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Comment Psych to CompSci to Bio (Score 1) 397

Actually this is not what I have found. It took me a long while to find my path into STEM.

I started as a psych major, then realized I don't want to maintain and fix, but to create.

So I turned my experienced hobby into my major, computer science. Fell in love with programming. But this was too artificial feeling for me. Computer science is a fine social product.

Now I'm a biology major, with a focus on genetics. I want to understand how natural programs work. Maybe even write some of my own one day, with tons of example works to draw from out in the [actual] field.

Comment Re:I'm all for abolishing the IRS (Score 0) 349

Each person ought pay a flat percentage rate yearly for the cost of the previous year, no ifs ands or buts.

That is to say if it costs the sum of government 2 trillion total to run, and the GDP was 20 trillion, then 10% of each individuals income would go to the government to make up the 20 trillion.

Its the only fair way.

Comment Re:Just Askin' (Score 1) 367

The problem has always been that criminals will still have access to guns because the banning of desirables actually increases access via the resulting highly profitable black markets.

The only ones with such weapons will be criminals and the government, leaving the vast mass of law-abiding people defenseless.

Comment Re:de jure? (Score 1) 57

de jure - "according to law; by right"

Many say the United States has been a "de facto" power since the civil war, meaning that they are the government in fact, but also meaning that they are not the government "by right", as military force was and is used against the people to assert control.

In other words, NOT "for the people, by the people".

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