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Lawyers run legislative bodies. They will not, therefore, pass any law which reduces the income of their brothers at the bar in the home constituency. Forget simplifying the IRS code. Lawyers and their CPA friends make way too much money handling taxes. Forget legalizing drugs. As it is now, the ass...

brokenhead wrote:

The ONLY way to change the drug law from criminal to civil liability so that the families of addicts can sue for damages, is to quit electing lawyers to legislative offices.

This thought deserves its own thead.

OK, I'll do that.

hsandman wrote:Miss Teen USA South Carolina 2007 with Subtitles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WALIARHHLII

Animated Interpretation of Miss South Carolina's Map Answer
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That's too much depressing truth for any sentient being to handle.

Thanks bill, thanks d.b. Who you want to read it? You can skip all that classic stuff if you only want young people to read it, and most of their elders think History begins in 1776, I've seen a few places where a Roman author, aware that he had the words of Greeks going back hundreds of years befo...

I just saw a brilliant lecture by Austrian economist Hans Hoppe. He has some brilliant insights into democracy, wars and also guerrilla warfare. See it here: http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-7797135333744595911 I got to watch about 2/3 of it before the feed crashed. He has some unique, but r...

This year the Edge Foundation asks noted scientists and thinkers (including Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins, Paul Davies and Daniel C. Dennett): "WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY?" (Click names below "Contributors" on the left of the page to go to articles.) Spoze I h...

At some point, in my 20's, I decided I should see what had already been written. I read the New Testament cover to cover, then the Old Testament cover to cover. And realized what Bullshit Christianity was. So, I looked for, and found even earlier writings, the Upanishads, the Bagavad Gita, Lao Tzu, ...

Under Capitalism, the guy who runs the factory rides home in a limo to a trophy wife at the door of his villa. But under Communism, the guy who runs the factory rides home in a limo to a trophy wife at the door of his dacha. Nevertheless, it is in the public good that there be factories; the only qu...

I appreciate the consideration Ryan, but the genetic engineering side of the human genome is several orders of magnitude more complex than doing it for corn, and fraught with unseen unintended consequences. Doing it the old fashioned way, breeding hominids the same as you'd do with any other livesto...

If anyone wants a free market perspective by one of the greats, here is Milton Friedman on the case for legalization - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyystXOfDqo Waitaminit. I like what he has to say, but the case for legalization ultiamately hasta be made by lawyers in legislative bodies. And thos...

Another problem- during the handshake, each modem evaluates the noise level, which the tap cannot do; it cannot know what is on each end of each local loop. The character of the noise determines the form of the signal. Even if they had the full cooperation of the telephone company, once the signal g...

Well, if you want to understand the Founding Farmers, read what they read. Thucydides went around to talk with the veterans of the Peloponnesian wars, and produced the world's first reliable history. Plutarch took scholarship to a new level comparing and contrasting pairs of famous military and poli...

There is an inversion transformer in every telephone and 56k modem Hsandman. What it does, is cancels out the sound coming from your mic so that you only hear what's coming from the other end. But a phone signal has only two wires, operating at 'full duplex', and only your end knows what you said, a...

You are welcome to your opinion as well. I repeat my point. who getsta define regulation? If you are a bystander you may be more concerned with the social and environmental costs of a deal, but if you are making the deal, then your concern is the perceived personal benefit. Secondly, you cannot have...

However RNA, DNA, and methyl tags work, the cumulative result, as seen in Bouchard's studies of identical twins raised by different families proves there is a very powerful genetic effect. Alan Greenspan:"It wont matter how much money we throw at medicare if there are not enuf nurses to deliver...

No, I've never had windows on my own desktop. Only used dos, OS/2, and Linux distros. Since I have a lotta old drives around- I get dead PCs brought in from time to time, the ability of Xandros to see what is on the drive no matter what it is, is an important perk. I dunno why, its the only distro I...

to daybrown: I'm sorry, but your posts are so convoluted and aimless that it seems pointless for me to reply. You don't seem to be responding to my posts; you go off on tangents and don't tie them into the discussion; in short, you rant. And judging by the number of posts you make, it seems clear t...

Gibbon noted that in the heyday of the Roman repulic, the legions were manned by the sons of yeoman farmers who thot they had an inheritance to protect and some say in the laws. But when they switched to what we'd call an all volunteer army, it was drawn from the disenfranchised lower orders and eve...

Yes that's what I meant by casual, in addition to word processing and spreadsheets which I already know that Linux supports handsomely. I'm glad to hear that there's a very-close-to-truly-user-friendly Linux distro - I've heard of Ubuntu before but haven't checked it out yet. Go that penguin! I've ...

Nobody can plant sabotage software in open source without others wondering what that section of code is doing there. False. Reflections on Trusting Trust I know where he's coming from, but dont buy it. Its not that self replicating code cannot be written, its that there's been so much effort trying...

And if it isnt complex enuf already factor in methyl tags; which from what I can tell hang like ticks from certain points on the DNA which empower or disable it. The most convincing evidence I know of was a Swedish study showing how a generation that suffered malnutrition growing up had grandchildre...

Tomas wrote:.

Love of My Life -- by Carly Simon

http://www.carlysimon.com/music/Lyrics/ ... _Life.html

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Sounds like a dependency syndrome.

Who getsta define "minimal"? The definition keeps changing as we become aware of unexpected benefits or downsides. The question with regulation has a lot to do with who crafts the rules. Much of the problem now is that some rules are written by corporate hacks hired by bureacrats whose spi...

. Will Big Brother finally arrive in 2008? Thomas Jefferson told us that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. We must decide whether we will allow the government to use technology to restrain us or whether we will use technology to restrain the government. http://www.opednews.com/articles/ope...

. Meet the Press's Tim Russert, who seemed to have taken too much ritalin last week, seemed to be on prozac today. http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/018101.html . I didnt pick up on that, but it makes sense that Ron Paul is a loose canon on the ship of state who is very likely to blow ...