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by bdunbar 15y ago
not all cultures believe that. I did not say that they did. Sucks to be them. Ever considered the possibility that we (humans) don't have rights. I did. I've grown up and moved on. just because you think the world should be like that
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I meant what I wrote. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness are natural rights of man, not [1] 'contingent upon the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government, and therefore universal and inalienable.' Human-centric, pe
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by bdunbar 15y ago
The goal of a country is to continue improving the quality of life of its citizens. Respectfully, I disagree. The goal of a country is to allow her citizens to have "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness". The problem with saying a c
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by bdunbar 15y ago
But you're right that I've never worried about being nuked. It's really a weird way to live. I grew up with this idea that everything could just be gone just like that: family, hearth, civilization. Things became odder, personally, when
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Until the profits collapse the market will be inundated with wannabes. When will this happen? The guy the poster was talking to sounds like a younger brother of some guys I dealt with in the 90s. That said, I've dealt with a handful of 'o
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Most of the manufacturing jobs are already gone -- even as manufacturing production rises - That seems to be the trend, long-term. But you can't say 'most', not yet. There are still many manufacturing jobs available in the US. My employ
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by bdunbar 15y ago
the price of cars/computers/milk hasn't quadrupled A quick google seems to show that the cost of milk has increased over time. http://www2.census.gov/prod2/statcomp/documents/CT1970p1-06.... (page 31) Data from 1890 - 1970.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Variety is a good thing: drives innovation, pushes change, keeps incumbents from self-satisfying lethargy.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
The kind of kids who will get high on guard duty in Israel won't ever join the military in the US. I'd love to say otherwise, but it just isn't so.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
You are assuming a great deal, based on one line of text. You're convinced it's BS. Fine. My experience says that it's not. Actual expertise trumps ignorance and anecdotes, always. it's just the data that I have That's not data, those
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Over the course of the three days, the customer made endless racial and ethnic slurs directed at B. Customer is a 'government owned military installation'. What branch? What site? Was the customer military or civilian contractor? The mi
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by bdunbar 15y ago
We're getting into 'what-if' territory.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
So I really don't get why they would make them secret. It's helpful to know the ford depths of a river crossing before you get there with your tanks. Take a fanciful example. One could not, say, send a U.S. Army survey team to measure th
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Which official map - the one posted in each station and online? Sure it's distorted: it has to make sense to millions of tourists. Most transit maps I've seen are the same: geographic realism is sacrificed to make it easier for patrons to
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I've heard in the past one theory for IT departments favoring PCs ... might be that the Macs are very cheap to administer and thus don't require much IT support. If true, that's a mighty dysfunctional IT department. Perhaps it's the compa
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by bdunbar 15y ago
All Apple had to do to ... was to have their own factory in China Like that is easy. Companies use organizations like FoxConn for a reason: cost is one of them. Expertise is another. Apple is good at what they do. Being able to make the
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by bdunbar 15y ago
My favorite generation ship story is Heinlein's 'Orphans of the Sky'. I was asking the poster about the specific plot point he mentioned: running out of food.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
the earth is running out of food, so several hundred thousand people get on a big ark ship to the nearest star. I cannot think of a story with that plot. But I am not the world's biggest fan: what story is that? Why couldn't they have d
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Well, it turns out that it is extremely effective to make money by repeatedly crashing and booming the stock market. I am not an economist[1]. Boom and bust cycles - I have read - happen as a natural result of millions of people making i
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Imagine a ship sitting in the middle of the ocean Ships are expensive to operate, difficult to keep running, break a lot. Why not park this ashore and then pipe or ship the fuel where needed? A giant array of mirrors, individually small
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Can someone brief me on what Occupy Wall Street is trying to do? I can't quite figure it out. I think Jerry Pournelle said it best "They don’t really know what they want, but they really don’t want more of what they’re getting." http://j
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by bdunbar 15y ago
The reverse is true, as well. My favorite 'after work' pullover in cool weather is a Baja hoodie. Found out a few days ago this is garb that is associated with stoners at the high school: it's nickname is 'drug rug'. I now understand the s
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by bdunbar 15y ago
It’s fascinating to juxtapose America’s reverence for Steve Jobs’ accomplishments and its draconian drug policy The author confuses American government policy with American citizens.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
That feels counter intuitive. In a car one has restraints, a lot of armor to absorb impact, airbags. On a bike you've got ... a helmet.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Industry took place at the center of the city alongside professional jobs. It's only relatively recently that it's been economical to locate distribution & light industrial jobs in dedicated, industrial zoned areas, We put industry in
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Employers should locate in sustainable, dense, transit-friendly neighborhoods They should, I guess. * Rent is going to be steep in a place like that. I worked for a concern that took space in a very nice office building. Wood paneling!
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Most civilized towns in the snow belt have a law saying the walks must be cleared X hours after the snow stops falling.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Agreed. I've done it. In my case it's not always practical - I like to come home for lunch, see the kids, have lunch with my wife.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
In an earlier life, I lived in the Dallas area. Moving to be near work sounds great, but it would not have been practical. - I lived there for nine years. My average tenure was 18 months for each employer: Laid-off, right-sized, down-size
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by bdunbar 15y ago
But mostly your child's life is not in your control. The parts that are in your control affect how the child acts for the rest of his life.

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