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by CleanedStar 14y ago
This argument put forth is part of a tautological one its proponents make. Some of you may be too young to remember the good old, bad old days of the Cold War, but one thing that was supposed to be anathema to Americans were "planned econom
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
"Studies have shown that identical twins who grow up in separate families have an IQ correlation of 0.74, while adoptive siblings have no more similar IQ than strangers." First off the bat, such studies are obviously social science, not sci
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
"I'm 24, and my life is in shambles, compared to what it could be." That you think this is one positive step toward your idea of "life...what it could be". A lot of 24 year olds do not have such aspirations. So just aspiring to something
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
"It is striking how fixated on the alleged behavior of our hunting-and-foraging forbearers some educated inhabitants of the developed world have become....happier and healthier if we lived like 'cavemen'" The posters on this web site who ar
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
That's what I was thinking. I've had skript kiddies who (probably automatically) broke into computers I ran in some form or another, usually no harm done. The idea of the government handing out national security letters all over the place
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
As an aside...the bottom of the web page mentions help from Peter Thiel. Thiel has been standing up and saying he has had the brilliant insight that competition hurts capitalism, and this sort of thing. He says he is stating economic trut
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
The US has a military base in Djibouti. It has a military base in Cuba - which the Cuban government has been asking the US to get out of for over half a century. The US has military bases in Germany. It is now openly bankrolling anti-gov
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
My comment was in response to this idea that Russians were crazy to think there were underground spy networks of right wing Jews in Russia. But right wing Jews openly boast of doing this. I generally come to this web site to read about B
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
"The idea that if a state pays for someone's education they subsequently own them is quite repugnant." In 2005, the US Congress voted 302 to 126 that declaring bankruptcy would now not wipe away student debt. The US doesn't let debts fall b
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
The Crimea was one idea, so was a semi-autonomous state out near Birobidzhan. The problem with saying that it was paranoia that some people in the Jewish community were trying to undermine the Russian government, is that, especially after t
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
I read down to the first picture then got a TLDR sense. I did a find for "Jew" and lo and behold, this was the "surprise" climax of this melodrama. For one thing, before World War II, there was a Jewish quota in US Ivy League schools. Wh
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
Well as far as robbing people and taking their possessions - where did the state Massachusetts get its name? Or Delaware? It came from the Massachusetts and the Delaware, who were mostly killed off as their land was stolen. Africans were
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
From September of 2001 to the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003 the New York Times treated the world with fabricated story after story about WMDs in Iraq, by way of Judith Miller, by way of dedicated liar Ahmed Chalabi, whose fairy tales th
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
"Of course, the Soviet economy is not widely held up as a model of success." I agree with you. The country went from a civil war and foreign invasion (including by the US, something I'm sure 99% of Americans don't even know) and then 25 ye
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
If I am doing all the serving, and the cooks are doing all the cooking, what then is the Appleebee's CEO and stockholders doing? The people working at the restaurant are the ones creating the wealth. They're not "paying" me, I am "paying"
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
The comment was no more stupid then the parent comment. Now it is followed by your stupid comment. That the root of that tree has spawned so many stupid comments is a sign of its own stupidity.
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
Some wage slave making minimum wage doesn't hop to attention to the second a college educated "lifestyle website" owner walks in the door, let me break out the violins. Then she's going to give some condescending life advice to the guy who
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
"But the truth is, the USPS needs to innovate." Tell your congressional representative, not USPS. FedEx and UPS have spent large amounts of lobbying money ensuring that USPS does not innovate. Congressional legislation is what prevents US
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
He sounds like the worst employee ever as well as the best worker ever. Look at this person, using the word "employee". Obviously the suffix -ee is always passive and deprecating, and -er always active enhancing. Employer and employee. T
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
One theory I forgot to mention...of why phreaking and hacking died out as it was in the mid-1990s... From the late 1970s until the mid-1990s, communication via a computer and modem was done for a great deal of people via BBSs. Someone, oft
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
In the early 1980s I used to call a BBS with a private section that had "950 codes". I didn't really associate with people doing this sort of thing until the late 1980s though... I have to laugh at the article. The people I knew were not
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
Companies which purvey deadly substances like tobacco or hard liquor are listed on stock exchanges and contribute to federal political campaigns. He, with a junky educational system and disappearing blue collar jobs sells marijuana or coca
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
I would go even farther than you. It's not science reportin because it's a report by two law professors, working for the Wharton School of Economics. One of them, Klick, regularly writes for the Cato Institute on privatization, Austrian s
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
Funny how Syria is a "regime", while Israel is not - meanwhile the 2.5 million Arabs living in the West Bank are ruled by Jews and have no vote, and no say in anything whatsoever. The Arabs in East Jerusalem have just been completely cut o
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
"I disagree. I possess a 10K-B.A., which I got way back in 1994. And it was the most important intellectual and career move I ever made." And this is why your major accomplishments are being a professor at a third-tier school like Syracuse,
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
Implicitly stated in this is the idea that all sectors of society want, and feel they would benefit, from this better education of everyone. We could posit a counter-point to that assumption. The counter-point being the posited, hypothetic
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
Massive advantages in education? With higher education requirements, the average worker is now forced - if they want to make the same wage they would have in 1972 - to pay for their own job training, college education etc. That people hav
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
The thesis of the article is middle class stagnation (the actual truth is, inflation-adjusted hourly wages have fallen since the early 1970s, they have not stagnated). These "increased benefits" are due to skyrocketing health costs which t
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
"The gross numbers haven't increased" Not only have inflation-adjusted hourly wages not increased with rising GDP, they've actually fallen. "spending by households on many of modern life's 'basics'" The article factors in auto payments as a
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by CleanedStar 14y ago
In the early 1970s, WSJ writers could have written an article pointing at how much better the middle class in the US had done over the past 40 years. Now they have to resort to this sophistry. When they admit the average hourly wage of no

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