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by phaus 12y ago
In writing, critical thinking amounts to having an opinion on something. I think the author is mistaking something that's tedious for something that's rigorous.
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by phaus 12y ago
I was able to find every book on the first page of the ordinary certificate list for about 300 total. Most of them could be bought for a price between 1-30 dollars. Only a couple were expensive even when purchased used.
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by phaus 12y ago
I agree that SOME 30 year-olds aren't mature enough to make adult decisions, but on the other hand almost every single 13 year-old on the planet is too immature.
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by phaus 12y ago
>To suggest this was rape, against her will, is a bit preposterous and an incorrect usage of the word There are different kinds of rape. It doesn't really matter if a 13 year-old consents. How many 13 year-olds do you know that are
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by phaus 12y ago
>For example, what if the girls are being killed if they can't be married? If this were the kind of culture that a person lived in, why not just marry them to save their lives and then not consummate the relationship? >Are you su
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by phaus 12y ago
I don't really subscribe to the misinformed view that one has to be perfect in order to recognize a flaw. I criticize my own culture as much as any other, perhaps more.
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by phaus 12y ago
>Old men marrying children is common in many parts of the world. There are quite a few shitty people in the world. As much as many of us hate to admit it, there are also quite a few shitty cultures. Any 36 year-old man, from any culture
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by phaus 12y ago
The big money is still in finance, unless you manage to build a successful business.
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by phaus 12y ago
Its not the same thing at all. The people coming forward about a sex offender have absolutely nothing to fear; they weren't the ones that broke the law. On the other hand, revealing classified information will send you to prison for de
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by phaus 12y ago
The development of web browsers has pretty much always been about chasing what everyone else is doing. You can introduce your own technologies, but unless you want your entire user-base to leave, you had better make sure the content they wa
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by phaus 12y ago
Why would you be happy for the Beats team of if they are actively trying to trick people into buying an inferior product at a premium price through celebrity endorsements?
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by phaus 12y ago
I'm proud of my country's technological accomplishments. Apple is a part of that history.
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by phaus 12y ago
A significant percentage of the hipsters can't afford them either, they just buy them anyway.
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by phaus 12y ago
For well over a hundred years, Nokia made Finland proud. It was Finland's Apple. I'm an American and I'm sad that its over too.
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by phaus 12y ago
I'm finishing up B.S. in Information Systems, which is pretty much a business degree with a couple of programming classes. I'm getting to the point where I need to make a decision about a graduate degree, so I have a question for
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by phaus 13y ago
Phill Ivey would be one of the first people to tell you that he's a degenerate gambler. I'll have to look for it, but I watched an interview where he talked about his days before he made it big. He would cash his McDonald's p
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by phaus 13y ago
I was cautiously optimistic about this device until they made it wireless. Now, I'm worried that it won't be responsive enough for its intended use, gaming.
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by phaus 13y ago
No matter where you end up working, some of the things you are going to be expected to do will be things that you aren't interested in doing. So far, your performance in college hasn't proven that you are capable of holding down a
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by phaus 13y ago
>why does marriage have to be between a man and a women? You're misunderstanding me. I think gay people should be allowed to marry. I was illustrating the rationale behind proposition 8. Its supporters knew that they didn't hav
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by phaus 13y ago
>It's actually not perfectly accepted among religious communities. Well, the overwhelming majority of people in our country use some form of birth control, even if its just the rhythm method, in spite of the fact that the overwhelmi
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by phaus 13y ago
>The problem is that support for Prop 8 has been misrepresented as "hate" of gays. I agree that many of the Christians that support Prop 8 don't know that they hate homosexuals, but the act of supporting Prop 8 is a hatefu
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by phaus 13y ago
>And you're pinning this on Christians, which is also idiotic. I'm not placing the blame on all Christians, just the ones that happen to be opposed to gay marriage in general, or opposed to calling gay unions 'marriage.&#x
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by phaus 13y ago
>Please don't paint all Christians with a broad brush. I'm not sure how I gave you the impression that I was doing so. I didn't say "Christians speak of 'civil unions'", I said "Christians THAT spe
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by phaus 13y ago
>Sorry, you're just wrong. There is no language in prop 8 that has to do with the concept of civil unions. Let me start by saying that I find both scenarios (pro-civil union/anti gay marriage and plain old anti gay marriage) eq
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by phaus 13y ago
>there are people who simply have hangups about the word "marriage" vs "civil unions." And this 'hangup' is simply idiotic. Christians that speak of 'civil unions' are trying to hold homosexuals&#x
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by phaus 13y ago
I've always found it strange that Newton is known for saying something so humble, yet when it came to calculus, he acted like a raging socio-path, abusing all of his political might in a successful effort to discredit Leibniz.
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by phaus 13y ago
One of system 76's employees was on reedit a while back telling people that their ultrabook's touchpad was 'hands down' better than Apple's. From what I've observed, the only people who can use sys76's key
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by phaus 13y ago
Let's assume that the debate was legitimate, doesn't that still put us one "replace all" away from fixing the problem? I don't understand how these guys were "deadlocked" for weeks.
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by phaus 13y ago
So either my high-school classmate was extraordinarily lucky to get admitted in spite of the fact that there was nothing spectacular about his academics/extra-curricular activities, or he was admitted because his father was alumni. Ca
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by phaus 13y ago
First, a failure to communicate doesn't have to mean that either of us is dumb. It just happens sometimes. Second, the thought that you might be trolling has crossed my mind as well, so it now seems unlikely that either of us are. Thir

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