I'm not that familiar with USMC (And the US Navy, they both do much the same way), but one small correction: when your enlistment is up, and you haven't completed your 8 year statutory obligation, it's not the "Inactive Reserve" that you go to, it's the Individual Ready Reserve (at least that's what the US Army terms it). There actually is an Inactive Reserve, but that's for people who basically have a temporary deferment, such as performing missionary obligations in support of a recognized church (usually LDS [Mormons], but others can as well), but you're expected to come back to either a Reserve unit or the IRR, with the time spent in the Inactive reserve added on to your 8 year obligation.
Having said that, there are a number of good opportunities through the Military, a lot of skill training that you're unlikely to get right out of high school (and you're unlikely to get offered them if you haven't graduated high school, and not get in at all if the particular service has already filled their quota of non-HS grads). The other thing about the military training is that you are really unlikely to get paid while undergoing it from any other employer. Uncle Sam will want their pound of flesh for it though, as would any employer who puts a lot of money into an "employee's" training. Mostly rides on how well you do on the ASVAB test, and any other additional tests that some specialties require in addition to that (Like the Defense Language Proficiency Test, or DLPT, which is required for language training, and second-language required jobs, mostly in military intelligence). Your physical category will knock you out from many skills as well, many technical jobs require normal color vision, for instance. Then there's your credit and criminal history, often the better jobs require some sort of clearance, or at least a clean background, and they check your credit history as well, to see if you're at risk for bribery and to gauge your trustworthiness.
The top page opens OK, but so far haven't been able to access anything else.
"NASA Images is experiencing high load, please wait 30 seconds and reload."
It's probably superstition on my part as well, but I've felt that drives get "used to" a certain opertating mode, i.e. they are religiously powered down when not in use or they are operating continiously, etc. Like the bearings wear in a certain way or something. Then the normal mode changes, and boom, you start getting errors.
Then you can be like me, and have your one year old daughter turning your system on and off, and on and off. That didn't help my 4 year old IBM Deathstar drive which just died.
I remember HSLink, but does anyone remember BiModem? I think it came out before HSLink, I htought it was better, but really hard to set up, both at the BBS end, and especially at the user end. You could chat during the up/download as well, and you could even use it to update files with just the changes, and not have to download the whole file, a big advantage when very fast modems were 96oo bps, and most people had 2400 bps modems. I ran a BBS called The Brweery in the San Diego, CA USA area, I had BiModem running briefly, but I modded my source code (WWIV) and was never able to get it going again, and since no one used it, I didn't bother putting a lot of time into it, to get it (bimodem) running again.
Hey, I know you!!! I ran The Brewery BBS in the San Diego area for 9 years and 9 months. WWIV software. I think my node number was 6964 or something like that. I have a backup of the old BBS somewhere around here, I think.
The cool thing about BBS's that I haven't seen yet mention here on/., is that generally speaking, your users were local, and if you had a BBS meet, you'd actually get people to show up. Nowadays, using a web-based system, or even a telnet BBS, you'd be lucky to get one person in your local area using it, not much of a user base to have an occaisional meet, much less a weekly one.
Heck, I met my current wife at a weekly BBS meeting. My life would certainly be different without BBS's.
Here in San Diego, if it's in your area code, you don't have to dial a 1, ever (unless of course if you behind a PBX that requiresit). Also, they have carved up the county with so many area codes that there are a lot of local calls that I have to dial 1+3digitAreacode+7digitnumber. I have to dial 11 digits most of the time anyway, it would actually be easier for me to just know I have to dial 10 digits every time. It would also add consitancy to dialling for people travelling, like the person from Nebraska that said they dial 1+7digitnumber to dial LD within the area code, that's not typical, at least in my state.
In the future, we will all probably have some sort of universal lifetime number anyway, that shuold solve the problem. I know AT&T was trying awhile ago with their 700 area code. Does this still exist?
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Having said that, there are a number of good opportunities through the Military, a lot of skill training that you're unlikely to get right out of high school (and you're unlikely to get offered them if you haven't graduated high school, and not get in at all if the particular service has already filled their quota of non-HS grads). The other thing about the military training is that you are really unlikely to get paid while undergoing it from any other employer. Uncle Sam will want their pound of flesh for it though, as would any employer who puts a lot of money into an "employee's" training. Mostly rides on how well you do on the ASVAB test, and any other additional tests that some specialties require in addition to that (Like the Defense Language Proficiency Test, or DLPT, which is required for language training, and second-language required jobs, mostly in military intelligence). Your physical category will knock you out from many skills as well, many technical jobs require normal color vision, for instance. Then there's your credit and criminal history, often the better jobs require some sort of clearance, or at least a clean background, and they check your credit history as well, to see if you're at risk for bribery and to gauge your trustworthiness.
The top page opens OK, but so far haven't been able to access anything else. "NASA Images is experiencing high load, please wait 30 seconds and reload."
It's probably superstition on my part as well, but I've felt that drives get "used to" a certain opertating mode, i.e. they are religiously powered down when not in use or they are operating continiously, etc. Like the bearings wear in a certain way or something. Then the normal mode changes, and boom, you start getting errors.
Then you can be like me, and have your one year old daughter turning your system on and off, and on and off. That didn't help my 4 year old IBM Deathstar drive which just died.
I remember HSLink, but does anyone remember BiModem? I think it came out before HSLink, I htought it was better, but really hard to set up, both at the BBS end, and especially at the user end. You could chat during the up/download as well, and you could even use it to update files with just the changes, and not have to download the whole file, a big advantage when very fast modems were 96oo bps, and most people had 2400 bps modems. I ran a BBS called The Brweery in the San Diego, CA USA area, I had BiModem running briefly, but I modded my source code (WWIV) and was never able to get it going again, and since no one used it, I didn't bother putting a lot of time into it, to get it (bimodem) running again.
Which BBS were you running? I ran one from late 1987 to sometime in 1997 in Poway.
Hey, I know you!!! I ran The Brewery BBS in the San Diego area for 9 years and 9 months. WWIV software. I think my node number was 6964 or something like that. I have a backup of the old BBS somewhere around here, I think. The cool thing about BBS's that I haven't seen yet mention here on /., is that generally speaking, your users were local, and if you had a BBS meet, you'd actually get people to show up. Nowadays, using a web-based system, or even a telnet BBS, you'd be lucky to get one person in your local area using it, not much of a user base to have an occaisional meet, much less a weekly one.
Heck, I met my current wife at a weekly BBS meeting. My life would certainly be different without BBS's.
Here in San Diego, if it's in your area code, you don't have to dial a 1, ever (unless of course if you behind a PBX that requiresit). Also, they have carved up the county with so many area codes that there are a lot of local calls that I have to dial 1+3digitAreacode+7digitnumber. I have to dial 11 digits most of the time anyway, it would actually be easier for me to just know I have to dial 10 digits every time. It would also add consitancy to dialling for people travelling, like the person from Nebraska that said they dial 1+7digitnumber to dial LD within the area code, that's not typical, at least in my state. In the future, we will all probably have some sort of universal lifetime number anyway, that shuold solve the problem. I know AT&T was trying awhile ago with their 700 area code. Does this still exist?