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I'm active Navy, stationed in Cape Canaveral, Florida. We're a small command (30 people or so)and one of our duties is to provide a military presence to any veteran funeral in the area that asks us too. Depending on the wishes for the family, we escort the casket, we fold the flag, present it to the widow (toughest job), and play taps. Our "area" is from Palm Beach to Daytona, and as far west as Orlando. We do several funerals a week, often two a day.
As many others have pointed out, we use these (we have three of them)not because of laziness, but because no one has the skill set required to play the bugle -well-. The actual device is a small player that fits exactly inside the bell of a real bugle, so it resonates and has a far nicer tone than a tape recorder, plus looks much better. We have had numerous compliments on our "bugle player", and even those that could tell the difference feel that it is much better than a tape recorder.
I only attended one funeral where the bugle was specifically -not- requested... it was for a WWII Merchant Marine vet who was a member of a jazz band, and his buddies not only plyed taps, but did little improvisational riffs throughout hte service.
Maybe once the student is skilled enough to kill you (or come close), they are truly no longer a student, but a colleague or equal. Then you can help them reach their peak...
The issue isn't that they are blocking Wonkette, the issue is that they are blocking Wonkette and not blocking Limbaugh, etc... I'd have no problem with them blocking either all opinion sites, or none. As for NMCI...
/rant
NMCI is an excuse to give sweet contracts to civillian buddies. EVERY implemtation of it I have seen (in several states and 2 continents)has resulted in an increase in costs, and a decrease in service and functionality.
Example #1 When it was implemeted at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, they charged $60 A MONTH to "maintain" a single PDA. Oh, and all those PDAs the ships bought for themselves? They now belonged to the contractor (as well as any other hardware that had been bought with ship's funds). If the ship had more computers than the contractor deemed necessary, the excess (even if bought by ships funds) were disposed of. What was deemed necesarry? Well, for my office of 18 people, we were alloted 2 desktops, one of which was dedicated for the Department Head's exclusive use.
Example #2 Trouble call response time went from same day (when they were handled by the base IT department) to a sliding scale that depened on the users rank (which meant that an enlisted person with a critical application was screwed, but the Admiral's printer could be replaced in two hours). As above, the Group Commander was promised 2 hour service by contract, while my submarine Captain had 48 hour service (and this is not "worst case scenario... service actually did take 48 hours, and was never much sooner than that). The enlisted people had much longer wait times.
I usually respond to questions about my address, phone, etc by looking the (usually) male clerk in the eyes, putting my hand on top of his, and repsonding, "I'm flattered, but you really aren't my type...."
Since I'm a big husky guy, they usually stammmer and just give me my batteries.
Heh... If you think that's impressive, Murray Leinster predicted the Internet, home computers, search engines (is this prior art?), software filters for sensoring the search engiens, the idea that "information wants to be free" and home shopping in the short story A Logic Named Joe.
No, as the the sigline and Murphy's Rules of Combat state:
"If it's stupid, but it works, it isn't stupid".
I'd rather have a stupid plan that made money than a well reasoned plan that lost money.
That being said, I was betting that he'd lose a ton of cash on this scheme. He was right, I was wrong, he's making the big bucks, and I'm posting on Slashdot from work.
Examples of prior art for every plot...
http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/plotFARQ.html/
Talks about the theory of there being only one basic plot (CONFLICT!) to 37 basic plots...
Actually, no, the question has specifically -not- been answered until now. It has been asked and speculated, but nothing has been said until the press releases started going out. It was just announced, which makes it current, it wasn't known before, so it's "news"...
I was hoping for a small bump in price and access to all the NCSoft games, but this isn't too bad a deal.
Master of Magic is a game I still fire up under DOS occasionally. While a Civ 4 mod (probably?) won't have the tactical combat portion of the game, the rest can be be done.
Isn't it possible that she isn't knowing lying, but confused? If I'm being hustled away from kidnappers, caught in a fire fight in the dark, and see my rescuer killed in front of me, I'm going to have a hard time counting bullets... number of shots fired at me = lots = a high number. And any loud noise could be misinterpeted as a "tank" if you are panicked.
You can't get much taller (6'1")or more amazon than than Julie Strain... The model for the lead character in Heavy Metal 2, as well as B movie star.
http://www.juliestrain.com/pinkgloves/4.jpg
This company makes a ton of wierd, fun, -cheap- games. Prices range from free (on their website) all the way up to $7.50 or so (with most being being 5 bucks or less).
They should be in stock at ayour local game store, if you have one.
http://www.cheapass.com/
A "leaky capacitor" can be identified by the foreign material seeming stuck to it on the outside of the capacitor, almost like glue, but not sticky. A less extreme sympton of a bad capacitor is a bulge in the sides or top. Really big capacitors (used in high power electrical applications)or older (20+ years,maybe?)capacitors actually have liquid inside, so the sign of leakage might be a stain on the circuit board or chassis.
A capacitor can be identified by the letters "uF" (which stands for "micro-Farads", which capacitors are measured in) after a number. They tend to be either cylendrical, with the leads coming out of the bottom circular base, or "plate shaped", with the leads coming out of the edge.
Granted, the loss of life is tragic, but what about other conseqences?
Are there any electronics or IT industries affected? Are we going to see the price of memory or electronic components go up due to damaged factories, warehouses, or communication disruption?
Not that paying more for RAM is anywhere near as tragic as the loss of life there, of course.
Computer game programmer pioneer Bunten should be on the list. She designed the first multiplayer pc games (among them M.U.L.E. and Global Conquest), and forsaw that multipler gaming and social interaction was the wave of the future. She died of cancer before the future could catch up to her.
So? Democrat and conservative are not mutually exclusive, as Lieberman and Zell Miller (who was a key speaker at the Republican national convention) prove.
OK, it appears that no one (at this moment)has answered your question with the specific items that put "Watchmen" in the "greatest" category. Here's my feeble attempt (caveats - I'm not a huge comic book expert, and I'm at work, so details, links, and good writing aren't here.... others have suggested more in depth analysis sources)
1) Watchmen was one of the first "super hero" comics where the "good guys" weren't always heroic. The committed atrocities, sometimes felt bad about their violent acts, sometimes didn't, had complex,screwed up relationships with each other, and their families.
2) "Watchmen" used several literary devices not normally found in comic books. Allusion, metaphor, and symetry are sprinkled (or trowled) on liberally through the series.
3) Excellent, original, and innovative plot lines. Several of them. Not everything ges tied up in a neat bow at the end.
4) Excellent dialogue.
5) Subject matter included things not normally seen in a comic published by a major publisher in the 80s: lesbians, cannibalism, old people having sexual urges, prostitution, child abuse, atrocitiies. All portrayed in a "tasteful" non-lascivious manner, and not for shock value.
6) Complex charaters and motivations. The ultimate "rightness" or morality of almost any of the characters is open to debate.
7) Attempts to deal with what would really happen if super heroes truly existed in the real world. If superman was around in the 60s, why wasn't he used in Vietnam? If Reed Richards can make a Fatasticar, why are we all riding in internal combustion engine automobiles?
Some of these issues have been addressed in other comics since then, but "Watchmen" in general ws there first.
Huh, just my luck... I threw out a bunch of my CS from the late 80s-90s that I had in my garage. Now I find out I could have sold them. New resolution: throw nothing away without first putting it on E-Bay!
::sigh:: No, it could only be construed as racism by someone that has a poor grasp of the english language. "Packet Monkey" is a play on words, alluding to "grease monkey", an old slang term for a mechanic. See also "tape monkey"
"Cosmo - the magazine lesbians read in order to find out what the straight woman they are trying to seduce is thinking..." Not my quote, but I can't find the author....
Slashdot Mirror
As many others have pointed out, we use these (we have three of them)not because of laziness, but because no one has the skill set required to play the bugle -well-. The actual device is a small player that fits exactly inside the bell of a real bugle, so it resonates and has a far nicer tone than a tape recorder, plus looks much better. We have had numerous compliments on our "bugle player", and even those that could tell the difference feel that it is much better than a tape recorder.
I only attended one funeral where the bugle was specifically -not- requested... it was for a WWII Merchant Marine vet who was a member of a jazz band, and his buddies not only plyed taps, but did little improvisational riffs throughout hte service.
Maybe once the student is skilled enough to kill you (or come close), they are truly no longer a student, but a colleague or equal. Then you can help them reach their peak...
/rant NMCI is an excuse to give sweet contracts to civillian buddies. EVERY implemtation of it I have seen (in several states and 2 continents)has resulted in an increase in costs, and a decrease in service and functionality.
Example #1 When it was implemeted at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, they charged $60 A MONTH to "maintain" a single PDA. Oh, and all those PDAs the ships bought for themselves? They now belonged to the contractor (as well as any other hardware that had been bought with ship's funds). If the ship had more computers than the contractor deemed necessary, the excess (even if bought by ships funds) were disposed of. What was deemed necesarry? Well, for my office of 18 people, we were alloted 2 desktops, one of which was dedicated for the Department Head's exclusive use.
Example #2 Trouble call response time went from same day (when they were handled by the base IT department) to a sliding scale that depened on the users rank (which meant that an enlisted person with a critical application was screwed, but the Admiral's printer could be replaced in two hours). As above, the Group Commander was promised 2 hour service by contract, while my submarine Captain had 48 hour service (and this is not "worst case scenario... service actually did take 48 hours, and was never much sooner than that). The enlisted people had much longer wait times.
I usually respond to questions about my address, phone, etc by looking the (usually) male clerk in the eyes, putting my hand on top of his, and repsonding, "I'm flattered, but you really aren't my type...."
Since I'm a big husky guy, they usually stammmer and just give me my batteries.
- In 1946!
Many thanks to Baen Books for putting the first couple of chapters of a novel online, and even whole books.If this were Fark, there'd already be several posts claiming that they weren't all that hot, with at least one complaining about "pointy knees"...
Think of the kittens!
No, as the the sigline and Murphy's Rules of Combat state:
"If it's stupid, but it works, it isn't stupid".
I'd rather have a stupid plan that made money than a well reasoned plan that lost money.
That being said, I was betting that he'd lose a ton of cash on this scheme. He was right, I was wrong, he's making the big bucks, and I'm posting on Slashdot from work.
Examples of prior art for every plot... http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/plotFARQ.html/ Talks about the theory of there being only one basic plot (CONFLICT!) to 37 basic plots...
We should be so lucky...
Actually, no, the question has specifically -not- been answered until now. It has been asked and speculated, but nothing has been said until the press releases started going out. It was just announced, which makes it current, it wasn't known before, so it's "news"...
I was hoping for a small bump in price and access to all the NCSoft games, but this isn't too bad a deal.
Master of Magic is a game I still fire up under DOS occasionally. While a Civ 4 mod (probably?) won't have the tactical combat portion of the game, the rest can be be done.
Does this mean that Google will buyout Stardock Systems for its Object Desktop? http://www.stardock.com/products/odnt/
Isn't it possible that she isn't knowing lying, but confused? If I'm being hustled away from kidnappers, caught in a fire fight in the dark, and see my rescuer killed in front of me, I'm going to have a hard time counting bullets... number of shots fired at me = lots = a high number. And any loud noise could be misinterpeted as a "tank" if you are panicked.
You can't get much taller (6'1")or more amazon than than Julie Strain... The model for the lead character in Heavy Metal 2, as well as B movie star. http://www.juliestrain.com/pinkgloves/4.jpg
This company makes a ton of wierd, fun, -cheap- games. Prices range from free (on their website) all the way up to $7.50 or so (with most being being 5 bucks or less). They should be in stock at ayour local game store, if you have one. http://www.cheapass.com/
A "leaky capacitor" can be identified by the foreign material seeming stuck to it on the outside of the capacitor, almost like glue, but not sticky. A less extreme sympton of a bad capacitor is a bulge in the sides or top. Really big capacitors (used in high power electrical applications)or older (20+ years,maybe?)capacitors actually have liquid inside, so the sign of leakage might be a stain on the circuit board or chassis.
A capacitor can be identified by the letters "uF" (which stands for "micro-Farads", which capacitors are measured in) after a number. They tend to be either cylendrical, with the leads coming out of the bottom circular base, or "plate shaped", with the leads coming out of the edge.
Well, there's the PS2 game Rez, and the Sinulator...
Granted, the loss of life is tragic, but what about other conseqences? Are there any electronics or IT industries affected? Are we going to see the price of memory or electronic components go up due to damaged factories, warehouses, or communication disruption? Not that paying more for RAM is anywhere near as tragic as the loss of life there, of course.
Computer game programmer pioneer Bunten should be on the list. She designed the first multiplayer pc games (among them M.U.L.E. and Global Conquest), and forsaw that multipler gaming and social interaction was the wave of the future. She died of cancer before the future could catch up to her.
Links for people too busy to google:
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/18/bunte n/index.html
http://www.costik.com/dani1.html
(Yes, I am HTML impaired....)
So? Democrat and conservative are not mutually exclusive, as Lieberman and Zell Miller (who was a key speaker at the Republican national convention) prove.
OK, it appears that no one (at this moment)has answered your question with the specific items that put "Watchmen" in the "greatest" category. Here's my feeble attempt (caveats - I'm not a huge comic book expert, and I'm at work, so details, links, and good writing aren't here.... others have suggested more in depth analysis sources)
1) Watchmen was one of the first "super hero" comics where the "good guys" weren't always heroic. The committed atrocities, sometimes felt bad about their violent acts, sometimes didn't, had complex,screwed up relationships with each other, and their families.
2) "Watchmen" used several literary devices not normally found in comic books. Allusion, metaphor, and symetry are sprinkled (or trowled) on liberally through the series.
3) Excellent, original, and innovative plot lines. Several of them. Not everything ges tied up in a neat bow at the end.
4) Excellent dialogue.
5) Subject matter included things not normally seen in a comic published by a major publisher in the 80s: lesbians, cannibalism, old people having sexual urges, prostitution, child abuse, atrocitiies. All portrayed in a "tasteful" non-lascivious manner, and not for shock value.
6) Complex charaters and motivations. The ultimate "rightness" or morality of almost any of the characters is open to debate.
7) Attempts to deal with what would really happen if super heroes truly existed in the real world. If superman was around in the 60s, why wasn't he used in Vietnam? If Reed Richards can make a Fatasticar, why are we all riding in internal combustion engine automobiles?
Some of these issues have been addressed in other comics since then, but "Watchmen" in general ws there first.
Huh, just my luck... I threw out a bunch of my CS from the late 80s-90s that I had in my garage. Now I find out I could have sold them. New resolution: throw nothing away without first putting it on E-Bay!
::sigh:: No, it could only be construed as racism by someone that has a poor grasp of the english language. "Packet Monkey" is a play on words, alluding to "grease monkey", an old slang term for a mechanic. See also "tape monkey"
Let's call Fl0under and have a LAN party! Counter-STRIKE! Counter-STRIKE!
"Cosmo - the magazine lesbians read in order to find out what the straight woman they are trying to seduce is thinking..." Not my quote, but I can't find the author....