An argument isn't a myth. But I understand what you're trying to say.
Getting back to the original point..
The crewmen on the Apache are exhibiting a healthy reaction to their circumstances and their job. Guys like that adjust well to life in the civilian world.
These guys are going to be tomorrow's homeless vets
The 'homeless vets' thing has been blown way out of proportion. Most of the 'vets' you see on the street are bums with an angle. The only thing they know about the service is what they've seen on the movies.
These guys - and tens of thousands of others - are going to be just what their peers were after coming back from Kuwait, Vietnam, Bosnia, Korea and the Pacific. Business leaders, professors, bus drivers, technicians. Quiet men who don't talk a lot about what they did but know their own value and get things done.
... while Microsoft, to some, appears a tad flabby in the middle — a Chrysler Town & Country driver with a 9 pm bedtime...
Yeah, you hipsters sneer at a 9 pm bedtime. But while you punks are rolling into work at nine-ish and don't really get going until around 10 or so.. I've gotten in a full day's work and I'm out the door by 4 pm to enjoy a beautiful summer spring day.
Can a three year old girl even do that with her arm?
Man, I dunno. All I know for sure is that kids are always surprising me with things they can do when you could swear there is now way for them to do it.
Yet millions of designers, musicians, and other creative professionals love their Apple products,
Look - the guy fixing your jet motor cares about his tools and he buys the best he can, because they enable him to get his job done quickly, with pleasure, and a minimum of fuss. He doesn't care about the company that produced them, much, as long as the tools are the right ones for the job.
Likewise millions of designers, musicians, and IT guys. A Mac is a means to an end, not the end. It's just a tool.
Actually, this isn't a half bad idea; I wonder if any-one's tried it yet.
Ideas are easy - execution is hard.
I suspect your capital costs would be a killer. Bikes are too expensive to just write off the way you can a DVD, but not so expensive that putting a lot of your energy into maintaining / recovering them will be recovered by rental fees. Staffing costs could get you as well.
But I'm just a guy commenting on slashdot: what do I know?
Starbucks and McDonalds business models are based on rapid customer turnover. Get 'em in, get 'em fed/caffeinated, get 'em out.
My local McDonalds remolded early this year into a McCafe. Coffee, some pastry, the wifi in addition to the standard fat pills. The model (for that one) does not quite seem to be the hurry-in/hurry-out model.
Making important decisions on the basis of "Eh, our enemies are just ignorant mud farmers anyway, no problem", on the other hand, is colossally arrogant and extremely dangerous.
No, it's assessing the abilities of your enemies and configuring your tactics and strategy to match.
We can be reasonably certain that the enemy in Afghanistan is not equipped with tanks and AFVs. Our guys don't have to roll down the road expecting to fight the Warsaw Pact, but rather the enemy that is actually there.
This saves a lot of time and maximizes fighting ability of the deployed forces.
It appears they screwed up with this choice, but it does not mean that what they did was the wrong approach.
"As important as this the mentioned article is, it should also be pointed out that any IT staff worth their pay packet should already have port 139 blocked at the firewall, and probably port 445. too."
That is awesome advice if you _have_ an IT staff. People with Windows 7 at home who don't have one of those are SOL I suppose.
No, he said 'military'. The Air Force is like.. working for Shell Oil or something.
Naw, I'm kidding - just had to get the dig in. The Air Force is awesome as long as y'all remember the whole point of having one is to dominate the battlefield, not to play Top Gun.
I would not use Custer as an example. He was commissioned early due to the War, sure. But he spent two years as a lieutenant before being promoted to brigadier general of volunteers.
Promoting regular army officers to high rank as a volunteer was not unheard of and isn't quite the same as giving a guy still in the academy permanent command of a warship.
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An argument isn't a myth. But I understand what you're trying to say.
Getting back to the original point ..
The crewmen on the Apache are exhibiting a healthy reaction to their circumstances and their job. Guys like that adjust well to life in the civilian world.
Some do. Most don't. The 'homeless guy is a deranged vet' thing is a myth.
Keep telling yourself that if it helps you sleep better at night.
Objective truth does that for me, yes.
These guys are going to be tomorrow's homeless vets
The 'homeless vets' thing has been blown way out of proportion. Most of the 'vets' you see on the street are bums with an angle. The only thing they know about the service is what they've seen on the movies.
These guys - and tens of thousands of others - are going to be just what their peers were after coming back from Kuwait, Vietnam, Bosnia, Korea and the Pacific. Business leaders, professors, bus drivers, technicians. Quiet men who don't talk a lot about what they did but know their own value and get things done.
Compliance money ain't wasted if it keeps the government from socking the enterprise with stiff fines and the CEO in jail for non-compliance.
And we're home at the same time because I don't have to deal with traffic at 6:30 PM.
Hardly - I live two miles away from my office. I've heard _of_ commuting but haven't seen any for over a decade.
Yeah, you hipsters sneer at a 9 pm bedtime. But while you punks are rolling into work at nine-ish and don't really get going until around 10 or so .. I've gotten in a full day's work and I'm out the door by 4 pm to enjoy a beautiful summer spring day.
Early bird, worm, etc.
Can a three year old girl even do that with her arm?
Man, I dunno. All I know for sure is that kids are always surprising me with things they can do when you could swear there is now way for them to do it.
I'm not assuming anything. I'm also not underestimating a determined child.
Perhaps. But I've raised five kids: by kid 3 I learned not to underestimate them.
I've fired my friend's .380 - a Bersa. The pull on the trigger did not strike me as something beyond what a toddler can manipulate.
Dude. A .380 is a light pistol. I doubt a toddler could chamber a round, but picking one up and pulling the trigger are well within their capabilities.
I shot my friend's .380 a few weeks ago: a 3-year old has more than enough strength to squeeze the trigger.
Yet millions of designers, musicians, and other creative professionals love their Apple products,
Look - the guy fixing your jet motor cares about his tools and he buys the best he can, because they enable him to get his job done quickly, with pleasure, and a minimum of fuss. He doesn't care about the company that produced them, much, as long as the tools are the right ones for the job.
Likewise millions of designers, musicians, and IT guys. A Mac is a means to an end, not the end. It's just a tool.
€359 is $580. That's approaching the cost of a PC at Wal-Mart, not Apple hardware.
And I bet with some clever design, you could make it so the pneumatic tube system could double as a centralized vacuum system for house cleaning.
You will not be surprised to find you can purchase one for your home.
Large and a target, but not stationary. LST is Landing Ship Tank. In my case it was LST-1193, Fairfax County.
I just really can't see a downside to these things,
The downside is that it brings us that much closer to a William Gibson Future.
We'd like to avoid that.
A torpedo tube has more cubic than the rack I was assigned on an LST.
Actually, this isn't a half bad idea; I wonder if any-one's tried it yet.
Ideas are easy - execution is hard.
I suspect your capital costs would be a killer. Bikes are too expensive to just write off the way you can a DVD, but not so expensive that putting a lot of your energy into maintaining / recovering them will be recovered by rental fees. Staffing costs could get you as well.
But I'm just a guy commenting on slashdot: what do I know?
Go for it: slap together a plan and get busy.
Starbucks and McDonalds business models are based on rapid customer turnover. Get 'em in, get 'em fed/caffeinated, get 'em out.
My local McDonalds remolded early this year into a McCafe. Coffee, some pastry, the wifi in addition to the standard fat pills. The model (for that one) does not quite seem to be the hurry-in/hurry-out model.
Making important decisions on the basis of "Eh, our enemies are just ignorant mud farmers anyway, no problem", on the other hand, is colossally arrogant and extremely dangerous.
No, it's assessing the abilities of your enemies and configuring your tactics and strategy to match.
We can be reasonably certain that the enemy in Afghanistan is not equipped with tanks and AFVs. Our guys don't have to roll down the road expecting to fight the Warsaw Pact, but rather the enemy that is actually there.
This saves a lot of time and maximizes fighting ability of the deployed forces.
It appears they screwed up with this choice, but it does not mean that what they did was the wrong approach.
"As important as this the mentioned article is, it should also be pointed out that any IT staff worth their pay packet should already have port 139 blocked at the firewall, and probably port 445. too."
That is awesome advice if you _have_ an IT staff. People with Windows 7 at home who don't have one of those are SOL I suppose.
No, he said 'military'. The Air Force is like .. working for Shell Oil or something.
Naw, I'm kidding - just had to get the dig in. The Air Force is awesome as long as y'all remember the whole point of having one is to dominate the battlefield, not to play Top Gun.
I would not use Custer as an example. He was commissioned early due to the War, sure. But he spent two years as a lieutenant before being promoted to brigadier general of volunteers.
Promoting regular army officers to high rank as a volunteer was not unheard of and isn't quite the same as giving a guy still in the academy permanent command of a warship.