Confidence in the American Dream has been withering for some time now. I doubt this one speech will have any impact on that trend one way or the other.
Yeah yeah, but it's an indication of the overall message of the past few administrations, and it builds up over time to do real damage.
It's been happening since the 70's, and the causes are bigger than just our government. See this speech by Jimmy Carter:
Well worth reading in its entirety. We (maybe) had a brief recovery in 80's under Reagan, but we've been slowly circling the drain ever since.
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That's what is disappointing about the speech. There is not much a speech can do, really. It's not legally binding, it doesn't change policy, or anything. But it DOES influence beliefs and influences the confidence in concepts like the American Dream, so there really is no reason to damage that confidence unless you deliberately intended to do so.
Confidence in the American Dream has been withering for some time now. I doubt this one speech will have any impact on that trend one way or the other.
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That's not even that bad of a quote. The worst is how he was using the Internet as an example of government making something useful, when privatization is what turned it from a fancy mail system between colleges to the most versatile and important tool in all of history. The Internet is the ultimate expression of the free market, and proves that it can work globally without government involvement. Even amidst all this controversy surrounding the potential censorship of the Internet by governments, he uses this example.
I think his point is that the the backbone of the internet was literally invented by the government. They provided the canvas that all those private interests who came later painted upon.
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And if Romney loses, he needs to have this carved on his f***ing gravestone, "Literally failed to beat Obama."
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Portland is a strong contender for most liberal city in the nation.
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I'll admit I'm a bit surprised to see you link it, though, as it mostly reads like an argument for some level of socialised medicine (although, granted, socialised medicine that comes at a lower cost than the current US system, which even a staunch libertarian might see as an improvement). But maybe you have a different take? I'm curious, if so.
The main reason I linked it was for the first part. The leftist media constantly tries to persuade the public that America under Republicans is some completely free and unregulated market, when nothing could be further from the truth. We're already a lot less free than many countries whom we view as "socialist" in comparison to us. Also, I just wanted to give Morgan some credit. He's not a liberty-movement guy by any stretch of the imagination, but he does an excellent job collecting the facts and presenting them in a clear way.
You have to admit, he makes a good argument for modeling ourselves after Canada/Europe!
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If you like CE so much why don't you just stay there?
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"Shampoo" is a code word for something else, isn't it?
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Once again, please explain to me why they can't find any Asparagus pickers in Washington State, given that unemployment is so high. By your reasoning, all of the unemployed are FORCED to take those jobs. And yet, they are not doing so.
This is a bit of a tangent, but didn't you mention that they are still only offering minimum wage for this job? If it's impossible for them to fill the positions, shouldn't the logic of the free market dictate that they need to increase their offer?
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He picked Joe Biden to be his Vice President…just to show that he doesn’t really need one.
Talk about a low blow.
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so those last two chapters were pretty much the best thing
Did they resolve the lingering doubts you were harboring?
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 21, section 1:
"Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives."
There may be countries where this right is not expressed through voting, but I very much doubt that you are from one of those countries.
Convicted felons in the United States are not allowed to vote. I'm not sure if there's some fine print in the UDHR that allows this, but regardless that is how things work here.
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SNES. The music is really important to this game. The translation is certainly not worse than the GBA, just different, and as a first time player you should barely even notice the bugs.
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BTW, a word to the wise: If someone writes a lot in their post, they probably aren't trolling.
Um, no. It just means that they are trying.
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Why are people assuming that this is only one hour a week? Cause most church services are longer than that; two hours would be more typical.
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The sound effects blew me away, and I'm a fan of minimalist dialogue. There was no dialogue in the first 20-25 minutes of 2001, and I thought that was just fine n dandy.
How did you like HAL?
In particular, this scene(not just the singing part, but the whole thing)?
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It's more likely we die due to a stray asteroid than anything else. Not a whole lot people know this but we just barely dodge one last month. And NASA only caught eye of it 4 days before. It was 10 times the size of Tunguska, which is this thing that annihilated an entire rainforest and left a crater that formed a river over 40 years. Had it hit it would've wiped out an entire country.
That article isn't making that out to be a country killer.
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We don't need a hyperdrive to reach the nearest systems. We could probably do it within a 100 years if we were able to maintain a 1960's Space Race level of focus on it the whole time.
I don't think you're fully aware of the distances involved here.
With today's space engines it would take ~80 000 years to reach the nearest star, Proxima centauri.
Using engines we've actually built before sure. But that's misleading because no one has attempted to actually build an interstellar ship yet. Theoretically, we already have the technology to build various nuclear designs that would be capable of accelerating a ship up to a substantial fraction of light speed. The main obstacle would be convincing humanity to sacrifice the enormous resources that would be required to build such a ship. Not to mention convincing them to allow huge quantities of nuclear fuel to be launched into space. But nonetheless these are obstacles that we could at least potentially overcome, unlike the prospect of waiting for hyperdrive which we are nowhere close to getting with current understanding.
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Citizen Kane is considered one of the greatest films in history. Like for sure in the top five. There is no undisputed #1, unless you are judging purely on technical innovation in which case yeah, Kane takes it.
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Pretty much this, except I think your timelines are a bit off. I'd be surprised if weren't venturing outside of our solar system in 1000 years.
We won't be going outside the solar system until we invent the hyperdrive.
And then nobody will volunteer to do it because everyone knows the hyperdrive always malfunctions at the worst possible moment.
I don't see it happening within 1000 years.
We don't need a hyperdrive to reach the nearest systems. We could probably do it within a 100 years if we were able to maintain a 1960's Space Race level of focus on it the whole time.
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If we haven't colonized other solar systems by that point, we're done.
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How common are protagonist deaths in big series? Snake survived four games. Chief is still alive even though his was originally planned as a trilogy too.
There's a fair number of people who are disappointed that Snake survived the ending to MGS4.
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An argument that they have to make changes to the gameplay in order to sell it is an argument that it should never be made in the first place. A FF VII remake with anything more than tweaks to the gameplay would be a bigger disaster than Duke Nukem Forever.
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and I'm all behind tiger using his fame to bone any chick at will for the record, if anything that made me respect him more...until he checked into rehab for 'sex addiction', seriously, WHAT THE **** IS THAT
You realize that he was married with children, right?
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Now, as to "Well what are they going to do about it?" that gets a bit trickier. A President can only be impeached for "high crimes or misdemeanors," and I'm not sure mere "dereliction of duty" or whatever you want to call it would qualify as that. PERHAPS the fact that he took an oath to uphold the constitution and faithfully execute the office of President, that he would clearly be violating, could be construed as some form of perjury?
Dereliction of duty is a serious charge when brought against a mere grunt in the military. Why would it be any less serious when brought against the Commander in Chief?
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I don't get how the budget was 70 million dollars.
A) Did they honestly think they could necessarily make that back? I mean, it could I suppose, but that's not the kind of budget you should be throwing around on a gimmick movie that has the potential to bomb.
B) Where did all that money go? The trailers I've seen make the movie look really cheap. Like a step above a Straight to DVD. Maybe it's just the lighting or something, but it looks far less professional than that budget implies.
$70 million is almost nothing these days if you're using any effects at all.
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Also, I've noticed recently how almost none of the left's attacks on Romney would work on RP. It's like the republicans are trying their hardest to lose.
I've been saying this for months <_<
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Considering it was directed by one of the people who directed one of the two good Alien movies, yes people had some hopes.
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This is almost like how you have to pay for cable TV and then they still have the nerve to show commercials.
Boycott cable.
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So what is the over/under on him appearing at New Year's Eve this year?
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SmartMuffin posted... Also, I wasn't able to fit this drive into the mounting area of my computer, so for about a year it's just been supported by the weight of the cables that are plugged into it
That probably didn't help.
I'm sorry about this, but seriously, LOL.
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Either way, things don't look particularly promising. This is basically my problem with science.
And the alternative is....what?
Philosophy? Are you really suggesting that we are not also hitting the realm of diminishing returns within that discipline?
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OlDirtyNumbers posted... lead is down to 10 points
is it now a literal ongoing manslaughter attempt?
Not even manslaughter. More like assault and battery.
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You can't be crowned King until you beat 1000 games. Getting close?
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UltimaterializerX posted... From: SmartMuffin | #025 This is totally false and you know it. Someone who's skin is brown and speaks spanish is considered by most people to be hispanic, latino, or just mexican literally 100% of the time. The Black Panthers calling for Zimmerman's murder are preaching about how Florida should be set on fire with all white people burning. Naturally the government wants to take advantage of this and incite race wars to make people forget about the recession and 4 dollar gas, so "White Hispanic" was coined as a new term that almost never existed until this story broke.
(I have no idea if Zimmerman can speak Spanish)
So Charles Manson wasn't crazy, he was just ahead of his time?
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Tell them you watch Judge Judy, Law and Order. and CSI religiously.
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Because I cant wear jeans to work and I don't want to change before I go.
Don't change. Just pull your jeans on over your shorts.
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Nightfall is an interesting twist on Dominion. It's a deck builder like Dominion but is focused on direct combat between players in a gothpunk setting.
Edit: And now I just realized there's no online play for Nightfall that I'm aware of :/
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I've gotten into the habit of checking my food before leaving
You should always do this when getting fast food. No exceptions.
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Mer_Mer_Yes_Mer posted... From: TheRock1525 | #007 This coming from a man who has a rattail. my rat tail kicks ass.
fedoras do not.
This completely invalidates every opinion you have ever had or ever will have on anything.
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CalvinbalI posted... Um, that is Windows 7's fault for allowing the exit button functionality to be overwritten by a developer.
I'm still using XP(master race) and all those programs do that here too. So it's just a general Microsoft issue.
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