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by derleth 13y ago
That focusing on the fact it's tax-paid is missing the point.
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by derleth 13y ago
Cod-Latin is fake Latin so cod-Platonism is fake Platonism which comes from a simplistic understanding of Platonism.
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by derleth 13y ago
Ah, my favorite example of a pons asinorum: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PonsAsinorum.html > An elementary theorem in geometry whose name means "asses' bridge," perhaps in reference to the fact that fools
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by derleth 13y ago
> Make sure to include a tl;dr You mean the Abstract?
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by derleth 13y ago
Actually, it seems ARPANET was not designed to survive nuclear war: http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/histor... > It was from the RAND study that the false rumor started claiming that the A
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by derleth 13y ago
Their healthcare overall costs less than US health care, though. So, not free, but it does, in fact, cost less.
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by derleth 13y ago
If it gets bad enough, outpatient antibiotic use will be a thing of the past: If you need antibiotics, you will be confined somewhere and your compliance will be monitored. Laws will be passed to make non-compliance not simply a crime, but
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by derleth 13y ago
There are millions of people who are deeply, deeply unhappy every time information about birth control is published. Is that the standard we want free speech to be held to?
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by derleth 13y ago
> What percentage of the worlds GDP is founded in open source technology? Everything built on the Internet, to begin with. > I mean we use emacs/vim Because they work. > pretend that virtualization can count as security No one
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by derleth 13y ago
> the "house is an investment" crowd They are. What people neglect to mention is that some investments, houses included, fail to pan out, and leave you worse off than you were before. Simply assuming that a mortgage builds usef
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by derleth 13y ago
No, it's opt-out, unless the developer's changed his mind: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/04/03/cyanogenmod-will-no-... And, if he does change his mind, it's more likely to be to remove the
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by derleth 13y ago
I mentioned it because it's shocking that a Free Software project would be so disrespectful of user privacy. Oh, and it isn't opt-in. It's opt-out, until the developer changes his mind again: http://www.androidpoli
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by derleth 13y ago
Too bad CyanogenMod itself phones home to tell the developers about you.
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by derleth 13y ago
I want to know if Portuguese emergency rooms (and hospitals in general) are having to deal with more drug addicts and drug-related acute health problems (overdoses are only one variety) and drug-related complications to existing health prob
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by derleth 13y ago
It's funny that I often have the exact opposite problem: I'll know a word because I've seen it used in print many times, but I'll have no idea of how to pronounce it. The first time I tried to pronounce 'subpoena&#x
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by derleth 13y ago
As I understand it, the buyer is responsible for all back taxes, liens, assessments against the property in general, and the cost of either bringing the buildings up to code or having them torn down in a safe and code-compliant fashion. If
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by derleth 13y ago
> I'm talking about non-consensual porn that has no chance of becoming legal to produce. This can be replaced by simulations using acting and special effects. Porn is about the fantasy anyway. > An analogy that comes to mind is t
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by derleth 13y ago
Instead of downvoting, how about listing the ways the Second Amendment has checked the power of the government in the real world?
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by derleth 13y ago
> a job that paid relatively well but offered no... accomplishment. Welcome to most jobs, ever, in every historical period and culture, ever since humans have had jobs distinct from whatever else they did with their lives. Progress seems
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by derleth 13y ago
The CDC already refuses to recognize male rape victims because it defines rape as penetration: http://www.genderratic.com/p/836/manufacturing-female-victim... So take statistics like that with a huge grain of salt
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by derleth 13y ago
Not unless the Second Amendment Lobby has tactical nukes, which it doesn't, because nothing else scares the US Army at this point.
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by derleth 13y ago
So compare it to the drug trade: The ancillary crimes happen when the core product is criminalized; that is, you get drive-bys and chemical plant and pharmacy robberies when drug production is illegal such that the only way to compete in th
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by derleth 13y ago
UPI seems to have some coverage of that one: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2013/07/16/Veterans-para... (UPI is a fairly major Western news agency. Not as big as the AP, but a long way from bei
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by derleth 13y ago
> the possible future headline "Women and poor worst hit as consumer good prices skyrocket due to aluminum shortage." Actually, I'd expect rolling blackouts long before an actual Al shortage. (Reasoning: Aluminum is one of
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by derleth 13y ago
> Wouldn't it be easier to simply not worry about gender at all and simply use your sex in any way you please? The people who do this fit into the box marked 'genderqueer'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by derleth 13y ago
> To be credible, a skeptic can't be ignorant. No. To be credible, a skeptic must begin by asking honest questions.
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by derleth 13y ago
> I'm always surprised when stuff like this comes up on news sites, I tend to forget the web is full of goddamn kids these days ;) Yeah, they wouldn't know a Fuzzball if it bit them on the ass, and nobody knows the true meaning
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by derleth 13y ago
> Well, they seem to be doing allright for the past 65,000 years... They've survived. Humans can survive terrible things. > I'm assuming that, because they have lived in such a closed ecosystem for so long, they have differe
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by derleth 13y ago
OK, nobody disputes that they have better teeth than my circa 1800 ancestors did, but I very likely have better teeth than they do now, so who really wins here? > The big problem for them was carrying capacity, meaning you had to migrate
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by derleth 13y ago
> But... the choice is theirs, not yours or mine. How much do they really know, though? Do they know that some of their diseases could be cured, for example?

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