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by roboneal 16y ago
I'm not sure historical context helps you cast those quotes in a "peaceful" light. Islam's early spread essentially was at the edge of a sword and conquest. I'm sincerely interested to hear the context I'm missing.
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by roboneal 16y ago
Plenty of English translations available online. The tone is hardly New Testament - turn the other cheek fare: Qur'an (4:89) - "They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not f
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by roboneal 16y ago
On an Internet in which I can easily watch the video of Daniel Pearl's beheading or any number of other beheadings, stonings, or floggings in the name of Islam - I have a slightly different threshold for what constitutes actual "hate speech
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by roboneal 16y ago
How about the government start making it EASIER to start and run a business? This is just the type of "friction" we don't need in an anemic economic recovery.
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by roboneal 16y ago
I suspect the implications are credit card transactions can be audited by the IRS anyway.
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by roboneal 16y ago
I might argue that we should work "in an election year" voting OUT the idiots who thought this was a good idea.
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by roboneal 16y ago
"High taxes have a tendency to mean cheaper child care." Is subsidized child care, really cheaper - if you are paying higher taxes to receive the subsidies? Kind of an odd logic.
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by roboneal 16y ago
Seriously, how is this remotely workable? On what legal principle do you ban the use of a single website for employment screening, yet essentially allow everything else.
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by roboneal 16y ago
From the article: "But in July 2009, Homeland Security introduced a directive requiring a wide range of information to be vetted by political appointees for "awareness purposes," no matter who requested it." So yes - the Obama administratio
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by roboneal 16y ago
Even if we accept your premise - Bush probably did it too - wasn't Obama elected to move away from Bush policies?
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by roboneal 16y ago
The scandal is really about the policy put in place by the Obama administration. From the article you cited: "Career employees were ordered to provide Secretary Janet Napolitano's political staff with information about the people who asked
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by roboneal 16y ago
A very insightful comment - if your political views are evident during the interview process = you are "doing it wrong".
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by roboneal 16y ago
Is it about saving "energy" or reducing carbon emissions? If it's about reducing carbon emissions, simply follow France's lead and move 80% of the world's electricity generation to nuclear and get a 95-97% emission reduction over coal fired
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by roboneal 16y ago
So you are saying that each search result page are handwritten by Google editors? Of course they are not, they are simply re-published snippets of the websites along and Google surrounds the results with ads. While it's a symbiotic relation
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by roboneal 16y ago
Every search engine is a screen scraper. Google has been making $$$ off of re-published content since day zero.
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by roboneal 16y ago
Whether his kids go to "state school" or not, he is still taxed as if they did.
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by roboneal 16y ago
"What total utter crap" passes for an up-voted "well reasoned" comment on HackerNews. Spare me please. Unlike many in the political class, this man actually PAYS his taxes and the payroll taxes of his 80+ employees in pursuit of private en
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by roboneal 16y ago
Looks like they are going to take some consideration of operational security in the relase of these documents: "We have delayed the release of some 15,000 reports from the total archive as part of a harm minimization process demanded by our
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by roboneal 16y ago
This can't generate remotely enough revenue to offset the compliance cost to the business sector. This is nothing more than a Federal jobs program at the expense of the private sector.
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by roboneal 16y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but the premise of the parent post was that this was simply a spending/budget problem. Spending per pupil has risen every year over the last 20 in Milwaukee and performance & outcomes have dropped dramatica
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by roboneal 16y ago
I'm not quite sure it's a money problem - for example in FY 2008 - Milwaukee Public schools spent $14503 per enrolled student and has a 46% graduation rate. There are plenty of Milwaukee area private options that exceed the outcomes of the
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by roboneal 16y ago
In school districts with strong teacher unions, the first to be laid off are less tenured, young teachers. Generally, without regard to ability or merit. I'm thinking this isn't a strong "attractor" to our country's best and brightest and
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by roboneal 16y ago
No real mystery... Newspapers = day old news printed on paper.
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by roboneal 16y ago
I'm being petty - but that's an obnoxiously large Obama '08 button. I literally thought I was on the wrong site.
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by roboneal 16y ago
Minnesota is not going to fair well on the per capita basis either.
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by roboneal 16y ago
"a one time large insanely public grant from the federal government" There is one spot-on word in that phrase: INSANE-ly.
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by roboneal 16y ago
I don't equate "currently borrowing money from the U.S. Treasury to pay its deficits" as being "self-sufficient".
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by roboneal 16y ago
Consider Microsoft Bizspark http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/ A program that grants free software licenses for startups. Fairly easy to join.
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by roboneal 16y ago
I personally use Twitter to subscribe to a variety of individual journalists, news makers, wire services, lawmakers, media personalities, etc. Thus, essentially building my own "news aggregrator". I try to follow +just enough+ people that
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by roboneal 16y ago
Wikileaks presented the video as "full & uncut" and Gawker called them out on it. Notice they didn't mention the 30min was removed when promoting that video..they had to be called out on it. Then, they hyped the 17min version and edite

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