Evbn

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571.
by Evbn 14y ago
When is the last time a baseball pitcher pitched a 9 inning game? Would you want a team without any starters?
572.
by Evbn 14y ago
People who chase fleeting pleasures find themselves financially insecure? I wonder why that might be....
573.
by Evbn 14y ago
Ha, I was just think how it has been a while since that minimalism fad swept through HN.
574.
by Evbn 14y ago
Naw, the airlines would rent secure batteries at a huge markup.
575.
by Evbn 14y ago
What if I filled an old iPod shell with PETN?
576.
by Evbn 14y ago
Has the FBI? I have only heard of entrapment cases where the threats were FBI agents themselves.
577.
by Evbn 14y ago
A chance? Most airport crime is.... Theft committed by TSA employees.
578.
by Evbn 14y ago
OTOH, air travel is an environmental nuisance. Still, In would rather have a pollution tax go to conservation and cleanup, instead of hassling passengers.
579.
by Evbn 14y ago
What is extra weird is that the threat objects are all computer vision analyzed and automatically color coded. It's not clear why we have people looking at the images anyway, except to review the positive IDs.
580.
by Evbn 14y ago
Higher quality of life is inversely correlated with family size. Bored people breed. And then use violence to survive. Wtf is "rewarding poverty" anyway?
581.
by Evbn 14y ago
It is 2-10% of a ticket price, for no benefit.
582.
by Evbn 14y ago
Oh we have old fashioned police work too-- where the FBI finds am mentally retarded person, hands him a fake bomb, and then arrests him, and holds a self congratulatory press conference.
583.
by Evbn 14y ago
The WTC incident spared many thousands of people due to the scheduling serendipity of being an hour or two before peak attendance.
584.
by Evbn 14y ago
Have you actually seen a non-plastic knife in a secure area of an airport?
585.
by Evbn 14y ago
Really? The whole world drastically changed its security policy in the same way after one event in the US?
586.
by Evbn 14y ago
If we get the same stories posted every month in paraphrase, we deserve the same comments as well.
587.
by Evbn 14y ago
Imagine a world where 100% Beef Hamburgers are made from 25% diseased horse meat.
588.
by Evbn 14y ago
Yes, That is one of the main functions of government.
589.
by Evbn 14y ago
Better, she should save Donkey Kong from Mario, to address the real issue of animals enslaved by people. The reverse doesn't really happen.
590.
by Evbn 14y ago
But effectively half that with the (subsidized?) interest rates.
591.
by Evbn 14y ago
It's sort of amazing the people in these conditions care enough about quality of work to build buildings that don't fall down.
592.
by Evbn 14y ago
That's exactly what it is. An exchange of services for money, hedged. If that's a bad deal, feel free to sell on an alternative app store (Android) or convince your users to jailvrrak (iOS)
593.
by Evbn 14y ago
The public is who decides what a publicly-traded business is worth.
594.
by Evbn 14y ago
The shares can be allocated but not offered.
595.
by Evbn 14y ago
GOOG popped over 100%, with its auction.
596.
by Evbn 14y ago
Is "not doing" a legitimate "manner" of doing something. That seems rather tenuous.
597.
by Evbn 14y ago
In AT&T case, the victims couldn't know who they are unless they one the case, since the issue was warrantless wiretapping
598.
by Evbn 14y ago
Avoiding something is not the same as oversight. Oversight is failing to notice something. DADT did not stop observation of homosexual activity.
599.
by Evbn 14y ago
Aye. Wealth of Nations was brilliant logical analysis of the realities of markets. It was not the moral apologia and religious gospel that free marketeers pretend it is.
600.
by Evbn 14y ago
So a corporation (many individuals acting in concert) funding a movie should be unconstitutional, but a single billionaire natural person funding a movie should be constitutionally allowed? Because free speech? That seems horribly backward

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