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5,951karma·4,108submissions·November 9, 2014
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I know a lot about Australia. The raids on families in the Northern territories (and else where) are taking children hundreds (thousands) of miles from their homes. Children are being taken from thei…
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"some of which consisted of forced adoptions of native children to white families." They still are doing that, and at a higher rate.
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Once again here we have a European with a "Good Idea" for Africa. I guess Africans are too stupid to do anything for themselves, eh? The mobile phone revolution in Africa was African. West…
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Exactly. It is silly to aim for billions. Aim for making a living by providing a service that some people will pay for. Small percentage of people paying a small fee multiplied by the Internet. Th…
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It is still committing horrible atrocities against the native population. They are taking more indigenous children from their parents than they ever have.
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Not in New Zealand if you work in the movies or in game development. In New Zealand the law is for sale and Warner Brothers invested.... Now workers in the film industry and the computer game indust…
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FFS Solution 6: Nationalise the pharmaceutical industry and get health experts deciding priorities
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Why? A wheel with less corners...
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"You are kidding, right? Do you know how many people die of opioid overdose every year?" Not of heroin overdose. Often "heroin overdose" is reported in the MSM but it is inaccurat…
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"There is a strong selection bias among the people I see" This is a real problem in drug policy. The majority of drug users stay well clear of medical professionals. They learn quickly no…
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My comment was based on my general knowledge. Most recently by reading the book "Chasing the Scream". Look it up, I forget the author. But your challenge made me go look, and in about 20 s…
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If you misuse signals. I am rusty on low level programming but I have done enough to know that this poster is whining a bit too much. Signals should only be used in the general case for exceptional ci…
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What harm does heroin do a person? Pharmacologically it does very little. Addiction is the main harm. The vast majority of drug users do not have problems (almost every adult uses drugs) except prob…
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"none of those will happen because there are too many people making too much money from the current paradigm" Portugal Colorado/Washington/Alaska In the UK they have returned to pr…
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It is a generalisation but a good one. "Getting clean" is a loaded term. Most (not all) people who have "drug" problems actually have police problems. The drugs do them very lit…
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Functionality?
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The problem with inequality in modern western "democracies" is not that people are not equal. The problem is that the inequalities are so stark and wide. Campaigners against inequality (who…
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(a) How is it possible to say "if we can even call that a problem" re inequality? (b) How is it possible to say inequality does not stem from capitalism? Where else could it stem from. I am…
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Insists on cookies, they do. Read their page? Not I!
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"An error occurred while trying to compress javascript text." Hmmm.... Firstly I think I gave it too much JS code to deal with and it choked (about 3,000 lines). Running it twice in a row al…