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farvacola
United States18866 Posts
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zlefin
United States7689 Posts
Too bad all my watching of cspan doesn't give me an automatic government job; they should hand those out to anyone who willingly watches cspan  | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States24145 Posts
On June 21 2014 10:33 xDaunt wrote: Walker is an important figure in the Republican Party, so it matters what happens to him. But yes, this investigation into him has all of the stink of a trumped up, politicized, monkey trial, which is why nothing is going to happen to him. Trumped up, politicized, monkey ________. Have pretty much been the only thing going on domestically since Obama was elected. Do conservatives not like it when it's turned around on them? | ||
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
On June 20 2014 17:55 mcc wrote: This is standard operating procedure for disciples of Mises, Rothbard and co. Point to a book claiming it proves everything they claim. Afterwards point to a historical event and claim that this one instance exactly shows that they are correct. Of course nicely ignoring the difference between correlation and causation, or as in this case there is even no correlation as one event does not correlation make. But the obsession with the book pointing is quite understandable considering their rejection of any empirical method as a way to gain knowledge. Which is ironic considering how they like to point to empirical evidence if it accidentally agrees with them. Basically they are religious movement of sorts. Wegandi is a bewildering dude. It's a fantasy to think that libertarianism opposes corporate power. Painting the early 19th century as some kind of paradisical Lockean society where the masses were thriving in a highly competitive corporate business market is a pretty twisted view. Those years actually saw the unceremonious gutting of the right to live and the subsequent enshrinement of the right to sell your labor. If you can sell yourself on the market for a high enough wage good for you. If you can't too bad for you. Go somewhere else. | ||
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
http://patentlyo.com/patent/2014/06/claims-invalid-section.html A murky step forward. Also jonny your blog post with the Amazon photography patent misses the point. If people understood other technical areas they woul realize that that is a fairly typical patent. People just understand photography and see the title without understanding that the patent is basically worthless anyway. No point in getting outraged about it. It's fairly standard PTO fare given how pro-patent the caselaw in this country is. | ||
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zlefin
United States7689 Posts
http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/H-Research_Notes/SAS-Research-Note-9.pdf | ||
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zlefin
United States7689 Posts
These guys should be disbarred if they're lawyers; behavior like this would get you jailed for contempt of court. | ||
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ElMeanYo
United States1032 Posts
On June 21 2014 13:27 zlefin wrote: Neat fact: American civilians own more firearms than all the armed forces of the world combined. http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/H-Research_Notes/SAS-Research-Note-9.pdf Yes. Don't fucking mess with us. | ||
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Introvert
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GreenHorizons
United States24145 Posts
On June 21 2014 14:56 Introvert wrote: That is a neat fact! It warms my heart a little Mine too! If there is something we will always be number one in it's civilian guns per capita. Contributing to that fact is probably the closest I'll come to having a world record Not much, but I'll take it. | ||
KwarK
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Shiragaku
Hong Kong4308 Posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate It would be interesting to see why the incarceration rate for that country is so high. | ||
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
On June 21 2014 16:57 Shiragaku wrote: GO SEYCHELLES!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate It would be interesting to see why the incarceration rate for that country is so high. Well there are only 90k people living there, probably just an anomaly. But the United States incarceration rate really is sick. Related: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/texas-teenager-faces-up-to-99-years-in-jail-for-baking-and-selling-pot-brownies-9553747.html | ||
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farvacola
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
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farvacola
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Paljas
Germany6926 Posts
On June 22 2014 08:27 Nyxisto wrote: The most ridiculous part is that it seems like they're charging him with the weight of the brownies. If I hide 10 grams of heroin in Texas in a 20 pound sandbag, are they going to charge me for 20 pounds of heroin? :o imo the worst part is that his neighbour alerted the cops, cause he was smelling marijuana. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States24145 Posts
On June 22 2014 08:39 Paljas wrote: imo the worst part is that his neighbour alerted the cops, cause he was smelling marijuana. Yeah the DEA really just acts like an enforcing arm for specific suppliers. If it's not overcharging the living crap out of some person in possession it's hitting competing suppliers based off intel from 'approved' suppliers. Cannabis laws are yet another place where the non-fact pattern has ruled supreme for generations. Like was said before, it would be a joke if they weren't intentionally ruining peoples lives far worse than the drugs they had ever would. (Cannabis) | ||
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