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by falk 13y ago
I will always remember watching the first moon landing on TV as a young boy. Very special.
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by falk 13y ago
Yes, but you claimed that it was easy to shut down crappy charter schools. My point is it's not when they lie and they will lie to make money.
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by falk 13y ago
Finland has the best school system in the world and they aren't driven by the free market.
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by falk 13y ago
Are you claiming that teacher's don't have copays? Because that's patently false. How about before Obamacare when you could be kicked off your insurance roles for having a "pre-existing" condition and then you could
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by falk 13y ago
Your argument is borderline dishonest. Teachers in Finland don't have to worry about a lot of things U.S. teachers do because they're taken care of by the government via taxes, which results in said utilities and services being ch
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by falk 13y ago
Unless they cook the books. Which happens.
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by falk 13y ago
It's worth pointing out that the author of that New York Times article, Mike Soraghan, has in his Twitter bio "Frac(k)ing is my life" and that he links to the same articles you linked to. https://twitter.com/M
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by falk 13y ago
There's obviously something nefarious going on. Why else would all of these natural gas companies be paying people off and making them sign confidentially agreements? Side-note: Before today I didn't realize how lax the laws on na
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by falk 13y ago
Read these for more information on the six months rule. It's rather ridiculous and I didn't believe it when I first heard about it. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/ecpa-turns-twenty-f... h
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by falk 13y ago
Bullshit. Their political leanings that stem from their religion. You could say the same thing about Islamic terrorists.
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by falk 13y ago
Funny enough, they actually edited that article. I believe the quote was originally something along the administration losing all credibility without the specification on the issues of transparency and accountability. http://gawk
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by falk 13y ago
I hate Intuit. They have a huge lobbying arm and are viciously against making taxes easier to file. For more information see: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/04/auto...
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IBM and the Holocaust(en.wikipedia.org)
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by falk 13y ago
Most countries don't have a 21+ year old age limit on alcohol. It's actually a rather poor idea and harms 18/19/20 year olds who attend college and get busted drinking. It's pretty silly to draw parallels between po
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by falk 13y ago
You need to be a responsible adult and talk to your children about pornography. If you don't trust them then you need to install a porn filter. But if you don't trust your kids, you're going to have a lot of bigger problems t
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by falk 13y ago
It's been reported that Dropbox is "coming soon" to PRISM. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/06/prism-comp...
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by falk 13y ago
This doesn't negate the fact that Toms makes a shitty product that fall apart easily, especially in the 3rd world. Have they never offered free shoes we wouldn't be talking about them. They make it seem like they are giving away a
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The NSA Is Searching 'Vast Amounts' Of Americans' Emails(npr.org)
3 points by falk 13y ago|0 comments
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by falk 13y ago
It seems like a lot of people in the tech industry are smitten with the the corporate leadership of popular companies like Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, etc. These people may have created great products and companies but people need to r
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by falk 13y ago
Wikileaks really should have slowly leaked out information like the Guardian has with the Snowden documents. Even today people haven't absorbed the important information that Manning shined a light on. For example, from the Manning lea
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by falk 13y ago
Wikileaks exposed that the U.S. was bombing Yemen in secret. http://www.salon.com/2010/11/29/wikileaks_yemen_revelations/
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Why a former NSA chief just made a big mistake by dissing hackers(washingtonpost.com)
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by falk 13y ago
Brainwashed is the right word. Have you seen any of thr old drug propaganda videos? Check them out on YouTue. Also look up and watch Referrer Madness. In D.A.R.E my brothers kid learned that LSD stays in your system forever and drips acid d
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by falk 13y ago
"If a system requires nearly the entire populace to be as active (intellectually and financially) as every individual vested interest just to be successful, then it is a bad system." We can't even get half of the country to m
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by falk 13y ago
The federal government is going to step in and start confiscating grow-ops in Colorado and Washington State. They will bust people doors down and most likely injure or kill a few. It's going to happen. The powers at the federal level a
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by falk 13y ago
I wouldn't blame just Republicans for drugs not being legal and the DEA being intact. Democrats get campaign contributions from police unions, private prisons, alcohol companies, pharmaceutical companies, and prison guard unions too. T
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by falk 13y ago
How are they supposed to know if parallel construction was used in their case or not?
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by falk 13y ago
Drop the exclamation point. It's cleaner.
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by falk 13y ago
I hope they are more ethical than Yelp.
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by falk 13y ago
""Privatization" where the government contracts to third parties, is not privatization." Yes it is. The definition of privatization is simply "denationalization: changing something from state to private ownership or

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