Well, you can always look me up if you need remote support.:)
My husband is former Navy, Airedale, and dropped BoB in '91. He was hit by AAA, and later injured in an accident.:\ But they probably won't let me take him as a body guard, either.
I'm reviewing my marksmanship, and all that good stuff. I'd like to come over when things get a liiiiittle more settled down. I know it will, I can see it starting to gel.:) You take care, and keep your head low.
Your courage and strength are amazing. My best wishes that you continue to remain free and clear. One of my best friends suffers from NHL. He has had it for 20 years. It's very sad. But he lives every day to it's fullest, as the best of his ability. You guys make it easy to deal with my own issues.:)
Wow... no duh dude. No need to get uppity! You are welcome to view my
As a network engineer, I agree... bandwidth conservation at its best. The other allegations were that it was being done discrimately, which was proven it was not. Simply via the way Websense works. But then, anyone who works with these products knows this.
But certainly, no need to tell me to Move On! Jeez, attitude much?
I know.... after looking at the sites and trying to get to different aspects of them, Websense is mostly blocking due to streaming content, not the content itself. What they use is different sites though, and so it will block part of a site, but but not all of it. Hehehehe.... CONSPIRACY!!!! EVERYWHERE!??!?! *giggle*
Actually, I was looking at some of the websense stuff, it's *so* cool!
Not that I don't disagree with you there, especially on/. I'd like to think he's posting in his offhours, but come on... how often to I actually do that? (actually, due to the really bad liberal bent, I don't even do it at all much anymore.... - note... I said liberal, not left.:)):P
(oh yeah, PS: Strike... since I just saw this) Same thanks still apply. Even more so. My husband wouldn't let me go. Mostly cuz I couldn't take him with me to be a bodyguard. I was supposed to roll in just before the ground war started into Kuwait. *feh* I think I'm kinda glad I didn't. But I admire your courage and your bravery, and thank you again for the service you are doing for our country.
And apparently, you have no clue about how the military operates. Now, let the man in peace to do his job. Jesus CHRIST! If I had a trout, I'd smack you upside the head with it!
Yes, it IS about control, and YES, you can service Afghanistan through Baghdad. But again, like I keep saying on Slashdot, what part of CLASSIFIED do you people not get? That means, you don't get to know the details because you don't NEED to know. You can want to know all you want.... and I'm an EXPERT in the field, and I can get to know all I want. Doesn't mean they are gonna tell me.... k?
I want to take a moment to thank you so much for your service and for your sacrifice, and I want to thank your family back home for 'giving' you up to fight to protect our brothers in arms. It means so much to me, every man and woman who are fighting to bring peace and civility to the Middle East, and every day, I say a prayer and light a candle that you will all come home safely. Thank you again for everything you do!!
You can easily build a custom filter... I was discussing this with our Websense admin, and oh yeah, you can customize it to do what you want. As well as to let certain IPs go and not others, etc. Ours is built like that, because while we need to block most everything in some sites, we have to allow *some* through to allow our techs to do their jobs. It's all in the config.
It's the party line being toed by a large number of people whose primary goal is to blame the poor for their sorry lot in life, so they don't have to feel guilty about all the crap that goes on.
But if it *wasn't* for those kind of people that created their own opportunities, we wouldn't have a country built like we do today! Never would have expanded coast to coast, we wouldn't be a free society to do and build and become the things we are today. And if you want to feel sorry for the poor, that's great... contribute when you can. But when you CAN. We have to take care of our own, and ourselves. And no one built *ANYTHING* while looking out for the 'poor' people that can't (won't) get ahead for themsleves.
Look, if they can teach adults with Down's Syndrome, Cerebral Palsey, and other life-debilitating illnesses to live on their own, shop, manage money, cook and clean, AND A LIFE TRADE, they can teach anyone. And I think that's where the breakdown is.... no one TEACHES these basic skills anymore before a child leaves home....
Hear hear!!!! PREACH!!!!!:D Toke em if ya got em!:P
It's *all* about Personal responsibility... and accountability, something that has also been lost. Look at the ongoing Enron trial.
I learned my lessons very young growing up in a combination of hick and urbanville. Being an Air Force brat, that's what happened. And I learned that if it snows more than 12", ain't NO ONE gonna bring you food or firewood, so you better make sure you're stocked.
The last full year I lived in Colorado... I got snowed INTO my apartment 4 times. More than 8' drifts, twice. My car was buried more than once. But each time, I had food, water, and firewood for the entire four or five days that I couldn't get out. I didn't NEED power! You kinda learn to save yourself cuz no one else will. Funny how that never caught on in Welfarefornia.:P
*hug* You rock. I did much the same thing growing up. And I COULDN'T go the military route, which had been the ONLY option until I was 16. Imagine when they found out I had a heart problem, AFTER being accepted to the AFA. Hrmph. I *had* to make my own way after that. And have done so.:)
Like our troops over in Iraq need to hear the crud on Air America. If you were fighting for your life and safety and just trying to get back home, do you really want to hear Jeneane Garofalo bag on our troops? Or our politicians? THEIR BOSS?
Frankly, I do think that the censorship as reported by the Wonkette is bad. If you're going to do it, be even handed and fair across the board. They are using Websense it looks like, and it's so easy to set to do that. If you want to block Air America, you gotta block Rush too. That's what we do here in the office. Well, no one can have any streaming or entertainment access, period. That way, one person can't get their Napster files, but I can't listen to NPR either. I can't understand why Bill o'Reilly is permitted, he's not a harmless psycho... he IS a psycho!
But the truth of the matter is, it's all about the morale of our troops. And pretty much, your rights are government issue when you sign on, that's the way that it is, and you agree to it. And if that means that they tell you what you can and can't listen to while you're deployed, so be it. You're on Uncle Sam's time. You can do what you want when you're home, but when you are serving in Theater, you are to maintain combat readiness. And listening to tripe like Air America and getting your head filled with the lies of the ignorant (as defined as: Lacking education or knowledge.) is NOT going to prepare you to save your neck against Islamofacists that would sooner behead you than spit on you.
Sorry for the rant, my boys and girls are getting orders today out of their Corpsman school. Some are going to the show. Flame away.... I got my flame retardant lingerie on! This is just my opinion growing up military and knowing a lot about how things operate as such. Yours may vary.
Thank you Nicky... I was beginning to think I was the only one... Those movies changed my life, and that's something that can never be taken away. I still The Dark Crystal with all of my heart and it remains one of my favorite films. I'm happyy that they are bringing a sequel together, but worried about the quality. But I'm pretty doggone sure they are going to give it everything!
NO no no no no. The worst was being in Trader Joes - an upscale healthfood/organic market joint, and hearing Vegan Dad's whitebread son of 5 years old walking around singing it as he was poking all the bread. I about passed out.
It is very clear that you do not agree with me on the base facts that the War on Terror was not declared. It was. I sent you the link to the entire text of that Declaration.
Congress *also* voted HERE: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c107:5:./tem p/~c1073yq4VW:: to enforce the resolutions and engage the use of force. If that's not a War Declaration, I don't know what else you want. Apparently, you, like most other liberatarians (that's what you come across like) don't seem to accept that. I don't know why. And I don't know why you think there is an issue with it violating the Constitution. Apparently, we're on separate sides of the fence... and that's fine. I'm not going to beat my head on a brick wall to try to convince you otherwise, cuz I know that doesn't work!:)
And just maybe you should get a clue and understanding about reality. I did exactly what you said you wanted, and you don't like it, so you are choosing to disengage it. Not my issue. The Declaration of War was made in front of Congress and on Live National Television on 9/20/2001. You don't like that, so again, you disengage it. Again, my perception is not YOUR perception, but then, you haven't walked 100 miles in my boots, nor will you.
I have a grand understanding of the way things really work, and they don't always go by the damn Constitution and Bill of Rights... gee, something about loose lips, just like Washington, huh? Can't keep their snippy mouths shut about a damn thing. Things need not be so obvious to the stupid people so that they can be seen for the REST of the world as something else. Weakness, Fear, Terror! Ya know, just what they were trying to acheive.
And as for hyperbole - apparently, you didn't lose any loved ones in 9/11/01, nor know anyone that did. Fact is fact, over 3,000 people were murdered, millions of dollars in damage done, billions in after-effects on the American economy. WE DIDN'T NEED TO DECLARE WAR - as it was declared upon us, and every other nation in the West. Pity that people can't see that because they are blinded by their own institutional bias'.
Hrm... this sounds a bit like a flame - and it's not meant to be. It is something I'm emotional, knowledgable, and intelligent about - having studied things quite well over the past 5 years. And hell no, I'm not blinded by the Bush Administration either.... while I support them as a whole, there are MASSIVE concerns and issues I have with them, to include the wiretapping, PATRIOT ACT and Immigration. And if another Republican comes in the same mold, I will NOT vote for them. But I do believe that we have done the right thing, executitions may have not been very pretty in the process turning Iraq into a bit of a mess for a while, but we have been and will continue to be staunch defenders of freedom and deliver the helpless from oppression, just as we have always done... and they have done for us in the centuries past.
Go back and reread that ENTIRE speech and remember what is like to have your nation, your liberty, and your soul murdered on live television.
And then try and tell me that there wasn't a Declaration of War. I've found several - in fact - in front of Congress. So, no.. there hasn't been just one, but several.
In 1982, my father bought us a Commodore Vic20 with his tax return. He bought me a new bike that year too, so I didn't spend too much time on it. Didn't help. We had the total package, color - connected to our floor model while we moved the Atari to the 21" black & white! We had the cassette tape hard drive so that we could save and store our programs.
Immediately, I began programming in BASIC by copying the programs for the Vic20 out of the back of BYTE. I learned quickly how to type... and began writing my own stories on the computer - I was and still am a great creative writer. Did I mention that I was only 9? *giggle* Within a year, I had written (ok, copied) several game programs, including Omega, Asteroids, and a few others that I can't remember... and a word processor, a home checkbook system, and a vinyl catalog database! Hey... I didn't understand what it all was until they were done, but when they were done and Dad showed me, I was amazed what I had done.
The bad thing was that tragedy struck and I was sent to live with my real mother, who didn't even know what a computer was. I didn't see another machine again until I was 14 - a sophomore in high school. My Jr. High didn't have them. But I knew what I loved, and I started over. By the 2nd semester my sr. year, I was student leading the HP3000 class and the WP5.1/DOS class, and had gotten my mom into computers..... Macs. But I never again could program properly. I can write algorithms like a mofo... but translating it into code is impossible.:\
But the knowledge set me on the path where I am today, and I love it, and have loved every moment of my career. Just not some of the employers!:P
I think it's just terribly sad.:( But it's true. And that's why I fight for guaranteed training as part of a negotiation to join a team. That's just all there is to it. Either you agree to provide me with 10k a year in training when you hire me, or you don't get my talents. You'd be surprised at how fast they do that. And if they don't, then they are not a company that I'm willing to work for.
I also have medical issues that preclude me from working much over 40 hours a week. If they demand 70 (which two companies I was offered positions with warned me of, one including an hour and a half commute) - I walk away, no matter how bad I need the job. I'm sorry, but I'm trying to be a mom here, and I'll be damned if after 15 years, I'm gonna be a slave. I've fought my way tooth, nail, and claw to get where I am, and I've got the skills they need. Remember that when you go into interviews AND negotiations.
It didn't just get me the training either... it got it for my teammates across the board.:)
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Well, you can always look me up if you need remote support. :)
:\ But they probably won't let me take him as a body guard, either.
:) You take care, and keep your head low.
My husband is former Navy, Airedale, and dropped BoB in '91. He was hit by AAA, and later injured in an accident.
I'm reviewing my marksmanship, and all that good stuff. I'd like to come over when things get a liiiiittle more settled down. I know it will, I can see it starting to gel.
Jho
Your courage and strength are amazing. My best wishes that you continue to remain free and clear. One of my best friends suffers from NHL. He has had it for 20 years. It's very sad. But he lives every day to it's fullest, as the best of his ability. You guys make it easy to deal with my own issues. :)
Wow... no duh dude. No need to get uppity! You are welcome to view my
... bandwidth conservation at its best. The other allegations were that it was being done discrimately, which was proven it was not. Simply via the way Websense works. But then, anyone who works with these products knows this.
As a network engineer, I agree
But certainly, no need to tell me to Move On! Jeez, attitude much?
I know.... after looking at the sites and trying to get to different aspects of them, Websense is mostly blocking due to streaming content, not the content itself. What they use is different sites though, and so it will block part of a site, but but not all of it. Hehehehe.... CONSPIRACY!!!! EVERYWHERE!??!?! *giggle*
Actually, I was looking at some of the websense stuff, it's *so* cool!
Not that I don't disagree with you there, especially on /. I'd like to think he's posting in his offhours, but come on... how often to I actually do that? (actually, due to the really bad liberal bent, I don't even do it at all much anymore.... - note... I said liberal, not left. :)) :P
Ah, but are you in the US Armed Forces Theater of Operations in the Middle East, specifically, Baghdad? :D
(oh yeah, PS: Strike... since I just saw this) Same thanks still apply. Even more so. My husband wouldn't let me go. Mostly cuz I couldn't take him with me to be a bodyguard. I was supposed to roll in just before the ground war started into Kuwait. *feh* I think I'm kinda glad I didn't. But I admire your courage and your bravery, and thank you again for the service you are doing for our country.
And apparently, you have no clue about how the military operates. Now, let the man in peace to do his job. Jesus CHRIST! If I had a trout, I'd smack you upside the head with it!
Yes, it IS about control, and YES, you can service Afghanistan through Baghdad. But again, like I keep saying on Slashdot, what part of CLASSIFIED do you people not get? That means, you don't get to know the details because you don't NEED to know. You can want to know all you want.... and I'm an EXPERT in the field, and I can get to know all I want. Doesn't mean they are gonna tell me.... k?
I want to take a moment to thank you so much for your service and for your sacrifice, and I want to thank your family back home for 'giving' you up to fight to protect our brothers in arms. It means so much to me, every man and woman who are fighting to bring peace and civility to the Middle East, and every day, I say a prayer and light a candle that you will all come home safely. Thank you again for everything you do!!
You can easily build a custom filter... I was discussing this with our Websense admin, and oh yeah, you can customize it to do what you want. As well as to let certain IPs go and not others, etc. Ours is built like that, because while we need to block most everything in some sites, we have to allow *some* through to allow our techs to do their jobs. It's all in the config.
It's the party line being toed by a large number of people whose primary goal is to blame the poor for their sorry lot in life, so they don't have to feel guilty about all the crap that goes on.
But if it *wasn't* for those kind of people that created their own opportunities, we wouldn't have a country built like we do today! Never would have expanded coast to coast, we wouldn't be a free society to do and build and become the things we are today. And if you want to feel sorry for the poor, that's great... contribute when you can. But when you CAN. We have to take care of our own, and ourselves. And no one built *ANYTHING* while looking out for the 'poor' people that can't (won't) get ahead for themsleves.
Look, if they can teach adults with Down's Syndrome, Cerebral Palsey, and other life-debilitating illnesses to live on their own, shop, manage money, cook and clean, AND A LIFE TRADE, they can teach anyone. And I think that's where the breakdown is.... no one TEACHES these basic skills anymore before a child leaves home....
Hear hear!!!! PREACH!!!!! :D Toke em if ya got em! :P
:P
It's *all* about Personal responsibility... and accountability, something that has also been lost. Look at the ongoing Enron trial.
I learned my lessons very young growing up in a combination of hick and urbanville. Being an Air Force brat, that's what happened. And I learned that if it snows more than 12", ain't NO ONE gonna bring you food or firewood, so you better make sure you're stocked.
The last full year I lived in Colorado... I got snowed INTO my apartment 4 times. More than 8' drifts, twice. My car was buried more than once. But each time, I had food, water, and firewood for the entire four or five days that I couldn't get out. I didn't NEED power! You kinda learn to save yourself cuz no one else will. Funny how that never caught on in Welfarefornia.
*hug* You rock. I did much the same thing growing up. And I COULDN'T go the military route, which had been the ONLY option until I was 16. Imagine when they found out I had a heart problem, AFTER being accepted to the AFA. Hrmph. I *had* to make my own way after that. And have done so. :)
Hey, they are free to get whatever information they want... when they come home. Not in theater of war. Period.
Like our troops over in Iraq need to hear the crud on Air America. If you were fighting for your life and safety and just trying to get back home, do you really want to hear Jeneane Garofalo bag on our troops? Or our politicians? THEIR BOSS?
Frankly, I do think that the censorship as reported by the Wonkette is bad. If you're going to do it, be even handed and fair across the board. They are using Websense it looks like, and it's so easy to set to do that. If you want to block Air America, you gotta block Rush too. That's what we do here in the office. Well, no one can have any streaming or entertainment access, period. That way, one person can't get their Napster files, but I can't listen to NPR either. I can't understand why Bill o'Reilly is permitted, he's not a harmless psycho... he IS a psycho!
But the truth of the matter is, it's all about the morale of our troops. And pretty much, your rights are government issue when you sign on, that's the way that it is, and you agree to it. And if that means that they tell you what you can and can't listen to while you're deployed, so be it. You're on Uncle Sam's time. You can do what you want when you're home, but when you are serving in Theater, you are to maintain combat readiness. And listening to tripe like Air America and getting your head filled with the lies of the ignorant (as defined as: Lacking education or knowledge.) is NOT going to prepare you to save your neck against Islamofacists that would sooner behead you than spit on you.
Sorry for the rant, my boys and girls are getting orders today out of their Corpsman school. Some are going to the show. Flame away.... I got my flame retardant lingerie on! This is just my opinion growing up military and knowing a lot about how things operate as such. Yours may vary.
Thank you Nicky... I was beginning to think I was the only one... Those movies changed my life, and that's something that can never be taken away. I still The Dark Crystal with all of my heart and it remains one of my favorite films. I'm happyy that they are bringing a sequel together, but worried about the quality. But I'm pretty doggone sure they are going to give it everything!
Jesus, I'm glad there is *someone* with a brain out there! *Handshake* THANK YOU!
NO no no no no. The worst was being in Trader Joes - an upscale healthfood/organic market joint, and hearing Vegan Dad's whitebread son of 5 years old walking around singing it as he was poking all the bread. I about passed out.
It is very clear that you do not agree with me on the base facts that the War on Terror was not declared. It was. I sent you the link to the entire text of that Declaration.
m p/~c1073yq4VW:: :)
Congress *also* voted HERE: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c107:5:./te
to enforce the resolutions and engage the use of force. If that's not a War Declaration, I don't know what else you want. Apparently, you, like most other liberatarians (that's what you come across like) don't seem to accept that. I don't know why. And I don't know why you think there is an issue with it violating the Constitution. Apparently, we're on separate sides of the fence... and that's fine. I'm not going to beat my head on a brick wall to try to convince you otherwise, cuz I know that doesn't work!
And just maybe you should get a clue and understanding about reality. I did exactly what you said you wanted, and you don't like it, so you are choosing to disengage it. Not my issue. The Declaration of War was made in front of Congress and on Live National Television on 9/20/2001. You don't like that, so again, you disengage it. Again, my perception is not YOUR perception, but then, you haven't walked 100 miles in my boots, nor will you.
I have a grand understanding of the way things really work, and they don't always go by the damn Constitution and Bill of Rights... gee, something about loose lips, just like Washington, huh? Can't keep their snippy mouths shut about a damn thing. Things need not be so obvious to the stupid people so that they can be seen for the REST of the world as something else. Weakness, Fear, Terror! Ya know, just what they were trying to acheive.
And as for hyperbole - apparently, you didn't lose any loved ones in 9/11/01, nor know anyone that did. Fact is fact, over 3,000 people were murdered, millions of dollars in damage done, billions in after-effects on the American economy. WE DIDN'T NEED TO DECLARE WAR - as it was declared upon us, and every other nation in the West. Pity that people can't see that because they are blinded by their own institutional bias'.
Hrm... this sounds a bit like a flame - and it's not meant to be. It is something I'm emotional, knowledgable, and intelligent about - having studied things quite well over the past 5 years. And hell no, I'm not blinded by the Bush Administration either.... while I support them as a whole, there are MASSIVE concerns and issues I have with them, to include the wiretapping, PATRIOT ACT and Immigration. And if another Republican comes in the same mold, I will NOT vote for them. But I do believe that we have done the right thing, executitions may have not been very pretty in the process turning Iraq into a bit of a mess for a while, but we have been and will continue to be staunch defenders of freedom and deliver the helpless from oppression, just as we have always done... and they have done for us in the centuries past.
Yes, there has. September 20th, 2001:
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9398253?hook
Go back and reread that ENTIRE speech and remember what is like to have your nation, your liberty, and your soul murdered on live television.
And then try and tell me that there wasn't a Declaration of War. I've found several - in fact - in front of Congress. So, no.. there hasn't been just one, but several.
Including a resolution passed by Congress to authorize the force: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cg
But again, this is all subject to interpretation!
I remember both! I *LOVED* Biorhythms. Maybe that's what's wrong with me! :D
In 1982, my father bought us a Commodore Vic20 with his tax return. He bought me a new bike that year too, so I didn't spend too much time on it. Didn't help. We had the total package, color - connected to our floor model while we moved the Atari to the 21" black & white! We had the cassette tape hard drive so that we could save and store our programs.
:\
:P
Immediately, I began programming in BASIC by copying the programs for the Vic20 out of the back of BYTE. I learned quickly how to type... and began writing my own stories on the computer - I was and still am a great creative writer. Did I mention that I was only 9? *giggle* Within a year, I had written (ok, copied) several game programs, including Omega, Asteroids, and a few others that I can't remember... and a word processor, a home checkbook system, and a vinyl catalog database! Hey... I didn't understand what it all was until they were done, but when they were done and Dad showed me, I was amazed what I had done.
The bad thing was that tragedy struck and I was sent to live with my real mother, who didn't even know what a computer was. I didn't see another machine again until I was 14 - a sophomore in high school. My Jr. High didn't have them. But I knew what I loved, and I started over. By the 2nd semester my sr. year, I was student leading the HP3000 class and the WP5.1/DOS class, and had gotten my mom into computers..... Macs. But I never again could program properly. I can write algorithms like a mofo... but translating it into code is impossible.
But the knowledge set me on the path where I am today, and I love it, and have loved every moment of my career. Just not some of the employers!
I can definitely attest to this plan working. Not that it matters now, but it has worked in the 2 situations where I have done it. :)
Damn, you're not bitter are you?
:( But it's true. And that's why I fight for guaranteed training as part of a negotiation to join a team. That's just all there is to it. Either you agree to provide me with 10k a year in training when you hire me, or you don't get my talents. You'd be surprised at how fast they do that. And if they don't, then they are not a company that I'm willing to work for.
:)
I think it's just terribly sad.
I also have medical issues that preclude me from working much over 40 hours a week. If they demand 70 (which two companies I was offered positions with warned me of, one including an hour and a half commute) - I walk away, no matter how bad I need the job. I'm sorry, but I'm trying to be a mom here, and I'll be damned if after 15 years, I'm gonna be a slave. I've fought my way tooth, nail, and claw to get where I am, and I've got the skills they need. Remember that when you go into interviews AND negotiations.
It didn't just get me the training either... it got it for my teammates across the board.