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drdirs commented 8 months ago

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TSA Sexually Assaults My Mother

5-28-11 at Sky Harbor International in Phoenix, AZ my mother was sexually assaulted which brought her to tears. Multiple TSA agents claimed to know...

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Protip: Decaf!

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  TSA Agent Pats-Down 8 Year Old Boy (That'll Harsh Your Disneyland Buzz!)

  April 13, 2011 KING 5 News

  http://MOXNews.com

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  @chilton1980 But then you would be detained. They will eventually let you go, but you'd still be looking at a $10,000 fine.

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  3D Video Capture with Kinect

  By combining the color and the depth image captured by the Microsoft Kinect, one can project the color image back out into space and create a "holo...

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  Now add a few more kinects at different angles.

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  Hand - Vagina

  http://webby.aol.com/media_...

  ^^ CH is nominated for a WEBBY AWARD! Best Comedy Website ^^

  If you liked t...

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  @MrBenlus Title contains the word "vagina"

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  George Carlin - Religion is bullshit [HQ DVD-Rip]

  From G. Carlin's show "You Are All Diseased [1999]"

  I was sick of the version in youtube - it was shitty quality so i've uplaoded better one.

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  @Radwin77 He's on a horse.

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drdirs commented 1 year ago

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Colbert's immigration testimony

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@Soupthemighty And no, contributing to nationwide decisions with a single vote is not the same as having a choice, although that is what you will typically hear from democratic socialists. And indeed you run into it many times a day here: "if you don't like the fact that you need a licence to own...

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  Colbert's immigration testimony

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  @Soupthemighty One reason I relate socialism to authoritarianism as I do is personal experience with socialists. There may be valid theories as to how socialism could function without coercion, but socialists tend not to know them. Rather, they arrive at this realisation that people need to have ...

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  Colbert's immigration testimony

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  @Soupthemighty I am not questioning that Denmark is a brilliant place to live. But that's besides the point. In part because there are other factors involved than taxes (such as the history of the country and of the economic region, the climate, and a good deal of random chance), but mostly becau...

• drdirs commented 1 year ago

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  Colbert's immigration testimony

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  @Soupthemighty The car tax isn't about climate change. As a Dane myself I can assure you that the overwhelming reason Danes don't own cars is because they can't afford them. Also remember that the 250% tax is reflected in the (mandatory) insurance premiums, and petrol is $7-8/gal.

  As for dental,...

• drdirs commented 1 year ago

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  Colbert's immigration testimony

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  @Soupthemighty The point isn't that I'm necessarily getting a bad deal. The point is the choice is made for me, by the state. It's a point that socialists (I think mostly deliberately) overlook to sell the idea of socialism to individualists. And it's disingenuous.

• drdirs commented 1 year ago

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  Colbert's immigration testimony

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  @Soupthemighty So for example, in Denmark, to buy a $5000 car I would need to earn about $45000 so I could pay the $27000 income tax, the $3500 sales tax and the $9500 car tax.

  That's about a 90% effective tax rate. Sure, cars are the extreme case, but don't tell me it's not a restriction on f...

• drdirs commented 1 year ago

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  Colbert's immigration testimony

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  @Soupthemighty As for the rights of Europeans, yes, a restriction on the freedom of ownership is a restriction on a freedom, that's really a no-brainer. But it's ESPECIALLY restrictive if the thing you are not allowed to own is a thing that represents physical power. And the underlying message is...

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drdirs commented 1 year ago

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Colbert's immigration testimony

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@Soupthemighty I'm not suggesting anything, which I think is where I differ from those great political theorists. ;) I don't propose to know what's right for everyone else.

What I do know is that you have a false dichotomy there. It's not "one system or anarchy". Why not multiple systems? Why no...

• drdirs commented 1 year ago

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  Colbert's immigration testimony

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  @kenwoo360 I think it's more that neither of the two obvious solutions is very attractive to a politician.

  Give illegal immigrants fair pay and working conditions -> expensive fruits & veggies.

  Deport them all and seal off the borders -> expensive (imported) fruits & veggies.

  BUT! Look the ...

• drdirs commented 1 year ago

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  Colbert's immigration testimony

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  @Soupthemighty Moreover, if you look at how socialism is actually implemented in the "more socialist" countries of Northern Europe, note how the discussion repeatedly turns into an evaluation of how individuals "contribute to society", and how even private behaviour is measured in terms of its "c...

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  @Soupthemighty How do you guarantee those rights when you've already established a framework that trivialises the act of taking money from individuals (because individuals can't be trusted to spend it responsibly)? Money is not just an expression of material luxuries. It represents time, energy a...

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  Colbert's immigration testimony

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  @Olson50 That's self-righteousness Scandinavian propaganda talking. Norway no doubt is the better place to live, but that is not because the US is "capitalism über alles". The US has a very large government apparatus which makes everything it can its business. It provides life support to failing ...

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  @KingAvarice1 This is an important issue that was not getting any media coverage. Colbert made the media coverage happen. So sadly, there is a need.

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  @Soupthemighty But even then, once you've established this large and powerful state, if you then want it run in a democratic way, you have to blindly assume that majority decisions are good. But remember GWB winning twice? Clearly Americans are not worthy of such an assumption.

  All socialists I ...

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drdirs commented 1 year ago

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Colbert's immigration testimony

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@Soupthemighty Another aspect of the problem was put best, I think, by Herbert:

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible."

In other words, who would want to hold power over ot...

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  @Soupthemighty Yeah, all the talking heads on Fox are tools. And I don't care about pure socialist or pure anarcho-capitalist "systems". Even using the word "system" betrays a collectivist mentality.

  What I care about are the moral principles that motivate politicians, and whether "individual" i...

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  @Soupthemighty I wonder when exactly we started producing people who value the efficient allocation of resources over liberty and justice. Trust me, though, the day the boot gets around to stomping on your face, or the face of someone you love, you'll regret ever wanting to become social property.

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  Occupied

  Dir: Christian Filek / Austria / 2008

  Travelling gives you plenty to talk about - but you better not!

  www.filiusfilm.com

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  @kigyurtpasi It's alright. Smoking kills your appetite.

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drdirs commented 1 year ago

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The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See Part 8 of 8

Arithmetic Population & Energy

By Dr. Albert A. Bartlett

Professor Emeritus

Department Of Physics

University of Colorado At Boulder

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@Laburnus Animals don't stop reproducing just because it's "futile", because it never is. Even when the environmental pressures are at their highest, 1 in a 100 surviving offspring is still an evolutionary edge over no offspring at all. Most animals die young, that's how nature keeps everything i...

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  The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See Part 8 of 8

  Arithmetic Population & Energy

  By Dr. Albert A. Bartlett

  Professor Emeritus

  Department Of Physics

  University of Colorado At Boulder

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  @Labernus Approaching this maximum capacity of the environment there is a gradual slowdown in net population growth, but that doesn't change what's happening: If the environment supports 10 million fish, then eventually there will be 10 million fish. But after that, every generation will have 990...

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  The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See Part 8 of 8

  Arithmetic Population & Energy

  By Dr. Albert A. Bartlett

  Professor Emeritus

  Department Of Physics

  University of Colorado At Boulder

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  @Laburnus I do look at nature. And nature is cruel. Almost any growth in a natural population (animals, bacteria, humans) follows the logistic curve. But you need to consider how population growth is limited by nature. It is not that animals stop reproducing, it's that mortality increases. Take s...

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  The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See Part 8 of 8

  Arithmetic Population & Energy

  By Dr. Albert A. Bartlett

  Professor Emeritus

  Department Of Physics

  University of Colorado At Boulder

  15,401 views

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  @Laburnus So he's absolutely right in that "we" fail to understand the problem. We THINK we can have perpetual (exponential) growth yet somehow avoid this brutal flattening of the curve. We imagine we can always grow more food, mine more coal, make more babies, and so on. But we'll hit the ceilin...

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  The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See Part 8 of 8

  Arithmetic Population & Energy

  By Dr. Albert A. Bartlett

  Professor Emeritus

  Department Of Physics

  University of Colorado At Boulder

  15,401 views

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  @Laburnus In any real-life situation exp growth always becomes logistic growth, as you say. But that's not a good thing. The curve flattens out ONLY when the death rate equals the birth rate. So which will it be? More death or less birth? It's possible to have neither, but in that case what you h...

• drdirs commented 1 year ago

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  The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See Part 8 of 8

  Arithmetic Population & Energy

  By Dr. Albert A. Bartlett

  Professor Emeritus

  Department Of Physics

  University of Colorado At Boulder

  15,401 views

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  @Laburnus The professor makes half an argument, true. Populations tend to follow logistic growth curves, which is exponential growth with a limiting factor. But, the only two possible limiting factors are premature death and a voluntary reduction in birth rates. Currently the former dominates, be...

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