That's not a problem. In exchange for believing in an infinite number of universes with infinite instances of me, I'll gladly accept that there are also an infinite number of universes without me.

I'm sure there's a universe out there where John Noble doesn't get constantly cast as a crackpot.

As long at the initial diesel creation from CO2 and Water used CO2 from the air, then you're just on the other side of the loop. The CO2 you capture doesn't have to be the same CO2 given off by combustion, it just has to be the same amount.

Well, talk is excluded because they don't play music outside of the bumper music going into and out of commercial.

You could argue that they should pay based on that, but then a talk station with less than $1 in revenue would be paying the same as a 24/7 music station, and that hardly seems fair. Plus if that happened, it could spell the end of bumper music and the talk stations would claim that they play no music, why are they being charged.

The religious exemption, I have no clue. Religious music publishing and radio works the same as regular music.

Republicans have a incredible chance to capture a huge part of the IT vote by coming out strong against H1B visas.

Because this is a smart idea, they will of course not do this.

Time to watch The Matrix again!

Ah, the ad hominem attack, what a great display of your intellect.

The story is here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/i...

A word of warning. You will not get the minutes of your life wasted on reading this back.

To call it sophomoric drivel is an insult to sophomores.

It may have good and correct political intentions, but it is overtly cloying, snooty, and pretentious.

It is not good writing by any measure. That it is "award winning" is a travesty.

I just read "If You Were A Dinosaur, My Love" yesterday.

Its almost like they're trying to create a contest of

fan fiction , middle school author, or award winner.

That story was a steaming pile of self righteous PC crap.

That just goes to show you how touchy the SJWs are. If you toe the lie on all of their points but one, which OSC does, they'll still ostracize you.

Dune dystopic? You know they did end up following the "golden path". Sure there is drama, death, intrigue, war, etc. But there was also love, family, loyalty, duty, honor.

Dune is an epic history of future, not a dystopic story.

Do you realize just how many potential mandatory voters don't file taxes every year? Or move beteween voting locales between elections? It's much larger numbers than you think. Mandatory voting would require the authorities to find them and, and this is the truly larger point CHARGE THEM WITH A CRIME.

Voting is a right. Mandatory voting is a compulsion. It changes the power of the vote from being something of the citizen over the government to a power the government wields over a citizen.

You can believe that power would be wielded honorably, but you'd quickly be proven wrong.

Bzzzt. Wrong. Voted in every national level election since 1988.

But of course you got it wrong because you have it backwards. Those the vote would be known, those that don't vote would need to be looked into, investigated, or dare I say, spied upon.

My post was relatively in jest, but partly serious.

The government can't know who didn't vote without keeping meticulous records, hmmmmm lets call them "metadata", about peoples voting habits and whereabouts on voting day.

And don't say that they'd just look at the voter rolls and compare them to census data, they'd need to be far more thorough than that in their tracking and monitoring to be able to effectively fine or charge someone with the crime of not voting (and it'd have to be a crime to not vote because "mandatory").

How can you tell if someone has cast their mandatory ballot if you don't spy on them?!

Annnnnd you've Godwinned a thread on daylight savings time.

Nice.

Of course the GP post is ridiculous. Want your base 10 time, move back to the twelve colonies.