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  1. Re:I think what makes the AR-15 military on DOJ Reaches Settlement On Publication of Files About 3D Printed Firearms (joshblackman.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything in your post is wrong. That's impressive.

  2. Re:Or just buy a 3D Printed gun on DOJ Reaches Settlement On Publication of Files About 3D Printed Firearms (joshblackman.com) · · Score: 1

    1. Buy your max gun buyback number.
    2. Sell to state (potentially saving an innocent good gun from being melted down).
    3. Profit. note No ?.

    4. Optional. Buy ammo!

  3. Don't you oppress him with your accurate definitions.

  4. Re:Lockdown on DOJ Reaches Settlement On Publication of Files About 3D Printed Firearms (joshblackman.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Old joke but true.

    They won't ban your grandpa's hunting rifle, they will label it a sniper rifle first.

  5. Re:Some people see inexistent hidden meanings? on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    HR is a gauntlet for you to run. They don't hire, but they can take your name off the list. Like they did in this case.

    You came off like a pinhead internet grammarian, during a job hunt. It's on you. Learn from it. Don't correct HR drones, they don't like it. Takes them back to HS, when they had social power, they react like they were still in HS.

    Adjust your interactions for the audience. Don't put yourself in the same group as 'Sheldon'. Be smarter than that.

    Also: why would I need a custom solver? LP solvers that are pretty well beaten on and debugged are readily available, for free.

  6. Try it for yourself. The dog food is _equally_ disgusting as Taco Bell 'beef'.

    It's the _same_ product (plus taco bell beef 'spice'). Once your nose identifies Taco Bell as dog food, you won't be able to eat it.

    If someone wanted to put TB out of business, you could start an internet trend. The 'Ol Roy challenge'. Just start leaving open cans of Ol Roy by the doors and by the drive through lines of TBs nationwide. It would be economic sabotage.

  7. Re:I don't think it's just "the wealthy" on Are the Wealthy Plotting To Leave Us Behind? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    You need to look at the methodology of your favorite cite.

    The analysis that shows CA (for example) as a big net contributor does so by ignoring any federal benes paid to individuals living in the state.

    It's a statistical lie, driven by an agenda. Of course, I know you won't examine your prejudices or consider that you maybe repeating a oft repeated lie.

    Also you're an idiot, look at maps of the USA broken red/blue by zip code. There are no 'red states' or 'blue states'. The 'reddest state' has blue dirtbag shithole neighborhoods (that suck govt tit) and the 'bluest state' has red fancy HOA shithole neighborhoods (that pay bills).

  8. Re:Survival of the Smart on Are the Wealthy Plotting To Leave Us Behind? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    The best defense is a good offence. A gun is unlikely to stop a bullet. The only defense a gun owner has, is the threat of offence.

    In the real world, 1000 yard shots are insanely rare. Also even the best shot isn't likely to hit on his first shot, it's really a question of whether he spots his ranging shots before the target does.

    A _brick_ of 22 weighs and bulks about the same as 20 30-06 rounds. Also an effective silencer for a 22 is an old plastic 1 liter bottle and some duct tape. Granting it will interfere with the sights of most 22s. Small oil filters are better, but still sight clearance is an issue.

    There is a reason Israeli urban snipers and special forces carry 22s...not 223s, 22s. They know urban 'chaos and guns' well. Best bet is kill the bastards without them ever seeing or hearing you, then scoot. You want the just subsonic 22LR rounds.

  9. Re:Is "mansplaining" a pejorative term? on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of it does. The entire left is just power hungry though.

  10. Re:Survival of the Smart on Are the Wealthy Plotting To Leave Us Behind? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Better, 'here and now' reason to have an equipped pack. You can't go backpacking without one.

    Remember your first backpacking trip? You don't want to learn what belongs in the pack after the shit hits the fan. You don't want to be breaking in your boots then either.

  11. Re:Survival of the Smart on Are the Wealthy Plotting To Leave Us Behind? (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    No, you need some weapon training. 'Big' weapons are useless.

    Guns are pure offence. A 22LR will take everything you have. It's all about who has the drop on who.

  12. Re:You're underestimating just how many people on Are the Wealthy Plotting To Leave Us Behind? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Worldwide, the cutoff of 1% of income is $32,400.

    Perhaps if you clean out some IT closets you can make it.

  13. Re:To New Zealand, most likely on Are the Wealthy Plotting To Leave Us Behind? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Lots of money is parked in productive agricultural land. In the USA the price of a leased productive acre or land went from about $2k to about $5k. More than the lease income can justify.

    If you saw something bad coming and wanted to preserve your money where would you park it? There are bubbles everywhere you look.

  14. Re:Nope on Are the Wealthy Plotting To Leave Us Behind? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    When an argument starts with an idiotic definition, you know you're dealing with an idiot's strawman.

    mvdwege is beneath you, you'd be better served arguing with a rock.

  15. Re:everyone at the same level = 250K student loan on Are the Wealthy Plotting To Leave Us Behind? (medium.com) · · Score: 0

    Unless you're an MD.

    If you are an MD, you're set, with such a low debt.

  16. Re:I don't think it's just "the wealthy" on Are the Wealthy Plotting To Leave Us Behind? (medium.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Beyond a point 'education' is just a proxy of having nothing worthwhile to do with your life and having enough resources to be blind to realpolitik.

    Not all college degrees require effort, those that don't, go to those that aren't going to be making any money...Guaranteed lifelong democrat.

  17. Re: yup on Are the Wealthy Plotting To Leave Us Behind? (medium.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Steve Wright: 'Who cares if the meek inherit the earth, we'll just take it back. Bunch of meeks.'

  18. Break your taco smell habit. It's easy.

    Get a can of Ol Roy brand (WalMart house brand) beef dog food. Open it, smell it, get a good strong smell (then feed your dog). Go to Taco Bell. Breath in through your nose. You will never eat Taco Bell again.

  19. Re:Is "mansplaining" a pejorative term? on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    'Right leaning' can mean 'knows how to mind own business', doesn't always.

    'Left leaning' just means 'power hungry'.

  20. Re:Some people see inexistent hidden meanings? on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Protip: 'Diplomacy' should be on your resume skill list. Especially if it's bullshit, you have it by claiming it.

  21. Re:Some people see inexistent hidden meanings? on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No matter how incoherent an explanation is, always put the failure to understand on yourself.

    Not: 'Your time designation is inconsistent, we don't use daylight savings time...' rather: 'I'm not sure I understand exactly what time you mean.'

  22. I've never played this game.

    Does the dialog have branches? Because if the dialog is just 'don't read/listen, click through' (like in 90% of games). He was ON POINT and likely agreeing with her, assuming she had a clue.

    Writing 'game dialog' that nobody reads (as it's just fluff, no knowledge needed from the dialog) has to be soul destroying work. Used to be called cutscenes.

  23. It's incumbent on everyone to disassociate with assholes.

    Republicans kicked their nuts out many decades ago, they still try and glom on, but mostly ignored.

    The Ds _love_ their nutjobs, they write party planks.

  24. The full term is 'equal opportunity under the law'.

    There is a birth lottery, no doubt.

  25. That's Marxism. Has many other names, they rename it everytime it genocides 50 million, so on their forth or fifth name now.

    'Socialism' can extend to a basically capitalist economy with social safety nets.

    Marxism IS a historic failure and should be immediately junked. Social safety nets, not so much.