OpieCunningham

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by OpieCunningham 8y ago
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is probably a good place to start. https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ind...
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by OpieCunningham 8y ago
Sure, but before you had a chance to cash out, they tore down the skyscraper and built a fracking well.
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by OpieCunningham 13y ago
It is certainly a positive victory. This is a wave in the tides of history. If you take away the waves in the guise of "mercy", you end up with no tide. What's sad is that Eich has learned nothing yet. Hopefully he does, or o
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by OpieCunningham 13y ago
Clearly it is a rhetorical question - Prop 8 was discrimination - how many people need to be discriminated against in order for a defense to be mounted? The minimum answer is 1. The larger the answer the larger the defense. If the law had n
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by OpieCunningham 13y ago
I mean that prop 8, the thing Eich supported, was overruled. Anti-gay marriage laws are being overturned across the country. That's precisely a definition of "sufficiently". The group is still oppressed, so there has been n
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by OpieCunningham 13y ago
The oppressed have already won? No, I don't think so. I do not see any reality to a claim that the gay community is not actively oppressed. Perhaps you mean the gay community is sufficiently less oppressed that it should stop defending
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by OpieCunningham 13y ago
How many lives need to be ruined before an oppressed community can fight back? Sainthood should not be a bar that everyone must meet in order to avoid being labeled with a black mark. This guy attacked a large group of people and that group
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by OpieCunningham 13y ago
And you're betraying more than you realize by focusing on weapons as a proxy for tactics; professionals focus on logistics Oh, ok then you shouldn't mind eliminating some types of weapons like assault rifles. Any revolutionary force attem
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by OpieCunningham 13y ago
If the Vietnamese were invading the U.S. and about to eliminate the U.S. gov't from existence, they would have been nuked.
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by OpieCunningham 13y ago
The British gov't didn't have tanks in 1776. You'll need to start demanding the right to bear nuclear weapons if you want to throw off the U.S. gov't.
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by OpieCunningham 14y ago
Agreed. But the larger point is that all of those poor people in red states who pay no taxes are effectively disenfranchised. Their states are red - their blue votes are meaningless. The majority of those who pay no income tax are already n
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by OpieCunningham 14y ago
Twitter-like messaging should be a protocol, not a single-source service. I hope App.net fails.
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by OpieCunningham 14y ago
Angry women? Right. No one will ask why if they aren't aware of the problem. This is called shining a light on reality. It's how everything gets addressed.
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by OpieCunningham 14y ago
Tax the rich and we'll see how long until they use their considerable political power to move the gov't away from war spending. Don't tax the rich and then why should they care how much the gov't puts into war spending? It's basically free.
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by OpieCunningham 14y ago
How selfless is it when you consider it the critical, deciding factor in your own success.
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by OpieCunningham 14y ago
when Windows Phone 8 gets released, Facebook will be available for it from day 1, just as it is available on any phone that has a web browser. Not really. Some amount of development effort will be required to ensure compatibility with any
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by OpieCunningham 14y ago
The most obvious symptom of the malaise is the huge debts we have managed to accumulate in recent decades, which - unlike in the past - cannot largely be blamed on wars. U.S. Defense spending is around $900 B/yr (including veterans health
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by OpieCunningham 14y ago
This would be equivalent if the act of having a browser meant that the advertisers could interrupt you at any time your browser is open. Exactly my point. There's a law that prohibits the relatively minor annoyance of being interrupted. B
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by OpieCunningham 14y ago
I think the difference is that you choose which sites to go to. That's not a difference. You choose to own a phone. You choose to leave your phone on the hook. If you don't own a phone, if you leave your phone off the hook, you won't get
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by OpieCunningham 14y ago
no-one has to support it Which is why there should be a law. It's actually outrageous. There's a law to prohibit unsolicited telephone calls - effectively a law to prohibit annoying people. But none for prohibiting companies from invading
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by OpieCunningham 14y ago
Firstly, this is completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand. Nonsense. It was a direct response to a statement that intended to capture Mozilla's motivation - that their motivation is altruistic. The reality is that Mozilla receives
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by OpieCunningham 14y ago
Consider this, Mozilla continues to exist because Google pays them millions. There's a warning sign there.
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by OpieCunningham 14y ago
Well then. There should be a law.
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by OpieCunningham 14y ago
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
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by OpieCunningham 15y ago
“BPI’s product is no more or less safe than other parts of hamburger,” Marler said. “There’s a lot of scraps that get put into hamburger because that’s what the hell hamburger is.” Um, no. A hamburger is ground beef underbelly or chuck. Y
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by OpieCunningham 15y ago
I looked a bit and at every instance I found, the USPS is operationally profitable when pension prefunding is ignored. This is contrary to your claim. So if these other sources are correct, that $75 - $80 billion would go a long way towards
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by OpieCunningham 15y ago
All you're really stating is that if the USPS disappeared, everything would be just fine and FedEx and/or UPS might even start accepting letters with 5 day delivery times for less than 45 cents instead of $10+ they currently charge for appr
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by OpieCunningham 15y ago
I'm not sure I follow. Are you suggesting that if there was an accounting error, the USPS lost all $80 billion in 1961? Perhaps you're simply unfamiliar with the accounting error issue as outlined in the article.
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by OpieCunningham 15y ago
USPS sells an overpriced product. If private companies were legally allowed to charge less than the post office to stick mail in your mailbox, the post office would go under in a heartbeat; Do you have a citation for that? I fail to see h
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by OpieCunningham 15y ago
Contrary to the article, the USPS is not making an operational profit. In FY 2010 it had an operational loss (NOT counting any pension funding) of $600 million. In FY 2011 that rose to an operational loss of $2.2 billion Do your figures f

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