Couple of issues here (avoiding the whole flame aspect):
1) While logistics would be a pain, if the US camped a couple of carrier battle groups off the coast of a given country, they would own the sky and sea in short order. It becomes much easier to keep supplied when you can do that.
2) Iraq had something like the 3rd largest army in the world back in 1991, which the US effectively neutralized in a month or so. Again, airpower is king. The country isn't large or exceptionally modern, but it was quite a military foe.
3) If Iraq is small, then there aren't many countries that are a big military threat. Germany, the UK, israel... the list is small and we're on good terms of most of the strongest countries (coincidence? I think not)
4) The fact that the US hasn't fought a "big" country in years doesn't mean jack with regards to the ability to. I've never mugged someone, that doesn't mean I'm too weak to.
Sure, there's some arrogance from the US on the military front, it makes sense. Like it or not, the US posesses the strongest military force in the world.
Hate us for our culture, politics, whatever, that's an subjective opinion and you are welcome to them. But military strength is an objective thing, and hatred of the States doesn't diminish that.
And yeah, if we fought a united (!) Europe, we could probably be beaten. There are a zillion better reasons not to attack, least of all being that France is a strong ally...
Challenger was a forseen engineering/political problem. Columbia was somewhat different... if we're going to use the car analogy, columbia ran into serious road debris.
Of course, NASA was aware of this possibility, and (erroneously) discounted the danger. But there's a difference between a failed component and a major impact. Few aircraft (except maybe the A-10) are designed to fly with gaping holes in the wings.
This is true... I had several years of experience, including several applications written for my (work) department at school.
Another thing: If you can get a skill that differentiates you, it helps a LOT. My grades sucked, but when I was competing with the "2 quarters of ASP" kids and I had 4 years CGI experience, plus some java, it made me a lot more marketable. Not so much the skills, but that I acquired 'em on my own. Being a geek is helpful.
I came out of school in 2000 (I heard the.com bubble go "pop" as I got my diploma), for 'bout 50k. Depends on your skillset and attitude.
Be aware that you'll do better (bosses who like you and your work give better raises) if, in addition to tech skills, you show critical thinking and responsibility.
Maybe not, though. (dear god I'm discussing SW fashion. sigh).
Theoretically the empire is going downhill over time, so it makes sense that the equipment circa episode 4 is pretty beat up. Nonetheless, vader is the 2nd in charge of the whole deal, so one would assume that he's going to be taken care of. In the real world, many dictators have gold plated houses while their citizens starve. could be the same here.
I took a better route... since they blamed us for our offshore counterparts incompetence (I'm not making and racial generations... the company we worked with just sucked), I changed employers and let 'em sit in their own shit.
That might be true in theory, but in my experience it rarely works out well. Half the time the next morning you get "we didn't understand" or "we're done", but it's wrong.
The value of being able to walk into your boss/project managers office is not to be overstated.
Nah, I wasn't trolling, I'm just tired of hearing that phrase used like some global justification.
Of course it is a representation of a philosophy towards information. And if someone can justify that, cool. But just repeating the phrase to explain why "waah, I'm not getting something for free" is done WAY too often. Like I said elsewhere, a clever slogan does not a convincing argument make.
And, yes, you did respond. If you thought I was trolling, why?
(I never troll. However, I often have opinions that differ from the local concensus. Slashdot has a problem with this, I know:) )
Out of curiousity, is it the request or the tone that is irritating? For example, if I said "your app is great, but I use [insert protocol here] and it doesn't seem to be supported. Is there any chance that you could add it?", is that ok?
And I second you on the courtesy opinion. Even if the developer gets no money, he/she spent some time writing and thus deserves appreciation.
All systems have an expected lifespan... how long until something breaks in a critical way. So, you lowball that number to get a minimum # of days that you can reasonably trust the system, and then prioritize/sequence the events to happen in that time.
If you get bonus days, cool... then the lower prio stuff gets done. But you'd hate to have the "detect life" function scheduled for day 300 and have the batteries run out on 298...
If it makes you feel any better, I believe that some of the powerpack and higher CDs contain some proprietary software which costs MDK money to distribute; Some of the cost gets passed on to you.
Also (seriously NOT a flame) when I joined the club, it clearly defined what was in the different levels. Maybe the page has been rewritten unclearly or something.
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Thank you :)
Couple of issues here (avoiding the whole flame aspect):
1) While logistics would be a pain, if the US camped a couple of carrier battle groups off the coast of a given country, they would own the sky and sea in short order. It becomes much easier to keep supplied when you can do that.
2) Iraq had something like the 3rd largest army in the world back in 1991, which the US effectively neutralized in a month or so. Again, airpower is king. The country isn't large or exceptionally modern, but it was quite a military foe.
3) If Iraq is small, then there aren't many countries that are a big military threat. Germany, the UK, israel... the list is small and we're on good terms of most of the strongest countries (coincidence? I think not)
4) The fact that the US hasn't fought a "big" country in years doesn't mean jack with regards to the ability to. I've never mugged someone, that doesn't mean I'm too weak to.
Sure, there's some arrogance from the US on the military front, it makes sense. Like it or not, the US posesses the strongest military force in the world.
Hate us for our culture, politics, whatever, that's an subjective opinion and you are welcome to them. But military strength is an objective thing, and hatred of the States doesn't diminish that.
And yeah, if we fought a united (!) Europe, we could probably be beaten. There are a zillion better reasons not to attack, least of all being that France is a strong ally...
Challenger was a forseen engineering/political problem. Columbia was somewhat different... if we're going to use the car analogy, columbia ran into serious road debris.
Of course, NASA was aware of this possibility, and (erroneously) discounted the danger. But there's a difference between a failed component and a major impact. Few aircraft (except maybe the A-10) are designed to fly with gaping holes in the wings.
Yup, yup. I obviously wasn't responding to the ASK fucking SLASHDOT post, now was I ?
This is true... I had several years of experience, including several applications written for my (work) department at school.
Another thing: If you can get a skill that differentiates you, it helps a LOT. My grades sucked, but when I was competing with the "2 quarters of ASP" kids and I had 4 years CGI experience, plus some java, it made me a lot more marketable. Not so much the skills, but that I acquired 'em on my own. Being a geek is helpful.
I came out of school in 2000 (I heard the .com bubble go "pop" as I got my diploma), for 'bout 50k. Depends on your skillset and attitude.
Be aware that you'll do better (bosses who like you and your work give better raises) if, in addition to tech skills, you show critical thinking and responsibility.
generalizations, rather. How the fuck did I miss like 4 or 5 letters?
Maybe not, though. (dear god I'm discussing SW fashion. sigh).
Theoretically the empire is going downhill over time, so it makes sense that the equipment circa episode 4 is pretty beat up. Nonetheless, vader is the 2nd in charge of the whole deal, so one would assume that he's going to be taken care of. In the real world, many dictators have gold plated houses while their citizens starve. could be the same here.
I took a better route... since they blamed us for our offshore counterparts incompetence (I'm not making and racial generations... the company we worked with just sucked), I changed employers and let 'em sit in their own shit.
That might be true in theory, but in my experience it rarely works out well. Half the time the next morning you get "we didn't understand" or "we're done", but it's wrong.
The value of being able to walk into your boss/project managers office is not to be overstated.
What's also cool is to have the entire album on a loop, since the beginning of the first song and end of the last (quietly) are connected.
Eh, most of us do 85 anyway. And drink at 15. Ain't laws great?
Now now, be nice. Our country is 20 times bigger than yours. Takes a lot longer to deploy this stuff.
:)
Keep it up and I'll start comparing long distance road systems
Shit, death metal has more changes per verse than most entire albums (bands, genres...) do :)
Aw, as AC? that was funny! (not that Funny gets you karma, but still)
Nah, I wasn't trolling, I'm just tired of hearing that phrase used like some global justification.
:) )
Of course it is a representation of a philosophy towards information. And if someone can justify that, cool. But just repeating the phrase to explain why "waah, I'm not getting something for free" is done WAY too often. Like I said elsewhere, a clever slogan does not a convincing argument make.
And, yes, you did respond. If you thought I was trolling, why?
(I never troll. However, I often have opinions that differ from the local concensus. Slashdot has a problem with this, I know
Out of curiousity, is it the request or the tone that is irritating? For example, if I said "your app is great, but I use [insert protocol here] and it doesn't seem to be supported. Is there any chance that you could add it?", is that ok?
And I second you on the courtesy opinion. Even if the developer gets no money, he/she spent some time writing and thus deserves appreciation.
Challenge not my vocabulary...
All systems have an expected lifespan... how long until something breaks in a critical way. So, you lowball that number to get a minimum # of days that you can reasonably trust the system, and then prioritize/sequence the events to happen in that time.
If you get bonus days, cool... then the lower prio stuff gets done. But you'd hate to have the "detect life" function scheduled for day 300 and have the batteries run out on 298...
If it makes you feel any better, I believe that some of the powerpack and higher CDs contain some proprietary software which costs MDK money to distribute; Some of the cost gets passed on to you.
Also (seriously NOT a flame) when I joined the club, it clearly defined what was in the different levels. Maybe the page has been rewritten unclearly or something.
Good point. Will it help if I post "Hot Women want to be free!" a few times? :)
er, BUG fixed, sorry.
The "Community" is more like an advance release candidate. It was patched, but fixed, and became the Official.
It's OK because they need to cover their production costs and bandwidth.
There's no causation between slogans and logic, friend... ya need a better reason than that (or am I just troll feeding?)
Hmm.
I want a hot japanese woman to appear in my office RIGHT NOW!
DAMNIT, I'm SERIOUS!
Fuck, guess "I Want" doesn't work...