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by talmand 10y ago
Considering the number of times the electoral college and the popular vote agreed then it would seem the system works fairly well. It's not like no one knows the rules going in, they've been in place for a while now.
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by talmand 10y ago
Well, if the system is wrong how about we just change it so that each county in the country gets one vote? Win the county get the vote?
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by talmand 10y ago
Your experiences doesn't necessarily equal that of millions of other people. Owning a vehicle for part time driving and Uber for everything else is likely not very cost effective for many, if not most people. Never mind the assumption
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by talmand 10y ago
I keep hearing that, and yet Congress and the Presidency changes hands constantly. I would think gerrymandering has a greater impact on local and state level elections.
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by talmand 10y ago
I see nothing in that article that shows the birther movement (again, no matter how stupid) was based on racial reasons, other than certain people's opinions that it did.
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by talmand 10y ago
Yes, there are examples of the free market creating monopolies. This is even more possible today than years past. But in those examples I'm willing to bet the only way they are maintained is from the assistance of government. Sometimes
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by talmand 10y ago
That's not health insurance in the US. Here it's more like a payment plan on future service. I can't wait until the car insurance industry gets on board and starts covering preventative care such as oil changes, air pressure
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by talmand 10y ago
It's a feedback loop that started because of government intervention in the free market and it continues simply because of government intervention in the free market. There are many examples of this, such as your broadband and mobile p
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by talmand 10y ago
>> Pretty hard to not look down on those people Hence, the problem.
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by talmand 10y ago
Evidence of corruption is not necessarily evidence of a crime.
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by talmand 10y ago
>> It's not the first time he's been wrong. It's because Krugman changes his mind based on who is currently President and/or controlling Congress. A policy under a Democrat President is good and the exact same poli
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by talmand 10y ago
I'm forgetting the details; can you explain how the birther movement, no matter how stupid, was about race?
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by talmand 10y ago
And I quote: "Once you reach a point in the game, I forget how far into it, you choose what to do." Once you have reached that point, you can do pretty much anything you want. Yes, I understand you have to do bad things to get to
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by talmand 10y ago
I remember that we were going to revamp existing cities and build new cities in accordance to this wonderful transportation device that would change everything, of which I cannot recall the name. I currently see them used as joke props in m
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by talmand 10y ago
GTA5 is the kind of game that the adventures the player takes on says more about the player than the game itself. Sure, you can run around causing mass chaos and deaths; but you can also do none of those things. Once you reach a point in th
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by talmand 10y ago
>> 20 years ago top-class games like Dungeon Keeper could've been made in a garage. Entry to market for garage devs with a quality title is far easier today than 20 years ago.
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by talmand 10y ago
I agree with your disagreement. After playing games for roughly over thirty years, I can say without a doubt there are a greater variety of games available today than most of my years of my game playing combined. I would say the more likely
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by talmand 10y ago
Personal experiences of the Apple product that is negative is bad. Personal experiences of the Apple product that is positive is good.
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by talmand 10y ago
I'm fine with that. My problem is statements like this: "Take Mac away and high quality desktop apps will go away." As if all the world's high quality apps are only developed on and for the Mac.
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by talmand 10y ago
I thought that was the marketing for Windows 7 after the Vista fiasco.
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by talmand 10y ago
>> Interestingly, things seem to be settling down in the JS community. As a front-end dev, to me it seems to be zipping along at the same, old faster-than-it-should pace it has for the past few years. Depends on perspective I guess.
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by talmand 10y ago
That's simple, if I were to engage in such deceitful practices then I would say payoff requires my candidate winning.
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by talmand 10y ago
>> Wars are extremely profitable for some. That is an excellent point. But, reading back over the posts I see that I introduced the concept of warfare even though the original points I questioned did not. So, back to my first question
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by talmand 10y ago
>> Killing people. I can only see the benefit of a targeted assassination for a very specific subset of a subset of a subset of people, not large scale killing of people. Warfare maybe? For fun? Not as obvious as fraud for monetary ga
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by talmand 10y ago
>> Count and record our money I think recent history has shown this hasn't worked out quite that well in many cases, and that in other cases was easily manipulated for purposes of fraud. There are entire sections of various law e
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by talmand 10y ago
Does anybody make the argument that the lack of a receipt prevents vote buying?
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by talmand 10y ago
No. I tell anyone I've run into that if you've never used SASS but you're comfortable with CSS then you'll be productive almost immediately. With a little bit of direction and reading you'll be up-to-speed within a
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by talmand 10y ago
It wouldn't if you are still using the keyboard on the laptop. Makes me wonder how common it is for someone to use a second monitor off the laptop but still use the laptop's keyboard and trackpad.
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by talmand 10y ago
My problem with it is that my current work setup involves a keyboard, a mouse, and two monitors that are plugged into the laptop that sits to the side. My laptop monitor is used for company email and messaging. The TouchBar would almost be
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by talmand 10y ago
I keep seeing people say that, yet I didn't have to log in to read the article?

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