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homonculus1

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About homonculus1

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” --C.S. Lewis

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    Comment #33865406

    How slow do you read??

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    Comment #33856195

    Expanding the DMCA model to speech in general! Ten years ago I would have been very surprised to see this take on HN.

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    Comment #33825629

    Well, your examples are from 50 years ago...

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    Comment #33823076

    Hershey bars are made by Hershey, not by Nestle.

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    There aren't going to be fewer people as a result of this, there are just going to be fewer South Koreans in South Korea. When developed nations pursue non-procreative social polic…

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    He was surely the leader of a fine category: "Pretiboy" "Swepestake" "Stanchebost" But, there was also another kind: "Plodder" "Vagrawnte" "Helpeles"

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    We call ours "Monty" for short

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    It's not going to be for people convicted of multiple DUI's.

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    Comment #33700390

    Bloody sheep!

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    Comment #33675023

    That's a birth defect, not a sex.

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    Comment #33674957

    "Male" and "man" are an adjective and a noun referring to the same thing.

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    Comment #33662696

    Because that's where the rhyme is, dummy.

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    Earth weighs 0.6 yomommagrams

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    But I'm not left-handed!

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    Put them in jail. There's no reason the general public should have to deal with them anywhere, rich or poor. The fact that we do is a policy decision.