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by bdunbar 14y ago
Because America. Well .. because politics, because 9/11, because War On Drugs. new fleet of AR-15 style rifles Most police officers are better armed and equipped for patrol than I was when I was on sentry duty at Marine Barracks in the
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by bdunbar 14y ago
The vehicle is a tank festooned with gun ports. You're being needlessly alarming. The vehicle is a wheeled armored personell carrier. Totally not a tank - there aren't any caterpillar tracks. Go back to bed, nothing to see, no worries, C
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Depends on where you go. The news concentrates on Madison and Milwaukee, which tend to vote liberal. Up state, out of the cities, tends to be more conservative. We just never get on the news.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
"WTF! Is this really how Americans see their police? I live in Wisconsin, in a small town of 20,000. Our police department has an armored car, with a mount for a water cannon. We've got a TAC [1] team. Our cops carry rifles in the trunk
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by bdunbar 14y ago
At least one rich guys says 'yes'. I forget the exact quote by Dave Ramsey - who has been rich, then poor, then rich again, said something like 'People tell you being rich sucks. Nu-uh.' One can be rich and unhappy, and poor and happy. Th
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> > I'm told that polling people can be done accurately and scientifically. > And you believe that? Yes. What you have done is cited people who have shown polling can be done incorrectly. This is not a surprise. Polling can be
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by bdunbar 14y ago
your persistance in this argument I replied, he replied, I replied to his reply. That's not persistance. Where I come from we call that a conversation. Replying to you ... now _that_ is persistance.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
By golly actual data. Are you sure you're on the right web site?
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by bdunbar 14y ago
If people were not vacuous vacum heads then comments like 'shut your pie hole' would not be needed.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
You said 'most people'. This implies you know that, in fact, a majority of people think what you claim. If you're going to make a claim like that, you should have some data. If you don't then preface it with 'I think that' or 'people I kno
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by bdunbar 14y ago
How do you propose I'm told that polling people can be done accurately and scientifically. Need every single bloody point Yes.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
It would if guns have slipped by the metal detector. Which they have.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
He knows people, you know people .. do either one of you have actual data?
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by bdunbar 14y ago
They don't need arrest powers. They have the phone number for the FBI.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
For the love o' Pete - break this up into paragraphs. As-is it's unreadable. If I were a hiring manager (I'm not, but I scan resumes for them now and again) I'd give you an A for enthusiasm and circular file it. The actual content .. this
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I make $8/hour and can't pay for college. Any advice? Join the Air Force or Navy for the GI Bill.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
My present employer did offer stock as an incentive. It was a great program. Past tense: FASB changed the rules, the discount changed, employee participation (naturally) dropped, it stopped being cost effective to offer this plan.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Why?
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by bdunbar 14y ago
'Someplace safe' would be the Trinity site. It's already irradiated, owned by the government, and no one is ever going to live there. I now this, you know this ... preaching to the choir. Bombarding the moon would have the side effect of k
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Cooler: space elevator
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Space launch is risky, not just perceived as risky, actually risky. This is true now, it need not always be so.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
There are several. One is to dump it in the Mariana trench, let nature push it back down into the crust. If we're foresighted, we'll bombard a crater in the moon with it. It won't go anywhere, and if we need to get it back, there it is.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
To be honest, I don't really understand the benefit over just hitting ctrl-p. I may be mistaken, but printing a document to PDF is not something one can do with Windows. At least not without buying Adobe, or installing Ghost. Unless thin
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I don't think your link - at least the first page - supports your conclusion. Average salary for a pilot at American Eagle - a regional airline affiliated with American - is 46k. Average salary for a fast-food manager/assistant manager are
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by bdunbar 14y ago
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Airline_Pilot%2c_Cop...
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by bdunbar 14y ago
pilots (in the U.S. anyway) make only slightly more money than a McDonalds employee. Really? Pilots http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Airline_Pilot%2c_Cop... McDonalds http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Industry=Fast_Food_Resta.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
On server hardware, I perform boots infrequently, and really, really, really want them to work right. My philosophy is different. Make a change to a server, reboot. The goal is to eliminate surprises if the server is restarted unexpected
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by bdunbar 14y ago
There is an even better option that I would be fascinated to hear whether this blogger used: the Aviation Consumer Protection and Enforcement Airline Service Complaint form, or the "DoT complaint", I had no idea there was such a thing. I
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by bdunbar 14y ago
In reality I generally felt VERY well taken care of by everyone I met in retail or service industries - EXCEPT for the airlines. One problem might be the scale of the company. Your examples of service industries are restaurants, bars, sho
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Total bummer to see service delivery fail here. You are logically correct. From the parent's point of view the initial impression was 'lost'. They put the kid on the plane in one airport, she failed to show up at the destination. This w

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