the cost of deploying a line soldier for a year is on the order of $1 million. granted, that includes transporting to and from theater of operations twice, food, water, fuel, ammo, special pays, and amortization of the public works projects paid for by the unit, etc, etc. Really, Karzai and company skim a decent chunk of that cash, and there's a major accounting oops by dividing the costs of nation building among the individual troops, but in light of that, 1.2 mil per soldier in the unit isn't too terribly 'out there'. As far as what they're paying the majority of them, assuming a specialist (pay grade e-4) with three years in, that's 2123/mo U.S. figure that the combat pay is $250/mo, isolation pay is about $125/mo, if he's married, there's a $250/mo family separation allowance and allowance for housing. put everything together, and that's about $2500/mo for the single spec-4's, and on average, about $3600/mo for the married ones. $30k/year/single soldier, about $45k/year for a married one, everything else is overhead or an accounting trick. An LTC would make probably close to triple what a single soldier makes for a deployment, but it's still a hell of a lot of work and it won't make you wealthy.
Petersburg would be a good candidate. the only reason it doesn't is because there were, notionally, directions of approach that could conceivably take a wagon train of supplies. Then again, it does look a bit like we had Wile E. Coyote doing a lot of the planning there...
You've obviously never seen the aftermath of an IED or an Explosively-Formed Projectile... there are no pleasant ways to die on a modern battlefield (or any other battlefield, for that matter).
you failed to mention one detail about the duration of the muslim conquest of afghanistan: time. Nuristan ["Land of the Light of God"] was known as Takfiristan ["Land of the Infidel Barbarians"] until about 1912, when the conversions finally took root there...
for a lot of people, yes. truth be told, the openness of our society dictates that we have a pretty large degree of vulnerability to that sort of thing. I think the bigger problem is that people engage in the 'man on the moon' fallacy: "we can put a man on the moon, but we can't piece together a conspiracy put together by a bunch of cave-dwelling religious fanatics from the other side of the world before a catastrophe?"
Having been there relatively recently (2008), I'll go ahead and point out that there is absolutely ZERO short-term profit from the Afghans. Zilch for infrastructure, farming beyond subsistance (besides ditch-weed and poppies, and frankly, if I had to live like that for my entire life, I'd probably smoke something more stimulating than tobacco myself), and at least thirty years between mineral surveying and viable large-scale extraction efforts for the interesting metals in the mountains that did such a lovely job making my head hurt when i did commo support for my platoon. And just for grins, remember that most of America's battery production, where the Li-ion sources will be most heavily used, was offshored decades ago... seems to me that this is just a protracted response to 9/11
no one will notice the difference, until they, you know, try to do the things that they've been hired to do, most likely. I don't think that they have macs alongside linux boxen just for grins... and in any case, those machines may not be his to do with as he pleases, to begin with, since he's talking about shuttling data for clients, not merely client sites...
that's 60 years of vitriolic indoctrination for you. we're also told that we have democracy and a truly free market, if you want to get into the myths that most of the adults in this country espouse...
sorry, but linguistically and culturally, all of the Icelanders that I've ever known consider themselves Scandinavian, and you're begging for an argument by grouping them separately. Granted, it's nowhere near the response that my younger sister's second grade teacher got from dad when she claimed that Iceland was part of North America, but still... As far as linguistics go, Icelandic is four vowel mutations from most major dialects of the Viking language (y to u, y to ú, and vice versa). That, by the way, is identical to an old form of Norwegian. Throw in a little more than 700 years of it being passed back and forth between Denmark and Norway which took from 1877 to 1944 to terminate, and I think they have a solid argument in favor of Scandinavian status on their hands.
You know, if Clifford Stoll is eating Ramen at this point, I think it's because he wants to... I also have to wonder if everybody here is really this ignorant of who the man is...
Ironically, out of two mac laptops of differing model that I've had in my home, neither has ever had a webcam indicator on for anything but, well, the webcam being on. Their predecessors with the external camera did, however, periodically give the indicator a green 'on' light without any obvious client software, but for those times, I either closed the iris or unplugged the silly thing...
I'm still kind of floored that it doesn't seem like anybody actually checked for the issue on Apple's site (admittedly, they don't like telling the world that their products aren't perfect) or searching on the internet for similar problems on similar models...
I saw video purporting to be from the school's sysadmin, where he states that it goes into theft mode when it's connected to a non-school network. I've also seen claims from students that it would also happen on the school network, and if they complained or asked about it, they'd get a loaner replacement and told that the problem couldn't be verified on the turned-in laptop...
Exactly right. It's just a shame that nobody remembers the 9th Amendment, which is the only reason Madison and about half of the rest of the framers were even willing to write a Bill of Rights in the first place...
the price tag for iraq is currently about a trillion, with estimates of about 2 trillion of future costs (disability checks, therapy, rehabilitation, etc.) still to be paid out. I'm not sure whether or not that's a highball estimate, projected inflationary, whatever, but it is what it is.
I'm not currently up on afghanistan's bill, but figure i'll be back to that hole before too much longer, and will get an idea there. Not that any estimate is really going to be all that accurate right now, with the upsizing of the war and all the baggage that goes with it. I don't see much chance of getting accountability right there if we can't get it right here, also.
While I can certainly see both points, I do have to find a bit of irony in your sig in that your argument suggests that the only way to retain a modicum of security and essential liberty (freedom from wrongful imprisonment is considered by most to be a rather essential liberty) is to deny others those very things...
not flamebaiting, just noticed an incongruity in your logic. </offtopic>
this strongly implies in some of the text (iirc, control up to 50 ARD or VNC desktops, blah, blah, words...) strongly implies that there is a pretty good amount of codebase shared between ARD and VNC, at least for the remote desktop work. IOW, ARD isn't completely, uniquely apple. but still a good candidate for polishing to the proverbial "blinding shine."
All I know is, I got an iPhone a couple of months ago, and had to sign up for the $35/mo unlimited data plan, and haven't seen any billing higher than the $35 for data access. haven't pushed more than a few tens of megs of data via 3g, though...
and mine is this... think about it, every/.er that fired up the test pulled 100-ish tweets simultaneously for the sparkling dot bling on the test page. that would make the site a slashdot-effect magnifier with a factor of about 100... then again, how many slashdotters actually RTFA?
James Madison, the "Father of the Bill of Rights", was vehemently anti Bill of Rights. The reason for that was that he did not want future generations to believe that the Bill of Rights was an enumeration of the rights and liberties of individuals and their home states, as opposed to the Constitution being a firm boundary of the powers of the Federal Government. He conceded after over a year, and he had the 9th Amendment in mind before any of the other proposed Amendments. To give you an idea of how well that worked for us, when Robert Bork was asked in confirmation hearings to place him on the Supreme Court, he referred to the 9th Amendment as an "ink blot on the Constitution." Thankfully, he did not get confirmed to the Court, but most Justices are averse to referencing Amendment 9 in their findings anyway. Sorry, I'm digressing...
The patent and copyright provisions originally in the Constitution granted an exclusive monopoly on distribution for 17 years from the time the patent was granted, after which, the work in question fell into the public domain. The trade off for the creator was almost two decades of head start, in exchange for protection from other people attempting to derive a profit immediately from said creator's work. Compare and contrast with current American copyright law, DMCA, etc.
Long and short, the current copyright and patent systems are at best the perverted and distorted afterbirth of what Madison wrote in the first place, and trying to pretend that Madison was in favor of writing the Bill of Rights in the first place is patently false.
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the cost of deploying a line soldier for a year is on the order of $1 million. granted, that includes transporting to and from theater of operations twice, food, water, fuel, ammo, special pays, and amortization of the public works projects paid for by the unit, etc, etc. Really, Karzai and company skim a decent chunk of that cash, and there's a major accounting oops by dividing the costs of nation building among the individual troops, but in light of that, 1.2 mil per soldier in the unit isn't too terribly 'out there'. As far as what they're paying the majority of them, assuming a specialist (pay grade e-4) with three years in, that's 2123/mo U.S. figure that the combat pay is $250/mo, isolation pay is about $125/mo, if he's married, there's a $250/mo family separation allowance and allowance for housing. put everything together, and that's about $2500/mo for the single spec-4's, and on average, about $3600/mo for the married ones. $30k/year/single soldier, about $45k/year for a married one, everything else is overhead or an accounting trick. An LTC would make probably close to triple what a single soldier makes for a deployment, but it's still a hell of a lot of work and it won't make you wealthy.
it depends on where you're at. I've heard of ambulance rides in NE OK running around $1500 for a ride...
Petersburg would be a good candidate. the only reason it doesn't is because there were, notionally, directions of approach that could conceivably take a wagon train of supplies. Then again, it does look a bit like we had Wile E. Coyote doing a lot of the planning there...
You've obviously never seen the aftermath of an IED or an Explosively-Formed Projectile... there are no pleasant ways to die on a modern battlefield (or any other battlefield, for that matter).
you failed to mention one detail about the duration of the muslim conquest of afghanistan: time. Nuristan ["Land of the Light of God"] was known as Takfiristan ["Land of the Infidel Barbarians"] until about 1912, when the conversions finally took root there...
for a lot of people, yes. truth be told, the openness of our society dictates that we have a pretty large degree of vulnerability to that sort of thing. I think the bigger problem is that people engage in the 'man on the moon' fallacy: "we can put a man on the moon, but we can't piece together a conspiracy put together by a bunch of cave-dwelling religious fanatics from the other side of the world before a catastrophe?"
Having been there relatively recently (2008), I'll go ahead and point out that there is absolutely ZERO short-term profit from the Afghans. Zilch for infrastructure, farming beyond subsistance (besides ditch-weed and poppies, and frankly, if I had to live like that for my entire life, I'd probably smoke something more stimulating than tobacco myself), and at least thirty years between mineral surveying and viable large-scale extraction efforts for the interesting metals in the mountains that did such a lovely job making my head hurt when i did commo support for my platoon. And just for grins, remember that most of America's battery production, where the Li-ion sources will be most heavily used, was offshored decades ago...
seems to me that this is just a protracted response to 9/11
no one will notice the difference, until they, you know, try to do the things that they've been hired to do, most likely. I don't think that they have macs alongside linux boxen just for grins... and in any case, those machines may not be his to do with as he pleases, to begin with, since he's talking about shuttling data for clients, not merely client sites...
No, they get freaking rich off of welfare recipients...
you'll also note that Iceland modeled its financial markets off of the US...
that's 60 years of vitriolic indoctrination for you. we're also told that we have democracy and a truly free market, if you want to get into the myths that most of the adults in this country espouse...
sorry, but linguistically and culturally, all of the Icelanders that I've ever known consider themselves Scandinavian, and you're begging for an argument by grouping them separately. Granted, it's nowhere near the response that my younger sister's second grade teacher got from dad when she claimed that Iceland was part of North America, but still... As far as linguistics go, Icelandic is four vowel mutations from most major dialects of the Viking language (y to u, y to ú, and vice versa). That, by the way, is identical to an old form of Norwegian. Throw in a little more than 700 years of it being passed back and forth between Denmark and Norway which took from 1877 to 1944 to terminate, and I think they have a solid argument in favor of Scandinavian status on their hands.
And where do Greenlanders fit in?
Anyway, just my 2 krónur...
You know, if Clifford Stoll is eating Ramen at this point, I think it's because he wants to... I also have to wonder if everybody here is really this ignorant of who the man is...
Ironically, out of two mac laptops of differing model that I've had in my home, neither has ever had a webcam indicator on for anything but, well, the webcam being on. Their predecessors with the external camera did, however, periodically give the indicator a green 'on' light without any obvious client software, but for those times, I either closed the iris or unplugged the silly thing... I'm still kind of floored that it doesn't seem like anybody actually checked for the issue on Apple's site (admittedly, they don't like telling the world that their products aren't perfect) or searching on the internet for similar problems on similar models...
I saw video purporting to be from the school's sysadmin, where he states that it goes into theft mode when it's connected to a non-school network. I've also seen claims from students that it would also happen on the school network, and if they complained or asked about it, they'd get a loaner replacement and told that the problem couldn't be verified on the turned-in laptop...
Exactly right. It's just a shame that nobody remembers the 9th Amendment, which is the only reason Madison and about half of the rest of the framers were even willing to write a Bill of Rights in the first place...
the price tag for iraq is currently about a trillion, with estimates of about 2 trillion of future costs (disability checks, therapy, rehabilitation, etc.) still to be paid out. I'm not sure whether or not that's a highball estimate, projected inflationary, whatever, but it is what it is.
I'm not currently up on afghanistan's bill, but figure i'll be back to that hole before too much longer, and will get an idea there. Not that any estimate is really going to be all that accurate right now, with the upsizing of the war and all the baggage that goes with it. I don't see much chance of getting accountability right there if we can't get it right here, also.
While I can certainly see both points, I do have to find a bit of irony in your sig in that your argument suggests that the only way to retain a modicum of security and essential liberty (freedom from wrongful imprisonment is considered by most to be a rather essential liberty) is to deny others those very things...
not flamebaiting, just noticed an incongruity in your logic. </offtopic>
I know a few high school dropouts who could have handled it better, so please don't insult them...
this strongly implies in some of the text (iirc, control up to 50 ARD or VNC desktops, blah, blah, words...) strongly implies that there is a pretty good amount of codebase shared between ARD and VNC, at least for the remote desktop work. IOW, ARD isn't completely, uniquely apple. but still a good candidate for polishing to the proverbial "blinding shine."
All I know is, I got an iPhone a couple of months ago, and had to sign up for the $35/mo unlimited data plan, and haven't seen any billing higher than the $35 for data access. haven't pushed more than a few tens of megs of data via 3g, though...
yeah, i mean, this isn't like hd-dvd vs. blu-ray...
and mine is this... think about it, every /.er that fired up the test pulled 100-ish tweets simultaneously for the sparkling dot bling on the test page. that would make the site a slashdot-effect magnifier with a factor of about 100...
then again, how many slashdotters actually RTFA?
I think you should bear in mind that
Long and short, the current copyright and patent systems are at best the perverted and distorted afterbirth of what Madison wrote in the first place, and trying to pretend that Madison was in favor of writing the Bill of Rights in the first place is patently false.
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