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Turn the Capitol building into the Thunderdome.

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Lets see, the govt had 3 years to set this up and the system crashes at the git go. I wonder how the rest of the scheme will work. You should learn a little about Internet and and the problems of scalability. Ever been to the DMV? Why should this service be different than that? You want our governm...

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Sergeant Thorne wrote:If I were in charge, the Fukushima disaster wouldn't have lasted longer than a couple of months, tops.

How you would have handled it? Disasters like that show that on the whole nuclear power is safe enough for us to take for granted, like countless other technological advances.

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Ok. How about all the bridge and dam failures of yesteryear when civil engineering was still not yet an exact science? Nope, not even close. The vast majority of dams and bridges work exceptionally well, just like software, vaccines, airplanes, computers, and most of the technology we have created....

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7 billion people? And that's a GOOD thing? Nature is great, but we need to respect it and work with it, not against it. GMOs don't work against nature any more than selective breeding or any other type of genetic manipulation does, that includes how you choose a mate. As for technology that has cau...

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You know Krom, You are one of the last people I would expect to place “conservatives” in one big box….shame on you. I'm going to jump to his defense by pointing out he said "conservatives around here," which I took to mean this board. He would definitely have enough material to make that ...

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A lot of time, we end up LOSING. :wink: Show me one place where technology has caused us to lose, I dare you. There are over 7 billion people on the planet. That hardly looks like a losing record. Yes super-bugs exist, but those are exceptions. Antibiotics are still extremely effective for treating...

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The danger here in my opinion is becoming a more feeble race over time. Agreed. This has been a topic of discussion among scientists and philosophers for a long time now. It seems that we might escape the danger by becoming masters of our own evolution. In the meantime we just need to keep our gene...

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And we aren't creating GMO's for better crops. We're breeding for a resistance to man-made herbicides and insecticides, which ARE sprayed in abundance all over the plants to increase yields. Chemicals we created to kill other organisms and plants by the way. Toxins. Sure, nature modifies genetic co...

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So, Slick sees his food as cud and I see it as molecules that are broken down and completely utilized atomic energy. Are you sure you don't see your food as gravitational photonic electromagnetic sound waves? I still see it as a monkey at a control panel seeing what each button does. Those same mon...

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[T]here's a slight difference between selective breeding and genetic modification, inserting the genes of an animal, a bacteria in this case, into the genes of a plant, wheat, corn or canola in this case. Again, you seem to be suffering from the delusion mad scientists are creating frankenfoods, wh...

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flip wrote:I wish they all had to be 80 years or older, and gone within 5 years.

Term limits, yes, but what is this 80 years old crap? Older =/= wiser. There is a lot of crappy legislation in the books because older, clueless politicians have no idea how to approach new technology and new industries.

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It is a delicate situation. On one hand we have the tendency to anthropomorphize animals (this is a good quality by the way). On the other hand it is undeniable that humans and animals share more traits than the human ego will generally admit to. Not only are we animals, but animals are human -- or ...

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[Don't] judge the homosexuals for their sexual sins, because we heterosexual's sin in the same manner. we tend to think that Homosexuality is a worse sin because it tends to disgust many of us, but in God's eyes it isn't. [L]ust as a sin is normally connected to excesses, rather than normal feeling...

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Thorne is totally preoccupied with sex.

These two ladies are going to burn in HELL for ETERNITY! Also, if that thought doesn't bother you, you are a truly evil person.

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Having lived in Texas for two years I can confirm this is correct.

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My attitude is that caution should be always be used when we do something new. http://www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry/factsheets/transgenic.html Interesting summary there, but it pretty much verifies the high ratio of potential risk versus actual damage . It seems like everyone is in love with the canola...

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Hey, if she doesn’t want to consume GMOs that’s her right, but where I have to draw the line is making that decision for other people. Totally agree. While refusing to eat GMOs doesn't put you in the same category as the anti-vacc crowd, there may come a time decades from now where that choice beco...

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First off, how do you know that inserting foreign genes in a way that nature would never be able to itself do doesn't affect the structure of the crop?...And your forgetting that all that Roundup sprayed on the plants gets into the food supply we eat. That's not good for us either....No, GMO's can'...

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Slick, stop pointing out the obvious. A lot of people on this board are accustomed to receiving twisted information. Maybe you can distort your posts a little bit and help out the reader?

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Church is just another byproduct of groupism. It is where like-minded people go to reinforce their subjective morality and feel exclusive.

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I've heard of studies done which resulted in rather nasty side-effects from consumption of GMO grains, and a lot more... But now that I know they cure cancer (at least I think that's where Vision was going with that), I'll definitely take up biochemistry in my spare time and have another look at it...

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I'm saying they either don't know or don't care what the effects will be of the changes they feel are justified once it is introduced into the digestion of an animal or human. It's this whole order of things they are tampering with, and you can't make a separation there. I don't give a flying **** ...

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I don't know where you get "better nutrition". You are, of course, correct about "more food". I am not arguing better, but EQUIVALENT nutritional value, and I think Vision was, too. No, better nutrition. That's the whole reason Golden Rice was invented 20 years ago. It's super r...

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Plot Twist: The pastor later comes out as an atheist.

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I will also say that the primary concern of most people involved in the Organic movement, etc, is not that GMO produce will immediately physically harm you, but that there is a proven, cumulative effect of ingesting varied sources of nutrition which have been tampered with for no reason other than ...

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No Nukes. Make Love Not War.

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Oh Thorne, you can only see the post in front of you. The argument was that Obamacare will put insurance companies out of business and it will cause them to raise rates. As we all know, insurance companies don't need Obamacare as an excuse to raise rates, they do it when they want regardless of how ...

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I'll totally pay more taxes so my friends without heath care can have some medical benefits. No problem with that at all.

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It's no mystery in the company I work for. Our healthcare costs have risen already, and it would be dimwitted and irresponsible to expect it isn't going to go higher. Again, insurance companies don't need Obamacare to raise rates, they will do it no matter what. About 5 years ago I was working for ...

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Will Robinson wrote:... how long do you think the insurance companies will stay in business without raising costs to someone?

Since when do insurance companies need a reason to raise costs? Isn't that pretty much what they all do, all the time? Sorry, no sympathy there.

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...have we now seen the first Buddist [sic] terror suspect? Sure why not? Even though I studied Buddhism for several years and find some of the practices helpful it's just as rotten and useless as any other religion. All the hippies try to elevate Buddhism above the other religions (I am guilty of ...

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...ever notice that not being happy is a sign you're doing something wrong? No, please elaborate. There are more than 20 million people in the US with depression that would love to hear your "wisdom." Sure the brain is really great at abstraction from complex to simple, but that doesn't m...

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Good grief. WTC7 Popular Mechanics This won't help flip, he's too far gone. But others might stumble upon this nonsense and it's my duty to provide sensible links. Also, if you have ever seen the wreckage from WTC7 it's a goddamn mess. It certainly didn't fall into it's footprint and it certainly do...

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On the whole, the whole perspective he offers is of some bizarre necessity that drives the Russian nation to be some sort of guardian against American recklessness... But this is exactly what Russia is doing with Syria. If it were not for Russia we would be bombing the holy hell out of that place r...

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yup, and a people kept in paranoid fear of another nation stay in line, eh? What Sigma described doesn't sound like paranoid fear to me, but rather responsible concern . He already said the US isn't viewed as an enemy and Russians generally feel warm toward Americans, but are bothered by the action...

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sigma wrote:The USA it not the enemy for Russians. And never was the enemy. Even in the USSR... Every day we are compelled have to be prepared to blunt the decisions of American politicians.

This has been very educational for me, thank you for your insight Sigma.

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you need to turn off the TV and the internet for a week. Go out and ask the opinions of ordinary Americans what they think about Russia. I do not own a TV, thanks. And I get my news from Reuters, which I find is fairly free of sensationalism. The chart does not reflect your views? This chart was no...

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I would like to know how accurate the following chart is: How Russians view other countries. What conclusions have you drawn from these statistics? I'm very curious to know your opinion. I want to know if the chart accurately represents Russia. You might notice I have not commented on any of your v...

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I would like to know how accurate the following chart is:

How Russians view other countries.

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