LordKano

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by LordKano 11y ago
I had to coerce a friend into getting mental help. He had made some self-destructive statements and a mutual friend reached out to me for help. Several of us scheduled an intervention to try to convince him to go get help and the day before
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by LordKano 11y ago
I have switched banks a couple of times too. In all cases, it has been because the bank took advantage of me when I made a mistake. It has always been a variation on this same theme. The last time I changed banks was in 2010. I had made a m
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by LordKano 11y ago
There's also the hemp angle. There had recently been advances in the production of hemp paper and the plant produced fibers that DuPont wanted to replace with Nylon. DuPont and Hearst (who had a lot of money invested in tree-based pape
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by LordKano 11y ago
-the added security is deemed too hard for a large part of the population, and would raise support cost too much "Older people" When I think of how difficult it was to teach my grandparents how to use the Picture in Picture func
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by LordKano 11y ago
I'm sorry to hear of this. I was impressed by his company. I had seen and heard about Gateway 2000 computers before but my first experience with one came in 1998. I was working part time in a computer shop and they had a room full of o
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by LordKano 11y ago
I think what he's asking is if there is some unofficial way to get money out. If someone who is very affluent wishes to visit Paris or New York for two weeks, how would he or she go about taking enough money to rent a room in a luxury
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by LordKano 11y ago
Insurrection is my favorite of the Star Trek films and I hadn't thought of it that way before but I think you nailed it. With the exception of Riker steering the Enterprise with that hidden Gravis Blackhawk joystick, it was very much l
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by LordKano 11y ago
On the other hand, many judges are elected so they may worry about how their decisions will look to the public, the public generally hates judges who do not convict (because tv tells them everyone is guilty). I noticed this about 20 years
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by LordKano 11y ago
On one occasion, when I was in Jr High School, I was sent to the Principal's office. The assistant Principal started discussing my punishment and I chimed in that I didn't do what I was accused of doing. He said that the teacher w
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by LordKano 11y ago
The best answer, in my humble opinion, is "Don't send SPAM". If you only send mail to people who have willingly opted in, not through trickery, pressure, inducement or some BS promotion, they'll actually want to read you
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by LordKano 11y ago
I'm from the "watching TV" to "playing video games" transition generation and I must say that I owe more to both of them than to most time spent in school. Me too. I spent a lot of time watching educational TV pro
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by LordKano 11y ago
I thought that Republicans were bitterly divided, until I started learning about Libertarians.
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by LordKano 11y ago
I think it's akin to how a couple of days of training could prepare someone to work at one of those oil change places but it won't make him or her into a car mechanic. These bootcamps can teach people the basics of programming and
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by LordKano 11y ago
1. Survivor benefits: If someone is in a >2 person marriage, does that mean all of their spouses can continue to collect survivor benefits until the last person dies? Survivor benefits continue as long as there is a surviving spouse. I
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by LordKano 11y ago
This happened near where I live. A gay couple did an adoption but now they're father and son so it's not legal for them to marry. http://www.post-gazette.com/local/north/2015/10/09/Fox-Chap
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by LordKano 11y ago
"Equitable division of marital assets and liabilities." This doesn't require anything special. Legalizing same-sex marriage required changes on license forms, this will too.
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by LordKano 11y ago
Three person marriage is likely next. It avoids incest taboos and the groundwork has already been done.
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by LordKano 11y ago
Precisely. I used the scare quotes to illustrate that point.
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by LordKano 11y ago
It takes riots, every time. In LA, when the Simi Valley jury acquitted the cops who were videotaped beating Rodney King, that would have been the end of the matter if the riots hadn't occurred.
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by LordKano 11y ago
Stun guns were banned in NYC, not because of "criminals" but because the police were using them to interrogate and torture suspects.
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by LordKano 11y ago
Try walking around New York after dark as an African American or Latino male and tell me again how it's not an actual police state.
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by LordKano 11y ago
Yeah, there is a bit of a leak but relying on that will not benefit you when you get Enron.
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by LordKano 11y ago
So you consider the behaviour to be normal? Depending on how you define "normal". If you mean acting like everyone else, then absolutely not. My goal was to be incongruous. If you mean acting calmly and naturally, then yes. I wa
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by LordKano 11y ago
Doesn't the fact you can get the attention at will disprove your hypothesis? Not at all. What would be perceived as customer interest as a non-minority customer is perceived as suspicious as a minority customer.
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by LordKano 11y ago
I still blink but I do it at a slower rate and I deliberately slow the blinks. I suppose it's more art than science to not appear to be staring but to be blinking less often.
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by LordKano 11y ago
It's my contention that my demographic information is why my behavior was regarded as suspicious. Had I been a middle aged white guy, it would have been seen as the behavior of an interested customer. To just put it out in the open, th
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by LordKano 11y ago
I didn't understand all of this at the time, I just knew that it worked. Later, when I worked in retail, I learned why. Retail employees aren't supposed to stop shoplifters. They are expected to take opportunities to turn potentia
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by LordKano 11y ago
To draw attention to myself. If the norm is for people to put it back close to the same spot, I make sure to do it precisely, because it's incongruous and will draw attention. My goal was to make them think "What's that guy d
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It doesn't happen often and consequently, I don't have to do it often. I doubt that it would work on family.
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by LordKano 11y ago
If one is aware of the biases of others, they can be used to one's advantage. This happened a little over 20 years ago. I was shopping at the mall, near Christmas and the place was packed. There were some really long lines and I said t

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