fineman

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by fineman 11y ago
> How about a $10 light repair ... assuming you don't want a real electrician. Well damn right, if all I want is a bulb replaced I don't want some jerk insisting it takes a ticket to read the spec on the bulb. I want liability
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by fineman 11y ago
No, he won't be able to present evidence at any trial. It's much more than keeping some testimony sealed.
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by fineman 11y ago
Sorry, but "just cut our losses" isn't acceptable to me when people are being murdered. This is the Nazi murder of Jews/etc of our time and it's everyone's obligation to handle it better. Bush caused most of th
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by fineman 11y ago
But here you imply that anyone breaking a contact of adhesion is a bad person. I literally cannot rent a suite that doesn't forbid sub-letting, even though local law forbids forbidding of (reasonable) subletting. And if we then say, we
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by fineman 11y ago
Sure you can. It's a low bar. That's the point. In the absence of any possible evidence we have to work with what we've got. As for cryptic - if you can google it I don't consider it too cryptic. lmgtfy And I only mean u
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by fineman 11y ago
The issue though is that your money, car, etc, is gone instantly and you're on the side of the road hitch-hiking home. No hearing, no evidence even. The fact that a hearing is part of the process is largely irrelevant because other par
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by fineman 11y ago
Not actually. It merely requires a cop. And the state has been known to kidnap your children if you try to dispute the issue.
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by fineman 11y ago
Death cult?
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by fineman 11y ago
"They" are also as cohesive as Anonymous.
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by fineman 11y ago
An unjust attack on whose way of life? The girls being sold into slavery? The boys forced to fight or die? Those simply murdered? I'm pretty sure the other 99.9% are hostages, and not half as committed to the bullshit as you think, exc
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by fineman 11y ago
The details of n+k don't matter as much. It's not just the latest, it's the latest that self-claims to be in a certain lineage, etc. Ultimate Abrahamic religion... And it has to make a non-self conflicting claim to be the d
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by fineman 11y ago
Cutting and running does not work. We're still in Germany and Japan 70+ years later and we'll have to have that kind of roadmap if we plan to help in the middle east. And help we must. We can't sit back and watch madmen kill
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by fineman 11y ago
The only objective standard possible, the words of the religions themselves, combined into one greater piece of theology. Everything is assumed true unless it conflicts a greater set of doctrine. Thus we know mormon leadership speak ex-ca
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by fineman 11y ago
And actually that's Mormonism anyways. They were the last to be visited by god, and had the most-recent prophet, according to whom their mortal leaders speak ex-cathedra. Mormonism is even growing faster than Islam. It is the ultimate(
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by fineman 11y ago
It's only a small thing like someone firing a few rounds into a school but missing everyone is a small thing.
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by fineman 11y ago
Not really, because the proposals aren't to go to no encryption but to go to government-backdoored encryption. To an observer you've still just a random stream of bits until someone tries to decrypt it with the backdoor key. Prett
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by fineman 11y ago
The right answer? Kill Assad and help the people take back Syria. We should have done it three years ago before much of the moderate resistance was killed but it still needs doing. And as for your Israel jab, they're better to the Pale
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by fineman 11y ago
Yeah, it's still not the rape, enslavement, and murder of everyone who believes differently. Threatening to close your border to incoming foreigners is nothing like like closing your border, enslaving locals trying to flee you, and mur
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by fineman 11y ago
The best quote I heard about the refugees is "they're fleeing the same problems and people you're worried about". I really hope we can protect refugees better than we have been. The problem with religion is that it isn&#
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by fineman 11y ago
btw, I'm a supporter of unlimited (ie, not limited - I would try to encourage you to not need it though) welfare to let society say "tough" things such as "Oh well, I guess we don't need many buggy whips." And
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by fineman 11y ago
Fwiw, not trusting climate science is like not trusting geological sciences. But sure, if you don't trust someone from the 'warming' camp, get a 'status-quo' camp person to check their work. And as for numerologists
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by fineman 11y ago
It's more like morality is unchanged (Justify something other than: 'do unto others', without falling back on an obviously illogical subjective value system) but society's dirty excuses for immorality change.
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by fineman 11y ago
I truly hope so, that means Amazon ad-networks' ads are hurting Amazon. Internalizing the externality of spam and privacy violations. Haven't you ever wish for a 'Punch Advertiser' button during commercials? This would b
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by fineman 11y ago
I dislike the idea of government secrecy at all, but the scientists have a better case for keeping their emails secret than negotiators did to keep the TPP treaty details secret.
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by fineman 11y ago
"Work with experts" the way you already work with accountants, lawyers, etc. Hire two and have one check the other. And no, it's not unreasonable to expect a non-technical person to review the data or the methods either. Many
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by fineman 11y ago
Then get another job. We don't owe you your line of work. If you literally can't compete with volunteers maybe you should see what they says about your niche and then find a new one. Once when replacing a server (and fixing the wi
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by fineman 11y ago
The thing is, saying "X is inalienable" doesn't help anything either. In fact, I feel it hurts to think of it that way because rights only exist in such a way as we make them exist. Cold objective reality doesn't care, n
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by fineman 11y ago
In three more years it'd be appropriate for you to get your own apartment and a job. I'd certainly hope someone was capable of traveling by plane at 15. I think people are a little over-protective these days...
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by fineman 11y ago
The damage may be real, but "the problem of damage" is not. If my (theoretical) AirBnB guests damaged something I'm on the hook as if I damaged it myself. I don't get a free pass, so there's no externality. My strat
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by fineman 11y ago
Then you'd know it's not that the evidence presented at trial would remain sealed but that he wouldn't even be able to present it.

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