Libraries are not legally allowed to keep on record which books you have borrowed. They are only allowed to track which books you currently have in your possession.

This is the case in the socialist shithole called Sweden. It might be better in the capitalist paradise of the US.

It's also the solution to a puzze at the end of the first Disworld adventure game.

You will have to gather a set of items (eye patch, tattoo (i think) and some other stuff) to make sure that your chances of winning a fight against a dragon is EXACTLY a million to one.

I think YOU have the wrong party.

Republicans are all about individual responsibility, pull yourself up by the bootstraps, homeless people are lazy etc. etc.

Democrats accept that people have different chances to succed. That's the basis of the "left" approach to politics.

This is why many conservatives criticize homeless people, because they believe everyone has the same opportunities.

I maintain nonetheless that yin-yang dualism can be overcome.
With sufficient enlightenment we can give substance to any
distinction: mind without body, north without south, pleasure
without pain. Remember, enlightenment is a function of willpower,
not of physical strength.

â"Chairman Sheng-ji Yang,
âoeEssays on Mind and Matterâ

Source please.

It's simply smarter for a company to employ fewer people, because the more they employ the more they will have to teach.

There's less paperwork for the company as well. Less workers to keep track of. Less management.

It seems to me that prices would plummet as supply increases and purchasing power decreases. The lower prices would counter the loss of income.

The interesting thing here is that an income drop from high unemployment should result in people with zero income. People with zero income have no purchasing power. If they have no purchasing power, the only sensible price is free as they can afford nothing else.

So with people who can buy nothing, and a minority who CAN buy, the production increase from automation seems like it would become entirely worthless. After all, what's the point of being able to produce more of something that less people now can purchase?

Aokiji did it on a bicycle, though it's a bit unclear how far the distance was. He did have to freeze the water first, though.

I propose the Smoother Operations Fallacy.

That is. The argument is not about surveillance per se, but rather about any action that can be taken to make it easier for law enforcement to act.

I have seen this a lot in the swedish surveillance debate. The argument is that we should spy on the people, because this makes it easier for the cops to catch bad guys.

(which is inherently problematic, because taken to its logical extreme it means the police should be allowed to do ANYTHING, as that'd be the optimal way to let them catch bad guys)

I sell this tiger repellant. It's very effective. I haven't been attacked once. Only $400 for a bottle.

Probably because an eco friendly person in the west has a greater chance of influencing the west than he has of influencing some "communist" shithole.

Abortion and gay marriage ARE civil rights issues.

Aside from that, I agree.

I tried googling and found nothing. Googling "qleb" gives me some links in some foreign language which looks like arabic.

I tried googling for "abbreviation qleb" and that gave me even less to go on.

It seems like it's some bullshit he made up himself.

Something else is at work.

As you said. Almost all women you worked with were foreign born. My experience in CS at university is the same. Almost all women are exchange students from asia.

My university provides a program almost identical to CS, called IT, with some differences:
1: It has an optional management/economy spin to it in years 4 and 5
2: It gives you an engineering title rather than just a CS bachelor/master degree

The curriculum is otherwise nearly identical. IT has slightly more focus on hardware.

What's the twist? Almost all the non-exchange student girls are in IT and not in CS.

In short: There has to be something in CS that repulses women, but which is not a factor for exchange students.

If we assume, for the sake of argument, that ALL drug violence was caused only by prohibition... then that means the drugs themselves were bad enough to ban them even when there was no associated violence. Hmm.

Not necessarily. You're making the assumption that the ban was enacted in order to prevent violent crime. Nothing as such has been said. I believe it is far more likely that the ban is mainly ideological in nature.