User:SpartHawg948

About Me
My name is William, I am 25, and I am a Staff Sergeant (SSgt) in the US Air Force Reserve. I live in Santa Clara, California, and I LOVE Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2!!! I aim to do whatever I can to improve this site, as I feel it's a great resource. Also, I am an admin, so if anyone has any questions or needs help with anything, please just let me know!

Also, not to put too fine a point on it, but I have no patience whatsoever with crybabies, whiners, speculators, and boors. If you are going to be rude to someone else, plant purely speculative info, or insult others but then start crying when someone calls you on it, you WILL be hearing from me.

Now that the seriousness is taken care of, it's my goal to make this the most informative site possible, while also keeping it a nice, friendly environment for users. Any assistance in furthering that goal is, of course, greatly appreciated, and I try to acknowledge people for their efforts as much as possible. So I hope you all enjoy the site, and hopefully you'll be hearing from me (for something good, of course!)

Words to live by

 * "Let him who desires peace prepare for war"- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (more commonly known as Vegetius) from De Re Militari
 * "An armed society is a polite society"- Robert A. Heinlein
 * "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent vice of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries"- Winston Churchill
 * "Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity- in short, of tyranny- and is committed to making tyranny universal."- Adlai Stevenson
 * "The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage."- Alexis de Tocqueville
 * "The world is not going to be saved by legislation."- William Howard Taft
 * "A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."- Charles Evans Hughes

Featured Quote
This section will just be for quotes I like that aren't necessarily as concise and pithy as the ones featured above. They don't even necessarily have to be relevant to anything, I may just choose quotes from sources I like (such as George S. Patton, who provides the first of these) or works I like (such as the Anabasis by Xenophon). Good times!


 * "The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and police forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world. " -- Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile.

Just a quick word here- Now I know that Pinochet wasn't the nicest chap in the world, but I think he's got a bit of a bad wrap, and from some of the same people who like to idolize worse monsters like Mao and Che. Pinochet was the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean military when a coup was launched to overthrow the Socialist government of President Allende, in 1974. For the next several years Pinochet ruled as the head of a junta, then in 1980he introduced a new constitution for the people to vote on in a referendum, a constitution which stated explicitly that he would step down and be replaced by an elected president in 1990. It passed, the election was held in 1988, and Pinochet was defeated 56%-44%. True to his word, he stepped down, leaving a Chile that was much stronger economically and had a much more liberal constitution than the one he started out with, as well as a legacy of human rights violations. He then served for eight more years as Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean military, followed by a stint as a Senator. He was later brought up on charges in a Spanish court, as the Spanish legal system apparently allows them to try non-Spaniards for crimes not committed in Spain. However, eh was never convicted of any crime, either in Spain or Chile, and died in 2006.

Projects

 * Work on cleaning up/beefing up Port Hanshan
 * Keeping an eye on anything military related. (As a servicemember I take a great deal of interest in all things military, so it's kind of my pet project!)
 * After much debate it was decided that, as commander is used as a proper noun when used to refer to a particular commander, ie Shepard, working on capitalizing all relevant uses of commander as I happen upon them. Not really a concerted effort, it's more along the lines of a few at a time, as pages needing it pop up through the wonderful 'random page' function.

Tongue-in cheek thought of the, ah, who am I kidding? I'm not gonna change this daily...

 * You just can't make this stuff up sometimes. Neonazis. I can now add that to the list of **** I've had to deal with as an admin of this site. Neonazis. They rank right up there with Communists (both groups ranking just slightly above people who extol the virtues of government-run health care, or government-run anything, for that matter) on the list of people who piss me off through their own astounding ignorance. But I can now officially say this site has weathered vandalism from some goose-stepping tool from a major nazi website (which I won't name. No need to give those d-bags free advertising.) Seriously, you can't make this stuff up. SpartHawg948 22:20, March 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * You ever have one of those days? You know, a day where you have to deal with people who make Hugo Chavez seem reasonable? People who make Danny Glover and Pat Robertson's arguments seem well thought-out? I'm having one of those days. :( SpartHawg948 10:22, March 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * So, lately I've been accused of being one of a group of "rarefied elites" comprised of both admins and non-admins, who sit around discussing a "common, yet secretive, vision." Since this would effectively make me and the other members of this cabal Oligarchs, and therefor would make this site an oligarchy, I figure it's time to stop pretending otherwise and pick a snazzy uniform! Really dictator it up! So I have some ideas, but need input. Right now I'm looking at the Mussolini (I like the hat), the Pinochet (love the shades!, the Kaiser Bill, or the Tsar look (the sash would really bring out my eyes! Any suggestions? Lemme hear'em! :P SpartHawg948 01:22, March 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * Retraction time... not really a good way to do this, since the edit was still valid, so here it is. I stated in an edit summary that paper bruns at 850 degrees C. This is, of course, incorrect, and my statement was the product of skimming a summary about how the initial title of the book Farenheit 451 was "450 °C (842 °F)", and I flubbed it in translation. My removal of the content was still valid, as paper doesn't necessarily burn at 451 °F, but rather, generally ignites somewhere in the range of 424-474 °F. Bradbury was taking artistic license with a statement purportedly made by a local firefighter. SpartHawg948 05:23, March 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * Damn. Hit 5000 edits and didn't even notice till 5005. Oh well. There's always 10000. :P SpartHawg948 10:55, March 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * Don't take my comments too personally people. If you make an analogy that just doesn't hold any water, I'm pretty much compelled to call you on it. It's my nature, and it's even more deeply ingrained in me now that I'm an admin. For example, of you state that the draft was instituted in preparation for the Vietnam War, I consider myself obligated to point out that actually, the draft that was in effect in Vietnam started way back in 1940, in preparation for America's entry into World War II, and was then extended as a Cold War necessity. It wasn't ended till 1973. Don't believe my account of the peace-time draft during the Cold War? Just ask The King. He was drafted in 1958, five years after the Korean War ended, but well before we got involved in Vietnam. He thought the two years he spent in the Army in Germany were going to kill his career. I think we know how it really turned out... SpartHawg948 11:24, March 15, 2010 (UTC)