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March 11, 2013

The World Gone Mad: Pacific Edition
— DrewM

"N. Korea says it has scrapped armistice that ended Korean War"

""Climate Change Tops List of Security Threats in the Pacific Says ADM Locklear".

North Korea is threatening war on the Korean peninsular (and to nuke the US) and the top US military commander in the region says "climate change" is our biggest security threat.

Yeah.

Posted by: DrewM at 07:52 AM | Comments (191)
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1 Well, I would say the the climate of our relationship with NK is changing, wouldn't you?

What? Oh. Never mind.

Posted by: pep at March 11, 2013 07:53 AM (YXmuI)

2
How's the Bieb?

Posted by: Kim Kong Il at March 11, 2013 07:53 AM (ndqJC)

3
I like to fruck Kate Zupton.

Posted by: Kim Kong Il at March 11, 2013 07:54 AM (ndqJC)

4 Well to be fair if he nukes the Western US that will definitely make for some climate change in the Pacific.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at March 11, 2013 07:54 AM (RZ8pf)

5 All the while TFG sends the sequester to Portugal when we need the jobs here. Also, my parents were killed by a sequester. http://tinyurl.com/baoc446

Posted by: RWC at March 11, 2013 07:55 AM (fWAjv)

I posted this in last thread, but it seems more appropriate here.

OT - NRO has two corner pieces this morning that make me think maybe we aren't cutting DOD budget as much as we should.

1. Head of US Pac Command thinks Climate Change is No. 1 US Threat.
2. Air Force Chaplain awarded Bronze Star for PowerPoint teaching proper sensitivity of Koran.

I realize that policy flows from the top down, but if those are areas that the DOD is focusing on, then maybe we should cut more of their budget.

Posted by: SH at March 11, 2013 07:56 AM (gmeXX)

7 I missed the DOOM. Guess I'll have to settle for a MAD instead.

Posted by: rickl at March 11, 2013 07:56 AM (zoehZ)

8 Worse than no one at the helm. The ship of state is being piloted by the utterly insane.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 11, 2013 07:57 AM (XkWWK)

9 A Sequester rape raped my sister.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 11, 2013 07:57 AM (jucos)

10 Our military appears to have a number of dumb, liberals in charge.

Posted by: mare at March 11, 2013 07:57 AM (A98Xu)

11 In the words of General Buck Turgidson, we are about to get our hair mussed. But no more than 10 to 12 million dead. Depending on the breaks...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 11, 2013 07:57 AM (XkWWK)

12 We have become an unserious nation.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 11, 2013 07:58 AM (4cRnj)

13 Well, I hope they can see Pelosi's house from Pyongyang.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 11, 2013 08:00 AM (XkWWK)

14 I hope Sen Kerry has informed 'our friends' in China that North Korea will be a highly radioactive smoldering ruin of a country if the Norks ever lob a nuke in our direction.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at March 11, 2013 08:00 AM (feFL6)

15 Kim Jong Un can feel free to fall down the fucking stairs any time now.

If there was ever a more deserving regime to come to a violent end...

Posted by: Heralder at March 11, 2013 08:00 AM (+xmn4)

16 But of course we're worried about Global Warming! We ARE a Force for GOOD!

Posted by: The NEW Navy at March 11, 2013 08:02 AM (lZBBB)

17 Looks like the US 7th Fleet will be the first rotation for my stepson. He better brush up on his Nork.

Posted by: EC at March 11, 2013 08:02 AM (GQ8sn)

*rubs temples*

All of our "leaders" are world class idiots.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at March 11, 2013 08:02 AM (4df7R)

19 Were is Intrade when you need them? I'm betting the norks will aim for SF instead of LA. On the bright side, wasting either one turns California into an R stronghold.

Posted by: Ook? at March 11, 2013 08:02 AM (OQpzc)

20 A navy man worried about the weather? Jebus, can we get this man a new modern sextant so he knows which fucking way he's going?

Posted by: Fritz at March 11, 2013 08:02 AM (WM+rJ)

21 It's also obvious North Korea's threat identification and managment skills are seriously freakin' lacking. Scuttling that armistice should signal the begninning of the end for them.

Posted by: Heralder at March 11, 2013 08:03 AM (+xmn4)

The NorKs also disconnected their hotline to the SouKs.

Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at March 11, 2013 08:03 AM (NmR1a)

23 Meanwhile, the Japanese are arming the Filipinos. Sounds like they're getting ready for conflict.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at March 11, 2013 08:03 AM (4df7R)

24 Brilliant!

Posted by: Truman North at March 11, 2013 08:03 AM (+JzGj)

25 What would MacArthur do?

Posted by: SH at March 11, 2013 08:04 AM (gmeXX)

26 #14 and he should emphasize that the sequester has forced us to cut back on the maintenance of the targetting gyros in our ICBMs... IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at March 11, 2013 08:04 AM (xhv9C)

27 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 08:04 AM (4OvDk)

28 Nuclear winter is weather not CLIMATE, wingnuts!!!!

Posted by: andycanuck at March 11, 2013 08:04 AM (ORGYc)

29 A Sequester rape raped my sister.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 11, 2013 11:57 AM (jucos)

Damn. Rape-rape is a serious crime.

Posted by: garrett at March 11, 2013 08:05 AM (vB8O/)

30 The NorKs also disconnected their hotline to the SouKs. I told them to pay the phone bill.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2013 08:05 AM (GFM2b)

31 I'm becoming convinced that the Large Hadron Collider triggered a rift in space-time and we've slipped into another universe where cause and effect are irrelevant. Or a super villain is putting LSD in our water supply. Looking at you, George S.

Posted by: toby928© Red Partisan at March 11, 2013 08:05 AM (QupBk)

32 I'm really disappointed in Dennis Rodman. His mad diplomacy skillz have failed us.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 11, 2013 08:06 AM (4cRnj)

33 It's also obvious North Korea's threat identification and managment skills are seriously freakin' lacking. Scuttling that armistice should signal the begninning of the end for them.

Posted by: Heralder at March 11, 2013 12:03 PM (+xmn4)

It would be nice to believe that, yeah? But just go ahead and recommend turning NoKo into a smoking, radioactive crater, then sit back and listen to the bitching, carping, wailing and screams of genocide that ensue. The Norks could nuke Seoul, Tokyo, Manila, Taipei, and Seattle and our idiots in power (God save us) wouldn't authorize more than a strongly worded memo.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at March 11, 2013 08:06 AM (4df7R)

34 Whole lotta thread stompin' goin' on 'round here.

Posted by: Tami[/i] at March 11, 2013 08:06 AM (X6akg)

35 So I just spent nearly an hour interviewing a candidate (with a B.S. in Information Systems; working toward his masters) who is yet another waste of good education dollars. Ladies and gentlemen- don't go to "University" if what you want to be is a developer. Go find someone who already does that and ask them to teach you. Developers tend to have decent sized egos- which means they're more than willing to share their "vast knowledge." It would also mean that when someone asked in 2013 about a technology introduced circa 2007 that you would have a clue about it. Sorry for the OT, but I kind of had to rant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 08:06 AM (4OvDk)

36 Nuclear winter is weather not CLIMATE, wingnuts!!!!

Posted by: andycanuck at March 11, 2013 12:04 PM (ORGYc)

Remember when all the smart people said if Saddam fired Kuwait's oil wells they'd burn for decades, and we'd get a nuclear winter?

Posted by: Ook? at March 11, 2013 08:06 AM (OQpzc)

37 (CNSNews.com) Â– Former Vice President and environmentalist activist Al Gore is defending the sale of his television network to Al Jazeera, saying that the Qatari government-run network is Â“honest-to-goodnessÂ” news.

Al could still be right.

What are the chances that Al Jazeera will be a doormat for a narcissistic US President ?

The real story here is that Al Jazeera just may turn out to be even better at journalism than (MS)NBC, ABC, CBS, or CNN.

It will be sort of like watching RT (Russia Today). You know in advance that there is a "bent" to the coverage (like #Occupy, etc), but sometimes they really do speak "Truth to Power"

Posted by: Wolf Blitzer at March 11, 2013 08:07 AM (e8kgV)

38 Headline 3 - Which teams does Obama put in the Final Four?

Posted by: SH at March 11, 2013 08:07 AM (gmeXX)

39 What would MacArthur do? Don't know. But Patton would grease the treads of his tanks with their guts!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2013 08:07 AM (GFM2b)

40 I have been paying attention to the systematic removal of the big wigs in the military and their replacements and it has been a bit scary.obama has quietly removed some of the more "Conservative" Military leaders and replaced them with his own puppets. The take down of Patreus was also part of this...

Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna let it burn really.really bummed at March 11, 2013 08:07 AM (9+ccr)

41 At some point we might as well nuke the Norks. If anyone asked us why, we should just say that they've been threatening us for decades and we finally believed them.

Posted by: toby928© Red Partisan at March 11, 2013 08:07 AM (QupBk)

#31 Looking at you, George S.

Thanks buddy, for doing that so we don't have to.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at March 11, 2013 08:07 AM (xhv9C)

Former Vice President and environmentalist activist Al Gore is defending the sale of his television network to Al Jazeera, saying that the Qatari government-run network is Â“honest-to-goodnessÂ” news.

Al Gore hasn't had an original thought in forty years. He's just stealing that line from Hillary.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at March 11, 2013 08:08 AM (4df7R)

44 23Meanwhile, the Japanese are arming the Filipinos. Sounds like they're getting ready for conflict.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 11, 2013 12:03 PM (4df7R)

Well, they do have China stepping all over their junk recently, too.

Unfortunately, I only see escalation in several global hotspots, and we don't have anyone in power to slam their fist on the table and stop some of these children for clamoring for attention. It'll lead to war.

But, you know, as long as we've addressed gays being allowed in the military all is well.

Posted by: Heralder at March 11, 2013 08:08 AM (+xmn4)

45 Then NORKs just said "F*ck you" to... what, 50 some years of peace? I think it's time we reminded Pyongyang what SAC was all about. No, I don't think any other part of the country particularly needs the lesson.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 08:09 AM (4OvDk)

46 Isn't this more of comment on how serious a threat North Korea actually is than whether climate is even a real concern?

Posted by: MLCross at March 11, 2013 08:09 AM (taib7)

47 scrapped armistice ... Hadn't you heard? Wife is preggers. Had to celebrate in the worst way.

Posted by: him Jung Kimmy at March 11, 2013 08:09 AM (7KxSm)

48 Yes- a one degree change in temperature over the next half-century will surely kill us all. But a megalomaniac high-chair-banging Stalinist douchebag with nuclear weapons? "Bumps in the road."

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 11, 2013 08:09 AM (8sCoq)

49 I wish we could get these climate-changers thrown out on the grounds of separation of church and state. It's the Mother Earth religion. Get OUT.

Posted by: John the Libertarian at March 11, 2013 08:10 AM (jKf/K)

50 All this idiocy will come to an end after N. Korea nukes S. Korea ro somethign equally as bad.

The pre-WW2 idiocy ended after Hitler invaded Poland and overran France. Was has a way of focusing the mind, even minds made of decaying, putrefying mush.

Posted by: Anon at March 11, 2013 08:10 AM (f+fIu)

What those who have never served, especialy in the Navy, cannot understand... is just how much control they really have over you...

While onboard ship... they control where you can go, what you eat, who you MUST associate with... who you must sleep with.

EVERY action and word is done with others around... there is NO privacy... there is no place to go... so for 6-9 months, your words and actions are controled.

Thus, when they went PC in the mid 80's, you had the perfect environment for control... if you did not kowtow to PC'ness... you were never promoted, and soon out....

That was a Generation ago.... the Admirals of Today, made it thorugh that crucible of PC control.....

So now.... Climate chage (which we aint affecting), and being 'Good', is more important than war fighting....

Posted by: Romeo13, Proud SAILOR, USN Ret. at March 11, 2013 08:10 AM (lZBBB)

52 Don't most of the South Korean youth want to join North Korea in Communist utopia, anyway? Their kids are probably as brainwashed as ours in the joys of Marxism.

Posted by: Pyrocles at March 11, 2013 08:10 AM (cv5Iw)

53 #50 should say "War has a way of focusing the mind, even minds made of decaying, putrefying mush."

Posted by: Anon at March 11, 2013 08:10 AM (f+fIu)

54 No, I don't think any other part of the country particularly needs the lesson.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 12:09 PM (4OvDk)

If we firebombed Pyongyang, the rest of the country could scurry in for some good old Korean BBQ. Just don't ask what (or who) you might be eating.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at March 11, 2013 08:10 AM (4df7R)

55 But a megalomaniac high-chair-banging Stalinist douchebag with nuclear weapons? If it helps, he's the same as every high-chair-banging Stalinist doucehbag ever- which means he's really more of a threat to his own people than he ever will be to his neighbors.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 08:11 AM (4OvDk)

56 An Admiral? An Admiral is saying that, "Climate Change Tops List of Security Threats in the Pacific." ???? WTF This is an absolute joke. I have to research this more because, really, it's too stupid to believe.

Posted by: mare at March 11, 2013 08:11 AM (A98Xu)

Can't we just 'sequester' Pyongyang from the rest of the Korean peninsula? Say about 5.5 Megatons worth of 'sequester'?

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at March 11, 2013 08:12 AM (n8LUb)

58 Remember when all the smart people said if Saddam fired Kuwait's oil wells they'd burn for decades, and we'd get a nuclear winter?
And then it took the Canadian oil-well firefighting company (IIRC) 2 months to douse them all? I vaguely recall something about that in the local news one afternoon.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 11, 2013 08:12 AM (ORGYc)

We're gonna have a TV party tonight

all right!

We're gonna have a TV party tonight

all right!

We've got nothing better to do

Than to watch TV and

Have a couple of brews

Posted by: Bigby's Lubricated Fist at March 11, 2013 08:13 AM (3ZtZW)

60 The only way NK could deliver one of their nukes to the United States would be to strap it to a tug boat and haul it into one of our ports. Their missile technology along with the size of their nukes would be like trying to launch an anvil on one of those balsa wood rubber band planes.

Posted by: polynikes at March 11, 2013 08:13 AM (m2CN7)

61 This fits in perfectly with my theory that progressives are as wrong as wrong can be about everything.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 11, 2013 08:13 AM (Hx5uv)

62 35 Sorry for the OT, but I kind of had to rant. I deal with this shit all the time. It's the continual dumbing down of the American braintrust. At some point, some fucking moron somewhere said "wow, wouldn't it be great if *everyone* could write code?" I'm sure it was a Government dipshit responding to the fact that some moron in the press projected a rapid increase in IT jobs or something. Some other fucktard said "wow, that's too hard. Let's give everyone a widget. No - better yet, a *wizard*". And they all collectively said "wow, bad ass!" I wish I'd been the guy in the room that said "hey - not everyone is capable of fucking logical fucking thought. Seriously. Not everyone should be telling computers what to do." Now we have MS Access and a whole generation of useless idiots who think they can write code. Until you ask them to drop to the OS and write a .BAT file. If they don't have a GUI, they simply can't handle a text editor with a blank document...sigh.

Posted by: akula51 at March 11, 2013 08:13 AM (Vgn84)

63 Â 2. Air Force Chaplain awarded Bronze Star for PowerPoint teaching proper sensitivity of Koran." What the fuckity fuck?! Ok, new plan. Send everyone involved in that decision to North Korea.

Posted by: Lauren at March 11, 2013 08:13 AM (wsGWu)

64 Nuclear winter and KKK robes are white. Classes cancelled.

Posted by: Oberlin College at March 11, 2013 08:14 AM (wIgpo)

The World Has Gone Mad: Illinois Edition

Rep. Jan Schakowksy says taking away handguns next on list.

http://tinyurl.com/a9qmhe5

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 11, 2013 08:14 AM (Ijr/x)

66 You've got to ask yourself: would a war with the U.S. benefit the Chinese? Remember, they're the Nork's handlers, and if they think that a war will benefit them (will it make our bonds be more valuable) then I wouldn't discount it.

Posted by: shibumi at March 11, 2013 08:14 AM (z63Tr)

67 #35 So I just spent nearly an hour interviewing a candidate (with a B.S. in Information Systems; working toward his masters) who is yet another waste of good education dollars.

What was his/her major malfunction?

Posted by: Anon at March 11, 2013 08:14 AM (f+fIu)

68 Shit.

Posted by: akula51 at March 11, 2013 08:14 AM (Vgn84)

69 Posted by: akula51 at March 11, 2013 12:13 PM (Vgn84) Barrel.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 08:15 AM (4OvDk)

70 The black queen chants the funeral march The cracked brass bells will ring

Posted by: toby928© Red Partisan at March 11, 2013 08:15 AM (QupBk)

71 From the Admiral: ''We are on super typhoon 27 or 28 this year in the Western Pacific. The average is about 17.'' Meanwhile the Atlantic has been relatively free from major hurricanes the past few years. While the planet Neptune has wind speeds of 1,000 miles per hour. Mars has an ice cap which is growing. Data points, which together mean nothing.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at March 11, 2013 08:15 AM (feFL6)

72 Aaaaah. Fresh barrel meat.

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 11, 2013 08:16 AM (KjlbF)

73 >which means he's really more of a threat to his own people than he ever will be to his neighbors. Some Nork general needs to pull him aside, like one would a child, and say " See this? This is a ballistic missile submarine! It's a biiiiiiiiiig submarine! And see these things shooting out of the top? Yes you do, yes you do! They're called 'inter-continental ballistic missiles'! Yes they are! And guess what's on the top of each one? It's called a 'nuclear bomb'. Can you say 'nuclear bomb'?

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 11, 2013 08:16 AM (8sCoq)

74 59 TV Party Tonight Hill Street Blues! Also O/T...Fear's - "Let's Have a War" from same soundtrack seems oddly topical this morning.

Posted by: akula51 at March 11, 2013 08:16 AM (Vgn84)

75 Their missile technology along with the size of their nukes would be like trying to launch an anvil on one of those balsa wood rubber band planes.
Beep! Beep!

Posted by: road runner at March 11, 2013 08:16 AM (ORGYc)

76 Heralder: It's also obvious ~~North Korea's~~ America's threat identification and managment skills are seriously freakin' lacking. FIFY

Posted by: a willful quotefixer at March 11, 2013 08:16 AM (7KxSm)

77 Oh wait, point two: even if we were attacked, would The Won respond, or would he bow and apologize? I think there is solid money on 'bow, apologize and surrender.' The Norks are Commies. The Chinese are Commie and O wants the US to be Commie. That way, he could be President for Life.

So technically, I'm going off on the Crazy Train and suggesting that O wants an attack so he can surrender (because the evil Republicans made so many defense cuts that we can't win, and plus, we can let any gays in the military die) and be President for Life.

Posted by: shibumi at March 11, 2013 08:17 AM (z63Tr)

78 35 So I just spent nearly an hour interviewing a candidate (with a B.S. in Information Systems; working toward his masters) who is yet another waste of good education dollars. Ladies and gentlemen- don't go to "University" if what you want to be is a developer. Go find someone who already does that and ask them to teach you. Developers tend to have decent sized egos- which means they're more than willing to share their "vast knowledge." It would also mean that when someone asked in 2013 about a technology introduced circa 2007 that you would have a clue about it. Sorry for the OT, but I kind of had to rant. --- Care to elaborate? I got a BS in MIS and when I did my interviews around 11 years ago, I knew that I didn't know squat of practical use outside of some general experience in VB6, SQL, and in the case of my eventual employer, server-based COBOL. What did this person not know?

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at March 11, 2013 08:17 AM (e0xKF)

79 Don't most of the South Korean youth want to join North Korea in Communist utopia, anyway? Their kids are probably as brainwashed as ours in the joys of Marxism.

Posted by: Pyrocles at March 11, 2013 12:10 PM (cv5Iw)

That I find hard to believe. Yes there are those in SoKo who are all gung-ho for Communism, but capitalism has skyrocketed SoKo's economy like crazy in the last twenty years. They teach their kids the Torah because they figure there's a connection between learning Judaism and being successful (given the Jewish tendency towards economic success despite oppressive conditions throughout history). They have mandatory military enlistment for all their young men for at least two years, plus or minus a couple of years depending on what branch of the military you go to.

Regardless of what you think of South Korea in general, they aren't us. Thank God. Maybe they've still got some sense.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at March 11, 2013 08:17 AM (4df7R)

80 Priorities.

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at March 11, 2013 08:17 AM (5H6zj)

81 Until you ask them to drop to the OS and write a .BAT file. If they don't have a GUI, they simply can't handle a text editor with a blank document...sigh. I can't do that. Well, okay, I can- but it's painful and I'm better suited to other things. What was his/her major malfunction? Primarily he's not familiar with anything since .NET 2. That means no Generics, no Lambdas, and no extension methods. These are all staples of the .NET world right now. It also means no WCF (another staple).

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 08:18 AM (4OvDk)

Ok, who broke it? Oh, and steering by the wake - not the smartest move...

Posted by: Jess1 at March 11, 2013 08:18 AM (lbiWb)

83 76 - Exactly true, which is what is more worrisome.

Posted by: Heralder at March 11, 2013 08:18 AM (+xmn4)

84 Public service notice -- if you end your nic with [ / i ] without spaces you can escape time in the barrel. It doesn't hurt anything, and will prevent messing up the next comment or three.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at March 11, 2013 08:18 AM (feFL6)

85 The black queen chants the funeral march
The cracked brass bells will ring
Where the furry Ewoks sing
Ding, ding, ding.

Posted by: zombie shakespeare at March 11, 2013 08:18 AM (ORGYc)

I don't see the NORKS able to hit the US for a few years yet.... but....

The vast majority of SOUTH Koreas population is near the northern border... the threat of vaporizing THEM is the problem...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 11, 2013 08:18 AM (lZBBB)

87 14 "I hope Sen Kerry has informed 'our friends' in China that North Korea will be a highly radioactive smoldering ruin of a country if the Norks ever lob a nuke in our direction."

There was a time in the not too distant past when that would have been a given. Now, not so sure.

-C

Posted by: Cnation at March 11, 2013 08:19 AM (tr2XM)

88 Air Force Chaplain awarded Bronze Star for PowerPoint teaching proper sensitivity of Koran

***

Spielberg will do a movie, Saving Private Muhammad.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 11, 2013 08:19 AM (Hx5uv)

89 Now we have MS Access and a whole generation of useless idiots who think they can write code. Until you ask them to drop to the OS and write a .BAT file. If they don't have a GUI, they simply can't handle a text editor with a blank document...sigh. --- This is where a youth of playing computer games in a DOS environment comes in handy... My dad taught me a bunch of command-line stuff at a young age so I could be self-sufficient and I learned a lot more about it when I got older trying to fuck around with Config.sys to play those goddamn memory hog games like Wing Commander II.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at March 11, 2013 08:19 AM (e0xKF)

90 That little maniac dictating in NoKo keeps reminding me of Buddy from the Incredibles. "Call me Syndrome!". Can't wait 'til his cape trips him up.

Posted by: Roy at March 11, 2013 08:19 AM (VndSC)

WHY HAVE YOU FAILED US, DENNIS RODMAN?!?!?

But on a more serious note, the NoKos should feel free to nuke San Fran. If they can drop it right in the heart of Nancy Pelosi's district, that'd be the icing on the cake.

Posted by: sans_sheriff at March 11, 2013 08:19 AM (HgwiM)

92 "because the evil Republicans made so many defense cuts that we can't win" Obama wants an attack because it will "prove" that the sequestration was painful.

Posted by: Lauren at March 11, 2013 08:19 AM (wsGWu)

93 All of our "leaders" are world class idiots.

maybe if we just surrender our new overloads will be better?

Posted by: Paladin at March 11, 2013 08:19 AM (LTquJ)

94 #18 All of our "leaders" are world class idiots.

Which is why we may be able to sneak by a few more years with the current POTUS without a mushroom cloud over NY or LA.

Other world leaders are even more incompetent.

(Let's hope the terrorists are, too.)

Posted by: Anon at March 11, 2013 08:19 AM (f+fIu)

Headline #1 = Serious

Headline #2 = Not Serious

Guess which one our glorious leadership is focused on?

We are so screwed...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 11, 2013 08:20 AM (+z4pE)

96 Primarily he's not familiar with anything since .NET 2. That means no Generics, no Lambdas, and no extension methods. These are all staples of the .NET world right now. It also means no WCF (another staple). --- Hell, *I* would be screwed if asked to talk about that. The COTS we develop for doesn't use any of that in the version we're using, so I haven't had to develop any of those skills.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at March 11, 2013 08:20 AM (e0xKF)

97 North Korea is threatening war on the Korean peninsular (and to nuke the US) and the top US military commander in the region says "climate change" is our biggest security threat.

Top. Men.

Primarily he's not familiar with anything since .NET 2. That means no Generics, no Lambdas, and no extension methods. These are all staples of the .NET world right now. It also means no WCF (another staple).

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 12:18 PM (4OvDk)

*looks around*

Someone want to explain to me exactly what in the fuck AG just said?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at March 11, 2013 08:20 AM (da5Wo)

98 Posted by: mare at March 11, 2013 12:11 PM (A98Xu)

Believe it. I was in a briefing last week (Army) that had "climate change" as a primary factor in considering future threats.

Posted by: Country Singer at March 11, 2013 08:20 AM (L8r/r)

99 #89

Ever write PDP-8 assembler?

Posted by: Anon at March 11, 2013 08:21 AM (f+fIu)

100 Someone want to explain to me exactly what in the fuck AG just said?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at March 11, 2013 12:20 PM (da5Wo)

It's a form of weasel.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at March 11, 2013 08:21 AM (4df7R)

101 *looks around* Someone want to explain to me exactly what in the fuck AG just said? --- I develop in .Net and couldn't make sense of it.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at March 11, 2013 08:21 AM (e0xKF)

102 When are we going to start drug testing our US military commanders?

Posted by: Roy at March 11, 2013 08:22 AM (VndSC)

103 You kids today. In my day, we scratched our programs right on the silicon. We also called nickels Bees.

Posted by: toby928© Red Partisan at March 11, 2013 08:22 AM (QupBk)

104 It's a form of weasel.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 11, 2013 12:21 PM (4df7R)

Now I got it! Thanks MWR!

Posted by: BCochran1981 at March 11, 2013 08:23 AM (da5Wo)

105 81 I'm better suited to other things. And shockingly, the simplest tool still gets the job done out here in the unreal world of Healthcare IT. 2+ decades of active X extensions, COM, DCOM, .NET, enterprise Java Beans, XML bullshit, blah blah motherfucking blah - and guess what, I *still* assemble ASCII text files for transmission over simple, reliable, omnipresent FTP. Thank goodness some segments of this fragmented industry still believe that "if it ain't broke..."

Posted by: akula51 at March 11, 2013 08:23 AM (Vgn84)

106 Hell, *I* would be screwed if asked to talk about that. The COTS we develop for doesn't use any of that in the version we're using, so I haven't had to develop any of those skills. Fine. But you're not interviewing for a globally known consulting company. Like I said, I'm not good with .BAT files (I hate them, I truly do). But I'm not someone who works with .BAT files. And that's really my point. I don't blame him- he can only learn what he's been taught. My problem is that Universities, by their nature, will tend to lag at least a year or two behind current technology. To learn about technology that's being used RIGHT NOW, you need a mentor currently in the industry.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 08:23 AM (4OvDk)

107 99 #89 Ever write PDP-8 assembler? --- Doubt it. I've written Pascal, COBOL, VB6, VB.Net, Perl, SQL, etc., and when I took COBOL as part of my degree program, everyone told me I wouldn't need it because the Y2K bug had passed. Turned out that the employer I went to work for had a COBOL mainframe still in use that they were transitioning to VB6, so I had the right skills to be brought on board.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at March 11, 2013 08:23 AM (e0xKF)

108 >Believe it. I was in a briefing last week (Army) that had "climate change" as a primary factor in considering future threats.\ this blows my mind- our armed forces are trained to operate in the extremes of environment- from hot to cold to wet to dry to under the sea to the edge of space and everything in between... WTF (shouted emphasis on the F) does 'climate change' have to do with combat operations?

Posted by: Jones in CO at March 11, 2013 08:23 AM (8sCoq)

109 We have become an unserious nation.

***

You're just saying that because your favorite got voted off American Idol.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 11, 2013 08:25 AM (Hx5uv)

110 BREAKING SOCK LINK NEWS: member of weasel family causes havoc at soccer game. Number of dead currently unknown.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 11, 2013 08:26 AM (ORGYc)

111

You kids today. In my day, we scratched our programs right on the silicon. We also called nickels Bees.

You're lucky: we didn't even have silicon when I was a kid. We had to go outside and throw sand around the fire and mix it with a stic. We'd later hand-hammer it into the rough shape of a chip.

And we had to use potatoes with wires in them for batteries.

Now, get off my digital lawn.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 11, 2013 08:27 AM (+z4pE)

112 I have not yet begun to ~~fight~~ use "green" energy!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 11, 2013 08:27 AM (1Jaio)

113 Meh - you software guys don't know sh*t about code.

Posted by: Samuel Morse at March 11, 2013 08:27 AM (VndSC)

114 Thought for the day: It turns out that Meghan is the smart McCain.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 11, 2013 08:28 AM (Hx5uv)

115 Someone want to explain to me exactly what in the fuck AG just said? High level: Generics are containers that do their thing regardless of specifics of what they're containing. In old .NET we had "typed containers" which had certain limitations. Generics get rid of most of those. They're versatile and easy to use. Lambdas (offically Lambda Expressions) are a form of short-hand logic for quick calculations or filtering of data. Extension Methods are ways to give something (I'm staying VERY general here) functionality it did not have before without actually modifying the thing itself. Without proper background, it's very difficult to explain. OTOH, if you're writing current code (especially for the kinds of clients we take on), you'll be using them all the time. All. The. Time. I *still* assemble ASCII text files for transmission over simple, reliable, omnipresent FTP. Those will never go away. Nor should they.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 08:28 AM (4OvDk)

116 89 My dad taught me a bunch of command-line stuff at a young age This will probably be your key to the future...lol Seriously, though...there are people that struggled to get a game to load and run in 640kb, and people that didn't. The thought process one learned was far more valuable than learning the process of changing the oil in the car, ironically enough. Enough of those former folks together in one place at one time, and one can probably critically think their way out of 98% of the bullshit that will be thrown their way. Without QEMM back in those days, well...shit, I just don't know...lol.

Posted by: akula51 at March 11, 2013 08:29 AM (Vgn84)

117 It's all 1s and 0s anyway.

Posted by: Smoke Signaller at March 11, 2013 08:29 AM (8KGvR)

118 I unrease herr Now!!! You tempelatule lise .005 deglee F. How you rike me now, lound-eye bitches? How. You. Rike. Me. Now?

Posted by: Climate Change Jung Il at March 11, 2013 08:30 AM (j2lYi)

119 Posted by: Jones in CO at March 11, 2013 12:23 PM (8sCoq)

The contention is that "rising oceans will create/exacerbate tensions in coastal areas, particularly in the Far East island countries".

Posted by: Country Singer at March 11, 2013 08:30 AM (L8r/r)

120 It's all 1s and 0s anyway. Not if we have our way...

Posted by: Quantuum Computers at March 11, 2013 08:30 AM (4OvDk)

121 So what's the problem?

Posted by: Dean Acheson at March 11, 2013 08:30 AM (6cOMd)

122 The contention is that "rising oceans will create/exacerbate tensions in coastal areas, particularly in the Far East island countries". Which I would take seriously if a) there were serious evidence that the oceans were rising significantly b) "Far East island countries" had any war technology of which to speak AND c) Such "Far East island countries" couldn't find some way to mitigate the problems of rising sea levels, but could amass the necessary manpower to invade someone else.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 08:32 AM (4OvDk)

123 It's all 1s and 0s anyway.
Posted by: Smoke Signaller
Get lost, you poof!

Posted by: banging hollow tree trunks with big sticks at March 11, 2013 08:32 AM (ORGYc)

124 BTW, Morse, I banged your granny too.

Posted by: banging hollow tree trunks with big sticks at March 11, 2013 08:33 AM (ORGYc)

125 120 It's all 1s and 0s anyway. Not if we have our way... --- It was a horrible nightmare! I saw all 1s and 0s, then I think I saw a 2!

Posted by: Bender Bending Rodriguez at March 11, 2013 08:33 AM (e0xKF)

126 Ah, I remember the good old days when upgrading firmware meant prying a EEPROM out of a socket (and occasionally, my foot).

All this fancy flashing is a perversion.

Posted by: Fritz at March 11, 2013 08:33 AM (WM+rJ)

127 Posted by: Fritz at March 11, 2013 12:33 PM (WM+rJ) Watch out, you.

Posted by: Miserable Stinking Faeries at March 11, 2013 08:34 AM (4OvDk)

128 all your thread are belong to us

Posted by: Geek Programmers again at March 11, 2013 08:35 AM (xiaOm)

129 I think IT and lawyers make up half the morons.

Posted by: toby928© Red Partisan at March 11, 2013 08:36 AM (QupBk)

130 High level:
Generics are containers that do their thing regardless of specifics of what they're containing. In old .NET we had "typed containers" which had certain limitations. Generics get rid of most of those. They're versatile and easy to use.

Lambdas (offically Lambda Expressions) are a form of short-hand logic for quick calculations or filtering of data.

Extension Methods are ways to give something (I'm staying VERY general here) functionality it did not have before without actually modifying the thing itself.

Without proper background, it's very difficult to explain. OTOH, if you're writing current code (especially for the kinds of clients we take on), you'll be using them all the time. All. The. Time.

Right. Got it.

Seriously, if I were somehow to fall dick first into a shitload of money, I would immediately quite working and start learning. There is so much shit out there that I have zero knowledge of. Every trade school within 45 miles? Hi, I'm your new best friend. Oh, look, guitar lessons. You! Yeah, you, computer guy. Get your ass over here. We got some educatin' to do.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at March 11, 2013 08:36 AM (da5Wo)

131 e're gonna have a TV party tonight all right! We're gonna have a TV party tonight all right! We've got nothing better to do Than to watch TV and Have a couple of brews Posted by: Bigby's Lubricated Fist at March 11, 2013 12:13 PM (3ZtZW)

Whoa, whoa! Wait a minute!

I thought we were gonna Wang Chung tonight?

See? Look, it says right here Across the nation, Around the world, Ev'rybody have fun tonight, A celebration so spread the word. Ev'rybody have fun tonight. Ev'rybody Wang Chung tonight

Posted by: Nick Feldman at March 11, 2013 08:37 AM (sbV1u)

132

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 12:32 PM (4OvDk)

It's complete folderal; my question at the brief was, "Did the Army factor in the "coming ice age" in planning in the late 70s?"

Posted by: Country Singer at March 11, 2013 08:37 AM (L8r/r)

133 Kim Jong Un must have pirated the new Red Dawn and gotten delusions of grandeur.

Posted by: Emile Antoon Khadaji at March 11, 2013 08:38 AM (CrJzY)

134 Seriously, if I were somehow to fall dick first into a shitload of money, I would immediately quite working and start learning. Posted by: BCochran1981 at March 11, 2013 12:36 PM (da5Wo)

Um....Why would you fall "dick first" into money? Why not head first? Or feet first? Or, as my grandmother used to say, "ass over teakettle"?

It's a little phallic.

BC, is there something you'd like to tell the Horde?

NTTAWWT

Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 11, 2013 08:39 AM (sbV1u)

135 there were serious evidence that the oceans were rising significantly Years ago I saw a picture of the measuring equipment that was recording so-called sea level rise. Strapped to a bulkhead on an ancient dock, which was probably decaying into the ground. I can't take these people seriously, when I see shit like that. "THE OCEANS ARE RISING!!!" No, you dumb ass, your bulkheads are rotting and sinking into the sand. It only appears to you the oceans are rising because you don't understand basic science and entropy.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at March 11, 2013 08:39 AM (feFL6)

136 Primarily he's not familiar with anything since .NET 2. That means no Generics, no Lambdas, and no extension methods. These are all staples of the .NET world right now. It also means no WCF (another staple).

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 12:18 PM (4OvDk)

I'm familiar with .Net stuff, hire me so I can get out of CA?

*sigh* Probably not, I'm just an IT tool, doubt I have developer bona fides yet...

Posted by: KG at March 11, 2013 08:40 AM (p7BzH)

137 For you .NETers- the "FizzBuzz" problem is perhaps one of the best documented code snippets out there. The scenario goes like this (yes: you're teaching your computer a drinking game- it should be moron approved). Write a method which will count from 1 - 100, displaying each number on the screen. EXCEPT: any number which is evenly divisible by 3 should instead print "FIZZ," any number which is evenly divisible by 5 should print "BUZZ", and any number which is evenly divisible by both 3 & 5 should print "FizzBuzz." Now, the developers at the HQ are already working through how they'd do that. It might take them 5 minutes or so to do the whole thing (I think it took me 7 the first time it was posed to me). The point of the exercise it to make sure the guy in front of you can actually write some other-than-purely-straight-forward code. I think it took this guy about 15 minutes (I wasn't timing exactly). And he got it wrong (as in: his code wouldn't have run properly). This is such a famous exercise I considered not using it, because I was afraid he would have a canned response all ready to go.

Posted by: Miserable Stinking Faeries at March 11, 2013 08:40 AM (4OvDk)

138 134 Seriously, if I were somehow to fall dick first into a shitload of money, I would immediately quite working and start learning. Posted by: BCochran1981 at March 11, 2013 12:36 PM (da5Wo) Um....Why would you fall "dick first" into money? Why not head first? Or feet first? Or, as my grandmother used to say, "ass over teakettle"? It's a little phallic. BC, is there something you'd like to tell the Horde? NTTAWWT --- "Falling dick first into money" sounds like "Marrying a rich girl" to me.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at March 11, 2013 08:41 AM (e0xKF)

139 Um....Why would you fall "dick first" into money? Why not head first? Or feet first? Or, as my grandmother used to say, "ass over teakettle"?

Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 11, 2013 12:39 PM (sbV1u)

I consider a...hold on, this is a technical term...big motherfucking pile of money to be an extremely pleasurable thing. If I'm going to fall into something that's pleasurable, shouldn't it be dick first?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at March 11, 2013 08:41 AM (da5Wo)

140 Well, you know that whatever they have is short range. California, Oregon, Washington....you know. I say go for it. I see no down side to this.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at March 11, 2013 08:42 AM (Xy2gW)

141 *sigh* Probably not, I'm just an IT tool, doubt I have developer bona fides yet... Got a degree? (CS or MIS for preference. Pretty sure we'll take Math degrees though). No State Income Tax in Texas. With the economy the way it is, we've really picked up our standards (that'll change as the economy in TX continues to improve), but if you know more than this kid did, you could probably get a job.

Posted by: Miserable Stinking Faeries at March 11, 2013 08:42 AM (4OvDk)

142 Whoops. Off sock.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 08:42 AM (4OvDk)

143 I consider a...hold on, this is a technical term...big motherfucking pile of money to be an extremely pleasurable thing. If I'm going to fall into something that's pleasurable, shouldn't it be dick first? Posted by: BCochran1981 at March 11, 2013 12:41 PM (da5Wo)

Your logic is irrefutable.

Carry on.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 11, 2013 08:42 AM (sbV1u)

144 I think IT and lawyers make up half the morons. It's kinda embarrassing all the ancient computer languages I've coded in. Blaise Pascal used to ask me for advice.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at March 11, 2013 08:43 AM (feFL6)

145 QEMM, lordy !

I was hired because I knew Clipper. And .bat

Now I'm learning Powershell.

Posted by: Aunt Ralph at March 11, 2013 08:43 AM (6VG2o)

146 Allen,

I have a degree in electrical engineering, but I had no damn luck when I got out, no real work history and probably going about the job app process all wrong didn't help... finally got an IT gig through someone I know.

Still a bit afeared to try again now that I got *something*, but at some point I gotta...

Posted by: KG at March 11, 2013 08:46 AM (p7BzH)

147 Well, you know that whatever they have is short range. California, Oregon, Washington....you know. By the same token, they've supposedly put a satellite into orbit and are working on miniaturization of the nuke. So I suspect the time frame for hitting the East Coast is shrinking by the minute. Our 'betters' in DC probably won't get too concerned until the Norks can hit DC.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at March 11, 2013 08:46 AM (feFL6)

148

Which I would take seriously if
a) there were serious evidence that the oceans were rising significantly
b) "Far East island countries" had any war technology of which to speak AND
c) Such "Far East island countries" couldn't find some way to mitigate the problems of rising sea levels, but could amass the necessary manpower to invade someone else.

----

I'd take it seriously if he simply said that we at the Navy plan on all contingencies including rising sea levels.

Instead he said the No. 1 issue for our Navy is climate change which means that there is a serious case of mission creep going on at the Navy. Consdier the other story that I referenced about a chaplain bing awarded the bronze star for a Koran sensitivity power point presentation, I think the DOD is fully extended and in need of some good old fasion budget cutting until it refocuses on its real mission in the world.

Posted by: SH at March 11, 2013 08:48 AM (gmeXX)

149 Adm. Locklear is wrong. Climate change is not our biggest security challenge. Maintaining diversity in our armed forces and supporting the rights of homosexual and transgendered persons, those are our biggest challenges.

Posted by: Mr. T. Tek Nilp at March 11, 2013 08:48 AM (mAm+G)

150 "Falling dick first into money" sounds like "Marrying a rich girl" to me.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at March 11, 2013 12:41 PM (e0xKF)

My old granddaddy used to say, "It gets mighty tiresome fucking a checkbook, son."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 11, 2013 08:49 AM (zF6Iw)

151 My old granddaddy used to say, "It gets mighty tiresome fucking a checkbook, son." Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 11, 2013 12:49 PM (zF6Iw)

A wise man. A very wise man.

On the other hand, with some duct tape and 5 tubes of Astroglide....

Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 11, 2013 08:52 AM (sbV1u)

152 finally got an IT gig through someone I know. What kind of IT gig?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 08:52 AM (4OvDk)

153

Kim Jong Un is new to command. He needs to prove himself to his generals. IÂ’m sure he loves living as much as he loves basketball but he wonÂ’t be alive for long if he doesnÂ’t have the support of his military. Thus, he goes all in with bellicose provocations. The idea, I guess, is to bring tensions high enough to force some kind of concessions from South KoreaÂ’s new president, who happens to be a woman.

The US and S. Korea could temporarily suspend joint military exercises. ThatÂ’s the quick and easy way out. It would give the Norks the concession theyÂ’re after, one they can trumpet as a great victory, which would then cement military loyalty to Kim Jong Un.

If, however, Kim Jong Un canÂ’t spin a victory out of this mess by squeezing some kind of concession from the US or S. Korea, heÂ’ll have to escalate hostilities until he does force concessions. He absolutely cannot afford to lose face, especially not to a woman.

Posted by: troyriser at March 11, 2013 08:54 AM (vtiE6)

154 Posted by: Regular Moron at March 11, 2013 12:46 PM (feFL6) DC? East Coast? Deal! Still no downside. Hell, I'm sure the fat little fucker doesn't even have a map with Carbondale, Il on it. Fuck it. I'm safe. My address GPS's over 500 meters off. That's how podunk we are. Aim for me, Kimmy. C'mon. You'll miss and hit Chicago. Bonus!!

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at March 11, 2013 08:55 AM (Xy2gW)

155
What kind of IT gig?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 12:52 PM (4OvDk)

I'm the branch IT at a seafood distributor, I also do receiving early.

Posted by: KG at March 11, 2013 08:56 AM (p7BzH)

156 I was hired because I knew Clipper. I loved Clipper. I could build an entire application in just a few days. It did have an issue at times with order of operation, so I'd have to bust down some math formulas to one line at a time, but that was no biggy. It never seemed to increase the compile size, so I didn't care if it looked amateurish. Other then that it was wham, bam, thank you ma'am fast.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at March 11, 2013 08:56 AM (feFL6)

157 Oh, and Kimmy: ACME Weapons Delivery Systems is having a little problem with their stuff lately. Amazon was bitching about it. Something about the fuses being too short.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at March 11, 2013 08:57 AM (Xy2gW)

158 Deer ADM Locklear, The troops on the DMZ would like to have a word if you have moment...

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie ® at March 11, 2013 08:58 AM (1hM1d)

159 >>>If, however, Kim Jong Un canÂ’t spin a victory out of this mess by squeezing some kind of concession from the US or S. Korea, heÂ’ll have to escalate hostilities until he does force concessions. He absolutely cannot afford to lose face, especially not to a woman.<<<

That sounds too logical for someone interested in hanging out with an addle-brained, former-sports character a.k.a. "The Worm."

Posted by: Fritz at March 11, 2013 08:58 AM (WM+rJ)

160 I'm the branch IT at a seafood distributor, I also do receiving early. So networking/infrastructure stuff?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 09:00 AM (4OvDk)

161 That sounds too logical for someone interested in hanging out with an addle-brained, former-sports character a.k.a. "The Worm."

Posted by: Fritz at March 11, 2013 12:58 PM (WM+rJ)

Kim Jong Un's father and grandfather managed to hold onto absolute power in a totalitarian police state for several decades. Crazy But Not Stupid runs in the family.

Posted by: troyriser at March 11, 2013 09:02 AM (vtiE6)

162 ""Climate Change Tops List of Security Threats in the Pacific Says ADM Locklear".

Which proves only that the President really is the Commander in Chief and that he really is an idiot.

Posted by: Ronzoni at March 11, 2013 09:03 AM (9mdaQ)

163 So networking/infrastructure stuff?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 01:00 PM (4OvDk)

Yes, plus some server, web dev, and database stuff too. Have my fingers in a number of pies here... Wouldn't claim to be a seasoned expert on any of this, but I can learn and ramp up my knowledge as needed to get stuff done.

Posted by: KG at March 11, 2013 09:03 AM (p7BzH)

164 29A Sequester rape raped my sister.Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 11, 2013 11:57 AM (jucos)Damn. Rape-rape is a serious crime.

Posted by: garrett at March 11, 2013 12:05 PM (vB8O/)

But it wasn't "rape-rape rape-rape".

Posted by: Whoopi Goldberg at March 11, 2013 09:05 AM (dSE0q)

165 Just noticed this South Korea has it's first female President Park Geun-hye. Maybe this is why Un thinks he's got a pair?

Posted by: Paladin at March 11, 2013 09:08 AM (bxc5w)

166 I was originally hired because I could write optimized 65816 assembly. My lawn, off it. (I do know .NET 4 and generics and lambdas and stuff now, although I work mostly in C++0x). There's a small group of very smart people teaching their kids computers on either real physical examples or emulators of the popular machines of the 80s/early 90s. Those kids will go on to be very, very hire-able when they're of age.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2013 09:08 AM (B/VB5)

167 Instead he said the No. 1 issue for our Navy is climate change which means that there is a serious case of mission creep going on at the Navy. Consdier the other story that I referenced about a chaplain bing awarded the bronze star for a Koran sensitivity power point presentation, I think the DOD is fully extended and in need of some good old fasion budget cutting until it refocuses on its real mission in the world.

Posted by: SH at March 11, 2013 12:48 PM (gmeXX)

Reducing the burden on the budget of all of the PC douches would be a good place to start cutting

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 11, 2013 09:09 AM (1Jaio)

168 Admiral Samuel J. Locklear II: Â“We have interjected into our multilateral dialogue Â– even with China and India Â– the imperative to kind of get military capabilities aligned [for] when the effects of climate change start to impact these massive populations,Â” he said. Â“If it goes bad, you could have hundreds of thousands or millions of people displaced and then security will start to crumble pretty quickly.Â’Â’ China: 'Who is this dumb f*ck? Millions of people? We gotta billion people to worry about.' India: 'What he said.'

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at March 11, 2013 09:13 AM (feFL6)

169 Yes, plus some server, web dev, and database stuff too. Have my fingers in a number of pies here... Wouldn't claim to be a seasoned expert on any of this, but I can learn and ramp up my knowledge as needed to get stuff done. And you said you do some .NET? Shoot me an email, and I'll send you some exercises to do. If you look like you have a decent grounding, I can get your resume and get it to my bosses. If you don't want to come all the way to TX, we also have offices in Washington State, Missouri, and Colorado (I'm not sure about that last one), I know the other two). You should see my email in the "About Me" box of that blog I don't have.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 09:13 AM (4OvDk)

170 All of these third world retards do not realize that by nuking blue state urban areas, they are killing all the Madisonians off.

No one will be left but Jacksonians to make decisions about how to proceed.

When that happens, a half hour later the language that country speaks will only be spoken by dead language students.

Posted by: Kristophr at March 11, 2013 09:14 AM (wYVte)

171

So I'm sitting here wondering why the hell I'm so hungry. Come to realize I haven't set the two clocks in my office ahead yet, so I'm an hour behind on lunch. Duh.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at March 11, 2013 09:14 AM (4df7R)

172 Just noticed this South Korea has it's first female President Park Geun-hye. Maybe this is why Un thinks he's got a pair?

Posted by: Paladin at March 11, 2013 01:08 PM (bxc5w)

And I do believe her mother was murdered by Nork assassins who were gunning for her father. She has no love for the Norks.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at March 11, 2013 09:15 AM (4df7R)

173 You should see my email in the "About Me" box of that blog I don't have.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 11, 2013 01:13 PM (4OvDk)

All right... I'll check it out after work, thanks Allen.

Posted by: KG at March 11, 2013 09:20 AM (p7BzH)

174 @ 107 It has been a hair under 40 years and I still have nightmares in PAL III.

Posted by: Old Dog at March 11, 2013 09:22 AM (tQYJH)

175 I thought muslim self-esteem was the main mission of the Navy these days.

Posted by: Cicero, Semiautomatic Assault Commenter at March 11, 2013 09:35 AM (8ZskC)

176 maybe dude wasn't talking about old/tired AGW climate change, but the new/hotness SMOD ash & debris cloud climate change. sweet meteor of death 2013

Posted by: O. Peck at March 11, 2013 09:36 AM (oT23X)

177 You should see my email in the "About Me" box of that blog I don't have.

Wait. What?

Posted by: Cicero, Semiautomatic Assault Commenter at March 11, 2013 09:36 AM (8ZskC)

178 Robert A. Heinlein was right: these ARE the Crazy Years.

Posted by: TANSTAAFL at March 11, 2013 09:40 AM (tqAT4)

179 Write a method which will count from 1 - 100, displaying each number on the screen. EXCEPT: any number which is evenly divisible by 3 should instead print "FIZZ," any number which is evenly divisible by 5 should print "BUZZ", and any number which is evenly divisible by both 3 & 5 should print "FizzBuzz." Pseudo-code okay, MSF? It's honestly a pretty straightforward logic problem if you are into service procedures or flowcharting. For a n00b graduate the womyn's studies classes might have muddled the mind a bit. INT N=1 DoWhile N < 101 IF N/3 Print to Screen "Fizz" Else If N/5 Print to Screen "Buzz" Else If N/3 AND N/5 Print to Screen "FizzBuzz" Else Print to Screen ValueN N++ First computer was a Commie16 ("Load comma 8, bizzatches!") And I spent waaaaay too much time screwing with config.sys trying to get flight sims workin'. AS, CIT, BS, BIS - magna cum laude. Been working in IT for 17 years and haven't gotten a raise in 6 (pay freeze, dontcha know.) I'm interviewing for a promotion next quarter and if I don't get I think I'm going to have to move on. Between the lack of raises and insurance increases I'm making less now then I was when Dear Leader was elected.

Posted by: Emile Antoon Khadaji at March 11, 2013 09:42 AM (CrJzY)

180 Dont forget MODULO

Posted by: grease monkey at March 11, 2013 09:46 AM (VSWPU)

181 @179: Close, but you'd want to check the remainder of the divide, not the result of the divide itself.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2013 09:48 AM (B/VB5)

182 181 @179: Close, but you'd want to check the remainder of the divide, not the result of the divide itself. Doesn't declaring it an INT do that? Been a while since I've done anything but VB or HTML.

Posted by: Emile Antoon Khadaji at March 11, 2013 09:50 AM (KvKOu)

183 I don't see where you're trapping for having reached 100. Infinite loop.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at March 11, 2013 09:51 AM (feFL6)

184 In C at least, / is divide, % is modulo/remainder.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2013 09:53 AM (B/VB5)

185 Oh that's weird, the posting cut off my less than. It should say DoWhile N is less than 101

Posted by: Emile Antoon Khadaji at March 11, 2013 09:55 AM (CrJzY)

186 Eh, if I were NK I'd definitely test drive my nukes with Prezzy Indecisive at the helm. If they nuked us right now fer instance, King Putt could blame it on the Sequester. There probably wouldn't be any blowback at all, as the Dogeater would spend his time attacking the true enemies of America- the Republicans. That goes triple for China too- Disputed territory invasion, you guys! Oh, and Taiwan Invasion, you guys. Russia, too.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2013 10:00 AM (j2lYi)

187 @170 Muslim self esteem is job one over here.

Posted by: NASA at March 11, 2013 10:17 AM (qlX9b)

188

Our Naval history of the early months of WWII was rife with the tribulations of having to relieve peacetime-minded commanders of their duties, in favor of "fire eaters" who could get the job done.

History seems to demand such repetitions, soon after it's lessons have been lost.

Jim

Sunk New Dawn

Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 11, 2013 10:58 AM (SUC5U)

189 The Norks are rattling sabers because they want more free stuff. BHO needs to team Rodman up with the peanut farmer for a diplomatic rescue mission, and it would be a good idea ship over a few boat loads of free soybeans and coal. Appeasement FORWARD. Oh, along with the free stuff they could include a complimentary pinup calendar of some of those hot babes in the House like Maxine and Nancy.

Posted by: angel with a sword at March 11, 2013 12:25 PM (3RiPs)

190 Of course it is climate change. The climate changes when a little bit of the sun touches the earth, for instance.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at March 11, 2013 12:47 PM (hLRSq)

191

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