- On 7 Nov 2012
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freak80 said:
And you making up stuff.
Ha Ha, I kill me!
- On 7 Nov 2012
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freak80 said:
Presumably the S&P 500 'tanking' upwards by 81% during the previous 4 years passed you by.
The effect of free money is remarkable.
- On 7 Nov 2012
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freak80 said:
Planet Shrek apparently.
Planet Melmak.
- On 6 Nov 2012
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British engineers produce amazing 'petrol from air' technology,
freak80 said:
There's no such thing as free energy. If it takes 100W of electricity to create petrol with 50W of stored chemical energy, I say it isn't worth it.
- On 5 Nov 2012
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Most polls show Obama surging 4 days before the election,
freak80 said:
Anyone remember those Surge (soda) commercials?
- On 18 Oct 2012
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Koch Industries, other CEOs warn employees of layoffs if Obama is reelected,
freak80 said:
Leverage.
- On 15 Oct 2012
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Is Google Evil?,
freak80 said:
Wasn't it Ted Kaczynski who warned that technology/computers would be the end of human freedom?
- On 12 Oct 2012
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Did Obama Just Throw The Entire Election Away?,
freak80 said:
And, yes, let's please run the country just like it's a "business".
Let's gut it for the sake of next quarter's profits, cash out at the top, stash our quick profits offshore, then watch the it crumble.
- On 12 Oct 2012
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Private Sector Fairy Dust,
freak80 said:
If you are a Federal worker, everything you do is open to scrutiny. Your salary information, working hours, virtually EVERYTHING can be put under a microscope.
If you have contracted that out to a company though, it's a black box. This is precisely why there's been such a boom in contractor work, it's a gold mine for corruption and fraud.God Bless America.
- On 12 Oct 2012
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Why California is broke, and Texas is not,
freak80 said:
Stop your complaining, I live in New Jersey and I get the shaft, I'm last on the list, at 65 cents for every dollar I pay.
- On 12 Oct 2012
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Poorly Made In China,
freak80 said:
And even though the US technically has high corporate tax rates, the actual corporate taxes paid are far lower because there are so many loopholes:
It creates jobs for tax accountants. ;-)
- On 12 Oct 2012
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The middle class is leaving California,
freak80 said:
So what is left is less than 1% who live in very narrow areas and the mass are poor people? Man wouldn't want to see that kind of hellhole after ten years.
"As goes California, so goes the nation."
Or something like that.
- On 12 Oct 2012
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements,
freak80 said:
Buddhists say you are approaching enlightenment when you realize that!
Wow.
Wasn't it Socrates who said he was the wisest of all the Greeks because he claimed to know nothing at all?
- On 12 Oct 2012
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Poorly Made In China,
freak80 said:
We should design an army of robots to take over China.
BAM. Problem solved.
- On 12 Oct 2012
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The Selfish Gene,
freak80 said:
The idea that a chemical unit can act "selfishly" is a far cry from stating that selfish behavior amongst human beings is justified in any narrow sense.
Good point.
I guess one needs a provacative/disturbing title to help sell the book. "It's all about the money." (Now THERE's a "theory of everything" that's also pretty disturbing, but pretty darn accurate.)
- On 12 Oct 2012
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The Selfish Gene,
freak80 said:
Anthropomorphic projections on the objective findings of biology are the flaw of the interpreter, not the biology.
But the interpreter IS the biology. The interpreter IS nothing more than selfish genes. "You" don't really exist at all, any more than "I" do. Isn't that the whole premise of the book?
- On 12 Oct 2012
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Why California is broke, and Texas is not,
freak80 said:
I have a friend who lives in Chicago. Need I say more?
Chicago is just to the west of the Great Lakes Permacloud. Their winters are sunny compared to places downwind like Michigan, northeast Indiana, Ohio, and western PA/NY. The clouds are generated by the cold air passing over the warmer lake water.
- On 12 Oct 2012
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The Selfish Gene,
freak80 said:
That's what's so depressing about modern biology. Everything is reduced to "mere survival." Good is evil, and evil is good. It's a lot like the philosophy of Nietzsche. And Ayn Rand.
I'm not sure I want to live in a future where "The Selfish Gene" is the dominant ideology. Living under Sharia Law almost seems preferable.
- On 12 Oct 2012
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Why California is broke, and Texas is not,
freak80 said:
From October-May the weather was just outright crappy. As in if I didn't dry my hair it would sometimes freeze. Yes- that just sounds like more fun than a barrel full of monkeys.
And if you live northwest of the mountains like I do, you get the Great Lakes Permacloud too. Bleh.
- On 12 Oct 2012
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements,
freak80 said:
Yes, that's exactly it. It goes into why people believe certain things, and it has little to do with reason.
But it'd be all too easy to say "we're the smart ones, we are open minded, we are rational; it's only those other idiots that succumb to groupthink." We all have our dogmas.
Heck I can't even prove, rationally, that I exist at all. Everything could just be an illusion. I wish I'd never have seen those Matrix movies. I haven't been right since.
- On 12 Oct 2012
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Public Education Should All Be Destroyed & Eradicated.,
freak80 said:
Maybe we can "starve the beast" by eliminating property taxes?
Prop 13.
- On 12 Oct 2012
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Why California is broke, and Texas is not,
freak80 said:
That shouldn't be underestimated because basically you're looking at months and months of unbearable weather.
But at least it's sunny unbearable weather.
- On 12 Oct 2012
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements,
freak80 said:
It was Alan Greenspan who said, "to exist you need an ideology; the question is whether it is accurate or not."
He said it before the Oversight and Government Reform committee on October 28, 2008.The world is terribly complex and difficult to understand. It's also tragic. We die and so do our loved ones. I guess that's why we need ideologies.
- On 12 Oct 2012
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements,
freak80 said:
Would that include mass movements on "the left" as well as "the right."?
- On 12 Oct 2012
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Why California is broke, and Texas is not,
freak80 said:
And let's be frank, any oil-producing state makes more money when oil prices are jacked the way they are.
Who is jacking oil prices? OPEC?