jeangenie

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by jeangenie 12y ago
It's interesting to note that it's not just comments that can be manipulated but also the stories that are upvoted.
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by jeangenie 12y ago
Makes sense. Thanks for responding.
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by jeangenie 12y ago
Curious how OP got this idea. USA PATRIOT Act Sec. 1013 (a)(10), (b)(5,6) mentions research, distribution and stockpiling of vaccines but nothing about liability. There was a decision in 2011 that might be of interest: http://blo
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by jeangenie 12y ago
It's also interesting because modern American politics seems to be primarily driven by corporations.
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by jeangenie 12y ago
What this says to me is that we should immediately stop pouring money into conflagrations overseas.
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by jeangenie 12y ago
"Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion." William Blake
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by jeangenie 12y ago
What makes you think paintings are supposed to be educational? What properties must something fulfill to be educational?
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by jeangenie 12y ago
Happen to have any more info for finding this talk from Moglen?
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by jeangenie 12y ago
What's your point?
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by jeangenie 12y ago
Right to be skeptical of what, precisely?
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by jeangenie 12y ago
> uncontroversial, accurate factual description. Are you so obsessed with minutiae of definitions that you are unable to see that both terms describe reprehensible acts performed by people against other people?
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by jeangenie 12y ago
How can you distinguish between two chiral molecules and two identical molecules one of which has been rotated 180 degrees with respect to the other?
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by jeangenie 12y ago
> It does represent the will of the people. So you're saying the UK government held a vote asking "Do you want to be surveilled?" and a majority of citizens answered in the affirmative? I can't remember anything like
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by jeangenie 12y ago
I have a silly question: how is it determined which side is up and down?
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by jeangenie 12y ago
I understand your meaning but that's not what I'm asking.
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by jeangenie 12y ago
> being open to accepting a mistaken belief. This is odd. Do you think "mistaken beliefs" are clearly labeled so you can reject them without examination or experimentation?
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by jeangenie 12y ago
> The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. I often reflect on this sentiment and have half-convinced myself that the current definition of 'life' we use in this sense to be far too limited to capture the infin
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by jeangenie 12y ago
And how effective have those regulations been?
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by jeangenie 12y ago
This is a great point. In some circles we would refer to this as commoditization (clichéd but effective). It seems to be a consequence of continued profit-seeking outside established and competitive marketplaces.
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by jeangenie 12y ago
Thanks for telling your story. I have an odd question. How do you feel about the way current members of the military and veterans are treated w/r/t painkillers like Oxycontin?
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by jeangenie 12y ago
I'm referring to the effect red light cameras have on drivers rather than pedestrians.
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by jeangenie 12y ago
Anecdotally, switching to a button-fly rather than zipper led to a dramatic decrease in me walking about with my fly open.
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by jeangenie 12y ago
If most articles are private (due to added cost) but all GF articles are public then will there be any practical consequence?
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by jeangenie 12y ago
I had a similar thought. This hypothesis could also be applied to red light cameras.
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by jeangenie 12y ago
As somewhat of a casual expert on jaywalking I can report that one of the chief issues that this does not solve is that inattention and carelessness --not lack of slavish obedience to lights--are primary sources of danger in urban street c
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by jeangenie 12y ago
Do you imagine it would be difficult to convince a citizen the government shouldn't be allowed to steal their property?
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by jeangenie 12y ago
In theory we live in a democracy that should make fixing this easy.
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by jeangenie 12y ago
My guess w/r/t constitutionality would be that many seizures are executed in connection with drug prosecutions in which such rights are abridged. It's arguable this is also constitutionally suspect.
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by jeangenie 12y ago
You are conflating two clearly distinct uses of "privacy".
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by jeangenie 12y ago
What's a reasonable limit of government surveillance to you?

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