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|the possibility that our language has been constructed to give people like you more ammunition against others? The idea that the language was constructed is pretty silly. It's suc…

'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' Granted, it's aspirational.

Yeah, I shouldn't have said 'gibberish' but rather random words / lies. Just don't answer the questions basically.

The number of times I screw up there/their or hear/here is infuriating. I know the goddamn difference, but these idiot fingers keep getting it wrong!

You should be giving gibberish answers to those anyway. They're probably stored as plaintext, but on the off chance they're not, treat them as a backup password and don't answer th…

Driving through airport terminals is possibly one of the most chaotic possible environments, with people almost suicidally throwing themselves in front of you, not to even speak of…

As I understand the term 'neo-liberal' it's kind of a hybrid ideology that strides the two US political parties. Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton are both neo-liberals, though osten…

People do that all the time when everything Apple gets attributed to Steve Jobs.

Rather than apply the brakes, barring the person jumping in front of you and braking, it could just stop applying the accelerator. Nice easy slowdown to create the gap without brak…

|no one would chime in and say "No way, murder is perfectly fine, you just did it last night!" No, but they might say: "Why should we listen to you!? MURDERER!" Then proceed to sto…

Right, but if they gun you down, there's not much that's likely to happen. They might have to get a job in a different city. *Edit: Also, not every city has stand your ground laws.…

|It's like an idiot going to jail for "SWATing" someone but where the SWAT team can still bust down doors and kill based on random tips. Or getting the wrong house. Remember kids: …

|By which you mean, there's been a movement by employers towards the right to work for less. Unions can keep people out of professions in a lot of places in the US. Right to work m…

Yes, they're different things. They're also the two basic tools in the union toolkit for driving up wages.

It's artificially lowered because the Federal Reserve is manipulating interest rates, rather than allowing them to fluctuate based on the conditions in the market. Interest is basi…

Not taking isn't the same as giving. If you oppose something, it's a good idea to demonstrate you understand what you're against, otherwise you risk looking stupid.

The one where interest rates aren't being artificially lowered.

I guess you could say it's not a union, but it's pretty much the same thing. At least, it's pulling the same levers to get desired outcomes.

|Unions improve compensation by increasing the share of the profits pie given (or returned, rather) to labor Revenue pie, not profits pie. A union will negotiate better terms for i…

Fair enough. I'm used to union arrangements where membership is required for the given profession, which is pretty common in the US. There's been a movement to right to work, but e…

|Unionisation may help By restricting the supply of talent, thus artificially driving up wages, but at the same time keeping a lot of people from being able to pursue their dream.

In my defense, the one person I accused of being a communist on this board, turned out to actually be one :) Less flippantly, you're spot on. I'd go further, and say overuse of the…

I bought my Honda Fit for $16.5k. It's one of the more expensive cars in it's class, but me, I was willing to pay a little more for the luxury :)

The productivity gains from SO awesome. That site has provided me with more value than maybe anything else on the web. To me it represents some of the best of what the internet has…

I would call those good questions from someone experienced or savvy. The guy I'm talking about didn't even care to know what we make . It's not like we were Facebook or something w…