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I read all your comments, and I have re-evaluated my decision and am going to slightly adjust it. I now realize that my initial desire for the /. JE system to be a bastion of technical discussion and personal growth may have been an unrealistic goal (since it was apparently only my goal). I will turn back on messages to other people's JE posts, but that is it. I am now often making article comments as annonymous since I don't really care to worry about what people say back. If i want to find out I can just check my "recent comment" list and see if there were replies - this is not a matter I will worry about checking often.

On the technical side: I would like to get into J2ME development for mobile phones (for fun) and develop some games or something but my current mobile phone provider appears to not offer a java enabled phone (alltel sucks the big one). Any one have insight on this?

On the less technical side, this Kerry thing is pissing me off a bit. I have a cousin in the military who went into the Army after high school. He is a bright kid as are his 3 brothers (2 w/ college degrees, 1 w/ technical school degree). A friend i graduated from high school with was a genius, went into the navy for nuclear engineer. Another friend is in the guards and isn't dumb either, and will work on a college degree as he goes (or after deployment). Who the fuck does Kerry think he is? So of the three close people i know of that are or were in the military none are dumb. neither is my uncle (father of said cousin) who was in vietnam; did the rotc thing then went, now farms. I have a great uncle that was in Korea who isn't dumb either but never received a degree. There are bound to be some dumb people in any type of work like this (not requiring college degree, etc). To call out the whole armed forces and say such a thing is rediculous. Why kerry thought saying such a thing was necessary or a direct correlation is confusing; sure people in the military may not always have a college degree but to speculate (albeit indirectly) that they don't have the capacity? It is possible that I am out of line and mis-interpreting what he said though : "I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member or American who was offended," Kerry said in a statement Wednesday. Needless to say his joke has not been well received.

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    • I was kind of thinking it was something like that. I don't remember the source, but when I first heard what he said it did seem somewhat well intentioned given context, but in a broader view was in bad taste. It appeared as though he said those without an education will end up in Iraq. Let's just elect Kerry for worst comedian of the year! Maybe he can learn how to phrase a joke someday.
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        • well i did some more looking around on the internet and check this out: from la times [latimes.com] even.
          But recent studies of military demographics suggest that today's military is neither uneducated nor poor. Statistically, the enlisted ranks of the military are drawn mainly from neighborhoods that are slightly more affluent than the norm. The very poor are actually underrepresented in the military, relative to the number of very poor people in the population.

          That's mainly because the military won't accept the lo

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