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The way the National Guard works is that the federal government owns the equipment and the state owns the personnel. The federal government (National Guard Bureau) decides (with some state coordination) what capabilities units in the states should have and then loans the required equipment (weapons, vehicles, radios, etc). Then it is the responsibility of the state to ensure personnel are trained to perform their mission for the desired capability and using that equipment. This is primarily accomplished by training alongside active-duty personnel to ensure training parity. It happens frequently that the DoD, in conjunction with the NGB, trains parts of the Reserve Component (which includes the National Guard) to perform missions that they may not be equipped or positioned to perform.

Operating nuclear missiles would be one such example. In my experience other examples would include Reserve and NG Military Police performing law enforcement on military installations, operating the Disciplinary Barracks, conducting CID investigations, and so on. They train with these capabilties in mind but only perform the mission when called upon, sometimes for up to 30 days annually, or for longer periods of time less frequently (i.e.: a "deployment").

I worked as one of the few CS guys at a (chemical) engineering company. The problem I have observed with the traditional engineers is that they seem to only want to write code that solves the particular problem at hand without any thought to overall design, modularity, code cleanliness, and re-use. So, when some different project comes down the road that requires the use of previously written software, it's a colossal mess and only gets worse as functionality for the new project gets shoehorned in.

Unfortunately just such a chain of vendors supplied the crowd sourced, Web 2.0, cloud based, PaaS SCADA system running the meter.

Or simply run a browser without Flash installed. 99% of the time I don't know what I'm missing when browsing the web in general.

Take a look at MOSH for more responsive SSH access. Of course, it sounds like you are married to a GUI and for that I am truly sorry.

No, you can still soft reset. Once the kernel gets reloaded (by powering on/off and handled by the boot loader) then effectively everything in a section of your "disk" reserved for process memory ("volatile memory") goes *poof* because the new kernel isn't tracking any of it.

Additionally with a non-volatile memory the system could be "suspended to disk" / hibernated simply by syncing all pending writes and powering off. In most cases a 1000 ms operation. Resuming would have similar performance. The machine could also resize "volatile memory" dynamically. Think growing/shrinking your /dev/mem file. You wouldn't necessarily need to have it all contiguous or represented with a single file either. Certain applications would have an expectation of contiguous memory though.

You had a 4 year degree and you were about to enlist..? There is clearly more to this story. In '08 anyone with a degree and a heartbeat could get an OCS contract. Anyway, sorry to hear that almost joining up has left you so bitter.

Every time I read this, I start to believe it a little bit more.

If I am one of twelve people with a rare genetic mutation, then perhaps I let them study my genes in return for researching a cure for my condition. The drug company stands to make a lot of money off of helping many people, so they can easily invest some into my problem of feeling no pain. Seems like a fair trade, right? Because it's a bit of a drag to think you've just sustained a flesh wound when actually your arm's off.

Alright, I'll hack on this law code for you. I'll start in my usual way when working on some poor, neglected, broken piece of crufty code:

1. Remove trailing whitespace
2. Remove mixed indent of tabs/spaces
3. Make indent consistent at four spaces
4. Wrap all lines at 80 columns max
5. Delete unused variables and data types
6. Delete unreachable functions
7. Delete commented out code

There, now if the law doesn't work a bit better, at least it will be easier to read and you can look at it in two terminals side by side!

I do enjoy a good military parade! It would need a proper marching band too!

Believe me, it gets even worse if you marry an architect!

You are forgiven. I believe OP used the term "scientism" to distinguish dogmatic thinking based on someone's misguided idea of the principles of science from the actual thing. Essentially you have just agreed with the OP thus it is kind of pointless to have picked a part out of context to rebut. However, congratulations on all the mod points you received for it.

It's not desert camouflage, it's MultiCam.