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Couple Arrested for Not Paying Tip
>> ^MaxWilder:

Edit: Check out the utter destruction on Yelp!


My favorite is This one, not exactly non-fiction, but I was LMFAHS.

Edit: the photos are pretty sweet too.


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How To Appear More Attractive (Than You Are)
I find the basic premise that people are objectively attractive lacking.

Take the last bit about how your partner is more attractive to you than they "actually" are. That's not true, my GF is as attractive to me as she is (to me). Perhaps other people don't find her as attractive, but that's fine with me, I only care how much she turns me on.


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Homophobic Christian Whines About Getting Fired
>> ^bcglorf: So do you think it wrong in both examples then?

While I do agree that being a dick should not be legally defensible as religious expression, it's unfortunately creates all sorts of gray areas. People can be offended by anything, and allowing employers to decide what public opinions their employees may hold is in direct conflict with the rights of citizens in a society which claims to value freedom of expression. I am content to have it either way, but it should be consistently applied, unfortunately nothing ever is.

The thing that strikes me about this guy is that he is a clear copy-cat of carrie prejean. The argument " you can't hold me responsible for what I say if I invoke god" was her MO, and all her worshipers have fed this absurd notion that claiming to be religious should be a free pass. I don't think anybody in that camp will get how ridiculous this guys whining is.


written by dgandhi  | 1 week 3 days ago | CH
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Undercover At Gun Shows - Exposing The Loophole
Wow, lots of out of context numbers.

So if 30% of illegal guns are "connected" to gun shows...that tells me nothing...how about telling me what percentage of legal guns are "connected" to gun shows, that way I have a baseline.

These are legal transactions with a legal loophole, it's apparently easy enough to find blatantly illegal gun trafficers. I remember a TV news station in Los Angeles a couple of decades ago doing a story where it only took them a couple of days to find someone who would be willing to sell them fully auto submachine guns( illegal to own in that state) cash and carry out of the back of a van.

This country is saturated with guns, if a petty thief wanted one, a simple burglary could turn up a few, so I don't really see any point in this "oh no criminals have guns" hysteria. I would be seriously surprised if closing the legal loophole solved anything.


written by dgandhi  | 1 week 3 days ago | CH
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Homophobic Christian Whines About Getting Fired
>> ^bcglorf: I'm sure that it would never happen.

Telling your boss s/he is an ignorant fool, or immoral can/does get people fired, just like union organizing gets people fired. There are laws against it because it happens, not because it doesn't.

I will say that as a Christian I am more offended by this guys ravings than anyone.

I'd be willing to wager that the lady who complained about his workplace expression of homophobia to HR and got him fired, who is having her right to marry denied because homophobes are willing to vote away other peoples right, is probably more offended than you are.


written by dgandhi  | 1 week 3 days ago | CH
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Homophobic Christian Whines About Getting Fired
I'm sure this guy would feel the same way if somebody got fired for telling their boss, who talked about church/god a whole FOUR times that day, that Jesus was a myth and they were wasting their life praying to their imaginary friend...You know just expressing their personal opinion, that, as an intelligent person, religion is wrong.


written by dgandhi  | 1 week 4 days ago | CH
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DR. BRONNER'S MAGIC SOAPBOX
This guy is great/crazy. The label is not as crazy/wacky as it used to be. When this video was made the bottle was a lot more fun to read than it is now.

I buy 4 gallons of the stuff every year or so, I go with unscented to avoid the tingle. The only thing it's not good for is the dishwasher, but I use it for everything else.


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Anyone into document management? (Geek Talk Post)
I suggest either git or mercurial.

All the cool programmer kids are using one of these. They are both very popular (lots of support/help available), and very well featured. There are a few advantages to git for folks who are publishing code, but if that is not what you are doing you will not see the difference. They are both free (as in speech and beer), and require no server backend.

Since you are on an MS OS you are probably better off with mercurial, since git has not generally been MS friendly.

These systems allow you to control the contents of folders, or groups of folders, as one unit, commit the current state, add/rename/remove files or folders, and sync them with any number of other copies. Every copy has an entire revision history, so you can grab any version from any copy. Very useful.

I personally use a two teared approach:

1) Everything I edit on my machine is automatically saved by RCS, so whenever I save a file from my editor it commits, I rarely use these versions, but it has saved my ass on occasion when I did something stupid on changes I had not committed to a repository.

2) I manage projects (code/text/latex/tax returns), with mercurial, and then sync them with my server to keep backups, or to publish code/sites.


written by dgandhi  | 2 weeks 1 day ago | CH
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Google Navigation = Death of GPS Makers
I only use my GPS when I don't know where I am, such as when I'm driving cross country. I might be interested in this when the entire Pennsylvania Highway system and all of I-70, has G3+ connectivity, until then, paying $100 a month for the service required to make this work seem a little steep compared with the $100 I paid for the lifetime use of my TomTom.


written by dgandhi  | 2 weeks 1 day ago | CH
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Fans Support Comedian Jimmy Carr Over Troop Joke
>> ^thinker247:
...Jimmy Carr apologized for offending people


In all fairness, it was a non-apology apology. Since most reasonably people will agree that no apology is better than a passive-aggressive fake apology, I submit that he did better than not apologizing, by "apologizing".


written by dgandhi  | 2 weeks 3 days ago | CH
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Rachel Maddow Goes After Liz Cheney
>> ^kurtdh: Did Liz really insinuate at all that Bush HAD been to Dover?

It is my understanding that the bodies of fallen soldiers ALL come back through Dover AFB. Not going to Dover means not even once bothering to receive the dead, of a war he himself started.


written by dgandhi  | 2 weeks 3 days ago | CH
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Rachel Maddow Goes After Liz Cheney
>> ^MilkmanDan:
Maybe I'm showing my ignorance... But what the hell is "American Exceptionalism"?


The assertion that the US is morally/legally justified in applying standards of behavior to other countries which it does not uphold itself.

Example: Iran CAN'T be allowed to have nuclear weapons (but, implicitly it's okay if we do).


written by dgandhi  | 2 weeks 4 days ago | CH
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French Court Finds Church of Scientology Guilty of Fraud
>> ^Mashiki:

One actually does things for the community, and society while the other one strong arms people/groups/etc into going away.


Since when was this about food not bombs vs the catholic church?


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