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vixen99

2,427karma·3,106submissions·February 19, 2008
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It's not a journalist's job to upset people? What a strange opinion and who do you suppose should judge?
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Trick those kids? Seems there are a lot of kids. http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/01/what-if-these-lone-wolves-w... …
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Right thing to do for what? Whose taxes are going to pay for the massively indebted welfare states of the West or should they default?
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'spread(ing) Western culture and ideas'? Would you care to expand on that? You presumably disapprove.
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The UK in the 70s had a tax rate of 95% thus encouraging payment of much higher salaries to make it worthwhile for talented staff. If the tax rate is thereafter lowered to something sensible then the …
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Rhetoric can get carried away with itself but your last sentence does, in my experience, hit the nail on the head. Rather a shame.
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So all you non-Americans and non-Indians - now you know!
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"Within hours of it being uploaded, the film had been viewed more than 10,000 times. The majority of viewers gave it a 'thumbs up' on Youtube, with around 800 giving it a poor review.&q…
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Perhaps someone will suggest a review that takes down Mark Steyn's After America but I haven't seen it. There is nothing virtuous about “caring” compassionate” “progressives” demonstrating h…
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'general quality of life for the average American is worse than many places in Western Europe'. Maybe but here's food for thought - Fraser Nelson of the UK Spectator found that if Brita…
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I thought he talked about giving money not buying shares. Any gift at all can be thought as an investment in the broader sense of the word so beloved of governments spending taxpayers' money.
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Why do users (I guess I'm not being singled out) put up with unresponsivenes of s0.wp.com etc.,? I've given up trying to read it (the article of interest) and it's no surprise when I lo…
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'Science and Conservatism are partially exclusive'. Your view is naive because it's uninformed as in 'conservatism means to keep (conserve) the current.'. Oh please, start wi…
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Bias in the social sciences? 'In one survey they conducted of academic social psychologists, "82 percent admitted that they would be at least a little bit prejudiced against a conservative …
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Inclined to agree but lack of replication does not of itself point to trash science. There may well be other good reasons for so-defining this project.
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Superb and lots of fun into the bargain.
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Well some of us do respond emotionally sometimes.
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Summing up - "Rather than worry about 'detoxing,' people would be better off thinking about eating nutritious, health-promoting foods on a daily basis. Think leafy greens, beans, whole …
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Apostrophe use is not confusing. Its (and yours and ours) use is pretty straightforward (if you say 'it is use' to yourself, that is) unlike many computer languages with which many folk who …
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'The Popperian ideal of science that you describe is only practiced within what Kuhn calls "normal science" '. Where do you get this definitive statement from? Popper writes about …
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Relevant to the subject Einstein addresses I strongly recommend the writing of Thomas Sowell. http://www.tsowell.com/
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A bit offensive? Why?
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1368980/ is a nice paper showing what happens to various markers after very low carbohydrate/high saturated fat and hig…
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'AI will not be a separate intelligent entity, it will be the extension/evolution of existing intelligent entity, that is us.' With respect to intellectual threat I don't think you…
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Agreed! And believe it or not, there are people who don't have 'social accounts'. (Yes, quite normal thanks, no obvious lesions)
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Yes I think we do - nice one!
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Peacefully dying with France's and UK's immigrants high birth rate bucking the trend a bit.
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Sorry - "I am NOT in a position to judge"!
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