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[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] satan89:
USBdisk is normal. It is for USB otg. Which is still not working on NT.

Your problem is elsewhere
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
Hey guys! Any of you planning on going into the service? I'm currently a United States Marine Corps POOLE, and I ship out to MCRD Parris Island on July 29th! Post the branch of service you're joining and your ship date (if you have one).
[Off-topic] TheSkinnyDrummer:
Hey man, check out the vets lounge a few threads down...great resource thread.

-Easier than it sounds, harder than it looks.-
[Off-topic] StormMcCloud:
Nope I'm not planning on joining the military. Mostly because I already did my 5 years in the Corps.
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
Thank you for your service! What was your MOS?
[Off-topic] StormMcCloud:
0651, what are you going in as?
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
I signed an engineering contract (1300 field) so I'm really hoping for 1371 Combat Engineer or 1372 Assault Breacher Vehicle.
[Off-topic] SteveG12543:
I honestly don't think I could deal with constantly getting screamed at and all of the exercising. And the lack of sleep lol..
[Off-topic] TheSkinnyDrummer:
So along with enlistment, you can scratch parenting off your list.

-Easier than it sounds, harder than it looks.-
[Off-topic] StormMcCloud:
You get roughly 8 hours a night during most of basic training. As for the yelling and exercise, you get used to it.
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
I love doing PT :D
[Off-topic] LoopDoGG79:
Lol ^^^^^THIS^^^^^
[Off-topic] TheSkinnyDrummer:
I knew you'd appreciate that.;)

-Easier than it sounds, harder than it looks.-
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
I like where this is going...
[Off-topic] TheSkinnyDrummer:
We have a little fun in OT, join in.:D:thumbup::beer:

-Easier than it sounds, harder than it looks.-
[Off-topic] poppers162:
I am 14 and I am currently in JROTC planning on continuing into ROTC in college to become an officer in the Navy
[Off-topic] SteveG12543:
See the avatar? No way I'm having kids lol.

I'm on like a 12 ish hr sleep schedule currently lol. The yelling I can most likely get used to, the exercise I can't do lol. I'm the most out of shape non smoker that isn't overweight :cool:
[Off-topic] TheSkinnyDrummer:
Yeah, I did notice your avatar. So why the RC title? What do you contribute to...alone time?
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
Sweet man, I'm in Army JROTC too. Franklin High School Warrior Battalion, Somerset, NJ.

Well there's your problem...
[Off-topic] ShadowLea:
Once women are allowed to fight equally, I'll consider it. If all I'll be doomed to is a desk job, I'll stay in the civilian market, thanks. I don't mind getting yelled at, I don't mind exercises, I rarely sleep or eat anyway, blood and I are old friends, getting hurt doesn't scare me after everything, and I'm a big fan of efficiency over style. But if there's one thing I can't stand, it's boredom, desk jobs and the idea that women should be kept safely away from the danger. I do believe that's my choice to make.
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
SInce when are women only assigned desk jobs?
[Off-topic] Babydollll:
Move to Israel....And lose the chip on your shoulder....might make things easier. :rolleyes:
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
New Jersey!!!
[Off-topic] StormMcCloud:
99% of women aren't physically capable of meeting the requirements you need to be on the front lines. Plus they would require seperate everything in the field which would do noting more then screw the males over. Sorry but they just don't belong out there.
[Off-topic] ShadowLea:
That was metaphorically, but anyway, since men apparently can't handle having women under fire. :rolleyes: "Bad for morale" Yes, it's still 1882.

Edit: And since men apparently think all we do is change tampons all day. They invented the pill for that, genius. I think one week every 4-5 months is somewhat managable. And we wouldn't need seperate showers if men could just stop oggling all the time. D'you want us to wear a burka while you're at it, so you can control your urges easier? It's not our fault you lot get all hot and bothered from seeing a female arse. And here I thought the military was all about restraint. You can refrain from pulling the trigger, but if there's a naked woman all bets are off.
[Off-topic] TheSkinnyDrummer:
The female LordManhattan!
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
I'm just tryna get through bootcamp already...
[Off-topic] TheSkinnyDrummer:
Just don't be a *****?
[Off-topic] SteveG12543:
Correct! :cool:
[Off-topic] ShadowLea:
Not sure if that was meant as a compliment or an insult :p
[Off-topic] StormMcCloud:
Riiigggghhhtttt because the guys are the problem. The guys aren't the ones demanding equal rights and seperate rules all at the same time. I like how you also just failed to mention the whole not being physically capable part. I'd love to see you pick up a 200lb guy who has on 150lbs of gear and get him out of the line of fire all while also putting rounds down range. Do that and then we can talk.
[Off-topic] TheSkinnyDrummer:
Compliment.

You and him could have sweet attitude troll babies.
[Off-topic] ShadowLea:
Seeing as how I'll never get the chance to do so anyway, that is a mood point. Even if I could, that lot would never let me prove it. :(

Wether or not I tell you if I can do it makes no difference, as you won't believe me anyway. Such is the internet, you can't even be sure I even am a woman. ;) (I am, but that's not the point.) But the lads in the storehouse here ask me to lift the 60kg machines (packaged fitness machinery), because they can't do it. (and it hurts their ego every single time. haha. :silly:) (I didn't reply to that because I onyl saw your post after I made my previous post. Sorry. :()

I'm not asking for separate rules. (Talking in general now, not just military) And there's a difference between equal rights and those idiots who call themselves feminists. Those I laugh at, all they want is the benefits, not the trouble. They ask for equal pay, but want more days off for their kids. That's not equality, that's stupidity. You want the same pay, you work the same hours. Stop whining.

If I ask for equal pay and equal chances, that doesn't mean I ask for positive discrimination. People should be judged by their skills, not whether they have a **** or not. I don't want to get a job over a bloke who's better qualified just because I'm a woman. :rolleyes: He probably worked harder to get those skills, or is more talented. I don't want to lose a job to someone less qualified either, I won't ask it of him. That's the best way to kill the job market, and I have more respect for myself than that.

All I ask is that if i'm the better qualified one, that I get an equal chance and equal pay to the guy who does the same job as me. It's ridiculous that a woman makes 20-30% less in most higher-level jobs than the bloke who does the exact same job, and they'll promote a bloke over a woman, even if the woman does her job better. And yes, that still happens. In Europe a little less than in the US, but it still happens.

Ironically, the less religion has to say in a country, the more equal rights are. Coincidence? I think not.

I should probably mention I'm not a stereotype woman, and 99% of the women in the world make absolutely no sense to me. :D Just to clarify things. I'm also not thinking less of anyone for their opinion, it's your mind and your life, as long as you don't try to affect mine with it. I ask that you show me the same respect. :)
[Off-topic] StormMcCloud:
You very well might be one of the few women that could make it in the infintry, but they can't revamp the entire military just for one person. I would be completely fine with having women on the front lines just as long as they don't mind living with, showering with, and using the bathroom next to guys. But this day and age of sue everyone for any reason some guy would look at a girl in a way she feels is wrong in the shower and would sue the federal goverment and try to have him trown in the brig. I wish that wasn't true but it is.

Also the US Marine Corps did allow two women to attempt to make it through the IOC (Infintry Officer Course) and both of them failed out of it.

So while you might be able to do it, you can blame the rest of your sex for not letting it happen.

Also the guys at your work must be pansies, lol, they can't lift 137lbs? That's pathetic.
[Off-topic] TheSkinnyDrummer:
I formally invite you into the Mafia thread. You'll do fine there.
[Off-topic] ShadowLea:
Oh, I'm not asking them to revamp anything. I'm asexual (which is probably why I'm different and don't care), so frankly I don't give a darn if I have to share a tent with a bloke or a bathroom/shower. Or if a guy stares at my arse. Honestly, that's a compliment, so long as it stays with looking. You were born with eyes, stare all you want. :shrugs: Besides, sueing people is a US attitude, we in Europe don't do that :p

And regarding the shower, I'd probably just wear a bikini. A simple black bikini (or hell, army issue for all I care, it's not a miss universe contest) fits in a tiny little corner of a bag and takes up almost no space at all. Makes life a bit easier for the men, too, I suspect, if women were to shower with a bikini on in a unisex shower. :)

Honestly, it's fairly simple. If you can't handle it, don't sign up for it. If a bloke can't handle sharing a shower or living space, he shouldn't sign up either. That's what I meant by it all. There are some of us who wouldn't care, but we're not given the chance regardless.

Oh, but I fully do blame them. I also blame them for all the junk on TV, the lack of good artists, and frankly, the half of the whole equality issue. If they weren't such idiots, the argument of positive discrimination wouldn't exist. :mad: Oh, and Facebook. I blame them for that, too.

You have no idea. :laugh: There was a mouse in the cantina half an hour ago... Guess who fled into the kitchen like schoolgirls and left me to pick up the poor thing? :laugh:

I tried that, people weren't very nice :p Called me a noob and all... :p (Which I am, and said I was, :p)
[Off-topic] TheSkinnyDrummer:
Try again. Now.
[Off-topic] ShadowLea:
Yes mom...
[Off-topic] Pennycake:
This sexism business is silly. Everyone is a bunch of idiots that have idiotic content produced for and by them. "Women" aren't to blame for the stupidity of "junk on TV" any more than "men" are. I've seen so many god-awful-terrible things that came from the abomination that is now "Syfy" that I would comfortably guess were not targeted at these "women" people.

I won't even blame "women" for the musical adaptation of Les Misérables. I blame Satan now that said musical abomination has given scientific credence to his existence.

Anyway.

I've thought about entering the military in some capacity when I'm out of university, but don't really know - that's four or so years away anyway (changed major, basically no credits transferred, hooray) and there's a lot that could change between then and now and will really depend on what I end up doing after the whole bachelor's degree thing. I've always wanted to serve the country in some capacity, but at the moment I'm a skinny wimp whose brain is still being developed into something useful.
[Off-topic] StormMcCloud:
lmfao calling a woman sexist for blaming other women on stuff....that makes perfect sense.
[Off-topic] ShadowLea:
Uh, I'm a woman... Is it sexist if I call my own gender idiots and blame them for rubbish that is aimed at women? :confused:

Also, two words: Justin Bieber. There is no way men had anything to do with that.

Syfy and Asylum are so horrendously crap (I did a few rants on this in the Movies thread...) that sometimes I wonder where the bloody hell they get their funding from in the first place. But then I turn on MTV's Jersey Shore or Snooki's whatever and realize there's worse, much much worse. And those are aimed at women. Eureka, Warehouse and Sanctuary weren't so bad... Sadly Sanctuary ended.
[Off-topic] xaccers:
You sound very much like my wife, who infuriates feminists when they object to her doing the household cooking and wanting to one day be a stay at home housewife and mum by telling them "If I'm not going to be dictated to by a man then I'm certainly not going to take it from a woman!" :)

As for women in the armed forces, Katrina Hodge (Miss England/Combat Barbie) did rather well at disarming an Iraqi prisoner who'd grabbed an assault rifle when the transport they were in hit a mine and flipped over.

While her male comrades were out of action, she took on the prisoner unarmed.
[Off-topic] Pennycake:
Well, yes, women can be sexist against their own sex. Just like black people can be racist toward other black people and gay people can be homophobic. It happens, it's pretty common, really.

I wasn't calling ShadowLea sexist, though - don't know where you got that from. I was stating that, as stated, everyone has a part in idiotic content and that bad content aimed at men occurs just as often as bad content aimed at women.

And if women have a big part in Justin Beiber (o, and male fans exist - I know because co-workers), they certainly had a large part in the popularity of The Beatles as well.

It's a matter of taste, really - what constitutes "good" or "bad" content. If you as a woman feel that you're being talked down to like someone who should like pink and shoes and crap, I feel talked down to by video games that think I want the 80-year-old female characters to have perky breasts. I'm not a sex-starved maniac who needs to see them all the time, including on a digital geriatric - yet I've seen innumerable games that have this sort of lazy / pandering production. Maybe it's more subtle than E! Entertainment, but I find it just as pervasive and annoying.

I have a good number of female friends, and perhaps my world is nice and insular, but none of them act like these supposed "women" who are responsible for all these bad things. I'm sure they're out there, people who act like stereotypes exist - but so do all the other ones including the "meathead jocks" and "child-molesting priests".

+Edit : I've been thinking about this, still. I'm willing to look at other viewpoints, and perhaps mine is skewed because I'm not really exposed to "targeted at pink-shoe-handbag women" things. I talk to my female friends about Android launchers, Guild Wars 2, cars, prostitution, books. As a women, are you exposed to that sort of "feminine fluff" more often ? I'm genuinely curious. Do people expect you to know about those things ? Obviously, I'm insufferably boring and pick conversations with newly-met people about boring things - do these other women expect all women to know about Twilight or whatever ? Honestly curious since it's something I haven't and couldn't really experience first-hand.
[Off-topic] ShadowLea:
Exactly. *Rolling Stones fan*

Don't worry, that annoys us female gamers as well. It makes no sense, unless they put botox where botox shouldn't go... :eek: Also, the "Oh look i'm lugging about a 120kg sword, but i'm too cheap to buy a bloody t-shirt!" case female characters in games seem to suffer from. Can barely play an RPG without having to stare at more skin than I can find in a mirror. It's still a step up form being forced to play a male character in an RPG, (If I want to stare at a bloke's arse for hours on end, I'll go to a bar.) but that's besides the point.

Lucky sod. I've worked in a cinema, so I met a lot of people... And 95% of those women were all the typical stereotype. Too busy typing their pink painted nails on facebook on their glittery phone with heart-shaped keyhanger about the lastest sale at Zalando and who dated who in As The World Turns to even say 'good evening' back. :eek: And they nearly all went to some sappy film, unless dragged along by kids or boyfriend/husband.
[Off-topic] Pennycake:
I feel like this ought to be moved to a new thread, I feel bad for the OP. I like the conversation, but you know, de-railing guilt.

I really appreciate The Beatles after they went to India/found inspiration/LSD. I can't imagine the mind**** if Justin Beiber ended up producing that kind of music instead of the "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" variety.

I guess I'm getting old and grumpy because sex appeal just isn't enough to satisfy me any more when it comes to video games and movies and I've started noticing it more and more lately.

I've seen that sort of girl around my school sometimes and it always surprises me that they exist. I guess I luckily work making food while paying for college - so I don't see much of the people who actually eat it. Pretty happy about that, really. I do notice that they tend to push girls into "interacting with people" roles and guys into "go clean something dangerous" roles. I guess when they give us girls, it's the badass ex-army ones who talk about guns and getting their CCW license who they're afraid will put the customers in a headlock or something. Or girls who play Magic or LoL or have opinions on the filler they put in the Hobbit movie.

Although, thinking about The Hobbit - we were sitting in front of some obnoxious valley girls - but the thing was, their loud conversations revealed that they had actually read the book and were discussing it in-between petty drama gossip and fluff. Sometimes I don't know what to think. These sort of girls are in some of my classes and they can't be that stupid if they're passing and even getting good grades. Even if I think it's grating, I try not to be too judgemental. I mean, the time I spend playing GW2 isn't really doing anything more for my life and pursuit of knowledge than the time they spend finding about how that princess is having a baby or whatever's going on.

I think I need to just turn my brain off and stop thinking so much about things and everything will be okay.
[Off-topic] VaderSKN:
*At a war

- Hey, I have to flash CM10 nightly! Wait!

*The other guy:
[Off-topic] ShadowLea:
Beats the hell out of: "Cover me bro, I've gotta tweet this!"
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
I'm enjoying this :P
[Off-topic] Babydollll:
Pretty much this^^^^
[Off-topic] Danial723:
Do to politics this thread is closed
[Off-topic] LoopDoGG79:
How is asking if you are joining the military political?
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
What does this have to do with politics?
[Off-topic] Babydollll:
Yes. It's the state between PA and NY. I live there. Your point is? :rolleyes:
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
I live there too.......................
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
no in canada
[Off-topic] gdpt:
nope, seems pointless to me. also I am in Belgium and go to university.
[Off-topic] veeman:
Join the military and waste years of my life fighting people? No thanks.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
We all have our opinions.
[Off-topic] Babydollll:
I meant where in Jersey do you live? :rolleyes:
[Off-topic] LoopDoGG79:
And what about the training and learning to work in team and not to mention government benefits earned by serving? Lets not forget, the awesomeness of getting paid to play with cool guns! :D
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
Franklin Park (Central NJ)
[Off-topic] Pennycake:
"The military" isn't just infantry. They need cooks, mechanics, doctors, nurses - plenty of different skills. And that's not even going into the difference between branches.

I might not be physically fit for the front lines but when I'm out of school I'd be able to serve by way of providing medical treatment to those injured in the line of duty. I'm not the biggest fan of my country or the politics - but it still has done an awful lot to enrich my life and keep me safe, and I know I'd be helping people who really need it.

Plus, in the USA at least there's incentive to have your education paid for in exchange for your service - so even if you don't care about anything but he money, it's one way to get out of student debt fast.
[Off-topic] Thats OK:
My enlistment proved as some of the most interesting productive years of my life.

Military service allowed me to continue on as a civilian working within the DOD.

A lot of those just wandering around looking for a direction to go should consider joining.

My opinion: you will have few regrets, build memories, gain respect and find friends for life.
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
Couldn't of said it better myself. I don't really agree with our politics but our country is great.

Exactly how I look at it.
[Off-topic] VaderSKN:
Imagine Veeman being a nurse.
[Off-topic] deathnotice01:
i was an member of the CAT (Citizen's Army Training) 128th Reserved Corps here in my country you have to undergo 2 semesters of atleast 3hours per week and choose either Civic Welfare Training, Citizen's Army Training, or Indigenous Literacy Training,

we get kicked and rolled in mud, sometimes get really nasty and run through the whole university 10 times,

we did some rifle exercises and learned basic combat and survival skills,

was happy to see a BALIKATAN exercise between troops of US and Phil. Armies in RO7 CentCom,

im sure most US marine corps has experienced a balikatan exercise,
[Off-topic] Montoyatok:
I got 2 years of mandatory service coming up in a couple of years. Little worried about it, but every guy in my country has to go for it and almost all have enjoyed it
[Off-topic] veeman:
:rolleyes: lol
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
Are you Israeli?
[Off-topic] tw1n5nak35:
Same here, served 8 years myself Hoo-ah!!!
[Off-topic] Montoyatok:
Nope, Singaporean. We got a small population so we need the man power
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
That's awesome. Singapore is beautiful.
[Off-topic] Thats OK:
:good:

Typically yes:

You run 10 miles a day

You may have to help 10 fellow recruits

Your first 10 days are pretty rough

You get 10 pair of socks

There's usually 10 bunks on each side of the barracks

Your pay is about 10 dollars a day
[Off-topic] FatalityBoyZahy:
10 dollars a day? D:
[Off-topic] Thats OK:
Ooops

Just sending a few tens out there...

:cool:
[Off-topic] Montoyatok:
How's life in the military? I've been to a few camps, but they were mostly open houses to show off the Army's tech and weapons
[Off-topic] lowandbehold:
It is what you make of it. If you keep a good attitude, it can be great. A bad attitude will make your life miserable.