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by jivatmanx 13y ago
A species, the lowest taxonomic classification on the tree of life, is defined by the ability to crossbreed. [0] Previously, any crossbreeding between plants, by necessity had to belong to the same species. Since this is the lowest taxonomi
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>Humans began genetically modifying plants to provide food more than 10,000 years ago. There's a difference between selecting and breeding specific plants in your corn crop, or crossing corn with a slightly different variety of corn
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>All of this goes to support Greenwald's thesis (given at the beginning and the end, so I'm not sure how you missed it) that the real warfare in Washington is between establishment authoritarians, and those who have become wear
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What if there is malware in USB keys?
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I agree with social security, as it's simply a direct monetary transfer program, and I personally view these, such as progressive taxation, as vastly preferable to Federal control of services for many reasons. But, Medicare is a state-
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War is politics by other means. When a war ends without the politics being settled, the seed of conflict remains. However, most either people lack this longer term vision and falsely perceive a physical wins as an ultimate "victory&qu
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Few men could be moral when offered the combination of unrestricted power over others, total secrecy, and lack of consequences for actions, that is so often the state of these agencies. That's why we need their power to be limited and
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There are legitimate questions of the necessity of a permanent military complex. Classical liberals opposed standing armies. Switzerland has an alternative to a standing army. And, as the other commenter pointed out, the Industrial complex
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I would hope that congress could be united in perturbation at what seems to be a clear pattern of contempt officials of the Executive branch has shown for them, starting with the last presidency. And I'm not referring to the president
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I think it's possible to believe that a cause is lost, and yet still believe in the categorical imperative of fighting for it. Cicero is immortal as both the greatest and last defender of the Roman Republic.
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Why can't charges be specific and limited to the actual crime of 'unauthorized disclosure of classified information'. As a coder, this bothers me. Intuitively this reeks of slippery slope.
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Not when you lose to Canada.
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Life as a Spanish Colony wasn't so hot. Anyways, these areas were granted U.S. citizenship and autonomy soon after. Earlier, Simon Bolivar, who liberated most of Latin America from Spanish control and laid their democratic foundations,
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Cuba was a Spanish colony, and the U.S. gave them formal independence just four years after the war ended. It could easily have been permanently annexed.
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The military-industrial complex was basically created from scratch in WWII (The U.S's industrial contribution to WWI was a joke). This was never de-mobilized because the Cold War began immediately after, and Europe was in no position t
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I often see quotes by Peter T. King in these articles saying things like that, or like - "no American Muslim leaders are cooperating in the war on terror,", or "80-85 percent of mosques in this country are controlled by Islam
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The idea of separation of power has, I believe, a flaw. Instead of considering the branches co-equal, it should be considered that the primary job of both the Legislative and Judicial is to limit the power of the Executive. It should be obv
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Yep, this is why "Stranger Danger" fear-mongering is counterproductive. The kidnappers are usually familiar, and Strangers are really one's greatest chance of help.
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Hamilton argued at the constitutional convention for an elected monarchy. He admired Caesar above all others, and throughout his life held a profound disdain of the lower class. - “the people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or
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"Some aspects of Snowden's story do NOT look like a thoughtful plan to defend freedom and fair play around the world, but rather a haphazard rash move by Snowden to see what he can get away with." I think you're enormous
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"Back in the 1950s, the State Department was asking people to promise they weren't communists before granting them a passport so they can travel abroad. The amount of information they can get on people has grown exponentially sinc
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Which is only convention, not by law, and in any case, just an arbitrary number. FDR threatened to pack the court with lackeys if they didn't vote in favor of his programs. Which raises the obvious question of, since that event, has th
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Germany's Enlightenment was the most abstract and apolitical, compared to France or Britain, and exemplified by Kant, and tracts like "Critique of Pure Reason". The majority of the figures of "Classical Liberalism"
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Fully 30% of Jefferson's Original Declaration was truncated. It explicitly denounced slavery and blamed it on Britain. That caused him great trouble. Till his death, he insisted that be the version preserved for posterity. http:/
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Yes, In fact, warantless wiretapping actually began 7 months before 9/11 http://digitaljournal.com/article/352455
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I have heard Dianne Feinstein use the word "Homeland" outside of the context of the department itself. I'd guess that Lindsey Graham and others are also doing this. The more traditional phrase, Republic, used by Benjamin Fran
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1215. There is actually a lesser known document called the "Charter of Liberties" from 1100. It was entirely ignored but was critical influence for the Magna Carta. The Magna Carta was also basically ignored, but was utterly criti
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"Imagine a world where most want to... x" What a majority want or do not want is entirely orthogonal to whether it's moral or not.
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A General should not have been allowed to attain this much political power. Or repeatedly lie to congress without repercussions. Yet more checks and balances that are clearly out of whack.
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But, few congressmen had any idea of the true extent of this; and Clapper has already admitted to being untruthful to them. Which leaves the president. You can't believe that providing 1 bit of information every four years is sufficien

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