This is a really weird feeling. I'm 90% sure you're a Chinese propagandist, but I 100% agree with your words.

lot of financial issues in Canada and it isn't anything new
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Canadians had no financial issues until Harper took power. We were on track to pay off the national debt.

Libraries are hardly used to begin
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cost a significant amount to create and maintain
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They are expensive, and a huge tax burden
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Everything in those libraries are turned into ebooks
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If you want to teach kids ontology, then by all means advocate the creation of a class for that purpose

Look, I'm all for opening the doors of knowledge, but isn't an entire course on cancer a bit heavy for elementary school children?

I think the strongest candidates for the Great Filter are Life originating, Multi-cellular Life evolving, Intelligent Life evolving, and the existence of an environment that remains continually-habitable for 4 billion years.

For all of the filtration events in the past that weren't serious, I can't see any evidence that these four aren't doozies. I certainly lean towards the filtration of the past explaining our solitude, rather than a filtration in the future.

This article's about programming paradigms, not hardware implementation. There's no difference at the processor level between assigning a variable in javascript and assembly, but that doesn't make the languages equal.

Harder means more complex. And with more complexity comes more possibilities for medicine and genetic treatment. Sounds like a reason for celebration to me.

Coverage a problem? 3 words: Mothership Warehouse Zeppelins.

Like it or not, mobile software is tightly-coupled to the hardware, and the warranty. I expect the manufacturers consider this more akin to wiping the firmware on your TV, microwave, or car.

This is as good a place as any to recommend Rocket Surgery Made Easy. As someone with absolutely no knowledge of usability testing, this was a great introduction to the art.

So essentially we've gotten nothing from fracking
Did you even RTFA^HS^HHeadline? "We" have leverage over Iran. Which is generally recognized as a good thing (feel free to argue).

Whether or not it's worth the vast environmental damage is for you to decide, but don't display your stupidity by claiming there are absolutely no upsides.

All websites must be designed for use by rural Kentuckians.

So if a kidnapper releases his victim after a few years, all's good?

I'm not taking issue with the anti-death-penalty stance, I'm taking issue with the simplistic "if we we do it,how are we better?" argument. There are clear differences between killing a mugging victim/hit target/cheating wife, and killing a killer. Arguing they're the same is only going to convince your opponents that you're dumb enough to believe it, and drive them further from your point of view.

And how does imprisoning them make us better than kidnappers? Free them all!

This works only so long as our money and credit last. If it doesn't, then what?

As bad as you think things are, is it worth destroying the credibility of the US when it says "I will pay you for your services"? D you want to turn America into a deadbeat state? Or is the solution not to renege on your promises, but to elect people who do not make them in the first place?

I only wish President Obama still believed what he did as Senator.

Not me - I'm glad he came to his senses. There are two ways to deal with a high deficit. You can stop promising other people money, or you can start reneging on the promises you already made.

The debt ceiling vote is about keeping promises already made, and it's beyond stupid that a vote is even required. You made those promises. Keep them, or create a new government that will.