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by nollidge 14y ago
> So for them the word is associated with a meaning they are running away from. This is incredibly presumptuous.
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by nollidge 14y ago
I don't think it's "blogspam" to summarize and contextualize a dry government report.
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by nollidge 14y ago
But doesn't that make it meaningless? If we can't all agree what it means, then it doesn't mean anything at all.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> Christ died for us This statement does not compute.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Fantastic, that'll come in handy for the 8,500 people who were shot dead last year.
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by nollidge 14y ago
I think my point was pretty explicitly clear. Perhaps there's some other point you imagine I was making that you disagree with, but I can't really help you out of that pickle.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Point out where I said "feelings". EDIT: The word I used was threat , which, if arguing in good faith, you would have read as "actual risk", rather than "angsty feelings". I also qualified it with the phrase such as it is . Which, again i
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by nollidge 14y ago
I assure you gun control advocates have not forgotten about the second amendment since the opposition will not shut up about it. Also, all the rights listed in the first ten amendments are limited to the point at which you're infringing on
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by nollidge 14y ago
Hey quick question: how many people died in those knife attacks?
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by nollidge 14y ago
But how many people have that kind of will? How many are truly disturbed monsters, and how many are just angry and upset and have poor impulse control and are enabled to commit atrocities by easy access to firearms?
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by nollidge 14y ago
Or some of both? Because neither is a perfect solution?
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by nollidge 14y ago
This is explicitly mentioned in the article you just commented on.
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by nollidge 14y ago
I definitely was insinuating that, along with lots of other things. So everyone who wants a gun will do whatever they need to get it? No one who wants a gun will be deterred by any possible prevention measures? Measures such as background c
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by nollidge 14y ago
Of course not, but I'm not sure what that has to do with my comment.
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by nollidge 14y ago
NONE OF THEM DIED. How do you think that incident would have turned out if the guy had a gun?
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by nollidge 14y ago
And then we let him get some guns.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Right, because everybody with a concealed weapons permit is James Bond with perfect aim and cool nerves. Reality is a little bit messier than your fantasies.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Right. It's like: "CloudFlare caches things for you! Except for this thing here. But you can probably picture how great it is!"
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by nollidge 14y ago
Coincidentally, my team got first place in pub trivia last night after several beers apiece. QED!
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by nollidge 14y ago
OK, so: > This website uses CloudFlare in order to help keep it online when the server is down by serving cached copies of pages when they are unavailable. Unfortunately, a cached copy of the page you requested is not available, but you
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by nollidge 14y ago
There's no such thing as "back to normal" after trauma. You just settle into a new normal.
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by nollidge 14y ago
The Ballmer Peak was a fictional concept in an XKCD cartoon[0]. Hardly something to use as evidence in an argument. But even if it were scientifically accurate, alcohol doesn't make you dumber (at least not at first) - it makes you less inh
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by nollidge 14y ago
> Someone has to determine something notable and worth preserving. If no one stands up for a piece of content, then it eventually dissipates into the ether. His entire point is that this process is broken and heavily biased against the
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by nollidge 14y ago
And some biology crankery comes from physicists: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/11/20/aaargh-phy...
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by nollidge 14y ago
I use my phone about as much as you do and totally feel it's worth it. What are your monthly fees though? I have an unlocked Galaxy Nexus (older version, $350) and one of those $30/month, unlimited text/data, 100 minute talk, no-contract pl
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by nollidge 14y ago
What do you propose as a superior alternative?
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by nollidge 14y ago
99.9999% of scientific discovery is incremental progress. Even general relativity didn't throw out Newton's work - it just added an entire new dimension to it (so to speak).
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by nollidge 14y ago
What's wrong with power steering? Feel like I'd be sore after an hour of driving without it.
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by nollidge 14y ago
> Now, for a while I was driving a lowly car without auto-dimming... mirrors. Being sensitive to light, I was cursing every second car behind me. In my experience every car without an auto-dimming rearview has a manual-dimming one. You
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by nollidge 14y ago
> It should be marked by Wired as such. It's already marked that way by coming from Wired.

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