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It is a mistake to believe that theistic Satanists or witches (ie, people who genuinely believed that they had "communed with the devil" or possessed some form of supernatural powers) did not exist. Of course there is absolutel
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> "The likelihood of a Hollywood corporation releasing a North Korean movie that made any endorsements of the country is virtually nil. It is structurally impossible." The likelihood of Hollywood releasing a movie that praise
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In what now seems like a previous life, I once had a job sorting produce by hand (mostly picking out stick/stems, and animal parts) from a conveyor belt zipping in front of me. Even back then CV machines existed for at least some prod
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The current reality is that the Norwegian Nobel Committee is a private body, and it is not currently the role of Norwegian Parliament to dictate to it who they may or may not award prizes to. Nobel may not have set it up that way persona
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Approval may be given in countries which are free, but it is not required. If it is required, then that country is not free. Members of the government may chose to praise or condemn any work they please, but in that capacity they are no d
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There seems that people living under regimes with limited freedom often fail to comprehend that people living in other countries might produce something without the explicit approval of their government. To the North Koreans, it is beyond c
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It is not merely the uneducated who can subscribe to extremist ideologies. When the unskilled highschool grad gets off the plane and signs up, they are going to give him a rifle. When the engineer gets off the plane and announces himself a
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My hangup here is that the DPRK historically provides absolutely no shortage of excuses for the US to grandstand, but with the occasional exception of them shelling some South Korean island or kidnappings a tourist, they are usually (public
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> "To my knowledge, most rail in the Western U.S. is built to handle cargo" Definetly true. > "and I imagine that's much heavier than commuter trains" Also definetly true. A double-decker Amtrak passeng
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A few years ago I was working for a west coast tech company (not bay area) and was regularly wearing long-sleeve button-down shirts (without a tie) with khaki pants. A few coworkers said something to me, but I didn't think anything of
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See also: The Mist . Stephen King apparently hated the ending he wrote for the short story, but praised the ending of the 2007 film adaptation.
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Movies do not get their theatrical releases cancelled for 50% critic ratings. Particularly not well-publicized stoner movies with big-name actors and fervent fans. That just isn't something that happens. Even Dude, Where's My
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You can find token examples of Americans who think that Harry Potter tricks children into being Satanists. You can find Americans who think that Schindlers List is jewish propaganda. You can find Americans who believe that Brokeback
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Exactly. For example, the (also Seth Rogan / James Franco) film Pineapple Express : http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pineapple_express/ 58% rating from "Top Critics". 73% rating from audiences.
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There is no silver bullet, but that situation cannot get much worse than it already is. Even if the country collapsed into anarchy, the chaos would at least provide the opportunity for some to escape. Organized evil is more harmful than
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What is wrong with a "needless tasteless" movie? The primary purpose of movies is to entertain, and neither being "needless" nor "tasteless" prevents a movie from entertaining. Seriously, how is your appraisal
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Controversial with who? American audiences? I doubt it. What little controversy might exist over the film with American audiences is dwarfed by the controversy there was over even mundane family films like Harry Potter. Sure, the North
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When you have a hypothesis, you have to try making predictions with it and see if it fits real-world data. If it doesn't, then it is wrong . It doesn't matter how elegant or beautiful your hypothesis is, if it does not fit the
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KSP actually models this well; try putting something into a retrograde orbit and compare how easy it is compared to putting it into a regular orbit. If you fly both well, you'll have less left-over delta-v in the craft that you put in
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> Even the spray from the ocean The ultimate goal is to land at least most of the cores on land, not the barge, in part to avoid this.
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Bitcoin but without the audit trail! Now who could possibly want such a thing besides criminals...
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> "it is stating that police shootings occur because of the mere fact that there are already more guns in the USA than any other first world country, thus police are more likely to encounter criminals with guns" Police in Ame
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In Germany, and perhaps other countries, police are instructed to fire warning shots. It is only because German police have to fire their guns so infrequently that this has not caused innocent fatalities. The practice violates numerous
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When rifled bullets are fired in parabolic trajectories into the sky, they retain enough horizontal velocity to easily kill. There are numerous examples of people being struck and killed by bullets that were fired into the air (typically i
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Even with that qualification that is still crap logic. There are lots of guns in America, but the number of Americans who own guns are at all-time lows. The "number of guns in America" figure is deceptive because of all of t
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There is no shortage of small communities across America that have not had a gun crime in decades. Zero stays zero, even when you make it per-capita. Whether or not this is a fair comparison is another matter.
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Not really. Iff it makes it to the Grand Jury, then what you said is true. Often it never makes it that far. In many self-defense cases involving non-police civilians the district attorney will decide that no crime was committed and
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I love racket, but DrRacket is just too slow and memory heavy for my machines. My most powerful personal computer being a laptop with an 1.8GHz i5, and 4GB of ram. Yeah, that's very modest by 2014 standards, but I really think that it
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Yes I do. So I tried this out briefly and it works, but without additional work it isn't very convenient. Obviously tab-completion of paths/programs/arguments doesn't work since Hy's REPL doesn't do those thin
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The combination of Hy and python-sh looks really interesting. I am tempted to try using this as a shell, similar to scsh.

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