If the US were to switch from 5.56 to 6.5 tomorrow, you might be happy, but a thousand other guys just like you would be bitching that it's a huge waste of money
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I was intending to stay out of this, but I take exception to this statement.(too broad of a brush stroke) As an experienced combat vet, I can assure you that the vast majority, if not all of the troops will vote for the most effective weapon/ammo that they can carry routinely.
We don't care what the 'bean-counters', REMF's, 'arm chair general', etc. think....their asses aren't the ones being shot at. When you're on the 'pointy end of the stick', you develop very specific viewpoints and ways of thinking. like, survival! Ineffective weapons or ammo are not popular with the troops, as they reduce your likelihood of survival. Fsck that!
Parent:
And about a multi-role fleet: being able to do a lot of stuff ok means you can't do anything good
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Your reply:
Right. Which is why a rifleman should never carry grenades. And the guy running the fry-vat should stay the fuck away from the grille.
A bit over the top to be on-topic, IMHO. At it's most basic level, both the US Army and US Marines receive training as troops first(Basic Training), then move on to specialty training.
Even on operational levels(squads of 6-10 troops), the US military has insisted on diversity and redundancy. For example, I'll use myself: US Army, my primary job was a sniper. I was also qualified as expert in both 'Close Quarters Combat' and 'Demolitions'. I never used the demotions skills on the job, but sniper and CQC skills were in use a lot.
That is exactly what I thought at first. At second thought, it was 'why would Anonymous even bother with replying to an obvious troll?' Third thought was to suspect some third party as the instigator in this. I don't know, by nature[theoretically] Anonymous is, well, anonymous, and has nothing to fear from WBC, thus should have no interest in any opinion that WBC has to offer, but there is the 'street cred/e-peen' POV to consider for Anonymous.
The more I think about it, the more I'm torn between taking sides with Anonymous, and a third-party 'stirring the mud-puddle'.
So then the USCG will just snatch you, strap you and your phone to an UAV, and fly you out over the sea/ocean. Hell, with you and your phone on board, they don't even have to send out a helo...just have the UAV dip down so you can grab the victim. Get a grip....
While I applaud Eben for his efforts [and similar people/tech], your comment brought two questions to my mind. 1. Freedom Box: will it have any better chance for widespread adoption? Is the answer to that good or bad?[1]
2.Regarding "... the people in Egypt may not have even noticed when the ISP's were shut down... ", In this scenario, who would benefit more: the government, or the protesters, by 'not noticing' shut downs?
[1] While the geek/nerd in me can see the appeal of the 'silver bullet', the anarchist in me sees a single or focused point to exploit.
BTW, I'm not trying to argue against you, just asking.:-)
Yeah, my first thought was: Ah, so the good general 'took one for the team' as he was stepping down, so everyone could STFU.
He wouldn't be the first to put themselves at personal risk out of a sense of duty and/or honour(as they see it), precariously assuming the above is close, purely on speculation, and from a 'what if...' point of view.
Not much from TFA or TFS to go on, so I see it as all speculation and guesswork at this stage.
A general stepping down vaguely mentioned some statement that 'yeah, it was me, but I quit. HeHeheheh.'
I will wait for more info before I give this much weight.
Geez, guys. If you want to add new stuff (like a history to go backward through), don't change the behavior of an existing command. Add another, or at least make it configurable - preferably with the default the old behavior.
I wholeheartedly second that! It's a frustrating experience when you have to unlearn routine things like your example, at least is is for me.
IRC, according to our training in the US Army, you mixed it an ice-water bath. If it started to get out of hand, you were supposed to tip the mix over into the ice bath.
'Safe' is a relative term here. Making nitro was considered a 'not too safe, only under extreme circumstances, not advised', type of info for unusual times in combat. (according to our instructors)
Try a more recent version of Ubuntu[from your comment later on/further down].
I run Kubuntu, which is Debian-based Ubuntu with a KDE user interface, instead of Ubuntu default Gnome desktop envoirment/user interface. The full read and write ability for NTFS has been present in the default install since 8.04, IRC. I remember downloading NTFS-3g from the repository in 6.06[?] Dapper Drake for read only, but don't remember having to do so with 8.04.
Currently I am running 10.10, and the default install has read-write support enabled for NTFS, and has been the same since 9.04, for certain.
What you're probably running into is not having your Windows partitions mounted. If they are not mounted, they won't even show up in your file manager. (Nautilus)
That info took about 1 minute to find, starting with a google.com search for 'Ubuntu', BTW.
Admittedly, there is a 'learning curve'/mindset change going from from Windows to *nix, but it's not different from just starting with Windows originally. Remember when you first started using a computer? Well, going from Windows to *nix is actually a lot easier if you really want to make the jump.....
*first-strike dibs on pedants* I started with a Win95 PC in 1996, and migrated to Kubuntu 6.06 when I ran afoul of WinXP WGA with a legitimate copy of XP Pro in 2004. I was heavily into gaming and upgraded hardware often, and either due to 'key-gens' on the net, or HW changes in my PC, I could not re-activate my retail copy of XP without buying a new copy from Microsoft. I had been dual-booting XP and Ubuntu since Ubuntu 5.04, so it was a 'no brainer' for me. YMMV
Nah, you're probably safe. Maybe the 61% not cursing their computers were experiencing a level of rage that overwhelmed their ability to speak/curse? I, personally, have been at that state a time or two....:-)
*On the Star Trek set...Scotty yelling into intercom... Scotty: "I canna hold her together any longer! She's braking apart!" Director: "CUT!" *sighs* James, baby, it's breaking apart, not braking apart. Scotty: "?!?!? *mutters* Where's the Romulan Ale? This insanity needs a wee bit more than the 200 year old scotch, I think."
All your base are belong to us? Dammit, I meant Me So Holney, GI! Me Rove You Rong Time!(hint: DO NOT THINK OF KARL 'ROVE'!) Er...uhm... what was the question, again?
Well, he/she has just gone broke from too many times getting the 'go past GO, directly to jail and not getting $200' card. Luck of the draw and all that in the game, you know.
Or the poster is only semi-literate, as is common in the 'digital age'.
Obligatory: 'Get off my lawn, punks!' is needed here. Loose/lose, its>it's>their/there/there's, etc...
Head A Splodes. When I need a mouse and GUI, I'll stick with my trackball; but most of the time I use my keyboard and a CLI.
Now a reliable, efficient, and SECURE neural interface would be welcome for me though.(my typing skills suck donkey balls since I've had a stroke 1.5 years ago!)
This sounds more like yet another Apple fashion statement than anything particularly practical.
This struck me the same as Apple announcing the display having a CCD/WebCam replacing some pixels in the center of the screen some years back....announced and then abandoned(?). Whatever came of that tech, I wonder? I'm seeing this as another thing thrown against the wall to see what sticks. I guess we can wait and see...
Well, after their servers experience a Chernobyl style meltdown from slashdotting, the hackers can't even get close enough to sift through the ashes!:-)
Slashdot Mirror
If the US were to switch from 5.56 to 6.5 tomorrow, you might be happy, but a thousand other guys just like you would be bitching that it's a huge waste of money
.
I was intending to stay out of this, but I take exception to this statement.(too broad of a brush stroke)
As an experienced combat vet, I can assure you that the vast majority, if not all of the troops will vote for the most effective weapon/ammo that they can carry routinely.
We don't care what the 'bean-counters', REMF's, 'arm chair general', etc. think....their asses aren't the ones being shot at.
When you're on the 'pointy end of the stick', you develop very specific viewpoints and ways of thinking. like, survival!
Ineffective weapons or ammo are not popular with the troops, as they reduce your likelihood of survival. Fsck that!
Parent:
And about a multi-role fleet: being able to do a lot of stuff ok means you can't do anything good
.
Your reply:
Right. Which is why a rifleman should never carry grenades. And the guy running the fry-vat should stay the fuck away from the grille.
A bit over the top to be on-topic, IMHO.
At it's most basic level, both the US Army and US Marines receive training as troops first(Basic Training), then move on to specialty training.
Even on operational levels(squads of 6-10 troops), the US military has insisted on diversity and redundancy.
For example, I'll use myself:
US Army, my primary job was a sniper. I was also qualified as expert in both 'Close Quarters Combat' and 'Demolitions'.
I never used the demotions skills on the job, but sniper and CQC skills were in use a lot.
That is exactly what I thought at first.
At second thought, it was 'why would Anonymous even bother with replying to an obvious troll?'
Third thought was to suspect some third party as the instigator in this.
I don't know, by nature[theoretically] Anonymous is, well, anonymous, and has nothing to fear from WBC, thus should have no interest in any opinion that WBC has to offer, but there is the 'street cred/e-peen' POV to consider for Anonymous.
The more I think about it, the more I'm torn between taking sides with Anonymous, and a third-party 'stirring the mud-puddle'.
So then the USCG will just snatch you, strap you and your phone to an UAV, and fly you out over the sea/ocean.
Hell, with you and your phone on board, they don't even have to send out a helo...just have the UAV dip down so you can grab the victim.
Get a grip....
COTS: Civilian/Citizen Off The Streets
A medical answer:
(Xx5)-âz=ACD
Whereas X= number of cigarettes you smoke,
and
âz=infinity,
and
ACD= Acute Cranial Dispersion (Head A splodes!)
A 'pillar of fire by night and a pillar of smoke by day' sounds like a dandy navigation reference points to use back then!
*mutter disparaging remarks* /code strikes again!
'âz'? WTF? az? Damn
While I applaud Eben for his efforts [and similar people/tech], your comment brought two questions to my mind.
1. Freedom Box: will it have any better chance for widespread adoption? Is the answer to that good or bad?[1]
2.Regarding "... the people in Egypt may not have even noticed when the ISP's were shut down... ", In this scenario, who would benefit more: the government, or the protesters, by 'not noticing' shut downs?
[1] While the geek/nerd in me can see the appeal of the 'silver bullet', the anarchist in me sees a single or focused point to exploit.
BTW, I'm not trying to argue against you, just asking. :-)
Yeah, my first thought was:
Ah, so the good general 'took one for the team' as he was stepping down, so everyone could STFU.
He wouldn't be the first to put themselves at personal risk out of a sense of duty and/or honour(as they see it), precariously assuming the above is close, purely on speculation, and from a 'what if...' point of view.
Not much from TFA or TFS to go on, so I see it as all speculation and guesswork at this stage.
A general stepping down vaguely mentioned some statement that 'yeah, it was me, but I quit. HeHeheheh.'
I will wait for more info before I give this much weight.
In reply good sir, I have only one thing to say:
"................." (no one can hear you scream in SPACE!)
signed,
the Janitor
Try here.
Scroll down to 'I WILL figure this linking crap out!', June 01 2008.
I don't know how to get that to show up in the comments as just text...or remember how that worked in my journal.
Dahak, is that you?
Geez, guys. If you want to add new stuff (like a history to go backward through), don't change the behavior of an existing command. Add another, or at least make it configurable - preferably with the default the old behavior.
I wholeheartedly second that!
It's a frustrating experience when you have to unlearn routine things like your example, at least is is for me.
Well said, IMHO.
How about neither.
I choose not to be robbed.
How do you justify that ridiculous binary choice?
Being a victim is a mindset/attitude. Your choice to be one, or not.
IRC, according to our training in the US Army, you mixed it an ice-water bath. If it started to get out of hand, you were supposed to tip the mix over into the ice bath.
'Safe' is a relative term here. Making nitro was considered a 'not too safe, only under extreme circumstances, not advised', type of info for unusual times in combat. (according to our instructors)
Try a more recent version of Ubuntu[from your comment later on/further down].
I run Kubuntu, which is Debian-based Ubuntu with a KDE user interface, instead of Ubuntu default Gnome desktop envoirment/user interface.
The full read and write ability for NTFS has been present in the default install since 8.04, IRC.
I remember downloading NTFS-3g from the repository in 6.06[?] Dapper Drake for read only, but don't remember having to do so with 8.04.
Currently I am running 10.10, and the default install has read-write support enabled for NTFS, and has been the same since 9.04, for certain.
What you're probably running into is not having your Windows partitions mounted.
If they are not mounted, they won't even show up in your file manager. (Nautilus)
Without knowing more, here are some helpful links:
Pick your distro. Ubuntu has good tech support doc's and forums.
"Mounting Windows partitions" for 9.04 search results from the above link[I randomly selected 9.04]
Here is what you're looking, for most likely.; top answer from the above search results.
That info took about 1 minute to find, starting with a google.com search for 'Ubuntu', BTW.
Admittedly, there is a 'learning curve'/mindset change going from from Windows to *nix, but it's not different from just starting with Windows originally.
Remember when you first started using a computer?
Well, going from Windows to *nix is actually a lot easier if you really want to make the jump.....
*first-strike dibs on pedants*
I started with a Win95 PC in 1996, and migrated to Kubuntu 6.06 when I ran afoul of WinXP WGA with a legitimate copy of XP Pro in 2004.
I was heavily into gaming and upgraded hardware often, and either due to 'key-gens' on the net, or HW changes in my PC, I could not re-activate my retail copy of XP without buying a new copy from Microsoft. I had been dual-booting XP and Ubuntu since Ubuntu 5.04, so it was a 'no brainer' for me. YMMV
Nah, you're probably safe. :-)
Maybe the 61% not cursing their computers were experiencing a level of rage that overwhelmed their ability to speak/curse?
I, personally, have been at that state a time or two....
Then we'll get "Permanent Vacation at Bernie's".
My vote goes to 'cyber', with 'app' and 'cloud computing' tied for a distant second place.
P.S. 'cyber' was the only term flagged by my spell checker in Firefox.
*On the Star Trek set...Scotty yelling into intercom...
Scotty: "I canna hold her together any longer! She's braking apart!"
Director: "CUT!" *sighs* James, baby, it's breaking apart, not braking apart.
Scotty: "?!?!? *mutters* Where's the Romulan Ale? This insanity needs a wee bit more than the 200 year old scotch, I think."
Way to go ADUC.
They might not get very far, but I will cheer them on.
// Anyone know what it means?
All your base are belong to us?
Dammit, I meant Me So Holney, GI! Me Rove You Rong Time!(hint: DO NOT THINK OF KARL 'ROVE'!)
Er...uhm... what was the question, again?
The Three Stooges did a great version of that...
Sadly, that seems to be a template for our Government for the past several decades...
Well, he/she has just gone broke from too many times getting the 'go past GO, directly to jail and not getting $200' card.
Luck of the draw and all that in the game, you know.
Or the poster is only semi-literate, as is common in the 'digital age'.
Obligatory: 'Get off my lawn, punks!' is needed here.
Loose/lose, its>it's>their/there/there's, etc...
Head A Splodes.
When I need a mouse and GUI, I'll stick with my trackball; but most of the time I use my keyboard and a CLI.
Now a reliable, efficient, and SECURE neural interface would be welcome for me though.(my typing skills suck donkey balls since I've had a stroke 1.5 years ago!)
This sounds more like yet another Apple fashion statement than anything particularly practical.
This struck me the same as Apple announcing the display having a CCD/WebCam replacing some pixels in the center of the screen some years back....announced and then abandoned(?).
Whatever came of that tech, I wonder?
I'm seeing this as another thing thrown against the wall to see what sticks.
I guess we can wait and see...
Well, after their servers experience a Chernobyl style meltdown from slashdotting, the hackers can't even get close enough to sift through the ashes! :-)
Sorry I don't know HTML....
I don't know HTML either, but this works great for me
Feel free to loot and plunder! :-)