A comment from an earlier thread of software piracy . He   raised a good issue and my response exceeded what I like for comments so it gets it’s own article. Phileosophos wrote: So in other words, a software "distro" system is crappy if it (1) takes any amount of time to get a game to you, and/or (2) is simply inconvenient in your eyes, and this justifies your stealing things? What a jerk. Grow up and buy something if you want it.   ...

              Sometime in the spring/summer of 1994 I arrived at the (now defunct) 751 st MI BN located at lovely CP Humphreys, Korea. The whole trip there was  a blur of confusing faces and uncertainty for a young PFC Greywar who was out of the country and alone for the first time. I had left my new bride at home and trusted that the loving arms of the US Army would see me through to my duty station. &n...

         Dear terrorist/insurgent/psychopathic fuckpoles,             We are coming for you.             Remember us? We are the guys who drove you to cower alone in isolated firing positions in that cold desert. We are the ones who scared you so badly that you resorted to whispering during your conversations.    ...

Confessions of a software pirate.             Recently Brad has dived back into  the topic of game piracy online . Here is my two-cents.             I am a game pirate from way back in the day before the internet and even before BBS systems. In the stone age we would pirate games by receiving cracked copies of Apple II games on 5.25 floppies ( Dig-dug , ...

Update : Since this article assumed knowledge of the situation between the Janjaweed and non-muslim blacks I will provide this wiki link . This is  not "just" a rascism thing folk.                        I have covered the exploits of Islamism in other articles before ( ROP I , and ROP II ) and yet Islam can in fact set the bar even lower than these egregious ex...

            All this weekend (a long one for our platoon) I had exactly nothing I wished to post about. Just couldn¡¯t muster a strong enough emotion to write about. I knew I could count on work to provide me with something but I just didn¡¯t count on it being as early as 0630!             Some of you out there know that our current First Sergeant ( SFC Manatee ) is not exa...

            All this weekend (a long one for our platoon) I had exactly nothing I wished to post about. Just couldn¡¯t muster a strong enough emotion to write about. I knew I could count on work to provide me with something but I just didn¡¯t count on it being as early as 0630!             Some of you out there know that our current First Sergeant ( SFC Manatee ) is not exa...

Talisein has updated the journal of his Iraqi Odyssey . Go give it a read.

Had a fairly shitty morning today (smoked myself every 12 hours this week....then had a surprise PT test... you know even when it is not for the record doing poorly bums me out.... even when I have an excuse) but it was all better because KLFX played Pantera's Walk on the way home. BTW Walk was RVD's theme back in his ECW days.... He should have stuck with it.   P.S. I appreciate SGT New-age Hippie's attempts to cheer me up this morning... I was just being a...

            Sure their culture is as advanced as ours! From the Telegraph.   “Nine Afghan gunmen who hijacked an airliner four years ago and forced it to fly to London have been told they can stay in Britain with their wives and children.”               My question is this : Had this situation been reversed and it had been Britons hijacking an Afgha...

The Communist Party of the United States of America has endorsed Kerry and promised : ” The CPUSA supports the John Kerry campaign with donations and volunteer effort. We believe that defeating George Bush is the single most important issue this November ..."   Here are the CPUSA's list of top ten reasons President Bush must be defeated: 1. Bush is destroying workers rights and outsourcing jobs instead of protecting the right to organize and creating new jobs rebuilding sc...

              In my last installment I detailed the mechanism by which my personality was burned to the ground. I had been reduced to the mental condition of a newborn living in an adult body and stayed that way for many months. Then along came Brandy.             Brandy was a private assigned to my platoon (not my squad) as a 96D imagery analysts while I wa...

Talisein just updated here. Check it out if you want to have a glimpse of a convoy into Iraq . (now I just have to figure out who Too Smart is... obviously NOT who I thought My apologies to the newly re-christened SGT Skank Whore )

WARNING : RANT ENGAGED      Our PSG has been on TDY to Germany for the last few days and it has been Great! With him out of the way our organization has been able to start building tentative bridges between our disparate elements. I want this to continue! Stay in Germany Spadde!      MSG Barbie is just starting to come out of her shell and get involved in the right manner. When Spadde returns I know that many of the artificial barriers...

     For a long time people have been asking me how to put links like this in my articles . I would explain that all you have to do is highlight the text you wish to turn into a link and click the little "chainlink" icon where you would input your URL. Well I have finally figured out why this was not working for them. It turns out the JU has different editors for users who are ranked as "Power User" and higher. Level one folks don't get to use this "chainlink" button (the en...