Now for the serious stuff. In war, the mission is accomplished when it's over. If you haven't satisfied your civilian population that the mission you sold them on has been accomplished and the war is over, then "OPORDER" or no, you haven't accomplished your mission.
What you are talking about is politics. War is an extension of politics by "other means." That sign was posted by the servicemen on that ship whose mission, the invasion of Iraq, had been accomplished.
Now, I agree that the mission that Bush sold the public, using political language rather than military, has not been accomplished, and won't be until the troops are home.
I started with Have Spacesuit Will Travel - I was in the third or fourth grade. It made me want to be an engineer.
I have the same experience with the books as o2binbuzios - the books are darker and more political than I remember. I have the same experience in re-reading Dickens. I think they are still appropriate for pre-teens, though (the Heinlein juveniles). The reason you have a different reaction to them now is that you are a different person. The social commentary of Citizen of the Galaxy was well over my head when I first read it, but I understood what it was like to try to fit in among people you don't understand. Have Spacesuit taught me to protect people that are weaker than me and to make my life what I want it to be.
I couldn't have said it better. I have used various flavors of Linux since Redhat 5, both in dual boot and Linux only scenarios. After attempting to get UBUNTU working on a new HP Pavilion laptop, I have given up for the time being. I'm not inexperienced in Linux or incapable of jumping through the required hoops to get wireless and the webcam working, I am just to the point where there are other things I would rather be doing.
Think about if you were driving and someone near to you used a flash bulb. It doesn't damage your eyes but it obscures your vision for a hair of a second. In the daytime you can probably quickly reorient to your surroundings. Imagine it at nighttime. You probably reorient on the yellow and white reflectors on the road, as well as the white and red lights on all of the cars. Still, that is a lot less information than you have available in the daytime.
Now imagine you are flying a helicopter, and you are blinded by the flash bulb for that tiny amount of time. When your vision comes back what do you see? Are you seeing a highway with a straight line of lit cars, or is that the edge of a city, or the horizon? There are a lot of cues out there at night time when you are flying but they are not standardized like the markings on the road are, and the briefest moment of scotoma can obliterate the frame of reference you have built for yourself and force you to rebuild it. You can look at your instrumentation, but if that information conflicts with the other signals you are getting, you are in trouble. This can lead to vertigo, which can last for an extended period of time. Yes, even extending to hours after the pilot lands.
20 years would certainly be excessive in this case, but like another poster noted, when you fire a gun, you are responsible for what is downrange of it, and the same holds true here.
"In Country" USMC provided NIPR: Slow - didn't even try to use it for Morale type purposes.
"In Country" MWR provided internet cafe: was able to access gmail, hotmail, Yahoo! mail, moveon, foxnews, boortz, slashdot...
On ship USMC/NAVY provided NIPR: was able to access gmail, international versions of Yahoo! mail, moveon.org, wwdn, fark, slashdot, boortz (to include the streaming audio), nytimes, cnn, drudge, Bob and Tom.
I never tried Limbaugh or Wonkette or O'Reilly, etc...
My unit did not filter for political content - pornography only. A few guys were caught for that, but nobody was ever taken to task for anything else on the network. Web email was discouraged because of operational concerns. And the "filtering" consisted of a Marine sifting through the proxy logs.
I assume you refer to the National debt. Right. By far the largest portion of the debt is owed by the government to the Federal Reserve; that is, to itself. There is a significant portion owed outside the US, but the US is not "kept afloat" by this. The main problem is that the government spends far too much. Check out come facts and links here.
Many military radios can do frequency hopping - changing frequencies many times a second. So unless you have a similar device AND you know the algorithm, AND you know the starting frequency, AND you know when the radios were turned on...
Come on, I know someone works in a Comm MOS and can 'splain it better;-)
Right. Mr. plastic-man looks completely fake compared to the last time I ACTUALLY saw someone jumping from car to car in my local metropolis. Something about the way he takes those landings just isn't "quite" right. And the fakeness of all that CG-fu pales next to the realism of wire-fu.
The college I went to forced everyone to take a "cluster" of "liberal arts" courses so that everyone would have a "broad" "cultural perspective" even if they were in majors that were not "humanistic."
There were more buzzwords, but I can't recall them. The classes that would fulfill this requirement were at the 300 and 400 level in English, Philosophy, Political Science, etc. I don't recall anyone from any of those majors being forced to take a 300 level math or science course...
Anyhow, for my "values, technology, and society" cluster I took Information Ethics. This was taught by a philosophy professor, and he knew nothing about computers, or any of the issues. He once horrified the entire class by rebooting the classroom's computer by turning it off and turning it back on at the surge protector, without trying CTRL-ALT-DEL, using the "soft" reset button, or passing GO. He basically picked a list of topics and had the students present them in pairs, and made no secret about the fact that he was learning from us so that he could more properly teach the class the following semester.
So I guess the answer is that if you are not familiar with your subject then find someone who is, and that happens to be your students then Hey Presto! The topic I presented to the class was the whole GUI war thing (Apple vs Microsoft), and demonstrated configuring KDE to look like win95 and Mac OS, while the professor looked on awestruck... I also did a paper on emulation, which the professor had been ignorant of, focusing mainly on BLEEM! as it was the new cool thing at the time.
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I would have thought all it took was 1.21 gigawatts.
Um, I don't think the young Jean-Luc did much tea sipping either... something about a bar fight and impaled through the heart.
Now for the serious stuff. In war, the mission is accomplished when it's over. If you haven't satisfied your civilian population that the mission you sold them on has been accomplished and the war is over, then "OPORDER" or no, you haven't accomplished your mission.
What you are talking about is politics. War is an extension of politics by "other means." That sign was posted by the servicemen on that ship whose mission, the invasion of Iraq, had been accomplished.
Now, I agree that the mission that Bush sold the public, using political language rather than military, has not been accomplished, and won't be until the troops are home.
Don't forget: "Imagine a Beowulf cluster..."
I started with Have Spacesuit Will Travel - I was in the third or fourth grade. It made me want to be an engineer.
I have the same experience with the books as o2binbuzios - the books are darker and more political than I remember. I have the same experience in re-reading Dickens. I think they are still appropriate for pre-teens, though (the Heinlein juveniles). The reason you have a different reaction to them now is that you are a different person. The social commentary of Citizen of the Galaxy was well over my head when I first read it, but I understood what it was like to try to fit in among people you don't understand. Have Spacesuit taught me to protect people that are weaker than me and to make my life what I want it to be.
7. Profit!
I couldn't have said it better. I have used various flavors of Linux since Redhat 5, both in dual boot and Linux only scenarios. After attempting to get UBUNTU working on a new HP Pavilion laptop, I have given up for the time being. I'm not inexperienced in Linux or incapable of jumping through the required hoops to get wireless and the webcam working, I am just to the point where there are other things I would rather be doing.
Think about if you were driving and someone near to you used a flash bulb. It doesn't damage your eyes but it obscures your vision for a hair of a second. In the daytime you can probably quickly reorient to your surroundings. Imagine it at nighttime. You probably reorient on the yellow and white reflectors on the road, as well as the white and red lights on all of the cars. Still, that is a lot less information than you have available in the daytime.
Now imagine you are flying a helicopter, and you are blinded by the flash bulb for that tiny amount of time. When your vision comes back what do you see? Are you seeing a highway with a straight line of lit cars, or is that the edge of a city, or the horizon? There are a lot of cues out there at night time when you are flying but they are not standardized like the markings on the road are, and the briefest moment of scotoma can obliterate the frame of reference you have built for yourself and force you to rebuild it. You can look at your instrumentation, but if that information conflicts with the other signals you are getting, you are in trouble. This can lead to vertigo, which can last for an extended period of time. Yes, even extending to hours after the pilot lands.
20 years would certainly be excessive in this case, but like another poster noted, when you fire a gun, you are responsible for what is downrange of it, and the same holds true here.
What do you mean "make" politics a joke...
My experience:
"In Country" USMC provided NIPR: Slow - didn't even try to use it for Morale type purposes.
"In Country" MWR provided internet cafe: was able to access gmail, hotmail, Yahoo! mail, moveon, foxnews, boortz, slashdot...
On ship USMC/NAVY provided NIPR: was able to access gmail, international versions of Yahoo! mail, moveon.org, wwdn, fark, slashdot, boortz (to include the streaming audio), nytimes, cnn, drudge, Bob and Tom.
I never tried Limbaugh or Wonkette or O'Reilly, etc...
My unit did not filter for political content - pornography only. A few guys were caught for that, but nobody was ever taken to task for anything else on the network. Web email was discouraged because of operational concerns. And the "filtering" consisted of a Marine sifting through the proxy logs.
I got my Merv Griffin Show set out of a dumpster!
My grandfather, for one, welcomed our new Martian overlords.
So many emotional responses to the parent!
I think spaceships should take off and land vertically - like God and Robert Heinlein intended.
I also noticed that while there is a small point of light for Dayton - Cincinnati is not lit up even in the "before" picture.
Nor is Indianapolis.
So, yes, I would assume that some artisic license was used.
"It makes me wonder why the military has less stringent requirements."
Money.
Yeah, man. I mean this almost sold me on Christianity! All that lamb's blood freaked me out, though.
You've obviously never heard of heisenbugs.
Y'all may now go back to watching the blinkenlichten.
I assume you refer to the National debt. Right. By far the largest portion of the debt is owed by the government to the Federal Reserve; that is, to itself. There is a significant portion owed outside the US, but the US is not "kept afloat" by this. The main problem is that the government spends far too much. Check out come facts and links here.
Willie: Lunchlady Doris, Have you got any grease?
Doris: Yes.
Willie: Well then (Rips off shirt), grrrrrrrease me up woman!
Doris: Okey-Dokey.
Many military radios can do frequency hopping - changing frequencies many times a second. So unless you have a similar device AND you know the algorithm, AND you know the starting frequency, AND you know when the radios were turned on...
Come on, I know someone works in a Comm MOS and can 'splain it better ;-)
No, no. It just goes to show what kind of crap PC hardware most military members get to run at work that "multigygabyte" would be considered enormous.
Which just goes to show that you shouldn't discuss mathematics in non mathematical language - like English...
The ship is too big; if I walk, the movie will be over!
Right. Mr. plastic-man looks completely fake compared to the last time I ACTUALLY saw someone jumping from car to car in my local metropolis. Something about the way he takes those landings just isn't "quite" right. And the fakeness of all that CG-fu pales next to the realism of wire-fu.
The college I went to forced everyone to take a "cluster" of "liberal arts" courses so that everyone would have a "broad" "cultural perspective" even if they were in majors that were not "humanistic."
There were more buzzwords, but I can't recall them. The classes that would fulfill this requirement were at the 300 and 400 level in English, Philosophy, Political Science, etc. I don't recall anyone from any of those majors being forced to take a 300 level math or science course...
Anyhow, for my "values, technology, and society" cluster I took Information Ethics. This was taught by a philosophy professor, and he knew nothing about computers, or any of the issues. He once horrified the entire class by rebooting the classroom's computer by turning it off and turning it back on at the surge protector, without trying CTRL-ALT-DEL, using the "soft" reset button, or passing GO. He basically picked a list of topics and had the students present them in pairs, and made no secret about the fact that he was learning from us so that he could more properly teach the class the following semester.
So I guess the answer is that if you are not familiar with your subject then find someone who is, and that happens to be your students then Hey Presto! The topic I presented to the class was the whole GUI war thing (Apple vs Microsoft), and demonstrated configuring KDE to look like win95 and Mac OS, while the professor looked on awestruck... I also did a paper on emulation, which the professor had been ignorant of, focusing mainly on BLEEM! as it was the new cool thing at the time.
And, yes, I paid for that crap.