Supplying War, by van Creveld. Never thought much about logistics before reading it. Finest kind!

LOL ... now with a link that works ... here.

I see your 5 year old advice and raise you the following from only 2 years ago: Turn Off SSID Broadcasting To Hide Your SSID . Time marches on, eh what?!

What's your next scoop, attending a recruiting session for ADM and calling their recruiters for the practices of the CEO? Some bottom-level NSA workers get a chance to go to a major university and talk to people they were told wanted to hear about working for the NSA and they get ambushed by you and those toadying up to you. And wasn't it Oh-So-Very-Classy of you, jumping into a session by LYING ABOUT YOUR INTENT so you could call them out for the activities of their bosses. When the recruiters answer your question by pointing out that the Administration (President Obama and his folks, you may recall) sets the agenda for targeting of intelligence collection you played silly word games, ignoring the multi-colored truth for your own black-and-white world view. You are a fine example of the navel-gazing hypocrisy of what-passes-for J-school these days.

TL,DR: You think everybody should be like you, and you are wrong. Grow up, why doncha!

That's funny, people say that "surely these violent behaviors you watch MUST have a negative effect" yet every study finds no evidence for the claim. And now the corresponding viewing of "good | prosocial" behaviors ALSO shows no effect. Maybe we all are actually able to differentiate between inputs and choose to or not to model them.

Or to put it another way, "I do not think that behavior does what you think it does ..."

I agree that in a court of law that everyone is assumed to be innocent until proven guilty but IRL the person shot and killed evading the cops is looking pretty guilty already, and I expect the trial of his brother is going to produce more evidence than we have seen already. I am willing to wait and see how that shakes out, are you willing to admit the possibility that the dreaded authorities might have caught the right guys?

I was a starship trooper till I took a matter beam to the knee ...

Anecdotal but true: My wife went to UW-Madison and got her Masters in CS, and of her classmates only 30% reported having an IT undergrad degree. My favorite was the girl with the Forestry degree, who learned in the first 4 years she liked being inside more than she liked being out in the woods ...

vote against! This may be the best election ever for NoneOfTheAbove. Since both sides are pretty much interchangeable, don't vote for any of them - write in NOTA and vote out the incumbents.

Content is content ... get it where ever you want, the Nook is just a device for displaying it. Here's my anecdata: I get most of my videos off the web, converting them to the appropriate format with Handbrake directly onto an SD card which I then stick into the Nook. I get ebooks from a number of sites, reformat them (if necessary) via Calibre, and copy them over the same way. The device never has to connect to B&N or any particular network.

Since those top 10% are paying 69.94% of the taxes AND funding business through their capital outlays I'm thinking they ARE paying their share ... unless you think the "poor" are creating and funding new businesses somehow. FWIW, as a desktop support tech I don't make it into those ranks on my own income, but add the wife's income and we do ... and I sure-as-hell don't consider us rich in any significant way. We happen to live in the SF bay area where salaries are high but the cost-of-living keeps our discretionary income at about the same dollar level (and not percentage, either) as when we lived & worked in a MidWest "flyover state".

If this drive succeeds, don't the maintainers have to lock down the site, preventing any changes? That's how all the other "World Heritage Sites"(tm) are treated, as pretties to be seen and admired. (OTOH, the thought of a final end to the WikiEditWars makes me all warm & happy inside.)

BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! Wrong answer, sunshine!

The complaint is that people are DRAWING MUHAMMAD at all - they say it's idolatry to depict him. Showing him with a panda rather than involved in gay porn is still idolatry.

Thanks for playing, tho ...

On the off chance your sig wasn't just meant to be funny: JUCHE is pronounced "joo-chay" with a slight emphasis on the first syllable, and is most-often translated as "self-reliance". It is used almost exclusively by the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea AKA North Korea) in reference to the nation - I cannot recall reading an instance where it was used by an individual to refer to himself or his actions on his own behalf.

It goes well beyond the concept of 'dependability' and has a big "In Your Face!" component - it's more along the lines of "screw you guys, we'll do this ourselves, we don't need any of you".

Just my [$0.02US | 23 won], of course ...

There is this neat feature called a keyboard. It's the best thing ever I swear to God! You press a button with a letter on it and it suddenly appears on the screen.