Maybe the West would be less reluctant to share sensitive military technology if your track record didn't include sharing nuclear weapons technology with the Stalinst freak-show that calls itself the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.
There is, however, no mention that WiFi is banned in the article:
Not all radio transmissions are prohibited in the Radio Quiet Zone. For example Citizen's Band radios, police and ambulance radios, and fire department radios are used there. However, large radio transmitter owners must typically coordinate their operations with representatives of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the U.S. Department of Defense. The Allegheny Mountain Radio company operates the only broadcast radio stations in the Quiet Zone, with just one station in the AM band, and several low-power FM stations. Most radio transmitters within the area are licensed by the FCC (just as they are in the rest of the United States). Exceptions to the Radio Quiet Zone restrictions are usually determined on a case-by-case basis, with preference given to public safety concerns.
I was stationed at Edwards Air Force Base from 2001 - 2003. After the burgs of Rosamond, Mojave and the tragic-comedy of California City, Lancaster-Palmdale was the closest form of civilization to the base - just a 35-mile drive from the back gate!
While there I formed the theory that Lancaster was used as a checkpoint during the Okie migration of the Great Depression (see "The Grapes of Wrath" for further details). If you were halfway decent-looking, you were allowed to cross the San Gabriel mountains. If you were a freak of nature, you stayed in Lancaster.
Seriously - I never saw so many ugly people in one place in my life.
Seriously, if I wasn't going to be 85 years old by the time they get around to this (and I hope they do) I'd be the first in line at the spaceport.
Guess it's in the blood thanks to all my ancestors who took the risk to get on boats from Europe to travel to a new, distant wilderness with little or no guarantee of success much less survival and then every generation after who kept moving into the wilderness until they reached the Pacific Northwest 130 years ago.
Well, since Mars is out guess I'll have to settle to sailing around the world - still plenty of wild places on Earth to go visit.
Camping in the high desert of northwestern Nevada years ago, the call of nature awoke me about 2am. I crawled out of the tent to a moonless night that revealed a sky literally full of stars - I couldn't find a dark spot anywhere. The Milky Way looked like a river of light stretching from horizon to horizon.
I may never travel to space, but I think I know what it looks like now.
True story: an architect friend decided his business needed a presence on the Internet several years ago, but not knowing anything about the Internet except it was a way to advertise, and being cheap, he asked his neighbor Bob to set him-up. The neighbor bought and registered his domain name, ("www.[last_name]architecturalstudio.com") and set up a very simple page with contact info, etc.
My friend was happy, but two years later, the domain name came up for renewal and he and the neighbor were no longer on speaking terms. The neighbor ignored the renewal notices and one day my friend gets a call from a client saying his website had disappeared and a search page was in its place. Friend calls domain registrar (GoDaddy) who informs him his domain name expired thirty days previously and had been purchased by another party (even though GoDaddy says they'll hold the domain name for sixty days after expiration before putting it up for auction - one of many reasons to stay the heck away from GoDaddy).
Friend contacts the new owner - someone located in the UK - who tells my friend he can buy the domain name back for the low, low price of $40,000.00. Friend says no thanks and registers a new domain name and begins process of putting up another website (with my help). Day later, friend gets another call from a client asking if he knows his original domain name is now a pr0n site. Friend apologizes and then receives an e-mail from the chap in the UK saying he can buy the domain name back for $500.00.
Moral of the story - never, ever, give anyone else control of your domain name. Especially not Bob.
I guess you could say that all the wildlife it attracts is what is really interesting to dive on, but then, why not dive on a natural reef?
It was my understanding artificial reefs not only attract marine wildlife, they also promote it, which is a good thing if many natural reefs are, in fact, endangered. ..
I read the Early Bird, a daily clipping service published on the web by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (sorry no link - you must be a DoD employee to log-in). Just reading the list of titles of the day's stories published by the likes of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, it quickly becomes evident where their sympathies lie.
None of the media are free of bias - it's up to the individual reader to choose his own poison.
The problem with the Experience Center is I think it's a case where there is a real attempt to be disingenuous.
I've never visited an Army Experience Center and I'd be surprised if there wasn't some way to generate leads. I don't know how aggressive the recruiters are at approaching kids who look like they're of age and meet the physical requirements. It wouldn't surprise me if individual recruiters claimed the it wasn't a recruiting tool (I knew an Army recruiter who "guaranteed" kids they could all be graphic designers and never go to war), but if the Army as an organization is claiming this isn't a recruiting tool, then it's time to call "60 Minutes" and put the CO of Army Recruiting Command on record in front of the nation.
Everything I did as a recruiter was aimed at generating leads and planting seeds. Whether it was manning a booth at an air show, having kids fill out lead cards for a free Air Force t-shirt drawing at a career fair, or presenting Air Force Math and Science awards at high school graduations, I was either getting information for follow-up calls or showing the uniform in public to the target market (high school and college age kids) or its influencers (parents and educators).
All the money the armed forces spends on marketing and advertising - tv ads, NASCAR sponsorship, aerial demonstration teams, etc - has only one purpose - attracting qualified applicants.
Overall, I think the Army is more truthful now, after six years of war, in their advertising than they were in the past. They don't shy away from showing personnel in full combat gear working together. Unlike the Air Force - which is still selling flying jobs in their advertising when less than 10% of the Air Force is on flight status - the Army has moved more towards the Marine Corps' model - selling the satisfaction of service, the close bonds formed, and the confidence military training brings more than the money.
Military recruiting has never been about truth in advertising. When I recruited for the USAF ('93-'97, 368 RCS OL-FD Reno, NV), I hung the front page of the European Stars and Stripes printed on the first day of the first Gulf War on the front wall of my office, the first thing a visitor saw when they came through the front door. It was a night-vision picture of an F-15E Strike Eagle, fully loaded with death and destruction, refueling from a KC-135 aerial tanker with WAR in a 3-inch bold font above the photo. My superiors suggested I should take it down since it might scare off potential applicants. I left it up - I felt it was important that even those folks joining the "Chair Force" should understand that the ultimate purpose of the military was not to provide job training, college money, or a pay check twice a month; the ultimate purpose of the military was to fight the nation's wars - everything else was secondary to that.
I don't think I lost a single applicant because of that picture. Even though I sold the benefits the Air Force provided (Money, Advancement, Training, Travel, Recreation, Education, Service, and Satisfaction), I made sure the applicant understood that they were applying to join an organization whose mission was to fly, fight, and win. If I was asked "will I go to war?" I told the applicant the chances were slim they would ever be engaged in direct combat (again, this was years before Afghanistan and the second invasion of Iraq and the use of Air Force personnel to run convoys, etc.), but the possibility always existed. Ultimately it was the applicant's responsibility to make the decision whether to enlist or not.
Yeah, there are dirtbag recruiters in all the branches who lie. Some get caught and are disciplined, others don't. But I don't have much sympathy for anyone who enlists because his or her recruiter told them they'd never go to war (and anyone who enlists today, after six years of Afghanistan and Iraq in the news every day, who thinks they'll never go to war is simply a self-deluded idiot and should be discharged at the earliest opportunity). There are a lot of misconceptions about military life propagated by the media and the education industry, but not fighting wars is not one of them. Trust me - the first day of basic training it's made very clear to the recruits (this includes the Air Force) the reason they're there - to fight the nation's wars. And its not hard for a recruit to get kicked out of basic training if that's what he really wants - we'd rather do it then and there than spend the money to train, house, and feed him only to have him start crying "I was told I wouldn't have to go war!" down the road.
Sorry, but any kid who enlists in the Army thinking war is just like a video game is just dumber than dumb. The Army isn't being dishonest or even disingenuous using this as a recruiting tool. The folks who are protesting this aren't upset about truth in advertising and they're not offering an alternative to these kids, many of whom either can't afford or aren't ready for college. There isn't a social program out there that can provide the same benefits military service does. And for every story you hear about someone not being able to find a job after spending four years in the military there are dozens of others like me who used their military experience and benefits as a stepping stone to bigger and better things in life.
. . . have a page depicting the people trapped in the floors above the crash site leaping to their deaths on the sidewalks below rather than burn alive in the advancing flames?
I think our poseur of a president should watch those videos every morning as he eats breakfast. Then maybe he won't be so quick to call waterboarding "torture."
I watched my hometown of Olympia, WA change from a decent, hard-working blue-collar port town into a "latte town" thanks to the Evergreen State College.
It sucked and still does. Downtown Olympia used to be have real character - now it's overflowing with the pretentious poseurs described in the parent.
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Paula, is that you?
Compared to other things I've seen in the Bay Area, a guy with an o-scope attached to a parking meter would be pretty damn tame.
Damn, I forgot. All the troubles in the world today are the fault of us arrogant Americans.
Where do I report for reeducation camp, comrade?
When I tried emacs it seemed like, well, a girl with fat ankles. Know what I mean?
Maybe the West would be less reluctant to share sensitive military technology if your track record didn't include sharing nuclear weapons technology with the Stalinst freak-show that calls itself the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.
Your ISI leaves a lot to be desired, too.
Quit trying to force your choices on the rest of us.
Scottsdale is full of up-tight white people.
Up-tight white people buy BMWs and Macs.
???
Profit!!!
Wait. . .
At first I thought this was a troll, but Wikipedia partially confirms it: United States National Radio Quiet Zone.
There is, however, no mention that WiFi is banned in the article:
Not all radio transmissions are prohibited in the Radio Quiet Zone. For example Citizen's Band radios, police and ambulance radios, and fire department radios are used there. However, large radio transmitter owners must typically coordinate their operations with representatives of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the U.S. Department of Defense. The Allegheny Mountain Radio company operates the only broadcast radio stations in the Quiet Zone, with just one station in the AM band, and several low-power FM stations. Most radio transmitters within the area are licensed by the FCC (just as they are in the rest of the United States). Exceptions to the Radio Quiet Zone restrictions are usually determined on a case-by-case basis, with preference given to public safety concerns.
... cats wouldn't be purring at all.
Hand your kid a copy of The C Programming Language. If they can't handle that, they are not ready.
Why not just chase him around the yard with a baseball bat?
A lot more humane than your proposal.
I was stationed at Edwards Air Force Base from 2001 - 2003. After the burgs of Rosamond, Mojave and the tragic-comedy of California City, Lancaster-Palmdale was the closest form of civilization to the base - just a 35-mile drive from the back gate!
While there I formed the theory that Lancaster was used as a checkpoint during the Okie migration of the Great Depression (see "The Grapes of Wrath" for further details). If you were halfway decent-looking, you were allowed to cross the San Gabriel mountains. If you were a freak of nature, you stayed in Lancaster.
Seriously - I never saw so many ugly people in one place in my life.
I'm in - where do I sign up?
Seriously, if I wasn't going to be 85 years old by the time they get around to this (and I hope they do) I'd be the first in line at the spaceport.
Guess it's in the blood thanks to all my ancestors who took the risk to get on boats from Europe to travel to a new, distant wilderness with little or no guarantee of success much less survival and then every generation after who kept moving into the wilderness until they reached the Pacific Northwest 130 years ago.
Well, since Mars is out guess I'll have to settle to sailing around the world - still plenty of wild places on Earth to go visit.
The Supernova Junior: now only $0.99 at Burger King
I think Taco Bell beat them to it - at least it felt like a supernova in my bowel the last time I ate a Taco Bell product. . .
Camping in the high desert of northwestern Nevada years ago, the call of nature awoke me about 2am. I crawled out of the tent to a moonless night that revealed a sky literally full of stars - I couldn't find a dark spot anywhere. The Milky Way looked like a river of light stretching from horizon to horizon.
I may never travel to space, but I think I know what it looks like now.
True story: an architect friend decided his business needed a presence on the Internet several years ago, but not knowing anything about the Internet except it was a way to advertise, and being cheap, he asked his neighbor Bob to set him-up. The neighbor bought and registered his domain name, ("www.[last_name]architecturalstudio.com") and set up a very simple page with contact info, etc.
My friend was happy, but two years later, the domain name came up for renewal and he and the neighbor were no longer on speaking terms. The neighbor ignored the renewal notices and one day my friend gets a call from a client saying his website had disappeared and a search page was in its place. Friend calls domain registrar (GoDaddy) who informs him his domain name expired thirty days previously and had been purchased by another party (even though GoDaddy says they'll hold the domain name for sixty days after expiration before putting it up for auction - one of many reasons to stay the heck away from GoDaddy).
Friend contacts the new owner - someone located in the UK - who tells my friend he can buy the domain name back for the low, low price of $40,000.00. Friend says no thanks and registers a new domain name and begins process of putting up another website (with my help). Day later, friend gets another call from a client asking if he knows his original domain name is now a pr0n site. Friend apologizes and then receives an e-mail from the chap in the UK saying he can buy the domain name back for $500.00.
Moral of the story - never, ever, give anyone else control of your domain name. Especially not Bob.
I guess you could say that all the wildlife it attracts is what is really interesting to dive on, but then, why not dive on a natural reef?
It was my understanding artificial reefs not only attract marine wildlife, they also promote it, which is a good thing if many natural reefs are, in fact, endangered. . .
You have a five-digit UID and you're complaining?
What, did your grammar goggles go on the blink?
Murdocks paper are hardly "fair and balanced".
I read the Early Bird, a daily clipping service published on the web by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (sorry no link - you must be a DoD employee to log-in). Just reading the list of titles of the day's stories published by the likes of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, it quickly becomes evident where their sympathies lie.
None of the media are free of bias - it's up to the individual reader to choose his own poison.
The problem with the Experience Center is I think it's a case where there is a real attempt to be disingenuous.
I've never visited an Army Experience Center and I'd be surprised if there wasn't some way to generate leads. I don't know how aggressive the recruiters are at approaching kids who look like they're of age and meet the physical requirements. It wouldn't surprise me if individual recruiters claimed the it wasn't a recruiting tool (I knew an Army recruiter who "guaranteed" kids they could all be graphic designers and never go to war), but if the Army as an organization is claiming this isn't a recruiting tool, then it's time to call "60 Minutes" and put the CO of Army Recruiting Command on record in front of the nation.
Everything I did as a recruiter was aimed at generating leads and planting seeds. Whether it was manning a booth at an air show, having kids fill out lead cards for a free Air Force t-shirt drawing at a career fair, or presenting Air Force Math and Science awards at high school graduations, I was either getting information for follow-up calls or showing the uniform in public to the target market (high school and college age kids) or its influencers (parents and educators).
All the money the armed forces spends on marketing and advertising - tv ads, NASCAR sponsorship, aerial demonstration teams, etc - has only one purpose - attracting qualified applicants.
Overall, I think the Army is more truthful now, after six years of war, in their advertising than they were in the past. They don't shy away from showing personnel in full combat gear working together. Unlike the Air Force - which is still selling flying jobs in their advertising when less than 10% of the Air Force is on flight status - the Army has moved more towards the Marine Corps' model - selling the satisfaction of service, the close bonds formed, and the confidence military training brings more than the money.
Military recruiting has never been about truth in advertising. When I recruited for the USAF ('93-'97, 368 RCS OL-FD Reno, NV), I hung the front page of the European Stars and Stripes printed on the first day of the first Gulf War on the front wall of my office, the first thing a visitor saw when they came through the front door. It was a night-vision picture of an F-15E Strike Eagle, fully loaded with death and destruction, refueling from a KC-135 aerial tanker with WAR in a 3-inch bold font above the photo. My superiors suggested I should take it down since it might scare off potential applicants. I left it up - I felt it was important that even those folks joining the "Chair Force" should understand that the ultimate purpose of the military was not to provide job training, college money, or a pay check twice a month; the ultimate purpose of the military was to fight the nation's wars - everything else was secondary to that.
I don't think I lost a single applicant because of that picture. Even though I sold the benefits the Air Force provided (Money, Advancement, Training, Travel, Recreation, Education, Service, and Satisfaction), I made sure the applicant understood that they were applying to join an organization whose mission was to fly, fight, and win. If I was asked "will I go to war?" I told the applicant the chances were slim they would ever be engaged in direct combat (again, this was years before Afghanistan and the second invasion of Iraq and the use of Air Force personnel to run convoys, etc.), but the possibility always existed. Ultimately it was the applicant's responsibility to make the decision whether to enlist or not.
Yeah, there are dirtbag recruiters in all the branches who lie. Some get caught and are disciplined, others don't. But I don't have much sympathy for anyone who enlists because his or her recruiter told them they'd never go to war (and anyone who enlists today, after six years of Afghanistan and Iraq in the news every day, who thinks they'll never go to war is simply a self-deluded idiot and should be discharged at the earliest opportunity). There are a lot of misconceptions about military life propagated by the media and the education industry, but not fighting wars is not one of them. Trust me - the first day of basic training it's made very clear to the recruits (this includes the Air Force) the reason they're there - to fight the nation's wars. And its not hard for a recruit to get kicked out of basic training if that's what he really wants - we'd rather do it then and there than spend the money to train, house, and feed him only to have him start crying "I was told I wouldn't have to go war!" down the road.
Sorry, but any kid who enlists in the Army thinking war is just like a video game is just dumber than dumb. The Army isn't being dishonest or even disingenuous using this as a recruiting tool. The folks who are protesting this aren't upset about truth in advertising and they're not offering an alternative to these kids, many of whom either can't afford or aren't ready for college. There isn't a social program out there that can provide the same benefits military service does. And for every story you hear about someone not being able to find a job after spending four years in the military there are dozens of others like me who used their military experience and benefits as a stepping stone to bigger and better things in life.
. . . have a page depicting the people trapped in the floors above the crash site leaping to their deaths on the sidewalks below rather than burn alive in the advancing flames?
I think our poseur of a president should watch those videos every morning as he eats breakfast. Then maybe he won't be so quick to call waterboarding "torture."
Why, swapping 15k pr0n pics and meeting fat chicks in chat rooms, of course.
That's what AOL was for.
Refer to yourself as "The Architect," then hire a couple of people to clean-up after you're done "architecting."
This isn't flamebait - it's the truth.
I watched my hometown of Olympia, WA change from a decent, hard-working blue-collar port town into a "latte town" thanks to the Evergreen State College.
It sucked and still does. Downtown Olympia used to be have real character - now it's overflowing with the pretentious poseurs described in the parent.