Ezra

7 ms·

31.
by Ezra 18y ago
I think that it also exposes some of the crazy group think going on here, so maybe it wasn't all bad. I mean, You're an idiot isn't supposed to be a +5 comment on this site. And reasoned discourse like It doesn't really matter what the J
32.
by Ezra 18y ago
This is really the most honest response here. I guess I'm the only other person who can't see why a pseudo-sentimental canned response is so much superior to any other canned response. When Pepsi, or the Whitehouse, the police, or whoever e
33.
by Ezra 18y ago
Neither Stallman nor Torvalds are scrambling to pay rent. So it depends if you want to be "well off" (Stallman), "obscenely rich" (Torvalds), "shockingly rich" (Jobs), or "embarassingly rich" (Gates). And I think that most would, given the
34.
by Ezra 18y ago
It's trivial to design and build a nuclear weapon. The trick, as others have mentioned, is getting the Uranium. You do not need billions in R&D, or a crack team of scientists. A working bomb was actually designed by two (ableit, smart)
35.
by Ezra 18y ago
It's safer on the bases than "over the wire", obviously. If you're hanging out in the slums of Baghdad by yourself, that's another story. According to http://www.icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx 3 of the last 500 American deaths in I
36.
by Ezra 18y ago
Where'd you get 25K? I did similar work out there in 2006 (I was at Abu Ghraib) in a similar role, and I didn't make 25K a month. I made four, with no OT, and I got a pretty nice contract-ending bonus. For the record, I considered $4K a mo
37.
by Ezra 18y ago
I think to be the "google" of anything, you pretty much have to be good at search. That's what I thought the comparison would be. It's kind of like saying x is the Bill Gates of 1000. There are any number of things that could mean, but ha