robonerd

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by robonerd 5y ago
Man I've completely lost track of whatever point you're even trying to make. I've gone back and read over it again, but you're just all over the place. I thought this conversation was about why Carter lost to Reagan.
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by robonerd 5y ago
I don't know about high-profile melodic plagiarism specifically, but a lot of general plagiarism is absolutely intentional. So I wouldn't rule out the possibility for any particular sort of plagarism.
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by robonerd 5y ago
What matters is how the public perceives the issue at the time of the election. Ditto the Iranian hostage crisis. Those hostages were not yet free by the time of the 1980 election. You can argue their eventually release in 1981 as a res
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by robonerd 5y ago
> of course, but the hungrier you get the less you have to loose so you act with far more fierce effort accepting more and more extreme consequences. Definitely true. I just hope people aren't so tolerant of hardship that they mi
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by robonerd 5y ago
It isn't hard to show that Reagan was a racist. But you haven't connected all the dots. Particularly, you haven't shown any convincing evidence that people who voted for Carter in '76 and Reagan in '80 were motiva
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by robonerd 5y ago
If the plagiarism was intentional, it would be trivial for the artist to simply not document the portions of the process which would reveal it. He could work out his version from the original whistling to himself in the shower, then go t
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by robonerd 5y ago
Close calls can certainly be hidden, but serious nuclear accidents that result in appreciable release of radioactive materials are another story. Those are very hard to hide for long (there have certainly been attempts though.) I think by
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by robonerd 5y ago
During Carter's presidency, you had the Iranian hostage crisis, the '79 energy crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent end of Détente. I think Carter has relatively little blame for these things, but neverthe
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by robonerd 5y ago
> China has more than enough money to buy a vaccine that is more effective You'd think they have enough money to ship in food and distribute it, yet evidently they're failing at even this.
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by robonerd 5y ago
Starvation starts long before death by starvation occurs.
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by robonerd 5y ago
> no power can stop an angry population The longer you wait, the hungrier you get. The hungrier you get, the weaker you are. Best for the people of Shanghai if they start rioting now than a week from now, when it may be too late.
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by robonerd 5y ago
If Seattle can get mansions converted/replaced into apartments, I think Vancouver should be able to as well. They're not exactly worlds apart culturally.
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by robonerd 5y ago
Many of the early innovators in aviation were French or in France, and consequently, the French language has a lot of influence in aviation. The terms 'mayday' and 'pan-pan' both originate from French. Flight rec
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by robonerd 5y ago
> Foreign investors would be buying mansions that locals couldn't afford anyways. If nobody is around to buy that mansion, it would eventually be sold to a developer who either turns it into apartments, or tears it down and builds
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by robonerd 5y ago
This is unlikely to be a major factor for aircraft engines, which need to be serviced regularly anyway (long before lead deposits would force it.)
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by robonerd 5y ago
These GA statistics seem to include Aerial Work, so it includes a considerable number of turbine powered aircraft (most helicopters for instance.) This Excel(!) document breaks GA hours down between types of aircraft: https://www