well, fuck you very much

[rone]

"In line with today's needs, the Selective Service System's structure, programs and activities should be re-engineered toward maintaining a national inventory of American men and, for the first time, women, ages 18 through 34, with an added focus on identifying individuals with critical skills," the agency said in a Feb. 11, 2003, proposal presented to senior Pentagon officials.

Maybe i'll have a chance to burn my draft card after all.

thanks to ceejbot

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[kodi]

The "focus on identifying individuals with critical skills" really kind of bothers me, and I don't know why. I was bothered before I found out that one of the targeted groups is "computer-talkin' guys," too. (I wonder if they're talking about developers, too, or just infrastructure people? And now I'm picturing them conscripting a whole slew of people who bang around in VB and think they're god.) (Not nearly as concerning to me, but the terms they use to describe the other skillset are equally ambiguous - "language skills" and "linguists.")

[fredfred.livejournal.com]

Two degrees in linguistics, eep. Good thing I miss the age cutoff...

[vspope.livejournal.com]

Heh. "We're looking for a few l33t men to pwn Iraq."

As it happens, I am 33, my wife is 31, and neither of us are amused by this development. I'm (tangentially) in computers, she's in health care.