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Comment Re:Problems (Score 1) 164

Regardless of which end of the problem you focus on it's not prudent to build the windmills. Putting up a potential known hazard to an endangered species, regardless of if you're addressing the root causes is not a good way to help encourage population growth. The windmills being dangerous to condors is only a non-issue if the condor population is stabilized and healthy enough to not be considered endangered.

Comment Re:Now if only the rest of the country would follo (Score 1) 545

You're suggesting to add expensive testing for every child to detect for some known issues that occur in approximately 1:1,000,000 children and this testing isn't likely to grab known issues. How much do you think that one in a million child receives in compensation for a bad vaccine? Divide that by a million and that tells you how cheap that testing needs to be to be worthwhile.

Comment Re:Isreal (Score 1) 169

The alleged goal of those negotiations was to keep Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. It is a valid question as to whether the terms achieved will accomplish that goal. If Israel does not believe the agreement, the terms which they are aware of, will achieve that go then naturally I would expect them to oppose the treaty regardless of being an ally of the United States.

Comment Re:Some secrecy is necessary to permit negotiation (Score 1) 169

We essentially have a process for dealing with treaties. The Executive branch, via the State Department, negotiates the treaty. Once the treaty has been concluded and signed by the President, it is then submitted to the Senate for ratification. They either ratify or they do not. If they do not then the treaty is dead in the water.

That is how things should work. There's no point for Congress to look at working documents of the treaty. At best the State Department could ask Congress for opinions on limitations in order to avoid making concessions that would immediately prevent ratification.

Comment Re:we want gameplay, not "imperfections in the ski (Score 1) 87

Sequels are a function of narrative. Series is a function of brand.

Harry Potter, for instance, is a series of seven books which six are sequels. Each book in the series builds on the narrative of the series as a whole.

Goosebumps is a series of 180 books where each book, with a few exceptions, is it own narrative. Goosebumps #2 "Stay Out of the Basement" is not a sequel to Goosebumps #1 "Welcome to Dead House".

Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII continue the plot from the previous game (XIII-2 continuing the plot of XIII and LR continuing the plot presented by XIII and XIII-2). Thus these two games function as sequels to Final Fantasy XIII. Final Fantasy VIII has no relation to the plot or narrative of any preceding Final Fantasy game so it's not a sequel.

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