garrett.kajmowicz

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• Commented on The Ferguson Question
  I'm a resident of SW Pennsylvania (PA), so a different State from the events going on, but this will provide some context. I volunteer with Emergency Medical Services, so I interact with a variety of police forces. Take with a...
• Commented on Schroedinger's Kingdom: the Scottish Political Singularity Explained
  The succession movement all-around seems to be very polite, especially in comparison to most throughout history, or even current events. Assume for a moment that all of the Bad things which the "no" side are suggesting do occur, couldn't both...
• Commented on Schroedinger's Kingdom: the Scottish Political Singularity Explained
  It seems to me that non-fear selling of the Union "Better Together" is hard to do simply because the benefits are likely to be diffuse, though broad. Pointing out that together, you are able to save 7% on border patrol...
• Commented on Schroedinger's Kingdom: the Scottish Political Singularity Explained
  "politics, like adventure, is always a lot more fun when it's happening to somebody else a long way away." I second this, and grab the popcorn. I grew up in Canada and now live in the USA. I lived through...
• Commented on A hypothesis
  "Possibility that the WSJ has been pranked? Non-zero." It need not be a prank. If somebody misinterpreted GMT for local, or time since take-off, or time since system power-on, or Daylight Savings Time, or any other minutia of interpretation, they...
• Commented on A deceptively simple question
  I don't think most of the geopolitical implications are going to be of the military type. After all, many countries have a response to large-scale threats using nuclear-tipped ICBMs. Canada can send truck bombs everywhere in the US, and then...
• Commented on PSA: Ignore the news
  > As far as adding ball bearings to increase damage... > a quick look at what those suckers cost makes me > wonder "WTF?" when a handful of grade-zero Chinese > hardware store hex nuts would work as well...
• Commented on Why I don't self-publish
  A couple of ideas: Charlie, would it be possible to have somebody you work with at your publisher do a guest-post on the publishing and answer questions? (I suggest warning your moderators ahead of time so they can schedule extra...
• Commented on Women in SF and Fantasy
  @Authors: Since we've stumbled on to the topic, how much of Literary Criticism (or other research aspect of the English Department) is useful in constructing your own material? I've read that most of what's published isn't helpful to authors, but...
• Commented on Big Guns[1]
  A few comments from a USA'ian who is originally from Canada and kept the "guns are bad" attitude well into college until I became a Rand-spouting, Libertarian voting nutjob: The gun-promoting crowd in the US is very diverse. Though there...
• Commented on Context is everything
  @Brett_:87 I wonder if impressing upon people the concept of "disease comes from tiny creatures that get into your blood" would save a post-collapse civilization a ton of time in the development of medicine. At the very least, they might...