Been a while, hasn’t it? Let’s just take it slowly. One word at at time.
See where it goes.
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Heard on the news today that Woops Point cadets took to the barricades – well, as close as you can get to the barricades, living in a Gray-tinged monastary on the Hudson River – after an early morning, pre-briefed fire drill turned into an unbriefed (to the cadets, anyway) drug search. With dogs, and everything.
At least 1,000 West Point cadets demonstrated last week against the manner in which a drug search was carried out in their barracks, shouting and throwing fireworks and other objects from their windows, according to accounts of the incident.
“Hundreds of cadets were hollering obscenities out of their windows and some were throwing objects,” according to an incident summary obtained by the Times Herald-Record of Orange County, N.Y., which ran an article about the incident yesterday.
Far be it for me to criticize, but if I’ve done my math correctly, each and every class at West Point has matriculated since 9/11. Which ought to count, I think, for something. And, pretty much every one of them in the last couple hundred years have lived under a rigid honor code, enforcing the fact that a cadet does not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate anyone who does. Because, you see, it’s important that leadership tell the truth.
About fire drills and drug tests, e.g. For what it’s worth.
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Donald Sensing says (via Glen(n), who suffered a DOS attack today – I miss out on all the fun) that the days of one-man blogs are pretty much ovah. So 2005.
Which is intriguing to me. The thought of having the occasional naval aviator, naval officer or naval retiree take a turn grinding on the winch is somehow attractive to me, when the rest of the world is pressing me on all sides. Of course, I’d have to share all of my profits.
Which wouldn’t take very long, come to think about it. Although someone did drop a bit in the till t’other day, anonymous, like. For which I thank him. Or her.
Whichever.
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The new MacBook Pro? With the Intel chips? Verr nice. Only, the “BootCamp” app requires a default start-up volume, and since I mostly use the MacBook for school work (under the Wintel tyranny), I find myself lamenting the many little things which make the OSX environment fun to work under. iTunes, and Widgets (wonder what’s playing in Del Mar?) and not worrying so very much about having javascript enabled. But the problem is, it’s like an itch that’s not quite worth scratching: Do I really want to reboot just so I can see what’s playing?
I get the sense that’s what being a Wintel user is like, all the time: Being a little bit unhappy about where you are, but not being willing to do what it takes to move.
Funny thing? Apps run faster under the Windows side, since most of the Mac apps don’t (yet) run natively.
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About those gas prices? Interesting chart here. Not, maybe, what you thought.
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Well, that’s it. For now anyway. Have a great weekend!
Sadly, the fire drill is something of an accepted technique among military law enforcement communities. Here in Japan, the little U-know-whats use it as a way to get into rooms after 2:30 am to see who has “company”…….which led to several of us moving off base, trading creature comforts for privacy.
After the first time they did that there was a huge outcry.The technique is still done to this day……..
You notice they did not find any drugs though. Perhaps that should be evidence to the powers that be, that Corps of Cadets works best when the Corps runs itself. And has a tough, fair, fourth class system that gets the right things into you from the start. ( Something all of the military academies including my beloved Alma mater have forgotten…).
About Boot Camp;
I think you’ll *really* like Parallels’ “Workstation”; at least, once it’s out of beta. No rebooting to switch, for starters.
re Gas prices adjusted for inflation:
Plus most cars gas mileage performance has improved since, lets pick 1980. A Chevy Suburban got 10-12 mpg; now a 1500 gets 16-18. That means less gas used therefore less gas consumed. Also let’s not forget all the reformulation that has taken place in gasoline, adding to the price.
Offsetting that is the sheer numbers of autos per household today. I’d venture a guess that’s up by a factor of 3 since ’80. Despite that huge number though, measurable pollution is down by a factor of 3-4 over 1980.
It’s the technology Sam.
We’re a pretty fickle bunch, ain’t we? Wankers.
Americans live in the present as we all know, and a %100 rise in price over 18 months (their attention span?) will get their attention.
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“The days of one man blogs is over???”
It is?
*looking around the dungeon/blog launch silo/radio shack*
Dang… I NEVER get the memo in time!
re’ Gas Prices: Inflation adjusted prices are interesting, but not reflective of what’s coming out of my wallet each week. Overall it’s an interesting graph, but when you read the ExxonMobil CEO got a $400 million retirement package, and that all gas and oil companies are posting record profits – it’s hard to swallow the “supply v. demand” argument. When it looks like, smells like and tastes like greed – prolly is.
That said – personally I find the “multi-blogger” sites a little confusing. I like the single blogger sites much better – they are clean, clear and you always know who’s posting and their position. JMHO.
ahhh yes, throwing crap out the windows of Bradley Barracks….
good to know the old traditions still endure the test of time….
Sounds like the single “real” health and welfare inspection I went through in Hawaii.
They did find pot in one girl’s locker… this less than intelligent intel soldier was “storing” it for her civilian boyfriend.