onething

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by onething 4y ago
>...Scalia famously pushed originalism, but even he essentially writes out slavery, Native American disenfranchisement, and the chattel status of women in the 18th century, and other originalists are even less consistent. I am no legal s
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by onething 4y ago
Their service to institutions might have been good at one point, but their service to consumers was horrendous. I bought a PC from them at around their height and about 1 month later the hard disk died. It took a few customer service calls
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by onething 6y ago
>...libertarians believe there should be no regulation about what data companies can collect and how they process it. Such an overly broad statement is wrong. The libertarian position is more nuanced than that with people (at least in t
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by onething 6y ago
I am surprised anyone would think this. This article sums it up pretty well: >...In 1971, the fledgling Libertarian Party (L.P.) called for "the repeal of all 'crimes without victims' now incorporated in federal and state
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by onething 8y ago
It isn't that simple. >...Seven of the top 10 most profitable hospitals in the United States are nonprofit facilities that each netted more than $150 million from caring for patients in 2013, >...The study’s main purpose was to d
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by onething 8y ago
>...(eg. the idea that long wait times would occur, when wait times for USA and wait times for other first world countries with socialized medicine isn't very differe Do you have a citation for that? >...The idea that socialized
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by onething 8y ago
I wouldn't expect competition among insurance companies to lower prices by very much. Insurance companies are already constrained by law as to how much profit they can make and there is only so much overhead you can remove. In terms o
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by onething 8y ago
Your article says that using iCloud for storage is optional and all users were warned of this change and had to agree to new service terms. Why wouldn't anyone worried about their data, simply do backups on a computer?
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by onething 8y ago
There seems to be a difference in scale here. According to the Washington Post, Amazon is getting 2.4 _billion_ in subsidies from Virginia, New York and Tennessee: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-news&#x2
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by onething 8y ago
Were there protests at Obama's residence, like Bush had when president? https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/politics/mother-takes-pro... According to wikipedia, there were a couple of anti-war protes
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by onething 8y ago
>...I don't recall any saying that it should continue and using going to war as a tool for pseudo-patriotic posturing. It isn't hard to see that opposition to the war dwindled drastically after the president had a D after their
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by onething 8y ago
You will notice at the bottom of my posting, I had written: >Conservatives also support many/all(?) programs, but that just means both sides are wrong. The fact that conservatives support many or all of these programs doesn't m
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by onething 8y ago
>...When Obama took office, the new POTUS' policies aligned to a significant degree with the anti-war protestors. What actually changed? We left Iraq at the timetable Bush proposed and I think Obama wanted to extend it past that bu
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by onething 8y ago
I don't know if it is helpful to jump into political discussions, but I'll give it a try... >...- Name a 10 year war democrats have championed... I think the OP might have been referring to the seeming disappearance of the anti