jbooth

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by jbooth 13y ago
I know this is great mythology, but if those people ever existed in the first place, they've been pushed out over the last 15 years of effective budget cuts (compared to costs of employment like healthcare) in most domestic public se
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by jbooth 13y ago
I agree, blaming it on "bureaucracy" or "big government" is the least insightful thing someone can add to the conversation. Of course it's executed by a bureaucracy -- what else would we expect, Batman's going
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by jbooth 13y ago
Case law? Precedent?
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by jbooth 13y ago
They aren't similarities. The fundamental goal is different. Registering where you're going, warnings that the phone call is being recorded, those things are about FEAR . It's deliberately letting you know that the governm
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by jbooth 13y ago
You're right, we shouldn't talk about the contents of those leaks when we can bicker about whether or not someone is arrogant . We'll put 2 guys on TV, one will take the 'arrogant' side, the other will take the &#
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by jbooth 13y ago
How is the US further? I mean, not to defend the horrible state of affairs here but at least it's a minor outrage to find out 100% of phone calls might be listened to.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Apartheid has a definition (differing sets of rights depending on your ethnicity), and Israel just barely skirts it by dint of the West Bank being technically a temporarily occupied territory. If you posit that the West Bank is effectivel
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by jbooth 13y ago
You're aware that Shin Bet listens to a very significant % of phone calls originating in the West Bank, right? I've had friends who had access to intel and they described it as quote "just like 1984" (1984 reference uns
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by jbooth 13y ago
If some number of people refuse those jobs, then their pool of potential workers is smaller, meaning they have to either pay more or settle for worse engineers. At least it's something.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, he deserves some big hypocrisy points on that. But where are the Republicans on this issue? After what feels like about 300 years of them calling Obama a fascist who's trying to turn America into the USSR every day, what do we hear f
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by jbooth 13y ago
Next you'll be telling us that a police officer would never lie under oath.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Everyone makes mistakes, not everyone owns up to them or makes up for them.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Kudos to the author for giving him a chance to respond and airing his response fairly.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Most of the conservatives I know just want to spend more money investigating Benghazi.
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by jbooth 13y ago
The guy could have said "all religions' holy books take place in a time when child marriage was common and even endorsed". But he didn't say that. He went on about muslims specifically. Makes me, and hey I'm just an observer, but it makes
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by jbooth 13y ago
It means damn near nothing, getting to ideologically have your cake and eat it too. Reform is hard and involves details. Whining about "too much government" doesn't require any details at all. It's like Paul Ryan's budget plan that has hu
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by jbooth 13y ago
I agree with your policy recommendations. Your problem isn't with muslims, it's with social conservatives and specifically social conservatives who want to legislate their morality on the rest of us (a population that, in the US at least, i
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by jbooth 13y ago
I'd just like to note for the record that none of my friends are operating death camps or starting a world war. Yesterday, at least one American did at least one bad thing, somewhere. Are you culpable for that? Are you inferior ? So far
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by jbooth 13y ago
Inferior to what , exactly? Christianity? If the beef is with religion in general, it begs the question of why focus on muslims? I have friends who are practicing muslims, jews, christians, hindi and buddhist. They're good people.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Well, then I'll just expand on my previous comment to add racial groups to the cultural/religious groups that you should probably re-examine your views on if everybody finds them offensive.
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by jbooth 13y ago
There were opportunities for discretion at every step of this process. A bunch of kids running around in the backyard naked happens all the freakin time . Used to be more often. The technicians could have exercised common sense. The pol
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by jbooth 13y ago
If you find yourself having to constantly restrain yourself from making bad comments about (all/most) Muslims and Jews, maybe the problem isn't just that society is too uptight. This story has nothing to do with any religion whatsoever, mes
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by jbooth 13y ago
Man, just when I thought we might agree on something. A DSL? SQL IS a freakin DSL. Why would I put another layer of abstraction between me and it? Just more places for things to go wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_ef
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yes, you imputed nothing but noble motives and plans to your tribal group, while for the other tribal group, you set them up with not only a bad plan but explicitly bad motives ! Then brought in some keywords about capitalism (they're tryi
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by jbooth 13y ago
SOMEWHAT ????????????
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by jbooth 13y ago
To be clear, this is more about inertia than it is some nefarious cabal erecting barriers to Tesla. But, if the regulation was a big problem for the corporate interests? The regulations would definitely not still be here. When it comes to
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by jbooth 13y ago
The large corporate interests have the infrastructure in place and don't particularly want to sell directly. This regulation serves as a moat to keep out competition.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Well, by popular opinion and downvotes, apparently it's totally up for debate whether Saddam had WMDs in Iraq.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Well, for example, yesterday I was doing some UI work on a project I'm totally unfamiliar with. My bugs were caused by bad SQL, a null pointer exception, and some JS silliness. Most of my time was sucked up in figuring out a requirement.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Thanks, I didn't know that.

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