ta75757

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by ta75757 12y ago
a country can print as much money as it wants Printing money is essentially a tax, because it reduces the value of the currency everyone else is holding through inflation. Or another way: money is not physical resources, it is a m
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by ta75757 12y ago
You hold the assets until the accused is either found guilty or innocent. If they are innocent you return the assets. (Never mind that they are now doing exactly that to prevent people from using their own money to pay for their own defen
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by ta75757 12y ago
There are both state and federal laws for the practice. So this will slightly decrease the situations in which the state/local police can do this. Likely to be compensated for by new state laws. And of course this doesn't stop
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by ta75757 12y ago
I understand his question. The question is: Why is it acceptable for a group of people defined by "nationality" to form a collective (government) that creates and enforces economic protection for itself against non-members, but no
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by ta75757 12y ago
You are not disputing anything I wrote. You seem to be replying as if I were arguing against this, when I was actually pointing out a fact that you failed to acknowledge when you wrote "no violence towards Nigerians who come to the US
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by ta75757 12y ago
mild deportation All laws/regulations (even the good ones) are ultimately enforced by the implicit threat of violence. You only get a "mild deportation" if you cooperate in the process.
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by ta75757 12y ago
Socially they are different, but labor has an equal claim to "free trade" as capital for economic reasons. If you grant it only capital, labor can rightly feel screwed over. Imagine the EU, but without free movement of labor. So
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by ta75757 12y ago
For those who don't know what this means: "In modern times, the territory is generally and almost universally known as part of the West Bank." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shomron )
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by ta75757 12y ago
I don't know. I personally have a mild dislike of self-applied labels like this. "You know what punkers don't do? Call themselves punkers."
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by ta75757 12y ago
How many people reading that headline do you think actually think of suicides when they read it? The reason for determining the deadliness of guns is to know whether they should be banned or not. And we're arguing that since suicides
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by ta75757 12y ago
Thing many people are missing, I think, is that the position of the NRA is not necessarily based on the merits of that particular issue. It is based on the STRATEGIC view of the political battle to restrict and eliminate firearm ownership.
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by ta75757 12y ago
I don't see the direct connection between the suicide risk of a single gun owner and the ratio of suicide to homicide in total gun deaths. The claim regarding suicide vs homicide is easy to confirm ( https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by ta75757 12y ago
Cars are not a good example because people need cars. But alcohol is a good example, nobody needs alcohol and plenty of innocent people die from drunk drivers. Yet most people consider alcohol "normal" and the idea of restrictin
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by ta75757 12y ago
But you're doing that at the cost of denying all non-suicides the right to own a gun . The government's mandate is not to eliminate all deaths at all costs. It is to balance a wide variety of conflicting issues. And many peopl
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by ta75757 12y ago
How so?
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by ta75757 12y ago
Because the fact that there is a very small chance that a person may kill themselves with a gun does not mean the government should deny that person the right to own a gun. And people with a history of mental illness are already excluded f
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by ta75757 12y ago
Paul Graham is fighting for his side. I hope any developers here are smart enough to fight for theirs. He's arguing that the same companies who colluded illegally to drive down the wages of the "best" programmers, now have
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by ta75757 12y ago
I am not opposed to the tax, I simply think it's pointless to talk about what it's "for". That's what I meant to convey with the second line. It's a tax. If you don't pay this one, you'll pay anoth
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by ta75757 12y ago
From what I've read ordinary passenger vehicles put just about no strain on modern roads. Only heavy vehicles like semis do. Tax is tax, money is fungible.
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by ta75757 12y ago
They're not giving you $0.60, they're completing the transaction of you giving them $2.40. Socially it's not the same.
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by ta75757 12y ago
I used to say something similar until I read an even better version: "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger." "I hope a bus tries to make you stronger." (source: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013&
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by ta75757 12y ago
There was an article submitted here a long time ago, it's title was: "Fuck you, pay me." I find it applicable here as well. If programmers were paid like doctors, more talented people would start considering programming over
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by ta75757 12y ago
In that case you have to say "no thank you" every time someone new comes along and they decide they need to be helpful without any indication from you. And that can get irritating really fast. Imagine how sick tall people must b
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by ta75757 12y ago
As a former "alien" myself, I was never offended by this. It's a technical term.
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by ta75757 12y ago
The point isn't whether he's guilty or not, the point is whether the actions of law enforcement are useful. If they create the crime they then prevent, did they really prevent a crime? The answer is "just barely". Sure