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- Fri May 04, 2012 11:46 am
- Forum: This Forum
- Topic: Welcome to the OTNOT Forum
- Replies: 145
- Views: 30305
Re: Welcome to the OTNOT Forum
I've invited ST to rejoin us a few days ago, and he has said he will do so soon.
- Fri May 04, 2012 11:15 am
- Forum: This Forum
- Topic: Socks
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1596
Re: Socks
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...
- Wed May 02, 2012 10:16 am
- Forum: North America | Canada; USA; Mexico
- Topic: Let's Just Say It, the Republicans Are the Problem
- Replies: 132
- Views: 5397
Re: Let's Just Say It, the Republicans Are the Problem
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 ...
- Wed May 02, 2012 10:09 am
- Forum: North America | Canada; USA; Mexico
- Topic: Let's Just Say It, the Republicans Are the Problem
- Replies: 132
- Views: 5397
Re: Let's Just Say It, the Republicans Are the Problem
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...
- Wed May 02, 2012 9:50 am
- Forum: North America | Canada; USA; Mexico
- Topic: What is a government good for?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1562
Re: What is a government good for?
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 ...
- Wed May 02, 2012 9:09 am
- Forum: North America | Canada; USA; Mexico
- Topic: Let's Just Say It, the Republicans Are the Problem
- Replies: 132
- Views: 5397
Re: Let's Just Say It, the Republicans Are the Problem
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...
- Wed May 02, 2012 8:31 am
- Forum: North America | Canada; USA; Mexico
- Topic: North America
- Replies: 112
- Views: 5841
Re: North American Thread
Endo, thanks! Can you share the source?
- Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:54 pm
- Forum: Science + Technology
- Topic: 3D Printing and Copyright
- Replies: 229
- Views: 21301
Re: 3D Printing and Copyright
Or girlfriends and boyfriends.Demon of Undoing wrote: Wait until we can print gene sequences.
- Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:33 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: War porn: The new safe sex
- Replies: 16
- Views: 883
Re: War porn: The new safe sex
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...
- Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:38 am
- Forum: Science + Technology
- Topic: Rise of the Robots | Machine Learning
- Replies: 475
- Views: 87948
Re: Rise of the Robots
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...
- Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:59 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Remove your Google Search History by the end of Feb 29
- Replies: 14
- Views: 535
Re: Remove your Google Search History by the end of Feb 29
Web history was off since the option first appeared, but thanks anyway.
- Wed Feb 15, 2012 2:41 pm
- Forum: Finance and Economics
- Topic: Capitalism and Its Discontents
- Replies: 381
- Views: 28930
Re: No great mystery here . . .
"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...
- Wed Feb 15, 2012 2:13 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: R.I.P. Whitney Houston (48)
- Replies: 53
- Views: 2046
Re: R.I.P. Whitney Houston (48)
I remember seeing that on TV, what was it 10 years ago.Azrael wrote:kovGM1ZrCck
- Wed Feb 01, 2012 7:07 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Moon/Space Colonization Thread
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1931
Re: Moon/Space Colonization Thread
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.
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.
- Fri Jan 27, 2012 8:16 pm
- Forum: Finance and Economics
- Topic: The Myth of American Productivity
- Replies: 3
- Views: 532
Re: the Myth of American Productivity
Very interesting. Worst of all, it could be true.
- Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:17 pm
- Forum: North America | Canada; USA; Mexico
- Topic: Republican POTUS Candidates
- Replies: 161
- Views: 7291
Re: Republican POTUS Candidates
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.
- Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:16 pm
- Forum: North America | Canada; USA; Mexico
- Topic: On Progressives: Obama vs Paul
- Replies: 96
- Views: 4631
Re: On Progressives: Obama vs Paul
Per se.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.
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 2:29 pm
- Forum: This Forum
- Topic: Welcome to the OTNOT Forum
- Replies: 145
- Views: 30305
Re: Welcome to the OTNOT Forum
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.YMix wrote:Heeeeeeello, Aferim.
Typhoon wrote:Aferim
Thanks.