Brockenstein

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by Brockenstein 8y ago
>This is completely absurd. How many current great relationships would have never existed under such a rule? How many great relationships/working relationships wouldn't be ruined because of that rule? How many people wouldn&#x2
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
No, we're talking about how dredging up an exception to the rule where things worked out for two people is not a a very good argument that it's actually fine most of the time and bosses won't victimize subordinates under the
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
If something rarely happens, it's just another way to say that it happens. So I'm not sure why you're arguing like the above poster is saying it never happens. Not to mention even in the case you're posting it's pro
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
No. I think they're referring to Tesla (and its struggles) seeing that it's a car company and cars classically run on cylinders, but since Tesla's are electric, no cylinders. You know since Elon Musk is a founding member of b
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
I don't think I had an opinion beforehand or anything. I mean I was always down with the idea. But I think the problem is that it's such a long process to get from point A to B, and then the market for putting things into orbit is
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
I mean I guess I don't know, and some people have disagreed with you. But how do Arabic dialects compare to all the English dialects. I mean U.S., U.K. and Australians can all understand each other mostly, but there's all those li
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
So you're under the belief that you have hundreds of thousands of dollars obtained in some scheme and there's a court order to pay it back. And you're under the belief that if you hide those assets and tell the court to eff o
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Alright man, if you're so sure, if you ever find yourself in that boat I wish you well. Because I'm sure it's a recipe for disaster. >I was thinking more "move to somewhere without extradition". I don't thin
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Well it's more complicated than that. We mourn jobs that are sent overseas. But a lot of things can be made much cheaper elsewhere and we as consumers benefit from cheaper prices. It's just in an argument about jobs, people don&#x
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
With something like this, brown recluses in California. Where a lot of people believe it, because it's a "known fact". Well local media is populated by a lot of those people. They're probably not knowingly lying or creat
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
I think to give you perspective against previous HEDT Intel chips that had more than 4 cores.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Well those stats don't really highlight most real-world performance differences. If your expectation is that performance is tied to clock speed and you wanted to see 8 Ghz by now, then sure that's a disappointment, that's not
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math No matter where you are, sometimes we want to try something new, sometimes things have to change, and sometimes it doesn't work or there are growing pains. The other side of
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
An unfortunate facet of the human condition is the idea of throwing enough money at a problem will solve it. And that involves paying 10x as much for a pound of cure compared to an ounce of prevention. It is a darn shame.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Right, and the other half of funding? The problem is the school in poor areas are still underfunded as a result, or if you prefer wealthy areas can afford to fund their schools a lot better. Either way the system isn't all equal for e
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Well they're already greatly offended by taxes and the idea that civilization requires money to run... I think outside of being offended, you'd just have a hard to getting any agreements on what would qualify.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
That is fascinating. The lends of other people's experiences. Although living in a rural area in the U.S. there were a lot of shows I was aware of but never really got to see all that much because they were on cable and having only a h
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
This is pretty disingenuous and I'll explain why. The next 1% after the top 1% owns a pretty sizable chunk too. And the next 1% after that a large chunk, and so on. The top 10% has 75% of U.S. wealth, the top 20% has 87% of U.S. wealth
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Over in the U.S. it seems like people hate taxes because they don't want other people to get "their" money and in the meantime they're happy to watch the entire infrastructure of the country fall apart, as long as poor p
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
The only problem is you're now arguing that someone who has enriched themselves illegally, stolen assets, or defrauded people can use that money to defend themselves and potentially drain it down to nothing, at which point they claim t
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Two things. You're making some assumptions that are problematic. 1. That this is wrong under Australian law, or somehow irregular. You not liking it, or having a knee jerk reaction is not the same as an actual moral judgement. 2. That
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Well Australia and U.S. law are not the same... so what Enron execs were allowed to do in U.S. courts 10-15 years ago really doesn't have any bearing.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Travel, commerce, civilization isn't going to stop because of global warming. That's childish hyperbole to suggest one person traveling on a plane or train that's going to be going anyway somehow undermines the goal of gettin
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
'global warming' refers to the long-term trend of a rising average global temperature, 'Climate change', refers to the changes in the global climate which result from the increasing average global temperature. For examp
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
I can't believe that we're alone, even if intelligent life is extremely rare, and life in general somewhat rare. It's a big universe. Or is it just as terrifying to be First?
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
If an asteroid wipes out life on Earth in a thousand years does it help to worry and mourn over future generations or something?
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Only if you assume solar systems with advanced life need to model our solar system, which I'm not sure is a foregone conclusion yet.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
>Collectively, I'm not sure we are much different. I'm sure we're not. Individually we can recognize the a problem. However the problem is there's a lot of people and they all have different ideas about what the probl
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
> then who is the victim? A lot of the times the drugs being sold are painkillers, opioids and such. And this doesn't happen in a vacuum where no one else is harmed. Alcohol is legal, and there's lots of victims involving its u
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Even worse, those early systems had mute buttons and those mute buttons got such use they they're obviously worn our or broken through use. So new gas pump AV, no mute button. Last time I pumped gas I stood their with my hand over the

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