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by webXL 16y ago
If it really is that cheap, citizens will be able to spy on the government and large corporations, assuming the technology isn't outlawed for concerns about citizens spying on each other.
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by webXL 16y ago
And if everyone had guns , you could cross off dictatorial. Thugs, both state and tribal, don't bat an eye when thinking about getting their hands on a gun. For peaceful, law abiding folks, however, it's a huge hassle.
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by webXL 16y ago
We do not have a nonfossil alternative that can make up the substantial power needs of the world other than nuclear power. --Glenn Sjoden In other words, unless we litter the plains with windmills (a form of contamination IMO), we cannot ge
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by webXL 16y ago
So in order to get the trust of the public, all we have to do is build a super safe prototype reactor and wait for a 9.5 earthquake and direct tsunami hit to come along and have the damn thing survive? Sorry, but that just means we'll be bu
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Map of Geiger Counters in Japan(maps.google.com)
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by webXL 16y ago
Don't you mean 800μSv - micro sieverts? Seems to me like they have a long way to go until 100mSv - milli sieverts
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by webXL 16y ago
Is it possible that with multi-tasking, having two threads of the new Nitro JS engine open in memory slows everything down? It's not that big of a deal with 512mb of RAM and dual core, but the iPad 1 could be sluggish. I guess it's possible
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by webXL 16y ago
And the shadow is really just the same arrangement of letters in black. I thought it was canvas at first because it was blurry, but they use CSS text-shadow for that effect.
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by webXL 16y ago
I wouldn't call it propaganda if your merely trying to get people to put facts of an entire tragedy into the proper context. Yesterday morning I turned on the ABC and saw this: http://yfrog.com/h7r6rmcj CNN has been treating the nuclear a
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by webXL 16y ago
Good points. I didn't really understand Einstein's points about the individual being so dependent on society, though. Therefore what? We shouldn't be so selfish? When I see government workers protesting cuts, while regular workers are losin
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by webXL 16y ago
Or, better yet, outlaw hard drives altogether and have DHS host our storage in the cloud. Problem solved!
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by webXL 16y ago
"activated in December alone" what about iPads "activated in December alone"? Probably a big month for consumer electronics, don't ya think?
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by webXL 16y ago
You said "they make a lot of their money as capital gains which are taxed at a rate" and I said their effective tax rate of 32%, which is higher than yours, includes capital gains taxes. You can make a strong case that corporate taxes are a
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by webXL 16y ago
No, they do not pay less! The top 1% has an average effective tax rate of 32% -- much higher than yours! This includes capital gains taxes! It's whatever amount they send to the IRS divided by the amount they receive as income (including
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by webXL 16y ago
If Warren Buffet only paid 17.7% of his income in '06, then other top-1%'ers pay a lot more than 31.2%! (see CBO Effect Tax Rates 2006: http://www.cbo.gov/publications/collections/tax/2009/effecti... ) Warren Buffet uses tax loopholes (per
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by webXL 16y ago
Node.js - that was my first guess. Nice example of utility computing!
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Joyent Relaunches Its No.de Hosting Service(badassjs.com)
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by webXL 16y ago
News Flash: Warren Buffet pays more in percentage terms than you do: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/02/distribution_of_... And he gives a lot more away to charity in percentage terms, too!
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by webXL 16y ago
So Kochs = Cato, now? I think they have more than two people: http://www.cato.org/people/directors.html And if you're going to make a wild accusation like Cato is DEFINITELY using Orwellian language , please use a little more brain power
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by webXL 16y ago
3 words: Cold War over. Copy and paste all you want. It still doesn't change the fact the government will need to curtail spending, and perhaps raise taxes once the economy recovers if it doesn't want Greece II: http://www.heritage.org/bud
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by webXL 16y ago
Oh, I see, Republicans work for corporations and Democrats don't. Have you been following campaign financing the last few election cycles? Democrats received more from corporations. They both have been bought off. Goldman Sachs gave more to
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by webXL 16y ago
Do you believe in the separation of church and state? What about the separation of your bedroom and state? Or the separation of our government and forcing our ideals on other countries? Why is it OK to advocate that the government not be in
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by webXL 16y ago
Bachmann is straight up fucking crazy Justify it. And don't use Media Matters as a source. They recently accused Huckabee of endorsing "ethnic cleansing" because he suggested that Arab states should offer land for a Palestinian state, and
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by webXL 16y ago
Your pay most likely comes from sales of goods and services, buyers of which are taxed at a lower rate. They are using after tax income, so it is double taxation there, too. But value was created in those instances, so one can say that the
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by webXL 16y ago
Has your senator been Feingold or a Republican since the passage of the Patriot Act? Or did you not vote for one? If an anti-patriot act Libertarian ran against a pro-patriot act Democrat, who would you support? You can support the lesser o
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by webXL 16y ago
In order to make millions on my investments, I would have had to risked millions more of already taxed income to do so. The fact that others' after-tax income was transferred to me along the way in exchange for shares is irrelevant to the q
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by webXL 16y ago
More on capital gains?? If I buy 1 share of GOOG with my after-tax income, and someone buys it from me for a $100 more with their after-tax income, why should the government get a cut of that, let alone more of a cut? And I don't think th
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by webXL 16y ago
Feingold said corporations don't have a right to free speech, so I hardly think he should be supported by libertarians. And based on that lofty single-issue standard, have you refrained from supporting candidates who voted in opposition to
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by webXL 16y ago
No, libertarians understand the allocation of scarce resources. Politicians, on the other hand, act as if taxpayers have "virtually unlimited piles of money for which they can pay for basic services like clean water or a functioning local r
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by webXL 16y ago
"So government could simply say... That way there is no regulation" When the government says something, people, desks, computers, buildings, health plans, 401Ks, and occasionally arsenals, all need to be set up to prevent Joe Schmoe from sa

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