nitid_name

9 ms·

31.
by nitid_name 12y ago
Regardless of whether you're mocking the American Political Right or you're a member, the post is at best a weak firebrand. I still don't think I understand what were you attempting to add to the discussion.
32.
by nitid_name 12y ago
I was on a team that built a lead acid hybrid race car in college. I seem to recall the batteries were by far the heaviest component of the car; at ~40lb a piece, they were more than half the gross vehicle weight (pilot and ethanol included
33.
by nitid_name 12y ago
> Paying your ISP doesn't necessarily grant you unlimited access to every other network on the Internet. That's actually the whole thrust of the argument, as I understand it. Net Neutrality says "If I buy internet I shou
34.
by nitid_name 12y ago
Non-cyclists don't typically understand the very real cost of losing momentum at a stop sign/light. Cyclists don't tend to understand that unfairness aspect many drivers seem to feel when cyclists cheat. That said, some state
35.
by nitid_name 12y ago
In Virginia, there is no longer a gas tax. Roads are funded by an extra half percentage added to the sales tax. This means non-drivers now subsidize the roadways with each purchase, while people buying gas/diesel for their mowers and g
36.
by nitid_name 12y ago
Doesn't every coffee place in NYC use the same blue coffee cups? I haven't been in awhile, but I remember the slice of pizza being pretty consistent from shop to shop and something about it being related to the cost of the subway.
37.
by nitid_name 13y ago
It doesn't take a very complicated reading of the Christian bible to figure out that homosexuality can be justifiably "ok." First... the so called "Old Testament" or Old Covenant (animals being cut in half and god p
38.
by nitid_name 13y ago
I've played four games, and each time it declares the player with the lower score the winner after a seemingly arbitrary amount of time.
39.
by nitid_name 13y ago
I don't know, I'm a couch potato and I completed the Marine Corps Marathon a few years ago. My training started 6 months out, I ran struggled through 3 miles twice a week. My training ended two weeks afterward when my partner got
40.
by nitid_name 13y ago
Is there a significant difference between a civil war and a revolution without respect to the outcome?
41.
by nitid_name 13y ago
There is a balance between privacy and crime reduction already codified into law and common law. See: the use of snoopers and other IR devices to look for grow houses (generally accepted as unreasonable) and the use of airborne BAC sensors
42.
by nitid_name 13y ago
Did you not have a SAW gunner in your fire team? Suppressing fire is a pretty much text book use, as I understand. /brother was a Marine in Iraq, I think a fire team leader and eventually squadron leader
43.
by nitid_name 13y ago
You're forgetting: (c) parallel construction lead to the "simple police work" success. It possible that this wasn't such a cut and dry case of police work, and instead the police were handed leads that came from the NSA
44.
by nitid_name 13y ago
My company has sold a large amount of recovered cables (including terminated and non terminated cat-3/5/6) to an e-waste company for scrap. If you have more than a pound of cables, this might be an attractive option.
45.
by nitid_name 13y ago
I'm more-than-a-quarter-less-than-half Lakota (one of the early peoples to settle North America). I tell people I feel that pictures steal a bit of my soul. It has nothing to do with my heritage, but people generally accept it.
46.
by nitid_name 13y ago
CGI Federal. Please read the articles.
47.
by nitid_name 13y ago
No Yellowstone anyway right now. Gubmint dun shut it down until the political fighting gets resolved.
48.
by nitid_name 13y ago
NOTE: I am not the OP >Now I know you're trolling me. Come on, seriously? There's no need for that. >Anyway, Obama signed that law in 2011. ... and in 2010, 2012, and 2013. It's been part of the National Defense Authori
49.
by nitid_name 13y ago
In the United States, Congress controls the so called "purse strings." The House, where all spending bills must originate under the US Constitution, passed a bill denying any funds being used toward the closing of Guantanamo or th
50.
by nitid_name 13y ago
The odd shapes are one of the areas of innovation. Because the FIA limited the placement and size of aerodynamic fins (i.e. spoilers and front lips), the engineers started using other aerodynamic innovations to increase downforce. One of th
51.
by nitid_name 13y ago
How does that work, exactly?
52.
by nitid_name 13y ago
> 3. Margins are razor thin. I seem to recall reading their markup is <17%, no more than one part in six.
53.
by nitid_name 13y ago
>The right answer to all of your questions is, "it depends". For example, a society where everyone is completely free but dies at the age of 5 is not really worth living in, nor is a society where everyone lives to 100 as a sla
54.
by nitid_name 13y ago
I thought 3tap get around the IP block by scraping the google cache?
55.
by nitid_name 13y ago
Good luck getting out of those falcon wing doors when the car flips over...
56.
by nitid_name 13y ago
What sort of background thing are you talking about? Criminal? Civil?
57.
by nitid_name 13y ago
If you short the market during these dips, you can make the value that is "wiped out." What they are saying, in essence, is "this is how much money was on the table to be stolen because of that tweet."
58.
by nitid_name 13y ago
This is one thing that Alcoholics Anonymous gets right... when you're dependent enough on alcohol to get to the "alcoholic" label, drinking just one or two is really not gonna happen.
59.
by nitid_name 13y ago
I think Snowden's utility (in terms of historical significance) is in being relatively hydrophobic to the mud that's been slung at him. The only thing that's stuck (from what little I've seen of broadcast/print news
60.
by nitid_name 13y ago
>Which makes me think they don't actually buffer anymore. The bar just shows a standard, imaginary amount of buffering by default and nobody really cares. It makes me very uncomfortable how "true" that feels.

More ›