The Terminator movies. Forbidding Planet movie, and more...................

AI ability for "feelings" is none. Animals do, and humans have the most.

trump TACO's on allowing the govt to reopen?

and in the meantime maybe they can go to some foreign country's food bank:
https://democraticunderground.com/10143559866

The army gave me 6k in 82.

JUST KIDDING.

I got no bonus for joining the Coast Guard, and when I asked the recruiter when I was scheduled to go, he said "THIS AFTERNOON".

That was from the Air Force.

All she had to do was deposit the check and she was in.

That was more than thirty years ago, it seemed a lot of money, and we were broke.

Before I met my wife, seeking some order in my life, I attempted to join the Navy but didn't pass the physical. Having some technical skills and a respectable university degree they did offer me a civilian job overseas but I decided to stay in California and teach, which is how I met my wife.

There's nothing in the article about what sort of technical skills they are looking for and who will actually get these $15,000 bonuses.

I suspect a lot of these "tech savvy" recruits are not going to end up where they expect.

Just SAY you look a bit old.

Popped a button after some 50 years, NOT of continuous use!

Got to learn button sewing.

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These old days, I still have to sew a button, and hate stabbing finger trying to find the bottom-up hole with the needle.

I replaced my original pea coat decades ago, am not skinny no more/surprise!

But from nostalgia, created a shadow "shirt" (obviously not a legitimate government issue):

(Will do the PostImages thing) - *done* :

THEN we got Air Force blue suits for dress. I remember none of that. Only the blue dress shirts that I wore later at work.

50th anniversary of hanging up the uni this month. Will try to snag a free meal on Veteran's day. Daughter, and now Son in Law usually visit at that time, and visit Yosemite.
But this year, they plan to come later in the month!!!

Otherwise, the nearest good free meal places are 50 miles away.

If you take it you have to be in the Marines.

You're better off in the Army, which has the same pay at each paygrade, less bullshit and more chance of being promoted.

I spent 4 in the Coast Guard, 1971-1975
Enlisted with a college degree. A lot of people did at the time.
Was lucky just to get in.
Made it all the way up to Third Class Electrician's Mate.

That's more than you know who.

Got a job in aerospace as soon as I got out.
That worked out just fine.
I participated in the microcomputer revolution (and had fun doing optics as well)

Signed myself away 4 years - not to kill Commies, to relieve my parents paying college.

Decades later found out 2 yrs college could be negotiable about getting a little pay grade up and getting a school for advantage, but the recruiter put me in as a high school graduate - no gripe *now*. (Recruiters/lifers were on quota advantage scale.)

*** Learned later, "brilliant" JFK McNAMARA did stuff like lowering recruiting IQ standards to get numbers inside. Recruiter pipeline sent me from boot camp straight to 'nam.

(I'm a Marine, so I get to poke fun.)