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by squozzer 11y ago
With us, it fails. With state attorneys general, it's another pound of flesh.
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by squozzer 11y ago
Sadly, the article doesn't do the problems - of both a nuclear future and a non-nuclear one - much justice. It relies on facts and figures, which even taken at face value, will not spur many people to action. Part of the problem is tha
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by squozzer 11y ago
The article was interesting but rather unfair to Douglas and history. Douglas' weakness was not his intelligence but the boundaries in which it was applied. But the greatest flaw of this - and most analyses of the antebellum era - is t
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by squozzer 11y ago
The article looks a little short. Needs another paragraph. Here's my suggestion - Feel free to taser such people.
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by squozzer 11y ago
As much as I dislike its implications, this is the way the case should have gone. Most of us knew the Feds would eventually crack the iPhone - the attempt to deputize Apple in their investigation was a matter of expedience.
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by squozzer 11y ago
One could say the same about cities and counties, except in LA, where they call them parishes, or AK, where they call them boroughs. But I don't expect that change anytime soon. It was after all the states who gave up some of their sov
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by squozzer 11y ago
I am with you, even though I like what Boom proposes.
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by squozzer 11y ago
The article itself is somewhat misleading - cash, i.e. currency, does depend on the issuing institution's integrity and the willingness of people to accept it. Was a bit surprised to see The Guardian echo certain viewpoints heretofore
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by squozzer 11y ago
To quote the great Gomer Pyle, "surprise, surprise, surprise!"
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by squozzer 11y ago
Scott will be pleased to know he's entered another circle of nerdvana.
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by squozzer 11y ago
Whooda thunk agriculture was so ripe (pardon the expression) for scamming?
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by squozzer 11y ago
I prefer quick picks but for a different reason. I used to have a set of favorite numbers, but then I heard a story - urban legend most likely - about someone in Ireland who forgot to play their lucky numbers. Of course, those numbers won t
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by squozzer 11y ago
To a certain degree I do. I believe - which is that I will operate under an assumption that rests entirely on (probably flawed) logic, not evidence - the NSA's unspoken mission is not against average citizens, but rather to keep tabs o
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by squozzer 11y ago
One possible marker of adulthood is achieving a goal after suffering a major setback. For instance, flunking out of college, then transferring elsewhere and obtaining a degree. Or along the same vein, seeing a difficult project through to t
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by squozzer 11y ago
And when you find yourself hanging on a cross or inhaling a liter or two of water in Gitmo, just remember this - https://youtu.be/WlBiLNN1NhQ
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by squozzer 11y ago
This seems like a good spot to go meta - what exactly does someone who has achieved a level of financial success owe the rest of us? The Christian church has a well-known - at least among churchgoers - figure, which is 10% or a tithe. Ask s
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by squozzer 11y ago
You made the point well, maybe the U.S. Govt should squeeze a little harder. Something like a perpetual copyright for 10% of the gross, taxes not included. That's a deal the Hollywood set can understand.
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by squozzer 11y ago
Funny. It reminds me of the time I saw a picture of the Kremlin and thought "Mordor meets Candyland."
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by squozzer 11y ago
The concentration of wealth has some observable effects that we probably don't want - for example, real estate prices. Not that expensive real estate is bad in itself, but people who work in areas where they can't afford to live -
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by squozzer 11y ago
Yes we would not have this cute little ditty. http://youtu.be/_uJsoZheTR4
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by squozzer 11y ago
All I can say is good luck with that project.
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by squozzer 11y ago
I offer as a hypothesis the belief that graduate study programs, even in hard sciences such as physics, aren't looking for scholars, but disciples.
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by squozzer 11y ago
Discussion of cost-effective alternatives is almost pointless now that we have the ACA, which is effectively a transfer of wealth from individuals to insurance companies for the sole privilege of breathing. Oops, forgot at include dying als
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by squozzer 11y ago
The Roemer Effect has never been proven, as no country has ever had the luxury of too many hospital beds. It's based on a certain plausible logic - similar to saying welfare makes people lazy - but no one has ever presented evidence to
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by squozzer 11y ago
A more fundamental question is why morality - especially the kind that allows for violence against non-followers - exists at all. I hypothesize that morality was initially invented to subdue the masses into servitude - obey the alpha male,
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by squozzer 11y ago
I work in an enterprise environment though my skill set is mostly on the admin side. Ageism may play a part in the bias against enterprise workers, but other factors exist as well - whether justified or not. 1) Over-specialization - the vog
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by squozzer 11y ago
Two reasons the B-52s are still around - 1) its replacements, even if they had worked perfectly, would not have improved upon the original to a degree not already covered by ICBMs, cruise missiles, and drones. It fills its niche perfectly,
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by squozzer 11y ago
Awesome. Now we need a satire of e NYT that doesn't involve Hayden Christensen.
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by squozzer 11y ago
After all that, the idea still has merit, but as the author pointed out, jeans (and clothing in general) are rather tricky products. I recently purchased a sofa from a site that used a similar tack - though in hindsight it had a more limite
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by squozzer 11y ago
Forgive my skepticism, but Mr. Thiel did not offer to live near a reactor. For someone with his obvious intelligence, his oversight could not have been accidental. Does he fear the radiation or the decline in property value? When a robber b

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