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  Niklaus Pfirsig on On the Value of Information Technology
  Dan, We live our lives in the US immersed in a culture that indoctrinates us, from an early age to believe that value can only be measured in dollars and cents. We are also inundated with messages that lead us to believe that money and those things it can buy are much more important than the people who produce and provide the goods and services. ... »
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  Dan Klarmann on Copyright Bite
  I see plenty of buzz, but little bee in these "Pirate Party" movements. Open Source and Free Software ("As in free speech, not free beer") will eventually prevail. But we are now living in the tumultuous middle period of the information revolution. »
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  Erich Vieth on Climate: OJ and the Haystack
  Karl: Thank you for the Gallop results, but you REALLY need to read more carefully. The website you sent has no information on the attitudes of scientists. It only concerns attitudes of Americans in general. »
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  Erich Vieth on Hypocrisy award goes to “children advocacy” center
  In response to this post, the Judge Baker Children's Center emailed me a letter that it had sent to its supporters, along with the following email:"Thank you for your e-mail. The attached letter regarding the decision about the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and the cancellation of the World of Children Award Celebration will provide you... »
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  Karl on Climate: OJ and the Haystack
  Global warming seems to be slipping even more among both the general population and scientists as well.http://www.gallup.com/poll/126560/Americans-Global-Warming-Concerns-Continue-Drop.aspx »
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  Erich Vieth on Payday loan opponents struggle to get a fair hearing
  How do they do that???"[T]he Texas constitution says annual rates of interest over 10% are usurious. And the Texas Consumer Credit Commissioner sets interest rate limits of around 18%. However, these payday lenders routinely offer payday and car-title loans in the state at annual rates of 500% and above, according to a survey conducted by nonprofit... »
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  Dan Klarmann on Checking out
  I've had peers who have died from violence, from disease, from accidental overdose, and from suicide (arguably mental disease).There are some fuzzy lines, though. One friend opted out when she could no longer get out of bed by herself because of advanced Huntington's disease in her 30's. I know another who surreptitiously stockpiled morphine to fin... »
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  Dan Klarmann on The crassness of a public abortion
  I don't consider a clump of cells to be a person, however clearly the cells contain human DNA. If a mother decides to consider the organism living inside of her to be a person, I emphatically support her choice.If a mother decides that the organism living within her is a parasite, likely to ruin her life, and only personally traumatic to remove, I ... »
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  Dan Klarmann on The crassness of a public abortion
  God given rights to people? The inerrant old testament tells how to get and treat slaves, concubines, wives, and other people/property. It also specifies many people who must be killed. Not "dead in the Lord" but not-breathing. Most people fall afoul of at least one of the old death penalty offenses at some time. »
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  Erich Vieth on Checking out
  Niklaus - That pun was so awful that it is enjoyable. »
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  Gabe S on The crassness of a public abortion
  To Mr. Evans and Trebor, I am not going to get into all of the issues that you raise because they have been debunked by this website and many other atheist websites ad nauseum. However, as to your question as to who makes Erich Vieth think he is the one who decides moral issues, the answer is that he is. We all are. We have all agreed to social ... »
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  Mark Tiedemann on The crassness of a public abortion
  Scott writes:---"I’m all about individual freedoms as bestowed to us by God and the 5th and 14th amendments to the U.S. constitution which include the right to life of the born and unborn alike."One last time (maybe): there is nothing in the Constitution that alludes to the unborn. Period.I would point out that there is a 9th amendment in the Con... »
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  Mark Tiedemann on The crassness of a public abortion
  Scott writes:---"First of all, I’m not anti-choice. The pregnant woman, after making the choice to become pregnant, has two choices, to keep her baby or adopt her baby. If she kills the baby, she’s still a mother but the mother of a dead child."Sorry to keep coming back like this, but your phrasing here really annoys me.After making the choice to b... »
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  Mark Tiedemann on The crassness of a public abortion
  Scott writes:---"Erich, whether you believe in a God or not doesn’t mean He doesn’t exist."Nor does anyone's professed belief in a god prove one DOES exist. Tautology.and---"If He didn’t, you wouldn’t know you’re you since cells and molecules cannot be self-aware on their own."But we here are not cells and molecules and some of us are self-aware.a... »
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  Mark Tiedemann on The crassness of a public abortion
  Scott writes---"Secondly, the issue is ALL about innocent life. Saying it’s about women and sex is saying women are too stupid to figure out how they become pregnant. That’s a truly sexist position, Mark."Not at all. Birth control does not come naturally, one has to learn it, and in order to learn it, one must be taught. If public support and fun... »
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  Niklaus Pfirsig on Checking out
  Erich, You must realize that the reason cemetaries have walls or fences around them is the fact that so many people are dying to get in. »
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  Brynn Jacobs on Copyright Bite
  Dan-What are your views on the proliferation and platforms of the various "pirate parties" that are springing up, mostly in Europe? Do you think the growing influence of the open-source movement will force us to reconsider our copyright laws? »
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  Dan Klarmann on Are you ready for prices (of everything) to rise?
  What bugs me is that wasters get bonuses as prices rise. How many of we who conserve resources ("liberals") even owned a vehicle so inefficient that it qualified as a "klunker" for that government handout last year?I can imagine utilities giving discounts for those who cut back by a percentage. Wasters will get the discount without even trying, whi... »
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  Dan Klarmann on On the Value of Information Technology
  It's not about the haggling. It's about undervaluing the product. The end of the video is telling: They insist that, if they pay full price for the product, then that entitles them to free training and documentation to let them reproduce it.I'm happy to teach people what I know. But it takes much more time and effort than to do the project myself. ... »
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  trebor on The crassness of a public abortion
  Here is an article that I find interesting: http://kgov.com/bel/20091005After 4 years of being frozen, life existed from those two cells. A unique person started right there, all she needed was an mother incubator. Many people today give more rights to animals than they will have toward their own species. And because of this 50 million people (in A... »
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