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Obama Administration Won't Veto Military Authorization Bill(nytimes.com)
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Please don't muddy the waters with an insinuation of racism. He never once mentioned race, just asked whether or not something was a right or a luxury and gave his opinion. You can argue against it effectively without once ever bringing u
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by cobrausn 15y ago
I'll upvote because I don't think you should be downvoted for expressing an unpopular opinion in a civil manner, and genuinely asking for input on it. But I don't agree. It's not like we are talking about a small, rural town in middle-of-n
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by cobrausn 15y ago
I'd imagine that those two are not a mutually exclusive set. Besides, if a troll makes a reasonable point, does it matter that he was actually trolling? Truthfully it's snark that bothers me most - I can deal with someone being playful or
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by cobrausn 15y ago
License plates came into existence in the early 1900s in Massachusetts when they needed a way to tax people to repair and maintain their roadways, and vehicle registration was the way they decided to accomplish it. It was also proposed as
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by cobrausn 15y ago
I'm not dogmatic about these kinds of things - I will support anything that has a strong body of evidence supporting it (with the caveat that rights don't get violated). Regulations are not sacrosanct - there are bad ones and good ones, an
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by cobrausn 15y ago
3. Infiltrate regulatory agency. It's sad, but members of an industry are usually the most qualified people to be in a regulatory agency for that industry. Their expertise makes them good for the job, but the conflict of interest is easy t
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I find it interesting that line three of your post decries regulatory capture, while line four decries deregulation. I think it points to how much of a problem we actually have - we don't want complete deregulation, but the regulations we
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by cobrausn 15y ago
The express version is free and is meant for hobbyists and individuals. If you were to form a small company, you might be able to get a bit more than that for free. http://altdevblogaday.com/2011/12/03/you-should-be-using-mic...
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by cobrausn 15y ago
I've heard the best way to tackle the Quake codebase was to pick a 'component', such as the renderer, and start to understand how that works. Work your way out, one component at a time. Eventually the bigger picture comes together. The s
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Actually, me and a team of two other developers recently applied for a government contract for the NIST that would have had us fixing a bug in OpenSceneGraph that was causing it to perform worse when more graphics cards were added. Due to w
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Right, I agree. My original reading of the comment had me interpreting it as 'changing or attempting to change sexual orientation ever is barbaric', which I had a slight disagreement with depending upon the context. Apologies.
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by cobrausn 15y ago
I'm not being contradictory for the sake of doing so, I'm being contradictory because your assertion is incorrect - many people might actually wish to alter their sexual orientation, and there is nothing 'barbaric' about it, provided we hav
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Sorry, but how is this barbaric if the person undergoing the 'treatment' wants to undergo it? There are a lot of men who want to be women, I'd imagine there are some homosexuals who wish they were straight (and vice versa). If we had the c
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Any Catholic who told you that was pushing an agenda. Well, another agenda. [Catholic...ish?]
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Also, we are very litigation happy over here. If I were a workplace, I'd be worried about a lawsuit over a 'hostile work environment' to be honest.
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Also in Australia, at a bare minimum. I'm remembering the banker gaffe from a few months ago.
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Yes. Yes it has. http://theoatmeal.com/blog/jimmy_wales Note: Though I would normally not post these kinds of links, it's somewhat relevant to the topic at hand.
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Yes, but we don't have a completely free market. We can (and do, all the time actually) put in place rules and regulations that make favorable things which would not be under a completely free market. This can include laws against doing t
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Credit cards are incredibly useful for two reasons, IMHO. 1. It's like having a proxy between your actual accounts and your purchasing. A stolen credit card is annoying and easy to rectify. A stolen debit card is terrifying. 2. Sometimes
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by cobrausn 15y ago
I have worked for at least one game development studio that uses perforce on a massive Unreal-Engine codebase. I have no major complaints about it - I'd imagine the primary reason it was used was for administration purposes (tighter contro
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by cobrausn 15y ago
I believe your link is broken - it just leads to this page.
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Regarding diversity in the military, I can only speak of my own experience, but when I was in the military I found it to be a very interesting atmosphere. Unlike the rest of the US, where race is an extremely touchy subject and anyone bring
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by cobrausn 15y ago
So since you know, what is that party line? I've found that anything said in a civil manner here with a minimum of snark is usually safe regardless of the opinion expressed by the content.
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Should they be able to plant a gps tracker on your clothing without a warrant? After all, they could get the same information by just following you. This is just easier. Why would it be any different than your car? It's not actually on y
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Having been there a bit recently, I can't really say things have changed for the better. A lot of discussion and sigs are focusing on money these days. Politics surrounding money is a more common topic than tech.
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When quality of life is taken into consideration, especially against most of human history and large portions of the world today, then I'd say most of the first world is already 'rich', we just aren't billionaires.
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That's easy to say when you only have a small amount of money invested in ownership. If you had a lot more riding on this, you might take the opposite position. Not saying your current one isn't correct, but still...
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My best guess to this would be the government would have to temporarily (or permanently) set up a federal bank that would get the cash out, perhaps giving back a larger amount than normal that year in tax returns that have to be picked up i
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by cobrausn 15y ago
I had this problem originally. It's not Chrome. :-) I originally entered in my birthdate as 06/30/1980, but they are using European date style. As such, it would have to be entered as 30/06/1980 to make sense.

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