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• On the post: Student's Free Speech Victory Is A Victory For Everyone Even If You Disagree With His Speech

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2013 @ 06:52am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What's good for the goose...

  I don't know any such thing and neither do you. What I do know is that anyone who's had their eyes open during the past hundred years would regard a white parade or a straight parade as, at best, a silly, pointless, self-congratulatory exercise. But why is that stopping you? No requirements such as you cite exist anywhere but in your mind. All you need is a permit. If you want a parade, have your parade.

• On the post: Student's Free Speech Victory Is A Victory For Everyone Even If You Disagree With His Speech

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2013 @ 08:41am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What's good for the goose...

  When does the straight pride parade begin?
  
  Why do you think you need one? Are millions of people all over the country denied jobs or housing because they have straight sex? Are they harassed or assaulted or even murdered because they have straight sex? Are bars and churches bombed because the people who gather there engage in straight sex? Are they forbidden from being at their lover's deathbed because they have straight sex? Are civil rights are denied to straight people that are enjoyed by others?

• On the post: Student's Free Speech Victory Is A Victory For Everyone Even If You Disagree With His Speech

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2013 @ 09:53am

  Re: Re: Bad rulling

  Reading comprehension fail

• On the post: Student's Free Speech Victory Is A Victory For Everyone Even If You Disagree With His Speech

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2013 @ 09:37am

  Re: Re: Confederate Flag?

  On its own the Swastika is symbol of the spirit, the sun, the four directions and the circularity of life. It is widely used as such in Asia even today. Its use was even more widespread all over the world before the symbol was appropriated by the Nazis. By your logic, a swastika belt buckle should be treated as a symbol of pride and independence. Yet in many places today, displaying a swastika is a crime.
  
  Symbols have power; that's why people use them. It is childish in the extreme to feign ignorance of this power.

• On the post: Student's Free Speech Victory Is A Victory For Everyone Even If You Disagree With His Speech

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2013 @ 09:16am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How about these 'gems'?

  Marked funny -- this is a joke, right?

• On the post: Government Argues Bradley Manning Was An Anarchist, As Case Closes

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2013 @ 06:21am

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  Do you have the slightest idea how incredibly, insufferably pompous you sound?

• On the post: Government Argues Bradley Manning Was An Anarchist, As Case Closes

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2013 @ 06:20am

  Re: Re: Re: King George III or worse

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_%28historiography%29
  
  Your condescending attitude is offensive. And you're wrong.

• On the post: Boston Radio Station Shutters Online Contest To Meet Taylor Swift Because Of 4Chan Shenanigans

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2013 @ 07:10am

  Re: Re: Re: This IS a new low in stupid even for you, Timmy.

  Good lord, shouldn't you be kicking orphans somewhere?

• On the post: The 217 Representatives Who Voted To Keep NSA Spying On All Your Data

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2013 @ 07:03am

  Re: Re: Liking him

  Agreed, Grayson is one of my heroes.

• On the post: Head Start: College Kid Gets Prison For Rigging Student President Election

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2013 @ 06:21am

  Re: Re: One day

  This story seems to cut close to the bone for some...

• On the post: TSA Now Searching Valet-Parked Vehicles, Utilizing A Crack Security Team Composed Of… Valets

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2013 @ 10:00am

  Re: Re:

  I see what you did there.

• On the post: Judge Wright Denies John Steele's Motion, Says Any Problem Is Steele's Own Fault, Directs Him To Legal Clinic

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2013 @ 06:32am

  Re:

  It's so sweet, I'm getting chubby.

• On the post: Pippa Middleton Sends Legal Threats Over Parody Twitter Account

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2013 @ 06:00am

  Re:

  Splendid!

• On the post: If 'Just Metadata' Isn't An Issue, Why Can't Tech Companies Reveal 'Just Metadata' About NSA Surveillance?

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2013 @ 11:58am

  Never thought I'd see the day FreedomWorks would voice support from something alongside EFF and ACLU!

• On the post: Just As US Finally Realizes Copyright Terms May Be Too Long, Japan Looks To Make Them Longer

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2013 @ 11:19am

  Life plus anything is too long. 14 years was considered ample in a time when proofing, publishing and promoting was laborious, expensive and time-consuming. Now that so much of the tedium can be dispensed with very little cost, two lifetimes is not long enough?? At least they're no longer even trying to pretend it's about anything other than holding a death-grip on culture.

• On the post: 71% Of Americans Believe The Founding Fathers Would Be Disappointed At The Way The Nation Has Turned Out

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2013 @ 01:58pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  This ^

• On the post: 71% Of Americans Believe The Founding Fathers Would Be Disappointed At The Way The Nation Has Turned Out

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2013 @ 01:57pm

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  No explanation needed. In election surveys, the respondent is asked if they plan to vote, and how. Why would that distribution be affected by the selection requirement of willingness to answer a computer caller?

• On the post: White House Believes Ed Snowden Shouldn't Have Any Free Speech Rights, Attacks Russia For Letting Him Speak

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2013 @ 09:09am

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  You're not a big frog here. You're the equivalent of an unruly boy making fart noises at a wedding.

• On the post: 71% Of Americans Believe The Founding Fathers Would Be Disappointed At The Way The Nation Has Turned Out

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2013 @ 08:50am

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  Results are based on telephone interviews conducted June 1-4, 2013 with a random sample of ?1,529?adults, aged 18+, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia

  Have you ever worked as a telephone interviewer calling random people to conduct a survey? I have. By far the majority of people you call will decline to answer the survey. They will say they don't have time, or they aren't interested. So right off the bat, telephone surveys are limited to a sample not of the general population, but of those among the general population who A) answer the phone when a computer calls them, B) enjoy talking to strangers on the telephone, C) have time to take out of their day to talk to strangers on the telephone, and D) are interested in responding to a survey about a random topic.

• On the post: 71% Of Americans Believe The Founding Fathers Would Be Disappointed At The Way The Nation Has Turned Out

  

  dennis deems ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2013 @ 08:39am

  The thing about surveys

  Question design is crucial. These questions are too vague to yield meaningful analysis. What exactly is meant by "the way the United States has turned out"? Are we to think of social ills such as slavery and child labor? Are we to consider class-stratification and an individual's power to choose their profession? Availability of education? health care? Every respondent will have his or her own understanding of what we are being asked to compare, and what the founding fathers' collective attitudes would be to these issues.
  
  TLDR: "How would [dead person] have felt about [x]" is a topic for Steve Allen and his celebrity guests to discuss, not a data point from which social or political scientists may glean anything at all useful.

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