LordKano

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by LordKano 11y ago
From time to time, I am greeted with looks of shocked disbelief when a younger employee finds out how much of my employer's business gets done on OpenVMS Alphas and IBM Mainframes. They think it's stupid that we're not runnin
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by LordKano 11y ago
When you equip men for war, they start to think of themselves as soldiers. At one time, we at least used to pretend that cops were public servants. We need to go back to that.
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by LordKano 11y ago
My belief is that it's primarily about access to one resource. Wombs. Everything else is ancillary. What makes a racist more irate than anything? Seeing one of "Them" with one of "Our" women. Denying good housing, e
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by LordKano 11y ago
The police seems to be profiling and directing excessive force towards non-Caucasians Law enforcement has always directed this kind of treatment towards non-whites in the US. What has changed is that there are now cameras everywhere so th
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by LordKano 11y ago
Your question presupposes that there would be no recourse. I never advocated such a position. It was a strawman.
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by LordKano 11y ago
It's a strawman. Debt currently works that way in the vast majority of cases. If you don't pay Comcast or Verizon (or whomever) for your internet service, they'll stop providing service to you. They'll also report you to
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by LordKano 11y ago
More tickets sold still means more income for the lottery. That jackpot was going to be paid to someone, this group merely became that someone. Basically, they chose the best time to buy in so that they had a higher chance of winning. Moreo
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by LordKano 11y ago
Why is it amoral for a government to take taxes Is it possible that you're conflating the definitions of immoral and amoral? born in a hospital funded by taxes This is an assumption. There are many private hospitals. given vaccine
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by LordKano 11y ago
That's a strawman.
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My primary point is that it's not wrong to pay the minimum necessary tax bill because taxation isn't a moral enterprise. It happens without regard to morality. It's amoral. To address your direct question, it's my positi
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My point is the same. Neither circumstance is more moral than the other. They are both inherently amoral. Of course, taxation is legal. Using the tax code to minimize one's tax liability is legal and also amoral.
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by LordKano 11y ago
The base principle is that society is made up of people and those people then choose the rules for that society. If you don't like that, you can often vote to change those rules, or you can choose another society. Or you can use the
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by LordKano 11y ago
When I was a grade-school child, we were taken on a tour of a coal mine. It was an operating mine but there was a section that had been updated to safely give tours. I was too young to appreciate the kind of effort that went into being a mi
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by LordKano 11y ago
Can you opt out of receiving the government's "services"? We're only obliged to follow the letter of the law. If there is no law against making profits where they are beyond the reach of local taxation, there's noth
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by LordKano 11y ago
Even if the penalty was 200% of the profit, that would be the case.
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by LordKano 11y ago
Pretending that your definition of morality is the only legitimate one is naive. Is it moral for the mafia to use the threat of force to take a percentage of a business's income? I'd submit that it's not and I suspect that yo
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by LordKano 11y ago
It's been my understanding that the local bookie is slightly better than the state for small time gambling. Meaning, on the three digit lottery drawing, the state pays 500 to 1 on a game where the odds of winning are 1000 to 1. In orde
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by LordKano 11y ago
Corporations are amoral entities and taxation is an amoral endeavor. It's essentially a very complicated structure of IF/THEN/ELSE conditions. If it's possible to decrease its tax burden while complying with the law, tha
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by LordKano 11y ago
This stuff is still pretty new, after all. On a geologic time scale, sure. Fracking in one form or another goes back between 80-150 years.
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Perhaps but I can't remember what.
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by LordKano 11y ago
That's my greatest fear. I'm terrified of the possibility that there could be a day when I hit my maximum capacity and have to forget things in order to be able to learn new things.
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by LordKano 11y ago
The world may be saying "No" but it's saying it with a whisper. For anything to change, the world will need to say it with a scream. If every politician that voted for snooping were to be recalled or lose their next election,
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by LordKano 11y ago
Precisely. He found confirmation of something that other people already knew and told him. The author apparently didn't consider the possibility that those people on the "conspiracy/paranoia/gun rights" sites may ha
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by LordKano 11y ago
I think that it's easier to sell soap with a Jenner story than a Snowden one. People are perfectly well capable of understanding that the government is reading all of their emails, text messages and facebook posts. The problem is that
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by LordKano 11y ago
I used to feel that way until I heard Angelina Jolie speak on the issue. I'm not going to google the quote right now but the heart of it is that when they care about an issue, their celebrity can bring more attention than the righteous
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by LordKano 11y ago
It would create an immediate black market for current ammunition. I would be an overnight millionaire. Regular hunting, self defense and target shooting could be done with the new stuff and the old ammunition without taggants would be reser
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by LordKano 11y ago
You are not well versed enough on the technology or the culture to opine intelligently. Let me illustrate where you went wrong. ---- Just regulate, and mark with ID, the bullets. You have no way of dealing with the billions of bullets that
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by LordKano 11y ago
Fair point. I reworded my reply. It's not that I can't explain it. It's that I don't believe he or should would understand the explanation. I couldn't explain the sound of a hiss to a person who was born deaf; not b
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by LordKano 11y ago
Yeah, so? If you have to ask, I can't explain it to you.
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by LordKano 11y ago
This officer watched another officer forcibly enter someone's home without probable cause or reasonable suspicion, assault an infirmed bystander and lie about it, then saw another officer arrest that same innocent citizen based upon th

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