What is so wrong about letting people make their own choices? Why are people trying to demonize decisions as "arbitrary" and "random"?
I trust human discretion a thousand times over policy. Policy is just a coat of varnish people put over to make things look better. Are we to be slaves to appearances all the time?
Substitute UC Berkeley with the FOIA requests at the University of East Anglia and you will get my point. The UEA discovered temperatures were dropping thanks to tax payer funded research, but they refused to release the data/emails/etc.
A knee jerk reaction is better than analyzing things to death. At least that is supposedly true in test taking.
When you played Risk, did you notice your competitors following through on their international treaties?
Was Germany careful to obey international treaties when they invaded Russia? What about the Clinton-era treaty that North Korea would not develop nuclear weapons.
International treaties are just a lot of words. They don't mean anything.
I say: blast the outer space treaty to outer space. Then we can have cheaper materials from asteroids.
Dice.com got me my present job, and I like it. The spam has a lot of whoppers, but I can deal with it. A buddy of mine intended to return to EMC after he left.
As the US government sucks up tax dollars and gives them to wealthy PhD's in the beltway, it builds defense systems to protect itself and the government PhD's.
And so the Marxists perpetuate the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
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Note: the historical Coolidge was faithful to his wife and was widely reported to have a happy marriage.
That is pretty bleak ... if you believe only sex can make life worth living.
But as far as I'm concerned that is a deceived expectation to have of sex (and life).
Ah, I stand corrected. I guess the slant of the posts here (i.e. memes) are not as predictable as I thought.
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Apologies
What is so wrong about letting people make their own choices? Why are people trying to demonize decisions as "arbitrary" and "random"?
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I trust human discretion a thousand times over policy. Policy is just a coat of varnish people put over to make things look better. Are we to be slaves to appearances all the time?
I'm going back to reading my Kierkegaard now
Substitute UC Berkeley with the FOIA requests at the University of East Anglia and you will get my point. The UEA discovered temperatures were dropping thanks to tax payer funded research, but they refused to release the data/emails/etc.
A knee jerk reaction is better than analyzing things to death. At least that is supposedly true in test taking.
Global warming people will kill this.
Just like all the discredited neanderthal fossils.
Do you think he could make open the reason the State dept kept security levels in Benghazi lower than Paris after repeated requests?
"at least the good stuff"
In other words beef is not fungible. And that's a good thing.
What? We've shot down a lot of ICBMs. I think it's approaching like 50% or so from the Aegis's.
I guess I didn't get the memo that diplomats are supposed to get all the glory.
Instead of saying what the consensus should be, what don't you say what your opinion is.
You are effectively downplaying your opinion.
So wrong. China is trying to take over Taiwan, and the only reason they aren't is because Taiwan is under the US nuclear umbrella.
Nuclear weapons have vastly, vastly reduced battlefield deaths and casualties.
Keep MAD.
The story is that Microsoft broke the law, NOT that the EU has bad laws or that its economy is entirely based on mooching off the US.
Try to stay focused here, people.
Taiwan is also worse than NK.
There will always be poor people.
But isn't that why war is terrible? Why not make wars not terrible?
Their tech isn't behind. Their economies are.
... and why is it the US should be like other countries again?
When you played Risk, did you notice your competitors following through on their international treaties?
Was Germany careful to obey international treaties when they invaded Russia? What about the Clinton-era treaty that North Korea would not develop nuclear weapons.
International treaties are just a lot of words. They don't mean anything.
I say: blast the outer space treaty to outer space. Then we can have cheaper materials from asteroids.
"endangerment of a person's life"
People don't care about that in Europe unless you're in the political class.
Dice.com got me my present job, and I like it. The spam has a lot of whoppers, but I can deal with it. A buddy of mine intended to return to EMC after he left.
Taxpayers want it until they realize who is paying for it.
0.5% is too high.
This article says to me:
Science is built on speculation.
As the US government sucks up tax dollars and gives them to wealthy PhD's in the beltway, it builds defense systems to protect itself and the government PhD's.
And so the Marxists perpetuate the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
And yet car manufacturing in the South thrives without a bailout ...without safety nets ... without sparkly government magic.
The US state department should congratulate any party that makes US citizens safer.
Is it a double standard to forbid psychopaths to own guns and to encourage everyone else to have them?