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by bdunbar 14y ago
Agreed 100%. To me, it seems silly -- not to mention cynical and fatalistic -- that the sole purpose of diplomacy in Civilization games is to add a strategic dimension to warmaking. Out here in the real world, war is a continuation of pol
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by bdunbar 14y ago
not starting idiotic foreign wars. Don't be tedious. Even if the US didn't start wars there are a whole lot of guys deployed overseas who don't go to war. Peacekeeping missions, humanitarian aid, operations other than war, etc.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Have not tried - but it's on my todo list at work - turn rsyncd into a user-defined service? See Article ID: 137890 here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137890
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by bdunbar 14y ago
why would I want to do that I would want to do that to run a batch file, see the output. I have, for example, an integration server, Server 2003. It keeps batch files for XML to JDE eleventy directories deep. It is sometimes helpful to e
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by bdunbar 14y ago
did he ever make a serious attempt to write any other genre besides science fiction? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein_bibliography I'm not sure what qualifies 'serious'. He sold a decent amount of non SF stories. How ha
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I'm surprised they are treating it the way they are other than the obvious negative publicity that would ensue. Negative publicity can be a very strong motivator. It feels like not a week goes by that 'the internet' learns about some yaho
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by bdunbar 14y ago
They were until you just mentioned it.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Why have offices at all? Meetings. Nothing says 'I'm the boss' like assembling one's minions in a conference room for an hour. But one might really want to provide your knowledge workers with office in the same suite so they do physicall
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by bdunbar 14y ago
they can operate as kind of a private-sector bailout fund, Or, as we used to call it: Buy low, sell high.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
a short summary?! i could learn python in the time it takes to read this. It takes a lot of work, study, reading, patience, and diverse skill-sets to become a successful programmer.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I don't know whose "laziness" that is. I don't habitually go around blaming individual problems on 'society' or 'the masses'. But ... It's 'us' that got weak. Our culture. We got lazy, decided that the poisons that eliminated bedbugs we
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I disagree it's become a major issue. A problem, yes, but exaggerated by better reporting and invasive media. We don't need to throw money at it, and certainly not at the Federal level. Because this isn't some kind of new thing, it's a pe
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by bdunbar 14y ago
destroying countless lives worldwide. Sure, it's a tragedy. Philosophical question - why should I pay my taxes to cure this condition 'worldwide'? This isn't polio, this isn't the 18th century. We know how people get sick, we know how to
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by bdunbar 14y ago
So shooting at burglar or somebody attacking you without a gun will cause you major troubles if the attacker should die. IANAL, and it varies by jurisdiction, but I believe the general standard for using deadly force is .. 'Not allowed to
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I'm not saying that guns are strictly non lethal tools, but there are different uses besides killing people. Good point. You can kill animals for food, and I myself have enjoyed punching holes in paper. But this ... You could shoot the
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by bdunbar 14y ago
But police would have a different outlook on that right? I believe this to be so.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Probably written wrong not degraded. That was my thought. Heck, it happened to me once. Combination of a SCSI cable knocked loose, but not visibly so, and the brand new sysamdin (me in both cases) knowing enough to head and tail the back
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Wal-Mart would get the exclusive contract for services. After that you would be happy to actually receive a package, most likely not your package. What about Wal-Mart is it that leads you to believe they'd do badly at being a post office?
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I think the mindset is different for 'what works' and what doesn't. Could be. Although I tend to think in mechanical terms: switch A goes into tab B the same way in German, or English. Guns is guns, and the laws of physics apply no matt
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by bdunbar 14y ago
It's easy for you to say that this is foolish, but in the end much less tragedies occur, My issue with this is that it abstracts 'gun' into 'non-lethel tool'. Culture and law aside, a gun exists for one thing, and it's only good for one t
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I don't know for EU police. I know what is practical, what works. With a pistol, shooting at anything but center mass is foolish.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Then you have (again, you are trained) the option to shoot him in the head, heart, stomach all of which are usually quite lethal OR you can hit the leg, knee, shoulder, arm. Why use LETHAL force? Because a gun, by definition, is lethal fo
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by bdunbar 14y ago
screen dimming is way too fast, F.lux has a preference for transition. Fast (20 seconds) or Slow (1 hour). though I want normal colors til 9pm, Change your location to a point two hours to your west?
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by bdunbar 14y ago
it's only those that believe in them that cause any sort of difficulty. And the golf course would be a beautiful place if it wasn't for the damned golfers. You can't abstract God away from the church, the religion, man. Any one is meanin
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Every religion objects to killing folk. Every religion has exceptions to the rule. This is a rational accommodation. Religions that don't make those exceptions run out of followers real quick.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
which I would love to see a return to from the wrong and infantilizing "folders". Probably too late. I work with nice guys, progammers in their late 20s, mid-30s, who have only ever known those as 'folders'. By convention at work if it's
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by bdunbar 14y ago
to the exclusion of the citizenry in general If I'm sick, I want a doctor. If I want to know how to shoot pie-sized targets at 500 meters, I'll find a Marine. Life in the 21st century is complicated, seeking opinions from people in a giv
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Per wiki Chomsky is a 'linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and activist.' I'm not sure how any of these qualify the man as someone to be listened on the topics of economics or manufacturing. asset rather than selling it
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by bdunbar 14y ago
a terrible way to make money. Depends on one's situation. As the poster described his wife, it sounds - to me - like a valid opportunity. Avon is not only a pyramid scheme No, it's not.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Not HN-ish but has she considered Avon? My wife sells Avon and it's a not half-bad way to make some income on the side.

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