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That is not an option in our society. :P…
27 Mar 2009, 08:25
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Currently you don't get police protection in the US, only the _possibility_ of police protection, and there's no refunds or recourse if they don't respond. What if you don't car…
27 Mar 2009, 05:18
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Can you point out some example well-run, non-robbing societies that anyone here would want to live in?…
27 Mar 2009, 05:10
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There were at least three healthy physical relationships in BSG, all between married couples: Athena/Helo, Bill/Laura, and Galen/Callie. As for Ellen/Saul - well, as long as they…
24 Mar 2009, 20:11
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They might not expect it, but something like it is to be found in LEXX of all places. Behind the farce is something very close to Wolfean themes on sex and religion and political p…
24 Mar 2009, 02:24
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I live in Texas, and it is indeed rich land, but it is still miserably cold her during the winter despite only snowing one or two days. I can't imagine preferring Minnesota over …
23 Mar 2009, 08:05
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The Ingalls did not have their choice of the entire underpopulated world to settle in. The Colonials could have settled in places like Hawaii, where living was so easy that hist…
23 Mar 2009, 01:19
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I agree that it would be easier all in one place, network effects and all that, and if they were serious about natural disasters they'd have landed a couple of ships to use for s…
22 Mar 2009, 10:23
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These concerns and the rest in your post are already addressed by their survival on the relatively barren New Caprica - If they were making a go of it there, they'll have a muc…
22 Mar 2009, 09:40
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He had numerous scenes justifying his decisions on religious grounds to the other models. Even if he was cynically manipulating *their* beliefs, that doesn't mean he can't have s…
22 Mar 2009, 08:18
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SG-1 actually has some depth to it, but I agree there is sometimes a lot off dross to pan through to find it. Oh absolutely! I didn't watch the first couple of seasons because t…
22 Mar 2009, 07:13
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I don't see a problem with cult leader Baltaar manipulating Cavil's similar religious beliefs. He mentions giving the best part of themselves, and we know they are already limit…
22 Mar 2009, 05:24
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The exceptional thing is that it happened at least _twice_; there was no way for the "first" Starbuck's corpse and wreckage to have gotten from the gas giant to Earth. I think th…
21 Mar 2009, 22:38
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that's kind of hard to politicize tho…
21 Mar 2009, 06:07
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The last bit references Lewis Carroll's _Through the Looking Glass_, which could be taken as a criticism of class society.…
21 Mar 2009, 01:02
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I think that may be it. A better metric might be "percentage of people with access to firearms", counting everyone in a household with at least one firearm available, even if it…
20 Mar 2009, 04:45
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I agree, but I don't see how that addresses my comment.…
19 Mar 2009, 13:12
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You're missing a closing parenthesis whose placement could drastically influence the way this second sentence would be parsed.…
19 Mar 2009, 13:09
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72% of people in the city, or 72% of people who voted?…
19 Mar 2009, 13:00
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Thank you! Again, super! Not by the 2nd Amendment alone, but the Fourth Amendment extends the "free state" to include security in one's property and body.…
19 Mar 2009, 12:57
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This is much preferable to having people break-in while you are at home, so I'd call it a successful deterrence unless it was somehow established that the marginal desire to st…
19 Mar 2009, 12:29
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Confessing on camera wasn't terribly advancing of his self-interest.…
19 Mar 2009, 12:24
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I'm not sure that follows. It might be a fine literal distinction below the level of resolution of the translation, but "not resisting" and "not restraining" are different concep…
19 Mar 2009, 12:18
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Nobody's being forced to read any of this, my dear.…
19 Mar 2009, 11:59
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then "Less than half the per capita gun ownership of the U.S." can't be true…
19 Mar 2009, 11:52
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Then what is the airplane?…
19 Mar 2009, 11:46
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And Clarke and Teilhard De Chardin are riding it. To me it is most interesting for the implication that some adaptation of _FRANKENSTEIN_ survives to be popular enough that Dr Ta…
19 Mar 2009, 11:44
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I suppose it would make good disguise to wear when one goes cow tipping.…
19 Mar 2009, 11:23
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What?…
18 Mar 2009, 11:11
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You can find a well-sourced report on the Swiss' gun-keeping habits here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland In short, there are about 420,000 state-owned w…
18 Mar 2009, 10:26
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However, 60% of Swiss men aged 18-34 keep rifles and other firearms belonging to the army at home as part of their conscripted and reserve military service.…
18 Mar 2009, 08:32
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Oh yes, armed = polite is bullshit, just look at Sierra Leone.…
18 Mar 2009, 08:13
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That's exactly what the right is for, to have guns accumulated ahead of time. The tyrant can declare it taken away, but he can't enforce it universally. Who will conduct the bill…
18 Mar 2009, 08:06
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They can't help it, the failure of Versailles being too fresh on their minds.…
18 Mar 2009, 07:56
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That's "the security of a free state", please, which is materially very different.…
18 Mar 2009, 07:54
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevo_(mascot)#Origin_of_the_name_Bevo…
18 Mar 2009, 07:00
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They apply and illustrate. V and the American Founding Fathers both wanted to empower the governed to restrain and overthrow it as necessary, not to remove it for all time.…
18 Mar 2009, 00:50
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I know he has, because I just posted some.…
18 Mar 2009, 00:45
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Probably not, but there's no danger of a united militia, and equally little danger of the armed forces uniting behind a commander in chief who would advocate nuking or anthraxing…
18 Mar 2009, 00:44
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The entire "a government should be afraid of its people" idea, where the people should be armed and ready to take back control of their country when the government oversteps its …
17 Mar 2009, 10:11
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I wouldn't go quite that far; V wants to get rid of *that* government, not all government. VFV's more of a militia promotion to me.…
17 Mar 2009, 06:37
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When no man living can recall who is commemorated by the painted skin hanging in the hall, it is taken down and if it says "BEVO" on the back, we have a chuckle and hang it back …
17 Mar 2009, 04:33
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A sheath can have extra bits to protect the weapon from tarnish and the elements, esp if it isn't drawn that often. Similar to the way military style pistol holsters have a wide …
17 Mar 2009, 04:17
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It has just now occurred to me that banks of oars extended to either side of a penteconter (for example) may have a winglike appearance and movement when viewed from before or ab…
06 Mar 2009, 05:17
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It looks like it is flying to me.…
05 Mar 2009, 05:56
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"in flames" http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BrusinoArsizio-coat_of_arms.svg…
19 Feb 2009, 04:39
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It might be drawn with hydrofoils, or with the fins of flying fish.…
18 Feb 2009, 05:40
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depicting the sun with an unhappy or afflicted face would be period for a woodcut, but spooky clouds partially obscuring the disk of the sun is also a possibility…
14 Feb 2009, 17:41
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Very spiffy illustration, Witz! I don't recognize the silhouette in front of the sun?…
14 Feb 2009, 08:04
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That's not much of a secret, is it? Their showmanship at public excruciations seems to include a bit of put-on bloodthirstiness, but they perform as ordered anyway. At times I h…
11 Feb 2009, 08:39
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