Bet you didn't say that to your first sergeant. As an E1-E-6, the colonel probably didn't really care about your personal opinion of him. But PO the first sergeant and it wouldn't matter how much "respect for your rank" you said.
By the way, if a colonel ever had run an Article 15 on you for making that comment, he'd win. Legally, that phrase doesn't hold water.
I used the M2.50 caliber machine gun a lot (on my M-1, back in the day) and loved weapon. As long as you kept the head space set right, it would tear through trucks, walls, trees all day long. The only real problem was that when you crawled up/down the front of the tank, you had to remember that the barrel could be quite hot!
You're assuming that the buyers have limited funds (like us ordinary mortals.) There are a great number of people in this world for whom, $100,000 is an acceptable entertainment budget. For those persons, it's not a choice between two types of flight. They can easily choose both.
How about pickle juice? No kidding, my daughter decided she like the taste, so poured all the liquid from the jar in the fridge into a glass, then went to check email. A few seconds later, the inevitable happened. When I found out what she spilled, I was so amazed, I didn't have the heart to scold her. Then I opened up the keyboard to find that the acid from the pickle juice had eaten pretty much every circuit in the board. Now I only buy cheapos for the house.
Mr Hawking makes a good case for the existence of time in his book "A brief history of time." However, closer to your arguement, he uses Einstien's General Relativity to show that we each carry our own version of time. He further demonstrates that we can't go back in time by using the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Yet, he devised a now widely accepted concept of "imaginary time" (mathematical definition rather than literary) in which travel in both directions is quite possible.
I have a friend who recently built a prefab. It's quite nice and unless they told you, you wouldn't guess. They said the big problem with pre-fab is financing. Most lenders want to treat prefabs (here in the US) as mobile homes, with much lower spending caps and repayment terms.
Sorry, you're confusing self discipline in personal details with conformation to doctrinal procedures. As an avid D&D player in High School, a West Point grad and an ex M1 officer, I can tell you that if you can't think on your feet and figure out a new way to skin the cat, you won't survive long in mobile armored warfare, let alone dismounted urban warfare.
Recognize also the level you were working at and your particular unit. You didn't get to see how creative your battalion commander had to get to handle his missions with the incredibly lean Ranger force.
If you still doubt me, go back to some of the officers you admired most and ask them about operational and tactical flexibility. Get comfortable, you'll be there a while.
It lists every telecom related acronym I can think of.
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You've also overlooked the most painful and expensive part of the whole business model, regulation. Once you start acting remotely like a local telco, your own telco will report you and then you'll go into a huge, ugly, never ending labrynth of telco regulation. Figure about 10 people on staff just to manage regulatory requirments. Better have more than 2-3 simultaneous connections!
Actually, if you looked at your insulation/windows and replaced that 20 year old hot water heater, you'd probably save a lot more energy than the items you mentioned. Don't get me wrong, I fully support your ideas. As a father of 4 kids, I preach turning of lights/tv's radios, etc every day. But the fact remains that the vast majority of your electric bill comes from heating/cooling your air and your water.
But the opposite is true of their officers. As a famous Russian general once said, "The only thing you be certain about American tactics, is that they will not be followed." If you can think when the pucker factor gets really tight, then you're definitely Infantry officer material.
Having graduated West Point in '86, I fully concur. We proved time and again that careful, repeated exposure to stress while performing demanding mental tasks does lead to increased performance in the majority of strong willed candidates. Those who couldn't adapt, well they went back to Harvard!
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Having been married 18 years, I can tell you that preventative maintenance is much more cost effective than a marital engine rebuild.
Actually, I played Van Riper's role in an earlier wargame (different scenario) at Fort Bragg. Like him, I was a playing the opponent. I looked at the situation and realized that my countries normal tactics (think red) wouldn't stand a prayer, so I was young enough and brash enough to toss out the playbook and happened upon a different, very effective strategy. Like Van Riper, they let the scenario play until it was clear that I had a significant tactical advantage. We halted the simulation, discussed what we had seen, and rationally (and correctly) decided that the size and type of our real opponent wouldn't give him the option of re-inventing and implementing new tactics in mere minutes. We play agained using a more conventional approach. The outcome was hugely different and in fact closely mirrored the real life engagement that occurred several years later.
So, do think the military brass are a bunch of cry babies. The generation running the ship now are very good at using initial simulations to decide what is realistic and what needs to be fixed.
Yep, my Clie 360 is about 4 years old and still does everything I need, without the interruption of a cell phone. I'll replace it when it dies a horrible, tragic, unrepairable death.
Great advice! The real test is if the HS senior is mature enough to listen to such sage advice. Most the young guys I know that THOUGHT they wanted to program games, really just wanted to play them. Turns out that creating a truly new game is hard work! They really don't have a concept of the enourmous amount of work it takes to create the next Halo2.
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Bet you didn't say that to your first sergeant. As an E1-E-6, the colonel probably didn't really care about your personal opinion of him. But PO the first sergeant and it wouldn't matter how much "respect for your rank" you said. By the way, if a colonel ever had run an Article 15 on you for making that comment, he'd win. Legally, that phrase doesn't hold water.
I'd add elevators. Taking them out would do ten times as much good for health on campus as banning very wireless point.
I used the M2 .50 caliber machine gun a lot (on my M-1, back in the day) and loved weapon. As long as you kept the head space set right, it would tear through trucks, walls, trees all day long. The only real problem was that when you crawled up/down the front of the tank, you had to remember that the barrel could be quite hot!
It's more like only letting people you like beat your wife whenever they want...
Ok, you've got my curiosity going. What does your name stand for? I google-calc'd it [exp(pi*sqrt(163))] but it still doesn't ring a bell.
You're assuming that the buyers have limited funds (like us ordinary mortals.) There are a great number of people in this world for whom, $100,000 is an acceptable entertainment budget. For those persons, it's not a choice between two types of flight. They can easily choose both.
How about pickle juice? No kidding, my daughter decided she like the taste, so poured all the liquid from the jar in the fridge into a glass, then went to check email. A few seconds later, the inevitable happened. When I found out what she spilled, I was so amazed, I didn't have the heart to scold her. Then I opened up the keyboard to find that the acid from the pickle juice had eaten pretty much every circuit in the board. Now I only buy cheapos for the house.
Mr Hawking makes a good case for the existence of time in his book "A brief history of time." However, closer to your arguement, he uses Einstien's General Relativity to show that we each carry our own version of time. He further demonstrates that we can't go back in time by using the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Yet, he devised a now widely accepted concept of "imaginary time" (mathematical definition rather than literary) in which travel in both directions is quite possible.
I have a friend who recently built a prefab. It's quite nice and unless they told you, you wouldn't guess. They said the big problem with pre-fab is financing. Most lenders want to treat prefabs (here in the US) as mobile homes, with much lower spending caps and repayment terms.
You wrote "You'll perhaps agree that they have a more social life (this argument does not have statistical validity either)."
Obviously you've never raised teenagers. As a father of 4, I can tell you girls are (BY FAR) much more social than their male peers of the same age.
And yes, I'm old enough to have teenagers and regularly comment on /.
Sorry, you're confusing self discipline in personal details with conformation to doctrinal procedures. As an avid D&D player in High School, a West Point grad and an ex M1 officer, I can tell you that if you can't think on your feet and figure out a new way to skin the cat, you won't survive long in mobile armored warfare, let alone dismounted urban warfare.
Recognize also the level you were working at and your particular unit. You didn't get to see how creative your battalion commander had to get to handle his missions with the incredibly lean Ranger force.
If you still doubt me, go back to some of the officers you admired most and ask them about operational and tactical flexibility. Get comfortable, you'll be there a while.
Try http://www.carrieraccessbilling.com/telecommunicat ions-glossary-a.asp
It lists every telecom related acronym I can think of.
You've also overlooked the most painful and expensive part of the whole business model, regulation. Once you start acting remotely like a local telco, your own telco will report you and then you'll go into a huge, ugly, never ending labrynth of telco regulation. Figure about 10 people on staff just to manage regulatory requirments. Better have more than 2-3 simultaneous connections!
Incredible. You call them the triumverate of procrastion while posting to /.
Hmmmm.....Beautiful! Absolutely beautiful!
Actually, if you looked at your insulation/windows and replaced that 20 year old hot water heater, you'd probably save a lot more energy than the items you mentioned. Don't get me wrong, I fully support your ideas. As a father of 4 kids, I preach turning of lights/tv's radios, etc every day. But the fact remains that the vast majority of your electric bill comes from heating/cooling your air and your water.
Dude, this is slashdot. What do you think we're all doing right now???
But the opposite is true of their officers. As a famous Russian general once said, "The only thing you be certain about American tactics, is that they will not be followed." If you can think when the pucker factor gets really tight, then you're definitely Infantry officer material.
Having graduated West Point in '86, I fully concur. We proved time and again that careful, repeated exposure to stress while performing demanding mental tasks does lead to increased performance in the majority of strong willed candidates. Those who couldn't adapt, well they went back to Harvard!
Having been married 18 years, I can tell you that preventative maintenance is much more cost effective than a marital engine rebuild.
Actually, I played Van Riper's role in an earlier wargame (different scenario) at Fort Bragg. Like him, I was a playing the opponent. I looked at the situation and realized that my countries normal tactics (think red) wouldn't stand a prayer, so I was young enough and brash enough to toss out the playbook and happened upon a different, very effective strategy. Like Van Riper, they let the scenario play until it was clear that I had a significant tactical advantage. We halted the simulation, discussed what we had seen, and rationally (and correctly) decided that the size and type of our real opponent wouldn't give him the option of re-inventing and implementing new tactics in mere minutes. We play agained using a more conventional approach. The outcome was hugely different and in fact closely mirrored the real life engagement that occurred several years later.
So, do think the military brass are a bunch of cry babies. The generation running the ship now are very good at using initial simulations to decide what is realistic and what needs to be fixed.
Yep, my Clie 360 is about 4 years old and still does everything I need, without the interruption of a cell phone. I'll replace it when it dies a horrible, tragic, unrepairable death.
Great advice! The real test is if the HS senior is mature enough to listen to such sage advice. Most the young guys I know that THOUGHT they wanted to program games, really just wanted to play them. Turns out that creating a truly new game is hard work! They really don't have a concept of the enourmous amount of work it takes to create the next Halo2.
Dude - anyone with access to a remotely good looking college girl could defeat your mighty gaurds in a trifle!
That wasn't Cher, it was her plastic surgeon!