+1 Funny.

Medicine is way more complex than coding

It is? Most people in the modern world have some idea of what makes them sick and what to do to get better. Most people in the modern world don't have the first clue about software or what makes their computer crash. Attitudes like yours do nothing to demystify medical doctors' "illusion of omniscience".

FYI, it is very easy to add a users group on Debian/Ubuntu. Having used both systems, I like to have a users group and a group per user. It gives much more fine grained control over things.

I'm curious to know in what ways Suse is more like Unix? Once upon a time my company had a bunch of SLES installs, then we moved to Debian, and now we have a couple of RH machines. Maybe it's my perspective but I've found SLES and RHEL to be basically identical apart from all the GUI garbage that gets layered on top.

Google has given much valuable information away in the form of useful source code and a push for Internet standards rather than lock in, but I guess that was all part of their "evil plan" too, eh?

Keep your sediment out of this discussion, please.

Yes, please.

From what I can tell, the 43 year old FSTC-CW-07-03-70 or something similar is no longer part of Army doctrine. However, you are welcome to look for yourself. Whether the term "assault rifle" was part of common military parlance in the Vietnam era, I don't know, but it certainly is not now.

The definitive source for Army terms is FM 1-02 Operational Terms and Graphics (where you can find the definition of "assault", for example). It does not contain "assault rifle", however its scope is operational rather than tactical, so largely does not deal with weapon nomenclature.

Hi, I'm in the military, specifically the Army and began my career as an Infantryman. 1. We have no "definition" of an "assault rifle". A rifle is just a rifle, whether belonging to friendly forces or a threat weapon. 2. A 7.62 mm machine IS a crew served weapon, i.e.: the M240B or the M60 that preceded it. In a dismounted mode there will be a gunner and an assistant gunner who carries a tripod and extra ammunition. A very fortunate gun team (or Squad, since extra ammo will be cross loaded) has an ammo bearer also. I cannot speak to the accuracy of the rest of your post as the subject matter does not fall within my expertise but I can only hope that it is not equally as poorly researched as your military knowledge.

I am a member of the Army Reserve. Since the shutdown we are not conducting our usual once a month drill. While this does not personally cause me financial distress, many of the Soldiers in my unit are like your average American living pay check to pay check. It definitely hurts them and their families when a (normally) reliable part of their income is suddenly taken away. Some of those same Soldiers have outstanding pay owed to them that they currently cannot get resolved because civilian workers who handle pay issues are furloughed. The Reserve Components (including the National Guard) make up 2/3 of the nation's military manpower. So while Congress pats itself on the back for managing to fund active duty service members' salaries and continue to play their political game, the rest of us suffer. We have been asked to fight and bleed just as much as our Active Component counterparts, yet like so many other Americans feeling the ripple effects of this pointless shutdown, we have been forgotten.

We do need a military. It is a major part of our political clout and serves as our "Big Stick". It is a deterrent to North Korean aggression against the South, our political and strong economic partner. It is a deterrent against Chinese aggression towards Taiwan and Japan, our political and strong economic partners. It prevents the power vacuum that would exist without it and otherwise we would likely see more uppity states doing rash things. It is our deterrent against foreign terrorism because we have a long arm that will reach out and find the perpetrators of attacks on our citizens and interests. On the home front, it is the response to disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and rampant forest fires. You miss the bigger picture.

My best friends wife works for the the VA and she was told that she was "Critical" and would have to work without pay until the budget was passed. She suggested she felt the flu coming on and suddenly she was getting a paycheck again.

Nice story. Government agencies don't work like that. And no one is so critical to make demands such as this.

I guess we won't have to care or notice when you die from food poisoning,or from foods that claim to come from the USA but are actually from Assylvania and laden with heavy metals, or your drinking water is contaminated by hazardous waste left to disperse, et cetera.

No one is driving to the Grand Canyon or a multitude of other National Parks either. It's peak season right now in Utah's seven National Parks (most of any state in the country) because normally it's too damn hot or too damn cold.

I think Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, inventor of Fascism and role model to Adolf Hilter said it best --->