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When you refuse to do business with someone, you can't be arbitrary and single out only one person or group. Your business policy has to apply to everyone equally The majority of policies I've heard don't single out a person or group, but rather, a type of event, namely, same-sex weddings (compare ...

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Also (yeah, I know cop block is a ridiculous site) here's a list of other things kids have been arrested for: http://www.copblock.org/140900/stupid-reasons-police-arrested-kids-school/ My 7-year-old nephew is autistic with ADHD and sometimes has trouble calming down. He once had the cops called in t...

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The outside of the case looks considerably less intimidating: http://i.imgur.com/1SZH7JM.jpg The images you may have seen are misleading in terms of size. It's a pencil case, around 17 cm (6.6 in) across. A few things are obvious: 1) the police and administration didn't think it was a bomb. They did...

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you can get almost 4-1 against Trump getting the Republican nomination at https://www.predictit.org/Home/SingleOp ... =838#data1

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The cue that I take from Christ (in a context like this) is His staunch refusal to get embroiled in politics I think it's interesting that He addressed a number of political-type questions in His day, though often in a roundabout way. The question about whether it's lawful to divorce one's wife &qu...

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I've seen a lot of articles about Sanders-to-Liberty in the last couple days. Here are some of my favorites: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424048/bernie-sanders-liberty-university-greeted-warmly http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/09/liberty-students-survived-sanderss-unsafe-space.html https:/...

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If you see 1-20 someplace, can you PM me? :wink: Why restrict it to you? Betfair is offering 14.5 at https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/#/politics/market/1.107373419 -- but of course as an exchange, you can only get what people are offering on the other side. The 14.0 I saw earlier got gobbled u...

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keep in mind Nate Silver wrote that over a month ago, so it doesn't account for the latest info. But it does seem to track it pretty well.

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Donald Trump will not be President in 2016(or ever, likely). I stand ready to wager $5000 to the charity of your choice versus only $500 of your cash to a similar choice by myself if you are wrong http://www.oddschecker.com/politics/us-politics/us-presidential-election-2016/winner ... there are sit...

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She still claims that those licenses are not valid without her signature Might be true. It's up to the state legislature and the AG to figure that out. Last I heard she'd asked them to put something in about "by order of the court" in place of having her name or just an empty space. you s...

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On the issue, I may not respect her views, I respect that she has them, and would try to accommodate them as long as compromise was returned. By the way, this view is the closest to actual law in the entire thread. What's required by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is that accommodation M...

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The big difference here with your Kosher deli example is that said deli isn't attempting to exclude any particular group of people from its wares ... I feel like one has to err on the side of providing service. I'm not convinced it's relevant whether businesses are excluding whole groups, or just r...

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It's that slippery slope issue again. At what point do we allow, or disallow, one person's idea of what they believe is right, to infringe upon another person's or another group's lawful rights But again, this brings up the question of whether you have the lawful right to force someone else to part...

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Still, are you suggesting You're looking for a hidden agenda. I don't do hidden agendas. If I wanted to suggest that there was support for a shutdown, I would say it outright. I did not say it outright. I said the opposite, very explicitly, a couple posts ago. What I did was the following: 1) I cri...

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http://thefederalist.com/2015/09/14/eva ... ove-trump/

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Remember a MAJORITY of the voters for Congress voted Democratic. Simply because the districts are gerrymandered one cannot point to that as some will for change. .... Won lots of friends among the left leaning crowd for suggesting that they need to carry an election So is it the number of voters, o...

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Avder wrote:How about some D2 hoard matches sometime?

Or Shakers?

Or both?

We play those from time to time.

http://retro-tracker.game-server.cc/arc ... TRAES.html
http://retro-tracker.game-server.cc/arc ... adth2.html

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With a Dem president who was elected ~3 years ago for his second term, it's clear that 3 years ago the electorate felt a certain way about a certain aggregate class of issues, particularly in relation to the opposition candidate. And the electorate felt a little different in the midterm elections. T...

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callmeslick wrote:so you are ok with

That's not what I said.

But if we're going to talk election results, the people elected Obama as president and a Republican Congress. Who are you saying "lost via election results"? It seems like you're placing the blame in a rather one-sided way here.

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I've been pistol starting random Doom 1 & 2 levels on ultra violent difficulty. http://www.paulcorfiatis.com/wos/HTML/wos_index.htm -- the best DooMII campaign I've ever played. So, so good. I think I've done 6 total UV playthroughs in the ~year since Naphtha introduced me to it. http://zandron...

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this is from the Wall Street Journal this is editorialized based on the original WSJ article. The actual WSJ headline says "Economists Cite Budget Battle as a Top Threat" -- and that budget battle, like a fight in elementary school, involves two parties. What your article left out is that...

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this is a rare moment where I think all of us agree with woody. I just don't see anything in the way Hillary conducts her campaign that suggests she could actually win, unless all of her opponents crumble. She comes across as ... not so much dishonest as uninterested in honesty. Not so much against ...

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you left clicker heroes off of the list?

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It's showing the very real and dangerous consequences of what happens when ... gays are allowed to marry. Right? Same exact argument. Or like blaming Muslims being able to build mosques for terrorism. When an organization turns from legitimate protests to acts of violence What "organization&qu...

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Ferno wrote:And this is what happens when people believe the hoax.

http://www.salon.com/2015/09/12/the_ter ... te_speech/

This article is on the same level as people who blame gay marriage for pedophilia.

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I’ve heard she was forbiding her employees from issuing licenses From what I understand, she forbade her employees from issuing licenses because her name and signature was required, and she was seeking accomodation of the form of having her name removed from the licenses (allowing any clerk's name ...

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I didn't much care for Atomos -- wide open levels like that tend to bring out my D3-netcode hatred. The server is in the same city as me, I've got a great ping, but sometimes ships are just warping and jittering, and it's hard to counter if I can't get them into a tight enough space. The infernal ga...

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callmeslick wrote:accepting your scenario of Trumps election and order to deport everyone, employees WOULD have to fulfill the orders to the best of their abilities or resign

I take it you're anti-Snowden, then?

Or is that different for some yet-unstated reason?

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sigma wrote:The American media

I have very little connection to the American media.

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I liked this counterpoint, though: One of the quickest ways to government tyranny is to require every religious believer with conscientious objections to immoral laws and government overreach to resign from government positions Do I agree with Kim Davis? No. I think she absolutely should have resig...

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it is not necessary to impose the American concept of freedom who's imposing? We're having a discussion on a message board. I'm commenting in strong terms about how your nation is a massive human rights violator, but nobody sane would call that "imposing". there would be no such overt vio...

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I do not want a strange male looked at my son as a sexual object Nobody wants that. Yet strange males *do* look at your son that way, secretly. You don't actually eliminate dangerous people by forcing them to hide. To the contrary, you enable the most dangerous when you force non-dangerous minoriti...

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sigma wrote:These measures are a manifestation of respect for the majority of normal people, to protect them from the encroachments of moral freaks and method for the preservation of morals, traditions and national identity

In other words, oppressing minorities.

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in most parts of Russia can not openly show their belonging to a particular religion or sexual orientation Yes, this is one of the things we in the West think is absolutely pathetic about Russia. It is, quite simply, a human rights violation. Here in the US, you actually do have the legal right to ...

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Still, I'm curious: for those who think Christian bakers should have to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples, should Office Depot also have to print this flyer? What about flyers that are actual hate speech instead of mischaracterized as hate speech? For those who think Christian bakers should b...

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At least the CEO of Office Depot apologized for the incident and said they'd print her prayer flyers Good for them. That's a nice turnaround from their initial reaction ( letter from Office Depot's lawyer .) Still, I'm curious: for those who think Christian bakers should have to make wedding cakes ...

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as translated: My rights trump your rights If she can't perform her duties because those duties violate her moral code , why doesn't she just quit? Why should her personal rights trump the general public's rights? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-office-depot-refused-printing-pr...

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Emotion, not reason, is controlling people's decisions. You can recognize the danger, most intelligent people can, but do you see a way to change that behavior? Stop catering to peoples' emotions. When someone on "your side" says something stupid that's driven by emotion and contrary to r...

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his advocacy for free software is actually quite impressive. I've seen his pieces appear regularly on Hacker News.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig

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they were talking about the trouble manufacturing was having getting people to work in that sector, even when apprenticeships were offered and other such things that involved on the job training…the conclusion they came to was people just don’t want to get their hands dirty and do manual labor anym...

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