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Posted on 08/05/2004 5:47:31 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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hehehe...
Ancient CG phrase: "If it ain't rainin' you ain't trainin'"...
I have no idea why you said that...
LOL!!!
Marines is amphibious...
Not literally!
And how are you this evening, Master Sea-Man? Are you still writing stupid SOX stuff?
And he's such a dork, he would screw it up. He would probably defund the military, and then kvetch about how they don't do the job.
Friends don't let dorks become President ...
I saw it. Some good points there, too.
My opinion is based on: 1. The human mind is incapable of producing something so complex that that same mind cannot comprehend it (given enough effort).
2. There's always some geek squirreled away somewhere who knows the system (or a key part of it), inside and out. These guys were working magic with IBM systems that we would never see, because it wasn't in the marketing plan, or would compete with some more-favored product.
Don't I know it...
The Recon platoon that I had the honor of playing wargames with for a while was a special group of guys... those guys were just banananutcakes. Loved 'em. You could'a had a meeting with those guys and said... "Your mission is to go out and disable that supertanker with no weapons other than your teeth. You'll swim two miles to the ship, climb up the anchor chain and then take the ship by chewing through the control cables to the rudder." Their answer? "OK". Gotta love 'em. :-)
Almost midnight here, folks. Good night!
Don't know if David's told you about the temps here today ... was 102.
And this isn't the hottest part of the year yet. That'll be next month. There'll be a cold front through tomorrow, and temps should only get up to 95 ... yay!
And who told David he wouldn't have to cope with freezing temperatures? There's usually at least one ice storm a year here ...
Roger that. But many human minds working together can create something of which no one person has a complete understanding.
Picture a neural-network software model for global weather modeling. It's a neural network model, with a virtual neural node for every possible data point. And there are virtual nodes in the hundreds of billions or trillions or maybe orders of magnitude more. For every node there are variables in the eight figures. Nomatter how many times you run the model... it will never, ever, follow the same pattern twice.
It would be impossible, in such a system, to ever *prove* that any given result was merely a bug in the software, since it is not reproducible.
It's an extreme example, for sure. But already I have an example of a relatively small network of 25 offices. Each has two connections to the internet, with self-healing VPN connections to any three or four offices on the net. It's petty hard to kill it, but when it goes all fubar... it's also really hard to figure out what's wrong. The conditions that cause a problem can't be reproduced with any level of confidence.
That's what I meant by "biological" in scope. Biological entities have too many variables to be able to predict what they will do given a short set of limitations. We're getting close to the point where there is no one person that still retains an understanding of extant systems.
Just my .03
It's kilt already.
Oh dear! Just got here in time to read about this. I have seen that elf-boy is sick for 2 days. It sounds like he's miserable. I'm so sorry. Wish there was better news on that medicine. :-(
Just got in from girls night out with 3 of my best girlfriends. One of 'em had a birthday today! We, uh, celebrated real good considering the other 3 have to be at work early tomorrow! :-)
Am glad I can sleep late. All I have to do is pay a little visit to my attorney at my leisure and then wait for the Myranda and s-i-l to get here from Austin.
Tuesday he started out fine, then at 11am or so he started feeling icky. He threw up and went to sleep for 5 hours. I took his temp and it read 100.6. I gave him some motrin and the fever went down and he got his appetite back (I let him have 6 crackers and some water). Then he threw up again at 5 pm or so (bigtime). I gave him more motrin and he went back to bed. He was a bugger to get to sleep that night!
Yesterday, no barfing. He was on motrin all day, but still had a fever of 99.9. He ate nothing but cheezit crackers and water all day.
Today, no barfing. He was on motrin all day again. He ate a peanut butter sandwich and some peanut butter/saltine cracker sandwiches with water and gatorade (and an occasional reeses mini cup). His temp was 99.2.
I called the nurse at his doctor's office. She said I am doing the right thing, now just alternate tylenol and motrin, and no dairy for at least 24 hours after the fever is gone. Also she asked if we had gone to the lake or swimming ~ methinks mebbe he caught the bug at the church picnic SWIMMING party.
Well, I know it's very tough to have a sick baby. It's still tough to have a sick baby even when your baby is 28 years old like Jill is! LOL
At first when I read of the throwing up I figured it would be gone that day like most kid sicknesses are. I sure am sorry to hear it's gone on this long. Hope he is better tomorrow finally!
That what happens when a whole party, and 40% of the country, has drunk the purple Kool-aid of klintonism. It enables them to accept both sides of a contradiction as true, and demand that everyone else follow along.
I heard a clip of Kerry's audio clip from 1971, where he confessed to war crimes of free-fire zones, and search-and-destroy.
This high-powered O-2 must have slept through his NROTC and Navy courses on the rules of war. Those are two technical terms, and are legitimate military operations. You won't find either set of terms in the Geneva or Hague conventions. They may be criminal, but only in how the individual carries them out. He was confessing to "war crimes" (in those two instances) that he did not commit, just as he threw away someone else's medals.
The sickest part is that we are supposed to ignore his past, and focus on his four-month tour in Vietnam as the pinnacle of American military accomplishment. The Vietnam war the RATs have demonized for 30 years is now their proudest moment because it has produced the greatest hero in human history after Bill and Hitlery.
Meanwhile, they continue with their insane (no other way to describe it) mantra of "Bush stole the election, and is a deserter. Oh, and flying F-102s for the National Guard does not compare to four months as a swiftboat commander".
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We have given everything out to Marines and Soldiers who have done outstanding jobs and you cannot believe how your kind gifts are appreciated
The Hobbit hole knives are the best please send them anyway you can, again our guys are doing great things just to be awarded a knife.
I want you to know that what you are doing is a real morale boost for me to know people think our mission here is important and not just "sound bites" But that you take the time to ensure the troops get something to reflect the hope and trust that you have in them and their mission
Semper Fidelis
Frank Johnson
See y'all later! Please pray for a safe trip for us!
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