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by rogersmith 11y ago
Even better startup idea, concentrate people into camps, make them pay with labor pm if you want to be CMO on this one
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by rogersmith 11y ago
Parent comment expresses incredulity at Obama's comment on the topic being discussed in the thread. I point out said comment is perfectly in line with the policies implemented by Obama and his administration during his two terms and OP
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by rogersmith 11y ago
Feel free to share your sources establishing the shooters of both the Paris Hebdo and Bataclan attacks received external support. What about Columbine (multiple shooters, conspired in advance to commit the attack), terrorism, mass shootings
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by rogersmith 11y ago
Right, because if some crazy asshole shoots people randomly it's a mass shooting but if he happens to be muslim it's terrorism. Sorry, keep forgetting about that memo.
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by rogersmith 11y ago
France may have more guns per inhabitants but it's mostly hunting rifles/sports gun. Swiss gun laws are definitely not as strict as France's. Look it up.
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by rogersmith 11y ago
Then on the other hand we have: Exhibit A) Switzerland, 25 guns for 100 inhabitants, two mass shootings in the last 100 years Exhibit B) France, extremely restrictive gun laws, two mass shootings in less than one year So there's that..
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by rogersmith 11y ago
I know right? It's almost as if the purpose of this whole farce wasn't actually to save lives and to protect our freedoms (for which they hate us). Wow, who'd have guessed...
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by rogersmith 11y ago
Disappointing with regards to the rest of his track records? re: Guantanamo, reining in Wall Street, cracking down on whistleblowers, widespread use of drones to perform extra-judicial assassination? If after 8 years you still think Obama i
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by rogersmith 11y ago
"It doesn't take a genius to figure out people will just keep cash at home if you impose negative interest rates..." Hence why the alleged benefits of a cashless economy are being pushed across the board at the moment. Cue th
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by rogersmith 11y ago
"Is this seriously the America that exists today?" Not denying they have taken it up a notch, but FBI has always been some borderline Gestapo institution from it's inception. You heard of Edgar Hoover right?
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by rogersmith 11y ago
" a government has a large amount of power to dictate money flows within the country, but very little power to compel terms of trade overseas." Isn't the petrodollar system precisely the historical exception that allows the U
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by rogersmith 11y ago
Article reads like paid advertisement for Uber tbh...
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by rogersmith 11y ago
"They are asking about a job. I am thinking about identity, community, purpose – the things that provide meaning and motivation. I am talking about my life." Wow, leaving aside the complete "first world problem" approach
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by rogersmith 11y ago
So I go to the sauna for a few hours right? Reach abnormal temperature for a statistically insignificant period of time wrt to my expected lifetime, then a few minutes later after I left the sauna my temperature is back within average expec
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by rogersmith 11y ago
"The global surface temperatures across land and ocean in February were 1.35C warmer than the average temperature for the month, from the baseline period of 1951-1980." Earth having been around for millions of years, how statistic
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by rogersmith 11y ago
"Don't underestimate the role of a crappy jobs and bad bosses" This a 1000 times. As someone who's done his fair share of shit jobs before working in the relative comfort of the "tech industry", this was a valu
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by rogersmith 11y ago
MH370 = MH17
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by rogersmith 11y ago
You do realize the American public is probably (a tiny bit) more sheltered from the abuses of NSA/CIA/(insert your favorite alphabet agency) surveillance that non US citizens, right? Also, the legislative process is just as opaque
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by rogersmith 11y ago
First they came for the nazis... Speaking of oppressing muslims, for a government that fully supports the ethnic cleansing policy implemented by the Likud (which let's face it, makes the platform of any european right-wing party pretty
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by rogersmith 11y ago
As the second part of my comment pointed out, I see this being used to also outlaw parties becoming too overtly anti-EU (which in case you didnt notice, is conveniently conflated with "populist right wing parties" a la UKIP, FN us
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by rogersmith 11y ago
On the plus side, it sets a nice precedent for governments to ban any party whose opinions they don't like. It's entirely unlikely that the anti-EU sentiment that fuels the rise of remarketed right-wing parties all over Europe wil
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by rogersmith 11y ago
"They will also seek to prove the NPD is creating a “climate of fear” in Germany and “shares essential characteristics” with the Nazis." Like most governing political parties all over the world then?
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by rogersmith 11y ago
No we don't. Most legal system have some concept of aggravating circumstances if the victim of a particular offense is a certain age, a certain profession, etc
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by rogersmith 11y ago
tl;dr: "i engage in wishful thinking because i didnt get the memo that moore's law is close to reaching its limits"
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by rogersmith 11y ago
So everyone agrees LinkedIn is shit and should be abandoned if only because every clickable icon in there is booby-trapped, yet the consensus seems to be "I'll keep using it because peer pressure and network"? Apt summary of
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by rogersmith 11y ago
OT but arguably, the world could possibly be a better place if we didn't have prisons or banks at all.
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by rogersmith 11y ago
yet downvoting me won't make that kool aid taste less bitter :)
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by rogersmith 11y ago
"the freedom of an individual to control his or her own mental processes, cognition, and consciousness." if this is a real thing, most of what passes for "education" these days tramples this right extensively.
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by rogersmith 11y ago
Non EU European countries are actually included mind. Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_bailout_referendum,_2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_European_Constitution_r... und so wied
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by rogersmith 11y ago
They didnt include EU and US because democracy there is dead and buried.

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