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by bdunbar 15y ago
It is not _supposed_ to be leftist, but that's sure the way they lean. I hear this asked, once in a while, on WPR, when the station manager is on a call-in show in the morning: why do you guys program to the left. And the answer is (I'm pa
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by bdunbar 15y ago
The commenter in question is afraid of a little girl with a gun. So .. me _might_ well be afraid of plastic bags.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
You're over thinking the problem. We're not ... I'm not ... talking about anything but intent to harm. Marine has it. Cheerleader doesn't. Cheerleader is harmless. Marine isn't. This intentionally simple example excludes random fumbling wit
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by bdunbar 15y ago
1. I don't stand anywhere. I yell like a banshee, run forward, knock her on her butt and smash her over the head with the bazooka. Or, I talk nice, put on my authority voice, walk forward and then knock her down and smash her over the head
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I never thought of the word 'friggin' as super-underlining, but that is a good simile and what I intended it to mean. Thanks!
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by bdunbar 15y ago
The point is not who is more dangerous _in battle_. The point is who is more dangerous _to me_, Your point and my point diverged somewhere upthread. It's not about 'battle', never was to my mind. It's about intent, will, and capability.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Nothing offensive was intended by the word 'friggin'. Sorry you got your feelings hurt. BTW a friend of mine actually bought a Yugo. We made fun of it at the time, but in terms of gas mileage and how much he paid for it, it was a big winne
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I'm sorry, but a cheerleader with a bazooka is most decidedly dangerous. Not a bit. The bazooka is not dangerous, the _operator_ is. Thought experiment. We've got a Thunderdome. Make it bigger (for kicks) and with more protection so sh
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Point taken. Give it a few years, they will be.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I'd be more worried about the cheerleader. Sorry, wrong answer. It's not 'staying in control' it's the will to use the weapon to cause harm that 'will or may result in death'. A cheerleader has no training, is not desensitized, hasn't be
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by bdunbar 15y ago
If we're doing anecdotes ... Friend was a former Forth Worth police officer. His first week of patrol his issue pistol was broken. He didn't find out about this until he pulled it on a guy and it went 'click' not 'bang'. It amazed me that
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by bdunbar 15y ago
If your average American knew how little firearms training an average cop actually has they _would_ be afraid.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
He could be holding a small pistol - it can still kill me. A gun is just a thing, a tool, it can't do anything. What matters is the operator, his intent. A Marine with his bare hands is dangerous. A cheerleader with a bazooka is not.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
It's simple. If there is no work where you are, then you need to move to where the work _is_. Lots of places are hiring - we are, in the middle of inner nowwhere Midwest. I hear there are jobs going begging in North Dakota, in the oil fie
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by bdunbar 15y ago
It's also the only place that made me take my shoes off before the metal detector, which I found quite humiliating I never thought about but ... that is sure a bonus for a TSA agent looking to be on top of a given interaction at the check
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by bdunbar 15y ago
(BTW - M-16s aren't "big scary".) You know that, I now that. But to someone who rarely or never shoots an M16 is indeed big and scary. Or just big. Two years ago we had an exchange student from mainland China. He'd never _seen_ a gun n
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I have not seen any myself recently - I'm an infrequent air traveler. But for up to six months after 9/11 there were a lot of National Guard guys hanging around, with M16s. Knowing how government work it would not surprise me at all to rea
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by bdunbar 15y ago
What offended you - 'Communist' or 'friggin'?
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by bdunbar 15y ago
They probably shouted at her for the best part of an hour. Sounds like current TSA procedure, amped up a few degrees. No, I'm not being a smarty-pants. When one's country is compared to Communist Yugo-friggin-slavia it's time to pay atte
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by bdunbar 15y ago
...is a small ROI? You, me, and the original poster agree: it's cheap compared to the potential downside. Now, go try and tell guys with actual money about this, see if you walk away with the bucks for a Mars-based insurance policy.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
One server one app - we do this in production and dev, for a number of reasons. The biggest reason is that it's just easier. Easier to build a new host, install services. If you need to bring the vm down it only affects one application.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
In context of living in a place where air is metered, it makes sense. It is possible I read too much SF, of course.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I have noticed that my annoyance at a speaker's 'um' goes way up when I don't like the speaker, or the subject matter is turning me off. When the new division head announced that we'd been acquired because Sprint loved everything about us,
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by bdunbar 15y ago
"The music swirled and dived for a moment. Another voice broke in, presumably Halfrunt. He said "Vell, Zapbod's just zis guy, you know?" but got no further because an electric pencil flew across the cabin and through the radio's on/off-sens
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Kara Is Self-Aware It's a game. Pity. I thought the long AI winter was over.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I wonder if he was deliberately lying, or if he sincerely believed that.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I don't know the United Kingdom - the only Brits I've met have been guys who left to work elsewhere. And my world travels only took me to Asia. And that was while ago. If you're familiar enough with the UK and the US, and health systems
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Should we[1] be shopping around for doctors? My wife did this with * Her cardiologist. He did a _great_ job of heart surgery after her heart attack, but she wasn't thrilled about the way he ran his clinic on her follow-up visits. So she
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Long term health care will never be free, there will have to be minimum payments/co-pays and the like. Otherwise people will simply abuse it, People never value what they don't pay for: it's just the way folk are. One can see this on a mi
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Concerns about asteroids or global warming and so on are moot. We won't be here as a species pumping CO2 into the atmosphere or waiting around helplessly for a rock to crash into the surface. Unless a rock the size of Texas hits tomorrow.

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