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One reason being he died unexpectedly (assassination). The Nobel Peace Prize also wasn't awarded that year due to no suitable living candidates, which can be considered an acknowle…

I wonder if COD:GHOSTS will beat this. From what I'm seeing, GTAV has a few advantages: Non-yearly (or biyearly) release schedule for an extremely well-known franchise. No outstand…

Is # an acceptable character?

That wasn't a criticism. It was a short, sarcastic jeer with poor grammar.

Which != left liberalism.

I'm reading Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series right now, and I'm struck by the comparisons he makes between Soviet and Nazi military doctrines. Essentially, the former is controll…

At least post the original and not some paranoid screed.

Tbh I would expect higher intelligence among engineers vs the general public if only due to selection effects. Smart kids tend to be more pushed towards professions under that labe…

However, one could argue that such an agreement would only represent a codified social contract. Ie it's still "You aren't holding up your end of the bargain" rather than "the cont…

> Thomas again used the "en-loco parentis" argument he often makes in decisions involving children Just a note: it's in loco parentis, latin for in the place of the parent.

Prohibition was 1920-1933.

My experience has been somewhat different. 2012 was a wholly miserable year for me and I honestly feel that it was rather pointless ordeal exacerbated by toxic relationships I lack…

I've also wondered if the incentives with regards to cheating have changed. It's certainly easier to cheat. And if grades are perceived as having a greater effect on standing, the …

AOPA is purely general (non-commercial) aviation, so the first point is correct, although iirc the data was from actual incidents. I don't know if anything like that has ever happe…

A few years ago at AOPA I attended a seminar on this. Turns out the success rate is extremely high provided you are able to get in contact with someone on the ground.

But is that truly de-anonymizing? I share my legal name with several famous people, and numerous SEO'd professionals. Barring more specific searching knowing specific details I am …

> Suicide is the one crime Suicide is not a crime in the united states.

Arguably it makes the system less effective by adding a disincentive to enforcing the law in that specific fashion. There's also the risk that, to paraphrase kurt vonnegut, the mor…

Thq is getting desperate it seems. Really hoping they're able get their next wave of games out before they go under.

No. He stated that his uncle, the current leader, was a dictator.

In this context, privilege is being used in the sense of, "he was a child of privilege."

>- Prescriptions are in units of pills, not nanograms of active substance While that level of precision would be nice, pills are delineated by dosage so you can simply give 100mg o…

> It's not hard to imagine a near future, if not a present, in which a person's identity is entirely evaluated, shaped, and determined by a monolith such as facebook. I don't think…

And that's even assuming that Avengers should have been categorized as scifi.

I feel that there is a still stronger form of the argument out there. Or maybe it's closely related. It incorporates what you just said as well as the fact that intelligence != soc…