LordKano

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by LordKano 11y ago
A former co-worker is ethnically Persian but grew up in Belarus so he has a vaguely European accent. When traveling, he likes to wear a shirt that says "Italia" because when airline security thinks that he's Italian, he gets
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by LordKano 11y ago
Precisely. I suspect the previous commenter has never encountered such a police officer. I have seen how they behave when their authority is challenged. Right, wrong or otherwise; police officers won't admit to being wrong unless order
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by LordKano 11y ago
Yes. Sounds ridiculous, right? Search for Jordan V. New London.
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by LordKano 11y ago
I agree. Police have too much free time. Basically, their career path requires that they bring in money or arrests and if crime is down, they'll find ways to meet the unofficial quotas that are held over them. Crime is down. This is th
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by LordKano 11y ago
The police officer is 100% at fault here. The paramedic has medical equipment. The cop has weapons.
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by LordKano 12y ago
In my city, there are several "Japanese Steakhouses" and pretty much all of them have a staff made up of mostly asian employees. Once, after our hibachi chef was finished cooking our meal, someone at the table asked him if he was
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by LordKano 12y ago
My son is a black kid with blonde hair and blue eyes. I bet he'd make a fortune.
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by LordKano 12y ago
Are you old enough to remember dial-up internet? My first modem was 2400 bps. I used to pay $100/month for ISDN that was approximately 1/10 the speed of the internet connection about which you are now complaining. 1.2 Mbps for a r
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by LordKano 12y ago
I like the idea of having Chrome out there but I am not going to use it. I like having another serious competitor in the browser market to keep everyone else on their toes. I find Chrome to be unusable. I can't get past the lack of a m
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by LordKano 12y ago
The first person that I ever saw smoke synthetic was someone who was recently released from prison and had to worry about urinalysis.
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by LordKano 12y ago
There's no need to ban the rest. Prohibition is what is causing this problem in the first place. If you legalize marijuana, would be no profit to be made in coming up with new synthetics and without a profit motive, only researchers wo
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by LordKano 12y ago
Collusion. Retail price maintenance. Dividing territories. Exclusive dealing. These are all anti-competitive behavior that will get one smacked by Federal regulators without being a monopoly.
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by LordKano 12y ago
This is the kind of behavior that gets a company in trouble with the FTC. Indeed but Apple is aware that the FTC isn't likely to punish them enough that the behavior will be a net negative. If only the Federal Government would be as
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by LordKano 12y ago
I completely agree. I understand that radiation isn't magic and things don't become permanently tainted by mere exposure. Still, this girl ingested cesium and died as a result. I would be highly uncomfortable with with an unknown
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by LordKano 12y ago
An employee could sue if McDonald's refused to provide reasonable accommodation for their allergy. Additionally, there's a world of difference between a 1500 square foot fast food restaurant and the interior of one's vehicle.
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by LordKano 12y ago
I was just thinking this. I am allergic to animal dander. I can't be around cats, dogs or rabbits and the like without sneezing, wheezing and coughing. Why should someone else's disability take precedence over mine? Yes, I'm
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by LordKano 12y ago
They're just going to drive paying customers to torrent sites. IANAL but this doesn't make much sense to me.
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by LordKano 12y ago
For financial reasons, I did two years at a community college before I went to a University and my programming courses at the community college covered far more of the underlying mechanisms of program execution than any of my university cou
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by LordKano 12y ago
I used to work with a completely self-taught programmer. He was very good in his area of focus but once he got outside of his narrow area, the consequences of his lack of education became extremely clear. He didn't have any understandi
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by LordKano 12y ago
I find that male engineers are more difficult to handle by their wives In general, I have found that intelligent men are more difficult for women to manipulate. Not to say that it doesn't happen or that it's not possible, merely
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by LordKano 12y ago
It's intellectually dishonest to cling to the principles of democracy on the municipal level but then complain about them at the state level. "Right to farm" rules are an example of democracy in action.
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by LordKano 12y ago
Oh, it certainly can change. When the rightful owner of a property decides that it's time. You have no legitimate right to demand that anyone do anything with their property based on your preference.
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by LordKano 12y ago
Or the "special privilege" of using their land for the purpose for which it was acquired and had been used ever since?
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by LordKano 12y ago
I'm not sure that stevia is an "artificial" sweetener.
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by LordKano 12y ago
Pain is a part of life. Every animal will feel pain at one point or another. If an area's deer population is too high to be supported, there will be a lot of pain. Deer will starve to death. Deer will wander out looking for food and be
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by LordKano 12y ago
That's the mentality that has made "right to farm" programs necessary. The farm was there long before the interlopers built their houses. It's not selfish or stubborn for a farmer to continue to farm, even if other peopl
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by LordKano 12y ago
Even if the government would go part-way, there'd be an enormous impact. Let's say that we legalized marijuana... The last figure that I read was that 85% of the DEA's budget was spent fighting marijuana. If it were legalized
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by LordKano 12y ago
It was not a big company. I was working for a small-ish family owned business. They had, maybe 20-30 employees. This was the end of the final email exchange between myself and this recruiting company. Clearly, the bottom line is that clien
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by LordKano 12y ago
Several years ago, I was contacting by a recruiting firm about a job opening. I was interested, I fit the description of the person for whom they were looking and I wanted to proceed. The recruiter was going off an old copy of my resume tha
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by LordKano 12y ago
Maybe The Terminator and Robocop had a deeper effect on my young psyche than I recognize but what I find truly terrifying is the day when first world nations can completely automate military and law enforcement. A human being can have inter

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