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Back in the day, I worked for a defense contractor. One project I worked on was building an emulation of the flight control system for an experimental version of the F-16.
You bet your ass I could improve the algorithms they were using.
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Software Zen: delete this;
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Chris Maunder wrote: your a developer
#woo woo#
Step away from the keyboard and hand over your pedants card.
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Quote: maybe you should start doing something about what's happening in your communities.
Yeah I'm sure that'll work. "Please Mr terrorist stop being so nasty cos I don't like being profiled".
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You know everyone says that until it happens to them!
I was recently took a cross country trip and in TX I was pulled over by the police. I was given some lame excuse (probable cause) and the whole car searched because (and this would be the key) I have long hair and the officer assumed I was transporting or using drugs.
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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Same here - I have had that since the eighties.
Is it legal? Not then.
Is it helpful? No.
Does it catch or deter crime? No, not really. They never found anything they could arrest me for as a result. (Thankfully  )
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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It did give me a rest and the other PO's that came to help, just in case and I had a enjoyable talk but ended up losing a gift I had bought for my son and daughter in law.
Yeah I've been hassled a lot because I wear my hair long but even more because of my military experience so I basically don't give a ...
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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How'd you lose the gift?
Police stole it?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: How'd you lose the gift?
It was in the trunk/boot and the only thing I can figure is that when he took stuff out and laid it on the ground he failed to put it back in. It was just a cheap Mexican tile with a number on it that I was going to put on the kids house.
You know what really amused me though he found the pistol I had taken on the trip for protection as I was sleeping in rest stops in the car and I didn't have a permit for it and they had no problem with that. In TX you don't need a permit, but if I would have had a joint in the ashtray they would have carted me off to jail.
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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Mike Hankey wrote: You know what really amused me though he found the pistol I had taken on the trip for protection as I was sleeping in rest stops in the car and I didn't have a permit for it and they had no problem with that. In TX you don't need a permit, but if I would have had a joint in the ashtray they would have carted me off to jail for a really long time.
FTFY 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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JimmyRopes wrote: for a really long time.
Don't make much sense does it?
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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Mike Hankey wrote: Don't make much sense does it?
No it doesn't. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Mike Hankey wrote: In TX you don't need a permit
Guns don't kill people, bullets kill people!
That seems off...
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Mike Hankey wrote: I have long hair and the officer assumed I was transporting or using drugs
I think that's a safe assumption.
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Why?
My hair is about 50cm from pony ring to tip, and I haven't used or transported illegal drugs for 15 or more years (I can't remember exactly, but certainly it's long enough that no traces would show up in a hair sample)
And I know people with grade 2 cuts who smoke dope.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Exactly and how many professional do cocaine and/or drink heavily?
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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OriginalGriff wrote: My hair is about 50cm from pony ring to tip, and I haven't used or transported illegal drugs for 15 or more years
You do realise that in the context of this thread, the direct translation would be "I'm a Muslim and I haven't bombed a plane for 15 or more years now"
And BTW the hair thing wasn't a serious comment.
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Bullshit
then I guess you could also safely assume that;
People that shave there heads are neo-nazi
People that home school there children are anti-social
People that have Facebook or Twitter accounts are lonely and psychotic
why stop there lets just put everyone in a category then when something happens we know where to look.
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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Mike Hankey wrote: People that shave there heads...
People that home school there children...
People that have ...
Oh boy, Grandma Nasty must love you! 
It's "their", not "there".
And it's "people who", not "people that".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Mike Hankey wrote: I have long hair
There's always a silver lining. 
My 25 year old niece complains she keeps getting carded, while her mom reminds her to enjoy the experience 'cos she'll miss it one day!
/ravi
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There's definitely a silver lining and getting more so every year.
I got carded until well into the 40s
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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Those long-haired punks ARE a menace to society!
And I've been having it for the past 10 years because dem ladies love bad boys  Or at least that's what I keep saying to myself 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Mike Hankey wrote: I was recently took a cross country trip and in TX I was pulled over by the police. I was given some lame excuse (probable cause) and the whole car searched because (and this would be the key) I have long hair and the officer assumed I was transporting or using drugs.
What he did was illegal. An officer doesn't have probable cause to search your vehicle unless he sees something first (drugs, not hair). You had every legal right to refuse the search. He probably knew that, and just didn't tell you. If you refuse and he violates your civil rights, every judge on the planet would side with you in court. This is still America, at least for now.
Jeremy Falcon
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I knew it was illegal when he did it and when I got home I called my brother whom I had been visiting, who's a lawyer and he confirmed it but I learned a long time ago that if you play the game it's a 30 min. inconvenience instead of what could have become a long drawn out nightmare. I had nothing to hide so I wasn't worried about that, just wanted to get back on the road.
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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Maybe it would make more sense to profile the community from which the terrorists arise/are bred/spawned.
Now, simply put the onus of prevention upon aforesaid community/nation/etc.
Retaliate so viciously that other such places crap their pants (or whatever they wear) - and it becomes generally decided that allowing murderous slime to breed in your community has consequences. Now, using their no-found freedom of choice, they can choose to clean their own house.
Now, the rest of us can sit back and relax.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Retaliate so viciously that other such places crap their pants (or whatever they wear)
That's worked well historically. Both Israelis and Syrians have peaceful lives filled with flowers and gambolling lambs and flowers in their hair, and they've bombed seven colors (and tortured in the case of Syria) anyone related to those involved.
W∴ Balboos wrote: and it becomes generally decided that allowing murderous slime to breed in your community has consequences
Generally, the community is at much at peril from these people as everyone else, except the murderous slime doesn't have to look to far to find their opponent.
W∴ Balboos wrote: Now, the rest of us can sit back and relax.
Strength lies not in defence but in attack.The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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