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It looks like the daily fantasy sites are starting to get their over-due push back from states. Does anyone here think they have a valid argument, claiming that they are not gambling? I think it's really obviously gambling...

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I have a theory that a lot of people won't like to hear: war.

I think resource limitations incubate war... and war decimates populations. Those two thoughts lead me to predict that the human population will re-balance itself through war.

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All these Christians griping about the infringement of their religious freedoms are in turn, now infringing on mine with their constant whining about being repressed and their recent successful court cases backing that up into protectionist laws. We ALL have the freedom to practice any religion we ...

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Or if a topic isn't worthy of discussion, and is clearly designed just to provoke a mindless inflammatory response, why should it even be allowed on here in the first place? If you really want this place to have basic standards of debate, where people attack arguments instead of people and make an ...

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Yes, maybe I am projecting. Like I said, it touched a nerve... specific to the OP because it came off as rubbing my nose in your wealth. In a more general sense, it touched on an observation (which is probably very stereotypical) that it seems to me like extreme wealth seems to incubate liberal lean...

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I'm sorry, what? I'm pretty bewildered how you got that out of the OP. The OP: Maybe we should change the law about "death taxes..." I'm really finding it very easy to hold on to all of my inherited riches. (Between the lines: if only the law was changed, more people would benefit from th...

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not thinking the readership here is much of a threat, woody(all 15 of us). Not gloating, either. I was trying to make a point about the current status quo. Would I post similar detail on, say, Facebook or such? No, and the detail above isn't going to get anyone too far into my personal finances. St...

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Here's my simple question: do you agree that Ferguson is to blame, or do you think it's something else? If something else, what do you think it is?

As a followup: what should we do about it?

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Here's the last I'll say: If Hillary had said these exact same words, she would have been lauded by the media for standing up for women's rights.

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The gift that just keeps on giving: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-wouldnt-it-be-easier-for-women-to-wear-burkas/ar-BBms3OM What exactly about that statement of Trump's don't you agree with? it's the sort of dismissive claptrap that men aim towards women all the time. The point is, it...

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callmeslick wrote:The gift that just keeps on giving:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ ... ar-BBms3OM

What exactly about that statement of Trump's don't you agree with?

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I'm not sure how I'm supposed to analyze this guy's math, since I can't find it. I don't know if you and Drak have made any models in your days... I've worked in test & evaluation basically my whole career & have developed a relatively heavy dose of scepticism for just about any type of &qu...

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Food is a right. Shelter is a right. Good health is a right. Having the ability to defend yourself is a right. Not being persecuted for whatever reason is a right. Unless your firearm is considered 'military-type' and you're part of a militia, then it's a privilege to own it. Does it say "keep...

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yes because denialism in the face of overwhelming evidence is so in vogue these days. The irony is that this exact phenomena could apply to either side in this particular debate, for this particular OP. Time will tell which scientists making models which fit their agendas got closer to the mark... ...

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a protected right. which revolves around a want. Don't kid yourself; guns are luxury items. You're still moving the goal posts. It doesn't matter if the item is a "want" or a "need" - if it's a right, it's a right. exactly. aiming to decide if the person is physically and mental...

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We accept the fact that pilots need medical and mental examinations to fly, we accept the fact that people needs physical examinations to keep driving vehicles. So why is it that when mental health examinations is even suggested, people lose their damn minds? Because we're talking about the differe...

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Are you really implying that some doctors would be inclined to jeopardize their medical license and risk being disbarred and discredited based on a personal vendetta? It takes them years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to obtain that medical degree, and to even think they would throw that away...

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I just want to know why the hell anyone feels the need to own 14 separate guns. Like, unless they're non-functioning historical pieces, what sort of **** mental processes are at work there? Do we really want to live in a society where people can accrue personal ******* armories? Because they can? W...

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Didn't we just go over this?

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callmeslick wrote:in a nation based upon rule of law, right is the ONLY proper word to use.

I'll add "legal" and "lawful" to the list... but you're still misusing "right."

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as has been laid out, the right thing is the ONLY thing. Remove her from office, as she is unwilling to do her job. I'm taking issue with you hijacking the word "right." - because to me that indicates judgement based on a static moral code, not the trends of the day. I'd be fine with &quo...

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Is something an amazing shot in the dark beating all the odds, or is there simply insufficient data to understand why it was always going to be exactly on the numbers? Or is it really a variable, is the actual variable which hit the mark something else entirely that totally can miss but can also tr...

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I haven't had any of them yet.... I fairly regularly get these machine calls that start with "This is not a marketing call...." once I listened long enough to figure out that they had lied. Since then, I promptly just hang up.

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callmeslick wrote:TC nails it. Not enough political courage to do the right thing there.

Now, now - let's not conflate what's socially appropriate with what's right. The first comes from the majority, the second comes from a static standard.

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In the vein of Drakona's response: Critical thinking is applied in a person's context of acceptable evidence. For a naturalist, any supernatural explanation isn't valid - and they will search among the natural for an explanation. In the video's example it's pretty easy... but what about in cases lik...

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So my position has been that some reasonable accommodation should be made for Davis, but I think I'm looking at it wrong. The issuance of valid, legal marriage license cannot be a viewed as a burden which requires accommodation. If all her deputies agreed with her, and also refused to issue license...

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This is one atheist that was laughing his ass off. :lol: I'm curious to know what struck you as funny. I read the transcript of the speech and the articles: In general, I agreed with the pope and the articles. If I have an argument with the pope's message, In some ways I felt it lacked teeth... in ...

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Then, when she stood up there on a public pedestal, whining like a Christian martyr and victim, that's where I decided she had abdicated her public duties to those of us who aren't Christian. She's still in the news making a big stink and crying to reporters about the whole thing, trying to drum up...

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I wonder how much hyperbole the student intended. Here's what I'll say: The cue that I take from Christ (in a context like this) is His staunch refusal to get embroiled in politics. Simply put, I think one of the church's largest struggles throughout the ages has been a tendency to get too closely t...

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I had another thought on the OP, and on my "global economy" theme: I think I'd connect the general growth of business size disparity to the general growth in personal finance disparity, with many of the same dynamics. These days, the "big" businesses have larger amounts of levera...

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the rich have always had their own network, better tools, and more access to initial capital. What changed? That's the interesting question. My theory/guess: the globalization of our economy. Back in the day, having networks, better tools, etc may have meant having the best in the region, or the be...

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I can just see how this went down: 1980: EPA: Clean that mine up, owner dudes! Owners: No way, that place is a toxic spill waiting to happen. I'm not touching it. 2000: EPA: Clean that mine up, owner dudes, or else! Owners: No way, that place is a toxic spill waiting to happen. I'm not touching it. ...

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And yet she will become a religious martyr. Coming back to this- Maybe so... but I think it's really misplaced. I think this is a wholly political issue with a religious veneer. If she becomes a martyr, it's actually be of a political type. To Lothar's comment about requiring conscientious objector...

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Oath of clerk and deputies: Every clerk and deputy, in addition to the oath prescribed by Section 228 of the Constitution, shall, before entering on the duties of his office, take the following oath in presence of the Circuit Court: "I, _____, do swear that I will well and truly discharge the ...

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but, since FB currently isn't in the business of lending money, this is sort of much ado about nothing. By the way, FB is harmless if you set up a certain set of roadblocks to connecting online identity to real-world ID. FB doesn't like that, but can't stop it from being done. I don't know for how ...

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The problem is....

These companies like Facebook exist to make money off you. If things like this are too blatant, they loose their product (you), if they don't subtly do things like this, they're wastefully leaving money on the table and the stock owners get angry.

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Of course you can pick legally where to draw the line, but there is no line in reality you have to worry about exactly aligning with in the same way there is no actual line in reality between larceny and grand larceny. 1. I don't like the analogy because "person hood" isn't a question of ...

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Yes, I'll have a pile of crap. Yes I'll have to pay for repairs if needed. But at least I won't be giving a chunk of my paycheque to a dealership for the next two years. Indeed. The chunk will be going to the car mechanic, without warning and in random quantities. :P It really comes down to being w...

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he isn't, really, TB. What do YOU think the driver behind selling bath salts as 'Flakka' is? Now, I don't agree that all recreation usage should be legal, for essentially the reasons that Lothar laid out, but your position is utterly indefensable. Mankind has been using mind-altering substances sin...

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ITT: people acting banning someone for anything other than marketing spam or illegal content linking is somehow reasonable... More like, mods showing that if you choose to pick a fight with them, you will lose. I have a hard time with the "Vision is a dick to people that bring it upon themselv...

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