Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
I guess it wasn't exactly clear from the way I phrased it, but I'm not just refusing the tests, I'm refusing to contribute my labor to the betterment of companies that impose them on their employees. If I were to encounter an
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by Amadou 13y ago
I haven't read the essay, and its been decades since I read any of Card's books. But IIRC, the ending of the first book did not excuse him at all, it wrapped up abruptly and left the reader (me at least) reeling as to the full co
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by Amadou 13y ago
My approach has been that if it is easy to do, I had darn well better do it. To illustrate - since I was a teenager I realized that the war on drugs was manifestly wrong. I chose not to participate in any aspect of the war on drugs as best
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by Amadou 13y ago
Now your moving the goal posts back to the original poster's claim that licensing is the granting of a privilege rather than regulation of a right.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I have not had that happen, but it is rare for me to see a new doctor. I would be super pissed though. I'd be writing to my state attorney general if it happened to me.
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by Amadou 13y ago
It is a waste of screen space. Something that the UIs of chrome and firefox (and probably other browsers which I don't use) have tried to improve upon in recent years. What the browser giveth, the web designer taketh. While this is p
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by Amadou 13y ago
Amend "most" with many. A quick scan of wikipedia suggests there are about 20 states that require a permit to purchase or registration of ownership. Federal law also restricts ownership by convicted felons in all 50 states which
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by Amadou 13y ago
A couple of months ago, Time magazine (of all places) did a really good story about the lack of price transparency in healthcare and how that may well be the single largest contributor to the burgeoning healthcare costs in the US. I think
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by Amadou 13y ago
For something you consider to be so fundamentally true that's the mother of all cop-outs. Really, really unhelpful.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Well, talk about moving the goal-posts, but you aren't the original poster so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. The right to freedom of movement is not really a right if it does not include by all available means. For exampl
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by Amadou 13y ago
Seems like the other way around to me - if roads are made for bicycles then there is no reason to invest in infrastructure like dedicated bike-paths, bike-lanes or even wider shoulders.
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by Amadou 13y ago
> This privilege is represented by a motor vehicle operator's license, which may be revoked by the state for a variety of reasons. If that was a sound argument, then one could say that the right to own a firearm is really just a pri
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by Amadou 13y ago
Pirate Anime Yakuza? Sounds like an actual anime show.
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by Amadou 13y ago
>> but even morality is defined by the people themselves > Absolutely not, and that mentality is a repeat of one of the most dangerous ideas to have ever been put into practice across history. If not people, then who?
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by Amadou 13y ago
> What about when a sufficiently large proportion of the population want to hold a minority in concentration camps? Or hold a minority to slavery? Or prevent them from being legally wed to the one they love? Given a sufficiently large pr
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by Amadou 13y ago
> Public outrage is not prima facie evidence of a wrong decision being made. For sufficiently large definitions of massive it is indeed prima facie evidence for the simple reason that the government exists to serve the people. If the pe
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by Amadou 13y ago
Yikes. I don't know if you are in the US or not, but in the US "direct deposit" means the depositor has both deposit and withdrawal rights (ostensibly to let them self-correct any deposit errors). I would never permit a clie
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by Amadou 13y ago
If you have any control over that web page you need to get those over-sized PNGs resized and re-encoded to jpgs. They are 2MB each, they could be about 100KB and do just as good a job at being scaled-down thumbnails. You are burning bandw
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by Amadou 13y ago
I used to disagree with that sentiment, after all Congress did its best to stop the closure of Gitmo by not only blocking funding for the effort but also blocking the use of any pre-existing funds too. But then I read this: http:/&#x2
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by Amadou 13y ago
Please don't be the guy who hides behind literalist excuses. The intent is clear - to reference the "division of responsibility rule" in this context and then deny the obvious intent is disingenuous. "I didn't say
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by Amadou 13y ago
Here's one anecdote - a woman I know has a very youthful appearance. Inevitably when she has to provide ID, the person reading her ID will exclaim that she can't really be XX years old. They think it is a compliment, but it enra
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by Amadou 13y ago
> The same amount of hype could have us ripping out bathtubs, or being screened for hammer purchases. Consider the media and government complicity in the south korean myth of "fan death" https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by Amadou 13y ago
I think the name for that skill is "wisdom." You only really get that sort of insight from experience.
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by Amadou 13y ago
RE: clearance vs use Yes, that is correct, there are a small number of people who have clearances purely for mechanical reasons, like janitors and such. However, it is useful to recognize that the total number of clearances is at roughly t
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by Amadou 13y ago
When you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
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by Amadou 13y ago
The court was created during the cold war. It has basically been repurposed for the war on terror. The original foe had sophisticated intelligence agencies and keeping the rulings secret was at least a plausible argument in the spy-vs-spy
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by Amadou 13y ago
It was a joke man. It isn't hard to imagine the guys from that 70's show sitting in the basement and Kelso going off on that squirrel rant.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'd expect regression to the mean to kick in after a few months and bring the effectiveness down to all the other types of advertising.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I thought it was line noise. After all, how does a bot have initials?
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by Amadou 13y ago
Forget the valley, I think eksith is under the influence. If that ain't stoner talk, I don't know what is...

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