When I was ORDERED to do something VERY illegal (and I worked with COMSEC and two person rule stuff) in the Army, I refused until I had the order in writing, signed by the officer making the order and countersigned by the unit commander.
The Lt dimwit repeated the order, or be courtmartialed, and I threatened to pick up the secure phone and let the Colonel know what she was doing (by this time I was holding my loaded weapon. I WAS NOT going to jail for the bee-otch).
She left the secure room and I never heard boo about the subject again...
Well, my handle is "Cpt_Kirks", which is very similar to "Captain Kirk", a character on "Star Trek", an American televison show back in the 1960's.
The show spawned a series of movies. In the second one, "Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan", Captain Kirk used the phase, "This is damn peculiar..." in relation to an incident in which Khan (a geneticly enhanced criminal from the 21st century) had seized a Star Fleet ship and was about to attack the Enterprise, Kirk's ship.
The "joke" (aka "inane comment") is that I (in the persona of "Cpt_Kirks") am making a statement that Captain Kirk may have made later, based on the outcome of him not raising the sheilds in time to prevent Khan's attack.
Yeah, these would be more in line with the field produced by the deflector dish up front. It is supposed to push particles out of the way at high relativistic speeds.
K-Mart doesn't carry ANY guns. Wal-Mart doesn't carry handguns.
Pretty much only Gun Stores should carry guns, IMHO. It takes a certain level of expertise to properly fill out 4473's bound books and all the other paperwork that goes into selling guns (I have looked into gettiny my FFL, but don't really want to deal the the BS).
Last year, a bill that would have allowed concealed carry on the Virginia Tech Campus was killed off in committee.
If that bill had passed, there is a chance this could have been curtailed.
Strangely enough, the killer did not seem to mind breaking the law in this regard.
If guns were banned in America tomorrow, do you HONESTLY think guns will just "go away"? Tens of thousands of illegal aliens cross the border monthly. Tons of illegal drugs enter the country regularly. Laws are in place banning both of those. All restrictive gun laws do is create a safe environment for violent criminals.
But, why do I bother? You can look up both sides of the issue and make your own mind up. But, please do look at BOTH sides of the issue. Contrary to what you might hear otherwise, there really are two sides.
OK, they are not "being cut off". They can access myspace from home, or somewhere else.
"narrow streets"? Where did you get that? Look, I may be older, but I do remember school. We did whatever we could to avoid actual school work. We didn't have the net yet, but we had other ways.
The point is, students DO NOT get to decide what they want in school. If they did, most would just screw off and play. It's the nature of the beast.
It's like the damn "prayer in school" crap. School is for LEARNING. You want to pray, and convert the sinners, do it on your own time. Hell, I don't even approve of sports in schools. I consider it a terrible waste of limited time and resources. If we could eliminate ALL the bullshit in school, the school day would be about four hours long. I know, we homeschool our son who has Asperger's. It takes four hours to cover all the work, including "homework".
The school has every right to control the net access there. However, the principal does not have the right to use school resources to control what the kids do after school.
These are SCHOOL computers. They are there for EDUCATIONAL purposes. Not for pr0n. Not for myspace. Not for P2P.
There is NOTHING educational on myspace. NOTHING.
The principal is obviously a dick and should be canned for wasting resources. However, myspace should be blocked at schools. Hell, they should block everything, allowing access only to approved sites.
If the kids want to access myspace, pr0n, P2P, etc., let them do it from home, or the public library. School is for learning.
Yeah, Bellsouth's 6MB plan does smoke along. It chews up Comcast and spits them out, speed wise. My oldest son wonders how Comcast can legally run commercials claiming to be faster than DSL.
However, I am trying to decide if they are blocking ports I open up for bittorrent, or if the modem config is getting fracked.
I am kind of a Trek fanatic (couldn't have guessed that, right?), but STTMP (the first Trek movie) kind of blew. Hell, I FELL ASLEEP during the approximately 3 hours it took the Enterprise to fly through the V'ger cloud.
Now, the other Trek movies were MUCH better. "Wrath" is so good, I watch it constantly.
Yeah, I have an old, single LNA dish I use for camping. I have a Radio Shack antenna tripod I mount it on. A couple of minutes with a compass, level and protractor and I am in the ball park. I use the LED on the LNA for fine tuning. It takes longer to stake the tripod than it does to align the dish.
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When I was ORDERED to do something VERY illegal (and I worked with COMSEC and two person rule stuff) in the Army, I refused until I had the order in writing, signed by the officer making the order and countersigned by the unit commander.
The Lt dimwit repeated the order, or be courtmartialed, and I threatened to pick up the secure phone and let the Colonel know what she was doing (by this time I was holding my loaded weapon. I WAS NOT going to jail for the bee-otch).
She left the secure room and I never heard boo about the subject again...
That's funny, I don't care who you are!
I could add that to my collection of t-shirts nobody gets.
I, for one, LOVE paying $1200 for a t-shirt!
(My dad, the Teamster, will now try to hit me with a brick, in good old union fashion).
Damn you Borg!
I just spit coffee all over my monitor!
"What do you mean by that?"
Well, my handle is "Cpt_Kirks", which is very similar to "Captain Kirk", a character on "Star Trek", an American televison show back in the 1960's.
The show spawned a series of movies. In the second one, "Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan", Captain Kirk used the phase, "This is damn peculiar..." in relation to an incident in which Khan (a geneticly enhanced criminal from the 21st century) had seized a Star Fleet ship and was about to attack the Enterprise, Kirk's ship.
The "joke" (aka "inane comment") is that I (in the persona of "Cpt_Kirks") am making a statement that Captain Kirk may have made later, based on the outcome of him not raising the sheilds in time to prevent Khan's attack.
You also forgot:
"Have poster with screen name similar to character in SciFi show make inane comment based on line from said show".
Yeah, these would be more in line with the field produced by the deflector dish up front. It is supposed to push particles out of the way at high relativistic speeds.
This is damn peculiar...
(I really should have raised them)
Kinda like playing tag with rocks.
Oh, I'm sure Cody's lawyers will be having her for breakfast. Along with the school board, the cops involved...
K-Mart doesn't carry ANY guns. Wal-Mart doesn't carry handguns.
Pretty much only Gun Stores should carry guns, IMHO. It takes a certain level of expertise to properly fill out 4473's bound books and all the other paperwork that goes into selling guns (I have looked into gettiny my FFL, but don't really want to deal the the BS).
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Truer words were never written.
I think people who play paintball are crazy. Hell, they actually pretend to kill each other.
Sick, man...
I agree.
I think everyone should take a course on safe gun handling and basic shooting.
It takes a lot of fear of the unknown out of the equation.
A lot of anti-gun types may come to realise they are just tools. Nothing scary or magical, just tools.
You mean like the UK?
You sure seem to have a lot of gun crime for a "gun free society".
Not compared to the US, but then, we don't claim to be gun free.
Last year, a bill that would have allowed concealed carry on the Virginia Tech Campus was killed off in committee.
If that bill had passed, there is a chance this could have been curtailed.
Strangely enough, the killer did not seem to mind breaking the law in this regard.
If guns were banned in America tomorrow, do you HONESTLY think guns will just "go away"? Tens of thousands of illegal aliens cross the border monthly. Tons of illegal drugs enter the country regularly. Laws are in place banning both of those. All restrictive gun laws do is create a safe environment for violent criminals.
But, why do I bother? You can look up both sides of the issue and make your own mind up. But, please do look at BOTH sides of the issue. Contrary to what you might hear otherwise, there really are two sides.
OK, they are not "being cut off". They can access myspace from home, or somewhere else.
"narrow streets"? Where did you get that? Look, I may be older, but I do remember school. We did whatever we could to avoid actual school work. We didn't have the net yet, but we had other ways.
The point is, students DO NOT get to decide what they want in school. If they did, most would just screw off and play. It's the nature of the beast.
It's like the damn "prayer in school" crap. School is for LEARNING. You want to pray, and convert the sinners, do it on your own time. Hell, I don't even approve of sports in schools. I consider it a terrible waste of limited time and resources. If we could eliminate ALL the bullshit in school, the school day would be about four hours long. I know, we homeschool our son who has Asperger's. It takes four hours to cover all the work, including "homework".
The school has every right to control the net access there. However, the principal does not have the right to use school resources to control what the kids do after school.
"Censorship"? WTF?
These are SCHOOL computers. They are there for EDUCATIONAL purposes. Not for pr0n. Not for myspace. Not for P2P.
There is NOTHING educational on myspace. NOTHING.
The principal is obviously a dick and should be canned for wasting resources. However, myspace should be blocked at schools. Hell, they should block everything, allowing access only to approved sites.
If the kids want to access myspace, pr0n, P2P, etc., let them do it from home, or the public library. School is for learning.
RANT OFF.
Dammit!
Why is it I NEVER have any mod points when I come across a post like this? Someone mod this up.
How about, if Utah insists on passing stupid laws like this, just simply have Google or whoever ignore any and all requests from the state?
If Utah internet users are pretty much cut off, maybe they will throw the assholes who pass these laws out on their fat asses.
Yeah, Bellsouth's 6MB plan does smoke along. It chews up Comcast and spits them out, speed wise. My oldest son wonders how Comcast can legally run commercials claiming to be faster than DSL.
However, I am trying to decide if they are blocking ports I open up for bittorrent, or if the modem config is getting fracked.
I have had to remap ports three times lately.
Well, not quite.
STTOS does lead into TNG. BG-old has nothing other than names and basic idea to do with BG-new.
With Star Wars, you can just start watching with EP3 and move on.
I am kind of a Trek fanatic (couldn't have guessed that, right?), but STTMP (the first Trek movie) kind of blew. Hell, I FELL ASLEEP during the approximately 3 hours it took the Enterprise to fly through the V'ger cloud.
Now, the other Trek movies were MUCH better. "Wrath" is so good, I watch it constantly.
Yeah, I have an old, single LNA dish I use for camping. I have a Radio Shack antenna tripod I mount it on. A couple of minutes with a compass, level and protractor and I am in the ball park. I use the LED on the LNA for fine tuning. It takes longer to stake the tripod than it does to align the dish.
The next time you visit Circuit City
That's a laugh. The "next time" will be the first time in a LONG time. Place sucks donkey balls and has for a while.
I would go into my rant about a CC salesdrone trying to steal my already paid for iPaq right in front of me, but that would probably be in bad taste.
The new Doctor has been a hoot, both of them.
I started watching WAY back in the Tom Baker days. I'm the same age as Russel T. Davies, in fact.
Hmm, is Sci-Fi going to pick up Torchwood, or should I just DL it? How is Torchwood? Have you seen it yet?