You also have a) Occupation and pacification of enemy territory - troop garrisons that keep a civilian population under the control and authority of a foreign government. b) Elimination of the enemies war making capacity
How's that working for you?
Thought so.
I return to my original statement, and stand by it.
exactly. The problem is if you let the brass do it, they come up with something like the Fax machines we got that cost $10,000, when we could buy better ones that worked in more extreme weather and power conditions for only $100 at the nearest Radio Shack.
...is that expensive military gadgets are big business.
Or retirement funds for officers in the brass.
The most effective add-on we added during the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War was one thing - smart dumb bombs - little JATO add-ons that cost $1000 to $2000 extra and turned a $500 dumb bomb into a guided smart bomb, more effective than a $1 million cruise missile with more explosive payload, and much more accurate.
This dropped the cost of war down dramatically.
Cheap. Simple. Works. Not complicated.
But it doesn't create jobs for politicos and defense firms. At least not many.
Well, I served as a Sergeant (Army). The job of the Sergeant, at least in my units, was to make sure everyone was effective and on-mission. Gear that gets in the way is useless. Ditch it until you need it for another mission, back with the ruck.
I heard this pretty much every time new gear came to the boat. It was never as useful as the old stuff, and breaks more often too. (Sometimes, _very_ rarely, it's actually true.) Sounds like a Seargeant that needs to be busted and someone who will do the job put in his place. The job of a Sgt. is to teach people how to use and integrate the gear into their tactics. If his people don't or won't use the gear - it's his job to find out why, and report the same up the chain.
Wrong. The problem is it gets into the way of doing the job. You already have an extra load for the body armor, the ambient heat is off the scale (Iraq), and they want you to carry more that gets in the way of doing the job? Just look at the flip visor - can't be flipped up, makes you sweat more, makes it hard to use your rifle (unless you fire mid-waist and miss most of the time), and it adds more info than you can handle.
Minimal feedback - think like the mini-map in WoW - something small and unobtrusive out of the main field of vision, in case you get lost or turned around. Same for the camera - downsize so it's a mini-cam like in your cell. Same for the headset - all you need is a micro bud that hangs off your earlobe. That would cut the weight - plus the weight of the batteries - way way way down.
You obviously don't know the proper role of the Military, which is the KILL people and BREAK things.
Actually, the proper role of a military unit is to project chaos and confusion on the enemy and cause their forces to become incapable of functioning.
Sometimes that involves killing them and breaking things, but more often not.
In fact, wounding someone is a great way to slow down lots of people. Killing makes it easy to leave the body there. Wounded people are noisy, demand attention, distract the unit, and give away information even if they don't realize it.
Look, even with a day pack, if you're carrying full ammo load, some extra frags and a pop-top launcher, plus the usual gigo stuff they load you with, you'll be sweating to the moldies with that much extra weight.
I used to hump 70 kg (that's 150 pounds, boys and girls) as a combat FN C2 gunner in a combat engineer unit, and we were insane. In the heat, the kind of extra weight that 16 pounds adds is enough to get you killed.
That plus you're already in full record mode in battle, with too much info to figure out.
The only thing that even makes sense is a very light optical cam on the helmet (built-in) and mike, feeding in to a microradio and with a mini earpiece so you can hear (and promptly ignore) the CP orders that have zilch to do with the situation on the ground.
Some CQ REMFs must have thought this payload up, cause it's only going to get more of us killed and feather the retirement nests of the upper brass that have us in an unwinnable war.
So long as you just gift gold to n00bs with level 2 characters and never accept Real World cash for it, you have not created a taxable event.
Now, on the other hand, gold farmers and others who sell MMORPG assets for Real World money and goods are creating and participating in taxable events.
Technically, we have different sales taxes. My city has a total sales tax rate of 8.8 percent, but it will go up in a month. That is the city plus county plus state sales tax. We, along with I think 4 states, have no state or local income taxes, but only pay sales taxes.
Unlike you, my time is worth research dollars, and spending 10 hours doing paperwork means less time to work on scientific papers and discoveries, such as a cure for Malaria (done, will be out in around 8 years, new drug) and now research into Alzheimer's disease, Dementia, Parkinson's disease, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Post Improvised Explosive Disorder (PTED) (apparently being around 80 or more explosions may cause sheer in your brain neuron connections, hope I'm not in that category), and other fun things.
Maybe you have time to kill, but I'd like to get back into my Ph.D. program sooner rather than later, since I only have lower levels of training beyond a Bachelors.
I used to do my taxes manually - for 30 years. In fact, I used to do my own business taxes - in Canada, where returns are frequently 12 to 16 pages long just for individuals - manually.
I think I'll use software, since I can no longer follow instructions which aren't on the printed forms (they altered four sections of tax code that affected Washington State - the flood damage I had, the sales and local taxes I pay (we have no state, county, or city income taxes), the long distance phone tax refund, and another section I can't recall right now).
And sometimes my returns had three copies of the Schedules for stocks, bonds, and dividend transactions... because I had so many.
Just my itemized charitable donations alone were more than 100 items this year... I give a lot of money to people.
But normally I use the big calculator known as my computer.
However, in some years I've filed six additional forms, as many people with options, investments, homes, medical expenses, kids, tuition, and other such fun things could tell you about.
I had to wait for all the east coasters to stop slamming the system until somewhere around 10:30 pm after about 40 tries to upload my return.
In case you're wondering, the reason I get such a big refund is not good - I had major storm damage last Christmas Eve (flooded my condo while I was away for three days, the resulting damage means many thousands of dollars of repairs this year too). And my PI had her house hit by a four-story-tall tree...
Guess I'll just go watch those music videos I've been wanting to watch in Firefox ever since I reported some of the earliest bugs for playing media years ago... YEAH! BABY GOT VID!
Actually, I remember 110 baud modems. And hand coding the connect strings.
But my son has no problems with running Firefox on his Mac Mini.
Maybe you need to stop running 12 apps at a time - which is what he frequently does - iChat multiple windows, Firefox, WoW, various music programs, and so on.
An election will be called within the next month or two, after that, it all depends on who gets into office
A friend of mine who was the current Secretary of the 43rd District Democrats in Seattle has gone up there to help with the elections, so she at least thinks it's fairly certain.
But I'm not sure I agree with your statement on all political parties loving the money that comes with lobbies - IMHO this does not normally include either the NDP or the Green Party in Canada.
But what do I know, I used to be active in BC politics...
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Guess they know that, without price cuts, they will be at best 3rd place.
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Which is kind of a shame, in that they have the better internal machine, even if they have very very few fun games that are designed for it.
I'll just be having fun downloading the final version of Opera for free to use on my Wii, and playing Super Mario Paper Cut
See, you can always justify something.
Doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Because sometimes you have to realize that to do your job properly, you need to ignore the demands of higher ups in a creative way.
That is the path to success.
You also have a) Occupation and pacification of enemy territory - troop garrisons that keep a civilian population under the control and authority of a foreign government. b) Elimination of the enemies war making capacity
How's that working for you?
Thought so.
I return to my original statement, and stand by it.
exactly. The problem is if you let the brass do it, they come up with something like the Fax machines we got that cost $10,000, when we could buy better ones that worked in more extreme weather and power conditions for only $100 at the nearest Radio Shack.
...is that expensive military gadgets are big business.
Or retirement funds for officers in the brass.
The most effective add-on we added during the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War was one thing - smart dumb bombs - little JATO add-ons that cost $1000 to $2000 extra and turned a $500 dumb bomb into a guided smart bomb, more effective than a $1 million cruise missile with more explosive payload, and much more accurate.
This dropped the cost of war down dramatically.
Cheap. Simple. Works. Not complicated.
But it doesn't create jobs for politicos and defense firms. At least not many.
We, like 4 other states, have no state income tax return. We only pay sales tax. In Washington State and other places.
Thus, I am correct.
And so are you.
Well, I served as a Sergeant (Army). The job of the Sergeant, at least in my units, was to make sure everyone was effective and on-mission. Gear that gets in the way is useless. Ditch it until you need it for another mission, back with the ruck.
I heard this pretty much every time new gear came to the boat. It was never as useful as the old stuff, and breaks more often too. (Sometimes, _very_ rarely, it's actually true.) Sounds like a Seargeant that needs to be busted and someone who will do the job put in his place. The job of a Sgt. is to teach people how to use and integrate the gear into their tactics. If his people don't or won't use the gear - it's his job to find out why, and report the same up the chain.
Wrong. The problem is it gets into the way of doing the job. You already have an extra load for the body armor, the ambient heat is off the scale (Iraq), and they want you to carry more that gets in the way of doing the job? Just look at the flip visor - can't be flipped up, makes you sweat more, makes it hard to use your rifle (unless you fire mid-waist and miss most of the time), and it adds more info than you can handle.
Minimal feedback - think like the mini-map in WoW - something small and unobtrusive out of the main field of vision, in case you get lost or turned around. Same for the camera - downsize so it's a mini-cam like in your cell. Same for the headset - all you need is a micro bud that hangs off your earlobe. That would cut the weight - plus the weight of the batteries - way way way down.
You obviously don't know the proper role of the Military, which is the KILL people and BREAK things.
Actually, the proper role of a military unit is to project chaos and confusion on the enemy and cause their forces to become incapable of functioning.
Sometimes that involves killing them and breaking things, but more often not.
In fact, wounding someone is a great way to slow down lots of people. Killing makes it easy to leave the body there. Wounded people are noisy, demand attention, distract the unit, and give away information even if they don't realize it.
Breaking things is just fun.
You forgot 5. Sell on black market for twice what you got paid to kill him.
Damn stright they run Linux. I can see it now:
...
Load weapon. Do you want to permit or deny this application? Yes, YES!
I'm sorry, I can't permit you to load your weapon if you don't answer properly
*SMASH*
works fine now.
Look, even with a day pack, if you're carrying full ammo load, some extra frags and a pop-top launcher, plus the usual gigo stuff they load you with, you'll be sweating to the moldies with that much extra weight.
I used to hump 70 kg (that's 150 pounds, boys and girls) as a combat FN C2 gunner in a combat engineer unit, and we were insane. In the heat, the kind of extra weight that 16 pounds adds is enough to get you killed.
That plus you're already in full record mode in battle, with too much info to figure out.
The only thing that even makes sense is a very light optical cam on the helmet (built-in) and mike, feeding in to a microradio and with a mini earpiece so you can hear (and promptly ignore) the CP orders that have zilch to do with the situation on the ground.
Some CQ REMFs must have thought this payload up, cause it's only going to get more of us killed and feather the retirement nests of the upper brass that have us in an unwinnable war.
Nuff said.
SNAFU.
my point is I can spend 10 or more hours of my time doing it manually, or use software to do it, and have that time to spend on research (what I do).
CPA's cost money.
So long as you just gift gold to n00bs with level 2 characters and never accept Real World cash for it, you have not created a taxable event.
...
Now, on the other hand, gold farmers and others who sell MMORPG assets for Real World money and goods are creating and participating in taxable events.
Here endeth the lesson
Microsoft and Opera declaring that they want the war to end is kind of like the White House declaring that everything is fine in Iraq.
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The reality is, as in Iraq, that the insurgents, in this case Firefox, are winning and gaining ground in a way that is unstoppable.
Even the Microsoft monopoly on OS is threatened, worldwide.
Resistance is futile
Actually, it's only $30 if you let them loan you the money to get your refund.
If you pay for the fee ahead of time (credit card or check) it is $15.
I chose to pay by credit card (on a miles card).
Technically, we have different sales taxes. My city has a total sales tax rate of 8.8 percent, but it will go up in a month. That is the city plus county plus state sales tax. We, along with I think 4 states, have no state or local income taxes, but only pay sales taxes.
Unlike you, my time is worth research dollars, and spending 10 hours doing paperwork means less time to work on scientific papers and discoveries, such as a cure for Malaria (done, will be out in around 8 years, new drug) and now research into Alzheimer's disease, Dementia, Parkinson's disease, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Post Improvised Explosive Disorder (PTED) (apparently being around 80 or more explosions may cause sheer in your brain neuron connections, hope I'm not in that category), and other fun things.
Maybe you have time to kill, but I'd like to get back into my Ph.D. program sooner rather than later, since I only have lower levels of training beyond a Bachelors.
I used to do my taxes manually - for 30 years. In fact, I used to do my own business taxes - in Canada, where returns are frequently 12 to 16 pages long just for individuals - manually.
... because I had so many.
... I give a lot of money to people.
I think I'll use software, since I can no longer follow instructions which aren't on the printed forms (they altered four sections of tax code that affected Washington State - the flood damage I had, the sales and local taxes I pay (we have no state, county, or city income taxes), the long distance phone tax refund, and another section I can't recall right now).
And sometimes my returns had three copies of the Schedules for stocks, bonds, and dividend transactions
Just my itemized charitable donations alone were more than 100 items this year
Not everyone has a simple return.
I have a slide rule, actually.
But normally I use the big calculator known as my computer.
However, in some years I've filed six additional forms, as many people with options, investments, homes, medical expenses, kids, tuition, and other such fun things could tell you about.
Now, take your calculator and flash it's EEPROM.
I had to wait for all the east coasters to stop slamming the system until somewhere around 10:30 pm after about 40 tries to upload my return.
...
In case you're wondering, the reason I get such a big refund is not good - I had major storm damage last Christmas Eve (flooded my condo while I was away for three days, the resulting damage means many thousands of dollars of repairs this year too). And my PI had her house hit by a four-story-tall tree
Good point, I will try out the mediaplayerconnectivity plugin and see if it works for My Radio Station on My Yahoo.
If so, this sounds like a good plugin.
oh, wait, it's our old overlords.
... YEAH! BABY GOT VID!
Now I'm really confused.
Guess I'll just go watch those music videos I've been wanting to watch in Firefox ever since I reported some of the earliest bugs for playing media years ago
Actually, I remember 110 baud modems. And hand coding the connect strings.
But my son has no problems with running Firefox on his Mac Mini.
Maybe you need to stop running 12 apps at a time - which is what he frequently does - iChat multiple windows, Firefox, WoW, various music programs, and so on.
An election will be called within the next month or two, after that, it all depends on who gets into office
...
A friend of mine who was the current Secretary of the 43rd District Democrats in Seattle has gone up there to help with the elections, so she at least thinks it's fairly certain.
But I'm not sure I agree with your statement on all political parties loving the money that comes with lobbies - IMHO this does not normally include either the NDP or the Green Party in Canada.
But what do I know, I used to be active in BC politics
The problem is they test it for human consumption, in levels a normal person might eat.
But it is possible it creates trace pesticides that bring a new "Silent Spring" to the bees instead.
This would also explain, in addition to mites, the spread pattern.