Except that they can prove you handled the body, that there was more than one shot and which direction, and the second shot that you are suggesting would tell them a lot too.
The best suggestion is to not shoot someone running away from you, considering thats a crime (as opposed to protecting yourself, which is self defense when they are facing you). The only exception would be if they were running from you towards a family members room/person. Tampering with a body can only get you into more trouble, and forensic personnel will probably catch you if you mess with things, as stuff like that raises suspicion (remember that a gunshot at self defense range ( less than 7 meters) leaves more than a bullet hole in the victim, it leaves a clear pattern of GSR that can establish what direction they were facing when you shot them). Your suggestion is as outdated as the old one where they suggest you drag a body inside your house if you shoot an intruder just outside. And other factors such as you probably are using HP's (as you seem to know something about guns) also can explain more to investigators. Basically I feel about this because its crap like this that gives gunowners a bad name, trying to cover up a crime (and thats what it is) and I would hope that person gets punished, as it would be one less stupid/careless gunowner out there (which I take personally as I am a gunowner and a CCW permit holder, and the bad seeds reflect on us all).
I wish I had some mod points to give you, because this is exactly what I was thinking. So many people seem to blame the situation (and thats like complaining that the sky is blue sometimes, some people just do stuff like this), but oftentimes they share a bit of the responsibility, by blissfully walking around completely unaware of the environment around them. On a crowded street or train/bus its generally ok to have those earphones on, but in places where you are likely to encounter trouble its just plain stupid to not be aware.
old being an operative word.... Someone has not been watching television (and I don't mean CSI or its knockoffs, I mean the real crime stuff). Amazing what they can do/prove nowadays....
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And our ancestors numbered far fewer than us (because petro offers significant enhancements in farming, medicine, etc). To go back to something sustainable we are talking in excess of 90-95 of a hundred people. Volunteering are you?
Perhaps for humans to spread across the galaxy like a bunch of rats or cockroaches would allow us to avoid facing our problems: we could keep breeding with impunity and consume resources. If we found "natives" on other worlds, we'd conquer them, enslave them, and exterminate them. And when we have used up one planet, we would just move on to the next. I feel really sorry for you, to be at the point where you hate your own species so much. I however, love humanity (and all our many flaws), and really want to get us into the position where one little thing (natural or man-made) can remove all that we have been, and all that we can be in an instant. Your second paragraph sounds good (though to be honest it sounds a bit unlikely), but cannot we do it concurrently with an outward expansion. It would be sad if all our dreams turned inward. In my experience/opinion humans can be at their best when they are looking upward and onward.
Regarding drive habits, it just amazes my how many people will speed up to stop at a light or stop sign. It just plain stupid and wasteful. Its stupid, but its a classic. And if you don't join in their insanity they give you dirty looks and will often try to zoom around you. This is the country where light truck/SUV sales now outnumber cars. Were you expecting rational behaviour?
Me too. Too many of my favorite shows get canned all the time. Hopefully someone is paying attention to the information from Tivo in this area. As well as it is safely anonimized its fine by me.
5) Public or private? If you work a government job, it'll generally pay less than the private sector. The compensation is that most tend to have excellent benefits, plenty of vacation time, and little to no overtime. Just keep in mind the "in general" part. There are a few *cough* that make the same, and the benefits more than make up for it (I now make double what I made when I finished college 5 years ago (disregarding the IPO bubble period thats a good place to be).. There is something to be said for 13 days of "sick leave" (yeah right, that system isn't abused) and 13 of annual right off the bat (and 20 after 3 years is a great deal). And if you end up in the right area no one from a foreign country can touch your job (or even get close to the buildings you are working in).
And then you can buy the neato tech gear. (I figured I had earned the right to wear it after I finished my first Ten Miler). Though my first purchase was a wearable MP3 player. It totally kills my motivation. And after you have been running for a while the high tech gear looks good on you (everything from the modern fabric shirts and pants (heck, even the socks and underwear) to the Time Bodylink GPS unit riding on my shoulder.).
Yes, I suppose so... as the crew of the Chinese plane that the American spies swerved into discovered. A little biased there ain't cha? Keep in mind the aircraft involved in the collision, a quad-prop modified P-3 ELINT (electronic intelligence) aircraft. Versus a relatively spritely Mig-21 (knockoff of the style) jet fighter. Its hard to imagine how stupid (or bad a pilot) the chinese pilot had to be to get himself deliberately rammed by the US aircraft. If a US fighter pilot had this happen to him, I would have to wonder what the hell he was doing to let himself even accidentally get hit by the airplane.
Flying along the edge of a countries airspace happens all the time, by anyone that can get the aircraft/ship in range. Luckily for the US most of our neighbors are not actively working against us to provide places to launch from. The russians used to run planes along the edges of our airspace all the time, as well as have "fishing trawlers" ( though they weren't fishing for fish, more for information) along the coast and following our major fleet deployments. Its just the way the game is played.
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Weapons and war are not the answer, dialogue is the only way to peace. Or do we really believe that you can only bring reconciliation by pointing guns at people. The big problem with this thought process is that you do not understand that there are times where it just doesn't flippin work! Would words have stopped the Japanese from spreading in the Pacific or Hitlers move in Europe? Or the North Koreans in during the Korean Conflict? Or... (countless other world events) There simply are just times force must be met with force.
As long as the weapons we place are not WMD's as stated in the treaty, we are not violating the treaty.
Most of the stuff we are looking to deploy are either ABM weapons or small KE smart weapons.
In the US its not automatic. As a matter of fact, if a college grad walked into most recruiting offices here in the states the officer angle would not be mentioned (the only thing that they would mention is that you would enter in at an advanced rank (in the Army, and E-4, in most of the others E-2 or 3 (not quite sure on them, since my main focus area is the Army), which are advanced enlisted, but not NCO ranks). Only with careful prodding will the topic of OCS (which for a college grad is the only (except for certain specialties, like medicine and religion) way in). Most of the officers come from other pipelines, such as the Academies and from ROTC (doing stuff while in college, and often getting a scholorship, and joing as an officer on graduation).
And even if you have a CS degree there is no reason that you will be branched to a group that deals with computers (for example, in the Army the group that deals with computers falls under the Signal branch, and when you attend signals school you get the full range of training, from computers, laying telephone lines, radio communications, encryption, etc). And they may just decide that the need more grunts (or MI, MP, Supply). They call that the "needs of the army". You get some say by indicating where you prefer, but they can place you anywhere there is a need. And that means there are people who studied English or PolSci or Art taking the signals course. For the armed services a degree is generally (always exceptions, but this is the main rule) just a check mark to allow you into the Officer Corps, and what you got it in really doesn't matter as much as that you got it from an accredited university and had a relatively good GPA.
An officer is there to lead, and it doesn't matter too much what your background is, as they will train you with enough information to be able to lead those soldiers (sailors, etc) effectively. It actually makes a lot of sense, as good leaders can generally lead most any group with a little training in the field they are in (which makes more sense than what some corporations do, which is either bring in business people without training them in the field, or promoting techies based on their salary or time with the company without regard to their leadership skills.)
In the US military both of those tasks are in the enlisted ranks (though increasingly the programming task is outsourced to civilian personnel). Officers are meant to be the leaders, not the do-ers. Officers are there to manage the personnel and to to understand enough of the tasks that their subordinates are doing to sucessfully achieve that task. If an American wants to program in the US Military, they will generally have to aim for the enlisted ranks. As with most things there may be exceptions, but this is the general rule for US forces.
Officers are a different breed. There generally is n't much call to advertise for officers as there never really a shortage of people who are looking to stand up for those jobs. In some way its the first mini-test, are you capable enough to research what you need to do to become an officer. The information is out there, you just need to show the initiative. They generally don't want people working for them that are not self starters.
The actual film itself isn't what you would call cheap (makes up more of the cost than you would think, and it only lasts for so long(scratches, dust, etc)).
Actually getting it there and the infrastructure to support that (accountants to ensure you get paid for providing the print, etc) also factor into the price.
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Lets put it this way. You are familiar that property can be sold without the mineral rights being included in the package. Well, in this case the the property doesn't include the rights to those frequencies. Someone else has licensed those bands and you cannot interfere with them (just the same way that you couldn't stop someone from exploiting oil from beneath your property if you don't have the mineral rights, they have the right to exploit them and if you stop them you are violating their property rights).
Foreigners.... those who are not US citizens, who do not pay US taxes and cannot vote in US elections. We elect the people who steer our government, who establish policies and actions that are in the interest of american citizens. I do look at what you people are saying, and I say that you are wrong.
The US is in a perpetual catch-22 situation (damned if we do, damned if we dont). We have been cyclically been bitched at for not being involved in a world or for being too involved in them.
I will state my personal feeling is that there is a major conflict looming, with most of the western world (reluctantly) lined up wiht the US against the quickly spreading stain of radical Islam. The western world and this stain cannot exist in the same environment (look at the issues that the French are encountering with their rapidly growing Islamic community), and the activites of groups like Al-Quada and others have proven that they are willing to go against us and attempt to destroy our way of life.
PS I know all those figures. I have a masters degree and pull information on current events from numerous sources (including non-US news). I just don't care. The US makes policy decisions that are in the interest of the US.
I for one am proud of the US actions in Iraq and Afganistan. My only regret is that actions like Iraq are unlikely to occur again, as there were a number of factors (including oil) that led to it. I would love it if we could go out and wipe some of the genocidal maniacs from certain countries. I believe that Iraq is (or will be soon) a better place than it was under Saddam (which I hope you cannot find a way to defend a leader who used chemical weapons to kill his own people). I will continue to support any actions taken, as a citizen, as a civil servent in support of the DOD, and as a (hopefully soon) part-time soldier in my nations military.
PPS
Wanna guess who I am voting for this year? And unlike a lot of my fellows, I vote.
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One word to answer your scenario.... "Taiwan".
I would hope our government wouldn't stand by and watch one of the more vibrant democracies in that region get squashed by the authoritarian Chinese mainland. Though I do think if they tried they might win, but it would be an awfully bloody victory.
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Foreigners opinions on who we choose to lead our country mean absolutely nothing to the American public. Better yet, they actually can work in favor of Bush (please, as a pro-Bush person, I beg of you to hold some pro-Clark or Dean rallies in your country... while you are at it try and sneak some money into their campaign coffers.) The Republicans would pay to run footage of those demonstrations on TV.
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Except that they can prove you handled the body, that there was more than one shot and which direction, and the second shot that you are suggesting would tell them a lot too.
The best suggestion is to not shoot someone running away from you, considering thats a crime (as opposed to protecting yourself, which is self defense when they are facing you). The only exception would be if they were running from you towards a family members room/person.
Tampering with a body can only get you into more trouble, and forensic personnel will probably catch you if you mess with things, as stuff like that raises suspicion (remember that a gunshot at self defense range ( less than 7 meters) leaves more than a bullet hole in the victim, it leaves a clear pattern of GSR that can establish what direction they were facing when you shot them). Your suggestion is as outdated as the old one where they suggest you drag a body inside your house if you shoot an intruder just outside. And other factors such as you probably are using HP's (as you seem to know something about guns) also can explain more to investigators.
Basically I feel about this because its crap like this that gives gunowners a bad name, trying to cover up a crime (and thats what it is) and I would hope that person gets punished, as it would be one less stupid/careless gunowner out there (which I take personally as I am a gunowner and a CCW permit holder, and the bad seeds reflect on us all).
The price of DHS agents knocking on your door: Your freedom.
I wish I had some mod points to give you, because this is exactly what I was thinking. So many people seem to blame the situation (and thats like complaining that the sky is blue sometimes, some people just do stuff like this), but oftentimes they share a bit of the responsibility, by blissfully walking around completely unaware of the environment around them. On a crowded street or train/bus its generally ok to have those earphones on, but in places where you are likely to encounter trouble its just plain stupid to not be aware.
old being an operative word.... Someone has not been watching television (and I don't mean CSI or its knockoffs, I mean the real crime stuff). Amazing what they can do/prove nowadays....
And our ancestors numbered far fewer than us (because petro offers significant enhancements in farming, medicine, etc). To go back to something sustainable we are talking in excess of 90-95 of a hundred people. Volunteering are you?
Perhaps for humans to spread across the galaxy like a bunch of rats or cockroaches would allow us to avoid facing our problems: we could keep breeding with impunity and consume resources. If we found "natives" on other worlds, we'd conquer them, enslave them, and exterminate them. And when we have used up one planet, we would just move on to the next.
I feel really sorry for you, to be at the point where you hate your own species so much. I however, love humanity (and all our many flaws), and really want to get us into the position where one little thing (natural or man-made) can remove all that we have been, and all that we can be in an instant.
Your second paragraph sounds good (though to be honest it sounds a bit unlikely), but cannot we do it concurrently with an outward expansion. It would be sad if all our dreams turned inward. In my experience/opinion humans can be at their best when they are looking upward and onward.
Regarding drive habits, it just amazes my how many people will speed up to stop at a light or stop sign. It just plain stupid and wasteful.
Its stupid, but its a classic. And if you don't join in their insanity they give you dirty looks and will often try to zoom around you. This is the country where light truck/SUV sales now outnumber cars. Were you expecting rational behaviour?
Me too. Too many of my favorite shows get canned all the time. Hopefully someone is paying attention to the information from Tivo in this area. As well as it is safely anonimized its fine by me.
5) Public or private? If you work a government job, it'll generally pay less than the private sector. The compensation is that most tend to have excellent benefits, plenty of vacation time, and little to no overtime.
Just keep in mind the "in general" part. There are a few *cough* that make the same, and the benefits more than make up for it (I now make double what I made when I finished college 5 years ago (disregarding the IPO bubble period thats a good place to be).. There is something to be said for 13 days of "sick leave" (yeah right, that system isn't abused) and 13 of annual right off the bat (and 20 after 3 years is a great deal).
And if you end up in the right area no one from a foreign country can touch your job (or even get close to the buildings you are working in).
And then you can buy the neato tech gear. (I figured I had earned the right to wear it after I finished my first Ten Miler). Though my first purchase was a wearable MP3 player. It totally kills my motivation. And after you have been running for a while the high tech gear looks good on you (everything from the modern fabric shirts and pants (heck, even the socks and underwear) to the Time Bodylink GPS unit riding on my shoulder.).
Yes, I suppose so... as the crew of the Chinese plane that the American spies swerved into discovered.
A little biased there ain't cha? Keep in mind the aircraft involved in the collision, a quad-prop modified P-3 ELINT (electronic intelligence) aircraft. Versus a relatively spritely Mig-21 (knockoff of the style) jet fighter. Its hard to imagine how stupid (or bad a pilot) the chinese pilot had to be to get himself deliberately rammed by the US aircraft. If a US fighter pilot had this happen to him, I would have to wonder what the hell he was doing to let himself even accidentally get hit by the airplane.
Flying along the edge of a countries airspace happens all the time, by anyone that can get the aircraft/ship in range. Luckily for the US most of our neighbors are not actively working against us to provide places to launch from. The russians used to run planes along the edges of our airspace all the time, as well as have "fishing trawlers" ( though they weren't fishing for fish, more for information) along the coast and following our major fleet deployments. Its just the way the game is played.
Weapons and war are not the answer, dialogue is the only way to peace. Or do we really believe that you can only bring reconciliation by pointing guns at people.
The big problem with this thought process is that you do not understand that there are times where it just doesn't flippin work! Would words have stopped the Japanese from spreading in the Pacific or Hitlers move in Europe? Or the North Koreans in during the Korean Conflict? Or... (countless other world events)
There simply are just times force must be met with force.
Ever looked at a map? Crashing into the sea can be somewhat non-survivable.
As long as the weapons we place are not WMD's as stated in the treaty, we are not violating the treaty.
Most of the stuff we are looking to deploy are either ABM weapons or small KE smart weapons.
In the US its not automatic. As a matter of fact, if a college grad walked into most recruiting offices here in the states the officer angle would not be mentioned (the only thing that they would mention is that you would enter in at an advanced rank (in the Army, and E-4, in most of the others E-2 or 3 (not quite sure on them, since my main focus area is the Army), which are advanced enlisted, but not NCO ranks). Only with careful prodding will the topic of OCS (which for a college grad is the only (except for certain specialties, like medicine and religion) way in). Most of the officers come from other pipelines, such as the Academies and from ROTC (doing stuff while in college, and often getting a scholorship, and joing as an officer on graduation). And even if you have a CS degree there is no reason that you will be branched to a group that deals with computers (for example, in the Army the group that deals with computers falls under the Signal branch, and when you attend signals school you get the full range of training, from computers, laying telephone lines, radio communications, encryption, etc). And they may just decide that the need more grunts (or MI, MP, Supply). They call that the "needs of the army". You get some say by indicating where you prefer, but they can place you anywhere there is a need. And that means there are people who studied English or PolSci or Art taking the signals course. For the armed services a degree is generally (always exceptions, but this is the main rule) just a check mark to allow you into the Officer Corps, and what you got it in really doesn't matter as much as that you got it from an accredited university and had a relatively good GPA. An officer is there to lead, and it doesn't matter too much what your background is, as they will train you with enough information to be able to lead those soldiers (sailors, etc) effectively. It actually makes a lot of sense, as good leaders can generally lead most any group with a little training in the field they are in (which makes more sense than what some corporations do, which is either bring in business people without training them in the field, or promoting techies based on their salary or time with the company without regard to their leadership skills.)
In the US military both of those tasks are in the enlisted ranks (though increasingly the programming task is outsourced to civilian personnel). Officers are meant to be the leaders, not the do-ers. Officers are there to manage the personnel and to to understand enough of the tasks that their subordinates are doing to sucessfully achieve that task. If an American wants to program in the US Military, they will generally have to aim for the enlisted ranks. As with most things there may be exceptions, but this is the general rule for US forces.
Officers are a different breed. There generally is n't much call to advertise for officers as there never really a shortage of people who are looking to stand up for those jobs. In some way its the first mini-test, are you capable enough to research what you need to do to become an officer. The information is out there, you just need to show the initiative. They generally don't want people working for them that are not self starters.
Try E-4 for the Army at least. Thats the norm for a college person who enlists.
The actual film itself isn't what you would call cheap (makes up more of the cost than you would think, and it only lasts for so long(scratches, dust, etc)). Actually getting it there and the infrastructure to support that (accountants to ensure you get paid for providing the print, etc) also factor into the price.
Lets put it this way. You are familiar that property can be sold without the mineral rights being included in the package. Well, in this case the the property doesn't include the rights to those frequencies. Someone else has licensed those bands and you cannot interfere with them (just the same way that you couldn't stop someone from exploiting oil from beneath your property if you don't have the mineral rights, they have the right to exploit them and if you stop them you are violating their property rights).
You don't mind being shot at? If not, Haliburton is offering 80-100k (tax exempt) for their positions in Iraq:
From this article.
Oh, I would say that they definately put something on Mars. Probably many little pieces of stuff.
Foreigners.... those who are not US citizens, who do not pay US taxes and cannot vote in US elections. We elect the people who steer our government, who establish policies and actions that are in the interest of american citizens. I do look at what you people are saying, and I say that you are wrong. The US is in a perpetual catch-22 situation (damned if we do, damned if we dont). We have been cyclically been bitched at for not being involved in a world or for being too involved in them. I will state my personal feeling is that there is a major conflict looming, with most of the western world (reluctantly) lined up wiht the US against the quickly spreading stain of radical Islam. The western world and this stain cannot exist in the same environment (look at the issues that the French are encountering with their rapidly growing Islamic community), and the activites of groups like Al-Quada and others have proven that they are willing to go against us and attempt to destroy our way of life. PS I know all those figures. I have a masters degree and pull information on current events from numerous sources (including non-US news). I just don't care. The US makes policy decisions that are in the interest of the US. I for one am proud of the US actions in Iraq and Afganistan. My only regret is that actions like Iraq are unlikely to occur again, as there were a number of factors (including oil) that led to it. I would love it if we could go out and wipe some of the genocidal maniacs from certain countries. I believe that Iraq is (or will be soon) a better place than it was under Saddam (which I hope you cannot find a way to defend a leader who used chemical weapons to kill his own people). I will continue to support any actions taken, as a citizen, as a civil servent in support of the DOD, and as a (hopefully soon) part-time soldier in my nations military. PPS Wanna guess who I am voting for this year? And unlike a lot of my fellows, I vote.
One word to answer your scenario.... "Taiwan". I would hope our government wouldn't stand by and watch one of the more vibrant democracies in that region get squashed by the authoritarian Chinese mainland. Though I do think if they tried they might win, but it would be an awfully bloody victory.
Foreigners opinions on who we choose to lead our country mean absolutely nothing to the American public. Better yet, they actually can work in favor of Bush (please, as a pro-Bush person, I beg of you to hold some pro-Clark or Dean rallies in your country... while you are at it try and sneak some money into their campaign coffers.) The Republicans would pay to run footage of those demonstrations on TV.