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by tjic 17y ago
"Got it together" ? What the !@#$%^ ? He was a smart productive kid, and he got picked on by imbeciles. Now he's a smart productive adult. He hasn't gotten shit together - he had it together. The difference is that now he's in a free market
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by tjic 17y ago
Sounds like my middle school. ...which had much in common with another government run institution: prison. * Violent and angry inmates. * Unionized, apathetic officials. * A shocking level of brutality. * An institution run almost solely fo
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by tjic 17y ago
> Speed limit should be respected no matter what. Nice cost/benefit analysis there!
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by tjic 17y ago
The surgical procedure that has experienced the fastest increase in quality and the fastest decrease in price EVER is Lasik. ...because it's not regulated like most other surgeries. Veterinary care has been improving under the same forces,
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by tjic 17y ago
> Around that time, Catherine J. Mathis, the chief spokeswoman for the New York Times Company, called Mr. Wales and asked for his help. Knowing that his own actions on Wikipedia draw attention, Mr. Wales turned to an administrator Sound
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by tjic 17y ago
If the New York Times had a policy of never publicizing kidnappings, I could respect their policy. However, it appears that they are entirely hypocritial on this topic: I've read TONS of articles in the NYT about people being kidnapped. I g
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by tjic 17y ago
You're deeply confused about what "working" means. Ads work when they lead to conversions. Public service ads work when they lead to a change in behavior. Anyone want to bet $100 that there's absolutely no process in place to determine if a
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by tjic 17y ago
Typical "clever" designer wankery. First, whether it's politically correct or not, the fact is that certain social problems are more prevalent in some demographics than others. There's more domestic violence among high school drop out firs
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by tjic 17y ago
How long until I can get that enzyme as a topping on a double-fudge sundae?
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by tjic 17y ago
Why do you assert that it "most likely occurred" because of this? Do you have any data?
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by tjic 17y ago
> I don't see where this guy even gets off criticizing her. Because she says "y'all", which indicates that she is a southerner, and thus a Republican, and thus is not NEARLY as good a person as the commenter, who is a decent respectabl
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by tjic 17y ago
> Musk says they're on track to be profitable in months. How many startup CEOs say anything else? ...and how many of them turn out to be correct?
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by tjic 17y ago
It's long been the case that we invent tools, and then tend to do the things that the tools make easy. You can see that the distribution of furniture varieties changed a lot when machine tools were introduced. Furniture got a lot cheaper,
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by tjic 17y ago
The problem that most people (including myself) have is that they jump at the first halfway decent idea they come across. Don't do that! Sit down with a piece of blank piece of paper (metaphorically - you'll want to use a text editor) and s
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by tjic 17y ago
Absolutely. A standard emerged in websites many years back: * logo in in the upper left (which is also a link to the home page) * search is a text box in the upper right. If you're not doing it this way, you're imposing an unnecessary cogni
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by tjic 17y ago
> higher numbers of women make a greater contribution to overpopulation. "Overpopulation" is a phrase used by folks who see humanity as a problem. The more people we have, the more minds we have. The resources of the solar system are i
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by tjic 17y ago
The most important bit is hidden several paragraphs in: Anderson asked villagers about selective abortions and found them open about the fact that they use ultrasound to determine the baby's gender and help them decide whether or not to k
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by tjic 17y ago
> It's not the kid being dramatic, it's the author 100% agreed; I wasn't trying to suggest otherwise.
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by tjic 17y ago
Agreed. Cell phones don't usually encourage creativity.
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by tjic 17y ago
> To claim superiority over a 14 year old girl? Not at all. To claim that the WRITER was trying to make too big a deal out of something.
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by tjic 17y ago
> to reinforce the seriousness of her misconduct, they took away her mobile phone. Immediately the girl became physically sick. Faint, nauseous, and so ill she couldn't get out of bed. It was if her parents had amputated a limb. And in
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by tjic 17y ago
There may be more to the methodology than presented, but from what I read, it stinks. They merely looked at height, weight, and location without controlling for income. Wealthier people are in better shape and weigh less (for the first tim
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by tjic 17y ago
I've heard a fair number of people say this, as a ha-ha throw-away line. ...but it alway galls me. Raising and providing for your kids is the most important thing in life ... and yet some guys think it's amusing to note that they might very
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by tjic 17y ago
I object to the sensationalist "THEY can send text messages". You've got a sensor, and the sensor communicates back along a channel. This is like saying that "stars can now imprint their images on photographic film". In fact, you've connec
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by tjic 17y ago
Cory is a self proclaimed socialist. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that when he says "public" he means government, just as if a right wing politician said "faith based", it would be a good guess that he meant Christian or Jewis
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by tjic 17y ago
> The 0.9 release is the result of a lot of work, but I want people to break it and criticize it to death. I've slagged on Zed once or twice, but the above sentence is pure gold. I'll definitely give Zed this: he's willing to take it as
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by tjic 17y ago
> Try being an African American in the US Yeah, you might end up as president.
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by tjic 17y ago
> You can do anything you want in this country, even if you weren't born in this country and didn't even speak the language. Just don't take no for an answer and always accept responsibility for your own failure. Hot damn, I love the Am
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by tjic 17y ago
> "Some" say? Who say? "Some say" is code. It means "I, the journalist, think so, and I bet that I could find at least one person to agree with me, therefore I will insert my political bias into the story in a way that isn't totally
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by tjic 17y ago
> a concealed carry permit is very easy to obtain Hell, I'm a MA resident, and I've got a NH LTC. I applied by mail, and included a xerox of my MA LTC.

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