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by miked 14y ago
This. Here's a story of two Canadian writers who were forced to spend thousands on defending themselves for engaging in politically incorrect Badthink: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_complaints_against...
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by miked 14y ago
>> we aren't allow to know when our troops fire on civilians in another country. Except that most of the Entitled Class, from academia to journalists to Hollywood, has made an minor industry out of supporting totalitarian apologists
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by miked 14y ago
>> The Iron Dome also has the benefit of twenty years of technological progress to draw upon vs the Patriots. A higher success rate here should not come as a surprise. To the best of my knowledge the Iron Dome success rate is lower.
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by miked 14y ago
"Why Socialism?" Mao's Chinese Communism Hitler's National Socialist German Workers Party Stalin's Soviet Bolshevism Saddam Hussein's Arab Baath Socialist Party (Iraq edition) Bashir Assad's Arab Baath Socialist Party (Syria edition) Slobod
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by miked 14y ago
Obama tried and failed to close Guantanamo Bay, losing a great deal of political capital in the process. Oh, spare me. Barack Obama has explicitly targeted, and killed, American citizens in drone attacks, something even Bush never did. Th
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by miked 14y ago
Here are some actual photos of the May Day OWS demonstration. http://pjmedia.com/zombie/author/zombie/
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by miked 14y ago
>> I really don't understand people knee jerk stance against immigration (well, I do understand it, it's largely racism). I don't know any Americans who are opposed to immigration. I know lots of them who are opposed to illegal
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by miked 15y ago
Increased demand drives costs up, not down.
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by miked 15y ago
> Actually trade means opposed interests, which is the fastest way to get into a war. Actually, trade means a joined interest in making an exchange, since if both sides didn't see the exchange as in their own best interest they wouldn't
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by miked 15y ago
Also, former Senator Christopher Dodd is now CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America. http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/201...
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by miked 15y ago
This. I worked for AMC Theaters for 4 years as a developer. One of the wonderful things about that company is that every employee has to go thru a week long training program in the theater business, to include working at a theater. One of
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by miked 15y ago
Googling: "dave winer" jerk --> 75,700 "dave winer" ass --> 248,000 "dave winer" asshole --> 9,440 For some strange reason, I find myself not interested in reading Dave Winer denouncing others for "bullying", all the w
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by miked 15y ago
That wasn't the only thing that was small about TP. The entire documentation for version 2 was a single book about 8 inches high, 5 1/2 inches wide and about an inch think. You could learn the entire language, IDE, library, and debugger in
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by miked 15y ago
Brin is simply alluding to something that's annoyed me many times about Yegge's posts, however insightful they sometimes are: Steve Yegge loves to hear himself write.
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by miked 15y ago
What fucking business is that of yours?
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by miked 15y ago
The downgrade is because the US Gov is spending far more than it's taking in. In other words, it's for the same reason that every other person / business / government gets downgraded. It's important to realize that there's no magic here.
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by miked 15y ago
I went to grad school on CS for a year, focusing on AI. I then realized that I was more interested in improving reasoning in people rather than machines, so I switched to Ed. Psych. I can still recall my astonishment at how much lower the q
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by miked 15y ago
I imagine something like this would would have happened if the unabomber was really into maths. "In late 1967, Kaczynski became an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught undergraduate
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by miked 15y ago
which is a well known right-wing entity that is paid to produce "research" and propaganda. Implication: "very carefully worded to imply" left-wing think tanks are not so paid. to imply a certain thing which is not actually backed up by f
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by miked 15y ago
>> If so, they don't yet know whether ursolic acid at levels that might be consumed as part of a normal diet might or might not be enough. That last sentence may be the most important one for now. Resveratrol has had some interestin
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by miked 15y ago
>> Blatant political axe-grinding, get it the fuck out of HN. The following are other comments on the post, which I quote without further comment: 1) Palin and her ilk _actively distort reality_ to suit their worldview, and that is
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by miked 15y ago
Boston University history professor Brendan McConville said, “Basically when Paul Revere was stopped by the British, he did say to them, ‘Look, there is a mobilization going on that you’ll be confronting,’ and the British are aware as they
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by miked 15y ago
>> You're going to have to run the movie by the Pentagon first to make sure it portrays "The Right Side of the Story". You mean like Avatar? Or Redacted? Stop-Loss? Battle For Haditha? Green Zone? Or any of a host of other war movie
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by miked 15y ago
>> had the police order him off the street at gun point because he was jaywalking. I simply don't believe your friend's dad was telling the truth. There are plenty of bad cops in the US, but drawing a gun on someone because they wer
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by miked 15y ago
While I believe Obama was born in the US, it's interesting that you can become President of the US without having to show a birth certificate, but you can't leave the country without producing one. Doubly interesting because the Constitutio
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by miked 15y ago
He died from lung cancer, apropos. He died from colon cancer. http://www.bookrags.com/highbeam/r-a-fishers-life-and-death-...
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by miked 16y ago
If you are going to explain a system-wide phenomena, you need a systemic explanation. Gas isn't expensive today. What's expensive today are almost all commodities. http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/ This is a systemic problem. Any va
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by miked 16y ago
I'v had border guards in FSRs point guns at me but hey, those guys are just doing their jobs. No one should ever, EVER , point a gun at someone unless they are prepared to shoot.
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The Most Emailed New York Times Article Ever(theawl.com)
2 points by miked 16y ago|0 comments
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Illinois moves to tax online purchases(pointsandfigures.com)
1 points by miked 16y ago|1 comments

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