17D_guy

I'm not a Nav and I even I know you're still digging for bed rock here.

Why exclude rated? Serious question, as at least my Comm Sq Lt's/Capt's get a lot of experience in their positions that just gets flushed at PCS to some staff-bitch job. Well, good thing his poor decision making was identified...

Are your IAO's DoD 8570 certified? Actually the majority of "automated" tasks are the IAO functions. As much as I realize it's important to "get it done" having every org on base with 2+ individuals with admin rights is a management and security nightmare. But, it might go back to that if they keep hammering the Comm Sq personnel as "not vital." Many admin tasks will be returning to the Comm Sq so, hopefully you'll see faster service once it's complete.

I'll post the email about the ESD going away and what AFSPC A6 had "planned" to do for the bases to get support once that happened. And by planned I mean, "Hey, we're taking this away in 2 months. Your base will take all support calls that we haven't automated (<10%). They will not get the bodies we took from them to man the ESD. Thanks for your time." ACC was pissed. O6's and GO's who've done Comm all their lives just thought they'd turn off the switch and Ops would be fine with it. Then AFSPC just signed off 'cause... you know, they care about operations. These are our "leaders" and have AAD's, PME and are hand selected. They are talking about splitting the AFSC AGAIN with 17DS or some other shite for the actual Ops folks. I am not one of those, (un)luck of the draw. Now I'm too old. Ain't that a bitch. The only thing I want to do in the AF is grow this Ops mission and the Amn to run it. Sadly.. I don't think it's going to happen. Got a few buds who are Ops and a few people who could barely understand how a router works who are Ops. I don't know how the A3 side decides who's got the hands for a fighter and how doesn't but send someone down to Kessler so we keep the drool off the keyboards. Please note that the Cyber MAJCOM was murdered by Skeletor in his infinite wisdom to recover the nuke problems. So, as I've said before - AFSPC destroyed the nuke enterprise so AF gives them the fastest growing, most technologically/adversarial challenging, and stupidly expensive domain as a trade in the 24th AF. Please note - it's stupidly expensive because they don't want to pay for O&M on the regular - normalized MX/upgrade of classified network equip, why would we want that? They also don't want to grow through training/long-term acquisition, so we just pay contractors. They also have ideas they want but refuse to fund adequately. So we're buying F-35's, missing vital avionics, OBOGS, other aeronautical crap I cant' remember. For example - not every hosting site has a full real-time monitoring system. Think about that. Also, 1/2 your Comm Sq will be deployed at a time under this AFNext or whatever it's called now. Surely.. Comm Guys with years of exp are running the 24th by now. It's been at operating capacity since 2008. Lets check - https://www.24af.af.mil/library/biographies/ FML Oh hey, any one at hosted out of Andrews in the past 3 months. How's that email working now? Can I have a flight suit now?

FTFY, and it would be Keesler.. which is awful.

May work for flying units, wouldn't work in, at least, Comm. No DO's, ADO's and secretary is hit or miss. I generally hate exec duty, but see it as a necessary evil in some positions. Unless you want more career civilians "supporting & leading" the operational missions.

Well, now we've got pictures of mass executions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/06/15/these-dramatic-images-show-apparent-mass-execution-of-iraqi-soldiers-by-isis/

The club at Vandenberg had a huge turnaround in 2010. They hired a legit outside chef, she came in and cleaned house. Food was great. No more stale potato chips with a "lunch." We actually took people there to eat instead of going downtown. I don't know how it did after hours, because I lived 40 min away. But there were lines out the place for lunch, and no one bitched about the awards luncheons anymore. It's really as easy as getting a professional in there with some pride in their product. And hot chicks.

Went and saw Edge of Tomorrow. Was a good film, with really good special effects and characters. Very little down time in it.

Yea, I believe the technical term for that amount is "Budget Dust"

The one guy I know is now a Mr. Same scenario as StoleIt's bud. Civilian case dropped, but it was reflected in his OPR... somehow. Too bad, he was a good dude.

Getting really tired of retirees and/or people who served over 20 years ago saying how much more hardcore they were or how easy we have it now. Thanks for your service, shut your damn mouth. You're service did not included the big issues the common Airman (or other service member) is facing today (both O & E). Budget cuts (personnel, training, and equipment), SARC, Alcohol is the de-bil, etc. Our new guys aren't "soft" and "not dedicated." They reacting to a command environment that's pulling them so many different ways, not giving them tools, and judging them harshly for it when they come up lacking. Or, just hammering them for nothing. I've got enough retired E7 DAF Civ's (who wrote and sourced their position when they retired) telling me how cush my job is thinking we have the manning, funding, training from when they retired still. I don't need it from a (fellow) REMF O as well.

Huh. Petty. Amusing, indicative of a problem and a bit of "I'll burn all this shit down to get you." But petty and I approve.

My personal favorite part from the article If you F up because of our unclear guidance, and even if your peers do it, it's still your fault.

Whoa there with the strong language! Does SpaceX use their rocket engines or do they use their own? I don't think the hiring was particularly bad, just interesting. Vandenberg AFB had a Wing CC that retired and got a job with the primary services/tech contractor on base right away. That whole place is.. awful.

So now this is happening - https://www.dallasnews.com/business/business-headlines/20140523-spacex-ceo-suggests-rivals-hire-has-conflict.ece While it's no tanker fiasco (what a wild ride that was) it's interesting.

My muni water and power would care very much if the next town north was getting their water/power from them. If there's a lack of competition, and a single provider as most people actually have, then it's very much like a utility. Power was all commercial development until large providers consolidated power and it turned out they were screwing their customers. Then it became heavily regulated. Now electricity is considered a utility, not a "nice to have." The same will happen to the internet, probably in our lifetime once the "old folks" die off. https://burnanenergyjournal.com/the-electricity-grid-a-history/ I'm not sure I understand your statement of data increasing with rate. Perhaps I'll address it below. There are rates/classes/tiers for ISPs already - I pay more because I want a faster connection. Providers pay more because they want more bandwidth. If they exceed their cap/limit they pay more. Ever seen the reddit/slashdot/digg hug of death even on Amazon AWS hosted sites? So now content providers get to pay more for bandwidth... and priority? Can I pay to make the airplane fly faster or move the destination closer (net example - peering)? You're going to use auto/airlines as examples of mature markets in comparison to the "rising cost" of developing on the internet? Those take massive capital in the beginning and they take even more capital to start in now. However, it's still being done (Tesla, Ryan Air, etc.) with the power of the internet lowering those barriers. Again, look at twitter or facebook.. hell pinterest (sp?), should they have the same capital requirements as the auto/airlines? I don't think you are saying that but it's the way it came across. While that's a sign of a mature market, I don't think the same forces will be at play in the online world. Instead of massive capital it's going to be investments over customer time and popularity that'll be barrier to entry. Look at what's happened to facebook as they got mom & dad on with the kids. Look at what's happened to twitter since they decided to go more facebook-y. For your last bit - so you want the companies to get better at bribing lobbying our politicians? How about Tesla? A great company with a new, exciting, eco-friendly product. Try buying one in TX or NJ (sorry Jarhead?). Guess they didn't "grow up" fast enough while they were busy innovating. After The New Jersey Ban, Here's Where Tesla Can (And Cannot) Sell Its Cars

There's a thread for that.

Wireless is pretty much broadband. Yea.. totally. Ugh.. oh look at this - https://bgr.com/2014/05/20/comcast-twc-customer-satisfaction-survey-study/ . Yep, lets give these folks more power

Saw that email and deleted it immediately. If they're going to keep saying personnel costs are breaking the DoD but the F-35 is fine I'm not going to waste time reading their financial advice. I know how to balance a checkbook and the pennies they're giving me to maintain the base comm are getting stretched enough to do my depression era grandparents proud. Wow.. good job Grandpa. Actually all the areas I've lived in the Congress.. persons had a template on their website to fill out. It then gets routed to their staff to handle, if they're so inclined (Good luck residents of CA). As always, good luck to all of you.

That's cool. So when the next twitter, facebook or whatever small start up happens, starts getting traffic and then gets a knock on the door from the "not-monopoly" ISPs for more cash what do they do? Just happens the ISP'll happily take a stake in the company to make sure their traffic doesn't get moved to the slow lane. How nice of them. Most ISP's require at least year to multi-year contracts with hefty breakage fees. Sure.. people will just dump their ISP for the other one servicing their area that I'm sure will also be in negotiations for higher fees for content delivery as well. You're right.. I've got 2 providers in my area 1 for cable (which is crap from 3pm-10pm) and 1 for DSL (which is much more expensive). That's real competition. Now why Cox doesn't come down to my area that Time Warner servers.. oh.. that's because they're not allowed to. Every organization on the Internet is against it. The EFF in particular and all they care about is true electronic freedom. Somehow, these giant companies can't seem to build out their infrastructure and not get rated "worst customer service," but they'll have the customers by the balls and the content providers by the ass, and you're cool with that. Are you also cool with the rising costs, lower speeds and overall poor service the major players in ISP are providing? Declining service for more money, the American Dream! Are you excited about the mergers going on? Should the gov't be able to say anything about those either? You know in the Comcast-Time Warner merger they're claiming wireless providers are adequate competition? Besides it's not like the "not-monopolies" would ever collude to keep out competition - Doh, those pesky gov't trying to get into the market and ruining everything! They should just leave it to business. https://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2012-12-27/u-s-internet-users-pay-more-for-slower-service Or not. Nope.. they'll do it from home to their network, and now they're trying to do it from content to their network. Again, what if some other players don't pony up? Skype, Ebay, craigslist, USAA, Foxnews, CNN, assorted video/porn site. Data is data, and the 1-0's should be treated the same period. I pay for access, they pay for access, all based on a set speed. It should not matter where it goes or who it comes from. I don't pay for different water or power from special wells or generators. The internet is, for all purposes, a utility. Yes, they're more nimble, but I wouldn't give you odds on more powerful. Look above at the laws and the difficulty Google's had in rolling out Google Fiber in some places. You really want these guys providing more service - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAo5GgaJmsA

It's not the customer who's willing to pay more, they already do that with offering higher connection services (which are dubious at best). The ISP's are trying to charge the content providers another fee (YouTube, NetFlix, PronHub, etc) for "faster lanes" to their already paying customers. Charge 'em coming, charge 'em going. Then those services that don't pay for faster lanes go on "normal" lanes that I'm sure the ISP's will keep at the same pace. Of course the complaint is that they can't keep upgrading their equipment and services unless they get this additional money.. even though they're a monopoly in almost all areas. Then there's this - $200 Billion to build out the infrastructure through additional charges that went nowhere but to their pockets. https://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_002683.html This is bad bad bad, and you should express your displeasure to the majority of Republican Senators that support it.

Isn't this the... 3rd alcohol reduction program they've attempted in the past 5 years? Wasn't there some culture thing, and a 3-3-1-1... something? Did those work to lower sexual assault?

Wasn't aware that was the only requirement for a CC allowing you to extend.

Also, this https://bgr.com/2014/05/16/why-is-my-cable-bill-so-high/