Omar
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And that very same day 50 people died after a series of bombings took place in Iraq, where's the headlines on that? Or are we being elitist again?
I'd rather things like this bombing simply go unreported as well since it does nothing but spread fear and irrationality.
Finally! Somebody gets it!
If you think of the media as a business, it doesn't make any sense not to do these--it's an appeal to charity. He's right, of course. The best you can do is tune out and not support those news sources that do this.
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^Thinking of getting a bachelor's after I finish my Ph. D. in economics.
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The production process isn't different per se, but it's a lot harder to regulate considering you can print a printer.
Do you suppose that shop tools couldn't be similarly produced using shop tools?
You could, if by similarly you mean notwithstanding the fact that I have none of the necessary human capital, let alone the time. I'm looking at the RepRap wiki right now, and I can't tell if all the parts can be printed or not.
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We're not being very helpful, sorry bedman :lol:
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Challenge her dad to a Yu-Gi-Oh! duel.
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That's all to much pursuing, muggi--the net should be trying to go under/over/around you.
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@Muggiw
What is an AFC man exactly? I hate the stupid lingo, but I enjoy the philosophical debates behind it.
Rpg why are you still in contact with her?
I question this myself sometimes. I put the ball in her court to call me back. She didn't. I could have left it at that, but I ended up calling her to apologize for being so mad all the time. I don't think I'll be hanging around her or talking to her again though. At least that's what I'm trying for. I really don't need the triggers she sets off all the time. The window of happiness I had with her seems to have locked shut.
That's not how cutting contact works. There is no ball. And if you put the ball in her court (something you do when you don't want to cut contact but want to affirm authority) and she doesn't hit it back, you don't go under the net, grab the ball and try again. It just makes you look flip-floppity.
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Rpg why are you still in contact with her?
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How does sex "naturally happen" anyway?
Doesn't somebody propose sex and the other accepts or rejects? If the woman has any sense of traditionalist roles, then the man has to propose it. Meaning, he has set his goal and he is going to do what he can to achieve it. You DO something.
Doing it "naturally" seems to not do anything, waiting for the other to do something.
Someone care to enlighten me to how exactly "naturally happening" and "until we're both comfortable" means?
I won't bother clarifying. Call me a fool or whatever you will, but I know exactly what's happening for me and I wouldn't change a damn thing.
He's not questioning what you're doing I think, just asking a general question out of curiosity.
@Lang: So I imagine you've found your answers for every section of that list, correct?
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As a matter of fact, our store of natural resources is increasing. The way I understand the word, a resource is a means to an end. In this sense, the definition of a resource is not related to its physical properties but to its integration in the purposeful action of humans. Bitumen is not, intrinsically, a resource; it is the fact that a subject believes it can be used as a means to some end that makes it a resource. In this sense, we had oil prior to 1900, but it was no resource at the time; it was only when we learned how to extract it, use it, and economize other resources (such as labour) that it itself became a resource.
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as I've demonstrated
No, you haven't. You haven't controlled for other factors and you can't prove the decrease in gun crime wouldn't have been steeper hadn't it been for this law.
Neither did Berenice. Why are you applying this to one side of the argument only, and not the other? If we go by what you say, then we should just skip the last two pages and stop the thread now because technically, none of it has been absolutely and categorically proven to true. We could also assume good faith for argument's sake.
I specifically told both of you to ditch the empirical evidence unless you wanted to dig into econometric studies on the matter earlier.
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I have a belief that some people only enter relationships out of a compulsive need to do so. In fact, I'm convinced this is more than a belief; I'm pretty much quoting some of my friends here: "I'm the kind of person who always needs to be in a relationship", "but you just feel so secure in a relationship", "When you're in a relationship it's about having someone who's always there for you no matter what."
All of these sentiments come from a deep-rooted feeling of insecurity, which is immature. Maturity is recognising not to put so much of your emotional stability on the shoulders of other people. I guarantee if my friends did that, their perception of a healthy relationship would change quite drastically.
That's more of challenging the idea of community, which I would disagree with. We need community to survive.
But do you need a relationship to have a community?
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Ginger, my point was that when the police is present, they are implicitly threatening the use of force on anyone who breaks the law (which isn't wrong in and of itself). Of course, the police are no deterrent when they're not there. I hope this clarifies things but this is as good a stab in the dark as I can make...
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Okay, I'll be more specific and then we can drop this: the police draws their strength from the use of force, direct or indirect. They're constantly using that threat. I don't see how this is a controversial claim, and in any case I was responding to Lang's claim that they only used guns (provided they have some) in cases of emergency.
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Boston Marathon Murders
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Store owners have property rights on their store, so they do whatever they want with it. The state has no such rights--all its property is taxed, i.e. stolen or taken under threat of imprisonment.