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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 10:16 PM) No way. They are the exact same size and Scottie defended 3 positions at an elite level. You don't remember Scottie accurately. More power? Really? IIRC ss2k5 said that Deng is a better defender than Pippen was at one point

So why has the NRA worked so hard to prevent any sort of data-gathering and analysis?

Most of that sort of research is conducted directly by the government or with government grants. The federal government is legally prohibited from such research related to guns, nor is there any reason to assume that the CDC or NIH would be biased in their research.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 04:58 PM) If we must have gun laws in this country they should be advocated to the public and written by people who have taken the time to learn bare-minimum terminology. Its not complicated, a clip loads a magazine which feeds rounds into the chamber. Boom. Now you know, wasn't that easy? I already knew. It'd be nice if Biden had known. I'm sure the laws will be written with the proper terminology, though. Knowing the technical difference between clips and magazines for a speech really doesn't matter, though. If he says limit it to a "10 roudn clip" or a "10 round magazine," everybody is going to know exactly what he means.

this is an inherent flaw in the way our economy is structured. there's rot in the sausage. http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2011/09...lers-wurst.html The perverse incentives in the first quoted paragraph go beyond banking, of course.

Regulator--->Industry--->Regulator--->Industry

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 04:40 PM) Same exact concept: Dude who has absolutely no idea what he's talking about hopes to create policy based on his ignorant factpinions. And it wasn't just mixing up, it was more than that. Usually people who get clip and magazine confused simply believe they are one in the same, so how would it makes sense for 40 clips to fit inside one magazine? And the comment about clips in rounds... where do I even start? Is there a bullet out there that can store more bullets inside it to make reloading faster? But then if there were... but there cant... it doesn't make any sense. well now that I've read what he actually said, I'll just say "Joe Biden." But it's still not equivalent to the rape stuff, because there's other issues wrapped up in that.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 04:40 PM) Same exact concept: Dude who has absolutely no idea what he's talking about hopes to create policy based on his ignorant factpinions. If he accidentally or mistakenly calls a magazine a clip, he's mixed up terminology but not actual functionality. You, me and everyone else knows exactly what he's referring to there--he wants to limit the number of bullets a gun can hold at any one time. If he mixes that up but it's correct in the legislation, it doesn't really matter. It'd be nice for them not to continually give easy-outs like this, though, and become familiar with bare-minimum terminology. When someone starts talking about "legitimate rape" and making up medical claims, that's a different story. They are factually wrong, and that wrongness forms the basis for inherently flawed policy. They've got the functionality, to keep the analogy, all wrong.

Mixing up clip/magazine terminology isn't really that important and isn't analogous to "legitimate rape" comments.

Or is the system itself inherently flawed, unstable and unsustainable?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 03:34 PM) Filibuster is not about what you say, but what it can be spun into. Its why conversations never really go anywhere productive. Pretending that I attributed Duke's views to Hoppe or said he shared the same views as Hoppe even after I explicitly said I wasn't doing that is why conversations fail to be productive.

not actually what I was doing but w/e

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 03:11 PM) I use straw men all the time, so it'd be unfair for me to judge others for it. I don't think describing your stated beliefs as libertarian minarchism is a strawman. A state whose sole function is to enforce property rights is a pretty good definition of that. I didn't attribute Hans-Hermann Hoppe's ideas to you but said they were at the extreme end of that ideology. You can throw guys like Walter Block in there, too.

It's pretty basic libertarian minarchism, which I have sort of a weird interest in. It's anti-democratic, and the most bizarre is when they take it all the way to supporting monarchy.

The sole role of the state should be to enforce private property rights through violence?

can we just repeal the awful DMCA already? http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/unlock...-rule-insanity/

It's a specifically s***ty outcome, but I don't know if it warrants a law that specifically allows pensions to be revoked if a teacher molests a student. Does that happen often enough to warrant consideration? Would it be fair to take away decades of pension contributions? A public school employee would be facing a much harsher sentence than a non-public school employee for the same crime.

Would your network provider be able to tell and then report/sue?

I've waffled back and forth between "we needed to bail them out" and "let the whole rotten system burn to the ground" over the past few years. This might be my tipping point.

Would a factory worker with a pension they paid into their whole life be forfeited if they were imprisoned? Short of a law explicitly allowing for pension revocation (CA has one for convicted elected officials), there's nothing they can legally do here.

Reid is worse than useless.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 01:30 PM) If your pay goes up (just throwing this number out there) 5% in one year, and inflation claims 5% of the dollars value in that same year.... your wage is stagnant. Yep. Real wages for most people have been stagnant for decades. But GDP-per-capita hasn't, so there's something else going on there. Inflation hasn't been much of a threat for a while now, and the strength of a currency is usually discussed in reference to other currencies via exchange rates.

please tell me you're a goldbug

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 01:05 PM) By borrowing all the money for your social welfare programs to make yourself feel good you've crushed the value of the dollar which has stagnated wages. Cost of everything goes up, our pay stays the same and Papa Government no matter what still needs his slice to just pay the interest. The value of the dollar is crushed? And that's what has stagnated wages? Wouldn't a weak currency be better for domestic manufacturing jobs that were often a way to a middle-class life in the past?

Nah, that is a dumb, bad-faith interpretation of what I said given the context of the discussion. but if you're suggesting that you're cool with structural racism and generational poverty that's good to know