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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: If Obama had absolute power would US be wonderful? |
| NeantHumain |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2012, 5:05 pm
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| I believe people of your political stripe would vote to give Obama greater and greater power, by seemingly-small degrees at a time, and thus accidentally accomplish giving him too much power in the long run. I can't speak for Kraichgauer, but I did vote for Barack Obama in 2008. I consider myself a... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: If Obama had absolute power would US be wonderful? |
| NeantHumain |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2012, 3:46 pm
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| Well, some people (especially on WP) love Obama as a leader so much, that the idea of him having significantly more power -- while exciting -- curiously disturbs them in this way: they love him like a god, so it would be great to them if he actually were God -- but not if he were something in betwe... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: What is the programming language of the future? |
| NeantHumain |
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Posted: 16 Apr 2012, 1:34 pm
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Replies: 52
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peterd wrote: One really shouldn't ignore xquery either, given that the standard of goodness for a computer language should really have something to do with how much effort gives how much result.
XQuery isn't a general-purpose programming language, though. It's basically meant to be SQL for XML. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: What is the programming language of the future? |
| NeantHumain |
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Posted: 14 Apr 2012, 11:00 pm
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| For example, instead of writing an explicit algorithm to find the prime numbers, you would give the computer a mathematical definition of prime numbers, then tell it to find all of them within a certain range on it's own, leaving the compiler or interpreter to work out the details. So declarative p... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: If Obama had absolute power would US be wonderful? |
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Posted: 14 Apr 2012, 11:50 am
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| I doubt most of even the most diehard Democrats are going to say yes to this trollish thread. The concept of dictatorship is anathema to what the United States is about. Sometimes the Constitutional checks and balances feel frustrating when they're blocking what seems like a good cause and the oppos... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: What is the programming language of the future? |
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Posted: 14 Apr 2012, 11:40 am
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Replies: 52
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- COBOL
- RPG
- FORTRAN
- BASIC
- Pascal
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: "The Republican Brain" by Chris Mooney. Interestin |
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Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 4:45 pm
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Replies: 38
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| The Big Five personality dimension of "openness to experience" has a subscale of values/liberalism, and the dimension overall is positively correlated with social liberalism and negatively with conservatism. A related trait is TCI-R dimension of "novelty seeking," which in turn has positive correlat... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I'm Christian unless you're gay. (Article) |
| NeantHumain |
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Posted: 06 Apr 2012, 10:23 am
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Replies: 23
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| Love, compassion, guilt, shame—why are the liberals telling people what Christianity truly is? It is a clever but diabolical manipulation of the godless liberals to pull out our heart strings to convince us we should accept "teh ghey." Have liberals ever heard of tough love? Hate the sin, love the s... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How Trayvon Martin shooting is relevant to AS rights |
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Posted: 02 Apr 2012, 12:48 pm
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| Well, I think Florida's law is phrased based on the shooter's subjective feelings of threat. How can the law determine this? More or less, they're obligated to take the shooter's word. An improvement would be whether a reasonable person would reasonably feel mortal threat. If Zimmerman's perception ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Hunger Games as an Allegory (Spoiler Alert) |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2012, 12:19 pm
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| Well I was a senior in highschool last year so that might be why I knew about it more, starting around 2 years ago it was one of the most sought after books in the library Yes, the book was published by Scholastic, which caters to schools; I remember, in grade school, we'd get monthly Scholastic fl... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Hunger Games as an Allegory (Spoiler Alert) |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2012, 11:23 am
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| 1. Why the hell are you going off the movie and have not read the books 2. Why would he wait until his possible second term to do this Have you read anything about how rick santorum is insane? 1. Oh, please, before the movies, no one knew what The Hunger Games was. It's this month's big thing on th... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are most people descended from slaves? |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2012, 11:10 am
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Replies: 37
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| I don't know about the rubble; but I trace my descent from the Sun god, Hercules, and Charlemagne. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Conservative Teen Magazine |
| NeantHumain |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2012, 11:04 am
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| So now liberals are pretending to be conservatives? Why is that woman showing so much skin with come-hither eyes? Get thee to a nunnery! |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Hunger Games as an Allegory (Spoiler Alert) |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2012, 10:53 am
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| I saw the movie The Hunger Games yesterday and feel it is a fitting allegory for U.S. politics today. Although I have not read the books, the movie gives a quick review of The Hunger Games' backstory: Seventy-four years ago, there was a rebellion against the federal government, destructive civil war... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: A recent revival of racism? |
| NeantHumain |
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Posted: 29 Mar 2012, 7:13 pm
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Replies: 194
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| Yes and no. The what used to be racism is more or less dead in most places in the western world, but there is a trend of using "racism" as a name for non-race related actions and statements. For instance, I believe that Western European based culture and values are better from an objective standpoi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Florida, where murder is legal |
| NeantHumain |
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Posted: 26 Mar 2012, 12:42 pm
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Replies: 396
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WilliamWDelaney wrote: Murder is now legal in Florida. It has been proven.
Justified homicide is not murder. Florida law allows a person to shoot first if they feel threatened, and what can be more threatening than a young black male walking along at dusk or after dark? |
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