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Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by Craven Morehead, Jul 2, 2013.

  1. curiousbear

    curiousbear Terse & Bizarre

    “Now we know that even the president needs leaks from Edward Snowden to be fully informed about the dastardly acts of his own top spy agency,” wrote Robert Scheer, a writer for The Nation. (link)
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    2 Teachers Save School Bus-Load of Kids
     
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  2. mixedmedia

    mixedmedia ...

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  3. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member

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  4. mixedmedia

    mixedmedia ...

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    The way I put it when I posted the same article on my facebook page:

    Can we finally agree that having the ability to maneuver your way into a high-paying career does not mean that you're not just another blithering idiot?
     
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  5. Plan9

    Plan9 Rock 'n Roll

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    Durka-Durka, NSA Jihad!

    "The NSA is apparently monitoring online gamers in hopes of catching terrorists."

    And all they're discovering is that kids call each other "n00b fagz" a whole lot.
     
  6. snowy

    snowy so kawaii Staff Member

    Dude, that's so 2006.
     
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  7. Plan9

    Plan9 Rock 'n Roll

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    Well, 1337 hAx0r, you should have let us all know back in 2006.

    I committed verbal war crimes via AOL Instant Messenger, too.
     
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  8. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member

  9. Street Pattern

    Street Pattern Very Tilted

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  10. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

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  11. Street Pattern

    Street Pattern Very Tilted

    On the other hand, to refuse the pardon, which was demanded by tens of thousands of Britons, would be to ignore the UK's responsibility for the horrific wrong that was done to Turing.

    The writer in the linked column is being a contrarian. It's just perverse to see Turing's pardon as somehow validating wrongs done to others at the time.
     
  12. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

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    It's not about refusing it.

    Where do you see that?
     
  13. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member

  14. snowy

    snowy so kawaii Staff Member

    Not surprised, but it still makes me happy: Robin Roberts Reveals She Is Gay In Facebook Post Robin Roberts has been a pioneer for women in a number of ways. Watching her sportscasting career as a girl made me realize women could be into sports too.
     
  15. Street Pattern

    Street Pattern Very Tilted

    Poll: Republican Belief In Evolution Has Plummeted In Recent Years
    This supports a theory of mine about partisanship.

    Pundits take it for granted that, when a conflict arises between the views of an individual and the views of his/her political party, the party loses them.

    It has been my observation, though, that a person experiencing such a conflict is more likely to change their views on an issue than to change their partisanship.

    The abortion issue is a good example of this. In the last 25 years, the Democratic Party has moved firmly into the pro-choice camp, while the Republican Party has moved in the opposite direction.

    You might think that pro-life Democrats and pro-choice Republicans would tend to change parties, so as to align with their views on abortion, but there has been relatively little of that. Instead, millions of people have changed their views on abortion, to align with their partisanship.

    The theory of evolution has become unpopular among leading Republicans (remember the 2012 Republican presidential candidates, at a debate, all disavowing it), so belief in evolution has declined among Republicans generally.

    As the number of Biblical creationists grows among Republicans, the pro-evolutionists will come under increasing pressure to change their views. And the more who switch, the more pressure there will be on the ones who remain.

    Hence, I expect the decline of pro-science views among Republicans to continue, or even accelerate, in coming years.
     
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  16. Japchae

    Japchae Very Tilted

  17. redux

    redux Very Tilted

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  18. hamsterball

    hamsterball Seeking New Outlets

  19. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member

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  20. hamsterball

    hamsterball Seeking New Outlets