Anechoic

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by Anechoic 14y ago
How would you feel if where ever you went someone followed you with a camera pointed at you? http://petapixel.com/2012/11/02/surveillance-camera-man-poin...
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by Anechoic 14y ago
I couldn't imagine going to a restaurant and getting a discount because the owner and I are both white. Think about all the times you went shopping at a department store and weren't hassled by store security. That's your preferential tr
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Look for a woman's organization (things like The Society of Women Engineers for engineering jobs, student groups that cater to women, perhaps in a hall were sorority members hang out, etc). Looking at Syracuse, http://wuc.syr.edu/ and ht
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by Anechoic 14y ago
You'll note the word "easy" appears nowhere in my post. And of course I have no experience whatsoever in experiencing/dealing with under-representation, so I clearly have no idea of any of the issues involved.
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by Anechoic 14y ago
The original process the OP describes is exactly what many affirmative action opponents think AA does, that is only consider one demographic and ignore all the others. If you want to open opportunities for women, you post the job notice i
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by Anechoic 14y ago
city lockdown failed (the guy smoking the cigarette outside when he saw the blood was technically violating the lockdown) But for the shelter-in-place order (it wasn't a lockdown or curfew) the guy may not have been home in the first plac
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Are those the amputations performed at the hospital? Or does that include the amputations caused by the bombs?
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by Anechoic 14y ago
DF regularly makes an end-of-week post thanking the RSS feed sponsors, it's part of the sponsership package: http://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/ see: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/03/30/ http://daringfireball.net/linked/
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Thoughts on the Boston Lockdown from the edge(abad1dea.tumblr.com)
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Maybe a particular student had an interview planned with admissions at a college and had no way to reschedule (parent took them, had to be back). And they would have made a good enough impression to get admitted to the school? Shit happen
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by Anechoic 14y ago
More like: Scenario 1) No lockdown. Homeowner goes to work, goes out to dinner with colleagues after work, goes to a movie/bar/club and doesn't return home until 1am. Notices boat has been disturbed, checks and doesn't find anything because
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by Anechoic 14y ago
In my life I've had police point their weapons at me, I've had a cop blatantly lie in testifying against me, and I've been threatened with arrest for having the audacity to wave 'hi' to a cop as he was driving by and for sitting in a car wi
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by Anechoic 14y ago
This actually happens fairly regularly after armed robberies and gang activity, although the affected area tends to only be a few blocks. But if I am aware of a real danger posed by the armed subject (for example, the suspect has killed an
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by Anechoic 14y ago
The blackhawk helicopters flying over Boston were a clear breach of Posse Comitatus You realize that the MA National Guard has blackhawks, right?
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by Anechoic 14y ago
I'd be pretty upset if the tech people or remote hands weren't at their job Chances are the "tech people or remote hands" were on the job. Again, this wasn't martial law, folks that had reason to be out and about were out and about. I
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Boston authorities grossly over-reacted when they were attacked by the Cartoon Network too Prosecuting the marketing guys for a "hoax" device? Yeah, that was an overreaction. The actual police response response? They shut down the roadway
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by Anechoic 14y ago
I don't know what 128 is Route 128 is the loop highway running around Boston. I do know that much of Boston had no choice but to take a day off on Friday Much of Boston is not the same as "a large portion of New England." New England is
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by Anechoic 14y ago
* they shut down a large portion of New England* No, "they" really didn't. Life was pretty much normal outside of 128.
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by Anechoic 14y ago
To accurate/concise for Krugman? Chances are Krugman didn't write the headline.
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Just for the record, Roxbury and Dorchester are part of Boston proper, and gun violence is those neighborhoods are unfortunately too common: http://www.universalhub.com/crime/dorchester.html http://www.universalhub.com/crime/roxbury.html
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by Anechoic 14y ago
It's not always about what they can do for you. I get what you're saying, but I will admit that I am respectful (not necessarily nice , but generally respectful) to people exactly because of what they can do for me - in my case, I want t
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by Anechoic 14y ago
My common courtesy wake-up call: MIT mechanical engineering students often had to go through the course "secretary" to see their faculty advisers of high-level MechE professors. At the time, the course secretary was a middle-aged women with
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by Anechoic 14y ago
The vast majority are busy running the businesses that made them billionaires. Perhaps we just need to look more closely at the list of billionaires "running the businesses that made them billionaires"? Making a spaceship certainly sounds
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by Anechoic 14y ago
That recording was illegal: http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/florida-recording-law
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A relevant article: http://bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/04/03/conservative-k...
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Meaning the "entire point" is to stifle the ability of folks to advocate for their issues?
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Call your congressman, go to her office, etc. But what if I'm trying to advocate to citizens rather than to my congresscritter?
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by Anechoic 14y ago
There is a way of doing it, it is called "maximum allowed contribution". That's fine for direct campaign contributions, not so much for 3rd party messaging which is where a lot of the current mess lies.
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by Anechoic 14y ago
It's not that hard. We need a better internet, and a more engaged public. Those two statements are contradictory. Even if they weren't, "a better internet, and a more engaged public" doesn't automatically mean that people get to hear your
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by Anechoic 14y ago
If you don't see any difference between advocacy (on your own dime) and literally handing a check to a person with regulatory power over your commercial interests, then you are well and truly lost to reason. So I guess we're not going to

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