Of course some of us lesser captains saw the grid ship heading towards the iceberg 2 years earlier and navigated to safer waters
Good luck with In2mynet's next phase......and make sure you got someone in the crow's nest will ya

Codswallop......we knew we were doing "recycling" a good 18 months at least before grid croked.

Poor form--------grid deserves all the slamming it can get.
Plus you missed the crux of my post anyway

Anyway, we're wandering off topic so me go away, tally-ho

MM:

Never fear, I finally got my Q6600 up.! I have 4 more machines to bring up. ISIS1 has his system almost complete. He had some driver problems, so had to keep the system stripped until tests were complete.

I am also issuing a system to Gen.Patton. His system burned up:



So when it comes to crew, we will be joined soon by a few more 'soldiers'.

MonsterMash:

As it should! The reason why a member joins a team is for community as well as security. I am here 'on deck' everyday, so you dont have to be.


The team challenges are valuable to all that participate. But this is just my role as captain. I have made no requests for the team to change course to accommodate this in anyway. I’m just following my normal directives regarding civil responsibilities and imperatives outside this team.

The current advisory for HCC is just that. It’s to allow you to know the problem exists, but is not a directive. The reason why I suggested DDDT, was really because I had to look at all involve. DDDT seems to have the least problems and would be seen as a safe harbor for anyone if you had problems with HCC (or any other) project.



MM, your "blabbing" wrote the textbook of the very epiphany that made grid.org strong. When I saw that you had joined this team, as well as Cargod, was the clearly the proudest day of my life. Then Roger joined. I have much to be proud of, as I have live with a illness for over 15 years that normally kills in 3. So, that position in my life is hard to beat.



Yes, I was there as you might remember. I was a pita fighter. You know, I was fending off those from outside grid.org. Those who had decided for us that we were stupid for staying. What I came to notice is that 4 out of 5 of them were from here. So if they want to go down the road of “research needs to get done no matter the cost”, then they need to look back only a few months, to where the very fuel that fired the pita’s from here.

In an email from Patton, he asked me if I was formally trained in the military, as it looks. I said no, but I am part of the VFW. Veteran of Forum Wars.



You want to know why you want me as your captain. It is because of this:

"Command has its privilege, but the respect of your personnel is earned by your selfless devotion to them."

For there is not a day that passes that I do not accept this responsibility. As not a day passes that you don't make me proud!


Cargod:

MonsterMash has been his normal incredible self. Cargod, as always, operates with his normal 'very best'. And well Rodger, well, the only word I can think of is 'extraordinary'. But no matter what your contribution, you are part of a team that leads rather than follows. If there is any question to this, just look at our stats and you will see why this team's tagline is "Always beyond expectation".

Something we prove everyday!

<S>

Captain,

The reason why I joined, was while I was a guest, I saw your post in the chat room. The one asking that members here leave their computers on:



I do admit I’m somewhat flattered, but you continue:



It was then I knew I came to the right place. I did not write these words, but I darn well should have. For what I had heard was a call all too familiar to me. The call to live out my destiny once again. Just this time. I will be saving life rather than being party to the carnage of war.

My address to the troops prior the first team challenge

"Now, on the eve of battle, I just want you to remember, that no bastard has ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country!

Troops! All this stuff you have heard about crunchers not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war. Is horse dung. Crunchers traditionally love to fight. All real cruncher love the sting of battle. When you started using a computer, you always admired the faster processor, larger ram and the highest tech video cards. Crunchers love a winner and will not tolerate a looser. Crunchers play to win all the time!. I wouldn’t give a hoot in [heck] to a soldier that has lost and laughed.. That is why no cruncher has ever lost or will ever loose a war. Because the very thought of loosing, is hateful to a cruncher.

Now, an army is a team. It lives eats sleeps fight as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. The bilious bastards that wrote that stuff, in their Saturday evening post, know as little about battle as they do about fornicating.

Now, we have the finest logistics and equipment, the best SPRIT and the best cunchers in the world!! You know, I actually pity those poor diseases. By god I really do. We are not only going to SHOOT the BASTARDS, we going to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the fans in our machines. We are going to MURDER these LOUSY diseases by the BUSHEL.

Now, I know some of you troops are worried that you will chicken out under fire, don’t worry about it. I know you will all do your duty. DISEASE is the ENEMY, not us! Wade into THEM, spill THEIR blood, shoot THEM in the belly! If you have ever touched the cold skin of a loved one stricken, you will know what to do.

Now there is another thing I want you to remember, I don’t want to get any messages about us “holding our position”. We are not holding anything. Let disease try to pull that. We are advancing constantly and are not interested in holding onto anything but the enemy. We are going to hold on to them by the NOSE while we kick them in the TEETH! We are going to KICK THE HECK OUT OF THEM ALL THE TIME, as we plow through these projects LIKE CRAP THROUGH A GOOSE!!!

Now, there is one thing you troops be able to say when you retire. Thirty years from now, when you have your grandchild on your knee and they ask “what did you do in the great war on disease? The one that set my generation free.” You wont have to say I didn’t do my best, because I didnt know to care..

Ok, all you bastards, you know exactly how I feel.

Oh and one more thing. I would be proud to crunch with you in battle… anytime… anywhere.


That’s all."