chilaxe
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Birthdate: January 1st, 1980 (28 years old)
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I have a background in cognitive science, and I enjoy economics and mixed martial arts.
Be a life-long learner and all doors will open to you :)
Be a life-long learner and all doors will open to you :)
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*dead, unfortunately
In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
Ha. That is funny, actually.
In reply to this comment by quantumushroom:
Will Fraudbama's goons find a one-legged albino Eskimo to complete the set of Poor-Me(tm) victimized minorities?
Stay tuned.
If Austrian school economists are unable to figure out how to make their viewpoint mainstream in the marketplace of ideas, does that mean the marketplace is right to keep them on the fringe?
I just wanted to say that was AWESOME.
In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
>> ^Aemaeth:
"I'm a federalist where I believe states should have more say..."
Apparently her and I have a different understanding of what "federalist" means.
"In contemporary usage [in the US], as articulated by president Bush's New Federalism, federalists advocate the principle of greater regional autonomy within the United States—usually by allowing individual states to set their own agendas and determine the handling of issues, rather than trying to impose a nationally uniform solution."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist#The_United_States
And I'm happy to have a nice intellectual conversation. It's one of the reasons I come visit the Sift. Make sure you read all my latest comments before replying (there are a lot of new ones in that thread) because I don't think I was fully understanding what you were trying to say until I looked at jwray's comment.
In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
Thanks for the continuing discussion, I've quite appreciated your comments on the sift in the past
Standard oil was a governmentally funded monopoly. The initial competitor to gasoline was alcohol, and alcohol was made completely illegal during prohibition.
Still, before John Rockefeller, people were lighting their homes with whale oil. Oil was a nuisance, people didn't even know you could use it for anything. John Rockefeller drastically improved the lives of millions of people. This says nothing of the practices of the foundation that bears his name.
In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
Is it really accurate to say this has "nothing to do with free-market capitalism?"
http://happy.videosift.com/talk/Thinker247-Is-Now-Thinker101-1
</sarcasm>But SRSLY, what's your problem with eyes glazed over????/<sarcasm/>
In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
Lol. Games are for recreation, not for making your eyes glaze over.
In reply to this comment by EDD:
Stupid Yahtzee.
Signature Analysis and Signature Focusing OBVIOUSLY refer to operating targeting systems at 5% improved targeting speed per skill level and advanced understanding of target painting technology with 5% bonus to target painter modules' signature radius multiplier per skill level respectively. It's implied in the name of the skill, DUMBASS. srsly.