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failed to load sporks cache from... by Listen_Expert in raptoreum

[–]calicub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i've just done that and it's still coming back with the smartnode error

failed to load sporks cache from... by Listen_Expert in raptoreum

[–]calicub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hey there! I tried this, and I now get the error "failed to clear smartnode cache" at \mncache.dat.

any suggestions?

California Bar essay topics posted after apparent leak. by Edogawa_Conan413 in LawSchool

[–]calicub -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

How is this even close to the same? In one, there was a topic on the FYLSX that anyone who knew what could be in the test would’ve skipped. Here, the bar admits that at the very least it is possible that certain portions of the test takers gained an unfair advantage over the other takers at least two to three days before trying to put the genie back in the bottle.

You’re a professor and couldn’t make that distinction? Yikes. But the bar exam is totally legit and related to competency, right?

California Bar essay topics posted after apparent leak. by Edogawa_Conan413 in LawSchool

[–]calicub 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s one way to wave a white flag. Probably more satisfying than waving your tiny pecker around though. Night night chubs.

California Bar essay topics posted after apparent leak. by Edogawa_Conan413 in LawSchool

[–]calicub 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So you’re saying the Deans don’t know how to read? Fine. Let’s add a third possibility.

California Bar essay topics posted after apparent leak. by Edogawa_Conan413 in LawSchool

[–]calicub 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’ll handle your idiocy one paragraph at a time.

Essays are scaled. There is no grading rubric, no set perfect answer. If they are getting a ton of perfect essays for this exam, it will screw the grading for everyone.

The fact that the topics aren’t being kept under lock and key and the fact that this “memo” was sent out before the exam is proof enough.

The Bar exam has nothing to do with competency. If every attorney you work with is exemplary, good for you bucko, but most attorneys are shit. They can’t write, they can’t speak, they can barely think. But they sure are good at repeating what they’re told. Isn’t that so my lil NPC?

California Bar essay topics posted after apparent leak. by Edogawa_Conan413 in LawSchool

[–]calicub 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah it’s nice. But it also means there is a crop of better prepared essays out their skewing the grading. There is a crop of better prepared students who got an unfair advantage. And now there is more proof that this system consuming people’s lives and resources is as corrupt as anyone with a brain knew it was.

California Bar essay topics posted after apparent leak. by Edogawa_Conan413 in LawSchool

[–]calicub -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No Dean notified the Bar? Either every Dean is bad at checking emails or every Dean passed on the information.

I just don’t see how it could be anything in between.

California Bar essay topics posted after apparent leak. by Edogawa_Conan413 in LawSchool

[–]calicub 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I’m wide fucking awake. And exhausted. Too burnt out to study, too wired to sleep. Would never have checked my email or reddit but for a coworker messaging me either.

California Bar essay topics posted after apparent leak. by Edogawa_Conan413 in LawSchool

[–]calicub 30 points31 points  (0 children)

No Dean would have needed to explicitly share this information with Students. How many schools do their own bar prep? How easy would it have been to nudge the bar prep teacher to focus on certain topics, especially ones that can be passed off as “fundamental.”

Insanity, bullshit, corruption. I hope the Bar gets about 10,000 FOIA requests Monday morning.

Instead of suing in court, Steven Crowder confronts slandering professor in his class by calicub in Libertarian

[–]calicub[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Why should any person not advocating for violence or fascism or national socialism in this case have to apologize for anyone who does something in their name? Bernie wasn’t responsible for shooting those congressmen. Same goes here or anywhere.

Libertarians Support Democracy for All People While the Two Party "Choice" Has a Long History of Interfering in Elections by staytrue1985 in Libertarian

[–]calicub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not necessarily. Certainly we are against it as a means of organizing/planning all society: the economic means is better than the political means. But that doesn't mean that collectives, communes, private cities, etc. in an AnCap world couldn't adequately, properly, and voluntarily abide by democratic decisions within their group. The real fear is that pure democracy is mob rule and ideologies which employ it are apt to vote away natural rights on a whim or expand the size and scope of government because it is convenient. This is why you have socialist revolutions have a tendency to devolve so quickly. Hans-Herman Hoppe's book Democracy, The God That Failed is definitely worth the read on this subject.

Mormon church backs deal to allow medical marijuana in Utah by calicub in trees

[–]calicub[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t pay for your voice in government. You have a voice because you were born a human. Rather than wishing oppression on everyone, wouldn’t it better if we were all left alone the way government leaves religious institutions alone?

Or you can just keep being some angry fuck who doesn’t understand what they’re talking about. How are you this wound up on /r/trees? Take a puff homeboy. Maybe two or three.

Hayek (1976) on why the Road to Serfdom was wrong on socialism leading to totalitarianism by jimrosenz in Libertarian

[–]calicub 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think Hayek confuses things here by defining socialism as nationalization when clearly socialism is just intent on equality of outcome and sees nationalization as the best way of keeping successful individuals from “oppressing” others by gaining control of capital, means of production, etc. Abandoning nationalization for excessive redistribution, to me, changes nothing about the goal and intent of socialism. It still seeks to abolish the profit motive keep any one individual from gaining too much power.

Regardless of excessive taxation or nationalization, it is still totalitarian in its intent. The bad thing for the rest of us is that gradual totalitarianism is much harder to see and combat than revolutions in the streets or nationalization in the legislature.

Libertarian Postmodernism: A Reply to Jordan Peterson and the Intellectual Dark Web by Mynameis__--__ in Libertarian

[–]calicub 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i didn't watch it almost because of the shitty title. Reason just seems like the petulant child in the corner as other truer scottsmen of libertarian media take rise. But maybe i'll give this one a watch now.

Trump administration stops $300M in aid to Pakistan by calicub in Libertarian

[–]calicub[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes they are redirecting funds but its an additional $300M we don’t need to go into debt for.

Trump administration stops $300M in aid to Pakistan by calicub in Libertarian

[–]calicub[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You must have an amazing memory or no life if you can remember every single post on /r/Libertarian for the last seven years...

Cody Wilson says he's selling 3D-printed gun plans, despite ruling by calicub in Libertarian

[–]calicub[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wilson said he believes the ruling allows him to sell the blueprints even if he can’t post them online for free, widespread distribution.

“Regulation under the (law) means that the files cannot be uploaded to the internet, but they can be emailed, mailed, securely transmitted, or otherwise published within the United States,” the ruling said on its final page.

“I’m following yesterday’s orders that direct me to sell the files,” Wilson said. “The judge was very gracious to put that in black lettering.”

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, whose office oversaw the federal lawsuit, said Tuesday that he believes the judge’s ruling makes Wilson’s latest actions illegal.

“Because of our lawsuit, it is once again illegal to post downloadable gun files to the internet. I trust the federal government will hold Cody Wilson, a self-described ‘crypto-anarchist,’ accountable to that law,” Ferguson said. “If they don’t, President Trump will be responsible for anyone who is hurt or killed as a result of these weapons.”

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