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[quote user="Alan Chapman"] Venezuela signs gun control bill [quote]Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro signed a gun control bill into law in a bid to rein in the country's runaway violent crime. "I hereby sign into law this gun control law, for peace in our nation," Maduro said on Friday in an address in Vargas state. The
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[quote user="Rob_Ilir"] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YclFOwcfxCI from Sam Vaknin is an interesting test. Maybe I am old fashioned, but I consider all mental illnesses as reactionary false selfs, and I can empathise with those who have not lived a single day of life yet without all the harlequin masks. [/quote] I'm not sure the terms
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In "Iraq: a decade of hell" Stef made a great case against the war. But at one stage he blamed "patriotism" for it. In this his views are less solidly based. There is a great effort to convince you to be "patriotic", that is to put your country above your own interest. This is not the same as jingoism, the automatic cheerleading
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[quote user="David L"] [quote user="Ryan"] I just don't get it. If logic and the scientific method are paramount and, the only redeemable aspect of Buddhism is meditation, why not just call yourself an atheist who enjoys meditation and believes in universal morality? That way you don't associate yourself with anything that
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"The Defense Department survey of sexual assault in the military during fiscal 2012 estimated 26,000 assaults took place in the armed forces. Nearly 3,000 of them were formally reported. Just more than 6 percent of women reported being victims of assault and 1.2 percent of men said the same. Given the much larger number of men in the military,
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[quote user="NateForLiberty"] Movies have one purpose, to make money. If your film can be construed to be "anti-military" or "against the troops", you won't make as much money. By putting that stuff in before the credits they are covering their asses. Who cares. [/quote] It's progress that they made a film where
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28 NEGOTITATION! The most important skill you can have. 29 Critical path analysis and other management skills.
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[quote user="huttnedu"] [quote user="ribuck"] The paper proposes that things are alive if they move by themselves against gravity. Are you actually serious about this, or is it some kind of joke? What about a cell in orbit around the earth? How does it move by itself against gravity? What about flames? Are they not moving by themselves
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[quote user="ChekhovsGun"] Based upon the video Stef made on the topic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbNu0Akyj4s I was wondering if people here think there is such a thing as being sociopathic in degrees? In other words, someone who exhibits primarily a lack of conscience but it is not abundantly clear they completely lack it? If someone
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Bear in mind that solving a "public goods problem" is an exercise in cooperation, and we happen to belong to most successfully cooperative species in the known universe. It shouldn't be THAT hard. Certainly simpler than solving the problem (itself a "public goods/collective action problem") of making the state behave decently