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by hnal943 16y ago
There are also barriers to entry to becoming a plumber. And there's no reason a plumber couldn't easily become the CEO of his own plumbing company. People are largely in charge of their own destiny in America (as well as many other countri
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by hnal943 16y ago
You can re-write the parable if you wish, but it no longer mirrors reality. Any reduction in tax rates is commonly decried as "Tax cuts for the Rich." No one says anything like , "the poor always win!" Obviously, a parable is only as good
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by hnal943 16y ago
The popularity of Fox News channel indicates that most people think that the mainstream media is too left-wing.
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by hnal943 16y ago
The font they chose for the body text looks horrible in Chrome.
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by hnal943 16y ago
Some of us are sick of hearing about Wikileaks. And now for something slightly different.
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Throw the WikiBook at them(washingtonpost.com)
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by hnal943 16y ago
An excellent book on this topic is Thou Shall Prosper by Rabbi Daniel Lapin. He examines why the Jewish culture is disproportionately wealthy and much of the reason lies in their positive attitude about business.
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by hnal943 16y ago
Then the reason you want to make money is that it is your way of keeping score in life. The money itself is obviously not desirable.
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by hnal943 16y ago
You do that today. Because you're used to the mouse.
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by hnal943 16y ago
I think tablets are the reason clicks no longer make as much sense as they used to. Clicks are built into our mental model because of a lifetime of using the mouse.
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by hnal943 16y ago
Except when the world reads this diary, spies will be discovered, people will die and other countries will refuse to cooperate with the United States.
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by hnal943 16y ago
Who says anyone is corrupt? I don't understand why having classified information automatically makes you corrupt.
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by hnal943 16y ago
"I believe virtually anything I read, and I believe that makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn't believe anything." - David St. Hubbins
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by hnal943 16y ago
This seems like the Microsoft surface demos from a few years ago....
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by hnal943 16y ago
I think we will grow old and die 500 years from now. It may be at a slower rate. I just think that stopping aging is a lot different that slowing it, and preventing death is a lot different than delaying it.
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by hnal943 16y ago
Reminds me of the HPLD Civilization from Lem's The Cyberaid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberiad
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by hnal943 16y ago
The beads represented years of productivity. How many 80 year olds do you know that are not retired from their life's work? Not many.
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by hnal943 16y ago
Is it possible that in the midst of their no-comments, no-test-cases spaghetti they introduce a few bugs that affect the results? If so, they need to release their code to be scrutinized along with their findings.
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by hnal943 16y ago
So, your point is that baby boomers on the whole are more comfortable with emerging technology than younger generations? That's absurd on its face.
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by hnal943 16y ago
If only your student body showed fiscal constraint, this wouldn't have worked.
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by hnal943 16y ago
Also, the problem of hunger in the world is largely one of distribution, not production.
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by hnal943 16y ago
However, computers have not demonstrated brilliant chess play is possible without intelligence, unless the programmers of deep blue were not intelligent.
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by hnal943 16y ago
They could at least not stretch the images.
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by hnal943 16y ago
Digital natives are people that can see the benefits in spite of the architecture, not because of it. They see the world as iphones and gmail, not the TCP/IP stack. They assume functionality that is mind blowing to non-natives. It's not
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by hnal943 16y ago
They Might Be Giants
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by hnal943 16y ago
Until Scott Brown's election last year, the Democrats could have ended any filibuster attempt immediately. Democrats had a free run for a year. For the a year and a half now, the public has been screaming for them to stop. Brown's electi
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by hnal943 16y ago
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. -Churchill
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by hnal943 16y ago
Blaming the Republicans doesn't make any sense. Democrats have the votes to do whatever they want to do, which is why it's so easy this year to hold incumbents accountable.
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by hnal943 16y ago
High turnout will ensure his defeat. He's not listening to the Wisconsin electorate and they noticed.
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by hnal943 16y ago
No one has brought up socialism in this campaign at all. Ron Johnson has run a specific, issue oriented campaign. His major focus is stopping the run away spending of the Obama agenda. He entered the race when Obamacare passed, because h

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