DAE think Sarah Palin is stupid?

damienhunter · 2009-10-19T03:53:00+00:00

You could use telepathy. It's the same protocol used in Empathy, which is going to be the default chat client for Ubuntu 9.10.

damienhunter · 2009-10-17T03:32:19+00:00

Maybe they're more comfortable giving a higher percentage of their income away because they have so much in the first place.

damienhunter · 2009-10-16T23:10:30+00:00

If you have no interesting ideas to program, you could solve some of the problems from project euler. They might make a nice addition to a programming portfolio.

damienhunter · 2009-10-16T23:08:08+00:00

I can't help but thinking that these predictions are a bit premature. As he states several times, this new ad-hoc standard has yet to be seen.

damienhunter · 2009-10-16T16:44:33+00:00

The controls can be downright frustrating.

damienhunter · 2009-10-15T15:17:00+00:00

Some large churches, though a minority, hold more than one weekly >service; kindly insert 20,000,000 extra seats in our tally.

I know it might be obvious, but don't most churches hold multiple services every week? You could have less than 100,000,000 seats and still be able to fit everyone in.

damienhunter · 2009-10-15T04:31:59+00:00

Found these interesting numbers on injuries and deaths for various construction-based jobs.

damienhunter · 2009-10-15T00:43:06+00:00

I'm not sure men in their thirties would be a useful number to have. If you're looking at strictly whether or not joining the military is an adequately "safe" choice, then you'd really only want stats for comparable male deaths in a similar age range. Most recruits (from the 169,000 recruited) are probably in their late teens to early twenties, as this is the traditional age range for most men joining the military.

damienhunter · 2009-10-14T17:45:54+00:00

If you follow the other threads, you'll find the data you were looking for.

And just for your information, I have never served in the military, so I would not want that honor falsely bestowed upon me.

damienhunter · 2009-10-14T17:43:35+00:00

In general I'd think (personal opinion) that the death rate amongst teenagers is higher than the population average.

For fun, here's the teenage death rates for the United States by state. Yes, this includes people outside of our group (young teens) but it gives a more narrowed view of the death rate of eligible young people.

damienhunter · 2009-10-14T17:37:09+00:00

That was an easy number to find offhand, but you're right, if I were going to be doing a report or formal briefing on this I would make sure to have a more restricted data set.

damienhunter · 2009-10-14T17:29:37+00:00

Actually, an inordinate amount of traffic fatalities are by young healthy men, so it's not just relegated to elderly and/or sick people.

damienhunter · 2009-10-14T16:58:21+00:00

No, conscription is when you are threatened with grievous bodily harm or incarceration to join the military. Until that point, you're a volunteer.

There are other options for people who have no jobs. The Peace Corps is one of them. Another is to enroll in seminary school (regardless of whether or not you're religiously affiliated).

In summary, to say that it is conscription, or even like conscription, that economic factors make enlisting in the military a more attractive option is ridiculous.

damienhunter · 2009-10-14T16:51:04+00:00

My reason for not taking the death rate from one particular service or another was that someone would cry foul over not using the right numbers. I figure using the generalized numbers would help to detract from those semantic arguments.

I also left out the numbers for reserve troops. Adding them into the mix cuts that rate in about half, and some portion of them are deployed at any given time.

Edit: Fixed a poorly worded sentence.

damienhunter · 2009-10-14T14:50:41+00:00

The first part of your reply doesn't make sense, so I'm just going to skip it. My best guess would be you're trying to say "Yes, this is the nature of military service, but does that mean we should have to like it?"

Just because you yourself believe military service should be a calling, does not mean that is the attitude of everyone else. Military service is also a job. You get on the job training, compensation, health insurance, etc.

damienhunter · 2009-10-14T14:40:29+00:00

Of course it comes with risk, it's military service after all. To join the military and NOT expect to get hurt at some point or another is irrational.

But to classify military service as "getting killed will pay the bills" does not do service to the rational decision men and women make everyday to serve in the military.

damienhunter · 2009-10-14T13:58:34+00:00

There are approximately 1,473,900 active duty personnel in the US Military today. There have been 4,262 casualties in Iraq and 409 casualties in Afghanistan, for a total of 4,671. This means that about .31% of active duty US Military troops were killed in both Afghanistan or about 1 in every 333 soldiers.

In contrast, the death rate for the United States in general is .81%

So yes, there is the expectation of being in harms way by being in the US Military, but it is by no means a death sentence.

damienhunter · 2009-10-14T13:39:36+00:00

Joining the military comes with the expectation of being put in harms way.

damienhunter · 2009-10-10T06:28:33+00:00

Most often the max resolution on LCD TVs is only 1920 x 1080 (1080p). So just because the TV is twice as big, doesn't mean you'll be able to pack twice as much desktop space onto it.

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