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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, I thought this was settled with the Pentagon Papers. But apparently everyone changed their mind after Wikileaks, and without court oversight. Can Fox News sue here? It seems like calling him a co-conspirator (aka journalist) just to
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by jbooth 13y ago
Sure, there was a recession, which I alluded to, and other stuff, well, I was working with a few sentences, not a book. The CBO graded obamacare as reducing medicare costs (the biggest driver of our budget deficits). Expanding coverage sho
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by jbooth 13y ago
In the case of the economist, it's pretty jarring to see a magazine normally full of facts and figures turn into a political hack job when it comes to covering US politics. Bush comes into office with a balanced budget and a recession, pass
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by jbooth 13y ago
"The only reason Silicon Valley has the culture it does today, is courtesy of the technology sector and the wealth that has come with it." I'd give a fair amount of credit to the universities, the gold rush and the acid craze, too. Tech cu
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, that's all well and good, but it reminds me of some douche with a camera going to a black/muslim/white/whatever neighborhood, insulting everyone, and then when people get pissed, "I TOLD you they were uncivilized!". The first graf of
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, but again, that's back when you'd be talking with all these different retail stores to get your book to the customer. Plus printing, shipping, all that. How about 1) Write book. 2) Spend a day or two getting it on Amazon, Apple, B
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by jbooth 13y ago
Accenture would be in the witness protection program or jail.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Not to mention that there's a line of reasoning for 1%ers to support the democratic party's centrist economic policies in the name of self-interest -- richer consumers to buy stuff means more sales for those selling it, better infrastructur
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by jbooth 13y ago
More like half of that half. There's polls on how many people still think Saddam had WMDs or think Obama was born in Kenya or whatever. That's still enough to swing primaries and give us the current Congress. I think a good number of smal
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yes, conservative think tanks will always put NYC/Cali as the least favorable business climate. But where's the business? Here. Cali. I live in NJ, I work in NY, so I got 49 and 50 going strong here. I can tell you, and you'll have to j
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by jbooth 13y ago
Well, those are federal issues, so it sounds like his problem is the fact that Obama's president rather than anything to do with new york state. I'd also hypothesize that he was much less upset about these issues in December 2008 than he b
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by jbooth 13y ago
I wouldn't go as far as second-class citizens, NYC is less than half the population and, correspondingly, less than half of the districts. There are a lot of NYC-specific taxes and tolls collected. Hell, Republicans controlled the state l
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by jbooth 13y ago
I think it's a bit much to expect a moral and social revolution just to support AirBnB. People are nice to people they're going to see again and generally indifferent/inconsiderate towards people they won't see. That goes double for new yo
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by jbooth 13y ago
Being tolerant to each other is great, because like you said, there will come a time when that person is tolerant to you in return. Unless they're in your apartment building on a one night rental. Then, you'll never see them again and they
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yeah, like learn how to write, calculus, some history and a smattering of the sciences.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Oh come on. She changed her mind over an hour before the market opened and they couldn't process her cancellation. She didn't ask for her money back after losing it, she asked to stop the trade before it was executed and they failed at th
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by jbooth 13y ago
If she tried to cancel the order, the broker should have been able to cancel the order for her. They had over an hour to work with -- if it were their own money, it'd have been handled in milliseconds. It's standard to blow up the damages
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by jbooth 13y ago
He wasn't justifying it, he was explaining it. It's the real world out there. If you live in China in 1989, it's better to be quiet than to be dead in Tiananmen Square, and if you're in the prison system it's better to be quiet than to be
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by jbooth 13y ago
If pensions are the issue, then the solution is probably a little more detailed than "cut spending". You show me someone with a 2 word fiscal solution and ill Sheila you a fool.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Oral history was my source but its the standard oral history -- I'd be surprised to learn it was wrong.
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by jbooth 13y ago
The reason states started running lotteries was actually to deny business to the mob. Mafia used to run the numbers games right alongside the protection racket. Revenue was mostly a side effect of a law and order decision. I can't say I u
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by jbooth 13y ago
Disruptive behavior includes pissing off the guards with wisecracks and a smug air of intellectual superiority. I'd bet $10 to 1 that's why he's in there.
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by jbooth 13y ago
I shouldn't have said "You don't know how IP works", because that's rude and it's beside the point. I'm more talking about international law in general. The law that states that the US cannot invade Iraq and that Syria cannot possess chem
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by jbooth 13y ago
I don't think you understand how IP works. You think that in a national security sense, our IP laws keep our economy ahead of other countries? What, they're bound by those laws?
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by jbooth 13y ago
This reminds me of when Stringer Bell tried to get into lobbying on the Wire and just got his money taken and no favors done for him.
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by jbooth 13y ago
A quote like that, I want to see how they added up their sums for "all of the money it pours into.." and "tuition free, or close to it, for..".
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yes, the politics there are biased, but the voting system still ultimately rewards facts -- the top comment for some BS liberal-bias-confirming story is often a debunking. So at least the vote system has that going for it.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Eh. My wife reads huffington post, my co-workers read reddit, and they see the viral-of-the-day first, it's just a fact.
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by jbooth 13y ago
It's a mix, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message Certain commenting schemes lend themselves to "loudest retard gets most visibility" and some attempt to steer towards the opposite.
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by jbooth 13y ago
Yes, racism is everywhere, but your story sounds a little fishy. I don't think you can ever be more than 20 feet away from a white person in Manhattan, 24 hours a day, and that's including Harlem. More to the point, in a city where there's

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