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by syshum 5y ago
>Let's burn the American flag instead The response will be armed You will not be Shot unless you tried to harm someone first You will be yelled at, called names, and maybe at most hit across the head They will try to stop you, put
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by syshum 5y ago
>>the legislative branch represent the people and are checked by elections In order for a "check" to be valid, the "check" has to have full knowledge of the thing they are checking.. Further the "people"
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by syshum 5y ago
>>Well, we need state secrets a No we do not. State Secrets is an affront to concept of "government of the people, for the people" One can not have an informed public, that is able to choose how the government should functi
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by syshum 5y ago
>>That is a different kind of "rich". It's "I can buy a full news studio if I want"-rich. There are 3 problems with that. 1. Even if you took 100% of their wealth, no income, their entire wealth, it would not
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by syshum 5y ago
True, but this is an side effect once again of government meddling and it having unintended consequences See the government saw employers with "use it or lose it" policy as "screwing over" the employee, so they ban it be
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by syshum 5y ago
>>you can't do use it or lose it. Which is why unlimited was born, because now you never "earn" any so you never "lose" any, and thus can never accrue any either
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by syshum 5y ago
>>You'll rarely win in the court of public opinion I think this is wrong... Likely you could win in public opinion. It will not matter much though because >>you'll probably never get hired anywhere again. This is lik
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by syshum 5y ago
That is if you assume people played by the rules, and there was actually validation controls in place from what I have seen of the PPP and other covid programs the concern was getting the money out as fast as possible not validating claims.
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by syshum 5y ago
Too many people, especially high income software dev's, that government can not spend enough money. So to them them the spending is not out of control at all, they want the 3, 4, 8 trillion spending because they have bought into th
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by syshum 5y ago
So your rebuttable is "we gave you a choice, and you choose wrong" That is not really a choice. Does the mugger give me a "choice" when he holds a gun to my head and threatens me with violence if do not do as he desire.
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by syshum 5y ago
>> you oppose social security and the minimum wage? We should let corporations exploit workers as much as they please and provide no care for the ones who can't wor At the federal level yes. State level is a different matter See
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by syshum 5y ago
>> FEE opposed the Marshall Plan, Social Security and minimum wages, among other American social and economic policies. AS do I, in a sane world, with a sane court none of those would be constitutional as they are completely outside
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by syshum 5y ago
That was not the question. One of the things people never factor in is all the government regulations around housing. A single family home from the 1930's would be illegal to build today because building codes have been expanded some
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by syshum 5y ago
Pretty sure you numbers are not factoring in children under the age they legally allowed to get the vaccine, because those numbers are way high if you exclude the ineligible "All Persons" is not a valid statistic >As such, we
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by syshum 5y ago
Unification in the eyes of many is "Do what we say, we gave you a choice, you choose wrong so now we have have to use force" That is not unification or pluralism. They (including democrats and republicans but today right now ma
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by syshum 5y ago
People need to look alot closer to the data in America before they simply blame individual freedom for the deaths A HUGE percentage of the deaths in the US are from people institutionalized in government facilities. They had no freedom.. An
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by syshum 5y ago
People would have a better chance of finding me via one of my various pseudonym's online than they would by my IRL name. I do not have any accounts in my real name, and I had no problems finding others via our pseudonym's when I
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by syshum 5y ago
>>In time, society will abolish or tightly constrain them in the same way society has banned other highly addictive substances. I hope not, the War on Drugs is one of the biggest disasters in modern history, directly linked to untol
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by syshum 5y ago
Usenet, IRC, Forums all connected friends and diverse groups over the internet before "social media", and IMO they did not have the same negative effects because they did not "gamify" the system with a reward feedback l
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by syshum 5y ago
stripe's prices / fees are not really that much lower, they do have great profit margins though
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by syshum 5y ago
Can they? MC'D does the "Double 1/4 Pounder" instead of 1/2 Pound... Hardee's does "Monster" and before that " $6 Dollar Burger" instead of 1/2 pound I have seen people use 8 oz in mar
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by syshum 5y ago
In anti-trust terms would this not be "dumping"
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by syshum 5y ago
No one announces plans for world domination, it is far more benign and slow than that. it is like quicksand, by they time you know you are in deep it is too late for you to do anything
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by syshum 5y ago
Or we recognize the fact that the United States has a system of government that is Unique in the world, we also have a culture and demographic that is Unique, as such many of the policies that would apply to say a EU nation can not work th
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by syshum 5y ago
I am not saying I disagree, personally I think they tax code should be extremely simplified so the need for software is not needed. One should not need an accounting degree or depend on the IRS to figure out what you owe in the first plac
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by syshum 5y ago
>>The business was profitable enough to pay them a fair market salary, it's not like they were indentured servants. What stops them from building their own $12B exit? That is the thing, we are seeing an extreme negative view of b
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by syshum 5y ago
I am always baffled by the augment of "well the rest of the developed world does X" Seems to strike me as a lesson I learned when I was young.. "Well if your friends all jumped off the bridge would you?" Simply because
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by syshum 5y ago
You will if it not your primary income, but used to supplement or do when you have nothing else to do. Too many people think that the only people that drive for Uber are people that need it for Full Time employment. There are lots of people
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by syshum 5y ago
Yes, but likely they will then "extend" Linux so if an dev is using WSL to develop a linux project you will need to install MS things on your production enviroment, likely in the NET Core world... I am sure this will happen with
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by syshum 5y ago
>>and lock-in BS Microsoft has all kinds of ways they do vertical lockin, it is not has overt as say Apple, but do not think for a second that the company that promoted Embrace, Extend, Extinguish does not have methods to lock in use

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