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by ende 11y ago
Canons? Now I've gotta look up the CDC numbers on canon deaths for last year. I wonder how many died from grape shot vs cannister rounds?
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by ende 11y ago
The US military is primarily designed for one task: dominating other nation-states militarily. It struggles with heavily armed insurgent populations.
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by ende 11y ago
The danger of thermonuclear war is just as real (yet remote) today as the danger (and remoteness) of a school shooting in the 80s. The only difference is the popular perception of that threat as fueled by the media.
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by ende 11y ago
You make a good point but how do you figure that sounds conservative? Also, liberalism and socialism are opposing ideologies.
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by ende 11y ago
If you are a cop then you should have no expectation of privacy. That is the tradeoff for getting to walk around with a gun and the authority of state sanctioned killing. If you dont like it, dont be a cop. There can be no middle ground.
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by ende 11y ago
What is left and right? These are completely meaningless concepts, especially in an American context where the political nomenclature makes no sense at all.
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by ende 11y ago
This would not necessarily be considered "liberal" in Switzerland, as the Liberal and FDP parties (now merged) are not liberal in the sense that Americans misuse the term.
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by ende 11y ago
This doesn't make any sense. Citizebs United had nothing to do with self-funding a campaign. If anything a reversal on Citizens United would incentivize more self-funded campaigns, as political speech by third parties is what would b
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by ende 11y ago
So is the Canadian Federal and Provincial governments.
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by ende 11y ago
That may be an interesting plotline for a movie, but reality is fortunately much different.
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by ende 11y ago
First photos of a live specimen snapped in 2005 and only a few sightings since. It really reinforces that not all of nature has been discovered by humans and there is still much need for exploration.
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by ende 11y ago
You are conflating privatization with free market economics. The two are not mutually inclusive, even though there is surely a large commonality among the respective advocates of each. Free market economics has more to do with the state in
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by ende 11y ago
A reduction in working hours does not equate to a reduction in productivity. We should be striving to minimize time spent working while maximizing productivity as a basic goal of capitalistic society. Also this old argument about reduced w
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by ende 11y ago
All of the above! Dna is very stable (compared to, say, many proteins).. it is essentially the cell's harddrive, while mRNA is more like the memory. DNA is able to express complex information through sequences of a small number of st
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by ende 11y ago
Well, the danger of contamination would be in any host vectors used to clone the DNA. Its conceivable that a virus could infect the host vector and introduce its own chromosome into the host chromosome, but this probably wouldn't be a
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by ende 11y ago
That would be ideal. Unfortunately sequencing is imperfect and there are many points throughout the process where error can be introduced. The easiest source of error is simple contamination. It happens even to the best of bench biologis
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by ende 11y ago
One could argue that those powers actually willing to use those nuclear weapons are the more dangerous threat.
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by ende 11y ago
Curious for an anecdotal opinion, but what would say is the general opinion on demoting the royals to the commons (along with the rest of the aristocracy theatre), and setting up as a proper republic?
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by ende 11y ago
With a civilian body count far higher than ISIS's, the Assad regime is surely the largest producer of terrorists. I wonder if put to a vote on whether the US should withdraw its support of the rebels, how would most Syrians vote?
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by ende 11y ago
Yeah, but with publicly accessible feeds. Law enforcement needs a court order to classify data from the public, not the other way around. Also, a "malfunctioning" body-camera disqualifies an officer from duty, etc. I imagine tho
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by ende 11y ago
This is why we need a police force to police the police. If you work in law enforcement and break the rules, you get held personally accountable.
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by ende 11y ago
What is political correctness but censorship?
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by ende 11y ago
Probition should be prohibited.
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by ende 11y ago
Good point. I'm not even really one to turn to legislative remedies. It's difficult to imagine many practical ways to match the vast legal resources of these established interests against individuals.
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by ende 11y ago
Ive been trying to think of an effective way of regulating these sorts of contacts through legislation, and what you're describing seems like the simplest route. Simply have the public draft the standard contractual templates on behal
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by ende 11y ago
I was asking a legitimate question. Why downvote that?
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by ende 11y ago
Hypocrisies?
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by ende 11y ago
Yes, if the incentives are structured by the employing government as such. Governments shouldn't do that though. Nor should governments entertain the proposals pushed by these firms.
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by ende 11y ago
Again, it remains to be seen whether the Chinese economy meets the expectations of earlier forecasts. I think a more realistic view is that the Chinese economy assumes a role in the region comparable to Germany's in Europe. Military a
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by ende 11y ago
School privatization (charter schools) has shown a lot of success over traditional public schools. Im not really sure what hospital privatization refers to. Now prison privatization has come under recent scrutiny but that's more of a

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