LordKano

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by LordKano 10y ago
The same polls that predicted Hillary's win? I'm not buying it.
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ACLU is not in the business of protecting the Second Amendment, and they're upfront about it. The ACLU claims to be in the business of protecting the constitution, not only the parts that people with left of center politics like. The
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The part of the country that votes is the only one of any consequence to any elected official.
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The ACLU doesn't so much defend the Constitution as use it as a weapon. Neo-Nazis get denied a permit to march through a black neighborhood and the ACLU is there. Washington DC violates the second amendment for decades and the ACLU is
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It's the ACLU's position that the Supreme Court is wrong. It's my position that that ACLU is wrong and will never see a penny from me.
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Both the President and the AG serve at the pleasure of the People of the United States, and Trump is about to find that out the hard way. Trump has the support of roughly half of the country. Regardless of how loud the opposition is, don&
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by LordKano 10y ago
Yes I saw that. I also saw the part where more people passed the basic test than there were available positions. No matter how good our educational system is, there will be people in the left tail of the Bell curve.
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It basically means that the only companies who are gonna be able to hire through H1Bs are the big cos or unicorns. It also means that there is an economic incentive at all levels to consider hiring Americans first. Which is the point.
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Engineers are needed to create the diagnostic and repair procedures but skilled technicians can and should be the ones to implement them. "Fault detected. Replace Sub-Assembly D, Board 3." is the kind of instruction that can be gi
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I suppose it's neither here nor there now but I strongly suspect that both candidates' internal polling showed much closer numbers than the nationally published polls. In the last week of the campaign, Hillary was still visiting s
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I stopped wasting my time for a similar reason. I added some information to a page and it was reverted because I didn't properly source my change. OK I re-created my change and added with a properly sourced reference and someone who di
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My layperson's understanding is that the opiates remove the pain and eventually, the person's body re-calibrates its interpretation of pain based on this new state. When they stop with the opiates, normal levels of pain return, wh
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The Taliban was destroying the opium crop and suppressing the trade. After the US toppled that regime, the opium business exploded.
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I find myself experiencing similar frustrations from the other side. I'm an American and I find it troublesome and tiresome when people want to adopt the EU's way of doing things, just because that's how it's done over t
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So just because? Because we know it can be done and how to do it. Have different classes at different speeds. We already have that. Education is more than a series of classes. It's the social interactions too. However, to say that
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Being a free country does not mean necessarily you can act freely against the collective good. Yes. That's precisely what it means. Serving the collective good is a fine ideal but for me to pursue my own interests before yours (and f
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What happens in those situations is that the smarter children usually wind up coasting through, simply because they find it so easy to stay ahead of the mean. For the early part of my life, that was me. Working 10 years of jobs that I hat
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by LordKano 10y ago
Two or three big players in the credit card market can effectively shutdown a business. Which is just the tip of the iceberg as to why the idea of a cashless society is so terrifying. Shop owners cannot decide who enters in their shop, s
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by LordKano 10y ago
Why not just make schools better for all, rather than replicating the educational resource hoarding that takes place in private schools? Because we have working models for high performing specialty schools. We already have endless infight
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Two things happened for me that changed how I experienced high school. 1. I stopped being afraid of losing a fight. I learned that if you got into a fight and and got in a few good hits, even if you lost, people would be less likely to give
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Maybe it's just the crotchety old man part of my personality but I don't like anything after Office 2003. The ribbon interface is a deal breaker for me.
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It's a horrible and horribly short-sighted idea. The very wealthy would just hire their heirs as consultants or advisors and pay them exorbitant salaries. Sure, the government would take ~40% in taxes but that still better than losing
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I suspect that for a great many of the uber-rich, they're trying to compensate for the wrong they're doing or have done by becoming advocates. For example, I'm firmly convinced that Carnegie's philanthropy was his attemp
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You are saying that if anyone is not willing to do these things, they cannot be responsible adults. Well, yes. If you are not willing (as opposed to not able) then you are not being a responsible adult. Yes, there are people who have circ
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I am such a person. I got a job that requires me to be in the office at 08:30 and I do it. I have no difficulty going to bed at 11:30 and being asleep by 12:30. I have no difficulty getting up at 06:40 and starting my day. I can do all of t
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Little guns are still a thing. They go boom, just like their bigger counterparts.
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This looks promising.
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My parents were not yet born and my grandparents were grade school children when the US interned Japanese-Americans but their tax money was still used to compensate those people for the injustice done to them. You inherit everything, good a
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I grew up with the Dukes of Hazzard on TV and I have pretty much always associated that flag with the racist elements of the American south. I have pretty much always had a negative visceral reaction whenever I see it. Most of the African A
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Perhaps... If Japan hadn't had been the military ally of the people who perverted the symbol, I'd probably agree.

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