I can only write summaries. Clear, concise, contextual, executive summaries, or drivelized communication anxiety type sludge.

Not big on logic are you?

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter#United_States_Law_2

2. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/promoting-hope-preventing-suicide/201006/making-them-feel-not-alone

3. http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1677546&cid=32483118

I understand where you're coming from, but I do not like where you're going. The only resolution for your demands is to completely remove our soldier's ability to initiate combat entirely, which as shown by the video already required several authorizations and confirmations before they went ahead. The appearance was even that the enemy had fired and was getting ready to fire, so even saying that the enemy must fire first does not live up to these standards.

I'm sorry, but barring severe disability, childlike naivety, or plain insanity everyone that goes towards a combat zone in order to accomplish an objective within the combat zone damn well ought to evaluate those risks before achieving that objective. Bridges and buildings have a pretense of safety, an obligation to humanity to operate in a manner which is not grossly negligent or predatory. Soldiers, armies, combat zones, etc. function without any such pretense, in fact, the context is so fundamentally opposed that I cannot understand why nobody has pursued Reuters for providing inadequate training for an employee given an incredibly hazardous task.

Now, I'm not saying that nobody should be punished, but I cant see any cause for legal liability, not by that video alone. Find a policy or procedure they did not follow and you might have something, but that video does not present anything blatantly negligent.

Yup, "human" failure and if you really, really believe that you could never make this sort of mistake then you need a whole boatload of pills.

"this single statement belies the truth of the situation"
Okay, let's hear it, elaborate, put it down for realz homie cause the rest of the fucking world would like to know "The Truth" of the fucking situation you fucking fuckwit.

Thanks, but I'll have none of your madness, I've got plenty of the shit myself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CollateralMurder.ogv

Jeeze, you're a douche. I'll tell you, if I was a psychotic asshole looking to pick people off for shits and giggles the very last people I would fsck with would be reporters, it's kind of the same thing with serial killers targeting hookers, you're not trying to get caught. This was an accident, a tragedy, but not intentional as far as I can tell.

You better not be talkin' bout my kin again.

Yea, it sounds good, but it limits the bug testing. Suddenly, your beta testers are testing the latest adobe update as well as service pack 3.

I've got a few, I won't name names, but on my desktop systems it's around 0%-5%, on those systems I try to keep them from updating. The setups are pretty particular so I think it's better to just run the updates and fix the few machines that break, on a desktop that is. On server s-he's probably had a few over a couple years.

The worst is actually trying to make an effort to keeping everything on a windows system up to date.

Anyways, you shouldn't be making changes directly to production, I don't care what system you're running. Saying I have Debian and Debian is secure will not cut it.

It's my opinion that racism is a manner of perpetuating ancient wars that were long ago thought to be settled. Racism against North Koreans, Mexican civilians, etc undermine our leadership's ability to act diplomatically with other countries. It is also widely accepted that racism is antithetical to capitalism.

Maybe it's an offshore aristocracy, oh wait, that's a conspiracy theory.

if there's an experience deficit from the previous tech to this one and there was budget for a second tech then the doctor might have a point. Or it's just garden variety melodrama you could hear at the coffee shop.

A task has to be well defined and proven in order to finish on time. Technicians are not graduate students. The technicians job is to facilitate a demand for resources, measuring efficiency, cost, time, feasibility, etc. The technicians job is not to assemble every possible part in every possible configuration. As a pc technician I wonder how it would have been if the three of them were working towards a common goal, they probably would have jammed the project out in like an hour. Other times the technician will need to work alone, basically the more reproducable something is the more a technician will tend to it. If the task is extrenuous it might be more of a favor than a job. That and the budget might be kind of crappy, technicians look terrible when they're underfunded/understaffed.