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by mason240 10y ago
Yes, it's totally the fault of tech companies that the US Federal government forces them to give up access to any information they want, and a non-profit email org would immune US intelligence agencies. /s
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by mason240 10y ago
Did they really have a choice? It's pretty much a given now that 3-letter agencies get firehose access to any data they want.
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by mason240 10y ago
It seems like Google treats the phones almost like concept cars. They are really just there to push the 3P manufacturers in the desired direction.
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But that's not the argument I'm responding to.
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>For example, a bus route that it is not profitable but still running for the benefit of the few poor people using it. This can happen in a government situation but not in a private situation. It is if running that route is part of the c
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The top 5% pay over 55% of all Federal taxes.
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So? They were clearly wrong, as they didn't have the opportunity to see the future.
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It would be more effective and efficient to just put a tax right on sugar commodities. Add something like a 30% tax with the intention of driving the price up.
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by mason240 10y ago
>(Probably because it only goes 80 miles) Which for the majority of 2 car households is all you need for the second car.
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by mason240 10y ago
I'm pretty optimistic that the clear and vast befits of self-driving vehicles that benefit everyone from commuters to shipping companies will push over that "new and scary" hump. Just look all the civil liberties and privacy
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by mason240 10y ago
Regime change in Iraq was the official policy of the Clinton administration, President Clinton initiated frequent air strikes and other military action against Saddam, Vice President Gore criticized George HW Bush for not removing Saddam in
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by mason240 10y ago
I'm not sure if serious, but we do have reliable infrastructure in fly over country.
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I'm sure they did, as they both would have taken the exact same course of action. The PATRIOT Act itself was written by Sen Joe Biden ffs.
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That's a great idea. I was just able to very comfortably reduce mine from 100 to 70.
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So do you have list of places that she isn't allowed to work in? You are basically saying that she needs to be kept below a glass ceiling because of who her father is.
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If they are fine with the nearest store being an hour away, who are you to judge. A tiny group can just burn garbage, or whoever is serving that town that's an hour away can have their truck spend 2 hours every other week to come pick
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by mason240 10y ago
>What about social services? This a pretty strong argument against social services. These people who have paid their share into society are now being to forced to move because it's convenient for the government.
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by mason240 10y ago
Let me get right on proving other people's arguments.
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>Not to mention the CEO is a senators daughter. So? Is she just not supposed to work?
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Almost none of the things in your first paragraph are true.
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That's exactly what President Hoover tried to prop up the economy after the 1929 stock market crash.
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You are both right, it just depends on the situation.
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TIL the United States is a socialist country.
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Someone else being wrong (and a straw person at that) doesn't make you right.
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>Also, I'm pretty sure Germans don't consider socialism to be an authoritarian ideology. I'm not sure why the opinion of Germans matters here, they have the same capitalist economy that the US and the rest of Europe do.
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Phone and electric are commodities with very, very high barriers to alternatives, and so they are regulated as common carriers. There literally thousands of existing social sharing and networking sites in existence right now that serve as a
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by mason240 10y ago
I googled "Agglomerated Monster corn" and came up with nothing. Is it a scare term for GMO?
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>but the First Amendment does not mean that any publishing company can run just how it likes. It literally does. The Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that government can not make any impositions on print media, save for extreme cases o
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>In that case why do we have laws for television stations or The amount of bandwith for tv stations is limited, the internet is effectivly limitless. >print media We don't really. Print media is extremely off limits because it&#x
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Society has complete control in deciding whether or not Facebook is a major artery of communication.

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