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Assange Statement on the First Day of Manning Trial(2013)(wikileaks.org)
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There are no genetic markers that taken together say "this person is black" or "this person is white". Actually, there very much are. I think what you're trying to say is that not all black people have all the &
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The idea that we will soon control everything seems akin to other inaccurate prognostications. The combinatoric explosion of interactions between new "control technologies" alone will introduce many new, unforeseen variables. The
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by cb18 10y ago
Skin color is a relatively minor component of race, race describes the clustering of a whole host of traits and characteristics in a group of individuals. Yellow-skinned Africans would still be Africans, purple-skinned Asians would still be
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by cb18 10y ago
I'd probably edit my children to be darker. Having spent a few days on the beach in Thailand, the genetic inferiority of my own fair skin is quite visible and painful. Is this like reductio ad absurdum of PC signalling? Where do you
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by cb18 10y ago
I suspect he's saying that his daily payment on his house is roughly on par, or less than the daily rate of a high priced hostel. You could have figured that out yourself without the attitude, right?
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What is the relevance of the image at the top here of a sub-Saharan African to an article about an ancient European philosophy. An ancient European philosophy we know of today thanks to written language and a European civilization that deve
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by cb18 10y ago
> US is killing everyone How?
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by cb18 10y ago
unfortunately, that would cause a LOT of pain for good everyday people Consider that it is the crooked system that has led you to believe that. See this, newly released, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY sh
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Because the WSJ wants Google to index their articles, but Google will penalize sites that show different content to a regular user vs a crawler. Or something like that.
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Thanks for providing that. Thomson grants for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life Thomson says, abortion does not violate the fetus's legitimate rights, but merely deprives the fetus of something—the use of the p
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But if you're solving/addressing a problem efficiently, you should work out a solution where the event space can be mapped such that events classed 'typical' should far outnumber events classed 'edge.' Yes it&#
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No not really. Going back millennia, there has always been an elite within a society. The difference that is recent to emerge is that there is a growing disconnect between the interests of the elite and the societies to which they supposedl
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And another example of how wrong you are about rising tensions in the US, how many times in recent years have we seen some huge clusterf*ck about a supposed murder in cold blood that turns out to be perfectly justifiable? (Where is any cove
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It is a well documented strategy for left-leaning politicians to import voters through unchecked immigration in an attempt to create an unassailable electoral base. In this case, the politicians who "sow hatred, insecurity, fear and di
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And I found Charles Murray's recent explication of the topic rather compelling. http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-guaranteed-income-for-every-am...
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by cb18 10y ago
Doesn't all this seem somewhat backward. There's this victimization mentality that acts like poverty is this absolute thing that is meted out like a cursed rock, outside the control and agency of whom it's been placed upon. W
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"Living" is one of those things that is hard to pin down an exact definition for because there are so many edge cases. Is life on earth everything that processes sunlight, directly or indirectly? Well solar panels do and microbes
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by cb18 10y ago
most of those deaths come from inexperienced riders Similar things can be said for driving, in that motor vehicle accidents are concentrated in certain segments of the population, (and people having unlucky interactions with those segmen
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by cb18 10y ago
Just get some smooth tread tires that will be better for pavement travel. 2.2 miles takes about 40 minutes to walk. On a bike and mostly flat terrain, 10-15 minutes max. Unless the commute is a steeply graded 2.2 mile slope the motor seems
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by cb18 10y ago
cool, thanks!
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by cb18 10y ago
I was curious about the variance in the design you mentioned, reading the comment again, I got more of what you meant. So this is something unique to all Japanese bikes and has been something of a mainstay? At first read through, I mistaken
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by cb18 10y ago
look into what I meant by Japanese bikes. Do you have any links or more specific search terms?
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by cb18 10y ago
I'm not an expert on Canada, I know there was a little bit of tension between the Quebecois and the rest. because we don't share a well-defined genetic heritage This is not true. The genetic heritage of both Canada and the USA i
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by cb18 10y ago
It's really a shame that it has become so difficult to be have important conversations because people have become so trained to insult people they perceive as uncouth, all the while ignoring all the important substantive matters raised
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Germany and Austria are similar genetically, but native North Germans are more similar genetically to the Dutch, Danish, and Swedish. Differences among all those groups can be teased out when comparing them among themselves, but when comp
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And I don't see anything negative in that Of course there's nothing wrong with that. What I found strange was that you thought he would want to identify with a neighboring political entity(Austria) instead of just as Germanic-E
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The native populations of Germany and Austria are the same genetically, and assuming Ashkenazi, then also pretty similar. So why would you like your son to see himself as "Austrian" and "Israeli" just because his parents
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The genetic distance between a German and an African is many, many multiples of the genetic distance between a German and a Pole.
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by cb18 10y ago
If an Icelandic couple moves to Africa, learns a Bantu language, and has a child who then also learns the language, is the child then a Bantu? You can be non-Caucasian and still be German. A country is the spirit and character of a people

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