Slashdot Mirror


User: HornWumpus

HornWumpus's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
22,708
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 22,708

  1. Re: Thoughts and prayers on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on what state you're in.

    IIRC Iowa only lets you hunt deer with a shotgun and slug, not even buckshot. Where rifles are legal, it appears about half allow .223, often as an exception to a '30cal or bigger' rule.

  2. Re:Ban all cars on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Literally everything in your post is wrong. I'm impressed.

  3. Re:Ban all cars on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Never bring _only_ a knife to a gunfight.

  4. Re:Ban all cars on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullets are cheap, shells are expensive.

  5. Re: Ban guns on US Spy Satellite Buzzes ISS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Much less. AKs in sub saharan africa go for about $20/each. But they are typically worn out, you don't want them, even without the potential for 10 years federal, just for possession.

    After the fall of the USSR, the world was glutted with AKs.

  6. Re:Charming and fun, but not informative on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    Damn, we're old...I remember that.

  7. Show me one job listing looking for techs in SI valley at $10/hour? Geek squad pays better and has no competent employees.

  8. Re:Right to bear arms on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank dog for liberal incompetence!

    I bet he was praying about the time he realized the cops were ready to blow his little pea-brains out. No atheists in foxholes.

  9. Re:Charming and fun, but not informative on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    At these Salaries? The explanation is that only newbies answered the poll.

    The tab/space 'debate' has been going on so long that 'tabs produce smaller files' was once a valid argument.

  10. CA median is over 60k$.

    Si Valley median is over 90k$

    In 2013, certainly higher now. That's median for everyone, competent techs should be north of that number.

  11. Re: No kidding... on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    They owned armed warships and fielded cannons in the revolutionary war and 1812.

  12. Re: No kidding... on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if you cherry pick your date range to not include WWII.

    Countries with gun control tend to lose control of their governments, leading to huge wars.

  13. It's a peter principle corollary: The older the organization the more of it is filled with people who have risen to their level of incompetence.

    The old companies just get worse. Eventually they get eaten by one or more lean and mean little ones. Then the process restarts, but it's not like their hasn't been a short term improvement, just based on flatter management structure, if nothing else.

  14. Re:My theory: Gun control won't happen... on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Most cops now have 223s in their cars, just because of those two.

  15. At some point, they will go broke and more clueful companies will eat their lunch. But even the optimistic view will take generations to workout.

  16. Re:Right to bear arms on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because someone can't/doesn't bother voting, doesn't change their political affiliation. Show me any statistics that shows 90%+ of blacks are not democrats.

    The crime stats speak for themselves.

  17. Re:It's always tempting to outsource on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    If IT is doing it right, they're also building the server on a standard VM. So when the hardware craps the bed, it will be easy to bring back up.

    Hand made artisanal servers are money pits.

  18. The problem is clueless managers and coders that try and write themselves some 'job security'. The coders eventually move on, nobody really want's lifetime employment.

    After that happens once, the managers want 'off the shelf', so bad, they will look past details like 'it won't work'.

    The solution is clueful management, perhaps it will start to happen in a couple of generations.

  19. Re:Management Frameworks... on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    I've found that low productivity coders will game the standup to waste everybody's time (push the managers buttons and watch the arguments circle for hours, yet again).

    I think the do this so all coders have their productivity, zero.

  20. Re:Management Frameworks... on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some 'Best Practices' IT Should Avoid At All Costs? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember: The most common outcome of companies trying to improve their place on the 'Process Maturity Model' is they end up at -1 on the 'Process Immaturity Model'. -1 being 'obstructionist, bureaucratic'.

  21. Re:Giffords? on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    History?

    Which Reagan loss? He ran for president, many times, before finally winning twice. Most of the losses were in the primary. He quit on a win...

    I think the rest of your post is similarly misinformed. You must be a kid.

    BTW have a look at the Antifa gun club video on YouTube. They are shooting (spraying) rifles at about 25 feet and kicking up dust 20 feet away from the target. If they keep that up, they will shoot each other. Learned to shoot playing video games, to the extent they learned at all.

  22. Re:Mirror says ugly on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    His favorite book was listed: 'Communist manifesto'. Suck it, liar.

    But don't forget he was/is NUTS. But that's implied by his favorite book.

  23. Re:It was a Bernie supporter on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Whatever it takes to get them to crack their eyes open is good. They'll mostly grow out of their political stupidity.

  24. The guy who shot Giffords was a leftist nutcase.

  25. Re:Right to bear arms on Congressman Steve Scalise Among 5 Shot at Baseball Field (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It only 'seems dubious' to you because you don't like the conclusion. As you say, they don't collect the data directly.