# Technology doesn't work that way - SamuelA's Pit Thread

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 3, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420 "2017-12-03T00:52:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technology-doesnt-work-that-way-samuelas-pit-thread/803420/243 "2017-12-28T20:42:38Z")

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> [@Morgenstern](#):
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> **Sam,** did you go and put someone else on ignore? You did that after our talk?  
> Didn’t we decide that wasn’t a good thing to do?

Apparently his “Ignore” function does something ours can’t. I am on “Ignore” in this thread, but he responds directly to a post I made in another:

> [@Coke, Blackjack, and hookers on the high seas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coke-blackjack-and-hookers-on-the-high-seas/805467/15):
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> Well, it would have to be a country that has legalized drugs and recreational use. You’d protect it with armed security and keeping the actual drugs in a locked vault. Sure, 10-20 men with AR-15s aren’t going to be able to stop pirates that show up in a destroyer, but it probably would be enough security if the boat were off the coast of Georgia or something.

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