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Interesting. I'm not sure I could do that: I'd want to talk shop, badly. I read - years ago - that the most active combat was in the area around London. Not a small area, but it al…

- In 1991 4th Brigade was kept afloat in the Gulf, forcing the Iraqi army to devote resources to protecting beaches in and around Kuwait, and away from the border where the actual …

They forget their own history, too. A battle in 1942 was lost, badly, because the USN crews were zonked from a routine that gave them almost no chance for sleep.

No, he does not have a valid point. He's merely enjoying the persona of 'miserable prick'.

> > Everyone knows someone > No they don't. Could be you are a deaf and mute yak herder in Outer Mongolia and suffer the heartbreak of psoriasis. Your situation is unique and you h…

Everyone knows someone. Build on that. You work with people. Those people know people. They know other people. Someone says 'I need a good PHP guy' and a guy in the network replies…

Thanks, and thank you for the link.

I have an idea: Managed Hosting for OpenBazaar servers. Guys pay me $x a month, I manage the software, update, backup. Now for the actual hard work of seeing if that idea can be ma…

Emacs.

Waiting for chow, waiting for a range, waiting for the trucks to come back .. and waiting .. and waiting .. but nobody told any _drivers_ they needed to make a second run to pick u…

> except to the extent that people in 1955 apparently didn't know what a "rerun" was. I believe they did not: teevee was broadcast live, and mostly not recorded. IIRC.

> NB The novel "Arc Light" Ah! I read that '95, and recently got to wondering what the title was. Could not think of it for the life of me.

He was with a rifle company, in mortar squad. The company was over-run during an attack, at night: Marines in fighting holes, bad guys running around in the open, a very chaotic si…

"We promise SkyStrider 6 - no short rounds this time."

> the USMC didn't buy up all of these things There was, iirc, an article in the Gazette about this. Guy ran the numbers, and it worked out okay: the Corps could run X squadrons per…

Phht - just run some extension cords on the outside. Problem solved. Man, the DoD is just not thinking outside the box.

My company gunny (1988) got a bronze star when, as an 19-year old mortarman in 1969, aimed his tube straight up and dropped rounds all over his company's position, saving the day. …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_West_Agreement

> shun higher education in favor of strict adherence to the bible. Which passage in the Bible tells Christians to shun higher education?

Ha. I wasn't thinking of mixing the two. Just ... while I'm at the store picking up a stick of RAM, pick up a new magazine, or a brick of .22 ammunition. Guns and drones are, howev…

> Granted, they've branched off quite a bit and sell firearms and ammo A RS that sells electronics and guns. I would patronize that store so _hard_.

It does for me.

It ran on my 8.1 Pro 64-bit guest VM without issue.

In my heart, Oracle will forever be a database company that was eaten alive by their sales and service organization.

> Cisco isn't just a technology company. They're a giant sales and services organization. I recall hearing that about Sun, too. Now they're just a minor cog of a database maker.