Master Pre 09 Sep : 08:31
Yes, preferably with an assailant pummeling you with a bamboo stick.
My favorite thing to do in basic was shining my boots, that's about all we had to do though! There's some trickery you can pull off using a lighter that can turn them into a mirror. But since you don't have the leather toes, it's sort of a mute point.
Let me know if that changes, I can give ya some pointers.
Maybe during Mid Semester break or Thanksgivi
ng break, but not a second before.
However, I DO have the opportunit
y to iron shirts and dust my wall locker. And for this recruit, that's videogame enough.
Master Pre 08 Sep : 09:33
Ahhhhh...r
oger that. You seem to be enjoying the college (military) experience
. Are you gonna have a chance to get some Halo Reach in?
Velvet Typhoon 07 Sep : 19:14
You've got to find ways to make it work, Mr. Pre.
Master Pre 07 Sep : 15:07
Good stuff Mr. Typhoon! As for the library bathrooms, you're all alone on that one. Never encountere
d that in the AF!
Thin
gs I've learned at Norwich: How to heat a pop tart with a clothing iron. How to eat a banana with a knife and fork. How to brush my teeth, shave, and iron a shirt in under five minutes. How to take a shower using nothing but baby wipes. How to use Windex to shine shoes. That masturbati
on in library bathrooms is acceptable
, and encouraged
.
These are the life skills that will carry with me for the rest of my life.
Master Pre 06 Sep : 10:10
I didn't know you liked football?
Velvet Typhoon 05 Sep : 11:00
We had our first football game yesterday.
They had 3rd and 4th Battalions form up in the endzones, and whenever a team scored, interceive
d, changed possession
. . .really, whenever anything at all happened during the game, we did about 20 pushups.
it was motivating
.
turdferguson49 03 Sep : 13:41
A long weekend and the beginning of football season? Can't get much better than this!
Master Pre 03 Sep : 10:40
College Football weekend, L4D2, GoW2, Golf, Coffee...t
his is going to be the perfect weekend.
motaboy82 02 Sep : 15:23
Bring the wheel barrow, take two crushed earings! sales were up 267% for the quarter thanks to RDR. Now they have 300 million in cash on hand to invest on another title or two
While not an official proposal, you have to friggin' be kidding me. Perhaps the reason that paper media is dying is because it's NO LONGER RELEVANT. Read on, and you will see other--to me--absurd ideas for raising revenue and subsidizing the industry, all of which essentially force people to pay for something that they have clearly decided NOT TO PAY FOR any longer.
Thoughts?
FTC Suggests 5% Consumer Electronics Tax to Save Newspapers - Link Although not an official proposal, the theoretical tax would include videogame consoles. By Kris Pigna, 06/04/2010
In case you haven't heard, newspapers across the country are dying -- both as a result of rapidly decreasing revenue and increasingly stiff competition from digital alternatives. As a result, the Federal Trade Commission is holding a series of discussions to explore potential options to help save print journalism in the digital age, and one idea they're mulling may cost you more money the next time you want to buy some gaming hardware: a five percent tax on all consumer electronics (via GamesIndustry.biz).
The idea is that the money raised through the consumer electronics tax -- which would be applied to such products as game consoles, smart phones, computers, and digital cameras -- would be used to subsidize the print journalism industry, particularly newspapers. The FTC believes this could bring in as much as $4 billion in potential subsidies.
But before you immediately start throwing boxes of tea into the nearest body of water in protest, note that this is not yet an official FTC proposal -- it was raised "solely for the purposes of discussion," and is only a small part of a number of other ideas to help revitalize the newspaper industry (all of the FTC's ideas can be seen in this .pdf document: Link the consumer electronics tax suggestion appears on page 21) . Other ideas include postal subsidies, a two percent tax on broadcast advertising, and direct tax breaks for journalists.
Beyond the obvious connection of Internet news siphoning away potential newspaper readers, the connection between consumer electronics in general and print media goes unexplained in the document.
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Atlas in Flames Advocatus Diaboli -------------------------- "In my life I'd not soften things that cut and burn so often." Alice in Chains, "It Ain't Like That"
"Si pecasse negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis veritas." If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us.
The New York Times and the county newspaper will always have a home. T he 'leadership' caste will always look for a more in depth view of the world you can only get from a legitimate news organization with actual boots on the ground.
The death of the Hartford Courant and New London Day, however, is deservedly nigh. In the immortal words of the great warrior poet Ice Cube, "If the day does not require an AK, the day is good."
Granted, I haven't looked into the Times, but most papers have an online presence--including the Wall Street Journal. I'm not claiming their service is irrelevent, only the necessity to use a shit-ton of paper to convey the information. While there is definitely a part of me that still enjoys having a tangible copy of, say, a good book in my hands--and admittedly, I love the smell of a new book--the rise of the e-reader is starting to make such use of resources seem like a waste to me.
Atlas in Flames Advocatus Diaboli -------------------------- "In my life I'd not soften things that cut and burn so often." Alice in Chains, "It Ain't Like That"
"Si pecasse negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis veritas." If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us.
