As a former Marine myself (8 years active duty), I can attest that Oodaloop is right on the money. We used to call them Meals Rarely Excreted.

As an aside, if you ever go to Korea (not Best Korea, the other one) the locals will trade you a bottle of Soju (rotgut liquor) for the main meal in your MRE.

I took that oath myself and served honorably, so I can say with some authority that you are correct. The oath is to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, both foreign and domestic.

It is most certainly not to obey any individual. The UCMJ takes care of that.

That's pretty much my point. I doubt many Americans WANT a huge department of justice/prison-filling-machine but many Americans continue to go with the status quo instead of demanding change. I'm of the opinion that our democracy is failing principally because the people won't get (and stay) engaged on matters of substance.

It's our fault our government spends more money on lawyers than on astronauts. I hope the end of the space shuttle program is a tipping point in how involved we are in changing how our government works.

I work in the healthcare vertical. I've seen 2 major health systems attempt this form of outsourcing over the last few years. In both cases, the short-term cost savings were far outweighed over the long term by down times and a complete lack of true integration between the tech implementers and the business units (e.g. doctors and nurses).

This is the exact opposite of the experience detailed in TFA.

You think your IT is glacial? Try to get an IT org to move for you when they don't even work in the same company. Lawyers can sue to enforce the contract and all that, but by the time your case gets to court you've already lost your competitive advantage.

It's probably a good thing the video game isn't a true-to-life documentary portraying someone real denigrating real women in real homes, then.

It's due to the ongoing pussification of our society. Everything must be hyper politically correct for anyone to be allowed to say they enjoy it. We DO enjoy high- and low-brow humor. We're just not allowed to admit it in public, else someone will sue or publicly shame you. For example, if you say, "DNF was mildly enjoyable", a common response from the politically correct crowd might be, "Well, that means you like murdering rape victims. You're a monster and you don't deserve any cake*". Most people decide to keep their mouth shut, and the vocal minority who run all things politically correct win. This is a slight tangent but I think this concept actually makes us less "free" than people in countries where sticks are not surgically implanted in their asses at birth.

On topic, I've played through about half the game. It's a barely average shooter with a few chuckle-worthy moments - all due to "childish" humor. I am enjoying the game as much as I enjoyed playing the last Call of Duty game though, because DNF has more personality and is completely not serious in how it presents itself. I can actually *gasp* mindlessly relax in this game. Call of Duty, et al, are SRS BZNS and it takes more mental energy to play them through.

That said, the game is not worth $60, even the PC version I'm playing. I bought it on Steam for $44US and I think that's overpriced, too.

*Please note that the cake is actually a lie.

I hope this runs on a Beowulf cluster of Natalie "Hot Grits" Portman.

I guess I'm "noone" then because I've not only heard of him but I have several of his albums and have seen him in concert (which I recommend wholeheartedly btw).

...or its walled-garden app store that protects your snowflakes from the evil world.

"And I am somewhat likely to do something passive-aggressive, like slow down a little bit, to piss you off some more."

If it weren't for people like you, policing the world, we'd have all killed ourselves long ago. Bravo, sir, for doing what the driving laws say you're supposed to do: be a vigilante.

"And what's this infatuation with minimizing the time in your car? What's the huge rush?"


None of your business, that's what. Now move the hell over and stop impeding traffic.

I bet there's a decent percentage of people-power being thrown at finding the guy and bringing him to a US-friendly court in a way that doesn't make it look like a CIA snatch-and-grab.

The Castle Doctrine in my state makes it clear that deadly force may not be used to protect property - only life. If you tried that here in Ohio you'd be on trial for attempted murder (if your aim sucks) or murder (if it doesn't). I'm guessing you can kill over property crimes in ...Texas?