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Muda69

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  1. Looks to be a new bug related to the "affiliation" checkboxes in the GID user profile section. The more affiliations (player, parent, fan, etc.) you have checked, the more numbers show up. Probably a database lookup thing. 0 = player, 1 = parent, etc. Instead of the actual verbiage just the number(s) is being displayed.
  2. https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/18113/Munger and Villareal Published version 2019.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y As I said before, reduce the size and power of government over many aspects of the economy (regulations, licensing, etc.) and you will reduce the size and power of crony capitalism.
  3. Go ahead, gonzo, man up and throw out the word. We all know it is going to be 'hypocrite'. My response: I may fight against these government "functions" you love so much, but as long as I am forced by law to participate in them I will utilize the "benefits", even though I fervently believe most if not all of these "benefits" are not legitimate functions of the federal government under the U.S. Constitution.
  4. So you are saying that you will receive an amount of Social Security benefits only equal to what you originally paid in via compulsory payroll deductions, perhaps with a small bit on interest? https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/feb/01/medicare-and-social-security-what-you-paid-what-yo/ Government entitlement program. End of story.
  5. Felicity Huffman and 12 wealthy parents plead guilty in college admissions scam: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/08/us/felicity-huffman-guilty-admissions/index.html Who here believes any of them will actually serve any time in prison?
  6. Achievement Gap Between Rich and Poor Public School Students Unchanged Over 50 Years: http://reason.com/blog/2019/04/08/achievement-gap-between-rich-and-poor-pu Competition drives continuous improvement in the quality of goods and services in every other part of our economy. It can do the same for educating America's children too.
  7. So says the individual who when proven wrong about Social Security being a government entitlement program (as defined by the U.S. Senate itself, nonetheless) instead dodges, ducks, and spins.
  8. Worthless currency litters the street in Venezuela. Not "real socialism" I guess.............
  9. This intolerance is taking over college campuses : Student files bias complaint against dorm roommate for watching Ben Shapiro video: https://www.thecollegefix.com/student-files-bias-complaint-against-dorm-roommate-for-watching-ben-shapiro-video/ Young was unable to give an estimate of costs to run the bias reporting program, although she noted the campus Office of Institutional Equity has one employee dedicated to following up on reports of bias. Residence halls “and other units on campus likely have employees who also follow up on bias reports as well,” Young said. Mostly a colossal waste of time and taxpayer's money.
  10. Mark Zuckerberg Calls for Government Regulation of Political Speech on Facebook: http://reason.com/blog/2019/04/05/mark-zuckerberg-calls-for-government-reg If "we" don't want a private company to decide what is or is not political speech, it seems even more obvious that we don't want the government to do so, especially if that means speech can be shut down on the grounds that it traverses campaign-speech laws. It bears underscoring: If the First Amendment protects anything, it's political speech, however hard that might be to define. Whatever their intentions, campaign-finance laws and other attempts to control political speech are always arbitrary and used to squelch rather than expand political discourse. Elsewhere in the interview, Zuckerberg talks about increasing the number and quality of various reports about what sort of material gets taken down, whether for fomenting violence, influencing votes, or other reasons. However imperfect such a mechanism might be, that sort of attempt at transparency is a far less-destructive way to give users context and information than applying prior restraint to conversations on Facebook or other platforms by having, as Zuckerberg suggests, oversight boards of "40 people, who are experts on free speech and safety" making binding decisions on what is legitimate content and which is not. Especially if some or all of those censorship boards are dictated or overseen by the government. Facebook's "walled garden" would be about as freewheeling as a university safe space offering coloring books and squeeze toys to high-strung college kids on Election Night. Zuckerberg's enthusiasm for having the government step in right about now is understandable. Since at least the 2016 election, it's a rare week that doesn't bring a new story about some privacy breach or major scandal involving Facebook. Unsurprisingly, the service appears to be losing a significant number of users in the United States, and the average age of users is climbing, which doesn't portend well for its future. Democrats still wrongly blame Facebook for costing Hillary Clinton the election by letting Russian-controlled pages drive down voter turnout while Republicans are, also with zero good evidence, claiming that conservative voices are being suppressed at Facebook and other services such as Twitter. In a move that should freak out anyone remotely interested in limited government, Sen. Hawley of Missouri recently demanded that Twitter submit to a third-party investigation to see if it was suspending more right-wing than left-wing users. In most commercial sectors, that sort of bipartisan Malachi Crunch, combined with market-share concerns, leads inexorably for to calls for regulation by companies worried about declining revenue and position. That such calls are made in the name of the public good only makes them more nauseating. But Zuckerberg is ultimately being shortsighted, especially when he claims that Facebook and other social media platforms are actually functioning as "the digital equivalent of the town square." Up until now, the courts have ruled that in fact social media platforms are more like shopping malls. That is, they are private spaces that don't have to allow for freedom of speech the same way that an actual town square does. In a case decided late last year, a U.S. District Court ruled that YouTube, owned by Google, had every right to decide what sort of videos appeared on its service and whether they could be monetized or not. The plaintiff in that case, the conservative video producer Prager University, argued that YouTube and other services were effectively public spaces that should have to abide by broader First Amendment guarantees. Which is exactly how Zuckerberg is now characterizing Facebook—as a "town square." Inviting government oversight into his business might help lock in Facebook's dominant market position for a few years—remember, he's willing to help them write the regulations!—but ultimately that sort of collaboration merely forestalls a business's decline, it doesn't eliminate it. More importantly, producing more and more rules that allow for more restrictions on speech for an endlessly proliferating number of reasons will hasten Facebook's value as a place where people can go to share anything more interesting than recipes and death notices. In the name of preserving some vague notion of community, it will create a dessicated space that has less and less value for all of us. That's not a tragedy, really, as websites come and go (RIP, My Space, et al.). But it is a waste and a loss nonetheless. The far-better solution is for platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to help users develop stronger media-literacy skills so that we can all more easily spot rotten information and develop critical reading skills while also providing more-robust tools to block material we don't want to see. The brilliance of social media is that it creates an infinite sandbox where we can find more and more interesting places to play while avoiding bullies and blowhards, however we subjectively choose to define them. That was the animating spirit of the internet and it's a dream whose passing we should all mourn.
  11. It is just yet another example of Mr. Trump appointing his political loyalists to a position in the federal government, all administrations do it. And since the Federal Reserve should be abolished in the first place maybe Mr. Cain's perceived economic ineptitude will help with that demise.
  12. And how do we reduce or eliminate crony capitalism? By reducing the size and scope of government, and the power that it holds over the lives of it's citizens.
  13. I don't understand this quote. What exactly is meant by "filling up on bread"?
  14. You would love that wouldn't you? Too bad there is this little item you would have to get around:
  15. It was? I don't recall reading in the linked article that Mr. Winder was a "lib SJW warrior". Where did you get that information? And if Mr. Winder is a white supremacist, how does that any difference to the facts of the case?
  16. So there is documented evidence/sworn testimony stating that an individual instigated a sword attack against another individual only because he was wearing a MAGA hat? That is the individual was NOT wearing a MAGA hat he would not have instigated a sword attack?
  17. I don't know anything about the politics of Mr. Winder. The facts are that he assaulted another individual, and then first lied about it.
  18. Glad I could help you out. And thanks for the sockpuppet admission.
  19. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6886705/Is-America-Godless-number-people-no-religion-rose-266-three-decades.html
  20. Here, have another since they seem to be so important to you.
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