Is it possible that rules would be relaxed to allow the types of people that can do the job already but may not be "fit" or a "good fit" for/in military service, or is the plan to take airmen and train them to do what you want them to be able to do? Would a civilian with the proper skillset be able to act as a contractor without enlisting, etc?
A buddy of mine got a job hosting an application for a big Pharma company for a drug study. When he traveled to meet the Pharma side of the company, the first 3 people he met checked his hair length... They honestly said "short hair, we can't trust you and your skills with our data..."
I'm not so fortunate, so I got a job in education...
WebCT CE 4.1 is still supported until Jan of '09, and our license expires 8/1/08. The new BB/WebCT company has been so poor wtih support, etc. that instead of the Big Change to Vista or CE 6.x we're makign the Big Change to Angel....
Now, if they made CE 4.1 Open Source, I'd be all over it like you wouldn't believe - its a good system, works well, just needs a db in the background instead of touch/lock files or files with a few characters in them...
Maybe not a Red Ryder, but there are pellet rifles that push a 25-30 grain (about 15.5 grains per gram).22 cal pellet at 1000 feet/sec... this is almost the power of a 22 long rifle (1100 fps with a 35-40 grain bullet)
2 10s and a 40 at home, a 10 at work. And when I enclose an office for myself at the house later this year, She Who Must Be Obeyed has given permission for a LARGE tank... I'm thinking close to 300 gallons for keeping NA Natives in. BTW - ever head over to www.monsterfishkeepers.com ?
The second also says "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"...
user@darkstar:~$ links -dump http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html | grep "the people" or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. or to the people.
So what is different about the words "the people" in the above examples (all from the same old important document)??
Not sure about school age, but my 4 year old son (who is the size of a 6 year old... he towers over some kids in his older sister's 2nd grade class) managed to get *10* discs into the slot loading drive of the iMac I have set up for the kids to use.
Funny thing is that the drive still works, but only reading the outside half of a disc. So CD isos get burned to DVDs and I can read all of 'em, install from 'em, etc. but not CD images on a CD or a DVD image on a DVD - only get about half way thru it...
In one of my '60s vintage Porsche Panorama mags (magazine from the PCA) there is a quote from Ferry along the lines of "I don't care how they pronounce my family name, as long as they buy my cars"
FWIW, I learned that it is more of an "uh" sound than a "ah" sound...
Porsche goes after folks using the name (or likeness of it - Al Zim's shop in Texas was called Por-Sha and got sued) and the font(s) that they designed...
Funny thing is that you can make and sell copies of the orignal factory workshop manuals (at least for 356s, not sure about later cars, but then I don't own a later P-car...) because the German copyright expired on them a while back...
No, Porsche protects their trademarked font, etc. and their name. Which is why Al Zim's original shop in Texas - called Por-Sha - was sued and put out of business, at least under that name (it is Zim's Autotechnik now, great place to do business with if you need 356/912/early 911 parts).
However, they don't go around suing folks taking pics of their cars to include in a calendar, even when that calendar is being sold by a club, etc.
No, I drive a 1965 Porsche 356 C coupe, with a neck snapping 75hp from the factory. Think balanced and blue printed VW Type 1 engine with a nicer body design (still by I. Komeda) and a monocoque chassis (none of this pan crap)
Nice to see the VW idea (small affordable car for The People) keeping on. Also nice to see that the low horsepower is there, after all, horsepower is for those who can't keep their speeds up in the corners.
Actually, not so much thinkging of carrying on-board. I can accept that it wouldn't be good to have N number of armed folks, etc. with different levels of training. However, the background check and fingerprints that you go thru for a permit (currently, at least in Fl) would probably help a lot - after all, its sorta like the government pre-approving you.
Also, having 2 armed, armored, and properly trained air marshals (or similar) at the front of the plane facing backwards in jump seat with 5 point harnesses would help on-board incidents as well.
Flight crew gets on, locks door. Armed escorts get in, buckle in. Then passenger boarding.
Easy. Nationwide concealed carry licenses with no restrictions on where to carry. Background check thru NCIC, then fingerprint check as well. People who have carry permits already (38 states have some provision IIRC) are involved in less crimes by percent than sworn police officers...
In fact, I think I'll use my Florida permit next time I fly as my "state issued picture ID".:)
3 year next day on site parts warranty for Dell desktops, same but 24hr shipping in/out for laptops, worth the extra $$. This, and the fact that Dell desktops all have everything built in and a full array of slots, and I've never had issues with Linux on Dells (as far as hw support). Of course, this is all buying the Optiplex and Lattitude line, either via work or buying as a "small/home business" not as a "home user".
As I've said for awhile, that comparison is only valid if your own time is worthless...
Actually, putting Ubuntu on it was easy. I simply changed the HW to have the intel based wireless instead of the broadcom (this was in April/May, so U7.10 wasn't out) and it *all* just worked bootign from the CD. So installing/configuring took an extra 30-45 minutes, which even at my "$300/hr to reinstall windows 'cause I really don't want the work" "consulting rates" puts the "cost" of the Ubuntu Dell at $900... still $200 less than the cheapest Mac laptop I can get, which would be similar in spec (1.8ghz cpu, 1gb ram, etc)...
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Is it possible that rules would be relaxed to allow the types of people that can do the job already but may not be "fit" or a "good fit" for/in military service, or is the plan to take airmen and train them to do what you want them to be able to do? Would a civilian with the proper skillset be able to act as a contractor without enlisting, etc?
Michael Yon is still over there, embedded as they get... and with no corporate support,etc. http://www.michaelyon-online.com/
So lets list our favorites, or good ones, or whatever...
http://michaelyon-online.com/ - embedded reporter with no corporate sponsor, etc. Does it all on his own, takes *amazing* photos, and writes well...
A buddy of mine got a job hosting an application for a big Pharma company for a drug study. When he traveled to meet the Pharma side of the company, the first 3 people he met checked his hair length... They honestly said "short hair, we can't trust you and your skills with our data..."
I'm not so fortunate, so I got a job in education...
WebCT CE 4.1 is still supported until Jan of '09, and our license expires 8/1/08. The new BB/WebCT company has been so poor wtih support, etc. that instead of the Big Change to Vista or CE 6.x we're makign the Big Change to Angel....
Now, if they made CE 4.1 Open Source, I'd be all over it like you wouldn't believe - its a good system, works well, just needs a db in the background instead of touch/lock files or files with a few characters in them...
Only when it is an interesting death, or a particularly cool suicide move - sorta like the teleporter "accidents" in classic Quake/QuakeWorld
Maybe not a Red Ryder, but there are pellet rifles that push a 25-30 grain (about 15.5 grains per gram) .22 cal pellet at 1000 feet/sec... this is almost the power of a 22 long rifle (1100 fps with a 35-40 grain bullet)
heh. I have 2 Elmore originals here in my office - got them at GenCon in '83 or '84...
Anyone else remember Dragon magazine and the spoof on getting sued by the Tolkien estate - they weren't allowed to say "ring".
"Someone get the phone, its circular metal banding off the hook!"
2 10s and a 40 at home, a 10 at work. And when I enclose an office for myself at the house later this year, She Who Must Be Obeyed has given permission for a LARGE tank... I'm thinking close to 300 gallons for keeping NA Natives in. BTW - ever head over to www.monsterfishkeepers.com ?
Well, the 2nd Amendment is really your last stand for protecting a password...
You make that sound like a bad thing...
Not to mention the Linux distro that they ship on the 770, 800, and 810, and maemo, etc.
The second also says "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"...
user@darkstar:~$ links -dump http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html | grep "the people"
or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to
the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and
construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
or to the people.
So what is different about the words "the people" in the above examples (all from the same old important document)??
Not sure about school age, but my 4 year old son (who is the size of a 6 year old... he towers over some kids in his older sister's 2nd grade class) managed to get *10* discs into the slot loading drive of the iMac I have set up for the kids to use.
Funny thing is that the drive still works, but only reading the outside half of a disc. So CD isos get burned to DVDs and I can read all of 'em, install from 'em, etc. but not CD images on a CD or a DVD image on a DVD - only get about half way thru it...
Yeah, but you can still go to jail under the DMCA for bypassing the DRM...
In one of my '60s vintage Porsche Panorama mags (magazine from the PCA) there is a quote from Ferry along the lines of "I don't care how they pronounce my family name, as long as they buy my cars"
FWIW, I learned that it is more of an "uh" sound than a "ah" sound...
Porsche goes after folks using the name (or likeness of it - Al Zim's shop in Texas was called Por-Sha and got sued) and the font(s) that they designed...
Funny thing is that you can make and sell copies of the orignal factory workshop manuals (at least for 356s, not sure about later cars, but then I don't own a later P-car...) because the German copyright expired on them a while back...
No, Porsche protects their trademarked font, etc. and their name. Which is why Al Zim's original shop in Texas - called Por-Sha - was sued and put out of business, at least under that name (it is Zim's Autotechnik now, great place to do business with if you need 356/912/early 911 parts).
However, they don't go around suing folks taking pics of their cars to include in a calendar, even when that calendar is being sold by a club, etc.
No, I drive a 1965 Porsche 356 C coupe, with a neck snapping 75hp from the factory. Think balanced and blue printed VW Type 1 engine with a nicer body design (still by I. Komeda) and a monocoque chassis (none of this pan crap)
Nice to see the VW idea (small affordable car for The People) keeping on. Also nice to see that the low horsepower is there, after all, horsepower is for those who can't keep their speeds up in the corners.
Actually, not so much thinkging of carrying on-board. I can accept that it wouldn't be good to have N number of armed folks, etc. with different levels of training. However, the background check and fingerprints that you go thru for a permit (currently, at least in Fl) would probably help a lot - after all, its sorta like the government pre-approving you.
Also, having 2 armed, armored, and properly trained air marshals (or similar) at the front of the plane facing backwards in jump seat with 5 point harnesses would help on-board incidents as well.
Flight crew gets on, locks door. Armed escorts get in, buckle in. Then passenger boarding.
Easy. Nationwide concealed carry licenses with no restrictions on where to carry. Background check thru NCIC, then fingerprint check as well. People who have carry permits already (38 states have some provision IIRC) are involved in less crimes by percent than sworn police officers...
:)
In fact, I think I'll use my Florida permit next time I fly as my "state issued picture ID".
3 year next day on site parts warranty for Dell desktops, same but 24hr shipping in/out for laptops, worth the extra $$. This, and the fact that Dell desktops all have everything built in and a full array of slots, and I've never had issues with Linux on Dells (as far as hw support). Of course, this is all buying the Optiplex and Lattitude line, either via work or buying as a "small/home business" not as a "home user".
As I've said for awhile, that comparison is only valid if your own time is worthless...
Actually, putting Ubuntu on it was easy. I simply changed the HW to have the intel based wireless instead of the broadcom (this was in April/May, so U7.10 wasn't out) and it *all* just worked bootign from the CD. So installing/configuring took an extra 30-45 minutes, which even at my "$300/hr to reinstall windows 'cause I really don't want the work" "consulting rates" puts the "cost" of the Ubuntu Dell at $900... still $200 less than the cheapest Mac laptop I can get, which would be similar in spec (1.8ghz cpu, 1gb ram, etc)...