ocschwar

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by ocschwar 8y ago
Their dudebro managers are interviewing at EA too.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
I can't even play anymore. I've seen firsthand how the industry treats developers, and I cannot bring myself to send money into the pockets of the fratboy shitheels that run it.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
What we should have is an add on to the jury system. Every bill before a Congressional commitee gets faxed to more than one court house around the country. At each of these, a random selection of people from the jury pool is assigned to rea
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by ocschwar 8y ago
If you can't readily tell at a glance whether a building was designed as a minimum security jail, you can't expect the people around it to want to preserve it.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Not over long distances. It's still ore, after all. Not something you want to ship further than you have to.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
THey can build transmission lines into WA and OR and get hydrop from there.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
The F-35 will be complete when the enemy says it's complete.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
> Are you suggesting China is on track to commit genocide against an ethnic minority because they established reeducation camps? Yes. > A better example of the next tier is the gulags, you know, actual work camps... mass murder is qui
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by ocschwar 8y ago
In Weimar Germany, there was a Keynesian jobs program very much akin to FDR's Civilian COnservation Corps - a jobs program to perform forestry work and prepare rural areas for the hiking and skiing that's so popular there to this
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by ocschwar 8y ago
> If one person gets their life savings cleared out for a $100 speeding fine, how do you equate that financial pain to Bill Gates? Why should Bill Gates be punished more in the same situation for having put the work in to build a success
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by ocschwar 8y ago
> Make no mistake, they're still as boring as dirt. Boring enough that there are still cases where the police have to go out and summon residents to the meeting to secure a quorum.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
The underlying platform? WOuld that be Python or the tax law?
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by ocschwar 8y ago
People might "want cars and want to live in the suburbs." That does not mean that my city should be torn apart with freeways to accommodate them.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
> What’s the story here? Seems like Koch Bros are against raising taxes. They aren’t “killing” anything. Let's see them mount opposition for new highway projects, then.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
> Buses are cheaper and more responsive to changing traffic patterns than trains True, but not very useful. The #1 Bus line in Boston takes a route that a trolley once took. And before that it was a horse drawn railcar. And before that
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by ocschwar 8y ago
This is America! Where you literally need a license from the government just to go outside your house to fetch milk.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
It's getting pretty intense, too. Michigan and Ohio are both passing rules to limit Medicaid eligibility in counties with low unemployment rates. In both states, those high employment counties are counties with big suburban job cluster
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by ocschwar 8y ago
There is no way for it to be more cost effective to truck a load long haul than it is to pay for a forklift operator to unload your truck onto a rail car at one end of the haul and another forklift operator to do the reverse operation at th
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by ocschwar 8y ago
The Samaritans have started accepting marriages with Jews and the resulting children, and that's a pretty recent development. No idea how Mandaeans to find a way around their scriptures though, but I don't think the leaders can
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by ocschwar 8y ago
> d. (In the US and Canada) - A network of Indian truck stops is spreading along the main routes, serving some fine daal and naan bread. (My edit: Sikh highway food is a cultural bookend in India and it is whimsical to see this transport
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by ocschwar 8y ago
"Rails don't go to every department store or grocery store" Bit of a self fullfilling prophecy there. Lots of places around the world have rail slips going to the back of shopping malls. The real reason is that 100 years ago
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Not finding enough applicants for your shit job. Do you... a. Raise pay? b. Improve benefits? c. Improve working conditions? or d. Bitch and moan to the press?
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Nope. But note you said pallet. Nothing stopping those pallets from making the long haul on tracks, and the last mile on a truck. (Except politics, that is)
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by ocschwar 8y ago
The last time someone used an 18 wheeler to make a long haul delivery to my door step was 18 years ago. It's been small utility trucks ever since, driven on short hauls, by people who might well live walking distance to my house. A tra
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Anything us outsiders can do to help keep your community going?
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by ocschwar 8y ago
The thing is Ebola is evolved to have a stable impact on its host population, which is the common fruit bat. We're just collateral damage. So mutating for airborne transmission among humans is just not on the evolutionary agenda here.
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Old buildings that were built before we had a clue about lead plumbing and lead paint. In school districts that don't have the money to do much about it
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by ocschwar 8y ago
> Everyone in America doesn't want to stare at a computer, drink $5 latte's, and eat farm to table food. From looking at my FB feed, I've mostly surmised that computer gaming is largely a passtime for people with blue coll
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by ocschwar 8y ago
> [-] And yet, if either my hometown (population 6,000 when I left), or the small town where I went to college (35,000) had retained their downtowns and their walkability, I might still live in them. I don't farm, I don't work
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by ocschwar 8y ago
Julia is FOrtran-indexed, and thus anathema to my religion.

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