mikevp

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by mikevp 8y ago
Laid off at 56. When I got home from being notified, there was an email from the HR person at a competitor in my inbox. I started work there within two weeks. Plus, my prior company had a rather spectacular special severance package for t
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by mikevp 9y ago
Personally, I just don't "get" the high of opiods. My experience has been entirely medical -- morphine after surgery, and the usual vicodin/percocet/whatever pills after injury or tooth extraction. Different people
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by mikevp 9y ago
Without lifetime (and I do mean lifetime ) map updates, a built-in navigation system is a complete non-starter for me. I bought my current car with a navigation system in 2008. It's massively annoying to me that Toyota charges mo
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by mikevp 9y ago
So, Eric Rudolph (terrorist bomber of the Atlanta Olympics, among other places he set bombs) hiding out in the woods, if he needs medical care for snake bite or something (the snake died) should get a "Don't arrest me, I'm ju
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by mikevp 10y ago
Unions tend to be for identical-cogs-in-the-machine, no differentiation between individuals, everyone marching in lockstep by strict seniority type careers. Tech types tend to be more like herding cats... not a good fit for unions.
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by mikevp 10y ago
"I am not so much pro-nuclear as I am pro-arithmetic." -- Stuart Brand. The dogma that we can power industrial civilization on "sunny days when the wind is blowing" energy is arithmetic denialism. I will believe that you
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by mikevp 10y ago
Or, "We planned to decommission these plants, but construction on the replacement plants was blocked."
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by mikevp 10y ago
The Lawdog Files http://thelawdogfiles.blogspot.com/ Some's opinion, for which YMMV, but some of the stories... Like the one where he served a warrant on a meth lab while wearing a pink gorilla suit. I nearly suffocat
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by mikevp 10y ago
Sounds like the Billy Crystal SNL routine.
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by mikevp 10y ago
Here's how it worked: www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/winston-university/n9203
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by mikevp 11y ago
Cool idea... though, along with the space fountain, it seems to have no non-cataclysmic failure modes. Though, there are proposed safety features to dump the cataclysm somewhere relatively safe.
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by mikevp 11y ago
Там нет правда в Известиях, и нет Известия в Правде
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by mikevp 12y ago
I've been using vi for (egad!) over 30 years, and vim for about 8 years, and I still learn something new about it every now and then. In this case, text objects. I'd never run across that feature before. An example of vi/vi
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by mikevp 14y ago
The problem is that they did not do the test using actual tin foil. They used aluminum foil. All readily available "tin" foil is actually aluminum. Just try finding some real tin foil. There is a reason for this.