Machines are great for removing the need for stoop labor and the suffering that goes with it.
Note how efficient coal mining has become. Instead of many peons with picks and shovels (and a miner death rate like Chinas) we have a few skilled workers and many machines for both open and underground mining. There is every reason to remove people from the job except as supervisors.
"We need a bigger change than just finding cures to more diseases."
"We"? The problem is the behavior of the African adults who choose to spread disease in Africa. Africans should be blamed for their behaviorial choices, including relentless behaviors that propagate disease. This isn't bigotry, it's putting blame where it is deserved.
When I have such items I ride herd on the process and don't send them off to a mass repair center. (In the cases of my Harley and trucks, I do the work myself. Ya want it your way, learn to do it your way, or pay painful prices to people who will humor your wants and do it for you.
None of your examples are valid comparisons to a cheap consumer appliance. If I send a toaster in for warranty, it is not unreasonable to get back a replacement toaster.
That, and NAME him. Just because someone is "underage" doesn't mean they should be able to conceal their criminal behavior. His crimes should follow him through life, and his punishment be an example to others.
"Soldiers should form a union. The military treats them like garbage--they have no rights,"
Ever sat in at a Court Martial? I'd rather be tried there than in a civilian court if I were innocent.
"inadequate health care,"
Compared to who? I've had excellent care during my 26 years of service, though now that I'm retired I find Tricare somehwhat annoying to deal with.
"often inadequate equipment"
depends on which specific gear you mean. The Army made some poor decisions.
"and are forced to perform immoral and illegal acts. When caught, it is *they* who go on trial and not the civilian and military leaders who ordered the crimes."
Examples please?
BTW, we have a VOLUNTEER force. No likee? Leave. It's easy to get booted if you wish and your time isn't up.
IMO they more likely don't want attention whores posting with their name and rank rather than trying to censor anything that might be embarrassing that actually happens in war. Typical USAF deployed life is probably the most comfortable in military history for the VAST majority of airmen. Full Metal Jacket it ain't!
Too bad you posted AC, but I served 26 years in the AF (retired last year) and will happily confirm everything you posted. What civilians don't get is how mellow the AF life really is. BFD if they filter a few sites or snivel about blog posts. If you are going to post controversial shit you just omit your name and rank so it does not appear to have AF sanction.
The military already blocks many sites from viewing by base personnel. They presumably don't block Slashdot because so many geeks like to view it. They don't filter personal internet accounts (dorm dwellers pay for civilian internet service like anyone else) and those don't go through their base firewall. For example, personal internet access in South Korea is through Korean ISPs. No filtering, no attempts to enforce RIAA nonsense on base, nada.
The "freedom to virtually congregate" does not apply to work computers. (FWIW, Slashdot and other geek sites aren't blocked. Even your military likes fucking off at work. )
"Long and short, when we let robots do our fighting for us, it becomes so cheep to make war that its cheaper to make war then peace. his is why I feel that people should always be required for the front line, war has to suck so it will always be a last resort."
Required? Are you volunteering to be the "designated casualty"? I'd love to see how this would sell to the troops...
"Private Snuffy, charge that hill with Private Roomba!"
"Sir, it's certain death. Why not send the Roomba first?"
"Snuffy, it's your duty to die as a symbol of shared sacrifice, so the taxpayers will know that War Sucks and feel guilt for your loss."
What we have here is a marketing failure. The average person is not very bright, is superstitious/religious, and only relates to the world in emotional terms. Instead of trying to change them, figure out how to do what their leaders do and "sell" them what you want them to think. Scientific method is for reaching future scientists/geeks/techies, but we need to get some leverage with the average schmuck on the street.
H-70 is used in F-16 APUs to power the turbine that drives the emergency generator and hydraulic pump. Every year-ish or so an EPU would fire by accident, and sometimes a ground crewman gets sprayed by the exhaust (stupidly located ABOVE and to the rear of the safing pin). Standard procedure is hose them off outdoors, then send them to hospital for checkup. I never met any troops who were sprayed and expressed any symptoms.
Remember the Win9x/NT/Office 97 days when you could just grab the same software you used at work and load it on your home machine with little effort? The TIME you invested learning to use it at work meant you were comfortable with it at home. Joe Average doesn't want to invest extra time learning a new OS.
"No, something has changed. Somewhere along the line....the basic belief in the value of a human life has been somehow lost."
Diversity has a price. The price of a high degree of social diversity is that members of each group will not care about the others. They have no incentive to self-discipline except fear of imposed discipline, and the choices become anarchy or a police state.
HD removal is fine for geeks, but it is more of a problem for other people because laptops do not have a standard form factor and are a PITA to work on.
They should have sorted the real geeks from the rest of the 3C0X1s by advanced testing and offered them CJRs in appropriate fields. The generic population of Admin weenies and welfare queens were not economic to retain, though it can be argued they cut too many.
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Machines are great for removing the need for stoop labor and the suffering that goes with it.
Note how efficient coal mining has become. Instead of many peons with picks and shovels (and a miner death rate like Chinas) we have a few skilled workers and many machines for both open and underground mining. There is every reason to remove people from the job except as supervisors.
Wait until someone figures out how to HERF those systems. Better have multiple control interfaces that fail gracefully!
AIDS isn't spread by mosquitoes, thanks for playing.
"But you can't teach 'em."
That is evident.
"We need a bigger change than just finding cures to more diseases."
"We"? The problem is the behavior of the African adults who choose to spread disease in Africa. Africans should be blamed for their behaviorial choices, including relentless behaviors that propagate disease. This isn't bigotry, it's putting blame where it is deserved.
When I have such items I ride herd on the process and don't send them off to a mass repair center. (In the cases of my Harley and trucks, I do the work myself. Ya want it your way, learn to do it your way, or pay painful prices to people who will humor your wants and do it for you.
None of your examples are valid comparisons to a cheap consumer appliance. If I send a toaster in for warranty, it is not unreasonable to get back a replacement toaster.
That, and NAME him. Just because someone is "underage" doesn't mean they should be able to conceal their criminal behavior. His crimes should follow him through life, and his punishment be an example to others.
"Soldiers should form a union. The military treats them like garbage--they have no rights,"
Ever sat in at a Court Martial? I'd rather be tried there than in a civilian court if I were innocent.
"inadequate health care,"
Compared to who? I've had excellent care during my 26 years of service, though now that I'm retired I find Tricare somehwhat annoying to deal with.
"often inadequate equipment"
depends on which specific gear you mean. The Army made some poor decisions.
"and are forced to perform immoral and illegal acts. When caught, it is *they* who go on trial and not the civilian and military leaders who ordered the crimes."
Examples please?
BTW, we have a VOLUNTEER force. No likee? Leave. It's easy to get booted if you wish and your time isn't up.
Battlefield? From the Air Force? ROFL...
IMO they more likely don't want attention whores posting with their name and rank rather than trying to censor anything that might be embarrassing that actually happens in war. Typical USAF deployed life is probably the most comfortable in military history for the VAST majority of airmen. Full Metal Jacket it ain't!
Too bad you posted AC, but I served 26 years in the AF (retired last year) and will happily confirm everything you posted. What civilians don't get is how mellow the AF life really is. BFD if they filter a few sites or snivel about blog posts.
If you are going to post controversial shit you just omit your name and rank so it does not appear to have AF sanction.
The military already blocks many sites from viewing by base personnel. They presumably don't block Slashdot because so many geeks like to view it. They don't filter personal internet accounts (dorm dwellers pay for civilian internet service like anyone else) and those don't go through their base firewall. For example, personal internet access in South Korea is through Korean ISPs. No filtering, no attempts to enforce RIAA nonsense on base, nada.
The "freedom to virtually congregate" does not apply to work computers. (FWIW, Slashdot and other geek sites aren't blocked. Even your military likes fucking off at work. )
"Long and short, when we let robots do our fighting for us, it becomes so cheep to make war that its cheaper to make war then peace. his is why I feel that people should always be required for the front line, war has to suck so it will always be a last resort."
Required? Are you volunteering to be the "designated casualty"? I'd love to see how this would sell to the troops...
"Private Snuffy, charge that hill with Private Roomba!"
"Sir, it's certain death. Why not send the Roomba first?"
"Snuffy, it's your duty to die as a symbol of shared sacrifice, so the taxpayers will know that War Sucks and feel guilt for your loss."
"And this is supremely ironic when you consider how the US came to be an independent nation."
:)
Not really. The decisive Revolutionary War battles were not only conventional, but fought with considerable help from the icky French.
"Flickr... Tumblr... TIGR? Has the army gone all Web 2.0 on us?"
Rogr that!
"What we have here is a failure to communicate .."
What we have here is a marketing failure.
The average person is not very bright, is superstitious/religious, and only relates to the world in emotional terms. Instead of trying to change them, figure out how to do what their leaders do and "sell" them what you want them to think. Scientific method is for reaching future scientists/geeks/techies, but we need to get some leverage with the average schmuck on the street.
Can you burn the purchased music to a CD image file instead, then rip from that?
"Ulysses represents what mankind can do when it puts aside its petty differences and works for the betterment of all."
No.
It is a triumph of the American Military Industrial Complex, just like the Internet.
"Imagine the mindset change that would be required to just survive without computers."
Imagine the scornworthy, overly delicate, hothouse-flower mindset than would come unglued without computers.
Glad I don't have it.
H-70 is used in F-16 APUs to power the turbine that drives the emergency generator and hydraulic pump. Every year-ish or so an EPU would fire by accident, and sometimes a ground crewman gets sprayed by the exhaust (stupidly located ABOVE and to the rear of the safing pin).
Standard procedure is hose them off outdoors, then send them to hospital for checkup. I never met any troops who were sprayed and expressed any symptoms.
Add:
4/Not workplace standard.
Remember the Win9x/NT/Office 97 days when you could just grab the same software you used at work and load it on your home machine with little effort? The TIME you invested learning to use it at work meant you were comfortable with it at home. Joe Average doesn't want to invest extra time learning a new OS.
"it's like warning a girl that her new boyfriend is an @sshole.
tell her once, but after that she just has to learn on her own."
They never listen, so don't warn her.
Just wait until the relationship implodes and offer tumescent sympathy.
"No, something has changed. Somewhere along the line....the basic belief in the value of a human life has been somehow lost."
Diversity has a price. The price of a high degree of social diversity is that members of each group will not care about the others. They have no incentive to self-discipline except fear of imposed discipline, and the choices become anarchy or a police state.
No organization is immune to people with an inflated sense of self-importance.
You are correct about standards, note that I said "should have".
HD removal is fine for geeks, but it is more of a problem for other people because laptops do not have a standard form factor and are a PITA to work on.
They should have sorted the real geeks from the rest of the 3C0X1s by advanced testing and offered them CJRs in appropriate fields.
The generic population of Admin weenies and welfare queens were not economic to retain, though it can be argued they cut too many.