briancaw2

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by briancaw2 13y ago
You never know...it's not inconceivable that they would do random reviews of officer's entire shifts as part of a review process.
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by briancaw2 13y ago
The only problem I can see is that like-it-or-not, some of cop's behavior involves not enforcing bad laws. Cameras might take away ability to let things slide. Maybe that results in the long overdue reform of our laws. Maybe it just
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by briancaw2 13y ago
The problem is that all of the technology we've created as a society (sharing science, funding from the government, allowing resource harvesting from public land) is being used to make workers obsolete, but instead of honoring the comm
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by briancaw2 13y ago
It's just a bad argument in general...saying that because people spend 30% more when stuff is free (without improved results) means they have twice as much as they need. It doesn't follow, at all.
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by briancaw2 13y ago
Wasn't your original idea something that democratic procedures violate people? Is difference that in an HOA you agree to the procedures, instead of being born into them?
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by briancaw2 13y ago
If the point you're trying to make is that attacking a person's character is a poor substitute for an argument against their beliefs, then point taken. But you weren't doing a very good job getting that point across.
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by briancaw2 13y ago
http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m43fenS4rJ1rqfhi2o1_250.gi...
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by briancaw2 13y ago
When you say liberal you are referring to a political leaning. Rand's growing influence is on politics. If people started electing astrological evangelist preachers to government positions and it resulted in policies that they disagr
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by briancaw2 13y ago
What happens when that HOA needs to make a new rule? From what you described it sounds like any person on the losing end of an argument is being violated, and an HOA that has to deal with anything but some basic set of agreed upon rules wil
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by briancaw2 13y ago
People care about books not only for their truths but also for the lies that influence others. The former should be lauded while the latter needs to be combatted.
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by briancaw2 13y ago
There's no such thing as voluntary cooperation when all of the land is already owned.
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by briancaw2 13y ago
Productivity and smartness are measured by the consistent ability to impact the world? And there is data linking "productivity", "smartness", and "consistent impact on the world"? Does Will Hunting abandoning
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by briancaw2 13y ago
There's no analogy. You asked "Does anything justify killing a 16-year-old non-american citizen without due process?" I'm giving a case of when yes, something would justify that. The point here is that there are cases
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by briancaw2 13y ago
I think we're nitpicking here. I think that the probability of someone not being impartial given their son was on a kill list is greater than someone who's son wasn't...etc. Anyway, I 100% agree that "there is a burden
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by briancaw2 13y ago
Do me the favor of putting my statement and yours side by side. Show the claim I made (that we should scrutinize the validity of the OpEd) vs what you refuted.
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by briancaw2 13y ago
Questioning the validity of an OpEd by association. I'm ok with that.
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by briancaw2 13y ago
Yes. For example, a 16 year old Nazi soldier pointing a gun at you.
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by briancaw2 13y ago
I'm not willing to go so far to say that parents should be held accountable for their children's actions. I am very confident that it's ok to question the validity of statements made by the parent of a well known, high ranki
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by briancaw2 13y ago
If Timothy McVeigh's son left to go hang out with his dad who was actively a terrorist and then ended up dead I would dig a little deeper before acting like our entire intelligence community is evil.
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by briancaw2 13y ago
All I'm saying is that some guy who's son was a bad guy (look at his wiki page, I won't enumerate offenses) writes an Op-Ed in NyTimes and everyone starts taking his word as scripture. I'm not saying killing his grands
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by briancaw2 13y ago
This guy's son was a bad enough dude that he got put on a terrorist kill list. I think we should at least consider that we might have an unreliable narrator. Edit: what I said was that folks should, like with any article, do some inv
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by briancaw2 13y ago
I think if it involved Presidential and Congressional approval and had things like exact query logging and required declassification prior to prosecution than that would be reasonable.
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by briancaw2 13y ago
Right so it's more difficult to do, but you can separate out the testing team or do other things to be rigorous about detection. At the very least you can make it more difficult than sitting down at a terminal and hitting go. One sor
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by briancaw2 13y ago
My point was that even 1 unauthorized nuke is completely unacceptable and we have mechanisms to prevent it.
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by briancaw2 13y ago
Right so what I'm imagining is basically (for lack of a better term) a QA framework that tests that the instrumentation for tracking access...etc is legit. You could say that blowing up even one nuke without proper oversight is unacce
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by briancaw2 13y ago
Remember in Seven when Morgan Freeman is all like Hey Man we can't knock down this door we found out about this guy illegally and then Brad Pitt is all like Screw it and kicks down the door and they pay a homeless woman to say she saw
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by briancaw2 13y ago
Here's something I've been thinking about, let me know your thoughts: I'm thinking of the nuclear bomb analog. Other people have nukes, so we need nukes, and we have to trust the government not to turn nukes against us. Is
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by briancaw2 13y ago
I think the number of ways the a country as big and powerful and geographically isolated and culturally diverse as the USA is different than a rich western democracy is out of scope of a forum comment. But I think the short answer is that
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by briancaw2 13y ago
So an American president didn't keep a campaign promise and it's all of the sudden impossible to change anything?
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by briancaw2 13y ago
Hasn't anyone here ever watched The Wire?

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