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 Topic: Where do you fall on the political spectrum? |
AstroGeek
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 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:29 pm Subject: Where do you fall on the political spectrum? |
Or, you could argue that the 19th century liberals eventually evolved into the present day left by the 20th century.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
I agree. The thing that everyone has to ... |
| Topic: US officially a global warming denier country |
AstroGeek
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:17 pm Subject: US officially a global warming denier country |
| Just one more reason why the Republicans tick me off. It's days like these that I understand why Lenin went and banned all other parties in Russia... Pity that it would be unconstitutional to ban the ... |
| Topic: Where do you fall on the political spectrum? |
AstroGeek
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:33 pm Subject: Where do you fall on the political spectrum? |
| Although "Liberal" and "Liberty" certainly have the same etymological origins, I agree that they aren't really related. "Liberty" and "Freedom" these days are political buzzwords used to make any idea ... |
| Topic: Do you subscribe to a magazine/magazines? |
AstroGeek
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Forum: Random Discussion Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:17 pm Subject: Do you subscribe to a magazine/magazines? |
| Astronomy Magazine. I also read New Scientist online. |
| Topic: Better luck with certain ethnicities |
AstroGeek
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Forum: Love and Dating Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:03 pm Subject: Better luck with certain ethnicities |
| I certainly seem to fit in well with Asians. Several of my friends are Asian and I seem to think more like them than I do my fellow Caucasians (in terms of work ethic etc.). Which is good, because I f ... |
| Topic: How to survive being a loner in high school? |
AstroGeek
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:59 pm Subject: How to survive being a loner in high school? |
| I was like that in Middle School and in Grade 9. There was really only one person who hated me and a bunch of people who just didn't seem to like me or thought I was weird (which I was, admittedly). N ... |
| Topic: Where do you fall on the political spectrum? |
AstroGeek
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:43 pm Subject: Where do you fall on the political spectrum? |
| People seem to make this mistake of associating censorship, propaganda, indoctrination etc. with the Left. As I think some of those diagrams show, we shouldn't think just in terms of Left/Right. There ... |
| Topic: kind of a weird question |
AstroGeek
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:55 pm Subject: kind of a weird question |
| What you can do, though, is give a computer a whole lot of data and get it to figure out the relationships/laws present in it. This works using genetic algorithms: the computer randomly generates a bu ... |
| Topic: What are your thoughts on my theory? |
AstroGeek
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:48 pm Subject: What are your thoughts on my theory? |
Exactly. The choice of the word "prevent" implies the earth has intent. It's all very Gaia hypothesis.
I didn't mean to anthropomorphise. I merely meant that negative-feedback effects might slow do ... |
| Topic: Where do you fall on the political spectrum? |
AstroGeek
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 11:33 pm Subject: Where do you fall on the political spectrum? |
As far as I know you can edit the poll by editing the original post.
I've tried that. It doesn't work.
Someone should write up a quiz for political spectrum(one of those what is your type things ... |
| Topic: Where do you fall on the political spectrum? |
AstroGeek
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 11:07 pm Subject: Where do you fall on the political spectrum? |
No left option? I fall in with libertarians/minarchists, so...left?
I'm sorry about that. I tried to put one in, but this is the first poll I've set up and I did something wrong. So it's not there. ... |
| Topic: Where do you fall on the political spectrum? |
AstroGeek
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:42 pm Subject: Where do you fall on the political spectrum? |
| Damn it! Somehow I messed up the poll. I wanted there to be an option for Left-wing as well. Does anyone know if and how I can fix that? |
| Topic: Where do you fall on the political spectrum? |
AstroGeek
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:39 pm Subject: Where do you fall on the political spectrum? |
| I'm just curious as to whether Aspies are typical in this. I feel like I've seen more liberals than conservatives on here, but that could just be me remembering posts that echo my own views. Anyway, v ... |
| Topic: Game Change movie |
AstroGeek
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:30 pm Subject: Game Change movie |
What is this movie about exactly? I've never heard of it.
And by the way, did you come up with the idea of calling her a "she-cretin," Kraichgauer. I love that as a description of her! Although, ad ... |
| Topic: What are your thoughts on my theory? |
AstroGeek
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 7:33 pm Subject: What are your thoughts on my theory? |
| Although there certainly is no way that the Earth could be healing itself, there might be (emphasis on MIGHT) some negative feedback mechanisms to help prevent/mitigate global warming. By that, I mean ... |
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