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by opo 10y ago
Violating someone's privacy is always offensive. Is that really in question? While lots of people say they put little value on protecting privacy, I have never seen them post their medical records or tax returns. In practical terms
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by opo 11y ago
Not sure how they came up with that. Pew Research summarized data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: "People at or below the federal minimum are: Disproportionately young: 50.4% are ages 16 to 24; 24% are teenagers (ages 16 to 19).
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by opo 11y ago
>...The problem with fission waste isn't necessarily the quantity of radiation, but the fact that the timescales are far beyond what humanity can count on. Nuclear waste can and should be recycled which would reduce the amount of wa
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by opo 11y ago
>...The biggest problem with America is that the government can not be trusted to follow the rules, their own rules. Isn't that the problem with all governments? Like they say "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”
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by opo 11y ago
Mind posting your medical records and tax returns? Once we see them, we can let you know what else we would like to see.
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by opo 11y ago
>...If my mole had been cancerous, a doctor could have demanded any price to remove it, and I would have paid it, because the alternative is death. Is there only one Doctor where you live? >...The ability to shop around is typically a
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by opo 11y ago
I think you are going to need to add some citations (from a source without an agenda). Each country is going to have different costs for energy usage so it isn’t clear why you are claiming the costs you do without putting them in context.
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by opo 11y ago
>...How about raising taxes for once? The US got out of its last major debt (ie: World War 2) by raising taxes on the highest bracket to 91%, and holding it there from 1940s through 1964. This is misleading. The effective tax rates were
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by opo 11y ago
>...What recruiting pool do you imagine we get new officers from? There are plenty of people who would be very grateful for the kinds of money police officers can make in a typical city. I seriously don't think there would be a pr
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by opo 11y ago
>...but Officer Morale (from the protests / etc. etc.) is so low that none of the officers wanted to do anything about it. In any other organization, people who didn't do their jobs would be disciplined or fired. Why are the p
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by opo 11y ago
>...In the preceding ten years, the world had seen a sequence of serious nuclear accidents: Three Mile Island, Sellafield, Chernobyl... Considering that it would be illegal to build a Chernobyl style plant in any other country rather tha
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by opo 11y ago
That Snowden document advocates doing that, but there is no indication it was being done or had been done or that policy had changed after the report was issued. That is far different than what the parent said: "...the NSA is trawling
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by opo 12y ago
>Just because someone hasn't done it before doesn't mean someone won't in the future. It isn't random chance that no one has developed nuclear weapons using nuclear waste from a commercial reactor. It is because it w
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by opo 12y ago
None of the countries that have developed nuclear weapons have gotten their plutonium from nuclear waste because there are much easier ways to get weapons grade plutonium. Form the wikipedia page: "Ordinarily (in spent nuclear fuel), p
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by opo 12y ago
It might be more general than that. People here (and most other forums) seem conditioned to treat politics like sports teams and they will ignore all the horrible ideas their "team" has just as long as they can beat the other tea
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by opo 12y ago
Given that the NSA mass surveillance of American citizens have proven of little value in the fight against terrorism, I am surprised that you imply that this cannot be changed. A reasonable proposal is for ALL candidates to say that these p
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by opo 12y ago
Considering that the casino security person admitted the 2 dollar bills were legit currency, the fact that he intruded on someone doing nothing wrong and proceeded to basically interrogate him, it would be more accurate to say that the casi
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by opo 12y ago
The public domain provides the raw material for most new works. For example. all of the original Disney cartoons would not have been possible except for the fact that earlier works were in the public domain. The constitution does not pret
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by opo 12y ago
And in every other state there are much more powerful prison guard unions which have a huge influence on our laws. Info from wikipedia on the California prison guard union: "...Although its membership is relatively small, representing
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by opo 12y ago
>...To me, the ideal working scenario includes a private working space for each person and a public space for when collaboration is needed. I agree. The best working environment I ever had was private offices with soft seating areas at
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by opo 13y ago
Your description of the Bengal famine differs in many regards from that given in the wikipedia entry ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943 ) If you have sources, can you update the wikipedia entry. (Hone
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by opo 13y ago
>...Under Stalin the USSR's economy was doing great. How are you defining "great"? >...Also the price argument is tautological and not falsifiable. The importance of the price system for efficient resource allocation is