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Since these leaders are picked from the pool of "us" by virtue of the lack of a ruling class and the democratic process, is there some kind of...

No, that's not the same thing. Being afraid of the population, especially the way they phrased it, implies that you the leader / ruler are afraid...

Irrelevant. We were talking about intent. You asserted that clearly there is a group of people "in charge" who is afraid of the general populace,...

When asked about Homeworld one of them just answered, paraphrased "I've played it but I know nothing about it"; the other two said nothing. This is...

OR, you're not a totally evil Bond villain style overlord, and actually a decent human being at heart, but you are somewhat scared of THE TERRORISTS...

I would love to learn how you go from 'security measures' to 'those in power fear social unrest'. Would you mind elaborating please?

Okay I think we can settle on "because that's a stupid idea" and move on from there. Let's rein it in guys.

Looks like you've found your way to the right forum. Closing this one, please continue your discussion here: ...

Yeah it kind of is. There's a class action lawsuit started by the UCLA and others, and we'll see how that works out. Perhaps, hopefully the courts...

"not worth recognizing" "corrupt" "unlawful".... As determined by whom, exactly?

That was not a good analogy when it popped up as a reddit meme earlier, and it hasn't improved since. Since he leaked the information...

Yes but that wasn't the right quote. It's about giving up essential liberties. The freedom to kill your neighbor randomly is not an essential...

Oh there is no doubt about that. What I'm saying is that you're willingly signing up for what amounts to a really overpriced game rental service...

I think you mean "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety". There's a...

You seem to be under the mistaken assumption that they are your games. They're not. Under the XB1 model, you merely lease or rent them. A more apt...

@ Blackadder - In the above pic I linked, you're looking at parts of several styrene signs cut up to make the added armor for the Old School Rhino™...

@ Blackadder - If you're none too picky about exact thickness measurements for sheets of plain styrene, the Garage Sale/Auto Repair Prices/Beware of...

Have you not been following the evolution debate? People will discuss anything. That aside, of course it's hard to prove that such a correlation...

If you have the money, go for dual monitors rather than putting a giant screen with the same number of pixels as a much smaller one right in front of...

There are many bad things that are caused by people in the name of religion. You shouldn't have any trouble finding examples of that. That...

What is your correlation coefficient in this case? Besides, you only seem to have one actual outlier on that second chart, the rest of your...

They don't even look nice. The data is very spread out and those "trends" are horribly weak. In other words, while the software will always find a...

Okay two things here. 1) Correlation does not equate causation. 2) Your trendline has an R^2 of less than .09. That's so ridiculously low it...

Besides what Logic_Bomb just pointed out or the fact that not all terrorism is religiously motivated, this isn't actually a counterargument. The guy...

And yet... Sim City. It's not like they change anything. They might roll back a specific instance of implementing their overall sales strategy if...

Since you guys are so fond of car analogies I'd like to point out that not only can you take a look at cars being built, in some cases you can even...

What Trizz says. The stats are pretty much all fudged anyways (10 hundred million to one contrast ratio!!!!1oneeleven), and unless you're doing high...

Uh, no. That's in no way a fact. The person(s) committing these acts are responsible. The people supporting them, training them, and leading them...

To which extent have we tried other, non-religious means? Let's say propagating Christianity in prisons leads to a 20% (number completely made up)...

I agree with you. But I'm guessing that people don't really use Buddhism or Islam all that much in prisons, or am I wrong here? Therefore, your...

Oh it doesn't, neither does your opinion that US beer is awful. However, neither said opinion nor religion should be used when making laws. Yet...

Hey mate just FYI, you're sounding both stoned and delusional. Makes it hard to take the rest of your arguments seriously. You might want to...

Fingers crossed buddy. When are you going in for your surgery?

So... basically standard rules for political discourse in this country.