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  1. On 12/22/2023 at 1:08 PM, HeloDude said:

    You obviously didn’t look very hard…aren’t you a comm/cyber guy?

    Scrolled through the front page when it was happening, wasn't there. But I guess if we're all digging for news everyone is, right?

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  2. On 12/16/2023 at 5:33 PM, Clark Griswold said:


    Debrief valid
    Still they are trying to bury it methinks


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    This is why it's important to read multiple reputable sites. Don't know why we're acting like this is a "new" thing when papers since the beginning of the pamphlet have had clear biases. 

    I couldn't find the article on Fox about the mother of 2 in Texas who had a been to the ER 4 times, and the baby was not going to survive birth that couldn't get an abortion in that state. Doesn't fit their narrative, it isn't there. 

  3. 15 hours ago, brabus said:

    When do insurance companies say you don’t have a right to try something? This situation is not the same as saying “we won’t pay for X.” This is straight up the government telling someone they don’t get a say in the matter of their own life. 

    They did exactly this to my Mom before she died. We got the denial letter after she was in the ground. It's been a year, I'm still pissed.

     

    4 hours ago, HeloDude said:

    Then don’t voluntarily use those organizations/businesses.

    Employer of picks for almost all Americans.

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  4. Some Russian companies fire Ukrainian IT experts: Russian news outlet RBC is reporting that Russian companies have begun to fire or demote IT experts of Ukrainian nationality or descent. In addition, sources from Russian cybersecurity firms have also told the publication that they have been instructed to closely monitor employees of Ukrainian descent or those who have relatives in Ukraine. Moves to fire or demote IT workers with access to critical systems have been observed in companies with government contracts, and sources have described it as an "unspoken requirement" for continuing to work with government agencies.

    Sounds like a solid plan.

  5. On 5/23/2022 at 7:41 PM, bfargin said:

    I know it was a different time but I told the AF to stick both the Gamma globulin and the Anthrax vaccine where the sun don't shine at the beginning of the gulf war. It wasn't an AF wide order but my squadron was ordered by the wing commander to line up and get both shots (they recommended Botulinum neurotoxin as well). I chose not to take any of them. After getting back home from the war and several trips back and forth to Europe and Saudi (July/August of 1991) the base hospital called me to see why I didn't get my required shots. I chose to ignore them and never heard another peep before I retired. I wasn't the only one at my base to forgo those shots and nobody was court marshaled or separated.

    This was not my experience in 99-06 when I saw people get paperwork for not getting those shots. I tried to dodge as well, but as a lowly E1-E3 at the time...I didn't have that privilege.

  6. On 5/22/2022 at 8:39 PM, nsplayr said:

    Folks, vaccines are really really good. Massive net positive for humanity. The levels of disease and pestilence and death our ancestors regularly had to suffer through are just unthinkable today, in part because of vaccines (and clean water & sanitation!).

    I often think about the child mortality around vaccines since I'm an older Dad now. I could not imagine losing swaths of kids to polio, *pox, or the long-term health effects they imposed.

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  7. On 5/7/2022 at 9:43 PM, Swizzle said:

    I'll never forget the MXG/CC exec getting a DUI and the MXG/CC attempting to not reflect it in the OPR at all. Dude still tried to strat the guy. Like, I get it. Might have been an awesome bro, but the timing sucked and the system built around us is 1-mistake even if they say it isn't.

  8. 39 minutes ago, torqued said:

    The point being: just as before, these events are rehearsed before they are implemented. It's not that they're good guessers. Global non-governmental organizations know the ends they mean to achieve, but the outcomes haven't been nearly as predictable as was thought.

    Unlimited growth in a finite system has consequences. Those who have the means and ability to look into the future can see what's coming. World economies are now dependent upon the financialization of continued economic growth. When they can no longer grow, they don't decline, they tend to collapse. However, if you want to attempt a managed decline in worldwide prosperity, you need methods by which you can control and manipulate a global population as they become unhappier, and angrier.

    Happiness is not a position, it's a trajectory.

    So, giant global NGO conspiracy to kill people is your hypothesis?

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  9. All right, so I'm obviously not on the inside anymore but I can tell you what's going on "in the real world."

    Ransomware. It's a significant problem, and there is a strong and diversified ecosystem supporting this exploitation. No one gives a shit about the med/small businesses that are getting hit by it. I'm talking law firms, local docs offices, gen contractors, schools, town governments, etc. They'll sometimes have insurance that'll pay ($25K to start, and we're cheap) for my crew to come in and figure out what went wrong and fix it...and sometimes the owners won't.

    The Trump administration did a lot to remove what I considered unnecessary hurdles for defense against these items, and it seems the Biden administration is moving those along as well but more forcefully in some instances (setting a line for 16 key critical infrastructure), though there has been some reporting (can't find it now) about rescinding a Trump EO that moved cyber ops from a NSC discussion to just a DoD discussion. I don't think that would be good.

    Looks like the old CNMF/CC is getting the shot at CYBERCOM deputy (https://news.yahoo.com/biden-nominates-haugh-cybercom-deputy-140318162.html). I was in a meeting with Haugh where a Capt. said, to his face, "This is the stupidest idea I've ever heard." Thank God we were on VTC. I've never seen a general get shit on so much in my life. Seemed like a good dude, we were all in a shit sandwich with all services wanting cyber-money but not really giving a shit and the NSA actively hating "DoD cyberops."

  10. 4 hours ago, SuperWSO said:

    The bar in Cyber isn’t that high. I’ve seen multiple 24-25 year old Airmen with Air Force training and a small amount of OJT step into 6 figure contract jobs. Guys with real talent can command airline level pay.

    The need across industries for IT Security exceeds the supply by a wide margin.

    This exactly. Like almost everything it's about attitude and aptitude. Need a little ADHD to be able to look at lines of logs and find the "1" that's hiding as a "l"

  11. On 5/3/2022 at 8:12 PM, SuperWSO said:

    Glad to hear all is well on the outside. The AF is finally deciding they can’t outsource all their IT and just do Cyber Ops. Also figured out MDTs were too expensive to have at every base. Bottom line is they still don’t know where we are going, but no one likes where we are right now.

    https://www.afimsc.af.mil/News/Video/videoid/838126/

    That video gives me hope that AF leadership has identified some of the problems. Now it’s just a matter of prioritizing the solutions.

    Was just arguing on the only remaining AF Facebook page I'm on about some new TASKORD that dropped and how "it's the real one guys" is just nails on a board to me. I hope they can figure it out. "Nerd magic" ain't cheap, easy or fast...just like aircraft. I'll be dropping off that page soon I think, can't do the rah-rah shit anymore.

    Was offered a GS12 position when I dropped papers. Not bragging, but everyone here is smart so if you're interested (and not wanting to fly) there's starting positions in cyber for $100K. I started a mil-contract (puke) at $135K in 2020, now clearing $170K in a private sector small business, work from home in clothes...usually. 

    I'm happy to share training resources and all that. 

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  12. On 5/5/2022 at 7:14 AM, HeyWatchThis said:

    I'll be going again this year....we went last year and sat at turn 12.  We are at turn 12 again this year.  Made for a fun race being that it's at the end of the DRS zone and you can see turns 13, 14, 15 from the seats too.  We go with a group of about 12 guys and learned that it is well worth renting a limo for race day.  Don't have to worry about a DD or arriving/departing....makes the busiest day a bit more fun/relaxing.....we typically rent a car from Turo which saves a chunk of change and stay about 30 min away from the track (and away from Austin) in an AirBnB.  All in cost wise (not including airfare) it's right around $1,500/person for race (all 3 days)/trans/lodging.  

    Interesting. We paid for Lot 4 parking, huge mistake. Got refunded afterward though. We're looking at transport to the track now, though we are staying in Austin. I'll bring up the limo...it's gotta be cheaper than the helo we were looking at.

  13. 1 hour ago, M2 said:

    If I was to go to the COTA, it would be for the MotoGP; but I'm not sure if it's worth the time/money/time spent standing in the Texas heat when I can sit at home and watch the race, drink my own beer, and enjoy the air conditioning! 😁

    Fair, fair...we're paying for that their as well. Last year was turn 9 seats which were really good for cheap ones.

  14. On 4/24/2022 at 11:14 AM, Clayton Bigsby said:

    "The Batman" is on HBO now, so I could watch it at home on my 4K home theatre, pause it to go take a piss and not miss out on anything (great for a 3 hr show), make my own non-shitty non-salt-bomb popcorn, etc.  Read that the writer/director wanted to re-imagine Bruce Wayne as a pseudo Kurt Cobain, as a strung-out reclusive night shift guy, and used Pattinson's pasty emo vampire background ability to go a bit further.  Which is interesting, seeing said dude in Tenet and a fucked-up indie sci-fi movie called 'High Life', he's obviously more than that.

    Anyway it was okay.  I give it a 7/10 or so, maybe 8.  C to B effort.

    Went to see it in the theater and the beginning was all fucked up due to the projector being broke. So I gotta watch it again. I did enjoy the more "emo" bit of it and more detective focused. But I liked those comics and stories more. I'd rate it slightly higher.

    Just watched Dune again (3rd time) at home. I fee like I was finally able to get past whatever hangups I had trying to pick apart how it deviated from the book and just enjoy the film.

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  15. Hey gents, thanks for keeping this one alive. I retired, got a contract job, got blackballed, filed a FWA complaint and am now 100% doing they cybers on the outside. Somehow lost the password to here and didn't really have time to get it going again (writing a book, starting a business, beekeeping, etc.).

    Nice to be back and I do have some thoughts on what was posted. I'll write those out and give an update on the commercial side and what the bros are still saying in.

    PS - edibles are great.

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  16. On 5/23/2021 at 9:28 AM, Guardian said:

    The zombie movie is on Netflix now so you saved yourself there

    And...I didn't think it was that good. Below average, and/or average for a Zack Snyder film.  Paint by the numbers with a cool concept they fail to use in any meaningful way.

  17. On 5/28/2021 at 6:50 AM, M2 said:

    Really want to see it, just not in a rush to do so. 

    Oddly, Castroville (as mentioned in the trailer), about 30 minutes from where I live, was founded by Alsatians from the French and German border region who came to Texas in search of a better life.

    It sits about halfway between Lackland and Hondo.  I drive through there all the time...

    Huh, no idea we lived so close!  We almost got a house out there, very nice town. 

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  18. 2 hours ago, Prozac said:

    ...yet will not support taxes and levies that would improve training, pay and/or expand response options to help deal appropriately with situations where force may not be the most appropriate option.

    I can't support any of that until there's an accountability process that works to remove and bar the " bad lemons" as @Kiloalpha said.  If they want to work it at the same time, fine.  But this shit is unacceptable.

    I would also add that communities need to get more involved with their police, it's not a one-way street.  The culture of "civilians vs. thin-blue-line" is not healthy.

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  19. 6 hours ago, brabus said:

    Unfortunately this smells like lacking training combined with a stressful environment, with likely an increased perception of threat to herself or others (whether accurate or not). She fucked up and her resignation (firing if she hadn’t) followed by likely at least civil suit is understandable. But that said, no I’m not going to demonize her as a person because 

    1. I wasn’t there and don’t know the situation first hand

    2. I can’t count how many times highly trained individuals in the military employed the wrong weapon, employed on the wrong target, got confused where the bad guys and the friendlies were, etc. Shit happens in chaotic, stressful situations...training and reps is key to minimize risk of fuck ups. My perception is police at large do not get the amount of reps they should have given the situations they are likely to find themselves in.

    3. Huge CF on the victim’s part. He’s not the RC, but he’d also be alive right now had he not done some things that I hope all of us would have been smart enough to avoid. 

    Agree very strongly with a lot of this. Defund the police is stupid, they need more training more often and more people.  There are cultural issues within the profession that I think are continuing to cause problems with getting the police somewhere the citizens want them to be.  There is a very strong appearance of no accountability, and we all know what appearances mean. 

    I have a particular hard time seeing the value that police unions are bringing to solve this problem.

    I am extremely empathetic to the young man's family and their pain.  Resisting shouldn't be a death sentence.

    I watched that video and my heart sank and aches for the female officer.  Yes, what she did was wrong, but it wasn't what she intended and you can hear it in her voice immediately that she knew bad days were coming.  I'm also empathetic to what she's going through for reacting poorly in a stressful situation.  I can't imagine how she feels.

     

    Everyone watched the video with the Army Lt yet?  That shit was infuriating.

  20. 56 minutes ago, Guardian said:

    Sorry. Not doing a good job of communicating the set up.

    Court order is already in. Has been for years. Only talks about military retirement. If I go tech and buy back all of my time then the only mil retirement happens at age 60 when DSG retirement kicks in and she can have a small portion of that. But pushing all of my mil time to Tech to get GS retirement doesn’t meet the criteria of mil retirement. It’s civilian service.

    Shoot holes in that please.

    Ah.  I'd legit run it by a lawyer, because I think (not a law-dog) that she could still sue/petition to have it changed and depending on the local rules/laws it could mean various outcomes.  My divorce was extremely simple, and I've seen a lot of other healthy dissolutions. 

    However... the bad ones (and no idea if that's what you're in) people snipe at each other for years over the money/kids through the courts for changes to prior agreements.  It's never set in stone from my watching experience.

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