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by tjic 17y ago
> One can imagine a 12 year old seducing a 30 year old neighbor, without harming either of them. "One" can imagine that? I, for one, CAN NOT imagine that sexual contact between a 12 year old and a 30 year old can ever be anything other
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by tjic 17y ago
> the anonymous smear letter ... quoted three sentences out of context: “What is my position on pedophilia, then? It’s really simple. If the child doesn’t want it [sexual contact], is neutral or ambigious [sic], it’s inappropriate.” If
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by tjic 17y ago
> Sniffing around pisses people off. Sniffing around is often interpreted as micromanagement, a passive aggressive way of stating, “I don’t believe you can do your job.” Too true. There are a lot of great things about managing engineer
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by tjic 17y ago
This strikes me as disingenuous. The title STRONGLY implies "how 30 seconds of work dropped my bounce rate". It's really hard to come up with any other interpretations of the subject line a priori. It's stunningly good link bait, and the a
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by tjic 17y ago
This is cool, but I'm a bit underwhelmed that NASA labels its OWN immages as "stunning". Seriously "NASA's New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning First Images" is the kind of press flack hucksterism we'd decry if any other firm promoted itsel
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by tjic 17y ago
> he's covered under a public care option So you're arguing that the British socialized system is good, and free market systems are bad ... and the evidence you hold up for this is about a horrible event in socialized portion of the US
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by tjic 17y ago
The treatment she got from the government doctors was horrible. This bit gives me chills: "We were told that we would wait at least four months for an NHS appointmen" Uggh. I'm glad that we still have free market doctors here in the US. Wel
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by tjic 17y ago
> I can guarantee you he's a better VP than Sarah 'Drill baby drill' Palin Thanks. Your extensive footnoting and logical arguments definitely convinced me of your point of view.
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by tjic 17y ago
> Living in the US, I accept the claim that not many get together to say "No". Compare to Asian/European countries where the slightest rift creates huge protests. What gives you the impression that "the slightest rift causes huge protes
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by tjic 17y ago
> I used to live 15 minutes from the Capitol Building. So you lived in the imperial seat in the US, the one are where 75% of people are working for the government (directly or indirectly), and the one place that actually GREW during the
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by tjic 17y ago
> There have been crazies ranting about how the government reads all your e-mail for years. Yeah, those of us who were protesting Bill Clinton and Al Gore's backing of the Clipper Chip 17 years ago were just lunatics. It's not like we
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by tjic 17y ago
> I live in the Central Florida/Space Coast area, and there is a palpable fear that soon all these aerospace jobs will be gone Those aren't jobs - they're welfare checks, taken from working Americans in return for very very very little
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by tjic 17y ago
What absolutely horrible infographics. The graphics part did more to obscure the data than to give it any meaning.
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by tjic 17y ago
I enjoyed reading the phrase "bunged up" in the mainstream press! ;-)
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by tjic 17y ago
The clear implication is that racism has adaptive value for primates, or at least did in the period when we layed down this trait.
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by tjic 17y ago
The "author" has yanked down her personal domain, but you can find her resume in google cache here http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7a3-_Y7...
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by tjic 17y ago
> His result: Education seems to play a big role in how long a state’s average resident works, and for what wage. There's nothing here that suggests the causality arrow runs in that direction. Here's another take "all workers prefer to
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by tjic 17y ago
> They might actually decrease the amount of bureaucracy. Bureacracy grows, inexhorably. Care to formulate some sort of bet on how much delta you see in bureaucracy over the next few years?
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by tjic 17y ago
We went to the moon at the same time that we were in Vietnam. We stopped going to the moon at the same time that we withdrew from Vietnam. The only thing that correlates with the end of any interesting manned space program is the growth of
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by tjic 17y ago
The Space Shuttle is glorious, but it's also an example of how even a bad idea can be made to work if you throw enough cash at it. Do you know what percent of the weight of the shuttle is cargo? 2%. It makes zero sense to loft tons (literal
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by tjic 17y ago
> What's really sad is that 70s-era technology is better than what we have today. No more SR-71. No more Concorde. Define "better". The Concorde was a scam - middle class citizens were taxed by England and France to subsidize a superson
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Zing!
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I wondered the exact same thing.
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> I think you didn't quite get the message. He got it; he just disagrees.
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by tjic 17y ago
> "It was the biggest shock in my life, when I realized how horrible, soulless and without feeling the five star lifestyle is," Mr Rabeder said. You can use money to go to exclusive resorts and hobnob with similar folks. Or you can use
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by tjic 17y ago
I hate this sort of rebuttal. A: If you drive your car backwards you get better mileage. B: Well, I tried that, but my field of view is pretty crappy in the mirror, and the controls are non intuitive. A: Well, your shitty car design isn't
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by tjic 17y ago
If we were omniscient and could tell who would pay back their credit, and who wouldn't we could do this. If we're not omniscient, the best we can do is put people in bins: "99% of the people in this bin will pay back their debt in full ...b
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by tjic 17y ago
Helium can be created by ions striking hydrogen. Helium is also created by hydrogen fusing in the sun and being blown out on the solar wind.
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by tjic 17y ago
First, let me say that I entirely follow the technical description of the potential attack they're talking about, and I can imagine ways to exploit it. My question: is it really worth worrying about? What's the threat scenario where this le
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by tjic 17y ago
Sure way to make me read a blog post: reference a line of Firefly dialogue in the title!

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