-That- is the first time a game had elicited feelings like that from me... I actually teared up a little. Maybe it was going from being frustrated with Floyd to being grateful at his becoming less annoying to the sudden loss...
Oddly enough, I didn't feel as much emotion playing Ultima V, when I lost Iolo... Even though V had grapphics and Planetfall didn't, I felt stronger connection to the characters and events of the text based Planetfall...
Aargh... meant to say:
MST3K bought the rights to air the movies they mocked. This is why most of the subject movies were old and/or very unsuccessful. These movies were the cheapest.
If you want to see what the minds behind MST3K are doing these days, go to "Rifftrax.com". Same idea, but since they now only provide a commentary track, they can use more recent movies such as "The Matrix" or "300".http://www.rockwellcollins.com/careers/index .html
"...all they had for the 20-30 mins I was stuck watching it was some guy tearing into Bush like it was no one's business to do."
Why is it no one's business not to do? What makes Bush so special that he is above criticism? He's not a king... We settled issues like that some 225 years ago. He's a man, in a country with free speech. Except for the fact that rules for his appearances don't allow for anyone to freedom assemble, of course... Or his press secretaries have warned others not to ask questions that make him look bad... or you're not allowed to say the words "Fuck you!" to the Vice President, even though the VP freely uses them with to others...
A good IT policy will be restrictive, and put limits on its users. Officers, especially the asshats that make it to the Pentagon, hate have restrictions put on them. Some high ranking zero probably whined when he found out that some web sites were blocked, and when he couldn't get to "Ostrichlove.com", told the IT guys to remove all blocking from his computer. Then the officer and his colleagues started visiting all sorts of nasty virus infected sites. Not to mention all the people taking their laptops home with them to do "work".
When I worked at Pt Mugu Naval Station, my unit CO called me into his office to tell me that a colleague had sent a classified document through the unclassified email system, and asked me what he had to do. I told him that the Base IT department had to be informed, and that per official memorandums his computer, and possible the base mail server and the originating base mail server and sending computer would have to be digitally scrubbed, and an incident report filed with the Navy Computer Incidence Response Team. He turned to the (civilian) IT guy who had walked into the room after me, and whined "can't I just delete the letter, and there will be no classified material on my PC?" The IT guy immediately said "Yes sir, that's all that needs to be done!".
The captain was happy; he got the answer he wanted to hear. The IT guy was happy; he had gotten out of doing a lot of work and made the captain happy.
When I see "FTN", I automatically think of my favorite TLA, "Fuck the Navy"...
True story. Back when Orlando had a major Naval base, a young man robbed a convenience store. The newswoman describing the story said that the the kid's initials were "FTN", since that was written on the toes of his sneakers. A person rushed in from off camera and whispered into her ear. She got red and told the audience that those letters probably stood for something else that she couldn't say on air.
I can't think of the acronym for a launch sequence... retirement is slowly sapping my memory.
I agree entirely... so what's taken them so long to "...water the tree of Liberty"?
The answer: the majority of people (not necessarily yourself) who loudly champion the Second Amendment don't give a damn about the rest of the Bill of Rights.
Failure to enforce separation of Church and State? "Those godless commies are trying to ban God!"
Unreasonable search and seizure? "Well it's only dug dealers, or people accused of being drug dealers, or brown people that had cash on them and -could- have been drug dealers..."
Freedom to assemble? "Why should those gutless protesters be allowed within a mile of the President? They can say whatever they want in the "Free Speech Zone" that's set up for them, far from where anyone can see or hear them so they don't bother anyone."
Free speech? "Seeing my country's flag burned makes me feel bad. We have to outlaw it!"
Habeous Corpus? "Huh?" or "Well, if the government has to take away a little freedom in order to keep me safer, I'm all for it!"
While there are probably ardent supporters of the second amendment that don't echo these beliefs, personal experience and online reading tend to make me believe that as long as it's the freedoms of minorities that are being endangered, or you chant "terror", 9/11, and "everything changed on September 11th", you can do whatever you want and the majority of vocal Second Amendment supports won't care one bit... as long as they get to keep their guns.
I'm not even asking them to literally take up arms; I just want to see one of these "cold dead fingers" types stand up and speak up when they see our liberties being eroded.
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
COTS stands for "Commercial, Off The Shelf"... Items that can be found in the civilian world. For example, instead of spending millions of dollars developing a navigation radar, they might just buy a commercial model from Furuno.
This is the first step of undoing the stupidity that ensued when they mandated that all official documents be written in the proprietary format of Microsoft Word, a couple of decades ago.
AC posts:
"But nobody tells them homosexuals etc show 30 - 40% sexual abuse rates as kids in many studies."
Sources? Oh never mind, you're an AC, as well as a troll. Leave, and go back to feeling guilty over masturbating to what you probably think are "dirty, dirty thoughts".
... dating back to 1886 and a case involving the Southern Pacific railroad. Turns out that we (and most people), are wrong... the victim of an overzealous court reporter/capitalist bastard...
From the Straight Dope http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030919.html/
A recent article on the Straight Dope Web site says that in a famous 1886 case the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations are "persons" having the same rights as human beings based on the 14th Amendment, which was intended to protect the rights of former slaves. Not to nitpick, but the Supreme Court made no such decision. If you look at the case in question, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, you see that the court itself never rules on personhood. A court reporter by the name of J.C. Bancroft Davis (a former railroad president) snuck that "ruling" into the books. --bex, via the Straight Dope Message Board
You can alway just type "ctrl+h" (ctrl+shift+h" for IE) (or click the button at top of your browser)and get your history of sites visited... Heck, Both IE's Firefox's are even searchable.
If your area charges extra landfill fees for monitors or other electronics, your company might have to pay money to properly dispose of the monitor. Maybe $15 (or whatever) is trivial, but letting you keep it is one less expense for them.
John Titor: On my worldline, it is known that the the Innovation SSI 2001 soundcard is capable of
reading all the sound data recorded before the widespread use of MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. This is required for us to translate the last remaining copies of some very important files.
a) Zero gravity -can- cause nausea, but not always. Being at sea on a boat can cause nausea too, but as the Love Boat proves lots of people have sex at sea...;)
b) "astronauts perspire a LOT" Source of that assertion? I would tend to think the opposite, since I would think that the areas are climate controlled. In any event, since when di sweat keep people from having sex?
c) It is possible to have an orgasm without an erection, or even increased blood flow to the clitoris.
There have been many, many cases of mixed space crews... the Space Station often has at least one female crew member, and there have been some Space Shuttle crews that had both a husband and wife on board. I highly doubt that in the 50 odd years of human space flight not one couple has had sex together... If no one else, the Russians would have done a secret study of it.
Registered Coward v2 stated over the 1MC:
Yea. right. Prussian Blue on the growler earpiece. Contests to see who can tighten the vice the most on their thumbs. Long multi-watch arguments over anything, the more obscure the better. Taking the blowing sanitary sign off the aft head. Forward pukes vs the nukes. ::sigh:: I miss going to sea...
Which means I've forgotten how stupid it was on a day to day basis.
Assuming you believe it was suicide...
A few things were odd about that. He allegedly shot himself in the chest, as opposed to head. If I was going to kill myself, I'd want to make sure it worked by shooting myself in the head.
He supposedly killed himself in order to avoid putting friends and family through the "shame" of his wearing the wrong medal... so instead he puts them through the "shame" of a suicide.
Even if he -did- kill himself, it wasn't over the medal. He was probably more afraid of what other dirt that would be dug up about him... say maybe he was the gay member of the Joint Chiefs that was rumored to exist?
In any event, his death was a damn shame... He was one of the few officers above O-3 worth a damn, and probably the best CNO since Zumwalt (another Admiral that gave a damn about the deck plate squid and was hated by his peers for it...)
I was stationed in the Kingdom of Bahrain for a few months, and apparently most of the country's internet goes through its University, which is (or was) blocked by Slashdot for some reason. I could access the site, but not login, even after I sent email to the Slashdot admins as instructed.
Not very important in the grand scheme of things, just annoying at the time.
You are 100% correct, a "malfunction" would be easier to pull off, and would use smaller electronic bits. But, you still need to send the signal to the bird in flight when you want to trigger an "accident". Sea launched ballistic missiles don't have receiver antennas normally installed. They ones we put in are very large, and they just have to communicate over a relatively short range.
There isn't much room to place these things, just the nose section, and the space between the rocket stages. The rockets themselves are solid rocket fuel, like a giant version of the Estes model rocket kits.
Feel free to doubt my job; this is the internet, after all, and I could be making all this stuff up. Though if you have a lot of free time on your hands, you can look at past posts and find out that I've been claiming to be in the Navy for a while. Which still doesn't make me necessarily believable, just more consistent than -some- liars and kooks...:)
The US doesn't own the sea; it's actually a lease that'll be terminated as soon as anyone gets annoyed enough with us to use their stealthy diesel boats and anti-ship missiles to take out.our carriers.
For a possible preview of this scenario, look up the Malvinas War (or the Faulklands War, if you would prefer), where the UK lost two ships to what everyone assumed was an ignorant Third World country, and never did manage to locate all of Argentina's submarines.
Anti-missile technology has advanced since then, but missile technology has advanced more.
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-That- is the first time a game had elicited feelings like that from me... I actually teared up a little. Maybe it was going from being frustrated with Floyd to being grateful at his becoming less annoying to the sudden loss... Oddly enough, I didn't feel as much emotion playing Ultima V, when I lost Iolo... Even though V had grapphics and Planetfall didn't, I felt stronger connection to the characters and events of the text based Planetfall...
"Code for the code god! Code for the code god!"
Aargh... meant to say: MST3K bought the rights to air the movies they mocked. This is why most of the subject movies were old and/or very unsuccessful. These movies were the cheapest. If you want to see what the minds behind MST3K are doing these days, go to "Rifftrax.com". Same idea, but since they now only provide a commentary track, they can use more recent movies such as "The Matrix" or "300".http://www.rockwellcollins.com/careers/index .html
MST 3000 = "Rifftrax.com", for all intents and purposes.
"...all they had for the 20-30 mins I was stuck watching it was some guy tearing into Bush like it was no one's business to do." Why is it no one's business not to do? What makes Bush so special that he is above criticism? He's not a king... We settled issues like that some 225 years ago. He's a man, in a country with free speech. Except for the fact that rules for his appearances don't allow for anyone to freedom assemble, of course... Or his press secretaries have warned others not to ask questions that make him look bad... or you're not allowed to say the words "Fuck you!" to the Vice President, even though the VP freely uses them with to others...
Soylent Green is 'People-ready business'!
In general. at least (no pun intended).
A good IT policy will be restrictive, and put limits on its users. Officers, especially the asshats that make it to the Pentagon, hate have restrictions put on them. Some high ranking zero probably whined when he found out that some web sites were blocked, and when he couldn't get to "Ostrichlove.com", told the IT guys to remove all blocking from his computer. Then the officer and his colleagues started visiting all sorts of nasty virus infected sites. Not to mention all the people taking their laptops home with them to do "work".
When I worked at Pt Mugu Naval Station, my unit CO called me into his office to tell me that a colleague had sent a classified document through the unclassified email system, and asked me what he had to do. I told him that the Base IT department had to be informed, and that per official memorandums his computer, and possible the base mail server and the originating base mail server and sending computer would have to be digitally scrubbed, and an incident report filed with the Navy Computer Incidence Response Team. He turned to the (civilian) IT guy who had walked into the room after me, and whined "can't I just delete the letter, and there will be no classified material on my PC?" The IT guy immediately said "Yes sir, that's all that needs to be done!".
The captain was happy; he got the answer he wanted to hear. The IT guy was happy; he had gotten out of doing a lot of work and made the captain happy.
When I see "FTN", I automatically think of my favorite TLA, "Fuck the Navy"... True story. Back when Orlando had a major Naval base, a young man robbed a convenience store. The newswoman describing the story said that the the kid's initials were "FTN", since that was written on the toes of his sneakers. A person rushed in from off camera and whispered into her ear. She got red and told the audience that those letters probably stood for something else that she couldn't say on air. I can't think of the acronym for a launch sequence... retirement is slowly sapping my memory.
I agree entirely... so what's taken them so long to "...water the tree of Liberty"?
The answer: the majority of people (not necessarily yourself) who loudly champion the Second Amendment don't give a damn about the rest of the Bill of Rights.
Failure to enforce separation of Church and State? "Those godless commies are trying to ban God!"
Unreasonable search and seizure? "Well it's only dug dealers, or people accused of being drug dealers, or brown people that had cash on them and -could- have been drug dealers..."
Freedom to assemble? "Why should those gutless protesters be allowed within a mile of the President? They can say whatever they want in the "Free Speech Zone" that's set up for them, far from where anyone can see or hear them so they don't bother anyone."
Free speech? "Seeing my country's flag burned makes me feel bad. We have to outlaw it!"
Habeous Corpus? "Huh?" or "Well, if the government has to take away a little freedom in order to keep me safer, I'm all for it!"
While there are probably ardent supporters of the second amendment that don't echo these beliefs, personal experience and online reading tend to make me believe that as long as it's the freedoms of minorities that are being endangered, or you chant "terror", 9/11, and "everything changed on September 11th", you can do whatever you want and the majority of vocal Second Amendment supports won't care one bit... as long as they get to keep their guns.
I'm not even asking them to literally take up arms; I just want to see one of these "cold dead fingers" types stand up and speak up when they see our liberties being eroded.
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis
COTS stands for "Commercial, Off The Shelf"... Items that can be found in the civilian world. For example, instead of spending millions of dollars developing a navigation radar, they might just buy a commercial model from Furuno. This is the first step of undoing the stupidity that ensued when they mandated that all official documents be written in the proprietary format of Microsoft Word, a couple of decades ago.
AC posts: "But nobody tells them homosexuals etc show 30 - 40% sexual abuse rates as kids in many studies." Sources? Oh never mind, you're an AC, as well as a troll. Leave, and go back to feeling guilty over masturbating to what you probably think are "dirty, dirty thoughts".
...ever been in a Turkish prison?
It -is- a killer business model... you're just a little too late. http://www.blackwaterusa.com/
You can alway just type "ctrl+h" (ctrl+shift+h" for IE) (or click the button at top of your browser)and get your history of sites visited... Heck, Both IE's Firefox's are even searchable.
If your area charges extra landfill fees for monitors or other electronics, your company might have to pay money to properly dispose of the monitor. Maybe $15 (or whatever) is trivial, but letting you keep it is one less expense for them.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of monitors...
John Titor: On my worldline, it is known that the the Innovation SSI 2001 soundcard is capable of reading all the sound data recorded before the widespread use of MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. This is required for us to translate the last remaining copies of some very important files.
I call bull...
;)
a) Zero gravity -can- cause nausea, but not always. Being at sea on a boat can cause nausea too, but as the Love Boat proves lots of people have sex at sea...
b) "astronauts perspire a LOT" Source of that assertion? I would tend to think the opposite, since I would think that the areas are climate controlled. In any event, since when di sweat keep people from having sex?
c) It is possible to have an orgasm without an erection, or even increased blood flow to the clitoris.
There have been many, many cases of mixed space crews... the Space Station often has at least one female crew member, and there have been some Space Shuttle crews that had both a husband and wife on board. I highly doubt that in the 50 odd years of human space flight not one couple has had sex together... If no one else, the Russians would have done a secret study of it.
Assuming you believe it was suicide... A few things were odd about that. He allegedly shot himself in the chest, as opposed to head. If I was going to kill myself, I'd want to make sure it worked by shooting myself in the head. He supposedly killed himself in order to avoid putting friends and family through the "shame" of his wearing the wrong medal... so instead he puts them through the "shame" of a suicide. Even if he -did- kill himself, it wasn't over the medal. He was probably more afraid of what other dirt that would be dug up about him... say maybe he was the gay member of the Joint Chiefs that was rumored to exist? In any event, his death was a damn shame... He was one of the few officers above O-3 worth a damn, and probably the best CNO since Zumwalt (another Admiral that gave a damn about the deck plate squid and was hated by his peers for it...)
I was stationed in the Kingdom of Bahrain for a few months, and apparently most of the country's internet goes through its University, which is (or was) blocked by Slashdot for some reason. I could access the site, but not login, even after I sent email to the Slashdot admins as instructed. Not very important in the grand scheme of things, just annoying at the time.
But am I the only one that thinks this will never be allowed to see the light of day? Commercially, at least.
No pun intended...
You are 100% correct, a "malfunction" would be easier to pull off, and would use smaller electronic bits. But, you still need to send the signal to the bird in flight when you want to trigger an "accident". Sea launched ballistic missiles don't have receiver antennas normally installed. They ones we put in are very large, and they just have to communicate over a relatively short range.
:)
There isn't much room to place these things, just the nose section, and the space between the rocket stages. The rockets themselves are solid rocket fuel, like a giant version of the Estes model rocket kits.
Feel free to doubt my job; this is the internet, after all, and I could be making all this stuff up. Though if you have a lot of free time on your hands, you can look at past posts and find out that I've been claiming to be in the Navy for a while. Which still doesn't make me necessarily believable, just more consistent than -some- liars and kooks...
The US doesn't own the sea; it's actually a lease that'll be terminated as soon as anyone gets annoyed enough with us to use their stealthy diesel boats and anti-ship missiles to take out.our carriers.
For a possible preview of this scenario, look up the Malvinas War (or the Faulklands War, if you would prefer), where the UK lost two ships to what everyone assumed was an ignorant Third World country, and never did manage to locate all of Argentina's submarines.
Anti-missile technology has advanced since then, but missile technology has advanced more.