duffbeer703

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by duffbeer703 16y ago
That CEO guy looks as douche-y as the Facebook guy.
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
These sorts of unauthorized flights, combined with model rockets from hobby stores and household cleaners could have created a terrorist nightmare. Where are the feds?
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
Being treated like a human being is "above and beyond" with respect to airlines.
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
All of this crap is just that... crap. "Teaching for the test/compliance" is the big whine today. 15 years ago, the trend was to give everyone an A so their feelings wouldn't be hurt. Teachers are all bent because kids aren't doing well on
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
There are actually some proposals out there to build extra-national trade cities in Africa to encourage Western-style development, minus the intense corruption of African governments.
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
If the Congress is corrupt, than the state legislatures are a corpulent sewer of corruption and graft. Anything that takes power from them is generally a good thing. The upside of direct election is that at least there's a chance that good
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that if you get a data logger like this ( http://www.microdaq.com/lascar/temperature/usb-thermocouple-... ) and combine it with a good thermocouple probe and you should be good to go.
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
States like California and New York are mostly the victims of politicians in the 60's - 80's who deferred all sorts of costs to the future to make the books work. Welcome to the future. Examples: "No money to give raises to state workers, c
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
Yeah, sure. New York spends a ridiculous amount on education and is bottom of the pack in performance. My sister makes $85k as a teacher, and will retire making $105k on the current scale, with a pension of $65k after that.
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
Give Caesar his due. If you aren't trying to make money, you may be able to report it as a hobby, deduct your expenses and avoid self-employment tax.
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
Another under-appreciated attack vector is flatulence. Load up at the airport Taco Bell and you could easily light a fart that could set guy next to you on fire.
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
Corporate bureaucracy grows in generational waves. Adams was stuck in the middle. The crew in charge in the early 90's were hired in the early 1960's and defined the old boy's network.
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
I don't think you know what you are talking about. Google "dod open source".
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
You don't get how these things things work. An RFQ (request for quote) by its very nature is a request for specific commodities from an existing purchase contract, which are evaluated on a cost basis. In it's simplest form related to IT, a
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
When you have a plank, post or beam that has stood in place in an unheated barn for 400 years, it has been subject to the vagaries and every permutation of hot & cold, damp & dry. These cycles bring out the best and worst of the woo
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
It sounds like he's a direct report to Zuckerberg. Direct line to the honcho makes a difference in any job.
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
The longer you acclimate the wood, the tighter the joints are. You also are able to spot flaws in the wood. This is one of the reasons why people recover wood from old barns -- a farmer I worked for in high school was offered a substantial
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
About a third of IT staff at my employer are female. That seems reasonable to me.
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
Where in the US Constitution is the Federal government empowered to regulate the personal travel of Americans within the country? Where in the US Constitution is the Federal government empowered to compel you to be subjected to dangerous ra
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
The bigger the company, the easier it is to do this. I try to track major things that either avoid expenditure or save money while improving services or eliminating useless spending. Generally, I'm able to hit 3-4x salary. Once I was able t
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
Sure its possible. The stories written about this seemed credible enough to show that something very wrong was happening. It's also possible that the US Attorney concluded that the admin at the school was incompetent, but not intentionally
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
Amazing how clueless the MIT guys can be sometimes. While compensation and work product are great metrics for economists to argue about, they aren't the only factor driving people. In fact, I think in most instances work output has no corre
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
The headline is a really dumb conclusion to draw. What happened is that the prosecutor (ie. the US Attorney) declined to prosecute. They have the autonomy to do that. The school district managed to levy enough political influence to convinc
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
It's all about the environment. Offices work great, as long as you have good hallways that force people to walk around. Hallway conversations give you the value of the cube farm without the need to learn about the medical history, marital p
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
This isn't political, they are just making sure that the terrorists don't FOIA bureaucratic minutae. If the terrorists can read bid proposals from competing vendors after DHS buys 50 million paperclips, they win.
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
Great, another way for creepy Facebook to know more about me! I think Facebook has jumped the shark. I have a couple of hundred contacts on FB, and the activity levels are way low compared to what they used to be.
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
I always found the bleating moral outrage over the nuclear attack more than a little grating and ignorant. As horrific as Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, the fates of Tokyo and other cities were little better. The B-29s dropped white phosphoro
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
That's an unfair assessment. The first-line Soviet armored and motor rifle divisions were well led and disciplined soliders who did their job and moved on. The second/third line infantry divisions essentially levied anyone who could walk in
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
I love how "historians" now troll the media with revisionist re-writings of history with glaring and obvious gaps. The US submarine fleet had so decimated the Japanese merchant marine by 1945 that they essentially ran out of targets. That w
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by duffbeer703 16y ago
What a great school project!

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