Thanks for the thought:). I think someone saw a one-line first post with a link, and out of habit went for "Flamebait" in the dropdown. At least that's what I hope!
A significant part of the Coast Guard's mission is drug interdiction--a good way to get oneself deceased in peacetime is to annoy the drug lords' automatic weapon-armed minions in cigarette boats off the coast of Florida.
As the other poster pointed out, the USCG becomes part of the USN in time of war.
Obligatory humor: Navy sailor to Coastie: "Hey, I hear it rained yesterday!" Coastie to Navy sailor: "So, what?" Navy sailor to Coastie: "Did you get sea pay?"
I spent nine years as an enlisted man in the Navy. One of the best deals I ever received--lots of training. All the camaraderie and adventure they talk about is there, particularly in the Submarine Service (along with the boredom and drudgery that comes with any job).
That being said, I had no idea what I was in for when I enlisted at 17. While recruiters and classifiers (the people that help you pick a specialty) aren't usually lying, they're not always familiar with the specialties that you're enlisting for. For example, to a non-geek, an electician and a network administrator could be pretty similar. For this reason, I recommend seeking the advice of a veteran of the branch of service you're interested in, and, ideally, someone with a similar background (although some specialties, e.g. network administrator, are fairly new in the last few years).
If you decide to go the military route, grab all the education and training you can get. No matter whether you decide to stay after the end of your enlistment or leave for civilian life, it will never be any easier or less expensive to get educated while on the job. Find the Educational Services Office on your ship or station and make them your friends.
I know this stuff is Navy-centric, but the same ideas apply in all branches of service. Also, consider seeking a commission--ROTC will pay your college expenses and a stipend in return for service after. If you even think you might want to become an officer, do not enlist first unless it is your only way into the door. My observation of shipmates seeking a commission was this: a "go-getter" can always move up, however, once you're enlisted, a commission is harder to come by than if you're starting as a civilian.
Also don't forget to have a look at the service academies, particularly the Merchant Marine academy, which itself doesn't even require military service, only work in the maritime industry, after graduation.
Good luck!
P.S.: If you enlist, make sure you do whatever it takes to establish G.I. Bill eligibility. For a time, contribution of $1,200 over a year to establish eligibiity was optional--you had to decide in boot camp, and the decision was unchangeable. Don't make the wrong one.
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I think you've more right than you realize. I had the opportunity to hear David Temoshok, one of the senior civil servants in charge of ACES (Access Certificates for Electronic Services), speak in Washington the year before last.
While he and the GSA seem to be committed to implementing a national PKI, the fact is that this project was tied very much to then Vice-President Gore and his "e-gov" initiaves. If this project is continued by the Bush administration, I suspect it will be radically different in form, just because of that.
Since, according to the recording industry, we only buy a "license" when buying a tape or CD, I just cruise thrift shops and buy used cassettes and 8-tracks for 5 or 10 cents apiece. Thanks to the first sale doctrine, the license is then mine. I then proceed to download the song. I have a license, I have the music, I'm in the clear. Right?
Keep in mind that Iomega has never significantly reduced the prices of its media as capacities became bigger. A 100 MB Zip is still between $15 and $20 most places; a 1GB Jaz disk is $100, even when a sub-$1 CD-RW can hold 6 times the data on a Zip and nearly 2/3 the capacity of a Jaz (and with packet writing, the disadvantages are minimal).
This follows the pattern they've established from the 10MB Bernoulli Box forward--keep the media prices high to force users into newer devices for realistic media prices.
After the RIAA makes OpenNap servers hard to find, the next stop is probably to write a bot that sends nastygrams to the ISP's of those running fserves on #mp3*.
Are you kidding me? Don't you think the major ISP's would _love_ to find an excuse to get rid of the bandwidth hogging alt.binaries hierarchy? This is a win-win for the ISP's--they get to point to the big bad RIAA/MPAA/lawyers _and_ they get their bandwidth back. It's only a matter of time.
OK, I'll buy that. I admit I don't know the relevant law, but it seems like the U.S. would have no jurisdiction over a transaction that took place entirely off its soil.
In Yahoo's case (in which I personally think the French government is way out of line morally), they are suing based on a French endpoint (the potential French purchaser who I guess was nostalgic, pining for the old days of jackboots and the Vichy government before America came and rescued them, which they repay by suing an American company . . . but I digress:).). The example of buying a self destructing Walkman in a Tokyo store has no U.S. endpoint, so I still don't see how a U.S. court could hear the case.
It is a simple fact that some things are more expensive in some areas than others
But what Motorola is trying to support is the engineering of a price difference through technology, not a natural price difference sustainable by market forces. If this sort of thing isn't soundly rejected by consumers, what little faith in the intelligence of humankind I have left will be gone.
. . . but paper can still be read without power during a blackout after a natural disaster (cough, earthquake) or when that ph@t 802.11 isn't working in the ER.
I am not at all comfortable with the idea that records my life may depend upon would be available only from a network if I end up in a hospital.
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For the drug test you can always simply say, "no thanks" and move on.
Until it becomes standard practice throughout your whole industry. Then you can say, "no thanks" and move on to a lucrative position in the food service or janitorial industries.
These are the kind of abuses of "free association" (which can't exist in the imbalance of power between prospective employer and job applicant that the government should be putting a stop to, rather than perpatrating.
I suspect that this desire to move internal applications to Linux is atypical, even for Delphi shops.
While I think Delphi is a neat product (I have minimal exposure to it) and that Linux is better running in constrained resource environments (like those cool machines you linked to), I don't think typical smaller shops will be willing to fork over $1K of their development budget to port Delphi apps to Linux.
Most large shops are so deep under the covers with Bill and his minions that Linux isn't even (to borrow the cliché) on their radar.
Maybe CS professors will start using the personal edition of Kylix in courses, and require that all those linked list, stack, queue, heap, etc. implementations the freshmen write be released under the GPL:).
13 rules for a game in general would be off putting enough for me, much less just for what you can call yourself.
Gawd. I guess I'm old and cynical, but reading those rules disgusted me so much that if I had ever been interested in EQ and seen ihem, I would have been cured!
So buying this software and paying a monthly fee conveys no property right in anything--even the virtual stuff one can obtain in the game? Now I know why I've never played!
Glad everything's turned out OK. Don't answer this if it will cause you problems, but I'm curious as to whether the student who levelled the false accusations faced any disciplinary action and if reference to the incident has been expunged from your student record, or is available to anyone to whom you have a transcript sent.
You mean being a nerd isn't an automatic defense against a sexual harassment action anymore? You know, like driving a Pinto would be a defense against a charge of driving 90 in a 55:).
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One of these would be nice!
As the other poster pointed out, the USCG becomes part of the USN in time of war.
Obligatory humor: Navy sailor to Coastie: "Hey, I hear it rained yesterday!" Coastie to Navy sailor: "So, what?" Navy sailor to Coastie: "Did you get sea pay?"
That being said, I had no idea what I was in for when I enlisted at 17. While recruiters and classifiers (the people that help you pick a specialty) aren't usually lying, they're not always familiar with the specialties that you're enlisting for. For example, to a non-geek, an electician and a network administrator could be pretty similar. For this reason, I recommend seeking the advice of a veteran of the branch of service you're interested in, and, ideally, someone with a similar background (although some specialties, e.g. network administrator, are fairly new in the last few years).
If you decide to go the military route, grab all the education and training you can get. No matter whether you decide to stay after the end of your enlistment or leave for civilian life, it will never be any easier or less expensive to get educated while on the job. Find the Educational Services Office on your ship or station and make them your friends.
I know this stuff is Navy-centric, but the same ideas apply in all branches of service. Also, consider seeking a commission--ROTC will pay your college expenses and a stipend in return for service after. If you even think you might want to become an officer, do not enlist first unless it is your only way into the door. My observation of shipmates seeking a commission was this: a "go-getter" can always move up, however, once you're enlisted, a commission is harder to come by than if you're starting as a civilian.
Also don't forget to have a look at the service academies, particularly the Merchant Marine academy, which itself doesn't even require military service, only work in the maritime industry, after graduation.
Good luck!
P.S.: If you enlist, make sure you do whatever it takes to establish G.I. Bill eligibility. For a time, contribution of $1,200 over a year to establish eligibiity was optional--you had to decide in boot camp, and the decision was unchangeable. Don't make the wrong one.
While he and the GSA seem to be committed to implementing a national PKI, the fact is that this project was tied very much to then Vice-President Gore and his "e-gov" initiaves. If this project is continued by the Bush administration, I suspect it will be radically different in form, just because of that.
Since, according to the recording industry, we only buy a "license" when buying a tape or CD, I just cruise thrift shops and buy used cassettes and 8-tracks for 5 or 10 cents apiece. Thanks to the first sale doctrine, the license is then mine. I then proceed to download the song. I have a license, I have the music, I'm in the clear. Right?
This follows the pattern they've established from the 10MB Bernoulli Box forward--keep the media prices high to force users into newer devices for realistic media prices.
After the RIAA makes OpenNap servers hard to find, the next stop is probably to write a bot that sends nastygrams to the ISP's of those running fserves on #mp3*.
Are you kidding me? Don't you think the major ISP's would _love_ to find an excuse to get rid of the bandwidth hogging alt.binaries hierarchy? This is a win-win for the ISP's--they get to point to the big bad RIAA/MPAA/lawyers _and_ they get their bandwidth back. It's only a matter of time.
It's called "abuse of process" and its use without penalty is reserved for people with money and corporations.
In Yahoo's case (in which I personally think the French government is way out of line morally), they are suing based on a French endpoint (the potential French purchaser who I guess was nostalgic, pining for the old days of jackboots and the Vichy government before America came and rescued them, which they repay by suing an American company . . . but I digress :).). The example of buying a self destructing Walkman in a Tokyo store has no U.S. endpoint, so I still don't see how a U.S. court could hear the case.
But what Motorola is trying to support is the engineering of a price difference through technology, not a natural price difference sustainable by market forces. If this sort of thing isn't soundly rejected by consumers, what little faith in the intelligence of humankind I have left will be gone.
So tell me again how a U.S. law is enforceable against a transaction that took place completely in Japan?
Truth hurts, don't it.
So either they're censors or hypocrites. Oh, wait, they're both.
Of course, some guy at Nike's probably poring over the logs every day looking for the new, clever things people invent, then banning them.
Too long. However, "Hale Bopp" was accepted :).
. . . but paper can still be read without power during a blackout after a natural disaster (cough, earthquake) or when that ph@t 802.11 isn't working in the ER.
I am not at all comfortable with the idea that records my life may depend upon would be available only from a network if I end up in a hospital.
Until it becomes standard practice throughout your whole industry. Then you can say, "no thanks" and move on to a lucrative position in the food service or janitorial industries.
These are the kind of abuses of "free association" (which can't exist in the imbalance of power between prospective employer and job applicant that the government should be putting a stop to, rather than perpatrating.
While I think Delphi is a neat product (I have minimal exposure to it) and that Linux is better running in constrained resource environments (like those cool machines you linked to), I don't think typical smaller shops will be willing to fork over $1K of their development budget to port Delphi apps to Linux.
Most large shops are so deep under the covers with Bill and his minions that Linux isn't even (to borrow the cliché) on their radar.
Maybe CS professors will start using the personal edition of Kylix in courses, and require that all those linked list, stack, queue, heap, etc. implementations the freshmen write be released under the GPL :).
Gawd. I guess I'm old and cynical, but reading those rules disgusted me so much that if I had ever been interested in EQ and seen ihem, I would have been cured!
So buying this software and paying a monthly fee conveys no property right in anything--even the virtual stuff one can obtain in the game? Now I know why I've never played!
Glad everything's turned out OK. Don't answer this if it will cause you problems, but I'm curious as to whether the student who levelled the false accusations faced any disciplinary action and if reference to the incident has been expunged from your student record, or is available to anyone to whom you have a transcript sent.
You mean being a nerd isn't an automatic defense against a sexual harassment action anymore? You know, like driving a Pinto would be a defense against a charge of driving 90 in a 55 :).