mdex

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by mdex 8y ago
There's the overall creepiness of hordes of data containing your entire online history being used for the sole purpose of predicting what you'll buy and manipulating you into buying it. But I think there's more to it than tha
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by mdex 8y ago
Has reading national news or keeping up with politics ever benefit you in a real life scenario? If so, in what way? Also, what do you think of Chomsky's 'Manufacturing Consent'?
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by mdex 8y ago
The ridiculousness of your social contract idea, is that a contract cannot be binding if it was made on your behalf, before your birth, without your consent. Implied consent is lunacy especially when there's lots of people saying &quot
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by mdex 8y ago
My argument was in response to the idea that government is a business, I said that rather than a business, government is more similar to a protection racket. Not that governments are exactly the same as protection rackets, which seems to be
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by mdex 8y ago
Mafia actually does protect your business from thieves, and from government tax collection. Just like government, mafia wants to be the only one with a monopoly on using violence to collect money. And I'm well aware that a vanishing go
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by mdex 8y ago
Neither the NYT or Washington Post questioned the Bush admin and intelligence communities claims about why the USA was going to war with Iraq even though it was public knowledge that the 9/11 attackers were all Saudis and it had nothin
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by mdex 8y ago
I have a suspicion that the mainstream media writers purposely under-resarch their stories so they can get the story out as fast as possible & minimize liability for libel. Libel laws say that if you write something about someone that y
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by mdex 8y ago
It doesn't matter if they correct it after they've already sold the lie. The damage is done and most people won't read the correction. After 9/11, New York Times wrote an article about how dangerous Saddam's weapons
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by mdex 8y ago
They do operate 'kinda' like a business: They charge rents (property taxes), protection fees (taxes for military/police), and collect royalties on every good bought or sold on their turf (sales tax). The only difference betwe
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by mdex 8y ago
Oh I see what you mean. Does this change if you don't use any of Google's products ie. web browser, youtube or search engines?
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by mdex 8y ago
I don't use any social media, how is that ineffective?
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by mdex 8y ago
This makes sense because 90 year olds are just about the only demographic still buying cableTV.
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by mdex 8y ago
I completely agree. One legal change that needs to happen to preserve the free market: company with a habit of employees using social assistance should not get tax breaks (or any other help) from the government. The taxpayer should not be s