Not necessarily. Who does security of the perimeter around the air base? Who would defend the air base in war time conditions when the marines and army are out there holding the line?

Knowing how to defend your colleagues, the installation and yourself is not a waste of money. It's not like they are in a low risk job and will never be deployed overseas.

Of course if their training is almost meaningless and treated as a joke by those doing said training. Then I agree with you.

A lot of corporate Exchange accounts have limits on their size. So you have a PST to bypass that limitation, since an overflow prevents you from getting mail in at least our case!

When mounting a filesystem under OpenBSD you can specify that any file within that mount cannot be executed. I find that this is very much a valuable flag (noexec) when you are mounting /tmp and /home as it pretty much prevents execution of files outside of expected areas.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mount&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html

Of course if it is a script, nothing stops the person from calling the interpreter first. e.g. perl script.pl

Your forgetting the effect that drinking diet can have on someone. They feel that they can consume more of something else because they are being 'good' about what they drink.

I recall an article on MacDonald's being lower calorie per meal then Subway because of the same thinking. First of all people would load up on condiments at Subway then get cookies and a real non-diet soda.

When tallied together, it was better calorie wise to have a Big Mac combo with a diet coke. Reasoning being that since they knew what they were eating was bad, they would adjust accordingly. The reverse however does not seem to apply.

Got this link from a quick Google search: http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2007/09/04/subway_diners_eat_more_calories.php

Not entirely unheard of if you are male, under 25, single and drive a car that is expensive to repair with a higher probability of causing accidents and damage. Insurance companies run profiles on everything and charge accordingly.

My insurance for a 6 year old Chrysler Neon was more expensive then a brand new Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 for example. Until recently, my wife paid less for insurance then I did. She has had three accidents in the last seven years and one of which was deemed at fault, while my record was clean.

That one always bothered me, since good behaviour was worth less then gender to the auto insurance industry.

SSBN's are not necessarily the trump card everyone makes them up to be. They are effective against other nuclear submarines such as the Alpha which is renowned for generating large amounts of self-noise.

They are not however overly effective against diesel-electric submarines that can move through the water with a lot less noise generation. I would assume that the Chinese has a fleet of Kilo-like class of diesel-electrics that would prevent or threaten naval operation close to their shores.

In the end, deterrence is one of the biggest factors. If stories from the Royal Australian Navy and their ilk is true and that they have been able to stalk and shadow carriers in their 'outdated' submarine technology, then the Americans would think twice before getting too close.

There is no stable government in Somalia either. The lack of social system, education and so forth has in fact failed not only the pirates by their society as a whole. This is not the reason for the rampant piracy, especially when dealing with ships that are brining in food supplies.

This is good old fashioned greed, until recently it has been pretty much a win-win for the pirates. They were seldom if ever confronted and the return on investment was massive. With those conditions in place it created an environment similar to what we had with Privateering.

They claim to care about the over-fishing, the illegal dumping and so forth, but it boils down to greed. Especially when you see that it is not fishing vessels that are hit, but supply tankers with big fat cargos worth millions.

If they were there as social activists, they would be boarding vessels that actually created their problems and keeping them on their shores as a political statement. Not claiming million dollar bounties and going after the next ripe and defenceless target.

That's why they are so vocal about recent warship involvement. Their goose is cooked if world navies crack down.