"Protect the children from everything, then send them to Iraq to die.
I've wondered throughout my military career if society isn't setting some of its young people up for PTSD by smothering them instead of expecting them to learn and cope.
"I examined a lot of things (including semen) and learned a lot of things (except, of course, the social skills needed to get the semen inside, or anywhere near, a female)."
"Say that this woman's daughter now commits suicide, is it then right for her family to publish the bloggers personal details? Publicly try them on the internet?"
If someone playing mindgames with my kid helped trigger her suicide, I'd make sure I did everything possible to let the world of their peers judge them. It wouldn't just be names, it'd be high-res pics taken in public and every other personal detail I could legally dig up.
Their suffering would be a fine public example of why they should have behaved themselves instead of playing "prank the unstable kiddie".
"Should these people - which I believe are a majority - simply stop using their computers for either gaming or business purposes?"
Yes. The business owners I help out get this just fine. Joe Blow non-business owner doesn't care about security even when warned, so to hell with him for not listening. There is no way to fix stupid, but they do pay for reinstalls...
I toss them into scrap cars, where they can go into the same metal/glass/plastic recycling process. If I had a business with many PCs, I'd fill a van body. Scrap is high and it all flattens the same.
"so my computer which holds very confidential information should not be monitored. "
Nor should you use a confidential machine for online gaming. If your government did this with their systems that hold your data you'd be justly outraged.
Some computers are play-toys, and some hold important data. They shouldn't be the same machine.
What brand CF cards do you use? I've had varying luck (Sandisk good, Transcend won't boot) and am looking for reliable cards.
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"My dream lap-desk? A Herman Miller designed desk for my Aeron chair. That would be just perfection, I believe."
Sketch out something suitable and see if you or an enthusiast can build it. Herman Miller-styled furniture has been around for decades so there is plenty to copy for style.
"as long as you have a sturdy chair to mount the frame to."
I plead sloth for not building this, but you don't necessarily need to hang it off a chair.
Visit local scrapyard and get a thick piece of plate steel for the base. For a few bucks they may cut it to shape with their cutting torch. Weld on an appropriate vertical pipe, then hang your "table" off the side. Base can have rubber matting on the bottom to protect floors.
I have an electric recliner (keep an eye out for these, as medical equipment they are very well built and can be recovered by an upholstery shop) with a small pillow as a lumbar pad, and use a Logitech Marble Mouse, swapping sides to avoid RSI.
The neck and back are very well supported in the recumbent position. Per the advice in other posts I'm getting a tray with a pillow on the bottom to solve the roasted nuts issue...
There are plenty of cars from around that time with solid-state non-IC ignition modules. HERFing them might not break them, but it might interrupt their function requiring a restart. FYI depending on your engine a points distributor may be nearly a drop-in swap.
"But somehow you assume that the military as a whole is good and that is not the case."
I assume it is _necessary_, and I understand processes that make an effective or ineffective force. As long as force trumps everything else one must be either good at war or willing to surrender.
People like you, dear civilian, determine by action or inaction what our missions are and who we are tasked to help or kill. Don't like militaries? Vote your own out of existence.
You might not mind the rescue of the Netherlands by the Allies, but you might object to other uses of military power. That's your call. I don't pretend to any great nobility nor should you be so self-righteous.;) We in the militaries of the world are not better or worse than you, and in a democratic society we work for you.
No likee the mission, be an activist and change it. Inaction is consent.
"You would not want to be a grunt in the mafia either, because the high risks of being involved in an organisation that main and kills to achieve its goals. Would you want to work for a company that worked their sweatshop workers to death and was proud of that capability?"
I've worked around infantry ("grunts" to you) and wouldn't mind being one. Don't AssUme what I'd want. When I enlisted in the Cold War my odds (USAFE air bases like Ramstein = "big ass NBC targets") may have even been as shitty as theirs. The US military does not try to work its folks to death, and while conditions are sometimes rough plenty of those "workers" re-up and stay for 20 years or more. We are far from being WWI cannon fodder.
"Your stupid pride needs some ethical readjustment, murderer."
Pride in accomplishment (and fighting well is an accomplishment) isn't misplaced, even in an enemy.
Fighting is a process made necessary by the willingness of others to fight. I'm quite sure my aircraft maintenance efforts have helped kill a number of enemy (back in 1991 we could freely view HUD tapes) and destroy lots of their stuff. I sleep quite well and would cheerfully serve again. I'm also satisfied to have helped guard Europe and South Korea. If those things make me a willing murderer, I could really care less.
The truck driver analogy is interesting, because in fact many G.I.s use their benefits to get a Class 8 license. That said, the same training is available OJT from the major trucking companies, and if you can pass a MEPS physical you can pass the DOT physical and go straight to trucking. G.I. tend to get it to add to their resume, because if you are a technician being able to drive the equipment rig is desirable.
While military training has quite a bit of civlian overlap, viewing conscription as a beneficial job training program is IMO mistaken. That "rotating pool" of conscripts may (and should) earn benefits, but much of what they will do has no civilian analog. OTOH a career soldier/sailor/airman can get continuing education that fits his/her experience and emerge highly employable. The service gets the continuity of career troops, and society gets skilled people who can retire in their late 30s and start new careers.
If one is intending to benefit from a "peacetime" single enlistment, I suggest the Air Force/AF Reserve/Air Guard (which have never drafted) or Coast Guard. Yummy bennies and a cozy work atmosphere.
Go aircraft hardware, and be prepared to pay the price.
Stainless hard lines with short braided Teflon-lined hoses having quick disconnects (HAVE QD PLUGS/CAPS IN CASE THE QD CHECK VALVE LEAKS) could connect the cooling manifold to the servers. I'd use ozone-friendly refrigerant instead of liquid so leaks don't damage hardware. System pressure would be easy to maintain. Have a recovery suction line to each server so it could be emptied after being isolated.
Chilled compressed air would be another, simpler option. The condensation wouldn't bother aircraft hardware, and a large air tank would compensate for pressure variations.
A reason that 18-wheelers use air brakes instead of hydraulic ("liquid") brakes is that it facilitate quick disconnection and tolerates some leakage.
Israel forces were effective because of the way they fought. Their reliance on systems that did not easily smash hardened bunkers and buildings (even Mk84 2000lb bombs are limited in that role) and failure to destroy area targets doomed their effort. Cluster bombs work on surface targets, but they don't punch through mumtiple concrete floors.
Thermobaric and deep-penetration munitions should be used to destroy enemy areas where they are dug-in.
The lightfighter RMA mentality would rather slay the enemy with a technological rapier, but rapiers break upon stone
"For them, it was not as much about which tank could turn faster, or whose radios had a better signal. It was about how many men (and for the Soviets, women) they actually had to fight with."
Whole German divisions disappeared without trace on the Eastern Front. Here's roughly what it cost the Soviets:
I'm too lazy to parapharase this post I made elsewhere, so I'll just edit to reflect retiring recently:
Rant mode on: My opinion as a 26-year Air Force NCO is that a return to conscription will cost lives for nothing, would be a financial disaster, weaken the armed forces, not build any sort of (positive) shared national identity among the victims, and otherwise is a terrible idea. Conscription instantly builds justifiable, bitter resentment among the tiny minority of victims. By the time you filter the physically and mentally fit out of the pool, you have an even smaller slice of the youth population. Not being totally stupid, some of these folks wake up to the fact that THEIR sacrifice is to appease some other fellows desire for SHARED sacrifice, whatever THAT is. These bitter humans form a pool of first-termers who will not re-enlist. Guess where the investment in training them went? Out the gate along with their ability to train brand new people, who must suffer learning by (KABOOM!) experience instead of mentoring. Training the rotating victim pool falls to the career enlisted, who are exhausted thereby, and saddened at the deterioration of the military they had worked so hard to build. More career people quit...depleting the mid-career ranks, later depleting the senior ranks... The blast radius of this stupidity isn't limited to Army units. Conscription was famous for scaring those unwilling to be bullet catchers into the Air Force and Navy. I came in a few years after the draft ended, but the horror stories were still fresh and I believe them. Drug use (not healthy for quality aircraft maintenance or fighting aircraft carrier fires...Forrestal, cough, cough..), discipline problems (hard to threaten someone who WANTS to be discharged!), morale in the shitter, you name it. Effectiveness goes down, costs go up, waste goes up, experience goes away, and the downward spiral goes on unless a Ronald Regan shows up to un-fuck it. Rich folk still dodge service as they always have and always will, because there is no SOCIAL censure for doing so. Poor folks who don't want to be there, led by inexperienced supervisors, die and are wounded in greater quantities than in the highly effective Volunteer Force. Surviving conscripts, shanghaied by a government that took them, fucked them, and chucked them end up homeless and ruined, just like the last time. World War II is over, and that massive level of shared service is not economically supportable or necessary or intelligent due to technology. Army service is not a viable substitute for parenting either, because the kind of harsh discipline that is necessary to control the actively unwilling no longer exists and the public will not tolerate it. Society has changed, and I respectfully submit that proponents of conscription either have no clue or deliberately want it as a spoiler to damage the military. Consider the Volunteer Force. It rebuilt itself during the 1980s into an effective war machine, won the (conventional) Gulf War battles with minimum loss and impressive speed, withstood the first drawdown, and is doing surprisingly well at simultaneously managing drawdown/transformation/the mess in Iraq. Do we REALLY want to toss conscripts into the mix? Why would putting less-committed, less-professional, less-trained people into incredibly stressful situations be better for anyone? Anyone out there with substantial recent US military experience favor a draft? Very few I've heard from. The lessons of conscription have been learned. Read and heed:
They are the natural masters of Asia, not the US. Pearl S, Buck is dead, but the morbid US fascination with dominating Asia continues. Since the US will not be able to maintain massive military disparity forever, nor should it want to, we'd best cut deals with other powerful corporate states.
There are lots of Cold War types who fap to committing suicide for South Korea or Taiwan, but I'm not one of them.
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"Protect the children from everything, then send them to Iraq to die.
I've wondered throughout my military career if society isn't setting some of its young people up for PTSD by smothering them instead of expecting them to learn and cope.
Anyone under 30 with some feedback?
"I examined a lot of things (including semen) and learned a lot of things (except, of course, the social skills needed to get the semen inside, or anywhere near, a female)."
Two words:
"Paintball Gun"
"Say that this woman's daughter now commits suicide, is it then right for her family to publish the bloggers personal details? Publicly try them on the internet?"
If someone playing mindgames with my kid helped trigger her suicide, I'd make sure I did everything possible to let the world of their peers judge them. It wouldn't just be names, it'd be high-res pics taken in public and every other personal detail I could legally dig up.
Their suffering would be a fine public example of why they should have behaved themselves instead of playing "prank the unstable kiddie".
"If the tunnels collapse how will you get to and from the servers for maintenance?"
Good reason to have onsite admins!
"Should these people - which I believe are a majority - simply stop using their computers for either gaming or business purposes?"
Yes. The business owners I help out get this just fine.
Joe Blow non-business owner doesn't care about security even when warned, so to hell with him for not listening. There is no way to fix stupid, but they do pay for reinstalls...
I toss them into scrap cars, where they can go into the same metal/glass/plastic recycling process. If I had a business with many PCs, I'd fill a van body. Scrap is high and it all flattens the same.
"so my computer which holds very confidential information should not be monitored. "
Nor should you use a confidential machine for online gaming. If your government did this with their systems that hold your data you'd be justly outraged.
Some computers are play-toys, and some hold important data. They shouldn't be the same machine.
Console for gaming.
Various computers for everything else.
Ditto.
"Of course that would require ignoring all ethical issues."
When we are done studying him we can drop him off at the trailer park down my street. In a year he'd own the place.
What brand CF cards do you use? I've had varying luck (Sandisk good, Transcend won't boot) and am looking for reliable cards.
"My dream lap-desk? A Herman Miller designed desk for my Aeron chair. That would be just perfection, I believe."
Sketch out something suitable and see if you or an enthusiast can build it.
Herman Miller-styled furniture has been around for decades so there is plenty to copy for style.
"as long as you have a sturdy chair to mount the frame to."
I plead sloth for not building this, but you don't necessarily need to hang it off a chair.
Visit local scrapyard and get a thick piece of plate steel for the base. For a few bucks they may cut it to shape with their cutting torch.
Weld on an appropriate vertical pipe, then hang your "table" off the side. Base can have rubber matting on the bottom to protect floors.
"...if you're hoping that a lap desk will "satisfy" you, then I'm afraid that you need to get out more."
Time for the Fleshlight Yoda Lapdesk Edition.
I have an electric recliner (keep an eye out for these, as medical equipment they are very well built and can be recovered by an upholstery shop) with a small pillow as a lumbar pad, and use a Logitech Marble Mouse, swapping sides to avoid RSI.
The neck and back are very well supported in the recumbent position. Per the advice in other posts I'm getting a tray with a pillow on the bottom to solve the roasted nuts issue...
Most ECUs already have a grounded aluminum case.
There are plenty of cars from around that time with solid-state non-IC ignition modules. HERFing them might not break them, but it might interrupt their function requiring a restart.
FYI depending on your engine a points distributor may be nearly a drop-in swap.
Heck, trolls gotta eat too!
;)
"But somehow you assume that the military as a whole is good and that is not the case."
I assume it is _necessary_, and I understand processes that make an effective or ineffective force. As long as force trumps everything else one must be either good at war or willing to surrender.
People like you, dear civilian, determine by action or inaction what our missions are and who we are tasked to help or kill. Don't like militaries? Vote your own out of existence.
You might not mind the rescue of the Netherlands by the Allies, but you might object to other uses of military power. That's your call. I don't pretend to any great nobility nor should you be so self-righteous.
We in the militaries of the world are not better or worse than you, and in a democratic society we work for you.
No likee the mission, be an activist and change it. Inaction is consent.
"You would not want to be a grunt in the mafia either, because the high risks of being involved in an organisation that main and kills to achieve its goals. Would you want to work for a company that worked their sweatshop workers to death and was proud of that capability?"
I've worked around infantry ("grunts" to you) and wouldn't mind being one. Don't AssUme what I'd want.
When I enlisted in the Cold War my odds (USAFE air bases like Ramstein = "big ass NBC targets") may have even been as shitty as theirs. The US military does not try to work its folks to death, and while conditions are sometimes rough plenty of those "workers" re-up and stay for 20 years or more. We are far from being WWI cannon fodder.
"Your stupid pride needs some ethical readjustment, murderer."
Pride in accomplishment (and fighting well is an accomplishment) isn't misplaced, even in an enemy.
Fighting is a process made necessary by the willingness of others to fight. I'm quite sure my aircraft maintenance efforts have helped kill a number of enemy (back in 1991 we could freely view HUD tapes) and destroy lots of their stuff. I sleep quite well and would cheerfully serve again. I'm also satisfied to have helped guard Europe and South Korea. If those things make me a willing murderer, I could really care less.
The truck driver analogy is interesting, because in fact many G.I.s use their benefits to get a Class 8 license. That said, the same training is available OJT from the major trucking companies, and if you can pass a MEPS physical you can pass the DOT physical and go straight to trucking. G.I. tend to get it to add to their resume, because if you are a technician being able to drive the equipment rig is desirable.
While military training has quite a bit of civlian overlap, viewing conscription as a beneficial job training program is IMO mistaken. That "rotating pool" of conscripts may (and should) earn benefits, but much of what they will do has no civilian analog. OTOH a career soldier/sailor/airman can get continuing education that fits his/her experience and emerge highly employable. The service gets the continuity of career troops, and society gets skilled people who can retire in their late 30s and start new careers.
If one is intending to benefit from a "peacetime" single enlistment, I suggest the Air Force/AF Reserve/Air Guard (which have never drafted) or Coast Guard. Yummy bennies and a cozy work atmosphere.
Go aircraft hardware, and be prepared to pay the price.
Stainless hard lines with short braided Teflon-lined hoses having quick disconnects (HAVE QD PLUGS/CAPS IN CASE THE QD CHECK VALVE LEAKS) could connect the cooling manifold to the servers. I'd use ozone-friendly refrigerant instead of liquid so leaks don't damage hardware. System pressure would be easy to maintain. Have a recovery suction line to each server so it could be emptied after being isolated.
Chilled compressed air would be another, simpler option. The condensation wouldn't bother aircraft hardware, and a large air tank would compensate for pressure variations.
A reason that 18-wheelers use air brakes instead of hydraulic ("liquid") brakes is that it facilitate quick disconnection and tolerates some leakage.
DOH! Change "effective" to "ineffective"...drool.
Israel forces were effective because of the way they fought. Their reliance on systems that did not easily smash hardened bunkers and buildings (even Mk84 2000lb bombs are limited in that role) and failure to destroy area targets doomed their effort. Cluster bombs work on surface targets, but they don't punch through mumtiple concrete floors.
Thermobaric and deep-penetration munitions should be used to destroy enemy areas where they are dug-in.
The lightfighter RMA mentality would rather slay the enemy with a technological rapier, but rapiers break upon stone
"For them, it was not as much about which tank could turn faster, or whose radios had a better signal. It was about how many men (and for the Soviets, women) they actually had to fight with."
Whole German divisions disappeared without trace on the Eastern Front.
Here's roughly what it cost the Soviets:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3955/is_n4_v46/ai_15654726
"There are good reasons to have a draft"
Such as?
I'm too lazy to parapharase this post I made elsewhere, so I'll just edit to reflect retiring recently:
Rant mode on:
My opinion as a 26-year Air Force NCO is that a return to conscription will cost lives for nothing, would be a financial disaster, weaken the armed forces, not build any sort of (positive) shared national identity among the victims, and otherwise is a terrible idea.
Conscription instantly builds justifiable, bitter resentment among the tiny minority of victims. By the time you filter the physically and mentally fit out of the pool, you have an even smaller slice of the youth population. Not being totally stupid, some of these folks wake up to the fact that THEIR sacrifice is to appease some other fellows desire for SHARED sacrifice, whatever THAT is. These bitter humans form a pool of first-termers who will not re-enlist. Guess where the investment in training them went? Out the gate along with their ability to train brand new people, who must suffer learning by (KABOOM!) experience instead of mentoring.
Training the rotating victim pool falls to the career enlisted, who are exhausted thereby, and saddened at the deterioration of the military they had worked so hard to build. More career people quit...depleting the mid-career ranks, later depleting the senior ranks...
The blast radius of this stupidity isn't limited to Army units. Conscription was famous for scaring those unwilling to be bullet catchers into the Air Force and Navy. I came in a few years after the draft ended, but the horror stories were still fresh and I believe them. Drug use (not healthy for quality aircraft maintenance or fighting aircraft carrier fires...Forrestal, cough, cough..), discipline problems (hard to threaten someone who WANTS to be discharged!), morale in the shitter, you name it.
Effectiveness goes down, costs go up, waste goes up, experience goes away, and the downward spiral goes on unless a Ronald Regan shows up to un-fuck it.
Rich folk still dodge service as they always have and always will, because there is no SOCIAL censure for doing so. Poor folks who don't want to be there, led by inexperienced supervisors, die and are wounded in greater quantities than in the highly effective Volunteer Force. Surviving conscripts, shanghaied by a government that took them, fucked them, and chucked them end up homeless and ruined, just like the last time.
World War II is over, and that massive level of shared service is not economically supportable or necessary or intelligent due to technology. Army service is not a viable substitute for parenting either, because the kind of harsh discipline that is necessary to control the actively unwilling no longer exists and the public will not tolerate it. Society has changed, and I respectfully submit that proponents of conscription either have no clue or deliberately want it as a spoiler to damage the military.
Consider the Volunteer Force. It rebuilt itself during the 1980s into an effective war machine, won the (conventional) Gulf War battles with minimum loss and impressive speed, withstood the first drawdown, and is doing surprisingly well at simultaneously managing drawdown/transformation/the mess in Iraq.
Do we REALLY want to toss conscripts into the mix? Why would putting less-committed, less-professional, less-trained people into incredibly stressful situations be better for anyone?
Anyone out there with substantial recent US military experience favor a draft? Very few I've heard from.
The lessons of conscription have been learned.
Read and heed:
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/Vietnam/heinl.html
"The all volunteer force is supposed to give us professional, dedicated warriors. But it doesn't seem to work out that way."
It give you mostly professional, dedicated warriors, but they are still ordinary humans. The lessons of conscription have been learned. Enjoy:
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/Vietnam/heinl.html
The LCD monitor the typical customer already had is free, and good 17" CRTs are about five or ten bucks at the Salvation Army.
They are the natural masters of Asia, not the US.
Pearl S, Buck is dead, but the morbid US fascination with dominating Asia continues. Since the US will not be able to maintain massive military disparity forever, nor should it want to, we'd best cut deals with other powerful corporate states.
There are lots of Cold War types who fap to committing suicide for South Korea or Taiwan, but I'm not one of them.