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by mason240 11y ago
During the last drawing they estimate that 75% of all possible numbers were chosen. This time there will be even more tickets sold and the possibility of doubling up is probably going to be higher than ever.
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by mason240 11y ago
They are two very different things though. Even the OP acknowledges that's less about the outcome and more about the experience (which is the opposite for lottos). Cutting right to the more meta part of the discussion, it's just f
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by mason240 11y ago
The difference between playing fantasy football and playing the lottery are like the difference between playing an RPG and running an UPDATE script on a database. In the end, grinding out your characters stats are just running scripts with
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by mason240 11y ago
You must also be against drunk driving laws, and just about every law. Waiting until after dangerous behavior causes damages, injury, or even death to to happen, then hiring a lawyer to sue to damages is terrible to way to organize society.
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by mason240 11y ago
You stepping in front of my car, going through my windshield, and hurting me, is not victimless.
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by mason240 11y ago
As if Sanders is putting up proposals that are even remotely feasible.
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by mason240 11y ago
51% of the voters control 100% of government.
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by mason240 11y ago
>"You can't express complex thought without multi-tweeting" This is not a complex thought.
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by mason240 11y ago
Yes, actually this was a frequent occurrence in Afghanistan. Soldiers or Marines would be posted in small numbers in a remote COP in the mountains. Resupplying these troops would require more soldiers then were actually in the COP, and the
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by mason240 11y ago
>Do you think your life would just go on without any troubles at all if government suddenly disappeared? The classic "I'm going to pretend your criticism of one part of government means you want to completely abolish all govern
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by mason240 11y ago
>The ridiculous political bun-fight infects everything, it seems. It's a mental disease. Thanks for providing an example of the political toxicity the OP was talking about.
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by mason240 11y ago
If they are working as a driver for Uber or Lyft, they are an able bodied workers by definition.
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by mason240 11y ago
Able bodied independent workers are by far not our societies weakest members.
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by mason240 11y ago
Which says more about you than those things.
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by mason240 11y ago
I've read some convincing arguments where they calculated that keurigs are less wasteful than brewing because of the tiny amount of coffee in a pod, versus large scoop of grounds you are using in a coffee pot, which translates to huge
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by mason240 11y ago
Ah, but now you've made the term "politics" meaningless, as what I had for breakfast falls under your new definition that encompasses everything.
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by mason240 11y ago
You don't think it's a bit silly to say that building a product or tool is the same thing as engaging in government?
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by mason240 11y ago
There was map on https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/3tyj1r/the_unusual... of "The unusual route taken by two Russian Tu-160 bombers on their way to Syria," where Russian jets circle all
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by mason240 11y ago
For the purpose of establishing a theocracy to launch attacks on non-believers? Yes.
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by mason240 11y ago
>Criminals do much more actual harm to society, and yet no is calling for local police to have access to everyone's email and phone records. They are calling for mass video surveillance of everyone's encounters with police.
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by mason240 11y ago
Just a reminder, there is no evidence that the Paris attackers used any kind of encryption. After Endless Demonization Of Encryption, Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinated Via Unencrypted SMS: https://www.techdirt.com/arti
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by mason240 11y ago
Once again, the violent extremists disagree with you. ISIS is attempting to start an Islamic Caliphate, considers anyone standing the way of them do so as an apostate, and kills them as such.
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by mason240 11y ago
>Religion is not the source of violent extremism The violent extremists disagree with you. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the organizer of the Paris attack, said his goal was to kill as many non-believers as possible for Allah.
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by mason240 11y ago
And that's why I moved from the rural area I grew in to the city, even though I would have preferred to stay there.
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by mason240 11y ago
Where are you from?
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by mason240 11y ago
Not even the members of the Mountain, the last left wing (and most extreme) political coalition before the authoritarian left wing took over, were against commerce itself. When the various revolutionary governments were managing government
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by mason240 11y ago
Hopefully it is because they identified all things t2015_08_25 did in the top post, and they see it a currently under preforming and make a killing by implementing those changes.
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by mason240 11y ago
Keynesians seem to think it is, given the way they think that government funded make-work construction projects will have positive effect on an economy.
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by mason240 11y ago
>pretty much exclusively went to anyone with a retirement account.
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by mason240 11y ago
Any word on the setting and how the alternate timeline reset of the of 2009 movie fits into the cannon? It seems like there are couple possibilities. 1) They act like the reset in the 2009 movie didn't happen, and the new show is just

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