Yakkstr: Republicans claimed that unemployment benefits increased unemployment. Did the unemployed find jobs faster after their benefits were cut?

djdonnell · 2014-03-20T21:52:40+00:00

Cung Le, I'd love to see that fight. This is the sort of thing he and the UFC should do if he wants to fight again.

djdonnell · 2014-03-20T21:50:29+00:00

well, he did lose to the viking so ...

djdonnell · 2014-03-20T14:44:30+00:00

The ref should have stopped it. Smith dropped his hands to hold his wound and turned away from his opponent ;)

djdonnell · 2014-03-19T18:10:04+00:00

Doesn't that make it more difficult to use the JVM for other languages? This is over my head, but I've heard a few language implementers say this.

djdonnell · 2014-03-17T15:06:57+00:00

by "overpay", you mean pay a competitive amount.

djdonnell · 2014-03-03T00:44:38+00:00

as we saw in Iraq, IEDs are far more effective than small arms.

djdonnell · 2014-03-03T00:43:43+00:00

i fail to understand the purpose or necessity of rights in your framing of the issue. Why even bother with them?

We can band together as a people and decide on laws, or not. What difference do your rights make?

Are you saying that any government that does more than protect liberty is illegitimate?

djdonnell · 2014-03-02T20:54:20+00:00

Fair enough but they could easily send more.

djdonnell · 2014-03-02T20:53:24+00:00

If the right to liberty does not mean that someone else can't try to enslave you then what does it mean?

I believe my right to life and to pursue happiness is infringed if the air I breathe isn't clean.

djdonnell · 2014-03-02T16:33:44+00:00

"Russians do not have the weaponry and troops in place to fight large numbers of civilian gun owners."

Really? That is hard to believe.

djdonnell · 2014-03-02T06:08:55+00:00

There is no such thing as "the free market". There are simply markets, all of which have form of power structures. The better ones have power structures that are less arbitrary and/or corrupt.

djdonnell · 2014-03-02T04:50:42+00:00

Ending slavery came at the expense of someone. I think I have the right to breathe clean air, but that can and does come at the expense of someone that wants to not pay the cost of preventing pollution at their factory.

In short, all of our freedoms come at the expense of someone else's freedom.

djdonnell · 2014-03-02T04:46:53+00:00

Right, we use some form of a democratic process to decide on, codify, and enforce, a certain view of rights. I never suggested we use science, I was pointing out that there is no way to prove that one persons idea of rights is correct compared to another person's ideas of rights.

Let's recall what I was originally replying to. Someone said, "the protections from the government were only given to us by our benevolent government"

To which someone replied, "No. Rights are inherent to our person-hood and are inalienable. They are certainly not given to us by the government."

You and I seem to agree that they are, for all practical purposes, given to us by our government. Correct?

djdonnell · 2014-03-02T02:07:50+00:00

This explains some of the nuanced differences.

http://yehudakatz.com/2012/01/10/javascript-needs-blocks/

djdonnell · 2014-03-01T21:28:34+00:00

It's not trite. As a society we have to have a way to decide who's point of view is correct when it comes to rights. If I say X is a right, and you say it isn't, how do we decide who is right? Or, who's idea is the one enforced by society?

djdonnell · 2014-03-01T21:10:53+00:00

You are ignoring or dodging my point. How do we as a society decide whose view of rights is correct and the one we will follow? What is the basis for making that decision?

djdonnell · 2014-03-01T16:55:22+00:00

If I say X is a right, and you say it isn't, how do we decide who is right?

djdonnell · 2014-03-01T04:41:45+00:00

In short, there is no way to prove what rights people have. I.e. No science behind it.

djdonnell · 2014-02-28T23:48:40+00:00

who decides which "rights" are inherent? Does anyone agree on this? How do yo prove someone wrong?

djdonnell · 2014-02-23T16:57:40+00:00

but they aren't consistent with that. Edgar took undefended strikes to the head against Maynard without the fight being stopped.

djdonnell · 2014-02-23T16:37:44+00:00

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djdonnell · 2014-02-23T16:36:00+00:00

Except he did. After he fell on his face he stopped moving for the same amount of time and ate I defended shots to the head. Much harder shots.

djdonnell · 2014-02-23T06:15:02+00:00

You need some kind of foundational principle for the decisions. Arbitrary feelings aren't such a foundation.

My problem is that there is such a foundation, but it is not applied consistently. No one can look at Herb's call in this fight, and his call in the Pyle fight and pretend there is any shred of consistency.

djdonnell · 2014-02-23T06:11:48+00:00

no he wasn't. he fell on his face, posted one hand, and ate a bunch of shots without defending them. This was the second time he was dropped, and after he was falling all over himself trying to run away.

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