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by iaw 6y ago
If you take Command and Control[0] to be an authoritative source, then no I don't believe so. We've come close to accidentally launching on both sides but no combat deployment has occurred, if it did it would likely be the end of
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by iaw 6y ago
> And Xi has actually been a big booster for revival of the religious traditions that they do have. Tell that to the Uyghur's.
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The end of this video[0] explains some of the historic context: [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUS9mM8Xbbw
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by iaw 6y ago
For context, in Germany displaying a swastika or endorsing Naziism has been illegal (with some exceptions) since around right after WWII. They take their hate speech pretty seriously.
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by iaw 6y ago
In 1978 California passed the ill-conceived Proposition 13 which encourages people to keep houses rather than sell them through lower tax rates for longer ownership. California has almost 40M residents and Oregon has a bit over 4M, even a f
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by iaw 6y ago
Please don't dox people in a charged thread like this. There is no point in putting their phone number or emails here.
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by iaw 6y ago
My experience (years ago) was that the hotels would prefer people did this as they don't like the middlemen either.
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by iaw 6y ago
It's called a Helmholtz Resonator fyi
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by iaw 6y ago
It would be in two years at which point any network could broadcast it, AppleTV has likely bought the rights for many years to come making copyright extension a cogent component of this discussion in my opinion.
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by iaw 6y ago
Under the 1909 act, works before 1963 with extension and works before 1991 without extension of their copyright term would now be coming under public domain. Could you elaborate your point? I fail to see how a difference of 3 years invalid
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by iaw 6y ago
I typed it out instead of copy and pasting, it's driving me nuts.
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by iaw 6y ago
> rightful owners When it's the original author or within a reasonable time frame of their publication the concept of rightful owners makes sense. The idea of an essentially immortal non-living entity or a 5th generation niece/
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A CIA Officer Visits Moscow, Returns with Mysterious, Crippling Headaches(npr.org)
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by iaw 6y ago
American culture has been redefined as 'Intellectual Property' with the intent of controlling it in perpetuity.
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Any thoughts on whether this is actually going to represent a wave of inflation?
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When it's against a legally protected class and opens up the company to liability, it is rational to fire an employee for not reporting it. Safety violations are taken that seriously at some companies, anyone observing one that doesn&#
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by iaw 6y ago
The House of Representatives is often colloquially referred to as "congress" don't ask me why even though that's the name of the bicameral body.
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A lot of non-foreigners feel horrible about it being inflicted on people too.
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by iaw 6y ago
I'm still going to say indiscriminately imprisoning and torturing a group of people because of their ethnic background.
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by iaw 6y ago
Emissaries and consulates are typically ran by career government employees in the US but their operation is overseen by the Secretary of State (a presidential cabinet member) and the State Department. So the presidential appointee has a lo
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by iaw 6y ago
There are three competing philosophies in this thread: 1) This is because of communism 2) China is being reasonable 3) This is a crime, what can we do? 1 & 2 are diametrically opposed and downvoting each other whereas 3 gets attacked f
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by iaw 6y ago
> The question is, is a successful quelling of all terrorism worth crossing the line? > Keep in mind the United States likely killed and harmed much more innocent bystanders with its' own allergic immune response to 9/11. It
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by iaw 6y ago
Given that his entire family in China has effectively been erased as far as he knows, I think the CCP has a pretty strong level of control in the vast majority of cases. He currently lives in Netherlands while his wife and child are in Turk
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by iaw 6y ago
My guess would be politics. Congress in the US is democratically controlled while the Senate and Presidency are republican controlled. The current administration is fairly anti-Muslim and has ignored the Uighar issues entirely, the curren
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by iaw 6y ago
We aren't talking about magnitude and frequency. If we were I could point out that communist governments tend to be younger and dealing with more domestic strife as a young government may lead to a higher likelihood of crimes being co
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by iaw 6y ago
> exterminate all Uighurs in one way or another In this context it seems to mean that it's politically easier to "re-educate" the Uighar away than straight out kill the Uighars. If some die during the process China doesn&
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by iaw 6y ago
> cultural purging and crimes against humanity These existed long before the concept of communism, we can debate communisms merits (of which it has some but not many) or we can actually discuss the crimes against humanity being perpetrat
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by iaw 6y ago
"Contributing fairly" has meaning when compared to "no contribution" or "negative contributions". We can argue about what fair is all day but it hard to say that someone who accrued $1B has contributed fairly.
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by iaw 6y ago
Not contributing fairly to the society that allowed one to accrue a large volume of wealth is also "unfair."
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by iaw 6y ago
I would argue that the ability to make controlled fires was an invention and perhaps the first chemistry humans intentionally performed, but I think it's just a point of semantics.

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