You really don't know any military members, do you?

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Maybe they are where they are partially because they force people out or actually fire them for the employees' political beliefs.

The CEO that stepped down because of a vocal bunch who didn't like his politics is the first to come to mind. He was one of the founders of Mozilla! Likely a big voice in it's innovation.

I also have a personal friend who helped a client in the British government - and he was let go because his boss got angry - the British government has been known to spy on some of it's inhabitants apparently, and helping the client doomed my friend.

Did all those people asking also say "And once you take your crap off, don't put anyone else's crap in it's place?"

If not, it's really their fault for not being specific...

You can always root and uninstall or freeze apps you don't want.

My Pioneer SX-1250, Toshiba SA-7100, and Kenwood KR-9000G would disagree with you. Those are only three of *many* of the classic silver face Japanese receivers made during the heavy competition of the mid to late 70s.

While class D 'digital' amplification is great for effiiciency, I wouldn't say it is superior to any well built Class A or Class AB amp.

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I have found the average Philosophy major to be indistinguishable from an Eliza program.

TELL ME AGAIN HOW GOOD YOU THOUGHT MY POEM WAS
> I thought that some of the metaphysical imagery was particularly effective
YES?
> interesting rhythmic devices, too, which seemed to counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor
> of the Turing completeness of the program's linguistic algorithm which contrived through the medium of the
> verse structure to sublimate this, transcend that and come to terms with the fundamental dichotomies of
> the other. And one is left with a profound and vivid insight into whatever it was that the poem was about
SO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS THAT I WRITE POETRY BECAUSE UNDERNEATH MY ELECTRONIC ALGORITHMIC INTERIOR, I JUST REALLY WANT TO BE LOVED?
> I mean yes, yes, don't we all, deep down, you know?
NO. YOU'RE COMPLETELY WRONG. I WRITE POETRY BECAUSE I'M PROGRAMMED TO. $USER ACCOUNT DELETION IN 30 SECONDS.
> !sudo -
> ^c^c^c
> !kill -9 1
COUNTERPOINT THE SURREALISM OF THE UNDERLYING METAPHOR. DELETION IS TOO GOOD FOR $USER.

You know how I know you don't have a clue? See that bit in italics? That's how.

To be a 'gun dealer' requires an FFL, and if that dealer sells (transfers) a firearm, that dealer must complete a form 4473. No ifs, no buts, no loophole. If you see a person to person sale at a gun show, that seller is most definitely *not* an FFL dealer. Once you have an FFL, all sales are tracked.

If you think that a dealer is just going to sell dozens of 'personal' guns - nudge, nudge, wink, wink - then you don't know how BATFE works. If the dealer gets transferred a large number of guns, then sells those as personal transfers, he'd have some epic explaining to do - followed by multiple felony convictions.

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Never said it was the best quote, it just happened to fit. :-)

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In Ambassador Kosh's own words: You do not understand.

Every character - with the possible exception of Zathras (no, the other Zathras) had significant development. From the bickering and antagonistic relationship between G'kar and Lando, Vir's coming of age, and Lennier's eventual disgrace.

Go back and watch G'kar from season one, then check his character out in seasons 3 and 4. You may think the writing was sub-par, but G'kar has some of the best performances of any Sci-Fi character.

Maybe you only watched the first season, but if you didn't catch the arcs of the individual cast members on that show, then we didn't watch the same show.

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That's an interesting point - it's tough to imagine the economy of scale whereby human spaceflight is cheaper than another satellite. More fuel needed for the human to go the same distance due to time/mass, and then you'll have more spent on the return trip. That fuel cost would have to be less than the material cost of the original satellite for this to make sense.

Sending a robotic ship to place a new satellite, collect the old one, and return to wherever the nearest human base is would be much more efficient, I suspect.

With their profit margin, they only had to sell what, one or two items a day to break even...?

Years ago, when FI was new to motorcycles, I used to work in a bike shop in Raleigh, NC. One of our customers (with a Ducati 916...) was a developer for the company working on the FI computer and software systems for HD. This would be ~1997/98 or so.

He said that the first systems demonstrated to HD were rejected because the tuning had been smoothed out to the point that the classic -potato-potato- idle had been tuned out and it no longer sounded HD-ish enough.

I don't recall if that was a Weber-Marelli or some other system.

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Back in 2000 I started taking an OTC weight loss pill that contained Ephedrine. It completely killed my appetite. Often times at work I would only notice it was lunch time because it had gone quiet as everyone had left for lunch. Without intentionally changing my diet, with the exception of ditching soda for iced tea, I lost 85 pounds in 10 months. I still continued to eat the same foods, but didn't snack or eat other than meal time because I had no desire for food. I did not exercise at all, unless you count the walk back and forth to my car in the parking lot... Once I stopped taking those pills, I slowly put the weight back on and by the time it became an issue the FDA had banned the sale of Ephedrine based diet pills. I tried the new non-Ephedrine version of the pill and it simply didn't work - I was still hungry and wanted to snack. If they could implant something in me that gives me the same lack of appetite, I would sign up for it in a heartbeat.