A wild army experience

[Gary V.]

The first time I went on a training exercise with my unit we were waiting to be inserted into a mountainous region by helicopters. The blackhawks came in just before sunset. As they were nearing the ground little bolts of lightning shot up to the helicopters' blades. It was one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I guess there was an enormous amount of static electricity generated by the blades in conjunction with the dry ground. The vets said they had seen it before. So we boarded with what amounted to little lightining strikes all around us.

Another cool sight was a nightfire training session at the range with tracer rounds. It looked exactly like a Star Wars battle.

[Terry Penrod]

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Funny how the forum software automatically highlighted your use of the word nightfire and made it into a hyper link to a 007 action game of the same

P.S. Odder still is how it did not do the same thing in my reply above but did underscore the term "action game". I guess it only links one instance of each word / phrase per thread.

Cheers, Terry

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[Gary V.]

Also funny how action game became a link to buy tron 2.0.

Oops, missed your P.S.

[Gary V.]

The strategy and adventure of fighting in special ops could lead to links to other games.

I was expecting a few of the above words to become "linked."

[Ojnod]

Sounds like this (https://adwords.google.com/select/). Mozilla firefox must block that out cause I never see it anymore (though I have seen it on other websites when I used IE, I thought I had spyware).

[Terry Penrod]

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Sounds like this (https://adwords.google.com/select/). Mozilla firefox must block that out cause I never see it anymore (though I have seen it on other websites when I used IE, I thought I had spyware).


Yep, their turning our own, private forum messages, PMs, e-mails and web searches into commercial ads and consumer tracking devices without our explicit approval and THAT I object very strongly to.

However, as a direct result of a user agreement to access a very useful, free online tool like Google or an open, full-featured web forum community like this one, most of us are willing to put up with a certain degree of corporate manipulation for third party profit. Just as long as they give us a clear, concise warning and the trade-off is fair.

But unauthorized use of this technology smacks of covert, sneaky, almost unconstitutional applications that invade privacy and usurp the rights of the original author. It effect, it can change the very meaning of their messages by automatically highlighting certain key words and phrases that the poster / sender never intended to make into links to remote commercial or non-commercial content. Neither did they agree to participate in a focused online marketing survey or a direct-to-consumer advertising program. When these things begin happening every day, each time you access the net for any and all purposes via connections that WE pay for on private systems that WE own, then we should all rise up and scream bloody murder to Congress, the media and the DOJ.

Cheers, Terry

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[DanTheManPR]

Mozilla firefox must block that out cause I never see it anymore (though I have seen it on other websites when I used IE, I thought I had spyware).
Avant blocks it out as well :thumbup:

Like Terry said, its a rather sneaky, underhanded tactic :face4:

I wonder if the companies who utilize these advertising tactics realize it pisses people off to be invaded by advertising like that. Who actually clicks on these ads, anyway? The same stupid people who buy crap they don't need, I supose...

[DanTheManPR]

Whoops! :blush:

Looks like this post got threadjacked; and I'm accessory to the crime!

Don't flog me, please!!! :whip:

[Gary V.]

Actually, I jacked my own thread. Besides, nobody was responding to the original topic anyway.

[Ojnod]

Heh well as far as I know you are the only one with army experience in here, but it sounds cool!