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by bdunbar 15y ago
I suck - meant to add this last week. The things I do ... Joy Cardin Show Dir WPR Mike Crane after 27:48 Greg in Stevens Point "I get tired of the political talk in the first two segments (tl:dl - he doesn't like politics, would donate, wou
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by bdunbar 15y ago
With barely any oversight, non-existent checks and balances, no social responsibility, an the power to sway the laws that the rest of us must live by, What could possibly go wrong? We know what's going wrong - we're living it. The Fede
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by bdunbar 15y ago
they paid Howard Hughes to build the Glomar Explorer It does not take away from your point to point out that one of the reasons they paid Hughes - instead of just banging up Glomar Explorer themselves - was to provide a cover story for th
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Excellent: I need an excuse to clean out the garage.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
But before there millions who really worked for the future and now there are few. If you're pining for the days of Stalin, and people who pull together for a common future, North Korea amped Stalinism to 11. Joe Bob says 'check it out'.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I excluded people killed in that war. I'm counting people killed in purges and the Ukraine famine before Josef and Adolph got feisty with each other in 1940.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
How about this: for every 1 who suffered in Soviet Union there were 10 who benefited 'Suffering' is a funny way to pronounce 'murder'. But how many do suffer now for every 1 oligarch to benefit? Speaking of 'brain wash' - buzzword much?
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by bdunbar 15y ago
millions enthusiastically working for the future. Were these the 14 million in Gulag, or the 20 million that Stalin murdered?
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I think it's more about culture, not respect for rank. A guy is supposed to learn at least the basics of the next higher-up job, sometimes two. Team leaders are supposed to reach down two levels, ensure juniors are properly schooled to ste
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by bdunbar 15y ago
In many organizations, having a lot of knowledge about something that someone else is supposed to know more about is a good way to make them feel uncomfortable or in extreme cases dislike you. This. I worked for one org (USMC) where I wa
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I was not implying that we'd be better off with a monarchy. Only that the rascals in charge _want_ to be a monarchy, and they're not very good at it.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
so security theater applies to congress members as well as you. Not so much ... "Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge finally called to apologize about the mix-up, and the delays stopped in early April, Smith said." If you, or I, got on
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by bdunbar 15y ago
A lady asked Dr. Franklin, "Well Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy?" "A republic," replied the Doctor. "If you can keep it.” Feels like we've lost it: the monarchists have won it back. The pity is they're not even very goo
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by bdunbar 15y ago
And if Linux isn't that great on the desktop, Solaris is a catastrophe. Eh. I worked for a (small) company where Solaris was -the- desktop OS. Windows only made inroads because some clients required we do CAD work on tools that were Win
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I constantly hear people say "I'll never accept having just one monitor from now on" after having two for about a week Amen. It's funny how we get used to luxuries. I'm using 3 monitors, attached to my laptop by a USB video adapter. I've
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Haw. I forgot we're at HN - where aspy is the new normal (smile).
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I don't know about naive - that word has some negative connotations that may not apply. You can build a system that doesn't suck by copying what works, discarding what doesn't. And the Founders had a lot of experience with systems that did
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I'm struck how many of principals in the article track closely with the founding principals of America.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
It's down to the weather. But this is not a bug, but a feature. Team an Idea Man from the Valley up with an Ops guy from the Midwest and you'll have excellent software on infrastructure that won't melt. And you'll always have good backups.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Generate power from the sun in Saudi Arabia - doable. How do you get the power from there to where it can be used?
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Given the cost of sending missions to GEO, the time involved to put anything into orbit, how tedious and pesky rockets are, you have a funny definition of 'trivial'.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
A few kilometers up is not orbit. And .. foreign satellites go overhead all the time. That's how orbit _works_.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
An airplane a few kilometers in the air is _not_ in orbit. Pity - if they had the bucks and the chops to actually orbit a server ... now that would be something.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I'm not a very good speaker. I say "um" a lot. Sometimes I have to pause when I lose my train of thought. I'm not shining on you when I say this [1]: you are a good public speaker [2]. Perhaps not the best, but you're clearly better than
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by bdunbar 15y ago
"Who could possibly be so stupid as to recommend or use RDP on the open internet ..." Are stats posted of who is included in the scan? I can't imagine any pro putting RDP outside a firewall, but I can easily see Henry Homeowner with his P
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I think I remember the 'no ammo' thing. Less an institutional approach to security, more an example of institutional panic. The NG is fine with passing out guns - they probably break them out one weekend a month and dust them off.[1] But p
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by bdunbar 15y ago
the technical term is "tmesis" And I'm off to wikipedia for a while. It's Friday night and I just learned something - the weekend is off to a great start.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Well, you did it: you stretched that metaphor until it broke into teeny-tiny pieces all over the ground. My inner-bitter clinger is going to go weep to Jesus now.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Hand guns are made with the specific purpose of killing human beings I had, for a number of years, a .22 target pistol. Made for the specific purpose of punching small holes in paper. You _could_ use it for killing people, but you'd hav
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Can you point to what he said exactly? I was in the car, listening because they were going on about Jean Ferraca - whom I really dig. And it did catch me out as something extraordinary, but not unexpected, for WPR. I started to write it

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