You can't really believe that every single man who believes in "Men's Rights" is "dedicated to opposing introspection and protecting established norms at all costs."?
That's like believing that all women who are feminists believe 90% of men should be phased out.
Get some perspective.
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Concrete Poisoning
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Maybe not a regular character but at least the Physicist motorcycle rider appeared to be "normal" in a pick up girls, ride a motorcycle (vs Howard's "Hog"
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Agree. Up north of Denver I had those Penis mushrooms growing all over the back yard. I had to turn off my sprinklers for a month. I just kicked them back on for a week or two (aerating Wednesday) and then it's time to pack it all away.
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Yep. Been playing Starcraft and Brood War again. I'd love to see Command and Conquer get reissued to work on newer platforms (nothing like a tank rush at Plaid Speed
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Not in the
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Really? A woman (or man) locked in a trunk doesn't come to mind? Sure the kidnapper should be taking the cell phone assuming there's only one but there's a chance it was missed or there's a second one. And yea, road noises would keep the attacker from hearing a conversation.
And corner cases exist for lengthy picky discussions
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I forget...
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80 mph in eastern Wyoming.
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A woman hiding under the bed or in a closet with an attacker in the house comes to mind.
I think the main problem is the younger generation has been brought up on smart phones and internet so expect to be able to text to 911. The text 2 911 product is being made available so the folks who do text will actually get an answer.
And the nice thing about texting to 911 is you can send images to 911 as well where calling just gets you a voice.
Plus texting to 911 does get a response from the service. It's not sending it into the ether hoping someone sees it like Facebook. The PSAPs that purchase the product will have someone manning the text 2 911 console.
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No no, as in second drink of beer. Not second beer
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We deal with highly available systems and we have a very good team dynamic so we are somewhat picky but yea, these are some of the questions we ask and some answers we've been given. Mostly in the followup fact to fact interview. A majority don't even get past the simpler phone interview.
What software uses the following common ports: 20/21, 22, 24, 25, 80, 443 or we'd ask the reverse, what port is dns on, tcp or udp? What port is http (we've received 8080 for this one). Worse the followup question is, okay if you don't know what the port is where would you find it? A recent interview had the guy providing Google first then looking it up in his Network+ book.
The biggest issue we have I think is our offices are in North Denver and the Tech Center is in South Denver. So most tech folks are in Castle Rock, Highlands Ranch, Aurora, and around those areas. So commuting would be north through Denver. We do have IBM and Boulder up here so we should get some folks.
I think most admins might either be happy where they are, don't want to deal with the commute, or perhaps are looking at something beyond Unix Administration like VMWare, SAN, and the like.
We've interviewed folks from other states (Washington, Maryland, Ohio, New York) without much luck. We did bring one guy in for a face to face but he failed that (I wasn't in town for that one).
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Or was one. Lots of drinks are not palatable if you don't get into the peer pressure as a kid/young adult. I was a Mormon as a kid so didn't drink coffee, tea, or alcohol (and didn't smoke of course). I'd even avoided caffeinated beverages like Coke and Mountain Dew. As an adult, I encountered coffee, etc while I was in the military and while I was dropping away from the church, none of it had any attraction to me. I tried coffee once when I was in the military and didn't like it (I only had a few drinks of it). I had my first alcoholic drink when I was 47 (10 years ago) and in Athens Greece (Ouzo) and have tried a few different hard drinks since then. Other than Ouzo, everything tastes like medicine. I have also tried different beers in the past 5 or 6 years (like 1 or 2 different beers a year) and found a couple that are palatable (Corona was one). I had a Christmas beer at a local brewery that wasn't bad. It was identified as less bitter. But I find I can only take a single drink of beer in general and it's good but the second drink is hard to get down and I need to hold my breath to get the rest down or just not drink it.
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All the comments here seem to be related to programming but IT is more than just that. We manage over 1,000 servers and can't seem to find a Unix admin in the area that is interested enough in Unix to dig into how things actually work. I mean, if your response to "how do you make a network interface persistent" is "first I click on the menu", we'll likely knock a point or two off. We've had prospective Unix admins admit they're afraid of soft links. We do a lot of scripting so telling me you don't know how to script is likely to knock a point or two off. And it'd be nice if you knew how to disable programs from starting up by understanding how the files are set up in
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I used a program called Megabasic back in the mid 80's that used paren'd colons to slice up a string.
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"It is hard to overstate the debt that we owe to men and women of genius." -- Robert G. Ingersoll
