cruisername

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by cruisername 12y ago
call the cops if I'm not home yeah right, they'll fix your KDE 2 install on freebsd in a jiffy as well Until then I'm not sure that "only the criminals can search for burning buildings on the Internet" is really
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by cruisername 12y ago
The Law should have a case for the need to ignore some rights in order to protect other rights, given that any damage will be compensated. E.g. break a window to get someone out of a car crash. Seeing that he didn't do any damage, it s
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by cruisername 12y ago
> undermining the whole system of justice on which our democratic societies are built That's cute. Our Societies are built on the labor of the underclass, on lies and deception and on violent turf wars. Talk about justice.
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by cruisername 12y ago
I am aware of that, but I didn't think it through far enough to conclude that it's really undermined. I dunno, say, It only makes predictions about subjects, no the bigger picture, where a god-device would come in. It doesn't
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by cruisername 12y ago
This implies taxes are fair, that paying taxes is a requirement for voting, like buying your voice, and that voting would give any benefits in return. Yes, of course it is fair to vote when the vote could indirectly decide laws that make yo
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by cruisername 12y ago
being denied german citizenship sucks for you, but with that last-name it's remarkably ironic.
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by cruisername 12y ago
Ever heard of the underhanded C contest? The writing of bugs/features that are well hidden and look like they were not intended is a real thing. Bugs go undiscovered for as much as 20 years, at least from our perspective. And mere susp
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by cruisername 12y ago
I agree with your co-commentator, everything is subjective and we just take some things for granted so much that we take them as truth. Seems i was wrong calling it inarguable, in fact i like to argue back and forth a lot. > observable i
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by cruisername 12y ago
> [that it's naive to say that science doesn't turn on belief] depends entirely on what we mean when we say "science". Or it depends on what we mean when we say believe. The weight lying on "science" does fo
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by cruisername 12y ago
Well, if your are willing to make a distinction between faith and believe, you might be right, IMHO, but that is opening a can of wormy questions that I'd better not go on writing about :)