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cmdrfred
10y ago
I agree. I personally don't care if this guy cracks his own head open but I believe "my freedom ends where yours begins" and if he's going fast enough to seriously injure or kill someone on the sidewalk he needs to carry
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10y ago
Testing on human subjects is limited and I don't think you can build a sample size that is large enough. Single payer is a great example, Californian or NY voters will likely vote in such a system while Texans would likely opt into a f
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10y ago
I'm not sure that is going to be true of the stock market. Many firms now have record cash holdings[0] so by buying stock you are essentially buying a slice of a pile of money. I argue the reason many firms stock price keeps going up h
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10y ago
We live in a large nation, why not let a few states trial a program before running it nationally? Move fast and break things isn't good enough when lives and livelihoods are at risk in my opinion.
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10y ago
I experianced this myself and was pretty sure this is on purpose. If you request desktop on Chrome for Android you get a stretched out version of the mobile site and the auto complete of your keyboard makes the textbox on messages impossibl
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10y ago
Can't you just build on HTML and JavaScript api's that are widely utilized and accepted? I know before I call something I'm unfamiliar with I'll look up what browsers support it. Most of the problems with IE versions hav
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10y ago
The NSA may be a different story. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora
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10y ago
>working class whites have very distinctly voted against their interests. Given that Obama pushed the TPP hard, made the Bush tax cuts permanent and effectively raised taxes on the working poor with the ACA (also known as Romney Care) an
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10y ago
We did most of that after the great depression unfortunately it took the great depression to summon the political will to pull it off.
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10y ago
Id like to support businesses that pay their employees a living wage but as a consumer it is difficult to find that information. I'd like to see a sign in each store along the lines of "our lowest paid employee makes X/hr, ha
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10y ago
There is also a historical significance this and things like DOSbox may prove useful in the future given ever lengthening copyrights.
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10y ago
My mistake I meant to also include McCutcheon v. FEC in my comment. Citizens United only got that ball rolling.
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10y ago
Make no mistake Citizens United legalized bribery you just have to wink a say it's a "campaign contribution". Everyone involved knows what it really is. Unless you actually believe that the fact that politicians pass laws tha
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10y ago
>The CIA hold a press conference and disclose top secret information? If the elected officials fail the serve the public then yes, they don't have to actually release any top secret data but only have to say "Bush has this wron
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10y ago
Seems like it would be pretty simple to hold a press conference to clarify those incorrect assertions. If you follow the logic of that narrative you also have to assume Hillary Clinton[0] and a large segment of the democratic establishment
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10y ago
Jean-Paul Sartre, and Le Duc Tho declined the Nobel, Obama could as well if he did not believe in the purpose of the peace prize. I have 7 words for anyone who wishes to down vote: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Syria
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10y ago
I was wondering what end game of the "election hacking" narrative was, seems to be as pedestrian as a kickback to Lockheed et al. At least this most recent "intelligence" from our friends at the CIA will hopefully wont e
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10y ago
My feeling is more people need to stop and think "Why isn't this just a website".
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10y ago
What question do you ask at the first booth?
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10y ago
I like Kiva. You can fund loans to businesses and individuals that would normally not have access to capitol. The agencies that administer the loans charge some interest to the borrower that is used to cover the costs of the loan as well as
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10y ago
I'm not an apple fan but I don't think that is the problem. It just seems their competitors are able to deliver similar value at prices that are much more attractive.
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10y ago
To each their own of course, but I find even mildly impaired people annoying. You don't realize how much an effect a few beers can have alcohol is deceptive that way, that's why you see people down a bottle of vodka and get behind
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10y ago
I don't often drink, maybe twice a year and I've been given the advice you just gave the previous poster. The truth is drunk people are insufferable while sober I don't recommend anyone do this.
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10y ago
People who are correct can come up with something better than an argumentum ad verecundiam.
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10y ago
When you join the armed forces they don't just stick a gun in your hand and fly to you Iraq, the training you receive will bring you to 18 before you are deployed.
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10y ago
If only ad hominem's refuted claims. What a tender world that would be.
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10y ago
The medical profession appears to reward skill in memorization over novel intelligence. The vast majority of doctors will never work with anything that hasn't been done thousands if not millions of times already. Often when they leave
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10y ago
The battery is the limitation here. Sure maybe you record for a day or two even but it simply can't last longer than that.
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10y ago
Not where I went to school, half an hour after the kids left the vast majority of teachers were gone.
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10y ago
So they are required to be at school for 8 hour days year round?
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