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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
A nice short, informative article on this from 1981: Bushnell and Dabney submitted the list to the Office of the California Secretary of State. A few weeks later, their incorporation papers came back; the Office of the
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
Maybe the writer was going for "impacted" and either typed it on their phone or they need to go back to school. Affected would of course be a better word.
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> who is 85 He's more yer 50s radical then. Like Joe McCarthy.
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> How do you know that something is extreme if you can't hear it? How do you engage individuals, hopefully productively, if you don't allow them to speak? Or, perhaps more importantly, how do you challenge or disprove their arg
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> No, they didn't. Well, yeah. The point is neither does Germany today. > In East Germany and Nazi Germany, people were persecuted and killed without being brought to trial and facing justice. Whereas being arrested, tried and me
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> Free Speech is important. Germany has it. East Germany also had it, so did Nazi Germany. Yes, on the same principle: as long as you didn't want to say things that the Government deemed verboten you were free to say whatever you li
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> The IMDb message boards were a good way to get some additional insight after watching a movie. Or at least give me a good laugh at the trolls. :) Totally agree. I often also went there before watching a TV show or movie to get an ide
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> the NSA not strictly having it's own wet-works arm doesn't make [the movie Enemy of the State's] 90-00's portrayal as a semi-omnipotent foe any less depressingly accurate I love that movie, but let's not say th
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
There was also a great four part BBC comedy-drama in 1991 called Sleepers (not to be confused with the completely different 1996 movie of the same name). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101200/
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
I wouldn't phrase it like that but, yes, there are ~200 countries in the world. Things like this (and this[1]) just help destroy the idea that the US is a special haven of freedom that cause many people to want to visit in the first pl
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> There was a post-Cold War defection of an individual (Mitrokhin) who worked for the KGB in their archives and provided a large trove of intelligence. The article refers to that; in fact it's how this agent was identified: Ba
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> why was one headline after the other all about characterizing unprovoked unilateral aggression? That's hard to say, since you haven't provided any examples of it.
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> You normally have a bunch of .par2 files vol003+04.par2 and vol031+32.par2 is missing please reupload!!! Before any flippancy haters downvote, this is exactly what happened on Usenet. Shitty servers are shitty, whatever the file type
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
People in all countries make jokes about the problems of their society or lives, or their government or bureaucracy or businesses; you don't have to live in "cruel unjust" absurdity or be "drunk enough" to do so, or
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13586256 There aren't that many comments to read (<20) before posting.
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
The Soviet "joke" in response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN5wL1nw7XA
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
I don't want to get into a political argument, since it's pointless and the post was flagged anyway, but you did say Shia: "Hezbollah is a Shia group"
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
Meanwhile every single one of the 9/11 hijackers would be allowed by Trump to enter the USA. Decent people in the world are simply more likely to boycott the US as a result of xenophobic "America First" actions like this[1].
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
To be fair, I think the commenter would have just used "he" in that case.
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
Indeed. And when you can get a domain you actually own for 99 cents (sometimes free, with offers) and a VPS for a few dollars per year, why bother with free domains or free hosting anyway.
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
Interesting, but there are far better sources than "kitguru.net", which appears to be little more than wall to wall ads. Better version of this news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38583001
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
"Anarcho-capitalist" was coined by Murray Rothbard, who himself was finally forced (by reality) to admit that: we are not anarchists, and that those who call us anarchists are not on firm etymological ground, and are
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
I think he knows that, but that part you quoted didn't make sense to him, since how would Van Haarlem even be in a position to access the Queen's furniture, merely working down the road from Buckingham Palace? (At least that'
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet%20project/
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The irony of Hillary losing because of some kind of interference by Putin is that he's only in a position to do so because her husband and other Americans interfered in the Russian presidential election 20 years earlier in support of P
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Frank Abagnale?
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
What's a "kelvinbit"?
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Another joke about nuking another country? as defense secretary for the elder Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney commissioned a study of how many tactical nuclear weapons would be needed to take out an Iraqi Republican Guard division,
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
1. It wasn't a threat, it was an until recently classified standing order that the USSR and China would not even have known about. 2. And what were US nukes in Turkey? (You know, the ones the US removed because the Soviets put nukes in
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
Until 1968 the US had a completely batshit insane standing order to launch a full scale nuclear attack on the USSR and China in response to a conventional attack on the USA, even if the attack was an accident, and even if the USSR and Ch

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