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by omegaham 12y ago
1. Crime pays less than it used to. Back in the good old days, people carried more cash on them. Pickpocketing and mugging was reasonably profitable when everyone had money. These days, everyone has credit cards. I frequently carry less tha
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by omegaham 12y ago
> Disclaimer—I don't myself drive a car, but I often observe people driving. I've observed both experienced drivers who drive frequently and more beginning drivers, the pattern described under (2) is the same. When you're
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by omegaham 12y ago
> I for instance can't recognize comic sans or any other font than Courier by sight. So for me it carries no insult. While you might not be able to recognize the exact font used, (What's the difference between Arial and Calibri
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by omegaham 12y ago
> Hasn't Beane pretty much concluded that this works in the regular season, but becomes worthless once you hit the playoffs because it comes down to luck due to the small amount of games? The important thing is making the playoffs.
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by omegaham 12y ago
When I was just about to get out of the military, I was offered a job as a radio technician at that station - 60k a year. I turned to my buddy (who had gotten the same offer) and said, "Who in their right mind would take 28 bucks an ho
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by omegaham 12y ago
It's one thing to say that it's illegal. It's another thing entirely to shut it down. So, the Pirate Bay's servers are in countries that either don't care to enforce or aren't able to enforce copyright law.
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by omegaham 12y ago
Both are perfectly legitimate practices if done correctly. People need a lawyer to sue if they've been injured by someone's negligence, and companies need debt collectors if they want to recoup some of their lost costs. Of course,
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by omegaham 12y ago
The result of that would be similar to medical school in the US - a very small percentage of those who apply can get in. I think it's what the profession needs, but good luck convincing the BigLaw companies and law schools to go along
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by omegaham 12y ago
There are way, way too many lawyers in this country. Back in the good ol' days, law was a profitable endeavor. It was limited to the elite, and as a result there was a great scarcity of people who were able to become lawyers. They coul
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by omegaham 12y ago
The big reason is that a scumbag company then realizes that there's a lot of money that they're just giving to people. Why do we have to take care of them when we can completely fuck them over? In a company town, the real proble
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by omegaham 12y ago
Oh hey, that's my job. I work in the Failure Analysis division; my job is to take an electron microscope and look for defects in wafers that come out of the fab. Our results get sent to the engineers, who make the changes in the fab an
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by omegaham 12y ago
The problem is that these poor adults don't realize what they're missing. Maybe they know on some abstract level that education is good, but they don't value it where it counts - time, money, and effort. They get mad when the
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by omegaham 12y ago
This is really important. I grew up upper-middle class. While I was going to school, my mom stayed at home and my dad worked few enough hours that he could help me with my homework. I learned a lot more than other kids in the same timeframe
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by omegaham 12y ago
Your last paragraph makes me unsure where you're actually standing on this, but I think that the issue with the hipsters is that they are financially indifferent. Since they're wealthy compared to the locals, they have the interes
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by omegaham 12y ago
The idea of a speed limit is sound. But there are organizations that work to game the system. A great example is the multitude of sleepy towns right next to highways. They have a police force that is exclusively utilized on the five miles (
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by omegaham 12y ago
I think he's repeating the urban myth of American soldiers getting "black syphilis" and not being allowed home.
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by omegaham 12y ago
I'll confirm his opinion anecdotally. I don't think that there's any science on the subject; despite its importance in adult development, it seems that few people actively study the interactions of teenagers. When I was goi
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by omegaham 12y ago
Comcast owns NBC. They want to have a large news audience to fit their business model. Reddit directly competes against that, as a news aggregator collects information from all sorts of places (including those hostile to Comcast). Comcast c
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by omegaham 12y ago
More nastily, it leads to the actually competent people of that group being forced to "prove" themselves. Additionally, it leads to increased failure rates of people who get into the program / position. Advocates like to thin
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by omegaham 12y ago
> It gets to a point where being friendly to women is so strenuous that it becomes hostile to men. This is a good point. If you get to the point where people are scared of expressing their thoughts for fear of offending someone who took
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by omegaham 12y ago
The wording changes in job descriptions strike me as treating a symptom rather than a cause. Ideally, your job description should accurately state what the position's responsibilities are. If you're working in a high-pressure, hig
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by omegaham 12y ago
This is very important. I would be much more scared if the justices weren't asking massive numbers of "silly" questions. It would indicate that they thought they knew everything about the technology, which would be very distu
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by omegaham 12y ago
Please tell me that there's a short story on this. I'm envisioning a cigar-chomping developer trying to lobby for building on "prime real estate" while some nutball hippie lawyer is working tirelessly to stop him while h
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by omegaham 12y ago
Luckily, the radio guy seems to be doing relatively well, although he's still got issues to deal with. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Williams_%28voice-over_arti...
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by omegaham 12y ago
> http://i.imgur.com/gs28aPU.gif I'm speechless. I genuinely am at a loss for words. Is that like a hack squat except with no legs? "Hey, you know how they have Romanian deadlift? Let's do that for hack sq
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by omegaham 12y ago
"Well see here, lance corporal, I know that you're in great shape and have 40+ points on my PFT score, but this Crossfit workout is gonna take you to the next level. Plus, I went to college. I know what I'm doing." That
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by omegaham 12y ago
Disclaimer: I'm talking about Olympic lifts and sprints when I say "explosive movements." Clean and jerk and snatch are the primary ones. Secondary movements are things like kettlebell swings and Turkish get-ups. While they c
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by omegaham 12y ago
P90X is a perfectly fine workout. His gripe was the boot lieutenant dipshit who sees it on TV, gets the DVD, and decides that he's going to "revolutionize" the unit's PT program. Add in a bunch of moto-jargon and self-ri
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by omegaham 12y ago
Create a distinction between low-stress exercises and high-stress exercises. The former can be done to failure; the latter have to be stopped as soon as your form starts to break down. The former include a lot of body-weight exercises - pus
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by omegaham 12y ago
Thankfully, I escaped most of that. The biggest difference is that P90X is mostly bodyweight, and while you can make yourself really sore, you're unlikely to do lasting damage to yourself with it. Meanwhile, Crossfit does heavy weight.

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