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by jivatmanx 13y ago
The English Civil war 1642–1651, and the pro-parliamentarians led by Cromwell, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and English Bill of Rights of 1689, using the ideas of Locke's Second treatise(same year), were most important for layi
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
Well stated, most accept that it should be legalized, based on the essentially economic argument of Milton Friedman and others. Given that, its health effect is still important, as it impacts how much it should be taxed, how we allow it to
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
2. Vote in primary elections, then vote third party in general.
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"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." -John Adams
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
You don't have to go back that far for evidence that the "War on Drugs" is racist. The phrase itself was coined for Nixon's first term, where the southern strategy was first used.
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
If she were a senator from Rhode Island, I'd recommend this. But the population of California is 38 Million. The population per congressman averages 700,000 Not to mention that, horrifyingly, she's not up for election until 2018,
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
I think it would be more effective to begin organizing a primary challenge to Nancy Pelosi. Residents of San Francisco have the unique ability to send a message to the minority leader, and therefore, the entire democratic party. The leverag
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_%28abolitionist%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Kansas
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
False dichotomy, it's not likely that every single regiment of every single branch of the armed forces and police are all going to choose a single side.
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
Congress, in most cases of late, prefers to give more arbitrary authority to the Executive branch rather than actually craft specific and meaningful rules.
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
To be fair, he's been busy leading brave soldiers against Washington's pot dispensaries, and running guns for Mexican gangs.
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
The problem I have with this argument, is, isn't the point of every technological advance to become widespread and Standards-Essential? If we're going to disallow them, why have patents at all? For "Look-And-Feel" patent
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
Actually, the justification for not going after banking or corporate malfeasance, according to Eric Holder, is that they're "Too Big to Jail". I have to say, as a committed small r republican wary of executive power, this kin
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
Intervening in one case for an iconic American company is protectionism, not free trade. That would have entailed reforming the patent system for everyone. This is ominous, what if this is remembered as the equivalent of Smoot-Hawley? Paten
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
The author of the code for section 215 of the Patriot act, Sensenbrenner, says it is being used totally beyond what he intended. In this sense, it can be said to be executing arbitrary code, perhaps it can be said that the typical method of
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
Alexander could have worn business or business casual attire to this event, but he chose wear official military garb to a non-military event in order to cloak his arguments with official authority. As I've argued elsewhere, the amount
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
It's been reported elsewhere that the NSA may uses GCHQ to spy on Americans, as a deliberate run around the fourth amendment. I guess, funding GCHQ makes that worse, as well.
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
Jefferson was the U.S.'s first patent examiner, this eventually became one of his most time consuming duties. It's claimed that this indicates he supported patents, which is false, as this letter, written well after his duties, sh
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
"A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combin
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
I think you're reading too much into that choice. I believe he chose Lincoln the same reason that Romney said that "Modern Family" is his favorite T.V. show: They both rank #1 in polls.
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
In the 20 interwar years, both Communism and Fascism (Business plot, Leo Strauss, etc.) both had an enormous intellectual following, even in the U.S. In Europe, there was an overwhelming sentiment that Democracy was weak and outdated, which
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
It's easier to prevent it from getting there than it is to stop it once it has. It's more economical to expend the effort now than wait. If drones are physically visible I worry that an "implied consent" will develop and
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The same line between wiretapping in the analog age and wiretapping now: impossible to use on a mass, routine, and suspicion-less basis.
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The lack of advancement in antibiotics is a stark contrast to the recent improvements in treatments for so many chronic diseases. Whatever the reason the free-market pressures here are so weak, antibiotic development should consequently be
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but this is just a condition on a voluntary contract, which nobody is forcing the companies to sign. Individuals routinely sign things like NDA's which are abridge free speech.
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There is a conflict of interest issue when companies funded almost entirely by government contracts uses money in this manner. The government could easily specify as a term in their contracts that are not allowed to do this. Considering the
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The colonists revolted because they were being denied their rights as British citizens. And before WWII we, and intermittently France, were the world's only major democracies. The relationship is somewhat akin to ancient Greece and Rom
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In free governments, the government is the servant of the people. It's activities are transparent and public by default, though the people may allow some defined areas where some secrecy is temporarily allowed. The people's libert
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
>People often dismiss out of hand the notion that tyranny could possibly take hold over the first world democracies of the west in the 21st century I think that the two most famous tyrannies, the Nazis and the USSR, have given us a very
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by jivatmanx 13y ago
Alexander is an extremely powerful, dangerous man. His removal should first priority.

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