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That's the best starting point, what happens if you tab out and tab back in?

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[quote]I looked it up, generals get paid more than the newest congressman. 184,000 to 174,000. Not to mention other benefits generals get such as free housing and not having to run for your job every two years. Since you gave me incorrect facts on general to congressman pay, I simply cannot believe your assertion about health care administrators unless you provide some actual facts, not just things you think.[/quote]They'd follow the standard government pay scale.

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[quote] HR 3200 "America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009" Sec. 1233. Advance care planning consultation. I have read this section several times. Sometimes when I read it I get the impression that it is a counseling of options. However other times when I read it I get the impression that these consultations give the council the power to influence what care a person will receive. The fact that the entire thing is written in so much legalese that even l

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[quote who="Nitro Cruiser" reply="209" id="2360896"]Nobody is suggesting everyone on welfare is cheating. However, here's what your numbers don't tell you. The 8.6% with 4 (or more children) are using 300% (or more) benefits each case than 47.9% with 1 child. So your small number is misleading as they are getting a minimum of 32% of the benefit. Three kids 200% more than one kid or 40.2% of the benefits. That means that 72%+ of the benefits go to people with 3 or more kids. Damn statisti

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[quote]Keep crapping out kids with no baby daddy in the house. That's all it takes.[/quote] http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2009/04/most_welfare_families_have_few.html Numbers in the News question Q: I ask you to take courage and post the number of women who have 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or more children on w

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[quote]Does it occur to anyone that maybe CNN and others might be slighting their news into a more favorable light for the democrats, and it's not just that Fox news is some conservative-whacko-show?[/quote]I don't get this. I very rarely see people posting links to sophomoric Olbermann segments, the majority of liberals/progressives I know don't rally around a personality figure the way conservatives do around Glenn Beck. I watched that video the republicans are whining about with the celebr

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[quote]It's already happening in other countries. What would you call a set of individuals making calls on who gets life saving meds.. and who doesn't?[/quote]If they're successfully denying meds I'd call them individuals in line for big promotions. If they're granting too many meds I'd say they're on their way out the door. That's how our current system works. There's no way a government system is going to work perfectly, but why do we have to pretend that a cost/benefi

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[quote]No service should ever be a right and no right should ever be a service. Rights should never be at someone else's expense. Is it someone's "right" to pay taxes for services others receive and don't pay for? Please.[/quote]I don't really know how to respond to something this childishly simplistic. If it weren't for taxes we'd still be being sold snake oil (even with the FDA we still are at timeS) and the planes wouldn't fly... How would something like the FAA exist if only people w

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[quote]Huh? Ever heard of the library? You don't have to have money to read, that's just silly. We trade books with friends and family too when there are new ones that we want to read right away.[/quote]The libraries around here are a poor source for contemporary works, so I envy you. :/ By the way do you view NPR as a counterpoint to Fox or just a balanced news source in its own right?[quote]Never listened to Beck or O'Reilly on the radio but have listened to Limbau

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[quote]Cass Sunstein Yeah there is obviously nothing objectionable about this guy as long as your between 2 and 60, If animals could vote, this guy would be a shoe in. They believe we are too stupid to make our own choices. news flash... a lot of us aren't. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhgvJfPRkG8 [/quote]This clip is presented in a way which makes it pretty easy to dismantle. Si

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Here's the glenn beck list of czars btw, I only see one on there that's even remotely objectionable: http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29391/ There's 32 of them from my cursory examination (I have to leave for class in about 5 minutes) it looks like Beck doesn't even object to at least 30 of them. The fact that there's 32 of those people kind of undermines the

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[quote who="S J N" reply="152" id="2358833"]Why is OUR President surrounding himself with Communists and Marxist advisors? This to me is VERY frightning. I hve been seeing and hearing this on Beck's program. If this is not true, I will stand corrected! Please, let them NOT change our Constitution.[/quote]First off that's now how changing the constitution works. The president has no direct role in the process of accepting an amendment. It needs to either be proposed by Congress or a

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[quote]There you have it, the typical leftist attitude that if anyone isn't in lock step with them it is just because they aren't as "learned" as them.[/quote]Don't get hung up on this. That's one guy, not the perspective of the average progressive. Fact is books are expensive, no one I know except my uncle who works for the LA times and gets sent books for free actually reads even 200 bucks worth of books a month, liberal or democrat. Basically all new books cost 20-40 bucks since they're al

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[quote]He may have misspelled it, he may not have. No one will ever truly know... In the end.. does it really matter?[/quote]Are you getting existential on me? The whole thing is on camera and you can cross-reference with a dictionary.[quote]Bit petty imo with so many other things at stake.[/quote]Sure, but you did rise up to temporally defend it instead of dismissing it. The whole thread started off quite petty, as the only video posted was the one with him misspelling oligarchy, but the opp

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[quote]Watch last weeks friday episode and educate yourself. [e digicons];)[/e] [/quote]By that logic it's impossible for him to ever misspell something so long as he corrects it later. That's not how it works.

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There's a few problems with making Pantheon the sole source of rankings without removing the light/dark restrictions: Premades can't go wrong. If you see your partner in the connection screen there is a 100% chance you're on the same team. Matching becomes much less reliable when high ranked players, premade or not, are literally completely unable to be matched against each other because they're on the same side (light/dark). Wait times increase when you hav

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Reporting both sides is not always good journalism. It gives rise to absurd arguments like the birther conspiracy and the whole "Bush did 9/11" thing. If I say that the world is round, good journalism doesn't mean finding someone who thinks it's flat and interviewing them to counterbalance my opinion. The problem with Glenn Beck is his theatrics and his network. He's on a self-titled news network but instead of informing people he's enraging and scaring them. If he were on a different

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Seriously Frogboy is right when it comes to displaying exp, it's a far better number than favor points, games played, or win ratios. I do feel experience needs to be made much less opaque and it would make more sense to start at zero instead of 1k, but in the end it's the best evaluation of a player's skill available.

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Seriously these ideas are half-assing it. You're just proposing a system which makes it easier for players to avoid premades, you're not incentivizing premade vs. premade matches when you de-emphasize experience. Players with a lot of exp should want to fight other players with high exp levels, they should not want to stomp pugs, which is what a solely win % based approach encourages. Think about it. Even if the system worked like you hope it would, which is to say it encourag

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[quote]wow ... i dont spec in an anti ereb minion build yet im still able to take the upper hand against him. you just have to play smart. if he sends the minions to attack you, pull back and let them fight u at ur own towers (minion erebus is nothing in high tower setting). ive done that plenty of times with my ooze ub usually resulting in him losing all his minions.[/quote]Standard games don't have high towers and a good EB would just get gunners and sic them on your tower while you cede la

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[quote]National Socialism is very cut and dry, exactly what they were practicing, and only differed from Marxism because the guy was an internationalist. National Socialism is the economic component in fascism, racial superiority being most of the rest. Think of them as a cross between utopian socialists, modern capitalists, and the KKK. They practiced massive social engineering, but were smart enough to realize money made the world go round. Instead of abolishing free

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Experience as a concept is much, much better than win/loss ratios. It's the people who are going for perfect records and ridiculous win streaks that are the main problem right now, you would only make it worse. Experience just needs to start at zero and should never be able to drop below zero. That would be a major improvement. Also you need to just literally gain zero exp when fighting people with around 1k less exp than you.

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[quote]They don't do that because they know that it would help *us* far more than them. The near term would suck, no doubt, but a wrecked dollar would erase their trade advantage. If the dollar fell far enough, we would start seeing the outsoursing trend reversed and a rebirth of American manufacturing. Not to mention that a major currency shift would allow us to buy back most of our debt. In twenty years, we'd be better off than we are now.[/quote]A loosely related example is the increase in

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[quote]I have the most excellent book with short stories about socialism; the auto-biography of an Israeli author who grew up in Hungary and escaped the Nazis and the Stalinists and then fled to Israel after working as a newspaper editor in Soviet-occupied Hungary for a few years.[/quote]I'm a little sick of this kind of absurdity. I keep hearing people talk about how the nazis were socialists, the best part is when they excliam " SOCIALIST WAS EVEN IN

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Impulse anywhere did work, but I still don't think I'm going to be able to patch correctly.