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It took us NINE MONTHS to get a server installed in a data center a few years back. This was Marine-Corps fielded hardware running an ATO'd[1] software stack for real-world situati…

If that argument (that leveraging any available artificial enhancement is ok) held any conceptual weight, we would embrace PEDs in athletics. We don't. Ask yourself why?

>>>Morphology of the avatar in your head can be different to your external appearance, ie. you always had large boobs? I wonder when the Overton window shifted and we began to acco…

It's all the fault of those damn Puritans: people who were such sticks in the mud they were essentially kicked out of Europe because nobody wanted to hear their prudish nonsense. T…

>>>I don't imagine many people would trade sitting on a throne in a grand hall enjoying a feast whilst watching the era's leading performers personally dedicate performances to the…

Did you read the healthcare link I provided? Death from those sorts of diseases are a tiny fraction of fatalities in the US. They're so small that it is disingenuous to extrapolate…

>>>if I had to be a medieval king or a poor person in Cleveland, it is such a no-brainer I can't even understand how the question is being asked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwa…

>>>At first, I was confused reading your assertions of what poor people of the US can do, things that obviously demand money - cash or credit - that a person in poverty don't have.…

>>> In fact, for many people (including many men), advice is the least important part and often unwelcome at first. What people are looking for is empathy, being heard and validate…

>>>The point flew entirely over your head. Funny. I'd say the same applies for you. The whole point of the article is that men and women have different value systems in how they ev…

Our previous Commanding General once quipped that PowerPoint presentations that transition between geographic focus areas should include slide after slide after slide of blue ocean…

You are shooting at strawmen. No one is discussing severing existing relationship bonds due to evolving life circumstances. There are undoubtedly far more variables in such an equa…

Consider the opposite characteristics. As a guy, I don't make time to hang out with other guys who are woefully out of shape / hideously ugly, broke, and with no Game(tm). Those pe…

Recreational sex? (also I endorse sibling's comment of exercise + healthy diet)

>>>That's essentially an unveiled admission of a want to hold the rest of the world hostage and establish domination. There's little rational nor justifiable about such a want from…

>>>I was only arguing against your point that this treaty was just a bunch of plebs signing a petition. I don't mind going down the rabbit hole on this word usage. I was trying to …

>>>They’re the ones surrounding a sovereign nation with military forces. Ever stop to wonder what triggered the change in Russia's force posture? https://www.newscientist.com/artic…

>>>Some very powerful governments (like Austria, Brazil, and Indonesia) have already signed it and it is already ratified by 59 nations. This is hardly a bunch of plebs signing a p…

The Federal government should set standards for features that need to be present on a State/Territory ID card "in order to facilitate interstate commerce". Then offer to subsidize …

>>>Third, the "lack of a contingency plan" is essentially part of the Prisoner's dilemma which the arms race during the Cold War was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dil…

>>>Armies of nation states are responsible for the greatest of all human tragedies. Yes. So why advocate for a return to the pre-nuclear status quo: major powers use their large ar…

I'm operating from a value framework that aims for building and maintaining multi-generational wealth. The family unit is the most basic, and arguably most important, institution o…