smky80

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by smky80 13y ago
No system of government really works that well because most people "defect" in the sense of the prisoners dilemma. So instead of working for the public good, the government ultimately becomes a means of exploiting the public good
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by smky80 13y ago
No, the people who tell the Obama administration what to do, told the media to make a circus out of the case.
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by smky80 13y ago
> so expensive it's cheaper for people to fly out of the country, pay for accommodation and even some spending money ... and even a few years of college tuition or a small mortgage ...
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by smky80 13y ago
> Don't attribute to malice [what can be attributed to] stupidity. No, there really are people acting with malice out there. Pretending it is all just the result of stupidity just runs cover for those people.
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by smky80 13y ago
> You know what killed Occupy? Occupy! No goal, no purpose, Occupy was subverted from the inside much like the Tea Party. The fact that George Soros was involved is a big clue. The aim went from something fairly specific, like lets brin
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by smky80 13y ago
They do not "like" it. It's just that, to be very blunt, most people are basically peasants at heart. They're going to go along with whatever the king says. Twenty years ago, on that side of the line on a map, the peo
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by smky80 13y ago
> I tend to see our government (today) as a very mismanaged large corporation. I don't know, I think the US government seems pretty ruthlessly efficient at toppling Middle Eastern governments, transferring wealth from taxpayers to b
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by smky80 13y ago
I can't help but notice the vast majority of your comments over the time you've been here are basically NSA spying apologism.
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by smky80 13y ago
Couldn't he just have gotten a paper route or something?
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by smky80 13y ago
> ... routinely lie, cheat and steal. Because it's effective It's a prisoners dilemma thing. It works while they are suckers to cheat, but the refutation of that entire way of thinking comes when everybody cheats and everyone
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by smky80 13y ago
No that's not what you do. If you have enough time, first you insert some fool like Sarah Palin or Newt Gingrich into the movement, and slowly dismantle it from the inside (the Tea Party). If you need something quick, you insert a pr
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by smky80 13y ago
Southpark will do an episode trashing him.
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by smky80 13y ago
I would hope feedback from constituents would at least be a consideration in forming policy?
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by smky80 13y ago
"Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom. Make up your own mind." -- Captain Ratchak, Starship Troopers.
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by smky80 13y ago
Not even a summary of the feedback? Or was the staff chief basically running the show policy wise?
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by smky80 13y ago
Or it's an indication that they (and most mainstream media sources) are not in fact sources of solid journalism.
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by smky80 13y ago
I have, as a young oblivious backpacker. I chuckled. As far as I remember, the room was basically a broom closet with just enough room for a single bed and the door to swing open. Downstairs was ... interesting. But I enjoyed my mansion
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by smky80 13y ago
> All of this is beyond Osama bin Laden's wildest dreams Just putting this all in a bit of perspective: This is some character that, after those two buildings were hit by planes and three buildings collapsed into dust, we were shown
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by smky80 13y ago
Any terror that was in me has been long since replaced with disgust for the populations of Useful Idiots and Defectors that made it all possible.
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by smky80 13y ago
I did Space Camp a couple years after the movie came out. I'm still mad about getting stuck with being the Public Relations Officer in Ground Control on the shuttle mission at the end.
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by smky80 13y ago
This x 1000. Seriously, it's like that newspaper photo of the pregnant lady smoking a cigarette while the caption reads "Area woman concerned about the effect of the sound of jackhammers on her baby."
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by smky80 13y ago
I think it was Dale Carnegie that pointed out if you asked everyone if they themselves were dishonest, you would discover the surprising result that in fact there never has been a dishonest homo sapien in the history of this planet.
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by smky80 13y ago
The point is that the bullying goes from something fairly local (school), that can be escaped, to spreading around the world. This particular kid could move to Cambodia and some people there will probably recognize him.
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by smky80 13y ago
I'd recommend instead learning this stuff through Coursera or CFA or actuarial exams instead. Way cheaper and there's no benefit to the classroom for this material.
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by smky80 13y ago
Having someone actively trying to ruin your life might be a little more uncomfortable than being followed on Spotify? Just a thought.
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by smky80 13y ago
I don't disagree with your sentiment. I do have practical and moral objections though to policies which couldn't possibly mitigate the issue in question but still involve the societal sacrifices. In the end, cheap clean energy like fusion
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by smky80 13y ago
> Global warming is a lot scarier than "peak oil" Honestly I always figured the global warming hysteria was mainly a cover for pushing "anti-peak oil" policies without having to admit the Emperor is naked. Cutting carbon emissions by 1
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by smky80 13y ago
> Can someone help me out here? It's a sham. The voting process is just there to create an illusion of control and provide a circus for the masses; just another means of control by manufacturing consent. The Republican Party's purpose
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by smky80 14y ago
> the fact that the SAT, even when adjusted for economic disparity, is still skewed towards white men, Did you mean to say asian women?
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by smky80 14y ago
> the people agree with the corporations To the extent this is true, it's because the consent is effectively manufactured by the media. A big part of the trick is, when presenting the choice of Shit Sandwich or Turd Burger at the electi

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