If I had mod points, I'd be at a toss-up whether to mod you funny or insightful. But I don't so I'll just say that I find this to be both funny and insightful.
...if the reason Apple wants to patent this is to sit it on the shelf with the threat of a lawsuit to anyone who cripples cell phones in the future? Think about it: Apple can cripple phones because only they can.
As a result, Verizon, AT&T, et al. all now have to have their phones open and able to allow the consumer to do absolutely anything and everything they could ever want to do with their phones. Now, would Apple continue to have the only restricted phone on the market? I doubt it. They'd lose too much money competing against all the unlocked phones they created.
Hurry up and do it, Apple. I want a new browser on my LG env2.
Coca Cola has different flavors around the world, often due to the preferences of the local consumers. If you imported Coke from somewhere else and resold it, and it wasn't clear to the consumer what exactly they were buying, they could very well think Coke wronged them when their drink tastes a little off.
Coca Cola tastes different everywhere else in the world but America because we use High Fructose Corn Syrup instead of pure cane sugar. The taste difference between the two is so much better when real sugar is used, but this is America where capitalism rules and the bottom line is most important. The bottom line is the following: HFCS is much cheaper to create and use than cane sugar.
If you get the chance to try a sugar-based soda and its HFCS equivalent, you'll be in awe of the difference. Taste for profit. I'd rather pay a few cents more for real sugar over HFCS.
Considering I'm about to go to the desert I went ahead and decided to see what the fuss was about. Looking at his site, do you know what I see?
Specs for a civilian network. Any one of you could go buy this exact same equipment and field it in your own back yard. Nothing he posted on that page has anything to do with the military network node system used while deployed. To be sure, there are satellites involved in the government network in Iraq and Afghanistan, but nothing there was listed I would use when I set up my network down there for military use.
25B - Information Technology Specialist SOP - Standard Operating Procedure SIGO - Signal Officer (Guy in charge of communications in a line unit, aka combat unit) CDR - Commander PL - Platoon Leader BN - Battalion BDE - Brigade PLT - Platoon DOIM - Directorate of Information Management ESB - Expeditionary Signal Battalion COMSEC - Communications Security SIPRNET - Secure (or Secret) Internet Protocol Router Network (As opposed to NIPRNET, or as they call it now LandWarNet, AKA the Internet) JNN - Joint Network Node WLC - Warrior Leader's Course BNCOC - Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course (now called ALC, Advanced Leader's Course. Follow-up was ANCOC (Advanced) which is now called SLC, Senior Leader's Course) MTOE - Modification Table of Organization and Equipment (Where people and things are within a unit) MOS - Military Occupational Specialty (See 25B above) CSM - Command Sergeant Major JCU -Joint Communications Unit
And to answer the parent's questions, Yes, I am a 25B in a signal unit. I wrote an SOP for my previous unit, which was a line unit. I made the web page for that unit too. I have done training for the unit, and being in a signal unit, all I ever do is cross-train. I can't honestly remember the last time I did anything geeky in the sixteen months I've been on this post, except for the two weeks we were prepping for a deployment.
I'm still an E-4 after six years for a few reasons:
Despite all the technical know-how I have, it means absolutely jack when you're on one profile that questionably makes you possibly non-deployable, and another profile that won't let you run. After all, running is the most important thing we can do, right? If you suck at PT, you must suck at everything else. At least that's what members of the military think.
While I have completed WLC, I got moved out of the unit I was with when I went and was going to go to the board and every time that happens, you're at the bottom of the rung, no matter what kind of time in service one has. I got to go thanks to that nice retention policy that makes us "promotable" after 4 years. Ha, how many MOSs actually have 350 promotion points?
Do these point trends imply any way one could get promoted without being nearly perfect? If they'd stop reclassing the E-5 25Fs into 25Bs, maybe I'd have a chance.
Yes, I'm maxed on school, both military and civilian. 5 classes from graduation actually, and am going while in the military.
Morale isn't very high with this poster, but that should be pretty apparent.
and do I honestly think I'll ever see any of this stuff?
Absolutely not. They have civilian contractors to do all the cool stuff. I'm a network administrator who is denied administrative rights. My MOS (job classification) is an E4 and out position. Basically I have no chance of attaining any leadership skills in my job. Big change from when I joined six years ago. I'm seriously considering leaving communications for something that I can actually advance in, even if I wouldn't be as happy in it, but I could be wrong about that.
This turned in to an off-topic rant. My bad.
Anyway, I'll be joining tomorrow when I can get access to a computer that I can use my ID card in. Until then, I'll just not be able to look around it and - most likely - correctly speculate what the program is like for a junior enlisted servicemember, even if they know Linux well.
Both are good looks into how beef and other animals are used in the fast food industry and how the meat industry has changed over the last 150 years. You want to know what your cows are really eating? Here's a hint: it's not grass-fed in most cases. Your ruminants (multi-stomached) are actually having foods that have been laced with the blood of their previously fallen in order to have them grow faster and get onto your plate quicker. If that's something an herbivore would normally do, then I look forward to some cannibalistic times ahead.
I'm not the world's best example of a vegetarian, that's for sure, but I do know what's going on.
You know, if you install the Google Toolbar you get the exact same thing available to you in (insert browser you feel like using today here). I like having that available to me in Firefox. I want my ads blocked and Chrome won't do that. Not to mention that Chrome/Chromium (I have them both installed) alphas in Linux don't have flash support or anything like that yet.
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True, look at North Korea or Soviet Russia.
In Soviet Russia... battery charges you!
A nice midwestern locale, a place where eleven is the new ten, good rivalries, a great ground game, and overall good defense.
In short, the Big Ten.
Wait, we're not talking college football here?
I was going to say, "you're confusing it with Galaxy Quest," but then I clicked your link and it pretty much ruined my joke.
I am pretty sure that if there were tech support for Ubuntu, you would hear the same sorts of things.
Funny. There is tech support for Ubuntu.
If I had mod points, I'd be at a toss-up whether to mod you funny or insightful. But I don't so I'll just say that I find this to be both funny and insightful.
Bill Gates must be God?
We are witnessing the birth of a new dogma: the Holy Quaternity.
You're late to the party, Bro.
Catholics have been doing that with Mary for centuries now.
Top-down shooter. Pretty fun and challenging too.
So al-Qaeda won't sue for trademark infringement?
Nope. The name al-Qaeda is licensed under Creative Commons.
...if the reason Apple wants to patent this is to sit it on the shelf with the threat of a lawsuit to anyone who cripples cell phones in the future? Think about it: Apple can cripple phones because only they can.
As a result, Verizon, AT&T, et al. all now have to have their phones open and able to allow the consumer to do absolutely anything and everything they could ever want to do with their phones. Now, would Apple continue to have the only restricted phone on the market? I doubt it. They'd lose too much money competing against all the unlocked phones they created.
Hurry up and do it, Apple. I want a new browser on my LG env2.
Coca Cola has different flavors around the world, often due to the preferences of the local consumers. If you imported Coke from somewhere else and resold it, and it wasn't clear to the consumer what exactly they were buying, they could very well think Coke wronged them when their drink tastes a little off.
Coca Cola tastes different everywhere else in the world but America because we use High Fructose Corn Syrup instead of pure cane sugar. The taste difference between the two is so much better when real sugar is used, but this is America where capitalism rules and the bottom line is most important. The bottom line is the following: HFCS is much cheaper to create and use than cane sugar.
If you get the chance to try a sugar-based soda and its HFCS equivalent, you'll be in awe of the difference. Taste for profit. I'd rather pay a few cents more for real sugar over HFCS.
This is one of those things where I would say, "that's pretty cool you made it, but why?"
I think using the web site and seeing the trends over in the right column is good enough for probably 99.8% of Twitter users. Even the geeks like us.
I like this one better:
There as 1 girl.
She was 16.
She did a 69.
3 times.
Know what she was?
11669*3=35007
Anyone know where I can rent a donkey costume?
Kinky Kelly? Is that you?
Taco bell? In some parts of the country, there is a place called White Castles. And let me tell you, they don't call them slyders for nothing.
I make it a general rule to avoid eating something that smells the same going in as it does going out.
Would you be happier if they were using the term oligopoly? Then you could chuck Apple in with MS and it would be blazingly accurate.
Like many of us, I'm sure, I'm not even sure why it even had to be an issue in the first place.
*Boom!* ...Well, I guess we don't have to worry about that AC's line of argument anymore.
Clean up! Aisle five!
Considering I'm about to go to the desert I went ahead and decided to see what the fuss was about. Looking at his site, do you know what I see?
Specs for a civilian network. Any one of you could go buy this exact same equipment and field it in your own back yard. Nothing he posted on that page has anything to do with the military network node system used while deployed. To be sure, there are satellites involved in the government network in Iraq and Afghanistan, but nothing there was listed I would use when I set up my network down there for military use.
25B - Information Technology Specialist
SOP - Standard Operating Procedure
SIGO - Signal Officer (Guy in charge of communications in a line unit, aka combat unit)
CDR - Commander
PL - Platoon Leader
BN - Battalion
BDE - Brigade
PLT - Platoon
DOIM - Directorate of Information Management
ESB - Expeditionary Signal Battalion
COMSEC - Communications Security
SIPRNET - Secure (or Secret) Internet Protocol Router Network (As opposed to NIPRNET, or as they call it now LandWarNet, AKA the Internet)
JNN - Joint Network Node
WLC - Warrior Leader's Course
BNCOC - Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course (now called ALC, Advanced Leader's Course. Follow-up was ANCOC (Advanced) which is now called SLC, Senior Leader's Course)
MTOE - Modification Table of Organization and Equipment (Where people and things are within a unit)
MOS - Military Occupational Specialty (See 25B above)
CSM - Command Sergeant Major
JCU -Joint Communications Unit
And to answer the parent's questions, Yes, I am a 25B in a signal unit. I wrote an SOP for my previous unit, which was a line unit. I made the web page for that unit too. I have done training for the unit, and being in a signal unit, all I ever do is cross-train. I can't honestly remember the last time I did anything geeky in the sixteen months I've been on this post, except for the two weeks we were prepping for a deployment.
I'm still an E-4 after six years for a few reasons:
Yes, I'm maxed on school, both military and civilian. 5 classes from graduation actually, and am going while in the military.
Morale isn't very high with this poster, but that should be pretty apparent.
and do I honestly think I'll ever see any of this stuff?
Absolutely not. They have civilian contractors to do all the cool stuff. I'm a network administrator who is denied administrative rights. My MOS (job classification) is an E4 and out position. Basically I have no chance of attaining any leadership skills in my job. Big change from when I joined six years ago. I'm seriously considering leaving communications for something that I can actually advance in, even if I wouldn't be as happy in it, but I could be wrong about that.
This turned in to an off-topic rant. My bad.
Anyway, I'll be joining tomorrow when I can get access to a computer that I can use my ID card in. Until then, I'll just not be able to look around it and - most likely - correctly speculate what the program is like for a junior enlisted servicemember, even if they know Linux well.
Most American school systems who face budget cuts, apparently.
They only output so much gas because they're not eating what they naturally would.
Best thing that could ever be said. I'd mod you up, but I don't have mod points, and I couldn't have supported you with research.
Read Fast Food Nation or watch Super Size Me
Both are good looks into how beef and other animals are used in the fast food industry and how the meat industry has changed over the last 150 years. You want to know what your cows are really eating? Here's a hint: it's not grass-fed in most cases. Your ruminants (multi-stomached) are actually having foods that have been laced with the blood of their previously fallen in order to have them grow faster and get onto your plate quicker. If that's something an herbivore would normally do, then I look forward to some cannibalistic times ahead.
I'm not the world's best example of a vegetarian, that's for sure, but I do know what's going on.
AAMOF, he already has. My comment makes 464.
You know, if you install the Google Toolbar you get the exact same thing available to you in (insert browser you feel like using today here). I like having that available to me in Firefox. I want my ads blocked and Chrome won't do that. Not to mention that Chrome/Chromium (I have them both installed) alphas in Linux don't have flash support or anything like that yet.
No I didn't. I got a free license for it from my college.
Not that it's installed anyway. But I have it if I *snicker* ever wanted to, just in case.
This folks, is why one should never graduate: free proprietary software for life.
Wait, I am typing this in Ubuntu....