Acting as an interface for both your visa and mastercard cards, without having to carry either

I have asthma, but I'm a pretty good simulator pilot. Check your assumptions before you say anything else seriously pitiful

They're not going to send him to a line unit unless they need cannon fodder, and then he'll get what he deserves. They'll just give him a DD and send him back to bumfuck, boringville.

Good post. Mod points expired the other day. Great Lincoln quote.

I call myself a classic liberal... it actually has meaning compared to the common nomenclature used in modern politics... neither of the two major parties has a lock on conservative or liberal thinking. In fact, they both would restrict your personal rights and freedoms, just different ones... neither party is particularly liberal, except with other people's money.

For the same reason the Democrats are big on trying to do the same. It is a great way to funnel taxpayer dollars to their cronies.

It's OK to be weird.

Every fucking geek my age is weird. All of us were "discouraged", women and men alike, and as a result are quite welcoming to any who make it through.

I sure hope we're past the days where being into formal logic/math/whatever automatically made you the target for bullying (or at least that it's a bit better now), but life includes obstacles! If children are afraid to do what they like, when it leads to a well-paying career (the top career outside politics in many nations), maybe the problem isn't that their slightly discouraged by the culture. Maybe the problem is we're not raising kids with the strength of character to overcome adversity.

Life will have "discouragements" and setbacks of various sorts. That's just how life works. Don't let it stop you!

Ah yes, the famous Richard Nixon "Southern Strategy". You know, where he convinced all those racist southern Democrats to vote Republican by forcing desegregation on their schools after LBJ chose not to.

Frovingslosh is saying dark matter doesn't exist. He's wrong. He's saying the effort devoted to finding out what it is is fruitless. He's wrong on that too.

And you know this how?

Yeah! Check it out: http://bit.ly/1zxi6hd

Unfortunately, it's sometimes the people who most enthusiastically live up to the organization's standards that you have to watch out for.

Arguably, the bigger problem is that the concept of 'cyber warrior' is an iffy fit for the army at best; and just plain incoherent nonsense at worst.

Obviously, now that electronic systems are valuable enough to be worth attacking, defending, and spying on, it's perfectly plausible that somebody is going to end up doing that job; but that's quite different than inferring the existence of 'cyber warriors', much less ones sufficiently closely analogous to conventional warriors that the army would be a logical outfit to have some(not that the Air Force, which seems to be the branch making the most noise about it, is an obviously better fit). Whatever Tron might have told you, 'cyber war' isn't going to be physical combat except more neon...

If the army is serious about a mandate broad enough that 'cyber warrior' actually fits, they are going to have to suck it up and, yes, accept that their current arrangements for training, evaluation, promotion, etc. include elements that are either supported by outdated assumptions or mere nostalgia.

If they aren't, they should get over whatever territorial pissing contest and/or painful misunderstanding of 'cyber war' has them trying to search for a supply of cutting edge IT and security people who are willing to put up with a system bent on evaluating their ability to pick up a rifle when necessary and either contract it or develop a non-dysfunctional relationship with an agency actually suited to the task(ostensibly the NSA, if somebody could pry them away from our email for a few minutes).

They are just going to have to choose: if they want to have one-size-fits-all processes(whether justified by the theory that all their people might actually need combat skills, or by cultural and institutional cohesion considerations), then they just aren't going to get to do everything, at least not well. If they want to do a wide variety of fairly disparate things, they just don't get to keep all their existing practices, at least not well(the only thing that would depress enthusiasts of boot camp and physical training more than just exempting some people from it entirely would be watering the requirements down enough that any pudgy keyboard jockey would be minimally inconvenienced by meeting them...)

Oh I agree with you totally. I thought my snark was more obvious.

You can add FL to that list too, thanks to Governor Skeletor.) This lady is in NJ, still tests negative, has a temp of 98.6, but Christie still says she's "obviously ill", claiming "she may to be tested for that again because sometimes it takes a little bit longer to make a definitive determination, there's no question the woman is ill, the question is what is her illness." But I doubt the people who voted for him at his Hotmail voting booth address will ever regret hitting "Send".