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by lzw 16y ago
My position is that the initiation of force is immoral. So, if all the Venture Capitalists in Silicon Valley think that there is something going in the green energy sector and they want to pour a bunch of money into it, more power to them.
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by lzw 16y ago
Please call those who disagree with AGW theory "skeptics". The use of the word "deniers" is pejorative, and seems meant to imply they are "denying reality." His use of the word "fraud" seems well supported considering the amount of scienti
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by lzw 16y ago
As a libertarian, you might find it useful to consider some meta evidence. Those supporting global warming and who have been pushing for this are generally politicians such as Al Gore and the IPCC. Those opposing it are generally business
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by lzw 16y ago
You could characterize it that way, but realize also that if the set of the "in group" is people whose livelihoods are based on finding evidence for AGW theory and those in the "out" group are those who don't, then the set of people is the
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by lzw 16y ago
Why do you say you're on the fence when you characterize those who are skeptical of the AGW theory as "conspiracy theorists"? As an aside, I find this characterization generally amusing because it seems to come from an assumption that consp
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by lzw 16y ago
APS is an organization that publishes papers in the field of Physics. not "climatology" (which really sounds like astrology to me.) He is a physicist. You may not be aware of it, but much of the relevant work in the area of the global cl
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by lzw 16y ago
The US military has experimented with LSD, psychic phenomena and for a period of time "Believed" in UFOs. The "vaccines cause autism" is another political issue where pseudo science is being used to argue for government dictating medical ch
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by lzw 16y ago
Since this is a global warming related topic, we're seeing the very common global warming debate. I've a few points to make in defense of this ex-member of APS, and in response to the arguments that are so commonly presented for AGW. Scienc
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by lzw 16y ago
Not only is there a global terrorist network, they are so elite that they broke into CIA head quarters, rifled all their files until they found one market "Top Secret" that was a list of mujahadeen fighters in afghanistan in the 1980s that
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by lzw 16y ago
By your completely arbitrary definition of a police state, then NYC is a police state as are americas airports. Reality is, this country is a police state, it is the modern one, and it is pumped full of government propaganda about how it is
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by lzw 16y ago
It could always be worse, but thanks for the requisite jingoistic "america- fuck yeah!" comment.
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by lzw 16y ago
Absolutely true, but the so-called "money laundering" statutes at the federal level are written in such a way that they can convict anyone under them for any financial transaction. This is by design, because it gives the government a free
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by lzw 16y ago
Did you know that, when David Koresh discovered the ATF was asking about him and asked about him at the gun store where he did business, he proactively called the local ATF office and offered to come in and have a chat with them? Koresh was
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by lzw 16y ago
The 9th court can repeal gravity, but it doesn't make it law. It merely makes it the opinion of the court. The law has not changed, and the law is quite clear in requiring a warrant. The law will not change until the constitution is ammend
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by lzw 16y ago
The rating system is defacto government censorship. It was created in response to congress's threat to pass laws censoring movies. A better strategy might have been to let congress pass those laws, so fewer americans would be under the il
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by lzw 16y ago
The real subversion of economics is at a higher level. This guy is just exposing (in this article and in his film) the patsy and placing all the blame on the patsy. It is the federal reserve and the government that engineered this financia
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We could have a balanced budget pretty easily, without raising taxes.(youtube.com)
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by lzw 16y ago
When looking at statistics you must guard against differences in methods and political bias. The UN is not a neutral organization, and life expectancy is not measured in a consistent way (in my understanding.) At any rate, I believe what yo
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by lzw 16y ago
Krugman advocated the housing bubble.
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by lzw 16y ago
Of course, since your professional career has been spent at Microsoft working in the Visual Studio group, it is no wonder you would perpetuate this view. Xcode is far superior to microsoft's development tools. I think you're simply exhibit
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by lzw 16y ago
>There's very little out there that Apple can honestly lay claim to having invented. Please study computer history before making statements like this. All of your examples are false, and you didn't even scratch the surface of original
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by lzw 16y ago
It is fair to say that the Mac team invented the GUI, while Xerox invented the Mouse.
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by lzw 16y ago
What you describe is not the American system of government, nor the government as instituted by the constitution. The constitution is explicitly written such that every individual, "random" or not, is expected to enforce it. It is not a d
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by lzw 16y ago
I believe it is not so much that some libertarians are pro-federalist while others are less federalist. It is that most libertarians recognize that if the federal government was operating within the bounds of the constitution (that is, lega
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by lzw 16y ago
Krugman, and his ilk, are incapable of being honest. If they were, they would have to admit that over and over again the policies they advocate result in disaster.
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by lzw 16y ago
The thing about shares is, if you have more than %50, then you can do almost anything you want, provided that you haven't entered into an agreement with the minority shareholders that prevents it. So, it is important, if you are a minority
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by lzw 16y ago
One thing that is missing from this discussion is the difference between the situation we find ourselves in and our country as designed. The US was designed to be a federation of states, in fact, it was created as a confederation. The con
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by lzw 16y ago
I think this depends on what you define as "better". Certainly totalitarian regimes have lower economic growth. But if you measure economic growth as your measure of "better" then it seems that democracy is not as much a determinant as the
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by lzw 16y ago
Your idea doesn't need to be novel in order to develop yourself further as a developer. Do the flickr mashup if you want the experience. A "Startup Idea" involves not just a feature, but something that is compelling enough to be a business
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by lzw 16y ago
Working on it. My suggestion is send your friends some contact info, like email address and or phone number (depending on whether they are really friends) and let them know you're shutting down your facebook account. Don't really need to

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