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Comment Re:It's Jason Scott (Score 1) 123

My thoughts exactly, buy why even stop at the $5.95 box? I use to ship things to my cousin with the largest flat rate USPS box (~$14 or ~12 to APO/FPO address) all the time when he was serving in Iraq. The box was something like 3/4 of a cubic foot and what ever you managed to stuff in it would ship. Every box I sent was always packed full and most weighed 20lbs or more. I imagine a box full of CDs and floppy disks would weigh less than the ones I sent that were full of mostly books and magazines with the remaining voids filled with smaller things guys in his unit requested.

Comment Re:Take something apart (Score 1) 302

Child's play.

Just kidding, but learning how to figure something out takes a long time and a lot of people lack that ability as it seems to fall in the same category of learning things on their own. Starting young does make it easier to get them able to figure stuff out on their own and even at a young age they can do a lot with some guidance. For example I got a free 2 stage snow blower that had some carburetor issues (you really need to drain the fuel and run it dry before putting it away for the season) but otherwise was in working order. It now runs great but needs some work to ensure many more years of trouble free use. So my oldest child and I are in the process of disassembling, cleaning, and servicing everything in it, and he is 6. When everything is all said and done I will likely have about $100 invested in the thing and it will look and run like new, so not bad amount to have a 24" 8hp snow blower. At the same time I get to teach my 6 year old about how things work, how to work with tools, and how to look at something and figure it out.

Comment Re:Stupid (Score 1) 387

I love the few conference rooms that have basically whiteboard wall paper in them in the building where I work. Others that work well are the conference rooms with windows which we do write on. I have done the take a picture thing as my company only thought it would be a good idea to have one of those white boards that can print and send a PDF.

Comment Re:Facebook isn't free (Score 1) 147

I would prefer it didn't exist as well but it does so you can either attempt to mitigate by getting your real world friends to quit tagging you in shit and mentioning you in posts (not likely) or try to leave a mess in your wake. I don't tag anyone correctly and will often go out of my way to post complete bull shit. The most recent was the saga of moving to Havana now that US relations have thawed. I mean why not, it is just slightly less real than everyone's Facebook lives where they push stupid pictures and mind vomit around.

Comment Re:Stupid (Score 1) 387

Now if only companies would realize that meeting rooms need mroe whiteboards instead of fewer ones, especially if a team is going to use one on an ongoing basis. On one project we had taken all of the mobile white boards from other rooms on the floor and taken to writing on the windows with whiteboard markers. Yes it did progress to something almost out of "A Beautiful Mind".

Comment Re:Facebook is a honeypot (Score 1) 147

Just like things that you really don't care about at all. For a long while Facebook thought I was a gay Jew who was looking for a Jamaican lover, yes there are ads targeting this demographic. Also in photos I post if there are people in them I will put names but never correct names, but more of a generic description. I especially like it when the facial recognition fucks up and things there is a face in a cloud, bushes, the grass, etc. and there I will do stuff like tag myself or someone I know as being the fake face. Add in that I like uploading pictures of art and I tag away at those faces, if it is a statue of Zeus I tag it as myself. I tag locations of pictures incorrectly as well as listing my job, and home location incorrectly, and changing them every so often. Then just toss in some random posts about very random things (I have posted some Base64 encoded /dev/urandom output), as well as typing up a post but not actually posting it (there was an article about facebook using info from unposted posts a while back) and it becomes easy to poison their well. Also given that the US government sucks up a lot of public data from places like facebook I get to poison their wells also.

Comment Re:No self driving trains? (Score 1) 393

Not a Mustang or American Mussel Car guy, more of a European sports car kind of guy since I actually like to do something other than go straight. Besides if one wants to really abuse vehicles and have fun driving the regular open to the public roads suck. Give me a nice road course track like Road America, BIR, etc. and you can really have some fun beating on a car. I hate the general populations ability to do everything but drive their cars, and the young guys who try to drive like the "slow n delirious" movie on the regular roads.

Comment Re:And OP is retarded. (Score 1) 335

I was thinking more along the lines of more useful minerals like iron, tin, lead, copper, etc that can smelted with a fair amount of ease and used to produce useful things. Lets say the worlds goes to hell Mad Max style having someone who knows how to smelt metals with the materials to do so is very valuable.

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