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Unfortunately, they will probably hack their geotagging data in the future to load civilian targets instead.... There is a reason why methods are supposed to be protected as much as the data... However, someone far enough up the food chain to evade prosecution has to let the secret out...

As to the question of the labs timing, these are typically scheduled as classes in your university's student information system. You may be able to see when they are scheduled for the next term. And my daughter's experience was the same as others. Strongly encouraged by the cadre.

BTW, if you have Discover Card, you can buy $30 of e-certificates for $20 (in any quantity) with your rewards $$. You have to use a different Omaha Steaks 800 number when using e-certificates, but the prices/terms are all the same.

Yes, it seems that every commissioning ceremony has an epic fail with the bars falling to the floor. A must film for posterity's sake. I remember a double fail from one cadet at my daughter's commissioning. Both fell off in unison. I recommend practicing before the ceremony.

Amen. Most of solving any problem in the business world is actually defining the problem. Once defined correctly, the potential solutions are much easier to quantify and evaluate. Working in in the technology business, the last person I want managing programmers is a programmer. The...

Let's go Red Wings!

What would have been strange would have been a blended picture (like the first example in the article) with part of the picture having soldiers on the beach right next to the girl in the bikini. The wonders of photoshop...

Here is my take on the value of real estate as an investment: First there are 2 components to real estate - the land and the improvements. They have a few common and many differing properties (no pun intended). Most land does not deteriorate (with a few environmental issues in certain locales...

A lot of kids want to avoid the local State U because of the "13th grade" situation - too many familiar faces that they've already risen above, etc. and want something bigger and more challenging (which sounds like the list of schools higher on his list). That being said, he is likely to avoid...

The person educated only in STEM will have a great understanding of the world and its physical resources how to use them, but won't understand the human condition to apply those talents to. The person educated in the Liberal Arts will understand the human condition, but will not be able to...

And it is a lucky thing for OP's son that it was diagnosed before anything bad happened. I have a friend who I worked with who found out she had Type-1 diabetes when she woke up in a hospital after spending weeks in a coma. Almost died. Kinnem, glad to hear that you are "moderating" things...

Ah, but since voting is carried out by the states, we can make enforcement yet another unfunded mandate... :eek:

$20 per voter * ~100 Million eligible voters who didn't cast a vote in the last presidential election = $2 Billion... A little deficit reduction isn't a bad thing... We could even get it past the SCOTUS with the same trick as the ACA... Its just a tax penalty... You really don't have to vote...

Put it this way. Officers have been making a living, raising a family, and doing a good job at it for a long time (Bullet and Pima can attest to this). And believe it or not, the enlisted folks reporting to you manage to scrape by on even less while getting married and having children.

I can understand Army.Dad's bewilderment at his son's chosen career. He picked up his family and moved them to a place where working hard can get you ahead perhaps unlike his homeland. And now his son has gone and put that opportunity at risk to perhaps go off and fight and become a casualty...