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by jmccree 13y ago
I'm not sure if you're referring to a certain jurisdiction in the US, another country, or speaking "theoretically per your interpretation of the US constitution if a case made it to the supreme court", but that is not ac
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by jmccree 13y ago
As I mentioned to the other poster, off duty officers here (and many/most places) work in their department issued uniform with their badge/radio/gun with full police powers/immunity. Besides neighborhood patrols, another
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by jmccree 13y ago
By off duty, I mean fully in department issued uniform, badge, gun, and radio with full police authority same as on duty.
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by jmccree 13y ago
I'm not really not sure about the unconstitutional argument, but it's extremely common. Normally it's done more explicitly by hiring off duty officers. NYPD has the paid detail unit to organize private details for businesses.
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by jmccree 13y ago
It's pretty common for food and drink products. I believe Coke and Pepsi are (in)famous for doing this. They basically rent the shelf space in grocery stores and then maintain the stocking of it so they fully control the presentation.
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by jmccree 13y ago
Interestingly enough also the way (pre-ban) machine guns and grenades are managed by the feds. Legal, but expensive and time consuimg tax stamp required. Obamacare fines were also considered to be a tax. Taxation is limitless.
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by jmccree 13y ago
This goes back to peering between Cogent and Verizon, and possibly "legitimately" has nothing to do with netflix the business. Verizon's public peering policy states: "1.2 Traffic Exchange Ratio. The ratio of the aggrega
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by jmccree 13y ago
1080P security cameras and above are easily available, and likely affordable to a company like MS.
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In many areas the Telco company also offers TV service.
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by jmccree 13y ago
Our HOA fees cover providing internet access for every resident. I've found the end-user "tech support" to be totally incompetent. (A call back 3 DAYS after I submitting traceroutes showing my traffic was stuck in a routing l
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by jmccree 13y ago
I think what you're missing is DVCS is a subset of "version control". A large percent of developers have moved from CVS to SVN and for the past few years are hearing Git is the successor to SVN. So they are comparing the new
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by jmccree 13y ago
Protests in front of your local federal court house does nothing. It annoys the residents when FPS brings out the dogs to sniff trash cans and the college newpaper camerman is blocking your front door, and the real news media couldn't
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by jmccree 13y ago
They posted over 3 billion dollars in shipping losses in 2012 and are currently saying they will likely increase the cost of prime soon. Perhaps if you haven't used prime you may not realize how much many prime subscribers use it, I&#x
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by jmccree 13y ago
Have you mentioned this to amazon? I had a book a few days late and amazon overnighted me another one and told me to keep the other one when/if it arrived. Their customer service is rather decent in my experience.
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by jmccree 13y ago
Last I heard amazon was losing an average of $11/yr on prime subscribers. They are relatively famous for caring little about making a profit in the short term. I'm not sure how often you order from Amazon, but just a few overnight
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by jmccree 13y ago
I love how PHP is mentioned in one paragraph in a long interview, yet gets two bullet points and the title here at HN. Hate much?
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by jmccree 13y ago
You are lucky if deadlines with actual penalties have been a "tiny minority" of your experiences. The problem I experienced too much at some companies is "management" making artificial deadlines become real deadlines. VP
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by jmccree 13y ago
I feel it's unfortunate there's likely a lot of people newer to or unfamiliar with the bandwidth market that will not fully grok this comment.
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by jmccree 13y ago
There's a sub-species of programmer that loves /programming/. Not getting things done with code, but the act of writing code itself. They'll happily over engineer and refactor things for eternity if left unchecked. Leave
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by jmccree 13y ago
I'm curious why you don't buy the "we're all criminals" line? Since the federal government cannot even produce the number of current federal crimes, it's at least fair to say none of us can possibly know that w
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by jmccree 13y ago
I went T60P to T520. Its about time for an upgrade and I'm not looking forward to the keyboard setup on the W540. At least they left the trackpoint...
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by jmccree 13y ago
Buffet is the one (via one of Berkshire Hathaway's insurance companies) who is doing the insuring. Quicken loan is paying buffet/berkshire a, likely large, premium to pay the billion if someone wins. Given the odds are 1 in not go
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by jmccree 13y ago
You do realize that all Buffet is doing is providing the insurance through one of the many insurance companies he owns via Berkshire Hathaway, and that Quicken Loans is paying the premium. Berkshire Hathaway is one of the largest re-insurer
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by jmccree 13y ago
I'm not sure if you mean what's so hard for a "linux evangelist" or in general. Linux probably has the best and easiest GPG integration. In general, encrypted mail is practically useless for every day communication and p
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by jmccree 13y ago
I've never been asked a single question on if or where I went to high school in my entire career.
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The cost of underground construction varies significantly depending on local geological, soil, and water table conditions. In some areas with deep well drained soil underground construction is relatively cheap, as it's basically just e
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by jmccree 13y ago
It amuses me people want PHP to follow the path of Python or Perl. On the latest version of Ubuntu: PHP 5.5, Python 2.x Perl 5.x. PHP has gradually improving, adding functionality, and spreading minimal BC breaks over a long period. If PHP
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by jmccree 13y ago
I suspect a third party would be far more likely to expect only one term and attempt to accomplish as much as possible without worry for re-election. Though there have been so few examples of "true" third party wins at high levels
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by jmccree 13y ago
You'd likely have to leave or face a felony with 10 years prison sentence. (Per H.R. 347, it's 10 years for entering a secret service permanent or temporary restricted area without permission with a firearm.)
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by jmccree 13y ago
Thanks for that! I was unaware of that exemption, apparently that was added in Jun 13. It doesn't seem to be a widely published exemption.

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