stainednapkin

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by stainednapkin 12y ago
If you consider the concept of abstraction, it seems inevitable that people eventually stop caring much about how or why the black box works. Then consider how many layers of abstraction have been agglutinated over the years. It makes sense
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by stainednapkin 12y ago
Nope. These are rights granted by the Constitution. The difficulty would be in getting people to care.
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by stainednapkin 12y ago
Then you're a fool. Stop trying to foist your lack of critical thought on others.
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by stainednapkin 12y ago
You are wrong. As citizens we can grant and revoke government powers at will. Cutting off or significantly curtailing their revenue would have a similar effect. EDIT: There would need to be a concomitant cultural change as well. As it stand
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by stainednapkin 12y ago
Great. This is how a deluded statist stooge thinks after 40 years of indoctrination. EDIT: Why was this even posted? Useless garbage.
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by stainednapkin 12y ago
I think it's a phenomenon worth examining. There isn't a simple answer. Part of it must be changes in American culture. What those changes are is debatable.
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by stainednapkin 12y ago
Yes, "good" can mean many things depending on what the person saying it believes.
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by stainednapkin 12y ago
Let's see if this mistake happens again.
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by stainednapkin 12y ago
They have plenty of patience if you have enough money.
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by stainednapkin 12y ago
Is this criticism facile? In what ways is it false? http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Gates_Foundation_Critiq...
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by stainednapkin 12y ago
GF doesn't care. Their main goal is to ensure the endowment performs as expected.
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by stainednapkin 12y ago
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/doyle/gallery/minsky...
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by stainednapkin 12y ago
W/r/t <smallrant> it seems that the gender pay gap is one problem nestled into the bigger problem of stagnating wages for most Americans over the past half-century or so.