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First, if you live in the USA: the US Federal government, all of the state governments and all of the colleges firmly believe that the Primary responsibility for paying for student’s bachelors degree is with the Parents.Period.However, because your parents refuse to pay and one Must assume they will refuse to fill out the FAFSA forms you are essentially screwed.If your family is dirt poor, but your parents and you filled out the FAFSA forms, over four years you could get (roughly):$24,000 in Pell GrantsYou could borrow $27,000 from the Federal direct loan programAnd if you were to be admitted to an elite Private US university, many of those universities will Give you up to Full Financial Aid.However, if your parents refuse to pay anything and refuse to fill out the FAFSA forms, then you get Zip. Even if you were admitted to MIT, Stanford or Harvard, you would get Nothing and have to pay over $280,000 over four years, where as those colleges could make that ZERO if you had filled out the FAFSA forms with your parents.So, sit down with your parents, tell them all of this, then thank them for Nothing, and then go down to the US Navy or US Air Force recruiter and enlist.All the best.

What did you do after getting recommended from SSB?It was this day of 02nd July at SSB Bhopal when in second and last attempt I was recommended for training at OTA. Six months back, I was rejected at SSB Allahabad.When I was in the list of selected candidates, it was the biggest feeling of achievement. I had worked on it since last seven years. I had joined in the ranks of Indian Navy seven years back. After completing two years of basic training as Naval boy, I ventured onto realisation of alleviating my career from rank to Officer. I took admission for graduation as external candidate. I used to sail on board warship. I used to perform six hours duty and in next six hours of rest, I used to study for three hours and sleep for three hours. When i was in last year of the graduation, I attempted both simultaneously, the CDS exam and final year. I Passed both but got rejected in SSB. I had come to Allahabad from Andaman islands for SSB. Having been rejected, I decided not to show face to my father and went back to port Blair to be back with unit. I had one more chance . This time again I passed CDS and made it at SSB Bhopal.As I found my name in the list, I kept the happiness hidden as there were other candidates who were depressed as they could not make it.The first call I made was to my Commanding Officer. He was waiting for the news. I could hear him making announcement on PA system in unit lines about my selection. He ordered me “ Last time after you failed at SSB Allahabad, you didn't go on leave. Now proceed on two weeks leave from Bhopal. Spend time with family. After leave report at Chennai. I will have you flew in air force cargo plane to Port Blair.”I picked up my bag and left SSB centre for railway station. There was some hours left for departure of the train. It was drizzling. I went and sat in solitude at Lake Bhojtal. Closed eyes and thanked god for having bestowed on me what I dreamt. On the way, found shop selling army uniform and accessories.signNowed next day hometown of Aurangabad. Father and Mother were surprised at sudden appearance of me. I had smaller luggage. I used to always bring a defence made whiskey for father. This time I asked him to close eyes. I placed in his handIt took seconds for him to know what was it. He stood up like a young man and embraced me and started weeping. The joy of tears. The news was out in our village that someone first time is going to become officer in army. Two days later my birthday was celebrated amidst the entire village.I left after my leave was over. I reported back to Chennai. The CO had kept his promise.First time in life flew in air and that too in cargo plane.After two months, again the kind CO summoned me and asked me to pack up my bag and report to his office. He said “ I am sorry to inform you that your father has passed away. I am sanctioning you leave again. After rituals, report directly for training at OTA”. He personally dropped me at Port Blair Airport, never to be seen again later”.

Americans would piss their pants from laughter.Invading America is legitimately impossible. You know the saying “Never invade Russia in the winter”? Well this is Russia, but on steroids and the steroids are on steroids. China will be facing 4 MAJOR problems and if they over come them, then they MIGHT have a chance of successfully invading America. We will go through each of them in depth.The US NavyThe US MilitaryThe 7,000 mile journey from China to mainland USA then the 3,000 march from the west coast to the east coast through every climate and geographical area known to manThe US civilian populationFirst problem: The US NavyThe first problem China will have to face is the largest (in terms of tonnage) navy in the world. The US navy surpasses any navy in terms of tonnage by nearly 3 million tons. This is mainly in part due to have 11 of the largest naval vessels around known as aircraft carriers or more specifically the Nimitz Class Carriers and 1 Ford Class Carrier. These behemoths carry 90 aircraft of which 44 are fighter aircraft such as the F-18 Super Hornet and the F-35 Lightning II or the first operational carrier borne 5th generation stealth fighter.China will also have to deal with 68 of the worlds most advanced destroyers known as the Arleigh Burke class destroyer. These destroyers are loaded to the teeth with tomahawk cruise missiles that could effectively wipe out a small army with 5 of them and each destroyer carries around 56 of the missiles. Then we can’t forget the infamous US submarines. The 64 we have at sea comprises of the Los Angeles class, Virginia class, and the infamous Seawolf class submarines. We also have 18 Ohio class submarines, and these are ballistic missile submarines which can launch nuclear tipped missiles (NOTE: 4 of the 18 have been changed to carry tomahawk cruise missiles and not nuclear weapons). The biggest issue for China with the US navy which is on par with fire power, is distance. Most of China’s naval assets are diesel powered, which as we all know need to be refueled. Without any refueling ports, anything that runs off of oil will need to stay back at home. You might say, well why don’t they make oil tankers and the subs or the boats can surface and they can refuel. Well to that I say read up on Type XIV submarine the Germans tried to make submarines that carried fuel to refuel the U-boats to extend the range. Problem is that when submarines are surfaced and are idling, they stick out like a hungry baby at 3AM, also any surface vessel from China would instantly pop up on radar and a massive strike fighter squadron would intercept along with missile attacks. Also, it should be noted that the US navy has the SECOND largest Air Force in the world. That’s right a single branch has more planes than any other country by nearly 200 planes.Now let’s say China does get through the entire US navy, which is an impossible feat on its own. But for answers sake let’s say they do.Second problem: The US MilitaryWe can’t forget the 4 other branches! If some how the Chinese got through the US Navy, now they have to deal with the landing phases. We can effectively count out any aerial invasion as the US Air Force would intercept hundreds of miles out at sea, also the longest transport plane range for China is the Shaanxi Y-9 which which is 3,500 miles or about 2,000 miles short of the shortest distance between the USA and China. And aerial refueling is a no go either because the farthest range for a tanker is 3,700 miles and the tankers have no place to land because the nearest island to the USA is Hawaii and that’s 6,500 miles from China so the planes still can’t make it to the Island. And remember all the planes need to get back to China. So which cuts the tankers distance in half to 1,850 miles. So the tankers could give the transports another 1,850 miles which is STILL 1,650 miles short of America. China could theoretically do it if they are willing to loose their entire tanker and transport fleet. And then we can take out all fighters and bombers because all the fighters and bombers max combat range is 1,000 miles and below. So China effectively has no air support. And to make it worse, all the transport ships China has, don’t have enough range to get to the USA and back! But let’s take range of the transport ships out of the equation and they have unlimited range.They would be effectively taken out miles away from mainland USA from either the US Air Force or the M270 MLRS. But let’s say they get though and they begin to land in California. They now have to fight 200,000 US military personnel that are fighting on their home soil for their home along with hundreds of planes and helicopters for support. And the Chinese are fighting on an unknown terrain, 7,000 miles away from home with no air support or supplies.Third problem: The JourneyAs stated above. China and the US are far apart for a lack of better words. Moving the amount of troops and supplies needed to invade the USA is impossible and it would be a logistical nightmare for any military. The amount of troops, bullets, food, water, living supplies and everything in between would be absolutely astronomical. And then if some how some way they overcome the impossible. They have American geography to deal with. It would be Urban Warfare, Arctic Warfare, Mountain Warfare, Open Warfare, and Jungle/swamp Warfare. Urban warfare with all the HUGE American cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. Arctic Warfare in the northern states and the mountains. Mountain warfare in the Rockies, the Sierra Nevada, and the Appalachian mountains. Open Warfare in the entire MidWest as it’s insanely flat and no cover, then you have jungle/swamp warfare in the southern states, mainly in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida. All of these warfares would be fought simultaneously such as urban, mountainous, and arctic warfare in Denver. Or Arctic and Mountain in the Rockies. Moving tanks, troops, and supplies through mountains is an impossible feat. Then moving the same stuff through the plains and the jungle is impossible again due to being susceptible to attack’s and they have no where to hide. Also, in urban warfare, every single floor would need to be cleared, and that’s a major challenge in of its self.*all photos from America*By now the armies have to be exhausted. But America is just getting started.Fourth problem: Civilian populationAmericans are deeply patriotic, we might just be the most patriotic country in the world. Tying into the 3rd problem, we have the American People. When the troops and supplies are moving through all the different areas, they will have to face off against the United States People. We have 103 guns PER 100 people or about enough guns for every American and giving a second gun to all the veterans. Then, we have nearly 2 TRILLION bullets. America would form militias and harass and destroy any invading force. They would be fighting around 120+ million pissed off Americans fighting for their home soil. All together they would be facing nearly 300 million Americans who would band together to help each other while nearly 100 million would fight.We already have dozens of organized militias filled with armed Americans both civilians and ex-military. Such as the 3 percenters, Arizona Border Recon, and the Texas Lightfoot Militia. All these plus millions more would band together to fight for their home and for their loved ones against any invader.Looks like a real military squad doesn’t it?Overall, if China decided to invade America, it would be suicide and just flat out stupid. No country on earth could or would invade the USA because it would cost millions of lives and trillions of dollars to invade a place that would probably not stay under your control for long due to the uprising of Americans.Edit: Wow, thanks you guys for the support!! Lots of comments, I’ll try my best to respond. Cheers!

If you and your parents have No money to pay for college then there are two major paths:Get admitted to one of the top 30 to 50 Private elite US universities that will provide up to Full financial aid for all admitted students, as long as the student and all of her/his parents fill out a daunting number of forms documenting how little money they have available for college. NOTE: Many Public universities will provide a Full merit scholarship to that type of Resident of their state, so they will attend the Public college rather than MIT or Harvard or Stanford,Attend your local very good community college and Federal Pell grants (up to $6,000 per year) will make that Free for you (Fill out the FAFSA forms), then get admitted to your state’s top Public university system for junior and senior years and you might need to take some loansThe third path is to enlist in the military (Navy or Air Force) and get great on-the-job training and possibly have the military pay for your complete college education.Easy.All the best.

“I WANT TO STAND IN FRONT OF THE FLAGS WITH A PLUS SIGN ON MY CHEST NUMBER AND SENSE OF ACHIEVEMENT ON MY FACE” this is what I used to tell my sister. And on 8th Aug 2018 this dream came true when I was standing in front of the flags inside the candidates lines of 11SSB Allahabad.Rejection center they said, but I always wanted to get selected from this rejection center. Big smile came across when I received the call letter for my IMA-146 SSB at Allahabad. Being previously recommended for Navy but medically unfit for Navy(Apr 2016) I had good amount of pressure this time.So we reported there on 3rdAug 2018 at the center and after all the documentation we rested in the candidates lines. On the next day, testing started. I did all the questions from OIRT. In PP&DT I wrote a story and gave a good narration. GD started but as always fish market got created. Kept my calm and tried giving points in the GD. Got screened in. Out of 69 candidates reported, 26 got screened in. I was chest number 16 now.On day 2 the psychology testing started. I finished my 12 TAT stories, missed few words in WAT. I solved 51 SRTs and wrote the complete SD.Now comes the time of GTO. Started with GD in which I couldn’t speak that much as I did not have a good hold of the topic which was given to us. I spoke well in the second GD.After that in GPE we were given the tasks which we successfully solved by making a good plan. Everyone contributed in the GPE and it was a good discussion. By the time of Group Obstacle Race(GOR) I was feeling very hungry. But when the GOR started my hunger for food vanished away. By shouting our war cry we were ferociously completing the tasks. Just then our energy level went down and all of us stopped shouting our war cry. Suddenly some ghost came into my body and all of sudden I shouted the war cry while looking at our group VANDE!!!! Then everyone responded MATARAM! Now everyone was pumped up again and we did all the tasks successfully.Then we completed our subsequent GTO tasks. I gave fair number of ideas in PGT,HGT,FGT.Then we completed our Individual Obstacles, I did 12. Command task was good. It was based on disposing a bomb. I did it successfully through 3 approaches.Then came my interview. All sort of personal questions were asked including family,friends,teachers,myself. In between these questions a question was asked for which I was waiting since many days and that wasIO: “which regiment would you like to join?”Me: GORKHA!IO: Why?Me: I am very much impressed by their war cry i.e. “JAI MAHAKALI, AAYO GORKHALI!”He asked several questions and interview went on for around 40 mins.Now came the conference. One thought which was coming into my mind a day before conference “This one day can change anyone’s life!”Dressed nicely we all went to the waiting room, waiting for our turns.Conference started and 24 candidate’s conference was over. Now the candidate before me has got out of the conference room. I was eagerly waiting to go in. I was singing songs meanwhile. After waiting for around 10-15 mins chest number 16 flashed on the screen. I stood up and went to the hall heads up!I was thrilled by watching so many officers together interacting with me.I was asked SRT.Suppose you are going to give an exam, you are at railway station,your train is about to leave in 20mins and then you realized that you have forgotten all your items including admit card, ticket, wallet, mobile, everything at home. What will you do?I answered it but he kept on asking me further questions by increasing the difficulty level. Keeping my calm I answered them all and came out.Now came the result time! After the same formalities of motivating everyone in the batch, the officer announced the result.I will announce the chest number, you’ll shout your name, roll number and come and stand at my right side. Without creating even a little bit of suspense he said “CHEST NUMBER 16!”. In excitement I forgot my roll number but somehow I told him my name and roll no. the officer congratulated me by shaking hands.Yes, this was my dream picture which I was talking about.(Coincidentally the chest number given to me had already “gorkha logo” drawn on it)All my fellow candidates congratulated me and hugged me. I was happy for my achievement and sad that I was the only one who got recommended because there were many good candidates in my batch. We had a lots of fun in the candidates lines. I am sure by reading this line few of them would have got what I mean by “fun” here. ;)After the medicals I am declared medically fit. Now waiting to join the Indian Military Academy.What I experienced the main factor for getting recommended is common sense.If your behavior at candidate lines = testing ground = home then you will sail through.What we try to do at SSB is to show ourselves better, but that is not required.“bhai mai to aisa hi hu..tumne lena h to le lo..nhi to jane do..”

I understand the American attitude but we are a bit on the arrogant side of health care. We think we're the best at everything.  Each system has their strengths but the USA is built on ability to pay.I have had the fortunate experience of living in both the USA and UK. I have spent the better part of 50 years with good Blue Cross insurance in the USA and now I'm under the NHS in Scotland. I've found that I have received good care under both systems. What's the difference? For one thing, when I visited the doctor in the USA I had to pay a co-pay of 25 dollars plus the fact that I also paid about 100 dollars out of my paycheck every month though my employer paid the bulk of it. When I had a problem last week in Scotland I received a phone consultation with the doctor who made an appointment for me. I got in at 3:40 that same day. The doctor thought it would be good for me to get an x-ray so he contacted the hospital radiology and made an appointment then and there. I went to the hospital and had my x-ray done. I was out and on my way home by 4:15. The cost? Nothing. If I had needed a prescription it would have cost me nothing.Now I know what you're thinking. Nothing is free. That's true. I pay taxes to cover my NHS care. However in the USA when I was caught up in a layoff I lost my employer provided health care. To keep that care I would have paid 800 dollars a month and that coverage was limited to a year. In current dollars health insurance paid for under the same Blue Cross policy would be fifteen hundred or more dollars a month.So what are my taxes to pay for this socialised medicine? My payroll taxes (of which NHS is only a portion) amount to much less than half what my health care alone would cost me in the USA.Conservatives in the USA complain and resist socialism. It is anathema to them. And the propaganda from the right paints all these horror stories that are extreme or overblown cases that you can find even more examples of in the USA. We Americans tend to love our Medicare and VA hospitals. That is socialized health care. The USA has plenty of social systems in place that we take for granted. Every government has some form of socialistic programs. Most western nations have established national health care because its citizens want it. And I know of no countries with national health care that have remotely considered it a mistake. Once established they have never gone back. It is only a matter of time before the USA adopts some form of it. It's possible it will start as state programs in California or other large states. It is a much more cost effective system. And everyone qualifies no matter what their income status.Who in the USA would not want it? Doctors for starters. Pay for them would not be in the millions. Pharmaceutical companies also since the national system would negotiate competitive prices. And some conservatives would rather have no coverage and die than have socialized medicine.The British like their NHS and I can't complain at all. It's their choice to keep it and it serves them and me well. If Obama had managed to sell the idea to America you would have bitched and moaned but in the end you would have used it and gotten used to it. Then you would have never given it up.Now that I'm retiring it is the NHS that will keep me in Scotland rather than returning to the USA.  The troubles we're currently experiencing with the NHS are the result of the conservative government's penchant for cutting budgets when they really should be increasing taxes.In short, the USA has some of the best health care in the world but it comes at an extreme cost and neglects those without adequate funds. The UK has very good health care but a far superior system. There is more to health care than technology alone.

Working with a very small team we hired a gentleman with a fairly impressive resume. He’d earned the title of “Senior Developer” at one of his jobs with relatively few years experience, and kept it forward through several jobs since then.We hired him with the same title, and while I wasn’t a part of his interviews I know we normally included a few code-proficiency screeners.Well, he worked under our front end lead for a few weeks with very little progress. Finally my colleague couldn’t handle working with him anymore and forced our manager to make a change.The change was apparently to transfer him to my purview.So I spent a week working directly with him one-on-one.It was apparent he wasn’t familiar with the language we were using on the back-end, which was Java, but I’m a firm believer that you need good developers not good Java developers. We can teach syntax.I figured I’d be clever. I asked him his best language - it was PHP. I have a few years of PHP under my belt, so no problem! Solve it in PHP, I’ll translate.The problem was simple. I wanted a function that took a list of objects and returned a new list containing one of the attributes (the ID) from each.After nearly an hour, the only meaningful thing he’d managed to say was “There are many ways to iterate a list in PHP”, but none were forthcoming.Not only was he working as a programmer, he was a “Senior Developer” who was probably only a couple jobs away from transitioning into management.What may blow your mind is he wasn’t even our worst hire. Because he wrote so little code, we caught it early and very little damage was done beyond a little lost time.

S-400 Air Defence System is important for India as it fills in a critical gap for India’s concept of a robust Multi-Layered Air Defence which has been reinforced as a means to tackle incoming threats in forms of Bombers , Strategic Airlifters , Fighter Aircrafts , Cruise Missiles and more. 21st Century Warfare Spectrum has beg the need for a Ground Based Air Defence Weapon Systems (GBADWS) as Aerial Threats then can be perceived and engaged in various threat envelopes depending upon their nature and the altitude they are flying.India is trying to develop a GBADWS by inducting a mix of Short Range Surface to Air Missiles (SRSAM) , Medium Range Surface to Air Missiles ( MRSAMs ) , Long Range Surface to Air Missiles ( LRSAMs ) and finally Very Short Range Air Defence (VSHORAD) Missiles. India is reinforcing its MRSAM and LRSAM by inducting Aakash and Barak-8 missiles en masse simultaneously retiring its older air defence systems. However the one critical gap where India was lacking was need for a Long Range Air Defence System which can engage Strategic targets at a much longer range.At this point , S-400 points out a game changing attitude as this will allow India to reinforce long range air surveillance and knock out aerial threats out off the sky based upon their threat perception. S-400 relies on four different type of missiles to reinforce its threat envelope though India is buying only two of these missiles : very-long-range 40N6 (400 km) and the long-range 48N6 (250 km) surface-to-air missiles from Russia.Keep in mind that possessing a missile with 400 km range do not give India the capability to simply knock anything out of the sky. 40N6 Missile will be used only against low maneuverable targets like Strategic Airlifters , Airborne Early-warning radars , Electronic Warfare Aircrafts and Reconnaissance Aircrafts. It can also knock out Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites and Intermediate Ranged Ballistic Missile Warheads in terminal phase.48N6 Missile , though possessing a lower range , gives the option to take on more ‘intelligent’ targets like Fighter Aircrafts , HALE/MALE Drones , Cruise Missiles and more. S-400 also comprises of a 55K6E command and control system based along with 92N6E Multimode Engagement Radar which can track 100 targets in Track While Scan mode , 96L6 Cheese Board 3D Radar which can detect threats upto 300 kms and finally the 91N6E Big Bird Battlefield Radar which can detect aerial threats ( including aircrafts , drones and missiles ) within the distance of 600 km tracking upto 300 targets.S-400 also reinforces the Air Superiority concept of Indian Air Force in the light of its falling Squadron Strength which has sent jitters in the establishment with the situations further graving up in light of corruption allegations in recent deals. This is what made S-400 a Tier 1 priority for Indian Defence Acquisition aimed at giving a shot to the ageing Air Defence Capabilities of Indian Air Force.Though there have been a lot of apprehensions that the deal would invoke the Section 231 of CAATSA and would bring sanctions on India ( nothing new for us , after all ) , US just gave a casual statement that it does not intend to damage its ally defence capabilities thus giving an approval to the deal in a low tone.CAATSA not intended to damage military capabilities of our allies: USSince 5 S-400 Systems are being inducted , 3 of them will most likely be placed on the Western Border while 2 of them in Eastern Border to cover the whole Opposing Force Air Bases in case of a conflict. On the Western Side , the 3 S-400 Systems can place an air superiority against majority of Pakistani Airbases in case of a conflict which includes strategically most viable airbases at Masroor , Karachi , Sargodha and Minhas Air Bases.In the East , S-400 would be a game changer against PLAAF in Tibet Autonomous Region especially when PLAAF is fielding more combat capable hardware in the region. PLAAF has some 14 ( or more ) major airbases from where it can operate with 20 minor airstrips as well which are strategically placed at Lhasa , Nqari , Xigase with majority of its Flanker and their derivatives along with J-10 and J-20 now being deployed there. S-400 can give India a strategic deterrent to counter aerial threats more proactively conforming to India’s strategic autonomy.Hope my answer serves the purpose =)References :How Worrisome is PLAAF Presence in Tibet?S-400 missile system - WikipediaIndia signs $5.4-billion deal to buy 5 S-400 missile systems from Russia

When in college, my roommate arrived in our small dorm room with a large can of nitrous oxide - the sleeping gas they use in dentists’ offices. Only this thing was six feet tall and almost full.Where did you get this?He and another guy stole two canisters from a hospital. The other guy had the second one.Say what? That’s like grand theft-He was so giddy about having stolen it.So he gets these balloons and sets up a technique. You fill up the balloon with the nitrous, sit down, put it in your mouth and inhale, exhale until the balloon deflatesInterestingly, when you inhale the balloon has that shrinking “hiss”. On the second breath, the hiss becomes staccato - like his-is-is-is-isThen your brain goes somewhere else. Freakiest feeling not to have direct control of your mind for a few seconds - at least - it felt like a few seconds.A chemistry major, my roommate did some math and measured the volume of our room and the output of the canister. He figured he could open the canister for X-minutes and close it, and we would be breathing a small amount with every breath. We would have to cover the air vent.It worked and that’s when I realized the meaning of laughing gas. What a total rush. We laughed about “nothing” until we were hyperventilating, sides were hurting, the whole bit. When it ebbed off, we did it again, and again.At this point he said we should invite some girls over from the dorm next door. We knew several pretty girls who liked to get naked with guys we knew, but never with us. So we invited them over for drinks in the early evening, and they would leave later to go to their other parties.Four showed up, and were dressed smokin’ hot. We had several pitchers of frozen drinks, strawberry daq’s, margarita, etc. They stood around drinking and my roommate slowly turned on the gas. They never knew.Within a minute, the girls were laughing themselves silly. This set them up for more drinks and gas, and they didn’t leave the room until midnight. During this period, they laughed so hard they overheated and stripped to their underwear, then the underwear came off, and we were dancing naked to various bands, all of us laughing until we were crying.Both our cocks were getting hard as rocks and the girls were taking turns holding them and yanking on them.One said - “Let’s get to work!” dropped to her knees and stuffed me into her mouth. Another came alongside and they alternated. They went after it like hungry animals. My roommate was getting the same. For the next several hours the two of us took turns on all four girls in every imaginable configuration.Something about the gas (I guess) made me recover faster - I popped four orgasms in three hours, each one with a full load. It also (somehow) caused more back-pressure on the load and it came flying out of me. The first spurt had a four-foot climb and came down on their faces. My eyes popped the same as theirs. They howled with laughter.We ran out of the gas and never had another party like that one. But we saw all four girls off-and-on for four semesters and that first date was always a hot topic.