Brockenstein

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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Yeah, Bin Laden was engaging in a bit of PR with those statements. In such circumstances people always try to take as much credit as they can, no matter how exaggerated it is. And for Bin Laden that war was probably center of his universe.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
A repeat of 2008. The idea being that there wasn't sufficient laws in protections in place to prevent this sort of thing from happening again, or that people most directly involved can't just skate. Problem is though, even if laws
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Being able to find shady people on one side of the fence doesn't absolve, in any way, the behavior of people on the other side of the fence. Whataboutism is not a proper argument or defense.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Well that's an argument between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law it sounds like.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Worried about the next big recession and whether or not you'll end up in a shanty town.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Well I wouldn't call an excavator automation exactly. But at the same time, you think ten guys digging a ditch at least some of them aren't made redundant when you get an excavator? You don't need ten excavators, and maybe yo
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Well paying someone a $1 a day is a lot cheaper than expensive robot and the infrastructure to maintain that robot. If cheap labor is available you use that. If you can't expert the work to a developing nation automation might be the n
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
It doesn't have to be new, but we have new and more ways to increase shareholder value. Like vastly improved methods of automation that have appeared in the past few decades.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
So is Hyperbole R Us.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Yes, unfortunately prison isn't about rehabilitation. It's about punishing people, it's about vengeance. And a lot of crimes are manufactured, laws created to hurt people we don't like. And for a lot of people when someo
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
A decade ago I remember watching EndGame on some prompting of a friend who thought it was great, but who must have fallen asleep while watching it because me recounting some of the sillier bits he thought I was talking nonsense. That was 10
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Who cares about downvotes? >My biggest concern is that this crackdown on a crackpot will set off one of his high-functioning, mentally ill fans to pull a Timothy McVeigh type of vigilante response on one of the companies who have canned
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
> And they need to address both sides, both extreme right and extreme left conspiracists who incite violence. Who says they don't? Every time a right wing nut gets chopped you need an equivalent pound of flesh from the left? This ju
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Well there's no way they can word this sort of action that appeases everyone. Yeah, the way stated in your post does sound pretty lame and overly PC. > Let’s see how they come down on censoring holywood blockbuster movies. I'm
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
I think the strictest definition of U.S. history is the history of the state. But history is a bit fluid in that it's not beholden to specific national borders. And we might study the history of the land the U.S. occupies and colloquia
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
>It doesn't really make any sense that FB stock should be dropping that much based on slower user growth and revenue. Yes, investors and stock holders are typically the most rational people who never panic. It also doesn't make
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Oops. But now it's on sale, 25% off! So now, Facebook looks like it might be a stock worth buying after it has reported Q2 financial results after market close on Wednesday, July 25.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
TL:DR; Your oncologist friend does't understand science or that money doesn't buy solutions or guarantee a linear speedup of results. There's always going to be problems and no matter what problem you're invested in, som
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
And everyone is looking for a deal. And sometimes people have to be burned by going cheap. Although sometimes they do get lucky and get someone decent for a pittance.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
I got it! Dwarf moons.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Well you're making some assumptions about damages and maybe have opinions what constitutes damages. I think the other side you have to consider is if revenue related to wrong doing is in the billions and your fine is in the thousands,
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
One might assume that is the case, but human beings assume a lot of things that are dead wrong. So while you might have an assumption, it's a pretty good practice to check and see if your assumptions align with reality. There's qu
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
It is fascinating as an American how cold war military spending has basically become so traditional that even when our military budget is larger than the next ten nations combined you have people carrying on about rebuilding and strengtheni
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
>basically that no scientific truth can be an argument for or against any spiritual claim Well that's not quite true. Religious people often make authoritative claims about life, the universe and everything based on their beliefs th
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Depending on who you're talking to "senseless" isn't as objective a term as you seem to imagine.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
>And I am not against free trade (well, with reservations), but I think this idea has been proven wrong historically. I think countries that try to do a bit of everything, be self-sufficient, and perhaps specialize only in some very spec
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
>The whole "US Made!" tagline of old stopped becoming possible because we couldn't charge wages low enough to compete with foreign dollars or foreign slave wages. Not exactly. For starters being able to buy products for ch
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
One man's leaker is another man's whistleblower. It's not always so black and white.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Well there's a lot of caveats to this depending on how you're defining "posh people" to the previous ideas of aristocracy and nobility of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I mean one of the big ones is that WWI was
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
It only "makes sense" if you don't understand why you should finish your anti-biotics. And don't know or understand the alternative outcomes outside the reasoning you've proposed. IE you feel better, aren't bet

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