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Comment Re:oh fucking cry about it. (Score 2) 378

The USPS is the only one of the two that does do guarantees. Still they get ragged on no matter what. I wonder what the people that preach "the USPS sucks because they are a bloated government agency" would say if this was the USPS. All my gifts got to where they were supposed to be by the time they were supposed to be there. "But private sector is so much more efficient than the government... bla bla bla". Now that UPS and FedEx are getting into the amount of packages handled by the USPS they are showing how difficult the job really is.

Comment Re:This is genius (Score 1) 397

I totally agree. People that complain about this brilliant tactic think the offensive line on a football team make it possible for the real players to shine. I mean why do they even bother hiring linemen. The center does something every once in a while, snap the ball, but the rest are just useless.

Comment Hop, skip, and jump (Score 1) 87

I built something like this at home except I used a large ball on rollers. I like their design better. I was never able to get a reliable way to do crouching and jumping and none of their videos show someone doing it. Are they stuck in the same place I gave up? Anyone see a video with a jump or crouch?

Comment I'm torn (Score 1) 190

I want to say I like Dart. I have translated some of my javascript stuff over to see how it compares. In many ways it is a big improvement. However, it still does things I hate about javascript. They are things that other people love like "you don't have to add semicolons but can but don't have to" or "functions in curly brackets with functions in curly brackets with functions... ad nauseam". They are all things I find to make code too difficult to read. I like the idea of the VM being in the browser but I do not like it limited to new languages. The browser that allows me to write in C or C++ syntax will get some SERIOUS love from me. Even if it is like Dart's side functionality, converts it to javascript. I'd love to see Perl, Python, or Ruby run without a separate engine.

Comment I'm not shocked (Score 3) 110

If the records were publicly available, people would see that the majority of stolen items/vehicles are not found unless they are in a vehicle stopped for a traffic violation or an actual stolen vehicle has been stopped. Last year there was a group of people that was stealing stuff out of peoples cards in a near by neighborhood. They pilfered stuff from cars for a month until they got pulled over because their inspection sticker expired. Successful criminals keep their cars clean, insured, up to date, and drive slow.

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