"It's interesting to note that every single example in the article is over the age of 50. So why don't want just say what it is; old people are scared of change."
Old technophobes learned to use the minimum they needed to get by, but they never "learned how to learn" so each change would be easy. They are annoying, but they can usually afford to pay to have someone reload their fossil software.
"What niche of the computer world will these disks fill at their current price point?"
Robust portable storage. Put one in a rugged USB enclosure and they would be dandy for carrying all my stuff and booting my OS of choice on different computers.
"Personally I'd like to know how you would prepare for/get involved in something like this, besides taking some network security courses."
Make a recruiter do his job and take you to an installation that has those functions so you can meet and talk with some airmen who do that work. They may tell you their jobs suck, or that they enjoy them. I bet you get a variety of responses.
He cannot answer that specifically, because each individual has a specific situation and some things may be waiverable. To determine what actually matters, ask a recruiter and explain your situation. Each service has different limits and discretion as to what you can have on your record.
"YGTBSM" is actually common in the Air Force, but THAT acronym wouldn't fly in a public statement. There are so many acronyms in military life that their use is natural.
Sorry your experience sucked, but it's hardly a difficult life. Still being in the dorms after six years either reflects unaffordable off-base housing (depends on duty station) or failure to move off-base when given the opportunity. The thing to do is make rank and live off-base. BAH paid for most of two houses over my career.
"I sat at a computer 8 hours a day. Sometimes 6 if no one was looking."
BTDT and it beats working! 6 hr days when times are slack is another nice bennie of the adjustable work schedule.
"I lived in an air conditioned tent for 4 months"
Note to the uninitiated: USAF deployments are typically very cozy by the standards of any military in history. Plenty of folks volunteer for them for the tax breaks and focused work environment. I was in aircraft maintenance for 26 years and even we had it easy in deployed locations. The cops, and (now) the unfortunate Transportation guys who are running convoys in Iraq have some job suckage, but nearly everyone else has a skate life. Being invulnerable to the outside economy over a long career is very nice too.
"The Air Force sucks, and I'm sure you're right -- the Army was worse."
ROFLPIMP! Check casualty counts sometime, or work-related injuries. Not everyone enjoys the AF, and I respect that people have different experiences, but worse than the Army? I NEVER heard that from the MANY Army folks who bolted for the Air Force after their first enlistment.
The brown water thing IS common on some older bases. Must be the miles of ancient iron plumbing.
USAF PT isn't difficult, because they realize it is for military image more than anything else. The VAST majority of USAF types never needed to be fit to do their jobs, but we got fat enough that some folks whined. AF PT styles change every few years. They want sort-of-fit people but don't want the terrible time waste of group PT.
For example, the USAF (pilots and Rambo types excepted) doesn't need to do PT except for military image reasons. The jobs that require it have always done it one way or the other.
For most of my career (81-07) we avoided it (it is a HUGE non-work-related time suck!) and did important stuff like generating sorties instead. Ways can be found to use useful people and sort out the PT bullshit, but talking about it is verboten because various non-workers and jocks think we need it. It offends people that need PT (or worship "sports PT") to say that those on the working end of maintaining and deploying aircraft do just fine (Gulf War, anyone?) without it. Granted, we had a couple of large folks who had to squeeze to fit down an F-16 intake, but that was merely amusing. There is room for rule adjustment for geeks as a custom if management wants that.
"This is really smart. Maybe the college kids here in the US could learn a thing or two from this. Why provoke the beast when nobody has to know about your trading?"/me flashes back to 1981:
Rip vinyl records to reel-to-reel "server". Record selections to cassette. Copy cassette for swappage with others.
There isn't enough interest in changing things to bring it to a vote. It's a dead issue because no great number of people care, and because Floridas electoral votes are more valuable than annoying the people who live there.
"A very small minority. Vocal, but a minority non-the-less."
Voters interested in Cuba at all are a minority. The anti-Castro voters are a larger minority than the pro-normalization voters. There being no compelling reason for most Americans to care about normalizing relations, those who care about their issue will make the difference.
Minorities matter. I'm an NRA member because they are a highly effective minority that supports my freedom. Want results? Work with other people to get them.
True, but the rest of us can use them. Once we give up on the proles and look to ourselves, we can exploit some of these policies. The masses crave religion, so let them wallow and rescue their betters.
"God only knows we are living in dystopian times, with our society under attack from left, right, and corporate interests which don't fit into any pat category."
I'd settle for topian times. Dystopia is a bummer and utopia is unattainable.
This issue is also a good argument for school vouchers. The public school system sucks, religious fanatics want to turn it into a madrassa system, and those who would rescue their kid should be able to. School choice will let the Bible Nazis self-segregate (good), relieve their pressure on the public school system (good), and let freethinking parents self-segregate to appropriate schools (very good).
I was fortunate to attend boarding schools, didn't have to mingle with the thug trash infesting my hometown school system, and wasn't exposed to religion. Most people won't want that, but we should have a system that can rescue and nurture those who do. We can't fix the stupid people, but if we cater to ourselves instead of trying to polish a turd we can do quite well. Theism-free people should seek protected apartness just as some of the Christian Taliban do, and exploit the Christian Taliban support for school choice to do it!
The flip side to LCD adoption is people giving away good CRTs. Keep an eye out at thrift stores and you can bag them for next to nothing. I bring a power cord to test with since many don't have one. They are nice upgrades for folks with small monitors and no money.
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"It's interesting to note that every single example in the article is over the age of 50. So why don't want just say what it is; old people are scared of change."
Old technophobes learned to use the minimum they needed to get by, but they never "learned how to learn" so each change would be easy. They are annoying, but they can usually afford to pay to have someone reload their fossil software.
"What niche of the computer world will these disks fill at their current price point?"
Robust portable storage. Put one in a rugged USB enclosure and they would be dandy for carrying all my stuff and booting my OS of choice on different computers.
"Personally I'd like to know how you would prepare for/get involved in something like this, besides taking some network security courses."
Make a recruiter do his job and take you to an installation that has those functions so you can meet and talk with some airmen who do that work. They may tell you their jobs suck, or that they enjoy them. I bet you get a variety of responses.
Because it was the job of the VOTERS who put him in office to VOTE him out.
You have the chance to eject the Republicans every election.
He cannot answer that specifically, because each individual has a specific situation and some things may be waiverable.
To determine what actually matters, ask a recruiter and explain your situation. Each service has different limits and discretion as to what you can have on your record.
"YGTBSM" is actually common in the Air Force, but THAT acronym wouldn't fly in a public statement. There are so many acronyms in military life that their use is natural.
Sorry your experience sucked, but it's hardly a difficult life. Still being in the dorms after six years either reflects unaffordable off-base housing (depends on duty station) or failure to move off-base when given the opportunity. The thing to do is make rank and live off-base. BAH paid for most of two houses over my career.
"I sat at a computer 8 hours a day. Sometimes 6 if no one was looking."
BTDT and it beats working! 6 hr days when times are slack is another nice bennie of the adjustable work schedule.
"I lived in an air conditioned tent for 4 months"
Note to the uninitiated: USAF deployments are typically very cozy by the standards of any military in history. Plenty of folks volunteer for them for the tax breaks and focused work environment. I was in aircraft maintenance for 26 years and even we had it easy in deployed locations. The cops, and (now) the unfortunate Transportation guys who are running convoys in Iraq have some job suckage, but nearly everyone else has a skate life. Being invulnerable to the outside economy over a long career is very nice too.
"The Air Force sucks, and I'm sure you're right -- the Army was worse."
ROFLPIMP! Check casualty counts sometime, or work-related injuries. Not everyone enjoys the AF, and I respect that people have different experiences, but worse than the Army? I NEVER heard that from the MANY Army folks who bolted for the Air Force after their first enlistment.
The brown water thing IS common on some older bases. Must be the miles of ancient iron plumbing.
USAF PT isn't difficult, because they realize it is for military image more than anything else. The VAST majority of USAF types never needed to be fit to do their jobs, but we got fat enough that some folks whined. AF PT styles change every few years. They want sort-of-fit people but don't want the terrible time waste of group PT.
I'll help translate one bit:
For example, the USAF (pilots and Rambo types excepted) doesn't need to do PT except for military image reasons.
The jobs that require it have always done it one way or the other.
For most of my career (81-07) we avoided it (it is a HUGE non-work-related time suck!) and did important stuff like generating sorties instead. Ways can be found to use useful people and sort out the PT bullshit, but talking about it is verboten because various non-workers and jocks think we need it. It offends people that need PT (or worship "sports PT") to say that those on the working end of maintaining and deploying aircraft do just fine (Gulf War, anyone?) without it. Granted, we had a couple of large folks who had to squeeze to fit down an F-16 intake, but that was merely amusing. There is room for rule adjustment for geeks as a custom if management wants that.
Keep in mind that, General or not, he still has people who will step on his nuts if he isn't very careful with his answers.
"You CANNOT be a virgin twice."
Depends on which orifices count.
"And your mom only has ONE basement."
My Mom has a slab home and NO basement, you insensitive clod!
Its sad that anyone would ask the question in the first place.
Life is too short to chase away sexual opportunity, and one vital social skill is not to challenge someones beliefs if you want to plook them.
Care to share the exact verbiage a customer should use in describing a problem to get service?
Part of getting service from anyone is leading them to a default choice that serves you, and that means
describing your problem in the right terms.
"This is really smart. Maybe the college kids here in the US could learn a thing or two from this. Why provoke the beast when nobody has to know about your trading?" /me flashes back to 1981:
Rip vinyl records to reel-to-reel "server".
Record selections to cassette.
Copy cassette for swappage with others.
There isn't enough interest in changing things to bring it to a vote. It's a dead issue because no great number of people care, and because Floridas electoral votes are more valuable than annoying the people who live there.
"A very small minority. Vocal, but a minority non-the-less."
Voters interested in Cuba at all are a minority. The anti-Castro voters are a larger minority than the pro-normalization voters. There being no compelling reason for most Americans to care about normalizing relations, those who care about their issue will make the difference.
Minorities matter. I'm an NRA member because they are a highly effective minority that supports my freedom.
Want results? Work with other people to get them.
True, but the rest of us can use them. Once we give up on the proles and look to ourselves, we can exploit some of these policies. The masses crave religion, so let them wallow and rescue their betters.
The "screeching Cuban expats" are American VOTERS. Democracy works this way.
Want a different policy? Organize like-minded people to VOTE appropriately.
Follow but don't draft. If you can't see the semi drivers mirrors he can't see you, and not being able to see around him limits your vision.
"God only knows we are living in dystopian times, with our society under attack from left, right, and corporate interests which don't fit into any pat category."
I'd settle for topian times.
Dystopia is a bummer and utopia is unattainable.
This issue is also a good argument for school vouchers. The public school system sucks, religious fanatics want to turn it into a madrassa system, and those who would rescue their kid should be able to.
School choice will let the Bible Nazis self-segregate (good), relieve their pressure on the public school system (good), and let freethinking parents self-segregate to appropriate schools (very good).
I was fortunate to attend boarding schools, didn't have to mingle with the thug trash infesting my hometown school system, and wasn't exposed to religion. Most people won't want that, but we should have a system that can rescue and nurture those who do. We can't fix the stupid people, but if we cater to ourselves instead of trying to polish a turd we can do quite well. Theism-free people should seek protected apartness just as some of the Christian Taliban do, and exploit the Christian Taliban support for school choice to do it!
The flip side to LCD adoption is people giving away good CRTs. Keep an eye out at thrift stores and you can bag them for next to nothing. I bring a power cord to test with since many don't have one.
They are nice upgrades for folks with small monitors and no money.
"Asking here because I obviously don't trust Sony enough to give them my personal details which is a requirement for asking them."
Why give them real details? That's absurd. I just use my spamdump webmail addy for that stuff, and as far as they know my name is Beeg Hariklam.
"The sets were both dense and large."
I"M dense and large, you insensitive clod!
"I mean it's not like making more humans is any sort of chore."
Raising them for 18 years is a huge chore, which involves subordinating your life to theirs.
No thanks!