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by revscat 12y ago
> Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and info
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by revscat 12y ago
The downside with prosecuting the agents is that it would be an admission that the United States government can do wrong. The primary factor in the US government's decision matrix is "admit no wrongdoing ever, to anyone, under any
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by revscat 12y ago
What makes this discussion so much more frustrating today is that the racial biases are inherent in the system. While the laws are structured to be. Entrap, their application is decidedly not. While I, a white male, choose to do as Einstein
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by revscat 12y ago
I believe a greater benefit would occur were we to have more mixed race couples, and with it the offspring that would tend to be produced by those relationships.
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by revscat 12y ago
The social and financial benefits of stopping the drug war is not limited to libertarians. I am a socialist and believe it to be a misguided and deeply destructive set of policies that have done far more harm than good.
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That power would still be there, it would just be checked by the possibility that they might one day lose it.
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This article only touches lightly on what I believe to be Reddit's primary weakness, namely the inability to elect moderators for various subs. If someone is able to do a Reddit-like site with a fair means for nominating and electing m
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Google's Internet balloons are actually working(slate.com)
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by revscat 12y ago
> Another important point is that a lot of our problems here on Earth are entirely self-inflicted (e.g. inequality, pollution, global warming) and so they can't simply be fixed by throwing money at them: they need political transfor
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by revscat 12y ago
No, not really. At least, I hope not. I do think that travel has helped me to view the world differently, but I don't think I am better than others because of it.
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Perhaps. And I have certainly encountered the type of traveller who seemingly tells you stories of their journeys so that they may one-up you on the social scale. I tend to forgive this, though, because underneath it all we are simply simia
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by revscat 12y ago
I went to a Zen Buddhist temple for a week-long retreat a couple of years ago. Their schedule [1] was basically this: 1) 3:25a: 108 deep bows. Basically, this is going from a standing position to fully prostrate, 108 times. This is quite a
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by revscat 12y ago
There are downsides to keeping them private that are apparent to most customers of Comcast/AT&T/Time Warner. Nor has there been any indication that the private nature of the telecoms has served to act as a buffer against fed
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This is interesting, although the editorial comments are not particularly surprising given the source. e.g.: "Throughout this chapter and the next, 'The Harm of Surveillance,' Greenwald emphasizes the coincidence of his judgm
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by revscat 12y ago
No, but it will certainly be rendered useless by a majority party which believes government should have no meaningful say in any decisions made by businesses.
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Windows was, IMO, never a superior product. It saw success because it had superior licensing agreement, not because of its quality.
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by revscat 12y ago
The only problem is that there are two other malls for residents of Plano to go to, Stonebriar and Willow Bend, and they are both doing just fine. The "outdoor malls" of Firecreek and the Shops at Legacy are also doing well. Insof
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by revscat 12y ago
No, I did not mean that. And I certainly believe that there are actions that the President could take that would help to promote a more limited role for the intelligence agencies, etc. I do believe, however, that the ability for any Preside
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> But it is only the Senate that approves appointments and his party has controlled it the entire time he has been President. This is irrelevant, since the minority party can filibuster any nominations, and they have used done so extensi
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Let me explain a few things about the American government. The most important thing to understand is that the ability of the executive to influence the direction of the government is limited. The reasons for this are several, but I will try
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3. Modify the hardware at the manufacturer to make it easier to snoop on without the user being aware.[1] [1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608141/internet-privacy/sn...
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This looks like an interesting mechanism for fixing the moderator problem on Reddit. It would take a couple of cycles to get working rules in place, but it looks promising.
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No worries, mate.
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Commander David Scott did this same experiment as part of Apollo 15 in August of 1971, in an even larger vacuum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDp1tiUsZw8
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This is far from try any longer. My current employer is about 75/25/5 OS X/Windows/Linux for end user machines. The Windows boxes are used by the business types, while the devs and designers use OS X. The prod systems ar
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by revscat 12y ago
While true, it is also not as direct of a threat. CO2 is affecting us now , whereas asteroids, etc., are (thankfully) only possibilities. Serious ones, to be certain, but not immediately threatening. CO2 is a direct and immediate threat.
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That's not going to happen with chemical rockets. Until a radically different propulsion system is developed the only planet we have is this one.
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You are getting downvoted, but I actually agree with you. Space travel is awesome, but so is living, and right now we are not living in a way that is sustainable over the short term. Space travel is, for me, an anachronistic hold-over from
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by revscat 12y ago
> Obviously our public sphere is full of criticism of Islam (a.k.a. islamophobia) Islamophobia, racism, etc., are not criticisms. Criticism is the application of reason and intelligence for the purpose of analysis and improvment. Bigotry
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Then replace "orangutan" with "mockingbird" if you like. There are tasks that humans are capable of that other creatures are not. Extrapolate this the other direction. I do not believe that humanity's current evolut

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