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    If we get enough money doanted, we might get Stef to sing "Soothe Operator" in the style of Sade on the next cast. If we get even more money, we might dissuade him.
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    Remember that the basis of scientific inquiry is the principle of disconfirmation. All you were asked was to formulate a null hypothesis that could be disproven, as a way for you to check your own thinking. If there is no possible falsification of your claims and conclusion, then that should be a red flag as to whether your thinking is lacking in clarity or explanatory power.
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    http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/446911/nuclear-bomb-Russia-explosion-panic-mushroom-cloud
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    The value of positive relationships with virtuous others, no matter what gender, is positive, whether or not it has some orthogonal value on the "getting some" axis.
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    I did a form of Option 1 that had even more teeth, which was if I left my employment with them voluntarily within three years of graduation I was responsible for repaying the full amount. It sounds like you don't intend to stay, so i wouldn't pursue that option at all, unless there was some way to feed what you learn into your job to expand your role to something both more fulfilling for you and more profitable for the company. Talking to a company about making them more money shouldn't be off the table, but it sounds like you have a dysfunctional management system there. Do you like your manager? Do you feel like you can be totally honest with him or her?
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    In many countries, the fees for hunting licenses are used to fund surveys of animal populations in order to set proper hunting limits and policies for appropriate levels of conservation. That is, cull enough animals to prevent overpopulation (which causes problems for populated areas), and don't cull so many that it endangers the survival of the population. This could be done voluntarily, of course, but it's pretty innocuously done.
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    The superheated ball of air in the middle is plasma. It will heat anything else around it by convection and by radiation. All kinetic events with enough energy make distinctive mushroom clouds. We've covered this ground repeatedly.
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    And the minute my neighbors have a few square feet of open space I can store my toolbox there. Or my children. Or dogs. "Sorry, I'm using that space now, it's not yours anymore." Mere locality creates local scarcity. You literally can't have everything close at hand, ever. The only examples of communism I have ever seen are communist states. It's ironic that everyone says there's never been a libertarian state so it can't work, and people are saying there's only been communist states, so we've not been able to see it worth either.
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    Indeed, I'm curious as to who wrote this legislation, and who knew its contents in advance.
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    Luckily it's all the gases in the area that get to the plasma state in the blast, not just the produced ones. Tons of kinetic energy ripping electrons off of everything leading to an easy jump to the plasma state. It's not a fireball, at first, it's plasma. Bright, super hot, and rapidly moving plasma.
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    Every single conclusion that uses those terms would have to be re-evaluated, and re-justified, in light of the change in meaning. This means full employment for certified philosophers! Money money money! Get certified today. Pay $1000 to FDR and post your notarized picture of a sacrificed yak to the Philosopher Kings double-secret probation forum to start the process! Watch this 38 minute unskippable, un fast forwardable, slide-show linked page flipper with ads to learn the secret that makes sophists quake in fear... Act in the next 24 hours and you will earn the free "I killed a straw man" tote bag that doubles as a shopping bag at Whole Foods.
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    Y-chromosome deficiency.
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    If there is still voluntarism but no private property, when the collective decides my house is better for the commissar I just give it up willingly then? No socialist or communist system ever overcomes conditions of local scarcity, and therefore a system of property is necessary. I guess we've never seen a communist state then, only Leninist, Stalinist, Maoist, etc. It's a much of a unicorn as the libertarian state.
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    To me, "voluntary" would mean that only people that voted for taxes would pay them. Only people that voted for conscription would be subject to it. Only people that use services would pay for them. People would be free to make what they want and sell to whomever they want for whatever price they want. Does voluntary communism look like this?
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    Going one more syllable to "four leaf clovers" would lose 1/3 of the audience due to waning attention span.
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    Does divinity school have laboratories where undergrads are re-enacting and verifying miraculous experiments?
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    "I spent four years studying the theory and practice of nuclear physics and found no reason to doubt that nuclear weapons exist and work" is not an argument? He didn't say that exactly, but that is certainly what he meant.
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    I think the Facebook group is still active... I will have to look it up.
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    The funny thing about reductio ad absurdum is that no matter what transitions are discovered, you have created two more zones where transitions have not been discovered. "Missing links" have been found repeatedly, and creationists just move the goalposts.
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    @JDStembal, I think a lot of others are in agreement with you: http://anymanfitness.com/its-not-the-dad-bod-thats-the-problem-its-the-dad-mindset/
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    Encryption has always been a race of complexity versus the cost to overcome that complexity. The massive cost to make quantum computers to do anything productive is representative of their immature technology, but you are right to expect that it will eventually become good enough to deal with today's encryption. But today's parallel computing facilities are also rather effective at dealing with modern encryption. It's all about whether you want to pay for the equipment and power to brute force a message, a stream, or a disk that might have something actionable in it. The NSA could become a first class miner, and perhaps go on to subvert the system, if they wanted to spend the money to do it. A *lot* of money. And what's the payoff?
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    The sun is not mine to share but you can see it every day.
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    I literally see thermonuclear explosions every day. Even in Seattle.
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    What I like is outrageous fantasy that connects back to the real world without hitting you over the head with some message. For example, The Incredibles emphasizing the strength of a family that builds mutual support of its members. Nothing wrong with escape as long as you return. If the children are always trying to escape, there's something to investigate.
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