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by omegaham 13y ago
The difference is that New York, in and of itself, has more airports than Israel. Israel also pays extremely handsomely for its security. We would have to massively increase the funding for the TSA to attract better people and give them mor
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by omegaham 13y ago
However, keep in mind that the NSA doesn't employ that many people. Furthermore, these people mostly work in the same area, have been vetted repeatedly, and are watched. The TSA, on the other hand, works everywhere, has many more peo
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by omegaham 13y ago
This. Retired infantrymen have already been in combat. Furthermore, they've already received a lot of training on rules of engagement and counterinsurgency. Many of them have an aversion to combat situations because they've experi
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by omegaham 13y ago
Military here. There are a variety of offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice that aren't crimes in the civilian world. Courts-martial tend to be nasty because of it. Here's an example: Article 92 of the UCMJ - Failure
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by omegaham 13y ago
Military here. They aren't really the same cryptologists that we think of, and they aren't the same guys who are writing programs to go through our phone records. The majority of cryptologists who are forward deployed are there to
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by omegaham 13y ago
In my own opinion, yes. The point of a restaurant is to have the food brought to you. I can make perfectly good food at home. If I don't get good service, then why should I even go out to eat?
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by omegaham 13y ago
I think that in a tipless restaurant, the manager becomes even more important. In this case, you wouldn't express your displeasure at bad service by giving a poor tip; you would instead get the manager.
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by omegaham 13y ago
Actually, welfare benefits are much lower than they were under Johnson's Great Society programs. They declared a War on Poverty back in the 60s, and it did about as well as the current War on Drugs. We've actually been cutting wel
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by omegaham 13y ago
I think there's a big difference between "We're letting you go because you're not a good fit for the company" and "We're letting you go because you're chronically late, dodge work assignments, and bas
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by omegaham 13y ago
In a perfect world, this would be the case. Unfortunately, you end up working with people who are both secure in their position and lazy. They can do the job, and you need them to do the job, but they don't really feel like doing it. I
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by omegaham 13y ago
Women in the military is a really, really complicated topic. It'll take a long post to do it justice; you could easily write several books on the subject. First, as you have said, the military has always been a male-dominated instituti
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by omegaham 13y ago
As a man in a pretty male-dominated profession, (Military) I can say that this is the case. It's exacerbated by blatant sexism, but the biggest rational fear is that women expect the environment to change when they arrive and that this
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by omegaham 13y ago
As said by Scott, suicide is very rarely a well thought-out action. It's something that is decided on a whim and often passes just as quickly. Drug companies in Britain experimented by putting pills in blister packs instead of bottles
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by omegaham 13y ago
There are Congressmen that are really, really far left and far right. They're widely seen as kooks, but they serve a valuable purpose - they go against the groupthink of everyone else and get them to think about things differently. Sur
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by omegaham 13y ago
I do agree with most of your points, but I wouldn't say that Bradley Manning was tortured. Suicide watch in prison is meant to keep the person alive, not to be nice. He was in solitary confinement for his own protection, (general popul
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by omegaham 13y ago
This happens all the time in government. Business has the lucky position of constantly scrambling to cut costs, cut redundancy, cut inefficiency. Otherwise they'll be beaten by a new company that isn't tied down by self-induced paralysis. T
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by omegaham 13y ago
I think the difference is that this completely broke the economy, while the exploit in EVE was much more fixable. All they had to do in EVE was take away some people's loot and they were good.
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by omegaham 13y ago
The Twilight Zone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changing_of_the_Guard_%28Th...
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by omegaham 14y ago
> They should consider themselves lucky if nobody sues them for the fraud they perpetrated by misrepresenting their product Wait, what? Their genuine product is exactly what they said it was. The Pirate Bay version is the "fraud." And t
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by omegaham 14y ago
You're definitely right that there is a fine line between user-friendliness and "The user is an idiot" in UI choices. Right now I'm using Lubuntu; I dislike Unity immensely. Remember that everyone starts out incompetent. They ask dumb quest
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by omegaham 14y ago
And this is what's so frustrating. I love Linux. I truly love the idea of making everything open from the kernel to the desktop environment to all of the applications you can run on it. I truly love the idea of customizing everything... and
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by omegaham 14y ago
I was specifically using "successful" to mean "number of users." People use what they like, and Ubuntu has gotten a lot more users than, say, Gentoo. Is Ubuntu superior to Gentoo? That's a matter of opinion; I'm sure that there are plenty o
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by omegaham 14y ago
What you seem to be saying is that in order to use a personal computer, you should be an expert. I disagree, and I'm glad that most people disagree as well. User-friendliness is important regardless of what system it is, even Linux. Have yo
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by omegaham 14y ago
Let's use a different example. You have a friend who is into lockpicking. Hey, that's a perfectly legal hobby as long as you're picking your own locks. You have a Dremel tool and a grinding wheel, so he asks you to make him some custom pick
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by omegaham 14y ago
Unfortunately, where I live, (smallish city in southwestern Arizona) a car is a requirement. Grocery store? Nine miles. Hardware store? Four more miles. Oh, and it's 120 degrees outside in the summer. That being said, parking is abundant, g
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by omegaham 14y ago
Have a good enough idea and a vision of how you can accomplish it, and you can find those 10 people regardless of how mean you are. After you succeed, you'll have thousands of people chomping at the bit to be associated with you, even if yo
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by omegaham 14y ago
I shoot pretty regularly, so gunshots aren't foreign to me at all. But I would be seriously, seriously disturbed if I heard them off-range. Generally, Americans do the "Out of sight, out of mind" thing when they hear about violence. They on
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by omegaham 14y ago
In a galaxy far, far away. My guess is that there are other civilizations out there, but they're suffering from the exact same problems as us - long distances, huge energy requirements, lots of time. If we can't get out to the stars, I can
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by omegaham 14y ago
The problem is that our ROE is seen as an act of weakness, not compassion. Our ROE says not to shoot unarmed kids. So, the enemy puts suicide vests on kids and sends them at us. Our ROE says not to shoot people who aren't carrying a weapon.
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by omegaham 14y ago
Sure. How about "Everyone is using it as a commodity instead of a currency?"

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