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by miked 8y ago
You've missed my point entirely. The OP is playing a game by defining arts (clown mask on) to be all of the entertainment industry (and citing that size in the headline) while supporting an argument for (clown mask off now) the NEA, wh
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by miked 8y ago
The US has 338M people and they are claiming $763B PER YEAR for art. That's $2257 PER YEAR for every man, woman, and newborn infant in America. Total BS. Even if you include music and movies and TV, this is still way too high. It'
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by miked 9y ago
Of particular concern to some was the use of Palantir as a tool that could aid investigators both in connecting suspected gang members to others in the community, and in identifying people deemed at high risk of either committing gun viole
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by miked 11y ago
Australians and Brazilians: your bits are upside down. Try flipping them over and then running the tests again.
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by miked 11y ago
Thank you so much for reminding me of his writing. I fell in love with a Greek woman on Crete many years ago. It was one of the most painful times of my life when I realized that I could not stay there with her, or she with me. Cavafy'
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by miked 11y ago
> be the singing-masters of my soul Those have to be seven of the most powerful words ever written in any language.
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by miked 12y ago
Reading this, I couldn't help thinking of an observation P.J. O'Rourke made after visiting the DDR ("East Germany"): "It takes a special kind of economic system to turn a nation full of Germans into a third-world co
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by miked 12y ago
> Alito concurring...That's very interesting language coming from conservative Chief Justice Roberts. Your implication seems to be that conservatives are the ones pushing weak privacy laws. I'll grant that many conservatives ha
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by miked 12y ago
> Rest in peace. I, on the other hand, hope that the three men that Marquez's close friend Castro had executed for trying to get to the US on a boat will rest in peace. Not to mention all the dissidents who died in his prisons. Marq
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by miked 13y ago
>> ideas like this are incredibly common in not-so-rural places like in the US. I've never heard of this happening in the US at all, never mind being "incredibly common". Evidence?
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by miked 13y ago
Heidegger ... was member of the Nazi party throughout the war, in good standing at the beginning and bad standing at the end, but he never rebelled or retracted publicly -- complicated person. He was not just another member of the Nationa
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by miked 13y ago
>> Unfortunately, in the day of Fox News, being an informed populace is even becoming difficult. Equality doesn't just mean that everybody has the same wealth, regardless of how hard they work. This is superficial. It means everyone
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by miked 14y ago
I'll have to stop by and say hello. I believe the correct expression is "grab coffee".
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by miked 14y ago
From 2009-2012, these tax receipts were around 15% of GDP. Total US government receipts in 2013 are projected to be $5.56 trillion. US GDP for the same period is projected at $16.3 trillion. State and local governments consume about 17% o
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by miked 14y ago
Three glowing mentions of Obama in the first four paragraphs, plus one more further down, in an article about 3D printers. Oh, praise his name!
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by miked 14y ago
Ummm, what irony? 1) The article doesn't say that Thomas used the word. 2) The word is hardly a "ten-dollar" word, since many foreign imports are standard usage ("gung-ho" is Cantonese). 3) Finally, I would expect that he would indeed use
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by miked 14y ago
>> It feels as if western state-assisted assassinations of civilians are becoming a more frequently documented reality And when were they documented the first time? It's much more plausible to believe that you are paid by the Chines
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by miked 14y ago
>> Sounds like a classic case of corporate murder. No, it sounds like a case of Chinese government murder, something they have plenty of experience with. They must have known that there was a good chance that he would talk to the US
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by miked 14y ago
So, Facebook invites Obama to their HQ to give a "townhall", then many of their execs contribute heavily to his campaign, and then Solyndra, er, Facebook gets a massive tax break. This is one of the many reasons why I, too, have made Obama
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by miked 14y ago
I hardly think you will find MSNBC by poking... NYT reporters or Christian Science Monitor reporters (not to mention al-Jazeera, BBC, RT, etc.) I assume this is a joke, particularly the NYT. And I'm not seeing ABC, CBS, NBC (owned by GE,
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by miked 14y ago
And they DO have to... if not, then the press coverage will increase until reporters demand an answer on their own. No, the media coverage will the same as it has always been since Obama announced his candidacy: fawning adoration, mixed w
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by miked 14y ago
Picking Rand at her youthful (23 y.o.) worst seems hardly fair. The young Rand was very much under the influence of (what she took to be) Nietzsche's thought. (Much of Rand at the beginning and end of her life was Rand not at her best, the
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by miked 14y ago
to see Obama's face on Time (or was it Newweek?) That's what I love about living in America rather than North Korea: we don't have a news media working in lockstep to proclaim the greatness of the Dear Leader.
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by miked 14y ago
North Korea is not communist it is Juche. No, it's communist. It's just called Juche. Note that nothing about how things are actually done in NK changed when they changed their constitution. Note also that constitutions are essentiall
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by miked 14y ago
This is the same hyperpartisan Senator who was at the forefront of the effort to deny habeas rights to Guantanamo inmates. The Entitled Party had complete control of the House and a 60 senator supermajority in the Senate for the first yea
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by miked 14y ago
California's government is nonfunctional and almost bankrupt right now because California is a One-Party State, and that party likes to buy itself votes with other people's money and then get people like you to blame everything wrong on som
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by miked 14y ago
Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing either. A lot of people refuse to try something because they feel they don't know enough about it or they assume other people must have already tried everything they could have thought of.
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by miked 14y ago
As for Mao's great medical advances, I've actually been in a number of medical facilities in China. My wife survived and later became a physician at the second best hospital in Beijing (and presumably one of the best in the country). This w
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by miked 14y ago
Yes, he means the guy who starved 39 million people to death during his reign of terror. Yes, he means the guy who made my wife spend three years of her childhood in constant hunger. Yes, the guy who sent my father in law to a labor camp fo
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by miked 14y ago
>> Rather than jumping on the low-carb bandwagon before his ideas are properly tested, the precautionary principle suggests that it might be more reasonable to follow a moderate diet like the Mediterranean diet (or to follow Michae

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