cobrausn

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by cobrausn 12y ago
Sure, the problem is 'solved' until you are the one stuck trying to defend yourself without the proper tools because others wanted to not own a gun and have less of a chance of ever being caught in a situation where that decisio
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by cobrausn 12y ago
Yeah, sure, your one cherry-picked use case is awesome. To counter that, I recently tried putting together a wiki server using apt-get, and for some reason the apt-get installed an out of date version of the software that didn't work
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by cobrausn 12y ago
If it was an attractive, well-muscled man who went by 'Food Hunk' and he used his appearance as part of his shtick, I don't think it would be changed much. But I don't think it has quite the same draw.
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by cobrausn 12y ago
We are already dealing with those problems, legal or not. At least if we legalize and tax it we have a means of paying for it.
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by cobrausn 12y ago
Because you basically just advocated prohibition of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco, and included in your list of reasons 'I don't like the smell'. Never mind that prohibition was already tried and already failed.
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by cobrausn 12y ago
They treat you like an idiot when you first get in because for all intents and purposes that's exactly what you are, and exactly what they have to work with - a kid who will be entrusted with quite a bit of power, and you have to learn
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A Game as Literary Tutorial: D&D Has Influenced a Generation of Writers(nytimes.com)
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by cobrausn 12y ago
The bottom of the ocean is generally a very good 'containment system'. That's not to say there won't be environmental damage, but we do have some examples to go off of to indicate how much. http://en.wikipedi
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by cobrausn 12y ago
What I was always told when I worked as a nuclear power operator in the Navy is that it's not so much that the people could not be found and trained, it was that on anything smaller than a carrier the engine room crew ended up being ha
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by cobrausn 12y ago
We are specifically discussing the games industry, which has a much higher than average rate of bullshit that gets hurled at the devs from across the internet. There are links scattered all over this discussion thread that show that. If th
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by cobrausn 12y ago
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/04/23/game-devel... "Sometimes, things get worse than just angry emails and tweets – one developer said that the threats that made him lose sleep wer
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by cobrausn 12y ago
I follow a few twitter accounts of a few prominent game devs (both male and female), and I've noticed that the more attention (i.e., followers) they have, the more regularly you can expect to see threats and insults as a reply to pract
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by cobrausn 12y ago
Well currently in many cities, shortly afterward some engineering department would move in next door and make that area prime spot for tech collaboration and study, and after a while the Latino Studies department would have to be relocated
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by cobrausn 12y ago
You don't even have to go that far - Nevada decriminalized prostitution a while ago, IIRC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Nevada#Legal_si...
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Valve responds to open letter on Steam security concerns(pcgamer.com)
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by cobrausn 12y ago
Accusations of false flag this early are just a smokescreen, someone trying to muddy the waters due to political sympathies - until someone takes advantage of the situation, one can't reasonably claim false flag without sounding like a
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by cobrausn 12y ago
Let me spell it out for you then - Ukraine had no interest in shooting down it's own cargo plane. Russia would not likely risk firing a missile from within it's own territory. Who does that leave us? Maybe the people who claim
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by cobrausn 12y ago
You have it backwards. All the piles of evidence that they shot down the MA flight indicate they probably also had the capability two days ago to shoot down the AN-26, and therefore probably did.
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by cobrausn 12y ago
Worth noting: Two days ago, an actual AN-26 cargo plane was shot down [1]. At the time, Ukraine assumed it had to be a Russian missile, because they did not think the rebels had the ability to shoot anything above a ceiling of about 2.5 ki
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Microsoft acquires SyntaxTree, creator of UnityVS plugin for Visual Studio(blogs.msdn.com)
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by cobrausn 12y ago
I don't think they ever intended the 'well-regulated militia' to be an organized force. They used it in the way we mean 'militia' when we talk about middle eastern nations in conflict - armed locals organizing when
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Why I Left Venezuela — For Good(businessinsider.com)
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by cobrausn 12y ago
I think the real point there is that the professors still get paid.
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by cobrausn 12y ago
A longtime wish of mine is that every law ever written came up for review every decade or so, providing ample opportunity to adjust and remove laws to fit changing cultural norms. There is probably a downside to this that I'm not seei
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by cobrausn 12y ago
At the risk of further deviating this thread from the original topic and getting into extremely useless discussion territory, I would disagree that killing people in and of itself is an amoral goal, and even ordinarily peaceful people wil
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by cobrausn 12y ago
It's completely related, but you've got your 'feathers ruffled', so to speak. One can agree with (and support) a system in place for many reasons and still 'sleep well at night' when that system doesn't w
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by cobrausn 12y ago
Not really sure that argument holds upon closer inspection. For example, I agree with the idea of rule of law without agreeing with all laws that get implemented. By your rules, I would have to agree with all laws if I agreed with any.
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by cobrausn 12y ago
Since you don't seem to understand much about guerilla warfare, let me pose to you a few hypothetical questions, which should also reveal to you why revolutions always end up being absurdly bloody affairs, and why I want no part in one
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by cobrausn 12y ago
Your morality, maybe. Criminals have their own morality, and making the snitch a violation of that morality seems pretty rational to me.
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by cobrausn 12y ago
Negative - about as white as it gets (mostly German, some Netherlander / Irish ancestry, with a small touch of Native American). It undoubtedly has a genetic component, but I have to wonder how much of this is due to not regularly usi

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