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His personal convictions are entirely pointless if he's not gonna act on them

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From: red sox 777 | #400

you don't see federal police coming in to shut down the ("medical") marijuana dispensaries

I thought this has happened at least once, but I don't really follow that stuff closely so I dunno. And I think there are plenty of people in federal prisons for marijuana use/possesion.

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'To be foolmo'd is to be better opinion'd.' - Blairville

http://thetippingpoint.bangordailynews.com/2012/08/10/state-politics/lepage-rnc-conflict/

Pretty legit guy. Maybe he realizes that all of Maine's political positions have been taken over by RP supporters, so it's just good politics to support them.

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From: TomNook7 | #387

proud to be a virginian on this day

What happen?

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'now dey gotta surfer' - Andrealee Crespo (http://soundcloud.com/deygottasurferautotune)

British authorities have also perched surface-to-air missiles on rooftops of private apartment buildings

why


seriously... what?

is this a part of some new Olympic sport where jet pilots have to dodge as many missiles as their can or something?

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'I mean, what does electricity have to do with math besides calculators?' - ZeldaFreak29

Yep it was just the two head to head

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'Most people at least try to say something funny. See foolmo's post as an example.' - The Real Truth

Also I just learned that VA has a majority of delegates (25/49) for RP hell yeah.

Even though it's by the slimmest of margins, it's still impressive because we have arguably the highest concentration of Romney supporters in the nation. We have all the politicians and kiss-asses and bankers who work in DC and live in northern VA, and we have vast stretches of redneck territory that will blindly vote republican every time. We have a bunch of universities, though, which is probably why Obama won before and why RP is doing well now.

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From: SmartMuffin | #377

Yeah, one thinks that the top 5% should pay 35% in taxes, and the other thinks the top 5% should pay 40% in taxes. OH MY GOD COMPROMISE IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH SUCH OPPOSED IDEOLOGIES

Uh, no, get your facts straight. Romney wants taxes to be 30% not 35%. Now that's what I call diametrically opposed.

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'Most people at least try to say something funny. See foolmo's post as an example.' - The Real Truth

Yeah dammit washington post.

There may be no free lunch but whatever happened to "a bunch of ads with complimentary lunch"

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From: SmartMuffin | #368

Adblock happened.

Bleh, I didn't think adblock was mainstream enough yet that it mattered for stuff like this


Interesting stuff about democracy and compromise. It's weird because we are always taught that democracy and compromise are the holy grail of modern societies, when really the unique and special thing about the US was that it's a republic. Most people don't even know there is a difference. Though the Bill of RIghts is an example of one of the best compromises in history, so I guess people think all compromise is like that.

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'and out of the blue and completely unprovoked came foolmo and his insult' - Anagram

love that british humor

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From: JDTAY | #334

In the meantime, the internet has started a Harry Reid pederasty rumor and are demanding that he address these allegations.

Really? Kinda random but funny

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From: red sox 777 | #298

Regulators are inefficient not because they work for government, but because they regulate.

Disagree.

Government is an inefficient regulator because it has no incentive to be efficient. Private groups are often regulators (private security at a club, referees at a sports match, a ski instructor or something) but they have an incentive to work well and improve.

Though any form of regulator introduces the possibility of corruption (referees are a good example).

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From: red sox 777 | #328

Doesn't sound like college dorms to me.........the only thing in common that I can see is the providing shelter part. But you pay with money, not with loss of freedom.

It's called a joke. But I guess this topic is 2 SRS at the moment.

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From: SmartMuffin | #325

"Come here, submit to our authority, live under armed guards, have little freedom, work all day giving us a large percentage of the money, and we will offer you the food, clothing, and shelter that nobody else will currently willingly provide you."

sounds like college dorms

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'To be foolmo'd is to be better opinion'd.' - Blairville

From: SmartMuffin | #275

http://reason.com//archives/2012/07/30/why-elizabeth-warren-wants-america-to-be

This woman is a communist, a liar, a racist, and an idiot. And soon, a senator.

As far as liberals go, she's not that bad. She is anti-establishment at her core, she just has a really misguided view of reality. But it's a lot easier to change her views with logic and facts than it would be to change her core ideals, so I would prefer her to a typical establishment cronie.

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I like how all these mayors said stuff like "Chik Fil A shouldn't bother trying to come to my city" and then when the news pressed them on the free speech issue they all took it back and said "oh of course we wouldn't stop them from putting a store here, we were just saying"

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'Oh please, if foolmo made that analogy you'd think it was picture perfect' - Biolizard28

Oh so apparently the NY Times reported that it was part of a US operation called Olympic Games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Olympic_Games

That Flame virus sounds pretty crazy, too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_(malware)

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'Most people at least try to say something funny. See foolmo's post as an example.' - The Real Truth

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/us/cyberattacks-are-up-national-security-chief-says.html?_r=1

He confirmed that under existing authorities, only the president had the power to authorize an American-directed cyberattack. The first such attacks occurred under President George W. Bush.

The Pentagon has said previously that if the United States retaliated for an attack on its soil, the response could come in the form of a countercyberattack, or a traditional military response.

Is there still any doubt that the US orchestrated Stuxnet?

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From: SmartMuffin | #258

2. The government is lying about the potential consequences of the attacks. They're exaggerating how easy it would be to dramatically collapse important institutions via computers.

This, easily

The problem with a cyber attack is that it has to be stealthy, but it also has to be effective in terms of destroying things. That kind of creates a paradox for the virus, because if you're destroying things, you're not exactly stealthy. The faster you spread the virus, the more detectable it becomes as well, because there are ALWAYS side-effects and there are several corporations in the world dedicated to finding every virus.

So the solution is to just do things really slowly. That's what the Olympic Games viruses did. They are arguably the most complex viruses ever made, with the entirety of US intelligence behind the engineering, and they still took years 1-2 years to affect a very specific target (nuclear plant centrifuges for Stuxnet, and oil refinery computers for Flame).

The bottom line is that it's definitely possible that there are tons of attacks, but they either get detected too early, or are harmless or not effective.

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'and out of the blue and completely unprovoked came foolmo and his insult' - Anagram

He's going for the white trash vote

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'You are obviously intelligent and insightful' - Sir Chris about me

Yeah, the founders of the Internet are some of the most libertarian, free-market advocates that you can find in the world... which is why they created the Internet. Really bad example from Obama there.

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Yeah I would say the federal anti-piracy regulations are the most common interactions with the feds

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