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by fivestar 9y ago
That's because that's basically all you can do with only $1M these days! The US is nothing but a grievous lie--we have allowed a tiny few to extract all the wealth to the tippy tippy top. I can't even believe people work fo
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by fivestar 9y ago
Hell, I have just over 1/10th and I'm trying to extract myself from the workaday life. What is truly ridiculous is that I can't yet do so, largely due to the high cost of buying health insurance yourself. It's like the
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by fivestar 9y ago
Not to mention all the "adblock detected" crap. I used to disable adblock, but anymore I just give up and go away. They can all FOAD for all I care.
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by fivestar 9y ago
That's just the thing "pay the extra money"--okay, fine, but we are doing this all time just to get back to where we were a few years ago minus the "pay the extra money" part of the equation. It's not just air
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by fivestar 9y ago
It has to me--I have long femurs and the tight seats are already bad enough. When someone reclines, I am that much worse off. I usually sit in a "V" as much as possible or get an aisle seat so that one leg can stretch into the a
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by fivestar 9y ago
I don't understand how you can discern any difference between the upright position and the 1-2" recline position. I think you may be kidding yourself.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Shouldn't the pilot have instructed him to keep his feet off the pedals before takeoff? Seriously, a minute going over safety procedures with a neophyte and nothing would have happened.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Or, you know, the captain could have told the co-pilot "I have control" as they are typically trained to do in handling emergency situations!
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by fivestar 9y ago
It's troubling that airlines require reliability redundancies in order to maintain safety. The reinforced cockpit doors were good solution, and then...Germanwings happened. Wow. I just don't know if I even want to fly commercia
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by fivestar 9y ago
I don't see the US Govt. doing much trust busting or paving the way for competition at all. Just look at the sad state of US braodband--established companies have lobbied for deals that keep competition in check, the bar for entry hig
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by fivestar 9y ago
Not sure why you're taking digs at the free market since let's face it, Communism couldn't even reliably feed people or produce one right shoe and one left shoe on any regular basis.
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by fivestar 9y ago
This is sad--you people need to come to grips with your materialism and cut...that...shit...out. There's nothing you can buy that will actually make you happier. I'm just as guilty as anyone, quite honestly, but am trying to get
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by fivestar 9y ago
Because my entire summer of mowing can be done for 5 gallons of gasoline.
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by fivestar 9y ago
I doubt it has much to do with homeowners and lawn care. If anything, it has to do with the thousands of square miles of cropland that gets sprayed for insects each year. Then again, you get outside any of the cities and the windshield get
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by fivestar 9y ago
I think you are under-estimating the police response time by a fairly large margin. It's not like cops have shotspotter (TM) information going to straight into their heads and can react at a moment's notice. The information goes
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by fivestar 9y ago
It is, but I am ethically bound to not work on any project that has military funding. In general, engineers and software developers need to make better ethical choices.
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by fivestar 9y ago
I'd like to know more about this since the global companies I have been involved with are all sneakily hiding profits offshore, hiding them from US and UK taxes. They can't re-patriate that money, either, so innovation has slowed
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by fivestar 9y ago
Ours is a nation of rent-seekers. It is largely due to the Boomer demographic shift where so many people are headed for or are in retirement.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Why does everyone think this has to somehow be "mitigated?" If we had a level playing field, then winners should win, but on the next round, if they screw up and lose big, then others should get their chance to overtake them. Wh
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by fivestar 9y ago
Yes, the concept that military research funds other innovations is just all backwards and silly. It's just like when they justify the space program by saying "we invented Tang!" Really? Because it would have been cheaper t
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by fivestar 9y ago
Google came out of Stanford--there was a lot of academic involvement in search engine research, competitions, and so on at the time. I went to some of the conferences where it all took place. I was startled by how quickly Google rose, tho
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by fivestar 9y ago
I was in academia for years. I didn't see all that much innovation coming out of there, either. Too much politics and rent-seeking (gotta get that next grant) and you have to publish, and there's committees and conferences. And
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by fivestar 9y ago
I just don't think that's going to happen. Bell Labs was never profitable, was it? Look at Xerox PARC--all the stuff they invented there that Xerox never profited from, although many others did. It's just not in company DN
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by fivestar 9y ago
Capitalism can be more than just cost cutting, that isn't the only good in the equation, right? I avoid the self checkouts as much as possible because they're annoying and because I figure I might need a job as a checkout clerk so
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by fivestar 9y ago
Yes, I used and still have the HP48SX. It got me through college as a math major and then graduate school as well. And the fact that people can't understand RPN doesn't speak well to the caliber of the students in higher educati
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by fivestar 9y ago
I can't tell you that Bitcoin is a scam, but I can tell you that if I were going to devise a Ponzi for the 21st century, Bitcoin is what it would look and feel like.
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by fivestar 9y ago
Not only have tabloids been doing it, but all journalism--just look at the 1890s and how "fake" news was. The sinking of the USS Maine? Also, look at state propaganda in the media in the 1930s and 1940s and even during Vietnam--t
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by fivestar 9y ago
So you don't think your lifestyle as listed above has anything to do with your anxiety and mental health issues?
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by fivestar 9y ago
Not only is therapy expensive, it is non-existent. We live in a decent-sized city and have tried numerous psychologists for our daughter and they all suck. I've decided that outside of psychiatry, as in, someone who is actually an MD
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by fivestar 9y ago
Pretty funny that an FBI behavior expert would discuss this subject given that FBI people typically don't talk to you unless they're trying to nail your ass for a crime. Is it always about having some agenda? If so, then conversa

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