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I've invited ST to rejoin us a few days ago, and he has said he will do so soon.

Um, hoosie, I registered on the old Spengler Board on Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:12 pm, only a few months after you did. Except for a distant Turkish heritage, I don't think Ibrahim and myself have very much in common. I figured that Ibrahim wanted to test the waters before re launching the Aferim sock. Onl...

Post script When you have an item of coverage where you just bump up your premium by the amount of benefit per member per month you form an actuarial logic loop, and insurance on any industry generally does not cover such items. Like say tampons. I am not convinced here. 1st, only women can take BC ...

Aferim no offense but I think you're way off here: 1: BC has largely not been covered by private insurance even though the gov't does not ban it since the founding and somehow we're all still here and became the most economically successful nation in world history. When you have an item of coverage...

Well, the modern states co-evolved with modern societies and the two are so closely meshed together that it is impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins. What are the legitimate roles of government: Create an environment in which individuals and associations of individuals can interact ...

Aside from this specific bill and my disgust with changing a good bill that's gone multiple years with high votes to renew in what appears an obvious partisan ploy, I would want specifics. Are the GOP bad because of opposition to abortion? Availability of women's health clinics? Are they excluded f...

Endo, thanks! Can you share the source?

Demon of Undoing wrote: Wait until we can print gene sequences.

Or girlfriends and boyfriends.

Typical Escobar agitprop. A waste of perfectly good photons. Re the larger subject of war porn, anyone who has seen Jacques Callot or Francisco Goya will be hard pressed to find the modern hack-jobs impressive or shocking. People are fascinated by death. Nothing abnormal about it. War porn is simply...

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/278758/end-future-peter-thiel Progress is neither automatic nor mechanistic; it is rare. Indeed, the unique history of the West proves the exception to the rule that most human beings through the millennia have existed in a naturally brutal, unchanging, and imp...

Web history was off since the option first appeared, but thanks anyway.

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and reli...

Azrael wrote:kovGM1ZrCck

I remember seeing that on TV, what was it 10 years ago.

see also:

Hypersonic bolus
Launch Loop
Orbital Ring
Rotovator
Skyhook
Space fountain

Note that Terra's gravity well is too deep for most of of these methods with current material tech.

Very interesting. Worst of all, it could be true.

Why do people dislike Romney so? He'll be a competent president, one would guess, more so than the current crop of office-holder + other contenders.

Mr. Perfect wrote:I would have to say that part of the reason that "European" has become the kick around term that it has to some is more with the long time Democrat preening and preaching to the rest of us, rather than opposition to European people per say.

Per se.

YMix wrote:Heeeeeeello, Aferim.

Hello Ymix. I actually spent my Christmas in Romania near Brasov, in a place called Magure, visiting with the family of a London banker. Beautiful place. The kids loved it.

Typhoon wrote:Aferim

Thanks.