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by dba7dba 11y ago
That remind me about North Korea's official name which made me chuckle. It is: Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)
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by dba7dba 11y ago
Why am I downvoted? They were forced out from their home due to the conflicts. They are not out on a vacation trip.
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by dba7dba 11y ago
And the refugees would MUCH MUCH prefer to be in their own homeland with their family/friends/culture.
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by dba7dba 11y ago
Did’t think there were enough Germans that are conservative and/or Christian anymore?
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by dba7dba 11y ago
I have another story of LADWP. About 3-5 years ago, I read in LA Times the story of union members of LADWP filling the LA City Hall Council Meeting demanding pay raise. City was resisting it. The very next day (or week), power to the LAPD H
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by dba7dba 11y ago
I concur. It is mind blowing. Reminds of a herd being herded into a cage with not many raising their heads asking, is this right?
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by dba7dba 11y ago
Remember UK rail system. Used to be publicly owned, privatized and now a disaster.
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by dba7dba 11y ago
it wasn't until I built my portfolio and assembled what I could that was all over the place and used it as my initial resume that I realized people would hire me as like an actual employee web developer. I second this experience. In
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by dba7dba 11y ago
It was. Before the revolution.
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by dba7dba 11y ago
And how about construction companies that laid the road and made the bridges? And driving school instructors for teaching the criminals how to drive? Geesh.
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by dba7dba 11y ago
Which Wall Street top head was charged and actually punished in court for brining about the Great Recession? None. Samsung's chairperson was charged and actually punished in court (although no actual prison time). At least he did go th
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by dba7dba 11y ago
Wall Street doesn't influence US govt. They are above the govt.
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by dba7dba 11y ago
Parts maker. It's something people forget about. Britain for a time was the premier plane/jet developer and manufacturing center after WW2. Like the Comet. And that helped a lot of parts makers (like Rolls-Royce jet engine) for pl
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by dba7dba 11y ago
You'd think but such a big jump in height cannot be explained just because of better diet, according to some people. Some think it is because of additive given to cows etc.
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by dba7dba 11y ago
Same with S Korea. New generation kids are significantly taller than just 1-2 generations ago.
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by dba7dba 11y ago
Not the same. In 1960s people couldn't send around links to videos of exploding NASA rockets. Following will have vastly different effects 1) Seeing a video footage once a life time 2) Seeing a footage (even edited for added entertain
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by dba7dba 11y ago
Because you can choose read/watch/work/live that is agreeable to your preference, yes one's perception can be very skewed. Visit some parts of US and it's not 90-95%. And I think some that say they support it but pr
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by dba7dba 11y ago
Oh so true that $ amount was so little to risk damage to their PR.
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by dba7dba 11y ago
Opening borders is not controversial. It's a dumb idea.
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by dba7dba 11y ago
Whoa, easy there. It's not very hard to find a failed state. And US is not one of them.
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by dba7dba 11y ago
your energy would better be directed at getting the tax laws changed How? Who among us can outspend lobbyists from the corporations?
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by dba7dba 11y ago
They need to wake up. They are not google or apple.
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by dba7dba 11y ago
It seems no one is mentoring anyone in professional setting anymore. Stackoverflow.com is nice but sometimes face2face mentoring can't be beat. And no company seems willing to offer 'apprenticeship'. You are working on a hard
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by dba7dba 11y ago
I don't think there's any one big reason for decrease in crime. I think it's all of those factors in the article working up to a perfect storm. I do think young kids being inside home playing video games (hence less time out
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by dba7dba 11y ago
I read somewhere that the Manhattan Project at point used up 1/7 of all electricity available in US. Astounding.
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by dba7dba 11y ago
Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. "We have invented a new technology called multi-touch," he boasted, in one of the more reality-distorting things ever said during an Apple keynote. Han, by
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by dba7dba 11y ago
All civilized people that look down on 'warriors' can thank the 'warriors' for the privilege of acting civilized.
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by dba7dba 11y ago
NOW it makes sense. I was writing up a tutorial which involves working with subdomains. I was QAing the tutorial by following the tutorial along but the DNS changes wouldn't work. I know it worked before but not this time. And meanwhil
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by dba7dba 11y ago
During 2nd Iraq War, some newly arrived Apache helicopters were mortared while they were in hangar area and destroyed. US commanders were mystified because they were in the middle of a huge base and the insurgents couldn’t have know the exa
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by dba7dba 11y ago
Dang, lying and more lying. Lying to US govt about abusing H!B visa. And lying to news outlet. What do they think people are? Stupid?

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