I stopped reading after seeing "2 ... cups", that +5 Interesting isn't enough to risk my eyes.

I can live with the replacement water, but not with the replacement music so please please be don't speak of this again.

Eh, yes - it should be considered as Funny rather than Insightful and now it's +5 Funny rather than +3 which I think is more suitable.

Why wasn't parent modded Funny but insightful?

In this case, Mountain Dew was only able to be purchased at the US Camp, so yes, a listener would know that someone would go from a known position (e.g. my camp) to another known position (e.g. US Camp). Feel free to think out an example suiting your situation better. If you use truly random call signs that's great, in my experience it was more common to re-use your particular squads regular callsign. So no, I'm not talking about an assault from the inside of a camp. Another classic is when a radio guy wants to give his pals a heads-up that some high ranking officer is about to show up in 20 minutes so they should dress up properly.

My main point is that perhaps you are an awesome guy who do better than the average private Schmoe, but in general what you describe sucks from a security perspective.

My experience is that the understanding on what would be classified conversations are extremely low. I've worked at a multi-national army camp a couple of years ago with comms and listening to that chatter just made me sad.

The whole point of using encrypted radios for e.g. movement plans are useless when people ask "Charlie-Foxtrot Niner-Niner, Do you want us to pick up some Mountain Dew for you?".Add other pieces of information and a listener end up with the knowledge of who is going where and when.

"Classified Conversations" are a clear giveaway but "casual chatter" among soldiers gives a listener with some knowledge a pretty good picture as well. As for short ranges I think that most camps nowadays has local employees doing all sorts of stuff so for camp snooping as well as on the field range is not really that big problem.

I've never met you but from my experience I'd guess that your "code for some stuff" really wasn't half as secretive as you thought. By "just told people to get a phone or encrypted radio" you point out that something has happened or something needs to be communicated in a classified way to a specific person/position.

Insightful? I do believe they try to make their products more popular than iPhone/iPods. Of course they want to build a product that their family members (and the rest of the world) would prefer over iPhone. But "journalism" stating that "Even Bill Gates wife use an iPhone, see pictures!!!" doesn't really help the stock price, which is you know - is part of the CEO's job. Stating "yes we realize we do suck, but we'll try to play catch-up now and mimic better products" doesn't ring quite as well as "you products suck, we will with our new awesome products blow your pitiful products away". Regardless if they copy the best qualities or not.