Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade wrote:
> Anssi Hannula wrote:
>> Hi all!
> Hi.
>
>> For the next 6-12 months I'll be on my military service [1], meaning
>> that I can contribute to Cooker much less than usual. I'll still have
>> free time on most weekends, but it remains to be seen how much I'll be
>> using that for cooker.
>
> Go for it youngling. Maybe you will become a man after all. But
> if you have an option, go for armed service. Going to the military
> and not using a gun is kind nonsense.

Well, here only about 0,1% serve unarmed in military. Some 10% serve in
unarmed civilian service, though.

> I run around almost one year, when not using a M964
> http://www.exercito.gov.br/01inst/armtmuni/fuzis.htm
> (FAL the old one), was with a M971 MAG
> http://www.exercito.gov.br/01inst/armtmuni/metralha.htm
> but at the end of the year I had like only 5 seconds total of
> fun with a MAG, 10 shots per second is fast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RK_62

>> I'll try to reply to my emails on weekend vacations, and to any SMS [2]
>> daily. Internet is not forbidden in there, though, so I may later
>> respond to emails during the week as well. We'll see.
>> Ander Conselvan de Oliveira (X11 maintainer) will be available for
>> proprietary driver packages while I'm away.
>>
>> I'll be gone next Monday, with the first weekend vacation being 2-3
>> weeks after that.
>
> It used to be 40 days in Brazil, but the year I gone to military,
> they allowed people to go out at nights after the first week, but
> it was mandatory to be there from 6 AM to 6 PM or you would go to jail.
> And it was preferred to conscript people to service in the same city
> they lived, so that people would go home tonight and "eat there".

Going out at nights is not allowed here, but one can go out during 6 PM
to 9 PM or so. My home city is too far away to go to during that time,
though.

> (I gone to military in 1990, yes I am old).

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Anssi Hannula