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Like most of the first generation MREs, the blessed pork patty required preparation...
. . . which, seeing as how I failed to be creative, I ended up not doing, and thought the pork was only 2nd to the chicken a la king in the "disgusting" department. No way I'd waste my cheese or that tiny bottle of tabasco in order to eat that!
Tho I have to admit your idea of preparing it sounds great.
AFN was the bane of my TV viewing while in Europe (and ALL that was on when I was in Turkey!)... The programming was ok, but the propaganda was what stuck with me as making the entire experience suck like a hoover.
But nothing like watching Dave Letterman and Leno back-to-back when I got in each morning:o)
Re:God I hate those things. Well, the older ones..
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But the dehydrated fruit, a little 2.5x2.5x.25 inch square of styrofoam looking fruit was n-a-s-t-y.
You most likely ate it wrong.:o)
The fruit is much, much better when you eat it dry. Prepare it as intended, and it is indeed nasty as hell.
Re:But what about hot dogs and apple pie?
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2 of the components were peanut butter and jelly. You'd put these on your crackers, and you'd have a "PBJ sandwich." You'd usually also have to do some fancy trading/stockpiling to get both peanut butter and jelly. Hope for some sort of cheese if you came up short:o)
Guess that's why they didn't salt the crackers. Having to eat the crackers dry was like chomping into a hard sponge.
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but the food isn't anything worse than the junk we stuff our faces with daily at places like mcdonalds or taco bell.
Depending on where you were stationed, MREs were a step up from your chow hall (which can be argued was a step up from the taco hell/McD's).
But yes, a good chunk of the MREs I had were good. Good enough for me to eat instead of buying food.
Re:But what about hot dogs and apple pie?
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no.
The C rations predated the MREs of the late 80s/early 90s. The MREs came in sealed bags. All the components were vacuum-sealed, and the outer shell that held everything was indestructible, yet yielded to a knife (you were SOL if you didn't have a knife and wanted to eat:o)
Ah yes, the meals I'd forgotten from my last post... beef stew was pretty good. The omelette was slimy, yes. The pork patty was putrid. Chuck the entree and/or barter edible components with yer comrades. Not even the tiny tabasco bottle would save some MREs.
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It's off-topic, but related. ..
Bet the recruiting lines are a mile long.
There're many things the experienced and successful recruiter will conveniently omit. MREs and being subject to spontaneous deployment are 2 such things.
Re:I've had an MRE (and I'm not military)
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I was TDY to turkey for 6 months. I ate MREs every day.
Of course, I also had the commissary available and ate real food as well, so it kinda doesn't count:o)
Re:I've had an MRE (and I'm not military)
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Any civilian could probably try MREs... all they have to do is find the nearest Army Surplus store! They've been known to sell them. Of course, the surplus store is a great place to get current items -- I got my BDU field jacket at one, because I couldn't exchange my OD one for a BDU one, but I was wearing BDUs as my uniform
The dehydrated stuff was best when eaten dry. On the suject of trading components of MREs, that was a whole system in and of itself. A good chunk of real estate in my locker was dedicated to MRE components with which to trade with the officers who usually got the jump on me when the MREs came in
(I usually scavenged the tiny bottles of tabasco and any crackers:oD )
The MREs from at least 1988-1993 or so didn't come with candy. They also looked way different, coming in various shades of dark green and dark brown (good luck opening one if you didn't have yer knife:o)
The last time I ate MREs (1993), the menu was completely different.
No heaters (tho we didn't need them; could use a microwave)
Not a lot of variety in the accessories
Not every MRE came with hot sauce, much to my chagrin
The menu back then went something like:
- Chicken a la king (gross)
- Spicy meatballs and rice (yummy)
- ham and eggs (slimy)
- some other chicken entree (I think it was Chicken and noodles, was also good)
- A chicken and rice entree (good)
There were a few others around, but I forgot about them. One good peripheral item was peanut butter. Another good (and highly competed-for) item was crackers.
Of course, if the MREs didn't suit us, or the officers had already raided them, we could always goto the commissary and buy food!
The troops today are being fed some good shit in those MREs! Anyone out there who's had to eat the current MREs, and can offer some insight into their palatability?
The part about the executives not being on the clock is all good and well. ..
Are you a manager or an executive? Your post sure pins you down as one. The fact is, most of us in the "exempt, salaried cogs in the machine" camp DO NOT just work 8hr days. We are also not on the clock. And we're not compensated for any "overtime," tho we're required to account for anything over 8 hours on the time sheet.
It is my opinion that management and executives control the 2nd-class citizens of the corporati by doing any of the following:
- FUD tactics (ie, "YOu will be fired for <insert vague reason here>") - maintain their lifestyles and pay by reducing those of the workers, and passing it off as "cost savings" - burning out/stressing out workers so they're forced to quit (gets them off the hook for severance) - making the work environment as hostile as it legally can be in order to do the burnout/stress thing above - making workers do the work of several previous workers without compensation - dodging important questions about layoffs, compensation, and performance reviews at all-hands meetings instead of answering them properly - changing the performance system to include a hefty subjective component, saying you won't be fired if you now get the "lowest" rating on the new system, and then turning around and saying these ratings will be used at the next layoff
And that's not even an exhaustive list. The manglement and execs don't care. They want their returns on investment.
What trust? I as a worker try trusting the management and execs initially, but once the BS meter is tripped and they don't explain themselves, that trust is lost, and you get cynical workers such as myself.
So, that's why I think the management/execs rob the workers, and basically treat them like dirt. It's sad that nothing's being done to alter my perceptions. . .
You do realise that ownership is within the reach of all, don't you?
In theory, you're right. In practice, it doesn't work this way.
You confirm this by saying
a few thousand now, invested wisely, can mean a comfortable retirement later on life
This assumes that I -have- the "few thousand" you're casually bandying around. It may be chump change to some, but it's a significant amount of money to me, which I do not have right now.
But, back on topic... yes, money talks, bullshit walks. That's the end of it.
In regards to #4... how is my reading my own game saves and hex-editing them constituting "pirating?"
If I want to cheat, it's a legal option for me to do so by altering the data on my VMU. I may be reading into it too much, but by your verbiage, things like Action Replay, Game Genie, etc... are also "illegal."
reimage the corp laptops every 6 months to prevent packrat ceo's from keeping every email
If you successfully do this and convince the person to lose their email, you're very good indeed.
The reality of it all is that the first thing anyone asks when you come in to reimage their machine is, "But what about my email? Will I still have it after this?" and get very upset if you say no.
Great intentions, but unfortunately a very tough sell.
I should add, in all fairness, that such a setup (IIgs with SCSI) may be common in conventional areas, like the garage sale, or the Goodwill...
I just prefer finding this kit online. Perhaps something like reading the classifieds would help.:o)
It wouldn't be impossible, even to intercept the "bell" device in system memory, and play a nicer fm tone, giving it backwards compatibility.
Hrrmm... I'm now thinking of ways to do that.
1) Watch for accesses to $C030. The problem here is that any program accessing the speaker this way gets intercepted.
2) Alter 3 bytes starting at $FF3A to jump to your routine. The chief problem with this is you'd be having to alter ROM. Not impossible; just a little more difficult, depending on which Apple ][ you have.
3) Use the Language Card's version of the Monitor ROM at all times, and have its $FF3A patched. Big drawback here is you'll lose the nice bell the instant you want to use ProDOS.:o)
What, for when you absolutely, positively have to access a ton of information very, very slowly?
Even if the data gets presented thru ProDOS and to the system at 50kB/sec, it's still a whopping improvement over what most Apple IIe users use now: the disk][ and ProDOS8's disk][ driver. This is like having a BUNCH of copies of/RAM all accessible as one volume, and just as fast as/RAM... and you don't have to worry about losing its contents when powering off or waiting for/RAM to load when you boot.
my question is , is there an easy way to access the filesystem other than on an apple?
It's off the top of my head, but I believe that AppleII::ProDOS can do this from Perl... it'd be a fun project for me some weekend, as my perl-fu needs work.
Not exactly easy, since you do have to write an app, but there're tools out there.
Why? This is easy! I've dreamed of designing my own IDE/PCMCIA/CF board just for this purpose. I have a IIgs and a IIe. The motivation stems generally from the scarcity of mass storage solutions for the IIe -- the UniDisk 3.5 is VERY hard to get your hands on today, and I have yet to see the fabled "SuperDrive" card that lets you use a 1.44MB drive. In the IIgs arena, the Apple High-Speed (or any other) SCSI card is very hard to acquire without fierce competition on ebay.
Some outfits sell the Focus Drive, which purportedly works with a 2.5" IDE disk... But seeing as how CF has dropped in comparison to a hard drive, and it's smaller, and it generates no(t a lot of) heat, and doesn't make you waste loads of space on the IIe, it has appeal.
I see the guy uses the same emulation tools I do -- I ported ADT to ProDOS chiefly to get my 6502 mojo working again... and Apple II Oasis is the best IIe emulator out for win32.
I'll most likely throw my name into the hat for a board... hopefully this is US-based. All the neat AppleII boards seem to originate in Europe for some reason.
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. . . which, seeing as how I failed to be creative, I ended up not doing, and thought the pork was only 2nd to the chicken a la king in the "disgusting" department. No way I'd waste my cheese or that tiny bottle of tabasco in order to eat that!
Tho I have to admit your idea of preparing it sounds great.
Now I'm hungry. Dang.
But nothing like watching Dave Letterman and Leno back-to-back when I got in each morning :o)
You most likely ate it wrong. :o)
The fruit is much, much better when you eat it dry. Prepare it as intended, and it is indeed nasty as hell.
Guess that's why they didn't salt the crackers. Having to eat the crackers dry was like chomping into a hard sponge.
Depending on where you were stationed, MREs were a step up from your chow hall (which can be argued was a step up from the taco hell/McD's).
But yes, a good chunk of the MREs I had were good. Good enough for me to eat instead of buying food.
The C rations predated the MREs of the late 80s/early 90s. The MREs came in sealed bags. All the components were vacuum-sealed, and the outer shell that held everything was indestructible, yet yielded to a knife (you were SOL if you didn't have a knife and wanted to eat :o)
Ah yes, the meals I'd forgotten from my last post... beef stew was pretty good. The omelette was slimy, yes. The pork patty was putrid. Chuck the entree and/or barter edible components with yer comrades. Not even the tiny tabasco bottle would save some MREs.
Bet the recruiting lines are a mile long.
There're many things the experienced and successful recruiter will conveniently omit. MREs and being subject to spontaneous deployment are 2 such things.
Of course, I also had the commissary available and ate real food as well, so it kinda doesn't count :o)
Any civilian could probably try MREs... all they have to do is find the nearest Army Surplus store! They've been known to sell them. Of course, the surplus store is a great place to get current items -- I got my BDU field jacket at one, because I couldn't exchange my OD one for a BDU one, but I was wearing BDUs as my uniform
The dehydrated stuff was best when eaten dry. On the suject of trading components of MREs, that was a whole system in and of itself. A good chunk of real estate in my locker was dedicated to MRE components with which to trade with the officers who usually got the jump on me when the MREs came in
(I usually scavenged the tiny bottles of tabasco and any crackers :oD )
The MREs from at least 1988-1993 or so didn't come with candy. They also looked way different, coming in various shades of dark green and dark brown (good luck opening one if you didn't have yer knife :o)
No heaters (tho we didn't need them; could use a microwave)
Not a lot of variety in the accessories
Not every MRE came with hot sauce, much to my chagrin
The menu back then went something like:
- Chicken a la king (gross)
- Spicy meatballs and rice (yummy)
- ham and eggs (slimy)
- some other chicken entree (I think it was Chicken and noodles, was also good)
- A chicken and rice entree (good)
There were a few others around, but I forgot about them. One good peripheral item was peanut butter. Another good (and highly competed-for) item was crackers.
Of course, if the MREs didn't suit us, or the officers had already raided them, we could always goto the commissary and buy food!
The troops today are being fed some good shit in those MREs! Anyone out there who's had to eat the current MREs, and can offer some insight into their palatability?
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The part about the executives not being on the clock is all good and well. .
Are you a manager or an executive? Your post sure pins you down as one. The fact is, most of us in the "exempt, salaried cogs in the machine" camp DO NOT just work 8hr days. We are also not on the clock. And we're not compensated for any "overtime," tho we're required to account for anything over 8 hours on the time sheet.
It is my opinion that management and executives control the 2nd-class citizens of the corporati by doing any of the following:
- FUD tactics (ie, "YOu will be fired for <insert vague reason here>")
- maintain their lifestyles and pay by reducing those of the workers, and passing it off as "cost savings"
- burning out/stressing out workers so they're forced to quit (gets them off the hook for severance)
- making the work environment as hostile as it legally can be in order to do the burnout/stress thing above
- making workers do the work of several previous workers without compensation
- dodging important questions about layoffs, compensation, and performance reviews at all-hands meetings instead of answering them properly
- changing the performance system to include a hefty subjective component, saying you won't be fired if you now get the "lowest" rating on the new system, and then turning around and saying these ratings will be used at the next layoff
And that's not even an exhaustive list. The manglement and execs don't care. They want their returns on investment.
What trust? I as a worker try trusting the management and execs initially, but once the BS meter is tripped and they don't explain themselves, that trust is lost, and you get cynical workers such as myself.
So, that's why I think the management/execs rob the workers, and basically treat them like dirt. It's sad that nothing's being done to alter my perceptions. . .
In theory, you're right. In practice, it doesn't work this way.
You confirm this by saying
a few thousand now, invested wisely, can mean a comfortable retirement later on life
This assumes that I -have- the "few thousand" you're casually bandying around. It may be chump change to some, but it's a significant amount of money to me, which I do not have right now.
But, back on topic... yes, money talks, bullshit walks. That's the end of it.
If I want to cheat, it's a legal option for me to do so by altering the data on my VMU. I may be reading into it too much, but by your verbiage, things like Action Replay, Game Genie, etc... are also "illegal."
Perhaps they should resort to declaring it as a "SERIAL CABLE" instead of a "DREAMCAST CODER CABLE"
Yet your post is deviod of any action.
I'd do what I've always done -- use the web to search for a solution, and make my own cable.
It's sad that the media serves largely as entertainment these days.
Maybe I'm just cranky because my power's out, and I have to replace the contents of my fridge, and. . . :o/
If you successfully do this and convince the person to lose their email, you're very good indeed.
The reality of it all is that the first thing anyone asks when you come in to reimage their machine is, "But what about my email? Will I still have it after this?" and get very upset if you say no.
Great intentions, but unfortunately a very tough sell.
I should add, in all fairness, that such a setup (IIgs with SCSI) may be common in conventional areas, like the garage sale, or the Goodwill... I just prefer finding this kit online. Perhaps something like reading the classifieds would help. :o)
Hrrmm... I'm now thinking of ways to do that.
1) Watch for accesses to $C030. The problem here is that any program accessing the speaker this way gets intercepted. :o)
2) Alter 3 bytes starting at $FF3A to jump to your routine. The chief problem with this is you'd be having to alter ROM. Not impossible; just a little more difficult, depending on which Apple ][ you have.
3) Use the Language Card's version of the Monitor ROM at all times, and have its $FF3A patched. Big drawback here is you'll lose the nice bell the instant you want to use ProDOS.
Thought-provoking, tho...
Even if the data gets presented thru ProDOS and to the system at 50kB/sec, it's still a whopping improvement over what most Apple IIe users use now: the disk][ and ProDOS8's disk][ driver. This is like having a BUNCH of copies of /RAM all accessible as one volume, and just as fast as /RAM... and you don't have to worry about losing its contents when powering off or waiting for /RAM to load when you boot.
I wonder if it's SmartPort-compatible. . .
It's off the top of my head, but I believe that AppleII::ProDOS can do this from Perl... it'd be a fun project for me some weekend, as my perl-fu needs work.
Not exactly easy, since you do have to write an app, but there're tools out there.
Some outfits sell the Focus Drive, which purportedly works with a 2.5" IDE disk... But seeing as how CF has dropped in comparison to a hard drive, and it's smaller, and it generates no(t a lot of) heat, and doesn't make you waste loads of space on the IIe, it has appeal.
I see the guy uses the same emulation tools I do -- I ported ADT to ProDOS chiefly to get my 6502 mojo working again... and Apple II Oasis is the best IIe emulator out for win32.
I'll most likely throw my name into the hat for a board... hopefully this is US-based. All the neat AppleII boards seem to originate in Europe for some reason.