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by vaadu 11y ago
"There was the incredible advocacy campaign from the Anti-Saloon League, whose anti-alcohol messaging looks like a more fervent version of the National Rifle Association's gun rights messaging today." You it it right there.
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by vaadu 11y ago
GM killed more than 100 people with a known defective ignition switch. Volkswagen killed ... the air. Guess which company will get the greater penalty from the US government? BTW, GM spends significantly more on lobbying and campaign contri
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by vaadu 11y ago
I live in Fairfax county. It has some excellent officers but the dept is atrocious when it comes to transparency and honesty with the citizenry. The officer involved shootings of unarmed people are consistently swept under the rug.
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by vaadu 11y ago
Science isn't about popularity or fame. Either the data supports his conclusions or it doesn't.
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by vaadu 11y ago
This is why all officer involved shootings should be investigated and prosecuted(if necessary) by people with no skin in the game for any outcome.
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by vaadu 11y ago
How do you know it's a glitch(whatever that means) and not a big problem such as a data center outage or hacker caused?
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by vaadu 11y ago
"What the supreme court said is that you can't arrest the hotel employee/owner for not handing over the information immediately, which was part of the LA law." Didn't compliance also require a valid ID from whoever
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by vaadu 11y ago
Give up a 2013 pennant? Let me guess, you're a Dodgers fan. Until there are details on what was done and by whom the Cards should do nothing more than fully cooperate with the investigation. Then and only then should the Cards and MLB
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by vaadu 11y ago
This is why the mission of securing America's networks needs to be removed from the NSA. “What’s more noteworthy is how little regard the government seems to have for the process of deciding to exploit vulnerabilities,” wrote Nate Card
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by vaadu 11y ago
The helmet is no more a hindrance than a seatbelt. If you choose not to wear a helmet so be it, you are an adult. But don't expect me to pay for your medical bills if you have a head injury while cycling and you were not wearing helmet
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by vaadu 11y ago
http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/04/news/johnson-and-johnson-whi... This type of whistleblowing should not just be for pharmaceuticals. It should apply to all government and commercial activities too. Public
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by vaadu 11y ago
The Leafs were under-achievers last year and recently hired arguably the best coach in the league in Mike Babcock. I expect them to be in the playoffs next year and contending for the cup in the near future. The Leafs are also the the most
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by vaadu 11y ago
She was attacked and subjected to significant legal harassment, merely because she wrote an op-ed on sexual politics on campus, and some people didn’t like her opinion. They then used the badly written Title IX law, passed in 1972 by Congre
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by vaadu 11y ago
The articles definition of 'Weird' is 'I disagree'. Elon Musk's thoughts on AI are well thought out and in line with a lot of intelligent people. Elon Musk (CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and chief product architect of
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by vaadu 12y ago
Many of these should be reclaimed by IANA. Why do L3, ATT and HP need two /8s. Why does DOD need ten /8s? Why do CSC, Halliburton, PSINet, eli lilly, prudential, Bell-Northern Research and dupont, Daimler, Apple, GE, MIT, Ford, Xe
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by vaadu 12y ago
Any evidence these 2 agents provided would be regarded as unreliable.
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by vaadu 12y ago
Ironic since the first RFRA was a 1993 federal law that was signed into law by Democratic president Bill Clinton. It unanimously passed the House of Representatives, where it was sponsored by then-congressman Chuck Schumer, and sailed throu
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by vaadu 12y ago
I don't understand the problem? If a business does not want to do business with you why would you want to do business with them? It's a free society. They made there choice now you make yours. Take your business elsewhere.
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by vaadu 12y ago
"By now, everyone knows that oil is a leading driver of global climate change." Knows? I thought it was coal. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/coal-not-oil-sa... http://www.wired.
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by vaadu 12y ago
"the fossil reserves (oil, coal and natural gas) are being depleted, while the cost to extract and exploit them is increasing" Fossil fuel depletion aka peak oil is a fantasy that's been heard for decades. The costs of extrac
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by vaadu 12y ago
How do people in these situations deal with the government? Obamacare has mandates and one commenter mentioned a minimal existence with a motor vehicle, which means license, insurance, inspection and registration requirements. All requiring
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by vaadu 12y ago
I wish Writer could import keyboard reassignments and toolbars from my MSWord normal.dot. The manual migration process can be hugely time consuming. The best non MSOffice Outlook equivalent that I've found is Outlook web access IF you
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by vaadu 12y ago
The authors better be careful or the next contact they have with government documents is notice of an IRS audit.
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by vaadu 12y ago
"The only way to fix this is to government fund all elections with a set amount of money" The elected officials who will make the rules here will do it for their own benefit. I would prefer that campaign contributions only come fr
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by vaadu 12y ago
"posing as female supporters". This adds a new spin on the words 'honey trap'.
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by vaadu 12y ago
Don't sell or license computer gear to Chinese banks.
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by vaadu 12y ago
"If killing large numbers of civilians does not have a military impact, then what, Wilson asks, is the purpose of keeping nuclear weapons?" The writer stupidly jumps from the idea that if nukes have less than a major impact then t
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by vaadu 12y ago
What is the best ODB2 device on the market to use with my Android?
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by vaadu 12y ago
My port is already being used for my own stats gathering. So they need to supply a hub or splitter.
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by vaadu 12y ago
There will NEVER be accountability as long as the conflict of interest remains where police actions are investigated by a prosecutor that relies on these same police for him to do a successful job.

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