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Converting from one format to another is never going to add fidelity to the photograph, and that's always going to be the determining factor for me:...

I have passingly considered what the implications would be with regard to charitable donations after retirement: We deliberately consider our...

Indeed. Those commentators that choose to live by such assumptions must accept the logical consequences of all such assumptions, or accept that their...

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Nor does ignoring the fact that US bombs have in the past killed actual babies, the living breathing kind. I don't see you volunteering to subject...

One wonders why those who suggest such offensive things object to being forced to sleep one night each year in the most dangerous and squalid...

In order for me to do so, you'd have to provide the examples as I requested earlier, the aforementioned trap, so I can provided you examples of how...

The point wasn't for your to fall into the trap, but to realize that if you were actually held to account for what you said, your comments would fall...

If that were true, your perspective would hold every seat in Congress and the White House in every election since the day you were born.

Of course, you were wrong, for the reasons I outlined above.

Why are you trying to equivocate away the fact that reasonable people disagree about what you're saying? You think Snowden revealed something that...

How did you get that from my explanation of the concentric contexts of control? The prohibition against murder is a direct reflection of one's own...

You've hit the nail on the head. Some of the critics that are making a big deal of what the NSA and CIA have been doing for decades, albeit...

Similar logic can be applied to rationalize limited levels of polluting the environment ("industrial pollution sometimes only affects a local...

The ultrasound isn't religious law. The legal requirement is. The medical profession calls for certain tests to be done before certain procedures,...

He may have just wanted attention.

We're in an area where the changes that are occurring seem to be making our local climate better. Our summers are becoming a bit more summery...

I don't, but I know it makes you feel better about your position by making such a vacuous claim. The reality is that there are wide range of...

As I have expressed it, over that specific, other perspective. I have not expressed it as such over all other perspectives, which is what your...

Good thing I don't do that. I just outlined the dichotomy in another thread: On the one side is an assertion of human decency, social conscience...

I don't think so. When push comes to shove, and we talk about the motivations behind the first side versus the second side, the arguments set forth...

I think that a lot of issues these days, such as those that peggy raised, break down these days in a similar manner: On the one side is an assertion...

Nothing stops oppressive forces from acquiring such data at that time, nationalizing all data centers and such, etc. Thinking that keeping such data...

Ignoring all that nonsense you insisted on posting to stroke your own ego, I'll remind you of the points I made earlier, that you keep trying to...

Thanks for editing your earlier message so it was no longer as offensive.

I was initially undecided, especially given the parallels between Snowden and Ellsberg, but the more I learned about the issue, the more I grew to...

Living a life of honor isn't craven. Civil disobedience requires honor and that means being accountable for the laws you choose to break. It does...

I don't believe that it is a "large" segment of the population. Rather, I believe the subsidies are designed to mostly help people who actually do...

A remarkably ridiculous attempt to distract attention away from a point you didn't like. The fact of the matter is that running and hiding, as...