gottasayit

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by gottasayit 12y ago
Please. Look at what's happening in the Ukraine. Can you see the US invading Mexico or Canada and keeping the territory because our President was a megalomaniac? Even when we do invade somewhere to take out someone like UBL, Saddam H
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by gottasayit 12y ago
Of course Clapper isn't going to be punished. Holder was held in contempt of Congress for stonewalling on Fast and Furious, but since pursuit of his punishment would require action from an Obama political appointee, nothing will happe
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by gottasayit 12y ago
Please drop the stereotype of the social sciences. Did you read the article? These researchers were legitimately frightened at how their work would be received and in my opinion it's only heretical in a minor way... AND THEY'RE
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by gottasayit 12y ago
Only if you consider American to describe a particular set of genetics does this question even make sense. It's not about having the exact same genetics. For example, it might be about sets of genes or functionally equivalent sets of
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by gottasayit 12y ago
And BAM, there goes the moderation hammer for uncomfortable thoughts. If we were talking about whether flaws in a computer system were because of the data fed in, the software running it, the hardware, or impurities in the silicon -- we&#x2
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by gottasayit 12y ago
Henrich’s work with the ultimatum game was an example of a small but growing countertrend in the social sciences, one in which researchers look straight at the question of how deeply culture shapes human cognition. It's so sad that a
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by gottasayit 13y ago
Meh, and you'd think that a singer as popular as Justin Bieber actually produced good music. Bitcooin like any tool from the invention of fire Well, yeah... Mr. Stross doesn't trust people to make their own decisions about using
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by gottasayit 13y ago
Meh, I have never owned a bitcoin. Never mined one. Don't intend to do so soon. I'm pretty ambivalent about bitcoins. I view them as something people want to trade with each other. They're an interesting experiment in new
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by gottasayit 13y ago
TL:DR; Big government socialist type doesn't like financial decentralization and a monetary system that can't be strictly controlled. Wants it to die quickly because ultimately free people might decide that it's worth keepin
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by gottasayit 13y ago
I really like this author's writing style. The prose flows and is fairly tight yet colorful. That said, his angst seems to be misplaced. When younger, he seized upon Sagan's rules as though they were The Way(tm)... and now he's disillusion
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by gottasayit 13y ago
The OWS Manifesto completely contradicts your contention. http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/2012/05/may-12th-globalmay-...