As a 57 year-old vet whose propeller head son is a US Marine currently in the Med, I have some ideas.
The Gulf War may have been the first to be seen live on TV but you ain't seen nothin yet. My son is in e-mail contact with us on a daily basis. Yes, he's the company clerk so he has acess to the sat link. If we don't hear from him, we know he's off the ship. If we don't hear from him for a long long time, we'll know he's a casualty.
When I served in the late 60's, mail took a week or more and telephone calls were out of the question - took too long to set up -too expensive etc. Now we can get the latest by e-mai. (By the way, he really misses/. so I have to save it as a text file, edit the hell out it to get rid of all the crap and then resend as an e-mail. A little pity here - give us an e-mail version for the troops.)
There is no enemy state, there are no neutrals and if you are not with us you are against us. But this is still war and will be fought by real people with real guns and bombs and some of them will die. Anyone who thinks they have a clue about war or combat from games, movies or whatever needs a reality check.
There will be no front, no theater of operations, only timetables. Hit A then B then C and then go back and make sure nobody's still moving.
One thing won't change, intelligence is better than bombs. It's one thing to know where the enemy is and what weapons he has (in the case of the Taliban, damn little) but without knowledge of the enemy's INTENTION you're operating blind. The internet, phones, sat commo has never been very secure and you can bet your dinghy that it will become much less secure. If anybody really wants to help, start compiling an atlas of large primes and their multiples. A couple thousnad/.ers should be able to crack a lotta pseudo-primes that some terrorist might be using. Course you'll crack some that Aunt Minnie is using too. Your call who's more important.
There is only one known case of a ground force surrendering to air or naval forces. During the Gulf War, a small Iraqui unit surrendered to a helicopter. The man on the ground will still be the key. You wanna do something? - enlist. In about a year, you'll be an effection soldier, sailor, airman or Marine.
Does this mean that all the Horoscopes since Pluto was dsicovered will have to be redone?
Obviously a scam to keep otherwise unemployables busy.
On the other hand, if you're going to ignore the precession of the equinoxes why bother with an extra planet or two.
The entire film was released, tanked and disappeared while my son was out of touch and unable to see it. He was having a much better time where he was than in a movie theaster. He is at Parris Island Marine Corps boot camp.
The "standard business model" if there is one (Copenhagen interpretation?)includes an awfull lot of open source. Drop into a fabric store and find, eh voila, every haute coutuore design for sale as a pattern. Build-it-yourself. Want to buy a chemical? Get all the design specs you need from the manufacturer and probably on line. Same with drugs, go to the PDR (It's an actual, physical, paper book although also available as CDRom) Same with the law, drop in on the local library and check out every decision ever made on "Trees, falling, on passerby, innocent."
Lots of people are making really big bucks with open damn near everything. Think for a minute and find a ton of other examples, music, cars, airpalnes, food (read the list of ingredients). Recipes are open source but people still sign up for cooking lessons.
Moog was/is cool but the music for Forbidden Planet (along with some others)was executed with Theremins (using vacuum tube technolgy) invented in the 30's. The inventor was a Russian whose name transliterates into "Theremin". If memory serves, and it genrally does, these things are still available in kit form. I think RCA manufactured them at one time. IICat
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As a 57 year-old vet whose propeller head son is a US Marine currently in the Med, I have some ideas. /. so I have to save it as a text file, edit the hell out it to get rid of all the crap and then resend as an e-mail. A little pity here - give us an e-mail version for the troops.)
/.ers should be able to crack a lotta pseudo-primes that some terrorist might be using. Course you'll crack some that Aunt Minnie is using too. Your call who's more important.
The Gulf War may have been the first to be seen live on TV but you ain't seen nothin yet. My son is in e-mail contact with us on a daily basis. Yes, he's the company clerk so he has acess to the sat link. If we don't hear from him, we know he's off the ship. If we don't hear from him for a long long time, we'll know he's a casualty.
When I served in the late 60's, mail took a week or more and telephone calls were out of the question - took too long to set up -too expensive etc. Now we can get the latest by e-mai. (By the way, he really misses
There is no enemy state, there are no neutrals and if you are not with us you are against us. But this is still war and will be fought by real people with real guns and bombs and some of them will die. Anyone who thinks they have a clue about war or combat from games, movies or whatever needs a reality check.
There will be no front, no theater of operations, only timetables. Hit A then B then C and then go back and make sure nobody's still moving.
One thing won't change, intelligence is better than bombs. It's one thing to know where the enemy is and what weapons he has (in the case of the Taliban, damn little) but without knowledge of the enemy's INTENTION you're operating blind. The internet, phones, sat commo has never been very secure and you can bet your dinghy that it will become much less secure. If anybody really wants to help, start compiling an atlas of large primes and their multiples. A couple thousnad
There is only one known case of a ground force surrendering to air or naval forces. During the Gulf War, a small Iraqui unit surrendered to a helicopter. The man on the ground will still be the key. You wanna do something? - enlist. In about a year, you'll be an effection soldier, sailor, airman or Marine.
IICat - who is pissed as hell
Does this mean that all the Horoscopes since Pluto was dsicovered will have to be redone? Obviously a scam to keep otherwise unemployables busy. On the other hand, if you're going to ignore the precession of the equinoxes why bother with an extra planet or two.
The entire film was released, tanked and disappeared while my son was out of touch and unable to see it. He was having a much better time where he was than in a movie theaster. He is at Parris Island Marine Corps boot camp.
The "standard business model" if there is one (Copenhagen interpretation?)includes an awfull lot of open source. Drop into a fabric store and find, eh voila, every haute coutuore design for sale as a pattern. Build-it-yourself. Want to buy a chemical? Get all the design specs you need from the manufacturer and probably on line. Same with drugs, go to the PDR (It's an actual, physical, paper book although also available as CDRom) Same with the law, drop in on the local library and check out every decision ever made on "Trees, falling, on passerby, innocent."
Lots of people are making really big bucks with open damn near everything. Think for a minute and find a ton of other examples, music, cars, airpalnes, food (read the list of ingredients). Recipes are open source but people still sign up for cooking lessons.
Moog was/is cool but the music for Forbidden Planet (along with some others)was executed with Theremins (using vacuum tube technolgy) invented in the 30's. The inventor was a Russian whose name transliterates into "Theremin". If memory serves, and it genrally does, these things are still available in kit form. I think RCA manufactured them at one time. IICat