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Bunch of MAP-pologists up in here.
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GasMonkey posted...

they make me chuckle sensibly. nobody who makes them ever carries them out

More to the point, they're seldom capable of carrying them out. People who don't have guns or martial skill tend to talk a lot of BS, while people who can actually do damage prefer to keep their mouths shut.
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I first played Diablo in Windows 95 on a 100MHz Pentium system. Blew my mind at the time. Even played online and was taught the duplication trick by another player. Fun times, but CraptiBlizz is cancer, and any Diablo after II simply doesn't exist in my mental space.
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Yeah, my experience with canned chicken in the US is that it's shredded/chunked white meat, similar to tuna, but not as minced. Bird in a can is very European.
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It didn't taste all that great. It was basically Trix with vague shapes.
Donkey Kong cereal was like... Captain Crunch, but slightly different?
Mister T and Batman cereal were just Captain Crunch re-shaped.
Pac Man cereal was kix with marshmallows.
The first Ninja Turtles cereal was rice chex with marshmallows.
Pokemon cereal was similar to that.
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rogerskg1979 posted...

Your analogy with the trip is very poor. If someone invites you on a trip, that means it's a done deal and you're going. Sending a resume to a company isn't a done deal at all. There's a very slim chance that sending a resume to any company will result in a job offer. Yes, you can pack and take time off from work to get ready for the trip, but I hope to god you didn't do something that stupid when you sent the resume. I hope you didn't quit your current job hoping that you would now have a new job. That would be very stupid of you. It's a ridiculous analogy comparing a resume to a trip.

Are you intentionally being this dense? I was recruited. I did not apply, and was directed to provided my information as I was told it was a necessary formality.
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Canned chicken is best in my opinion if you mix it with Miracle Whip (or generic equivalent) and chopped, cooked bacon, to make cold chicken bacon salad sandwiches. If you want to cook with diced chicken, it's best that you buy chicken raw/frozen and cook it properly.
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rogerskg1979 posted...

Well that's really petty of you to hold a grudge over something so insignificant. You do realize that you're not the only person who applies for a job, right? There are hundreds (sometimes even thousands) of people who apply for the same job as you. What most likely happened is that they were considering you, but in the end there was someone who was better qualified and so they hired that person instead. You also can't expect a call back just for them to say that they aren't hiring you. Very few companies do that. Think about it logically for a minute. If there are hundreds (thousands) of applicants, then you can't expect the company to call each and every one of them just to say that they aren't hired.

I was personally recruited by a manager out of the blue. I didn't initiate contact with the company. Not even contacting someone to tell them to look elsewhere is worthy of earning no small amount of ire. It's like inviting someone to go on a trip, and then not telling them that you decided not to go after they packed and took time off of work.
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Probably a rabbit on a rural highway overpass, not sure. I don't hunt because of the rampant parasite infestation in most of the game in my area. Heard some horror stories. I'd rather not be playing Resident Evil 4 in the woods.
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Does time travel move you across infinitely varying timelines, never to return to your own timeline? If so, it has nothing to do with free will. If you go back in time and play the lottery, you moved to a timeline where you appeared from a different timeline to buy lottery tickets. When you return to "the present", you come to a timeline that diverges from your appearance in the relative past via time travel.
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I love how the media loves to conflate suicides (with guns) with murders, to grossly inflate their narrative. But we're not allowed to dig into why nearly two orders of magnitude more men commit suicide than women. Gun culture is buying firearms, maintaining them, practicing with them, and teaching others about them. Typically, that's something a father does with his son or daughter.

Now which demographic in the US comes predominantly from homes without fathers, and with abusive mothers? And why is that demographic involved in the most violent crimes per capita? Why don't we address the breakdown of the family unit as the most important crime prevention factor in western civilization, if not human civilization?

Nah, guns bad, orange man bad. Impeach guns, ban orange man.
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Guess he'll have to find some other ethnicity to pretend to be in his next attempt.
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Use your knuckle.
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I had a former coworker (manager) contact me out of the blue and ask me to send my CV and resume to them for a job managing IT and telecom equipment. They kept stringing me along for months, then dropped contact with me. My CV and resume contain relevant information, such as my prior experience in managing a computer repair store, and my work with a global telecom doing everything from IT to network security to managing corporate and US government accounts. The person who had invited me was someone I considered a friend and an intellectual peer, and we had worked together for years.

Now I have a grudge.
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The media would have nobody watching if they weren't constantly race-baiting and stirring up discord.
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The worse I feel, the less frequently I eat, and even when I do, it's typically one item and a drink, such as a simple sandwich and tea, or a bowl of oatmeal and water.
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Cobbled together some fried rice and chicken mess with garlic, soy sauce, black pepper, and chicken stock. It was alright.
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We're not certain of the identity of the man responsible for making my baby fall in love with me, but we've enlisted a Secret Agent Man to aid us, for as we all know, the Night Has a Thousand Eyes, and those eyes will tell on you.
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The thing SJWs like to do is make up narratives from whole cloth, claiming that so-and-so is a member of a hate group, is a Nazi, and such. Employers believe them, because why would someone go on the Internet and lie? It's like a the many false r**e accusations. Mad at a guy? Claim he assaulted you. He'll be ruined and unemployable, and you can cry crocodile tears on TV and make money from GoFundMe or something.If the truth comes out, the damage will still have been done, and if he goes to prison and is beaten to death for the false crime and wrongful conviction, oh well, it's not your problem. It was his just desserts for doing... I dunno, something, right?
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The trick is to ride a bit of a distance from the side of the train, so the enemies riding on it can be hit. If you're right next to the train, there's no line of sight.
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You don't remember video replies if you think they still exist. Putting a video URL in a text response is nothing like that.
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When I worked for [major mobile phone company], most of the people calling in had not changed the batteries. Most of them were depressingly stupid, too. People would argue for minutes on end that the iPhone didn't have a home button, or that because they paid the bill, they owned the account that was not attached to their name or SSN.

I have linked detectors, where if the batteries of one are going, they all beep, but in sequence starting with the one with the low batteries, then the others. Very handy. I use rechargeable batteries, so I always have some ready to pop in, and the near empty ones go in the charger. Not difficult, if even I can manage it.
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Remember not being suspended for reporting on the news?
Remember the 5 star review system?
Remember video replies?
Remember friends?

The more popular something becomes, the worse it gets. Popularity breeds mediocrity. Maybe hipsters have a point. Maybe X thing was better before it was cool.
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Yeah, yeah, Cheers.

Breaks are a pause button, not a reset.
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If nothing else, Kanye West can articulate his ideas more clearly than most Gamefaqs users. Also he hugged the President. So of course the media has to insult him and call him stupid and crazy.
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Most criticism of Donald Trump is just plain insults and mockery, not a point by point list of something he could have done better, that cannot be refuted easily.

And criticism of Islam is a capital offense in majority Muslim countries. Of course, a lot of things we take for granted in free nations is "haram". For instance, sending your wife and daughter to the grocery store and to the ice cream shop while you take a shower and relax with a beer after building a deck that morning.
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Enjoy anything for more than a few minutes.

Whistle with my fingers.
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Look at the statistics of who is doing the murdering, and see if guns are still the problem.
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Oh, and for the record, having an Electronic Engineering degree was a major red flag even before the last job I worked, which I have been informed is its own kind of resume poison; as in companies will put your application on the bottom of the stack if you worked for a certain set of companies, even if it was for a decade.
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The overwhelming majority of firearm deaths are suicides. Following that is gang on gang shootings. Murders outside of gang BS are comparatively few, and fewer still are deaths caused by carelessness. You are statistically more likely to die in your bathtub, shower, or swimming pool (not even combined, choose any one) than to be killed by a gun.
With that out of the way, everyone who is not a felon, abuser, drug addict, illegal alien, or a confirmed danger to the public, should have at least one gun. As has been said many a time before now, an armed society is a polite society. If everyone on the street COULD have a pistol on them, then mugging people becomes a bit too risky. Why should women and the elderly be expected to outrun or outfight a criminal who could bench press them? Should everyone sit around waiting to become another statistic? There have been several times where I had needed a gun, and didn't have one. Didn't end well, either. Even my local police explicitly told me that they prefer the law-abiding public to not only be armed, but to leave them with only one side of the story in the case of a break-in/mugging/home invasion.
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I know a few cops and other people in law enforcement, and it's worse than you can imagine (at least in the US). Police forces tend to avoid hiring those with a high IQ, as they're more likely to countermand orders, and do things that result in a lot more paperwork and trouble with the city. They want people who will follow orders and not report misdeeds. Even if you don't get nothing but hamfisted morons on the force, there are two major issues with corruption. Internal corruption, where if you report any of it, you are pretty much done as a cop, if not worse, and the personal corruption. This is when your only interactions with people outside of your friends and family are people who are breaking the law, usually in a dangerous way. Police training is bad enough with every officer being having the idea that every suspect is a ninja terrorist drilled into them, but to have that idea reinforced through constant experience? If every time you ran into a person of a particular ethnicity, they were hurting or robbing someone, would you maintain a positive impression of the majority?
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Zeus posted...

MisterXiado posted...

It's rather fun waiting for return calls/emails from employers after providing your resume and CV, following up, and still not even getting a "no", like you live off of the morning dew or something.

Meaning you didn't even get an interview?

Correct. Typical procedure now is:
1: Review application.
a: If CV is attached, applicant is over-educated, and will engage in disputes with management, or will risk the employment of all superiors, if the applicant does not immediately jump to the next job hiring at a more attractive pay rate. Round file application. Else, continue.

2: Check applicant's social networking profiles.
a: If not present, round file application.
b: If present, determine if applicant is an alt-right nazi bigot (follows or likes Republican politicians/officeholders)
b1: If so, round file application, else continue.
c: If profiles are not sufficiently tenured, roundfile, else continue.

3: If access to NICS is available, determine the ethnicity and other labels of the applicant. The more boxes we can check, the better, but if unavailable, contact applicant for face to face review. Be certain to confirm pronouns and such; we can't afford to upset Kris in corporate HR again.
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It's rather fun waiting for return calls/emails from employers after providing your resume and CV, following up, and still not even getting a "no", like you live off of the morning dew or something. The problem with having a STEM degree is people think that there are "better jobs" you're going to flee to at first opportunity.
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Spent a good portion of 1991 homeless. Knowing where fruit trees were, and where feral dogs didn't go, really helped.
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This is because it requires effort to become better, while it is easy to tear others down. The most vocal people tend not to be do-ers. You'll find there's much less of this in places where people can be directly shamed for complaining about nonsense. Seems like the less people have to complain about, the more things they do.
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GreenKnight127 posted...

Why are so many American women complaining about "oppression".....when they wouldn't know TRUE oppression if it came up and bit them in the ass?

Did you guys know that in India, when a woman is having her period....many communities have the woman leave the house and force her to live in a "menstruation hut" because it is seen as unclean in their culture? Did you also know that hundreds of young women die every year in these menstruation huts due to smoke inhalation (while trying to stay warm in northern India) and poisonous snake bites in the warmer months? It's basically a glorified dog house.

You never hear any feminists complain about that sorta stuff.

All it would take is a Women's Rights group to travel to India and politely educate them in the very normal, healthy, and perfectly natural phenomenon of female menstruation.....and lives could be saved.

The people here don't care about women in actual danger, and will never start speaking out against the policies of honor killings, stonings, lashings, FGM, and other horrific abuses of women. They will tilt at windmills, fighting the oppression of being asked to perform equal work.
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A STEM degree in a nice frame.
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I've got two of my shattered wisdom teeth in a paper envelope. Normally they pitch them, but you can keep them if you want.
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Once, just to keep a particularly nasty black sheep of the family away from me. If he thought it was a loan, he would run all the way to hell to keep from having to pay me back. Well, he ran all the way to a felony conviction, so there we go.
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The First Amendment protects your existing right of free speech and ancillary rights, precisely how the Second Amendment protects your existing right to keep and bear arms. The protection these amendments provide is to protect your pre-existing rights from infringement by the state.
If you don't like something, you don't have to listen. With everybody planting their face in SocJus Networking all day, if you unplugged, you would be able to go days without interacting with another person.
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Considering about every time a police officer meets a person who is not already a friend, a coworker (sometimes), or a family member (sometimes), they're committing a crime or at least being a complete , I can imagine why many officers are surly and depressed.
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Initially, yes, but high school was crap. I didn't know it was policy to purge all of a student's accrued credits if one opted out of an AP program after reporting that it was more busywork with no actual advantages, and then to be denied all technical elective classes because I was "trying to get an easy A".
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Just don't read Larry Hama's twitter posts if you want to continue liking him.
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Stay away from social media, stay away from any place that has a low barrier to entry, and you will find yourself in better company rather quickly.
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Remember what happens when you mix every color in the rainbow.
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WastelandCowboy posted...

I'm not worried or impressed. I've been using a Canon printer for years.

Bravo, I smirked.

Anyway, the files can still be distributed, but can't be made available for free download. But they can be emailed. That's beyond stupid.

Also it's cheaper and easier to make a pipe than to 3D print a gun.
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I think living in China is a health hazard all its own, and drinking any water in China not extracted from the "air" would further aggravate any health issues.
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Zeus posted...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/john-mccain-war-crimes/

Snopes has been pretty compromised since around 2015. Same with similar other sites. They won't even tell the truth about how Bernie Sanders had his opportunity to run for president stolen from him.

If you're of the curious sort, look up information on the U.S.S Forrester. Check Snopes if you like, but be sure to check other sources as well, and see what makes the most sense to you.
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This is why you put the gun in your mouth, not under your chin.
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Funny how the Literally Whos start claiming that they're being threatened when people ignore them en-masse. They thrive on attention, but don't dredge up their lurid and disgusting pasts, or you're part of some kind of misogynerd alt-right hate group.
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