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General Discussion / Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: December 23, 2012, 01:15:39 pm »
Quote from: kaijyuu on December 23, 2012, 11:15:28 am
The article seems to say the protests are against giving the rapists "weak" sentences like life imprisonment. They want nothing less than the death penalty.

That is what it looks like, but the cause for their anger is that everyone knows at least one girl/woman who has been sexually assaulted or raped and nobody got any sentence. It's not about the single case, it's about the usually weak or non-existing sentences/prosecution.

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General Discussion / Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: December 15, 2012, 11:13:39 am »
Don't forget that government financed research also is a solution: it needs no patent incentive. (Or at least less than in the private sector. Universities do make money from patents atm)

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General Discussion / Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: December 15, 2012, 11:04:44 am »
Quote from: Sheb on December 15, 2012, 09:29:06 am
Source please?

I have no source at hand for the higher rate of positive results in private research, but if you are willing to trust a random stranger on the internet who claims he has read that in a reliabable source I'll tell you that I have.

But for the general case: there are studies that show that especially in the field of biomedicine, less governmental funding and increased/extended usability of patents did cripple the overall output of life-saving innovations: Source
So shortening the span patents are valid, or decreasing the amount of things that can be patented actually _helps_ innovation.

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General Discussion / Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: December 15, 2012, 08:28:57 am »
While I have no love for Monsanto and would really like to see them lose this lawsuit, (which accordingly to this site they already did in brazil and now are appealing it) the broken system of patents and IP we have is also to blame for the crazy things that are going on here.

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General Discussion / Need/Have Christmas-Present ideas noone else thinks of
« on: December 15, 2012, 08:11:13 am »
I don't have any super-original ideas what to give to my friends and family for christmas and so I came to the one place in the internet that I know is full of people who often think different.
So what to get in the price-range 0 - 30$ ( 0 - 25€ ) besides books?

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General Discussion / Re: Bay12's Desktops
« on: December 11, 2012, 03:38:44 pm »
Quote from: Sir Finkus on December 11, 2012, 11:19:00 am
Quote from: Aklyon on December 10, 2012, 11:45:55 pm
Just because it has a better screen doesn't mean you have to stick to what it came with ;)
OSX fits my needs better than windows in most cases.  It's actually a decent os once you work past some kinks.
Linux fits your needs even better than OSX in most cases. </evangelist-mode>

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General Discussion / Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: December 08, 2012, 08:37:24 pm »
Quote from: Nadaka on December 08, 2012, 02:54:53 pm
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on December 08, 2012, 02:53:33 pm
The median income is about 53,000 dollars, there's no way that welfare payouts match that.
I know. But I can not find any refutation of the shit that is being spewed.

The Internet has a place where you can obtain aaaaall the information you will ever need to refute claims like that one:
http://factfinder2.census.gov

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General Discussion / Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: December 03, 2012, 05:26:06 am »
I'm not entirely convinced that participating in the system this way is the best way to make up for it's shortcomings.

By the way: Wouldn't it be better to instead of raising the money by relying on donations to take out a loan (of say $100k) and use that to buy debt (of say $1m) and thus "eliminating" debt without pouring more "fresh/new" money into the lending-industry?

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General Discussion / Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: December 03, 2012, 04:39:30 am »
Quote from: Truean on December 02, 2012, 08:09:04 pm
This is not legal advice and if you try to take it as such, then you are stupid.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9682263/Occupy-Wall-St-protesters-wipe-5m-off-Americas-debt.html

Pure, god damn brilliance.

"If we raise $50,000, then we can get rid of $1,000,000 in debt." Yup. And that sounds like it might work actually. Pennies on the dollar will purchase "bad debt." That is, debt that nobody really thinks is collectable. The whole point here is, these people aren't trying to collect it, it's being forgiven, expressly not collected and expressly canceled. Even if the numbers are a bit off, and it's $1,000,000 for every $100,000 raised, that's still not bad at all.

If I can buy $10 of your debt with 1$ why can't you do so yourself. That is: If they are willing to sell the debt at a tenth of it's nominal worth why don't the just tell the debtors: "hey, you know what. just pay 10% of your debt and we forget about the rest. ok?"

Besides that I don't think it's such a brilliant idea because the money they are using to buy the bad debt goes directly to the most evil loan sharks.

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General Discussion / Re: Bay12's Desktops
« on: November 19, 2012, 08:08:35 pm »
Quote from: varnish on November 13, 2012, 01:01:48 am
Some sort of anime or something, whatever.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
The anime is "haibane renmei".

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General Discussion / Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: November 06, 2012, 09:22:20 am »
Quote from: Frumple on November 06, 2012, 06:38:38 am
Washington in particular looked like it had things up to the level of separate but equal, at the very least, before this, according to a cursory search (i.e. checked the wiki page).

It still is far from equal because anything that is not a marriage is not recognized as one on the federal level and because of that you don't get any federal tax breaks, federal benefits and so forth no matter how equal you are on state level. But there is movement to transform same-sex civil unions into full marriages. :)

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General Discussion / Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: November 06, 2012, 05:01:24 am »
Quote from: TripJack on November 05, 2012, 10:25:18 pm
Quote from: kaijyuu on November 05, 2012, 06:10:50 pm
Civil unions are legal. Marriage is not
what's the difference?

It differs from state to state but most differences fall in one of those groups:
taxes: there are a lot of tax breaks only open to married couples because civil unions can't file joint-tax returns
benefits: a lot of benefits open to married couples aren't to same-sex couples
adoption/parental rights: married couples always have a better (legal) standing here

edit: differences also exist for veterans benefits, health insurance, medicaid, hospital visitation, estate taxes, retirement savings, pensions, family leave, immigration law ...

edit2: so "separate but equal" would actually be a huge improvement over the current situation

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General Discussion / Re: Bay12's Desktops
« on: October 29, 2012, 07:11:11 am »
Quote from: dei on October 28, 2012, 07:32:28 pm
...I just had to switch to a slightly-NSFW wallpaper of Alice Margotroid reading a book in her pajamas, didn't I?

Her name is Alice Margatroid.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Ice cathedral challenge
« on: October 27, 2012, 06:04:24 pm »
Would a magmafall just next to a ice/waterfall work? like dropping magma off a ice tower to make it into a waterfall?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Ice cathedral challenge
« on: October 27, 2012, 12:02:44 pm »
Why not combine both into one?

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