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« Reply #720 on: August 26, 2008, 07:36:08 AM »
yay double post :P


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He has been rewarded the United States Business and Industrial Council, the National Taxpayers Union, Americans for Tax Reform, and the Chamber of Commerce for his activism in reducing government regulation and taxation.

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #721 on: August 26, 2008, 08:43:33 AM »
The funny thing is that in Capitalism, something is your property by virtue of it representing a piece of your life. You own your life, therefore you own what has been created with your life-time and life-energy.

But, here's the catch, nobody created "land".

I must have missed the point where someon can capitalisticaly claim land as theirs that does not involve a huge act of government somewhere inbetween, probably terminating to a feudal King and an army of thieves, thugs and murderers.
So its a bit of a funny point, but in "proper" capitalism, you can own a sculpture, because you own the energy you invested in shaping it, you can own bottled water, because you own the act of bottling it, you can own a house obviously, but you can't own land.

Those who say so, are incidentially called Geolibertarians. Who in fact say that there should not be a single tax in existance, but the tax to the community for the right to exclude others from a piece of land. No one might be using that name but its not an idea that didn't exist since Thomas Paine's time, who wrote:

"Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds."

The only case of properly "capitalistically" created land I can think of, are the palm islands in Dubai.

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #722 on: August 27, 2008, 07:44:22 AM »
Oh, Yeah?

"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."

- Dubya, September 1, 2005, three days after the breach


Exhibit A:  Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said in a CNN interview on August 27 that the storm could bring a 15 to 20 foot surge of water and the people of New Orleans "will not survive that if it happens."

Exhibit B: Federal disaster officials warned Bush and his homeland security chief during the August 28 session "the storm could breach levees."

Exhibit C: New Orleans Mayor Ray Magin told a news conference on August 29: "The storm will likely topple our levee system."

Exhibit D: FEMA Director Brown testified that prior to the disaster "in my conversations with the president and with the chief of staff; our concern was always the breach of the levees."


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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #723 on: August 27, 2008, 02:08:11 PM »
Oh, Yeah?

"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."

- Dubya, September 1, 2005, three days after the breach


Exhibit A:  Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said in a CNN interview on August 27 that the storm could bring a 15 to 20 foot surge of water and the people of New Orleans "will not survive that if it happens."

Exhibit B: Federal disaster officials warned Bush and his homeland security chief during the August 28 session "the storm could breach levees."

Exhibit C: New Orleans Mayor Ray Magin told a news conference on August 29: "The storm will likely topple our levee system."

Exhibit D: FEMA Director Brown testified that prior to the disaster "in my conversations with the president and with the chief of staff; our concern was always the breach of the levees."


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*Says with a more adamant voice*
No, we did not anticipate the breach of the levees.

Anyway, the, apparent, translation for the Dutch word "dijk" is apparently "leve(e)".
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #724 on: August 27, 2008, 09:45:32 PM »

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #725 on: August 28, 2008, 03:51:26 PM »
Fail...

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« Reply #726 on: August 28, 2008, 06:33:02 PM »
Fail...

Your post lacks a fact.

FACT.

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #727 on: August 28, 2008, 07:53:02 PM »
Perhaps the post was self referential.

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #728 on: August 28, 2008, 08:19:02 PM »
The most expensive actual substance in the universe is:

Antimatter.

Present day cost: $300 billion per milligram


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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #729 on: August 29, 2008, 03:43:41 PM »
the person who badmouthed Jack Donaghy to the press in the 30 rock episode "MILF Island" was actually Liz Lemon herself.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #730 on: August 31, 2008, 08:34:41 AM »
Its a giant clam:


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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #731 on: August 31, 2008, 09:25:35 AM »
and some guy who is thinking that he is about to die :D
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #732 on: September 04, 2008, 07:52:44 AM »
My Pet President

Contrary to what most Americans think, President Bush didn't first learn of the 9/11 attacks while reading My Pet Goat to a class of schoolchildren in Florida. 
Earlier, on arriving at the school, Chief of Staff Andrew Card had instructed Bush on his duties that morning and then added, "By the way, an aircraft flew into the World trade Center."
It wasn't until after the second plane struck that Andy Card whispered in the seated president's ear, "A second plane hit the second tower.  America is under attack."


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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #733 on: September 05, 2008, 02:38:48 PM »
My Pet President

Contrary to what most Americans think, President Bush didn't first learn of the 9/11 attacks while reading My Pet Goat to a class of schoolchildren in Florida. 
Earlier, on arriving at the school, Chief of Staff Andrew Card had instructed Bush on his duties that morning and then added, "By the way, an aircraft flew into the World trade Center."
It wasn't until after the second plane struck that Andy Card whispered in the seated president's ear, "A second plane hit the second tower.  America is under attack."


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Yeah, but there was a massive difference between the first and second hits. It was an accident until the second when it was surely an attack and then there was the collapse which changed things even further.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #734 on: September 09, 2008, 12:52:55 PM »
Incidentially, if LHC destroys the world, those will be your last 24 hours.

EDIT: Ah, cancel your planned orgies and resume normal boring behavior, the actual experiment that will destroy the world won't happen until October 21.

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #735 on: September 09, 2008, 01:28:23 PM »
according to british army doctrine, if caught in a minefield you are to get your (non)issued mine prodding tool, go prone and start prodding a 1.6m wide corridor to the nearest hard standing (concrete, patio etc.).  you are to prod at an angle of 30 degrees to the ground and at 25mm intervals.

takes f**king hours that..
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #736 on: September 10, 2008, 03:53:49 PM »
According to NOVA Science Now!, there are more stars in the sky than there are grains of sand on Earth.

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« Reply #737 on: September 10, 2008, 05:32:49 PM »
i just saw that show lol

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #738 on: September 10, 2008, 11:28:41 PM »
When you have been up for 36 hours straight (or more) and have been driving for a long period of time over a longdistance in those 36 hours you may begin to hallucinatte.

I saw tanks with wings and strapons dancing down the M1..#]

fuuuck i'm tired...
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« Reply #739 on: September 11, 2008, 01:01:19 AM »
When you have been up for 36 hours straight (or more) and have been driving for a long period of time over a longdistance in those 36 hours you may begin to hallucinatte.

I saw tanks with wings and strapons dancing down the M1..#]

fuuuck i'm tired...

So, same ol' stuff. Good. Now go have a coffee. Hell, I'd join ya if I wasn't busy as f*cking hell. xD

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