue.
"Personally, I think the Air Force should turn over the A-10 and AC-130 assets to the Army and let us do our own close air support, and they can go sit around in their giant strato-bombers and hyper-sonic stealth fighters and have a good ol' circle jerk while we get the warfighting done."
Get leaders who want that, and also buy some propeller-driven attack aircraft so you get better loiter time and combat performance at cheaper flight hour cost than helos. The Army should never have dumped the Mohawk.
"How many years is it behind the strategic bombers that our enemies, the "Terrorists" have?"
Do note that our conventional overmatch is one reason that our opponents are forced to fight us differently, and so far in ways that have resulted in very few casualties compared to conventional war.
Stealth aside, building large bombers has worked very well. From the classic B-52 onwards, they do useful things like haul large quantities of high explosives other systems cannot match. Improvements in tactical control mean the folks on the ground can call in tremendous force when needed.
The public want their entertainment. People who are intelligent care about different things than do the vast mob of phucktards that comprise most of the population.
"The kind of problems that wouldn't allow such a person to live a normal and fufilling life... Instead we move one step closer to designer children."
Custom humans are an eventuality. The choices we make will vary, but given the results of normal breeding I'd be hard pressed to say designer offspring are necessarily a bad idea. We "design" offspring by our choice of mates. but more granular control is not an unreasonable goal.
My P233 m0n0wall box (in an even more ancient Magitronic AT case) has been up 24/7 since 2000 except for the odd power outage. The only reason it runs m0n0wall is that I was curious and switched from Freesco, which was also trouble-free.
"I've tried various distro's with live CD's which use KDE4, don't want to mess a working system."
I simply added KDE4 to my Kubuntu system. It's easy enough to switch between KDE-whatever, GNOME, etc, and continue to upgrade all the packages so as to play with each.
Usenet is an easy target. It's mostly spam/pron/warez and isn't used by mainstream customers. It isn't useful for communication or discussion compared to other methods, and it sucks bandwidth from providers.
Anyone who wants it can pay for a separate newsgroup provider, and it's still cheaper than paying for all the content you can mooch. Geeks can work around the loss and no one else needs it.
I don't "hope" for golden bullet solutions. I hope for market pressures to drive R&D that produces many different solutions to energy problems so we grow away from an energy monoculture.
"If part of an industry is relying on something and it goes poof"
Then said industry shouldn't have relied on proprietary software. We shouldn't be trying to "liberate" adandoned commercial software because having it killed by its makers is better for Free and Open alternatives.
Both propositions make sense. The requirement of celibacy ensures that the only sexual outlets will be people who can be intimidated into silence, the young and the especially backward.
Good riddance to the Shuttle. We have ample time to put machines into space before we send more meat. There is no urgent need to send people into space, and the complex systems required to protect them are so expensive they push costs out of reach. We could "afford" a few dead astronauts as easily (and it was easy) as we afforded many dead test pilots, but the public freak out like little girls when we lose a few. Astronauts have become a burden on space exploration.
Explore with hardware, send the tourists afterwards.
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"The only use I've ever had for the business software alliance is to report a bad employer to them, and get 'paid' for the tip."
How much money? That could be worth keeping in mind as a vengeance option. :)
"And if you're facing multiple bad guys with no possibility of escape, the only credible strategy is to try to put at least all-but-one of them down so hard they no longer present a threat."
That's why we make firearms. All that unarmed combat bullshit is entertaining, but if you want to stop an opponent from functioning, kill him.
"Try answering the question without assuming that we managed to avoid having to go back to the stone age due to war, plague, famine, etc."
If that happens, why care about warning them? The solution for high mortality in primitive societies is to have large litters.
DSL can be used to load CF cards in a common USB card reader, then the CF cards can be dropped into a common IDE adapter.
One custom remaster could be easily cloned for as many PCs as needed. I haven't used Puppy so I cannot speak to that, but it should be similar.
"House != barracks... "
Training, supervision, and gradual increase of unmanaged activities allows people to grow and become highly competent and empowered. The military/barracks model, done right, is actually a great way to produce effective people who can function independently meeting challenges far beyond those in (most) civilian life.
The only way to internalize self-discipline (self-mastery, the key to personal effectiveness) is challenge under imposed discipline.
The Marines also killed their Broncos, due to paranoia at losing a couple of them during Desert Storm.
The USAF FAC community died out as the Bronco and Skymaster were surplused (Broncos are still flying counterdrug ops, the airframes weren't worn out) and the OA-10 designation was created as a sop. (I worked OVs at Sembach, and was later stationed at Shaw as they and the 0-2s were boneyarded.}
"Unfortunately, Key West is essentially an iron collar on the Army's neck, and the Air Force holds the leash."
The Army isn't exactly tugging on that leash. It's more like mutual rice bowl protection.
"If this kind of thing bothers you and you want to take a swipe back at Apple, "
It's fine with me. I don't care for Apple or Microsoft, and the more difficult Apple makes it for people to use their software on non-Apple systems the better. I prefer Free and Open software on generic hardware, and will not spend my money to support anything else.
I do think the Army should shitcan the Key West agreement and get its own smaller CAS/BAS birds, but it seems like no one wants to risk pilots so they are moving to UAVs.
Recon and strike with UAVs gets rid of airborne FACs
and doesn't require expensive SAR assets since there are no downed aircrew to rescue.
"Personally, I think the Air Force should turn over the A-10 and AC-130 assets to the Army and let us do our own close air support, and they can go sit around in their giant strato-bombers and hyper-sonic stealth fighters and have a good ol' circle jerk while we get the warfighting done."
Get leaders who want that, and also buy some propeller-driven attack aircraft so you get better loiter time and combat performance at cheaper flight hour cost than helos. The Army should never have dumped the Mohawk.
"He's either an authentic genius or a certified whacko.
And its usually hard to tell the difference."
That's because two are not mutually exclusive.
"And they made fun of vacuum tube computers in MIGs."
Not while I was in Comm/Nav in the Air Force. We understood that tubes aren't bothered by radiation. :)
"How many years is it behind the strategic bombers that our enemies, the "Terrorists" have?"
Do note that our conventional overmatch is one reason that our opponents are forced to fight us differently, and so far in ways that have resulted in very few casualties compared to conventional war.
Stealth aside, building large bombers has worked very well. From the classic B-52 onwards, they do useful things like haul large quantities of high explosives other systems cannot match. Improvements in tactical control mean the folks on the ground can call in tremendous force when needed.
The public want their entertainment. People who are intelligent care about different things than do the vast mob of phucktards that comprise most of the population.
Don't ever expect that to be different.
"The kind of problems that wouldn't allow such a person to live a normal and fufilling life... Instead we move one step closer to designer children."
Custom humans are an eventuality. The choices we make will vary, but given the results of normal breeding I'd be hard pressed to say designer offspring are necessarily a bad idea. We "design" offspring by our choice of mates. but more granular control is not an unreasonable goal.
"The simple fact is, you can only make use of what your environment offers, and in third world countries, that is not much"
Change "environment" to "culture" and you'll be far more accurate.
"It will run indefinitely, without a reboot."
Megadittos on older 'puters running from CF.
My P233 m0n0wall box (in an even more ancient Magitronic AT case) has been up 24/7 since 2000 except for the odd power outage. The only reason it runs m0n0wall is that I was curious and switched from Freesco, which was also trouble-free.
"I've tried various distro's with live CD's which use KDE4, don't want to mess a working system."
I simply added KDE4 to my Kubuntu system. It's easy enough to switch between KDE-whatever, GNOME, etc, and continue to upgrade all the packages so as to play with each.
They might help keep other groups from being taken over, but it's doubtful.
Usenet is an easy target. It's mostly spam/pron/warez and isn't used by mainstream customers. It isn't useful for communication or discussion compared to other methods, and it sucks bandwidth from providers.
Anyone who wants it can pay for a separate newsgroup provider, and it's still cheaper than paying for all the content you can mooch. Geeks can work around the loss and no one else needs it.
"Don't spread the word, or GM/Exxon/etc will buy all the patents again like how flywheel cars keep disappearing."
Which patents are those? After all, patents are public record, so we should have a rogues gallery of suppressed inventions to look over.
That sort of hope is what makes scams thrive.
I don't "hope" for golden bullet solutions. I hope for market pressures to drive R&D that produces many different solutions to energy problems so we grow away from an energy monoculture.
"If part of an industry is relying on something and it goes poof"
Then said industry shouldn't have relied on proprietary software.
We shouldn't be trying to "liberate" adandoned commercial software because having it killed by its makers is better for Free and Open alternatives.
Both propositions make sense.
The requirement of celibacy ensures that the only sexual outlets will be people who can be intimidated into silence, the young and the especially backward.
"You mean like a singing rubber fish to hang on the wall? "
Hey, it was cheaper than a RealDoll!
Oh, the WALL. Never mind.
"It's really a shame that the anti-violent game lobby has someone like JT as a de-facto spokesman. "
Not unless one supports that lobby, who remind me of the anti-comic book loons when I was young (eons ago).
IMO they richly deserve him.
Good riddance to the Shuttle. We have ample time to put machines into space before we send more meat. There is no urgent need to send people into space, and the complex systems required to protect them are so expensive they push costs out of reach. We could "afford" a few dead astronauts as easily (and it was easy) as we afforded many dead test pilots, but the public freak out like little girls when we lose a few. Astronauts have become a burden on space exploration.
Explore with hardware, send the tourists afterwards.