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by bdunbar 15y ago
You don't have to be a Velikovsky to appreciate that the solar system is a giant game of billiards, humanity is in a fragile aquarium perched on the eight-ball. To put it another way: I have fire insurance, but I've never had a fire. I hav
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Instead of considering all users' wants and needs, they're only thinking of their own interests. There is a reason for that: it's hard enough to know your own domain's wants and needs, let alone all of your user's wants and needs. Users a
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Older, more experienced people are not so easily used. Meh. You can manipulate anyone - it just takes different triggers to manipulate an older more cynical person.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
first kill everyone in human resources. Blaming the HR guys for bad hiring practices is like blaming a coder for feature creep. The fault lies with business directing HR to do things the way they do. This probably got started when someone
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Sure. And except for the 'looking for a fight' part I might have been one of those guys. My point was that _some_ guys may be stupid thugs but not all of them are, and most of us grow out of it.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
To me charging for internet (in hotels/resturatns) in 2012 is the same as charging for using the shower or lights. You are being charged for the lights and the shower when you pay the bill. Or was that you're point and I missed it? It wi
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Of course being in the service changes people - going to war even more so. I'm saying that not every grunt is a coarse thug. We leave the service, get a job, get an education, get a life. We leave the soldier behind, is what I'm saying.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
And 5.56 won't help you if an enemy has a tank. What's your point? My point? To paraphrase Han Solo: "Hokey religions and hand-to-hand are no match for a good blaster at your side ..." Well, not quite. But that was too fun not to use.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Before he was a professor of psychology he was an NCO, a company commander ... I thought 'different skillset' went without saying (smile).
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by bdunbar 15y ago
but frankly..nearly every frontline veteran I've ever met seems like an uneducated, violent and scary thug. I never went to war, but I was a rifleman in the Marines, spent eight years there. One thing I've noticed about me, and other guys
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by bdunbar 15y ago
On Combat and On Killing are outstanding pieces of work that say pretty much the exact opposite of W here. This might be because W is an intelligent Brit who enlisted as a private solider. Grossman is an intelligent American who accepted
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Someone who is trained to take and give a hit will always have a significantly better chance in a fight. All the judo skills in the world aren't going to help you when a guy 100 meters away tears a plate-sized hole in your back with Mr. 5
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Former 0311. After I EASd I realized that a _lot_ of perfectly normal behavior in the service is downright _weird_ in the civilian world. It was perfectly normal to make my rack (bed), tuck those hospital corners in, get the folds just so .
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I assume their todo list resembles mine, but more complex. I've got a lot of stuff (116 todos) as line items. Some of that is important, priority 1 stuff. A lot of it it is not, and will be gotten around to as time permits. Changing a test
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by bdunbar 15y ago
One problem with this. TSA is a federal organization. The pain would be felt at the local level. TSA is like the phone company. They don't care - they don't have to. Aside: the idea that anyone would go to _Tulsa_ as a tourist is bizarre.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I accidentally carried a box of .45 ammunition through several checkpoints in D.C. one day, in the bottom of my backpack. Gave me a start when I found it that evening on the train. Now, I don't know how security in the capital compares to t
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by bdunbar 15y ago
So we can steer our dollars away from them. How would that work? Most cities only _have_ one airport. If I live in Tulsa, I use the airport there. It's that or drive two hours to Oklahoma City.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
The original poster was going on about how when his startup is an enterprise he won't do things 'that way'. But enterprises work best when you have those parts that you hate in play.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Today’s startups are tomorrow’s enterprises. Many of the other startup folks I know share the same expectations about how software should be sold. They'll change their minds when they become an enterprise. Listen: we don't do things that
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Am I the only reader who was disappointed that there is no thick line of undersea fiber leading to the island of Kinakuta in the Sulu Sea?
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I love USAA to pieces. For years my time in the Marines was good only for memories (good and bad), cynicism, and a career in IT. Which isn't bad. But then they let me in the club and my insurance cost dropped like a rock. Plus they're supe
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I live in fly-over country, in a drive-past town. Cost of living here is pretty low, all things considered. So I've gotten used to stuff being far less than it cost when I lived in the city. I wonder if I could negotiate a salary increase
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by bdunbar 15y ago
As an individual, you don't get the diversification effect of #1, so you end up paying a premium rate. Hmm. USAA quoted me $350.81 per month (same plan provider!) for two adults, two children, one adult 'healthy as a horse', one adult wit
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by bdunbar 15y ago
This comes recommended to me from an email thread a few weeks ago on this topic ... http://www.techinsurance.com/ Not a customer, but the fellow who sent it along is. Not every system will catch every person. I didn't have a problem obta
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by bdunbar 15y ago
If you work for a large employer and you have a way as an individual to get comparative coverage for the same cost ignoring any pre-existing conditions, Twelve or thirteen years ago I looked into this hard - had a family, had a kid and a
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by bdunbar 15y ago
In theory shouldn't there be health insurers who are willing to ensure you just as long as you pay your rates? There are, in actual fact, insurance companies in the US that will do this. Some make it a business to cater to self-employed
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by bdunbar 15y ago
This wasn't a game, merely an animation. Purposefully crude drawings to go with the story line. Pity. If Oracle has wee little cartoon dinosaur mayhem I'd be a happier guy.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Irrelevant Digression: The niftiest progress bar I've ever seen wasn't a progress bar. It was a little morality play. As the game installed a dinosaur slowly bounced across the installer window and _ate_ a hapless user .. who didn't send in
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by bdunbar 15y ago
a progress bar for the restore page of a backup program Maybe I'm unusual. Aside from tar'ing data to tape on elderly 'nix machines, years ago, nearly all of the backup / restore jobs that I've done have been for work - tape libraries, d
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by bdunbar 15y ago
It's more accurate to say that theobromine is poisonous to dogs: 100mg to 1kg of body weight. Which is why my shepherd can filch the occasional candy bar and not die. One candy bar - annoying (to me) but not fatal. A pound of bakers chocol

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