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by mason240 13y ago
When using slaves, anything is possible.
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by mason240 13y ago
You should have seen the reaction to this on Reddit/r/Android. I thought Google made it clear from the beginning that this was intended to be a beta release until testing was done. Looking at Reddit I was shocked to see the number
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by mason240 13y ago
So then how would an anarchist community deal with attacks one it's members?
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by mason240 13y ago
It actually sounds very capitalistic to me. It's no less capitalist than people than timeshares for vacation proprieties, or people in airplane clubs who jointly own a small plane that they all share.
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by mason240 13y ago
Who want to deal with spending, at minimum, two hours of time to buy and then sell a $40 item, when you can just buy the $40 item and keep it on a shelf.
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by mason240 13y ago
The problem I have with anarcho-communism is that it is identical to the tribalism and village/clan based ways of organizing society that we have progressed out of. The basic enforcement mechanism under every a-c system I have ever rea
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by mason240 13y ago
You heard here first: Stuart Wheeler, some old bean counter in the UK, speaks for all conservative ideology.
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by mason240 13y ago
I really pisses me off to that the US government is going to throw away our hegemony over the internet in exchange for a surveillance state.
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by mason240 13y ago
Gas is ~3.50/gal. Assuming the vehicles get a horrendous 10 miles/gallon (for a fuel cost of $0.35/mile), and the drivers are paid minimum wage (7.25 + employer costs = ~8.00), the cars would have to be driven 22.8 miles in a
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by mason240 13y ago
Looking at the Uber website, they refer the the Twin Cities as Minneapolis, even though their service area includes St Paul and Minneapolis. That's a deal killer for me.
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by mason240 13y ago
Instead of forcing others to waste their time and money to suit your irrational need for a security theatre, why don't spend your own time and money moving somewhere else with lots of security - like North Korea.
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by mason240 13y ago
"- we don’t do this just for fun - we have to justify our jobs."
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by mason240 13y ago
There is an episode of Crossing Jordan I saw recently that is similar to what you experienced. What triggered the government to hold the guy in the show was that he actually traveled to India for a week, you were merely trying to fly across
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by mason240 13y ago
Concentration is a revisionist word to make it sound more harsh. They were internment camps. Concentration camps are where you send people to die.
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by mason240 13y ago
I agree, the real news is that I need to find a new job.
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by mason240 13y ago
Is this the same issue that was discussed on the This Week in Tech podcast about a month ago?
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by mason240 13y ago
A lot of Google searches come from the same place: having google as the default search engine and then typing in "facebook" rather than "facebook.com"
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by mason240 13y ago
This is exactly it. On a related note, look at how fast food restaurants no longer sell fast, cheap food. Instead they sell experiences. McDonalds has the McCafe thing, and even KFC is trying to rebrand itself as something more like Panera
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by mason240 13y ago
I'm curious to know just how you think humanity will be able to feed, shelter, and entertain itself if no does anything.
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by mason240 13y ago
The Soviet Union was only able to maintain its position for 50 years.
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by mason240 13y ago
"This is an example of mechanically quoting arguments we're told to believe." And that is an example of when people who know they have no argument dismiss reality because it gets in the way of what they want to believe.
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by mason240 13y ago
The US worked very hard to restart the Japanese economy after WWII. To suggest that the US wants to keep them held down or "doing reasonably ok because we let it" is beyond silly. If a Japan in shambles was the goal, all the US ha
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by mason240 13y ago
Google didn't "give" the NSA anything. The NSA forced their way in.
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by mason240 13y ago
If you look at the form, it seems they are looking for resorts and outfitters to document their local trails - people who have a vested interest in having more information to show customers.
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by mason240 13y ago
I was going on a kayak trip last weekend and sought advice from a someone at a state park that ran along the river. The ranger told me that one section had some "small rapids that I could go down depending on my comfort level," a
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by mason240 13y ago
AMC has to be getting at least 33 cents for EACH episode sold on Amazon Prime. I would hardly call that "giving away their content for next to free."
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by mason240 13y ago
You are going to be in for a real shock if you ever see a phone book. Pages upon pages of names matched with phone numbers!
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by mason240 13y ago
I think has more to do with having 5 million members. Just for comparison, the ACLU has 500k. If the EFF had 5 million members, we could throw our weight around too, but for some reason they don't have membership, only donations. http
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by mason240 13y ago
DOMA was just ruled unconstitutional by Supreme Court. Even if we put Portugal in the "legalized" category (which the source I cited does not), that puts the list 3, possibly 4 when Uruguay passes their law.
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by mason240 13y ago
"I am so tired of the US lagging behind the rest of the world" Can you give a list of countries that are "ahead" of the US in regards to marijuana decriminalization? Lets see, there is North Korea, the Netherlands, and U

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