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Good for you. It's very generous of you to chose to give the guy a hand so his daughter can go visit Mexico. Oh wait, you had no choice in the matter. He just reached in our pockets and took what he...
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Neither does the President of the United States. There are plenty of fetters. If he started abusing his power wantonly to comply with demands by kidnappers, the cabinet would most likely declare him...
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There are serial killers who rape and murder dozens of people. Does that mean we should stop handing out parking tickets? So yes, the wars that Bush (as well as Clinton, Obama, Bush Sr) are orders of...
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OK, so your assessment that significant extra protection was provided is based on what exactly? I'm not saying it's a bad assumption, but the article supports only the fact that Bush's daughters were...
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The law that is allegedly violated is not that auto-complete is being racist. It is that auto-complete is creating a database that contains ethnicity. Of course, given that the presence of the word...
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There are plenty of reasons why people oppose the PPACA (That's "Obamacare") ranging from the highly intelligent to the stupid. (Similar to the reasons why people support the PPACA) I can give you my...
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If it is run by the government and it works poorly, as a citizen of a republic, I'm screwed, because I have zero power to change things unless I'm an influential lobbyist, in which case I'm...
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You mean to say that if there was no government-licensing, you would just go hire the cheapest doctor without any regard to their competency? That sounds suspiciously like you getting what you deserve.
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You're right. I have a better idea. Let's prohibit anybody who is not in the top 10% of doctors to practice medicine. I mean, we don't want anyone getting shoddy quality. Nobody but the richest will be...
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We seem that way to folks like you who are under the mistaken impression that all such things can only be provided by the government and that they can be efficiently provided by the government. (by...
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Of course I can. I would not do it personally obviously. I would look up the doctor's credentials, reviews, certifications by third-party organizations, etc... In other words, I would outsource it to...
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You're quite right. Sometimes when corporations run things, you don't actually have other options and you are stuck with something crappy for a while. When the government runs things, you are always...
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You're right. Americans are so irrational. And don't get me started on Americans' opposition to socialized food and socialized clothing.
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You could have made the exact same point without the "surrender monkeys" joke. It's pointlessly offensive.
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I'm not easily offended and I do know it was a quote. (Forgot it was the Simpsons, thought it was South Park) The way you wrote it is indeed also making fun of Americans, but it is nevertheless still...
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Context for the first sentence is provided in the last sentence. Being offended isn't a rational objective analysis. So I got offended before I got to the end of the article. That's how human brains...
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I don't think anyone said Tim is one such person. What we said is that he said something that some of us find offensive. We're not saying he should be fired, hung, thrown in jail, marooned, the subject...
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The question isn't really whether or not they deserve to be vilified. The question is whether or not you should trust the certs they issue. Making it hard for people to revoke the certs means people...
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