There's a difference between making a word processor easier to deal with and catering to some subliterate moron who can't deal with self checkout - this is something you've seen most of your life: you wave stuff over the scanner, it beeps, you put it in the bag. For produce, there are pictures of the type of food to go with the words - I can stick a 60 year old japanese women in front of it and she'll be able to scan her mushrooms.
Yes, we want our computers to be easier to use. No I'm not willing to consider illiterates. There is a bar.
But the director is unhappy that we didn't use the hole with a grommet in it that Sun so kindly leaves for you... of course, you can't thread the patch panel through it, so he made the techs cut all of the pairs, fish the cable through the damned hole, and re-punch everything so it looked pretty.
So tell the director no - surely he's got better things to do.
I went to school at RPI in upstate NY - the computer cluster is in a converted church on campus; during the winter, it's warm and they still run the AC.
Why do we oversimplify and tell kids that electricity plus water equals danger? because we don't want them experimenting to sort out when it is and when it isn't.
Yeah, too bad that, despite all the warnings about strangers with candy/puppies, most 4 year olds will still help one 'go look for their puppy'.
You know, this bugs me - what's up with the whole unwashed nerd stereotype? I will occasionally put off showers if I'm just messing around at home, but I always bathe before running into other people - I hate feeling sweaty and gross, and most women appreciate a clean guy.
That's why I didn't really respond to the point about auto weapons - I've realized the same thing: auto weapons are fun at the range, but a.308 (or.223 for shorter range) does everything you need.
Really? Explain to me how you would purchase those things in New York City? Or Washington DC? Or in California? Or any of the other urban areas and high population areas where 90% of the population live?
Guns are banned in DC, but they're still available (somehow...). If you live in arlington, across the river, no sweat. I don't know about NYC, but in CA, only SF is really crazy about banning guns. So yeah, our rights are being infringed, but we can buy guns now; yeah, there's a battle on. What's your point?
Why does the 50bmgstore.com have a FAQ on "50 caliber" ban? Aren't they legal?
CA has a bunch of tools in power. Your point? I don't live there, and.50 BMG is there for god knows what reason.
OK, so basicly existing weapons are grandfathered in and no new weapons are allowed to be manufactured - meaning that the supply of automatic weapons continues to diminish as more are siezed by government agents, more wear out and are no longer safe to operate, and the rest are gobbled up by wealthy collectors?
In the event of a revolution, the first order of business will be upgrading weapons. Auto rifles aren't useful anyway without proper training.
,i>We can own semi-auto AK47s? Yeah great - because the AK47 totally sucks as a rifle and is only really useful when it can shoot a lot of bullets!
Or an M16 - you like those? I'll take a.308 with a good set of optics. The AK has some nice features, chief among them being the amount of abuse they will accept.
I can own any pistol I want? Thats funny, I remember that the city I lived in when I was looking to buy a pistol required that people register the gun... and the office was open for 30 minutes, every two weeks, with a maximum of 1 person on duty (unless they were on break), where you have 20-30 pages of paper work to be filled out. That of course is a lot better than New York, or Washington DC, or the other cities were pistols are outright illegal.
You should come to a civilized part of the country. Here, you declare that you aren't a loon, don't have any restraining orders/pending violent crimes, they do a check, and you get your gun.
Oh, and then are 2nd Amendment rights are surely protected, when the National Guard is sent into New Orleans to go door to door to confiscate all guns.
You want me to defend a criminal act? Sorry, I won't do it. I would, however, be willing to remove anyone trying to do that sort of thing. Not like they don't have better things to do than have a shootout with random people with no backup.
Lay off it... Right now, it is easy enough for a tiny minority of gun collectors and ethusiests to get infantry style weapons
Basically, anyone outside places like NYC and SF.
your average American is lucky if he has the option to buy a hunting rifle or shotgun, let lone military grade weapons.
The average american doesn't live in NYC or DC or SF, can buy a rifle if he feels like it, may well hunt with it, and has access to military grade weapons. What do you call an accurized M1A with a 3-9x40 scope if not a kilometer range sniper rifle?
Pardon me for being blunt, but you are the problem, not the polygraph.
No, it's that he used a polygraph at all. They don't work worth a damn and often reflect the biases of the operator or the noervousness of the subject more than any objective truth.
What's a license fee? You fill out info for a background check (or present a CCW permit) in WA, then you buy the gun. After 30 days, they destroy the paperwork. There are no ongoing costs, aside from bullets and cleaning supplies.
Americans being allowed to own a.22 hunting rifle or a shot gun, occasionally a small pistal - but the kind of infantry style weapons that could actually be used for revolution (like in Iraq with their ubiquitous AK-47s), are strictly illegal.
Americans can get any self loading rifle, from.17HMR to.50BMG, any automatic rifle made before 1984, and any pistol they like. This includes M1A rifles, semi-auto AK47 and M16 based rifles, which is plenty for a revolution. I don't know what you're on about.
Do people still maintain the facade of loyalty? In a capitalist economy, a worker provides his services to whichever employer provides him the best compensation (however he defines it).
There's more to compensation than a paycheck - a good boss gets things done/gets out of the way and generally makes your job more fun, while a bad boss can suck the life out of any situation. Following a good boss makes sense, especially when there's a team attached.
Allofmp3 operates completely inside of russia - only their customers are in the US. Yes, we can get a judgement and arrest them, but it isn't legal. Our attitude about such jurisdictional crap seems to be that we will do what we want and don't get in our way. We had sklyarov and DVD Jon arrested too, but that didn't work out too well for us.
If this were to actually go to trial somewhere, I'd bring this up - asking why they aren't going for a $10T judgement may well highlight the absurdity of this claim. As it stands, well, it doesn't - you can't sue someone in NY state for something they did in Russia and never brought to the actual state.
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No, I think you need to be at my table to blow it in my face.
They didn't say Republican or Democrat, they said Liberal.
If you've been paying attention, Republicans (neocons specifically) have been painting Democrats as liberals for the better part of a decade while espousing a conservative philosophy. Find me some liberal republicans that aren't on the fringe.
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There's a difference between making a word processor easier to deal with and catering to some subliterate moron who can't deal with self checkout - this is something you've seen most of your life: you wave stuff over the scanner, it beeps, you put it in the bag. For produce, there are pictures of the type of food to go with the words - I can stick a 60 year old japanese women in front of it and she'll be able to scan her mushrooms.
Yes, we want our computers to be easier to use. No I'm not willing to consider illiterates. There is a bar.
a pilot falling from an airplane survives by falling into the shockwave of an exploding terrorist bomb in a train station
This was world war 2. What's the matter with you?
Yeah, maybe now. This was 20 years ago.
But the director is unhappy that we didn't use the hole with a grommet in it that Sun so kindly leaves for you ... of course, you can't thread the patch panel through it, so he made the techs cut all of the pairs, fish the cable through the damned hole, and re-punch everything so it looked pretty.
So tell the director no - surely he's got better things to do.
I went to school at RPI in upstate NY - the computer cluster is in a converted church on campus; during the winter, it's warm and they still run the AC.
Why do we oversimplify and tell kids that electricity plus water equals danger? because we don't want them experimenting to sort out when it is and when it isn't.
Yeah, too bad that, despite all the warnings about strangers with candy/puppies, most 4 year olds will still help one 'go look for their puppy'.
Data centres don't use central air conditioning--I imagine that it's too inefficient for the sort of cooling.
Nah, it's just a radically different load from what central air is designed for.
You know, this bugs me - what's up with the whole unwashed nerd stereotype? I will occasionally put off showers if I'm just messing around at home, but I always bathe before running into other people - I hate feeling sweaty and gross, and most women appreciate a clean guy.
That's why I didn't really respond to the point about auto weapons - I've realized the same thing: auto weapons are fun at the range, but a .308 (or .223 for shorter range) does everything you need.
Any recommendations for long range glass?
Really? Explain to me how you would purchase those things in New York City? Or Washington DC? Or in California? Or any of the other urban areas and high population areas where 90% of the population live?
Guns are banned in DC, but they're still available (somehow...). If you live in arlington, across the river, no sweat. I don't know about NYC, but in CA, only SF is really crazy about banning guns. So yeah, our rights are being infringed, but we can buy guns now; yeah, there's a battle on. What's your point?
Why does the 50bmgstore.com have a FAQ on "50 caliber" ban? Aren't they legal?
CA has a bunch of tools in power. Your point? I don't live there, and .50 BMG is there for god knows what reason.
OK, so basicly existing weapons are grandfathered in and no new weapons are allowed to be manufactured - meaning that the supply of automatic weapons continues to diminish as more are siezed by government agents, more wear out and are no longer safe to operate, and the rest are gobbled up by wealthy collectors?
In the event of a revolution, the first order of business will be upgrading weapons. Auto rifles aren't useful anyway without proper training.
,i>We can own semi-auto AK47s? Yeah great - because the AK47 totally sucks as a rifle and is only really useful when it can shoot a lot of bullets!
Or an M16 - you like those? I'll take a .308 with a good set of optics. The AK has some nice features, chief among them being the amount of abuse they will accept.
I can own any pistol I want? Thats funny, I remember that the city I lived in when I was looking to buy a pistol required that people register the gun... and the office was open for 30 minutes, every two weeks, with a maximum of 1 person on duty (unless they were on break), where you have 20-30 pages of paper work to be filled out. That of course is a lot better than New York, or Washington DC, or the other cities were pistols are outright illegal.
You should come to a civilized part of the country. Here, you declare that you aren't a loon, don't have any restraining orders/pending violent crimes, they do a check, and you get your gun.
Oh, and then are 2nd Amendment rights are surely protected, when the National Guard is sent into New Orleans to go door to door to confiscate all guns.
You want me to defend a criminal act? Sorry, I won't do it. I would, however, be willing to remove anyone trying to do that sort of thing. Not like they don't have better things to do than have a shootout with random people with no backup.
Lay off it... Right now, it is easy enough for a tiny minority of gun collectors and ethusiests to get infantry style weapons
Basically, anyone outside places like NYC and SF.
your average American is lucky if he has the option to buy a hunting rifle or shotgun, let lone military grade weapons.
The average american doesn't live in NYC or DC or SF, can buy a rifle if he feels like it, may well hunt with it, and has access to military grade weapons. What do you call an accurized M1A with a 3-9x40 scope if not a kilometer range sniper rifle?
I'd just require them to be open about it. No secret = no blackmail.
Dude, I can buy Uranium online. Good luck banning something for being dangerous.
Pardon me for being blunt, but you are the problem, not the polygraph.
No, it's that he used a polygraph at all. They don't work worth a damn and often reflect the biases of the operator or the noervousness of the subject more than any objective truth.
Damn straight. 2 guys with M1A rifles can take out a tank. Without a bunch of soldiers around the tank, they're very vulnerable.
What's a license fee? You fill out info for a background check (or present a CCW permit) in WA, then you buy the gun. After 30 days, they destroy the paperwork. There are no ongoing costs, aside from bullets and cleaning supplies.
Americans being allowed to own a .22 hunting rifle or a shot gun, occasionally a small pistal - but the kind of infantry style weapons that could actually be used for revolution (like in Iraq with their ubiquitous AK-47s), are strictly illegal.
Americans can get any self loading rifle, from .17HMR to .50BMG, any automatic rifle made before 1984, and any pistol they like. This includes M1A rifles, semi-auto AK47 and M16 based rifles, which is plenty for a revolution. I don't know what you're on about.
/love my Sig - ugly, but effective
Do people still maintain the facade of loyalty? In a capitalist economy, a worker provides his services to whichever employer provides him the best compensation (however he defines it).
There's more to compensation than a paycheck - a good boss gets things done/gets out of the way and generally makes your job more fun, while a bad boss can suck the life out of any situation. Following a good boss makes sense, especially when there's a team attached.
Since 1970, the U.S. has created 57 million new jobs. In that same time period, Europe has only created 4 million
Taking Germany as an example, the population hasn't grown all that much. think that has anything to do with it?
I'll see your link and raise you another.
Allofmp3 operates completely inside of russia - only their customers are in the US. Yes, we can get a judgement and arrest them, but it isn't legal. Our attitude about such jurisdictional crap seems to be that we will do what we want and don't get in our way. We had sklyarov and DVD Jon arrested too, but that didn't work out too well for us.
If this were to actually go to trial somewhere, I'd bring this up - asking why they aren't going for a $10T judgement may well highlight the absurdity of this claim. As it stands, well, it doesn't - you can't sue someone in NY state for something they did in Russia and never brought to the actual state.
No, I think you need to be at my table to blow it in my face.
They didn't say Republican or Democrat, they said Liberal.
If you've been paying attention, Republicans (neocons specifically) have been painting Democrats as liberals for the better part of a decade while espousing a conservative philosophy. Find me some liberal republicans that aren't on the fringe.
Only if you're sitting at my table.
And it's not about being comfortable, it's about not breathing in poisons.
So are you going to ban cars, too?