I don't understand the mincing of words. Call it a base or call it a unit location headquarters... I don't care because it doesn't make any difference. Military personnel and equipment are based there. Here's a list of the units stationed at the base that I am referring to:
Headquarters, 1-303rd Armor Battalion
Headquarters & Headquarters Company, 1-303rd Armor Battalion
Company A, 1-161st Infantry Battalion (Mech)
Company B (-), 1-161st Infantry Battalion (Mech)
Detachment 2, Company B, 181st Support Battalion
Company B (-), 341st Military Intelligence Battalion (Linguist)
281st Military Intelligence Battalion
I'm flamebait and this AC is insightful. Give me a fucking break. You seem to be able to determine the intent of other countries building bases next to schools (or schools next to bases) but can't fathom the notion of the US doing the same? Why is it not okay for one country to do it but not for another? The fact is the US has bases next to elementary schools. Whether you consider the city a "battleground" right now, back then, or whenever or not is irrelevant. The fact is it exists. See for yourself...
To further illustrate my point on proximity here's a link to the terraserver satellite image. The school is on the right (shaped sort of like an F), the base is on the left. There is a only a fence separating the two properties.
4) Deliberate usage of civilians and protected sites in an attempt to protect their forces
I love this argument. I went to elementary school near Seattle. The school property was bordered on two sides by a National Guard base. Their garages were 20 feet from the playground. While it was really cool as a child to see tanks, helicopters, and soldiers everyday at recess... as an adult I look back and shiver at the thought of having gone to school that close to a military base. Don't think the US doesn't use these strategies as well.
I'll bet there are no Indian laws regarding the release of Social Security numbers and financial information of Americans.
BTW, it is not illegal in the US to "release" social security numbers and financial information. There are quite a few companies that make a nice profit from selling this information on a daily basis. I doubt that if it is legal in the US that it would be illegal in other countries like India (except perhaps Germany).
Maybe soon I'll be able to call l33tMovieRipper over xyz P2Pclient and ask for The Matrix in person.
You haven't seen it yet?
I guess this fits in with what I don't understand about possessing entertainment media like movies and books. Once I've seen/read it, I don't need it anymore. Movies are seen in theaters or rented on DVD. Books are borrowed or purchased then donated to the local public library. I don't understand this type of consumerism media hoarding.
The article on xyzcomputing.com was slashdotted yesterday. The author of the article is Sal Cangeloso which would appear to be the same as the person who submitted the article to slashdot. Shame on you Sal!
The untold phishing story here is the number of ad revenue hits (clickserve.cc-dt.com) generated for physorg.com by this fear-mongering non-story.
To be fair, slashdot has an established history of posting physorg.com articles so perhaps this really wasn't a "let's post on slashdot and earn a lunch!". But it probably was. Shenanigans.
The submitter is "backBeat" salcan@gmail.com. According to whois.net the domain xyzcomputing.com is registered to Salvatore Cangeloso. It would appear that submitter submitted something from their own website, perhaps written by themselves but passed off as someone else. So what, you ask. Look how the/. article is worded.
This is a descriptive a article about one man and his dual monitor odyssey. After reading the snippet I had to read the article....
Sal has done this before on 9/29/04. Heck, he got a mention for it with regards to slashdotting in this Wired article. This article was submitted by SpaceCanary but with the salcan@gmail.com email address. This/. article is also worded oddly, as if he was just some random surfer who stumbled upon the article:
I recently read this open letter to Windows and I think it's pretty funny. The guy writes a letter...
A search through Slashdot revealed only these two articles containing xyzcomputing but I have no doubt he'll strike again. I wonder if this is an example of slashvertising.
Don't forget the US has a say in what gets said on the 'net.
BTW, you do realize that you linked to a Newsmax article, right? That's like linking to a FoxNews article... but worse. Unless of course, you meant to do that. But I want to believe that maybe you didn't.
We'll get over this investment hump, achieve economies of scale.
Perhaps. However I am putting my money on a different media in the near future: internet radio. "Always on" broadband 'net connection to my portable device (PDA, laptop, mobile phone, car, etc.) will offer a little more content and a little more interactivity at a similar monthly cost to sat radio.
Let me put it another way. My mom has an AM/FM radio that she bought in a garage sale back in the '60s for a couple dollars. That radio still picks up AM/FM signals today. And in my opinion sounds just as good if not better than today's radios. While there are only a couple dozen land radio stations in any given area owned by a couple different companies, the point is this ~$2 ($10 in today's dollars??) investment 40 years ago still works today for free. To put this into today's sat technology context with the two stations for 40 years with constant monthly fee ($25) it would cost $12,000 (40 * 12 * 25).
Now I know the arguments for sat radio over land radio: different technology, more content choices, better quality, fewer commercials. Ironically those were the same arguments to use FM over AM back in the day. You can bet that sat radio is going to have more and more commercials as time and number of subscribers increase. That's what happened to FM. The difference is, sat radio subscribers will be paying for radio with commercials (like cable/sat TV!) and no longer have a viable technology choice for distribution. Try hooking up a VHF/UHF TV set today and see the quality.
Also, the number of choices is counter-intuitive. When given a very large number of choices, people tend to select from a small specific consistent group each time. When there are fewer choices people tend to select more broadly over the whole group. This is often referred to as too much choice. I'd love to see XM listener habit stats. I bet it is very interesting.
While your idea has merit, it seems rather expensive. Today you can buy a simple AM/FM radio for $5 and get the "milk" for free. With your single unit for XM/Sirius you would pay ~$100+ for the radio plus ~$25+/month for both signals. After two years you will have spent for $700 for something that used to cost $5. That's a rather expensive advantage.
What if Marc didn't actually program Mosaic but instead took the project along with some developers to form Mosaic/Netscape? I'm not knocking Marc's vision but to say Mosaic was created by him is a bit of a misnomer. Poor Eric Bina.
Let me first say that I respect your opinion and your faith. However, I completely disagree with your comments. My marriage has nothing to do with your religion and your religion has nothing to do with my marriage. My marriage is between my spouse, me, and God.
There are, as you have pointed out, some social aspects to marriage. These aspects fall into the realm of law, not religion. One of the more important ones has to do with legal rights of the partner. Imagine for a second that God forbid you get into a car accident, your spouse is injured. At the hospital the staff deny you the right to make legal life-altering decisions or even visit with your spouse. Imagine how you would feel if someone said "but all you had to do was go to a lawyer and get a document for a living will, power of attorney, etc." and carry it around with you EVERY DAY for the rest of your life? I can imagine your rage. You see, the government does need to be involved to protect their rights -- and your rights. But that's not why I'm writing.
Also note that we are not the only country with this problem. What the rest of the world does with this situation should be interesting.
Civil unions (marriage or whatever you want to call it) for homosexual couples already exist in multiple countries recognized by their governments for the purpose of enforcing the same rights afforded to heterosexual marriages. Here's a partial list:
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, several Canadian provinces, and the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Several other countries are drafting legislation to recognize same-sex marriages. I do not think they see this as a problem but as a solution.
Slashdot Mirror
Live in your world. Get pwned in mine.
Headquarters, 1-303rd Armor Battalion
Headquarters & Headquarters Company, 1-303rd Armor Battalion
Company A, 1-161st Infantry Battalion (Mech)
Company B (-), 1-161st Infantry Battalion (Mech)
Detachment 2, Company B, 181st Support Battalion
Company B (-), 341st Military Intelligence Battalion (Linguist)
281st Military Intelligence Battalion
According to the Washington Army National Guard website there is a base located at 24410 Military Road, Kent, WA 98032-4110. Here's a map to it on Mapquest.
Sunnycrest Elementary school is located at 24629 42nd Avenue S. Kent, WA 98032. Here's a map to it on Mapquest.
To illustrate my point on proximity here's the driving directions between the two addresses on Mapquest.
To further illustrate my point on proximity here's a link to the terraserver satellite image. The school is on the right (shaped sort of like an F), the base is on the left. There is a only a fence separating the two properties.
Cool, another camera I can't own because I can't take it to work for security reasons. Thanks Samsung!
4) Deliberate usage of civilians and protected sites in an attempt to protect their forces
I love this argument. I went to elementary school near Seattle. The school property was bordered on two sides by a National Guard base. Their garages were 20 feet from the playground. While it was really cool as a child to see tanks, helicopters, and soldiers everyday at recess... as an adult I look back and shiver at the thought of having gone to school that close to a military base. Don't think the US doesn't use these strategies as well.
Why not actually verify that a fix actually exists before telling people how to install it?
Next you'll be telling me that we should verify our reasons to invade Iraq before doing so. We can't have that, can we?
Nice one. But we all know it's Apple that has been dying since 1981.
If guns kill people, then CmdrTaco's keyboard misspells words.
Nice sig.
Isn't it? Just one thing... whether CmdrTaco uses his keyboard correctly or incorrectly no one profits from death.
(flame on)For Windows Firefox users: Tools -> Options... -> Advanced icon (left side) -> Software update section -> Check Now button
I'll bet there are no Indian laws regarding the release of Social Security numbers and financial information of Americans.
BTW, it is not illegal in the US to "release" social security numbers and financial information. There are quite a few companies that make a nice profit from selling this information on a daily basis. I doubt that if it is legal in the US that it would be illegal in other countries like India (except perhaps Germany).
Maybe soon I'll be able to call l33tMovieRipper over xyz P2Pclient and ask for The Matrix in person.
You haven't seen it yet?
I guess this fits in with what I don't understand about possessing entertainment media like movies and books. Once I've seen/read it, I don't need it anymore. Movies are seen in theaters or rented on DVD. Books are borrowed or purchased then donated to the local public library. I don't understand this type of consumerism media hoarding.
sucked
Dell competes at the bottom, Apple competes at the top.
Spot on! I wish I had mod points today. You'd get a gold star.
Mozilla would get further by paying the Dells of the world to put Firefox on their PCs as the default browser.
The article on xyzcomputing.com was slashdotted yesterday. The author of the article is Sal Cangeloso which would appear to be the same as the person who submitted the article to slashdot. Shame on you Sal!
Apple: going out of business since 1984.
To be fair, slashdot has an established history of posting physorg.com articles so perhaps this really wasn't a "let's post on slashdot and earn a lunch!". But it probably was. Shenanigans.
This is a descriptive a article about one man and his dual monitor odyssey. After reading the snippet I had to read the article....
Sal has done this before on 9/29/04. Heck, he got a mention for it with regards to slashdotting in this Wired article. This article was submitted by SpaceCanary but with the salcan@gmail.com email address. This /. article is also worded oddly, as if he was just some random surfer who stumbled upon the article:
I recently read this open letter to Windows and I think it's pretty funny. The guy writes a letter...
A search through Slashdot revealed only these two articles containing xyzcomputing but I have no doubt he'll strike again. I wonder if this is an example of slashvertising.
I call shenanigans!
BTW, you do realize that you linked to a Newsmax article, right? That's like linking to a FoxNews article... but worse. Unless of course, you meant to do that. But I want to believe that maybe you didn't.
We'll get over this investment hump, achieve economies of scale.
Perhaps. However I am putting my money on a different media in the near future: internet radio. "Always on" broadband 'net connection to my portable device (PDA, laptop, mobile phone, car, etc.) will offer a little more content and a little more interactivity at a similar monthly cost to sat radio.
Now I know the arguments for sat radio over land radio: different technology, more content choices, better quality, fewer commercials. Ironically those were the same arguments to use FM over AM back in the day. You can bet that sat radio is going to have more and more commercials as time and number of subscribers increase. That's what happened to FM. The difference is, sat radio subscribers will be paying for radio with commercials (like cable/sat TV!) and no longer have a viable technology choice for distribution. Try hooking up a VHF/UHF TV set today and see the quality.
Also, the number of choices is counter-intuitive. When given a very large number of choices, people tend to select from a small specific consistent group each time. When there are fewer choices people tend to select more broadly over the whole group. This is often referred to as too much choice. I'd love to see XM listener habit stats. I bet it is very interesting.
While your idea has merit, it seems rather expensive. Today you can buy a simple AM/FM radio for $5 and get the "milk" for free. With your single unit for XM/Sirius you would pay ~$100+ for the radio plus ~$25+/month for both signals. After two years you will have spent for $700 for something that used to cost $5. That's a rather expensive advantage.
NCSA Mosaic was programmed by Marc Andreessen
What if Marc didn't actually program Mosaic but instead took the project along with some developers to form Mosaic/Netscape? I'm not knocking Marc's vision but to say Mosaic was created by him is a bit of a misnomer. Poor Eric Bina.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_web_browserhttp://livinginternet.com/w/wi_mosaic.htm
http://www.chrispy.net/marca/gqarticle.html
Google search for ncsa mosaic history
Let me first say that I respect your opinion and your faith. However, I completely disagree with your comments. My marriage has nothing to do with your religion and your religion has nothing to do with my marriage. My marriage is between my spouse, me, and God.
There are, as you have pointed out, some social aspects to marriage. These aspects fall into the realm of law, not religion. One of the more important ones has to do with legal rights of the partner. Imagine for a second that God forbid you get into a car accident, your spouse is injured. At the hospital the staff deny you the right to make legal life-altering decisions or even visit with your spouse. Imagine how you would feel if someone said "but all you had to do was go to a lawyer and get a document for a living will, power of attorney, etc." and carry it around with you EVERY DAY for the rest of your life? I can imagine your rage. You see, the government does need to be involved to protect their rights -- and your rights. But that's not why I'm writing.
Also note that we are not the only country with this problem. What the rest of the world does with this situation should be interesting.
Civil unions (marriage or whatever you want to call it) for homosexual couples already exist in multiple countries recognized by their governments for the purpose of enforcing the same rights afforded to heterosexual marriages. Here's a partial list:
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, several Canadian provinces, and the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Several other countries are drafting legislation to recognize same-sex marriages. I do not think they see this as a problem but as a solution.