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It's not about you.

Go.

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Byron Horatio: Seems like much ado about nothing.  People said the same thing about he proliferation of Playboy magazines.  Now, it's all just digital.  · 2 hours ago

Except it was usually difficult for an 8-year-0ld to get hold of Playboy.  Now an 8-year-old can get it delivered to him.

I'd also take issue with whether internet porn and Playboy are really comparable.

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KingsKnight1: One lefty told me we went into Afghanistan for the oil.   · May 18, 2013 at 3:27pm

Only one?  I heard that for years - it was all about some pipeline deal.  I think somebody even wrote a book about it.  Usually I'd hear about it from the crowd that thinks the New York Times is a Corporate rag and Obama is too right-wing.

 

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I can't take seriously any article about inflation that talks about a "persistent decline in gas prices".

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Pushing Daisies. 

They also have (or at least had) the complete works of "King of the Hill".

My biggest gripe with Netflix streaming is the way stuff comes and goes without much notice.  I don't mind so much with movies, but with multi(many) episode series it's truly annoying.

Amazon Prime Instant Streaming needs a MUCH better search engine.

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The King Prawn

Amy Schley

The King Prawn: I'm starting to get why the Jews considered tax collectors to be right up there with rapists and murderers in the ranks of sinners... · 5 minutes ago
Frozen Chosen: Many say that the Fair(sales) tax would eliminate the need for the IRS.  While we would still need someone to collect the Fair Tax, at least it would eliminate the need for the IRS to process applications for tax exempt status, which would eliminate the political shenanigans we are now seeing. · 5 minutes ago

The problem will be taxing some people on all their income (the poor) and others on only a small portion (the wealthy.) · 15 hours ago

Why is that a problem?

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Mendel

James Of England

Mendel: 

How do cops profit from off the books employment? Are theyallcorrupt?

I used to work in a county whose economy was dependent on a single industry, which in turn was dependent on illegals to stay afloat.  The cops knew that immigration enforcement = loss of major local employer = loss of local tax revenue = police layoffs and no more new shiny cruisers to drive around. 

And almost every morning I see cops driving through the Home Depot parking lot around the corner, yet they seem to studiously avoid noticing the 30 or so Mexicans conspicuously standing around.  Why is that? · May 8, 2013 at 11:26pm

Probably for the same reason that I frequently see people driving through intersections after the light turns red and the cop waiting to go the other way doesn't bother to light them up and ticket them.   They don't think it's worth the paperwork.

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Fred Cole

 

You're both focusing on the wrong problem.  The problem isn't illegal immigrants working.  The problem is that our byzantine immigration system creates a mismatch between the number of people who want to live and work in the United States and the number who can do it legally. 

It makes not one iota of difference how many non-citizens "want to live and work" in the United States. 

The question is, how many non-citizens do the people of the United States want to allow to come in to live and work in the United States.

It's not our immigration system, it's our citizenry.  For the most part, if you can believe the polls, they want fewer than are currently here.  The fact that non-citizens disagree with the citizens may be an interesting fact, but there's no reason the non-citizen's view should carry the slightest bit of weight in the argument.

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Conor Friedersdorf: After the World Trade Center was attacked in 1993, and Al Qaeda targeted American troops and interests in several places abroad, I seem to remember a major terrorist attack that happened when George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were in office. If memory serves, almost 3,000 Americans died, and the Pentagon was also hit.

It takes chutzpah to preside over that... and then ding President Obama for an attack that killed four people. For all I know, they should've been better protected.

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On the other hand, Bush received a warning that "Al quaeda is determined to attack America" in August of 2001 and has been blamed by the left for not leaping out of his chair, yelling "Secure the airplane cockpits and evacuate the World Trade center". 

Meanwhile, Obama didn't think to protect our middle-Eastern diplomats *ON 9-11*, and 3 days after the Boston attack, even with pictures of the perps, Obama's anti-terror apparatus still hadn't identified the suspects even though they had pictures and one of them was on a terror watchlist and had been previously investigated by the FBI on suspicion of terrorism.

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I've got to find a way to use that "speaking of drones" line.

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Chris Campion: Eisenhower built a National Defense Interstate Highway system, not as an infrastructure project to "help" the economy, but as a DoD project to move men/materials around quickly in the event of nuclear war.

 

Well, yes and no.  My understanding is the 'defense" justification was pretty much a fig leaf to justify the federal funding of the project.  Eisenhower's interest in highways went back to when he was part of a Cross-country military convoy in 19(20?) that took weeks to get anywhere.

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Thursby: The question about the 'size' of the electron is sticky.  Mass - no problemo. · 24 minutes ago

I don't recall the exact wording of the question - wasn't it [essentially] asking which is smaller, an electron or an atom?

Given that an electron is a sub-component of an atom, doesn't it pretty much have to be smaller?  It's mostly just a simple logic question if you know that electrons are one of the three major sub-atomic particles [ electrons, neutrons, protons.  I watched WKRP].  It's not like you can have a car part that's bigger than the fully assembled car, right?

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Blue State Blues

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Too many people are trying to read politics into this quiz.  The question did NOT ask about "global warming", the question was "What gas do most scientists believe causes temperatures in the atmosphere to rise?".  

What is the difference between "global warming" (my post did not mention "anthropogenic") and "atmospheric warming?" · 41 minutes ago

"Global warming" is the commonly used phrase for AGW, or Climate Change, or whatever the phrase of the week is.    The idea that human activity is increasing the concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere which will lead to unacceptable and unnatural increase in temperatures that throw off the balance of the biosphere and kill us all.

"Atmospheric warming" in the question as stated [ "What gas ... causes temperatures in the atmosphere to rise" ] is just the simple observation that the temperature of the earth's atmosphere is warmer than it would be if there were no CO2 in the atmosphere at all.  I forget the exact number, but I believe it's something on the order of 50-60 degrees Farenheit [I might be way off on that, so don't quote me].

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And yes, 13/13, and it's embarrassing that only 7% nationally got all 13 right.

I'm willing to give a dispensation on the nitrogen question because that's a fact it'd be easy enough to forget.  And I'm willing to give one or two more to each individual just on general principle.  But there's no way ANYONE in the US with more than a 7th grade education should get fewer than 10 of these question correct under any circumstances.  And anyone who did should be stripped of the right to vote.

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Blue State Blues

Richard Fulmer

Eric Hines: Perfect score, although I had guess at the answer to #12 concerning the gas that "causes atmospheric warming."  The correct answer was not present.

Exactly.  13/13 for me, an extremely easy test.  #12 asked what gas "most scientists" believe causes global warming.  I don't know whether a majority of scientists believe that, but it was pretty obvious that was the answer they were looking for.  · 46 minutes ago

Too many people are trying to read politics into this quiz.  The question did NOT ask about "global warming", the question was "What gas do most scientists believe causes temperatures in the atmosphere to rise?".  

CO2 DOES cause temperatures in the atmosphere to rise.  If there were no CO2 in the earth's atmosphere, the average temperature of the planet would be much lower.  That's a completely separate issue from AGW.

In fact, it was pretty ridiculous for the question to say "most scientists".  You'd be hard-pressed to find any scientist, even an AGW "denier" who doesn't "believe" (know) that the presence of CO2 raises the atmospheric temperature compared to if there was no CO2. 

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mask: 13/13

Though I wonder why the "global warming" question didn't include water vapor in the responses since most scientists think it adds more warming than C02. =) · 8 hours ago

The question was not "which of these is the strongest greenhouse gas", it was 'which of these is considered a greenhouse gas".

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