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by lwhalen 13y ago
I'll take "'What is a non-sequitur?' for $200, Alex".
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by lwhalen 13y ago
"Why would a developer need to carry a gun at all times?" As a brief example, take a look at the recent trend of 'protesters' storming the Google Bus, breaking windows, and generally causing a disturbance. What protecti
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by lwhalen 13y ago
The absolute worst thing I've ever done for myself was to go to college. I had a 50% scholarship towards one of THE top electrical engineering schools in the country (not MIT, but you'd be in the right state if you were guessing),
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by lwhalen 13y ago
Right, but consider this - the bad guy knows when and where he is going to strike, the good guy doesn't. Say we were able to wave a magic wand and all the magazines over X rounds were to magically disappear and turn into (X-1)-round m
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by lwhalen 13y ago
We don't have a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to own cell-phones, for one.
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by lwhalen 13y ago
Pivotal people?
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by lwhalen 13y ago
lol, absolutely not. I worked there for a year, and I still have a lot of friends who work there. EMC is absolutely not to be trusted - who do you think is supplying the storage for the NSA datacenters, specifically their 'big boy&#x
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by lwhalen 13y ago
As a data point, I recently switched jobs to a 100%-remote-working arrangement with a company based in Oregon (Portland). My plans for the next year involve a move from Boston to Flint, MI (family-related reasons), then a direct bounce to
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by lwhalen 13y ago
Slightly OT, but I remember feeling QUITE shocked when I found that one of my favorite bloggers, Rands (aka Michael Lopp), was some sort of honcho over at Palantir. He's written some good stuff on management of 'geeks' and h
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by lwhalen 13y ago
IMHO, worth the money and then some. I occasionally sleep in mine, they are quite comfortable (I got the 'soft tip' additions because I do some singing too). They do require the custom ear molds, but I got those for $10 at a nea
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by lwhalen 13y ago
I bought a pair of 1964 Ears quad-driver in-ear monitors for my band, and I ended up using them EVERYWHERE - when at work (open-plan office, ugh), when traveling (plane, motorcycle, etc), even when mowing the lawn. They're incredible,
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by lwhalen 13y ago
Done. I'm always looking for ways of making drudgery less hateful :-)
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by lwhalen 13y ago
Would this work for a band, by chance? I spend an inordinate amount of time hunting down, calling, and following up with club owners, HR people (for corporate gigs), and 'regular folks who just want live entertainment for a party&#x27
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by lwhalen 13y ago
Fair enough, but according to Wikipedia's rough overview of contract law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract (because we all know Wikipedia is the end-all be-all of authority on matters like this) it appears
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by lwhalen 13y ago
Oooh, a social contract reference, my favorite! Please, show me this social contract I've signed. Where can I read the specific terms of this contract, and how do I challenge/nullify the clauses I disagree with?
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by lwhalen 13y ago
How is it specious? It seems fairly dead-on accurate to me.
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by lwhalen 13y ago
I've yet to hear of a lunatic trying to shoot up a police station, a gunshop, or a firing range - places where guns are prevalent. Also, Israel arms their teachers[1] and school shootings have 'magically' gone way down. I&#
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by lwhalen 13y ago
Those armed citizens are not allowed in airports by law. There's a reason airports, along with schools, post offices, the state of California, etc, are called 'victim disarmament zones' by the concealed-carry crowd.
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by lwhalen 13y ago
I'd prefer to see armed citizens myself.
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by lwhalen 13y ago
unless you're colorblind, in which case you're SOL.
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by lwhalen 13y ago
Not to be a pedant, but not everybody pairs up 1-1. A lot of these "MRAs" or "Game-advocates" folks are so quick to disparage, have more than one woman at a time in their effectively-exclusive orbit. Granted women can
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by lwhalen 13y ago
a form of mental incontinence, perhaps?
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by lwhalen 13y ago
Brilliant. Have an upvote!
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by lwhalen 13y ago
Sounds like a great case for standard-capacity magazines (instead of the neutered 8-rounders they want you to have). But that's just me being snarky :-) There's firearms classes out there that teach you how to effectively deal w
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by lwhalen 13y ago
Not to be a complete schmuck about it, but Glock makes a wonderful 'app' for that. Unfortunately, California systematically denies its citizens the right to lawfully carry firearms concealed - and in many cases denies them the ri
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by lwhalen 13y ago
All I want to know is, when can I take a ride on the space elevator?
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by lwhalen 13y ago
They're so committed to security, they're making my ticket asking 'why was there a security token sent to my phone when I did not log in?' rot in whatever queue for a week now.
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by lwhalen 13y ago
I would like to see that chart with 'homicides' instead of just firearm-centric ones. I crunched these numbers several years ago for my own amusement and found that in countries with strict gun control, violence in general and vi
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by lwhalen 13y ago
I don't agree with all of what they espouse, but at least they make me laugh until it hurts. If we're all going to hell in a handbasket anyway, I'd rather have a ringleader who's at least damn funny (IMHO) on the bus-ri
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by lwhalen 13y ago
You're fine. If you MUST spend that money, put it towards DOING something rather than acquiring a thing. Maybe put it towards night school, or online courses. Or, craziest of crazy ideas, sock it away in the bank or your sock drawer

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