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i wouldn't call any of what we have today "journalism"

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No, it's more as if you assumed everyone knew the entirety of what the graph represented given your vague description. Anyway, I've had enough of unwarranted condescension. I guess somebody had to take over Teflor's job since he isn't an ass anymore. Wear the crown proudly, but you're going to have...

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the book is in the public domain. you could replace the word with 'lollipop' and do a print run if you wanted. this guy just planned on maybe 5000 books sold to a few schools who otherwise wouldn't have allowed the book. national media turned it into some crazy quest to puritanize the world. poor guy

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agreed corth

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it's as if i trusted the economists to actually know economics and therefore trusted that the graph was an accurate representation of truth without having to click-click-click to read up on all the detailed theory behind it. damn me and my naïveté :(

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i failed religion class twice in high school (private school) because i didn't believe that god really required me to do community service to prove myself to him and no one could explain to me why it was exactly 30 hours that god wanted

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what?

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switzerland does it. an assault rifle and ammo in every home after mandatory military service (males 20 to 30)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politi ... ssued_arms

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Raw dollar figures, when speaking in terms of money and buying power, are about as useful as a toothpick in a sword fight. So, while your graph is lovely and it has pretty lines, and I'm sure some genius of an economist (and I use the term genius lightly) made it, it doesn't nearly apply to the con...

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you're right, economists are retarded, man i can't believe i thought they knew what was going on

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this graph shows world income inequality. the lines are "within-country" wealth, poorest on the left, richest on the right, and with up-down being amount of wealth. you'll note that the poorest 5% of americans are richer than the richest 5% of indians. and yet we feel like a poor nation in...

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Ragorn wrote:Please stop shouting! I didn't mean to enrage you! Please put your firearm down and don't hurt my family!

i can't stop laughing after i read this

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wood elves

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Are you bald if you shave all your hair off then put on a wig? This is getting buddhist...

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"bankruptcy" for the US = economic armageddon. you really shouldn't mind if the choice to do so is taken away by law

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if republicans act like liberals, and liberals act like socialists, what's the most comfortable type of shoe to wear while standing all day?

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kiryan wrote:You are flipping crazy if you think that a conservative finds mein kampf one of their favorite books.

i said flipping crazy ppl find mein kampf one of their favorite books. it is both NOT a liberal book and NOT a conservative book. as i keep trying to say THERE ARE MORE THAN TWO SIDES

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congress has way more power than the president when it comes to spending and size of govt

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"We are on Sarah Palin's targeted list. The way that she has it depicted has the crosshairs of the gunsight over our district. When people do that, they have got to realize there are consequences to that action." ~Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, March 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7046bo92...

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"Nazism (Nationalsozialismus, National Socialism; alternatively spelled Naziism[1]) was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] It was a unique variety of fascism that involved biological racism and antisemitism.[10] Nazism presented itself as po...

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The public option was dropped so it's health insurance lobby care. And I thought lots of what made it into the final bill was stuff republicans had in their plans for years until the democrats started agreeing?

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I thought nazis followed fascism? They were as left as the democratic republic of the congo is a democratic republic...

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democrats have proven for the last two decades that they're incapable of rallying together. i'm surprised you think the Republicans are so weak as to not be able to pull of something like blocking legislation even with a strict minority

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i think their morals need updating, and that ours are better (NOT a moral relativist). see what i mean about nuance? when we get down to core statements, it's easy to agree on some things. i think you'd also agree we're not perfect, and could do with some improving ourselves. not as much as them, of...

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i don't think mein kampf is a lefty book, tho he lists it as one of his favorites. the guy was schitzoid, and labeling him left or right just doesn't work, except to show which "side" you're "fighting"

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i was sarcastically commenting on the poor state of journalism. and your comments come across as "if you're not with us, you're with the terrorists" note: more than one set of people can be wrong at the same time. you're wrong for fearing ALL muslims, and muslim extremists are wrong for be...

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The basic difference - In Pakistan, a politican is murdered and a substantial percentage of the people (if not a majority) publically celebrate. In the US, a politician is murdered and anyone who hypothetically supports such a thing is keeping quiet about it. Granted I'm sure if you look hard enoug...

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actually Ragorn, Eastern buddhism is some pretty messed up crap compared to the watered down, vague, generalized Western buddhism, and nonviolence only works if nobody wants to hurt you. force is the ultimate arbiter

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but that's in the past. and the past can't affect the present because it's in the past lol

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not publicly anyway.

i think the main difference is media savvy

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chrome rocks. very fast, minimalist, bookmark and extension syncing across computers note i'm biased: i got one of the prototype chrome netbooks... i don't much mind their tracking. a word on that tho. any browser that 'helps' you with your searches (you start typing, and they give probable endings ...

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"Dan Lohwasser, a reporter for United Press International, was one of the observers who witnessed Gray's execution. Lohwasser's account of Gray's death sparked a controversy, because of its graphic nature. At the time of Gray's execution, the gas chamber used in Mississippi had a vertical iron ...

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i agree with teflor (sort of). he's certainly attacking the weakest point of climate change (what to do about it). tho his 'step 1' is already pretty complete, and the models get better every year, there's still too much uncertainty about how to fix it (politically, economically, socially, environme...

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don't see why there can't be a middle ground, like every country currently existing

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it's almost as if 300,000 ppl are more important than 1 person

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are employers really so stupid as to sign a legally binding agreement that says 'i can't fire you'?

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you want to take away ppl's freedom of association? their liberty to form groups in an attempt to achieve common goals?

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lol bubble boy was such a horrible movie

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http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/1 ... han-flying

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kiryan wrote: How about 2 gay men kissing in public, can that be a quality of life issue too?

don't worry, i'm sure several have been beaten to death for it

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i wanted to make a map of the US showing percentage-based voting, shades of blue/red/purple, since everyone is so divisive about it despite the country being very similar in many ways (i dislike all politicians). but someone else went and did it for me. this shows 2008 election at the county level w...

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you're right. and the richter scale is logarithmic, which makes another big difference. ground-level detonation chart shows 6.3 would be between 15 and 84 kilotons (korea did at least a 1 megaton in their test)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_ma ... magnitudes

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agreed. the founders never envisioned a congressperson having more than tens of thousands of constituents, and one of the bill of rights that was dropped before final approval actually limited that number. "Article I – Apportionment. After the enumeration required by the first article of the Co...

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the deepest mine on earth is 2.4 miles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TauTona_Mine

the largest nuke ever detonated, at 50 megatons, was 7.1 on the Richter scale

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

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from another set of comments on this topic: "From my friend, an HIV researcher: Me: So is this genuine progress or breathless "science" journalism? Him: A little of both to be honest. They basically replaced the man's entire bone stem cell population with a donor's to "cure"...

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they're starting to think that screening for cancers (what we're really good at) is actually more harmful than helpful using the standard methods. too many false positives, too many radiation doses that could have been avoided, etc. that kind of stuff isn't measured alongside 'cancer screening succe...

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i think the argument is pretty silly. are we all exactly the same? no. are we all completely and totally different? no. 99.9% genetic similarity, all born on the same planet, all DNA/RNA/carbon based life, vast majority with brain structures that allow breathing, learning, etc. yes, some ppl are bor...

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like that one time we started that war

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becoming? starting? you guys have watched politics forever. you should know by now that democrats are incapable of forming a cohesive voting bloc. republicans have the discipline and the drive, all the way. tho i'm not sure why you're so happy they can't even pass the govt budget. mismanagement of t...

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