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    Comment #25659137

    From your website: "Admit Nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter-Accusations" Why am I not surprised to see this kind of instinctive reaction. I don't want to debate your points be…

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    Comment #25659005

    Why do you have to make work fun, shouldn't you already be enjoying it if you are doing what you want to do? Are you not doing what you want to do? See, that's the kind of problem …

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    Comment #25658969

    This is Capitalism. Everything has to be family friendly so it can reach as wide an audience as possible. When you're waiting for customer support, you have to hear a fun jingle so…

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    Comment #25650476

    The idea that the alternative to copyright means artists working for free is an ideological conflation not even the wealthiest, most cynical person on earth could have dreamt up.

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    Comment #25649197

    The argument a layman would make in favour of this is: "if people know they could rent seek with their intellectual property and potentially make millions of dollars charging peopl…

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    Comment #25629226

    The alternative is trusting corporations, who also give your data to the government. Who do you trust with power then?

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    Comment #25626058

    I find the show to be incredible, not just in terms of rhetoric but actually just aesthetically, it's got very pleasing visuals and there is no overuse of edits and sound. But some…

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    Comment #25611104

    Aren't teachers supposed to provide the annotations themselves with their english knowledge?

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    Comment #25578920

    >They saw no evidence of a crime and had no authority to enter his home or fenced property Weird, this hasn't stopped the police before.

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    Comment #25569510

    Are you suggesting you'd kill someone if they tried to tax you slightly more highly? Or if they took some of your child's inheritance according to a means tested solution? That is …

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    Comment #25569490

    This is a lot of odd, complex moral statements used to denounce a comparatively simple and separate idea, that wealth should be distributed somewhat more fairly. Inequality is goin…

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    Comment #25569416

    Liveable necessities like water, food, and housing, that are either wasted on inefficient food production methods or given to rent-seekers (by the economic definition of the term).…

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    Comment #25569389

    It's a big topic to get into, but what I really mean is there are certain resources that we either throw away or don't distribute that wouldn't require relocation, and could be giv…

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    Comment #25569263

    An example of a market failure is climate change, or at least many market failures are contained within this problem. Are you suggesting the government take a hands off approach to…

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    Comment #25569207

    This is a logical leap i'm afraid. We have been trying to give people what they need using government welfare for a century now. It's not communism to correctly understand that som…

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    Comment #25569174

    > It is the hereditary nature of wealth which is the largest contributor to long-term inequality. Hereditary wealth is a specific form of rent-seeking which is something liberal ec…

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    Comment #25569143

    China's policy wasn't all that successful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_women_of_China Population control is a very outdated idea, we have enough resources for the populati…

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    Comment #25569125

    For those that are inevitably about to argue and downvote the above... It seems the economy is returning, smartly, towards keynesian models because we've seen first hand how destru…

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    Comment #25559207

    This story is deeper than 'life crushed this one individual's childhood dreams'. At any turn during the story, the author could have become something much worse. He could have beco…

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    Comment #25559078

    It's like I'm reading a comic about my own life, except as it is happening in the 21st century.

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    Comment #25552968

    As a wannabe beekeeper myself i can tell you honey bees aren't without their problems. Farming of honey bees has put other wild bee species into decline, and they make up a signifi…

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