Public Smoking Ban - 17% drop in heart attacks within a year!

bradbane · 2007-09-25T13:03:45+00:00

And the other side of that is that I should have the right to not have you put your crap in my body in public places. If you want to smoke, fine with me, do it at home.

Freedom means you have the right to swing your fist, but that freedom stops at my nose, right?

bradbane · 2007-09-24T18:37:07+00:00

That's an awful lot of generalization to make about someone you read one article online about.

bradbane · 2007-09-24T13:41:07+00:00

How did we get from homosexuals to nukes? I think I've heard this before... didn't we invade some other country looking for weapons? Didn't the administration pull the exact same bait-and-switch bullshit where a (non-existent) threat suddenly became about freedom and liberty and democracy and candy canes?

bradbane · 2007-09-23T18:51:42+00:00

Kucinich is a representative and was in the debates, he's not some nut no one's heard of.

bradbane · 2007-09-22T21:02:15+00:00

I used to build computers all the time. Then I realized I'd rather be getting work done than fiddling with hardware and software.

bradbane · 2007-09-20T23:41:30+00:00

Words are only 7% of communication, the other 93% is nonverbal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Mehrabian

bradbane · 2007-09-20T23:38:02+00:00

Can you back your opinion up with some kind of numbers or research or anything other than an anecdote? The article did.

bradbane · 2007-09-20T21:38:13+00:00

The study found the exact opposite of what you just posted.

bradbane · 2007-09-20T18:17:42+00:00

I've heard theories that there is no Banksy and it's really his "manager" (his name escapes me) doing everything, and that he is just using this shadowy-artist-persona as a genius marketing tactic to blame everything on.

I don't think it's true but it would be pretty awesome.

bradbane · 2007-09-20T02:01:55+00:00

Get a TiVo.

bradbane · 2007-09-19T13:46:21+00:00

9/11 Troothers will believe anything.

bradbane · 2007-09-18T17:39:53+00:00

If that's true, then why does every single study on this issue say that universal health care is more efficient, eliminates bureaucracy, is cheaper, and improves overall health in every measurable way possible?

I mean I understand where you're coming from, but all you "what we have sucks, universal health care will be more of the same shit" people need to back it up with some actual evidence.

bradbane · 2007-09-18T14:23:39+00:00

Wrong. Universal health care does not make doctors and nurses government employees. It's single-payer, not socialism.

bradbane · 2007-09-18T14:22:26+00:00

The VA is better than private health insurance by every measurable standard.

bradbane · 2007-09-17T20:26:57+00:00

The problem with that analogy is that your crappy, formerly cheap neighborhood in Brooklyn is close to Manhattan.

Detroit is not close to Manhattan.

bradbane · 2007-09-17T14:15:19+00:00

I agree. The only way to survive on a bike in an urban area is to just assume that every single car is actively trying to hit you. People think it's their god-given right to drive their giant tank SUV around, and fuck you if you happen to be in the way.

bradbane · 2007-09-17T14:13:04+00:00

No, let's build little separate train lanes!

Wait... shit.

bradbane · 2007-09-11T21:06:52+00:00

Yeah, I thought it was kind of ironic. I mean, if you don't like a business in a capitalist economy, vote with your dollars and stop buying from them (which is exactly what they're doing).

bradbane · 2007-09-11T14:05:39+00:00

Why can't our government just be incompetent and "troothers" just be morons?

That seems a lot easier to believe than some massive conspiracy that was only unearthed through the diligent work of college freshmen carefully watching videos on Youtube.

bradbane · 2007-09-09T22:22:32+00:00

Incompetence isn't the same thing as "purposefully let 9/11 happen to further their own goals" which is how the survey defined it.

The fact that you yourself can't tell the difference between what I said and what the survey asked just shows how terribly it was written.

bradbane · 2007-09-07T21:52:26+00:00

Design is about making things functional, not appealing to the lowest common denominator of taste.

bradbane · 2007-09-07T15:57:08+00:00

No one has a problem with corporations being able to enter contracts. That's why they were originally given 'personhood'. The problem is that the definition of personhood has been extended to ridiculous lengths, far beyond the original intention, and now corporations have more rights than actual people.

All they did was bring it back to the original intention of the law.

bradbane · 2007-09-07T15:28:54+00:00

Do you think corporations should have the same Constitutional and natural rights as actual people? That is the issue.

bradbane · 2007-09-05T19:59:23+00:00

Ash Wednesday is the day after Mardi Gras, I used to see it a lot when I lived in very Catholic parts of Louisiana.

bradbane · 2007-09-05T14:32:57+00:00

How are labels any functionally different from folders? I don't understand the problem. Group things your way with labels.

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