Military Motivators

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http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2644410/m ... l_posters/



apologies if it's a repeat post.

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Wow. Is this what kids are listening to today? So much anger and despair in those lyrics !
It makes me worry for 21st century.

I'm not afraid of fading
I stand alone
Feeling your sting down inside of me
I'm not dying for it
I stand alone
Everything that I believe is fading
I stand alone
Inside
I stand alone
And now its my time (now its my time)
It's my time to dream (my time to dream)
Dream of the sky (dream of the sky)
Make me believe that this place is invaded
By the poison in me
Help me decide if my fire will burn out ...........

The universe is hostile
So impersonal
Devour to survive
So it is, so it's always been ...

We all feed on tragedy.
It's like blood to a vampire. ........

Hey Mister backstabbin' son of a b**ch
you're livin' in a world that'll soon be dyin'
and I know everybody knows you try to be like me
but even at your best as a man you couldn't equal half of me.

I am realizing that everybody's lost their simple ways
and now that it's here I see it all so clearly
I've come face to face with the enemy, the enemy.

And I thought my generation was off the beam with "Teenangel" and "Moody River" .....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHe7qTDb ... re=related
... shucks, we were just lonesome and lovelorn.

Must be more of this around now:

The Broken Child

by Elia Wise

For children who were broken
it is very hard to mend......

http://www.angelfire.com/wi/GreenGreen/survivors6.html

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Wow. Is this what kids are listening to today? So much anger and despair in those lyrics !

Actually, I think it accounts for the increased Country/Western listenership. None of those nihilists are actually singing, they're in some sort of competitive negativity league.

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Amen.

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"Bring the rain!"

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"Thou shalt not kill".

How do you defend yourself without breaking this rule?

i sorta like C S Lewis's thoughts....

We seem to feel very strongly that love and helping are good, while hate and harming are bad. What this intuition fails to tell us, however, is how we are to love and help the innocent who are being treated unjustly by the wicked without using force on the wicked. So intuition in this case leads us astray because it does not see (not immediately at least) what reason sees: that you can love and use force at the same time. Lewis deals with this point explicitly in the chapter on forgiveness in Mere Christianity:

[F]or loving myself does not mean that I ought not to subject myself to punishment—even to death. If one had committed a murder, the right Christian thing to do would be to give yourself up to the police and be hanged. It is therefore perfectly right for a Christian judge to sentence a man to death or a Christian to kill an enemy.

When we use force in a just cause, we do to others as we would have others do to us. We admit that, if we do evil, then we hope there will be someone who is able to stop us from doing it—even if he has to use force to stop us. Thus, we are led by logic to admit that, if we see evil being done by others, we need to stop them if we are able, even if it means using force.

http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/a ... 6-03-045-f

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[amberiya]

How does the process of military research funding work? I'm working on an assignment where I have to incorporate aspects of funding for military projects. Where can I find out how a military research project gets funded by the government and what legislative steps are involved?

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

How does the process of military research funding work?

Oh, my aching head.
That's not a project, it's a master's thesis.
Short form: a company will propose a device, system, or program to one of the services. If somebody in the military service likes it, it'll be suggested to a congresscritter (usually the one that has the company's facility in his/her district) and if the Critter takes the bait, it'll be proposed in a Bill and submitted to a or several committees.

Serious political horse trading occurs. If there are enough critters in favor of the idea, the bill will be added to the funded programs listing in the budget (or sometimes just tacked onto some other funding bill, as an addendum) and prototype development begins.

The process from there is subject to politics and the process contained in the DAWIA act. It can get murky. And complicated. It helps if things go well, the gadget works as hoped, and Murphy takes a day off. It helps more if some flag officer is enchanted by the gadget.

Good luck with that paper.

[Haggis@wk]

FINALLY! A realistic military video game!!!!

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It'll never sell...

[Haggis@wk]

Best defination of honor I've ever seen

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Well done, those troops in the photo. Assuming it's not a staged propaganda shot, of course.