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#127 Mar 15 2013 at 8:31 PM Rating: Good
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Not the point.
Yeah I know, you were grossly off. I was putting you back on track like usual. You're welcome.
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#128 Mar 15 2013 at 8:44 PM Rating: Excellent
It's amusing that gbaji seems to think that relying solely on private companies to insure patients and pay hospitals, the government is suddenly not responsible for healthcare.
#129 Mar 16 2013 at 2:28 PM Rating: Good
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I would appreciate not fighting with my daughter about what she wears to school, but we don't have uniforms (well, I guess I could send her to boarding school...hmmm...) so that's not an option. She's shown time and again that she's completely unable to choose her own clothing...mostly because she's incredibly lazy and will just put on whatever is on the top or on the floor and ends up dressed like Cyndi Lauper heading up a pride parade in the bahamas even in the dead of winter here.

I'm totally ok with buying her a Swiss Guard uniform to wear to school. She's really interested in them, lately.


Will you still be ok with it when she realizes her true calling is to protect the Curia?
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#130 Mar 16 2013 at 10:10 PM Rating: Decent
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Will you still be ok with it when she realizes her true calling is to protect the Curia?

Of course, although, she currently prefers her own myth of a man with a zebra's head who guards the castle of the underworld to any existing mythos. So, I'd assume the Church of Zeebruce would be in control of the Holy See by then.
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#131 Mar 17 2013 at 12:08 AM Rating: Good
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Will you still be ok with it when she realizes her true calling is to protect the Curia?

Of course, although, she currently prefers her own myth of a man with a zebra's head who guards the castle of the underworld to any existing mythos. So, I'd assume the Church of Zeebruce would be in control of the Holy See by then.


Is not the pope is entrusted with keeping the chained Zebra-Anubis sated with the souls of good Catholics? My bible knowledge might be a little rusty.
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#132 Mar 17 2013 at 12:10 AM Rating: Good
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What about the giant spider queen?
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#133 Mar 17 2013 at 12:11 AM Rating: Excellent
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Parker took her out during Spider Island.
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#134 Mar 17 2013 at 12:17 AM Rating: Good
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I was going for the South Park reference, and Father Maxi going beneath the Vatican and the Pope summoning the Queen Spider... Smiley: oyvey

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I should be sound asleep right now, but for some reason decided to put my copy of Dark Knight Rises into my PS3 at 11pm and start watching it for the first time. Even though I knew it was almost 3 hours long.

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#135 Mar 17 2013 at 12:36 AM Rating: Good
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What about the giant spider queen?


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#136 Mar 17 2013 at 7:30 AM Rating: Good
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#137 Mar 18 2013 at 7:39 AM Rating: Good
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I still haven't seen Dark Knight Rises.
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#138 Mar 18 2013 at 9:19 AM Rating: Good
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Me either. Robot and Frank turned out to be good.
#139 Mar 18 2013 at 4:29 PM Rating: Good
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I still haven't seen Dark Knight Rises.

It's good, but I found The Dark Knight, the best of the three.
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#140 Mar 19 2013 at 2:58 AM Rating: Good
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What right of others is being infringed if someone purchases a 20oz soda? None? Then we should not infringe the right to do so.


Drinkers of large soda drinks are at a much higher risk for diabetes & obesity, which leads to my tax dollars paying for fat people to not work, continue to consume large amounts of soda, which leads to further health issues.

Is this a ploy for pubbies to get the fat fuck vote?
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#141 Mar 19 2013 at 7:08 AM Rating: Excellent
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Heaven forbid we allow the consumers to make their own choices! Government really has no business making that decision for us, much less passing a law forcing that decision on us. Freedom doesn't end at good choices, otherwise it's not really freedom.......
Yup. You made a choice. That's what freedom is all about.


The government didn't take a choice away from me, though - that company did. I chose to have a medium sized drink based on the information I had at the time, which was a decade previous of ordering a medium sized drink and that medium sized drink being an actual specific size. Why did the company suddenly think that I needed more soda? Isn't that my choice to order the large if I want the large? Apparently not.

The corporation had decided to take my size choice away from me and instead substitute a considerably larger drink, which I did not want and did not even know about. Yes, I chose to ask them to pour it into the cup that fit into my cup holder, but in even that, what choice did I have? Either throw away the drink I paid for because I couldn't fit it in my car and I am not going to even attempt to work the gearbox with a freaking massive soda in my hand, or spend more time at the window making the poor clerk give me a smaller cup. That's not a "choice". That's a stupid company doing a stupid thing that cost them the business of someone who was fairly regular.

Regulating the size of soda a company can sell isn't taking away your rights. It's forcing companies, and by extension the public, to be more responsible about the choices they make. If NY tried to pass a law banning soda I'd be with you, but you are just grasping at straws with this one. If your wonderful free market hadn't made it a problem to begin with, this would never have seen the light of day.
#142 Mar 19 2013 at 7:30 AM Rating: Good
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Kastigir wrote:
lolgaxe wrote:
I still haven't seen Dark Knight Rises.
It's good, but I found The Dark Knight, the best of the three.
It's certainly been the best of all the Batman movies, though I can't imagine any comic movie I laughed at more than Batman & Robin.
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#143 Mar 19 2013 at 8:06 AM Rating: Decent
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I watched Iron Man 1 and 2 for the first time a few days ago. They were pretty bad, entertaining but the story is terrible at best.
#144 Mar 19 2013 at 11:12 AM Rating: Decent
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It's certainly been the best of all the Batman movie

Batman begins is better as a movie. It hangs together better. TDK is a horrible movie with a great performance by Ledger. The plot may as well be from a "Transformers" movie.
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#145 Mar 19 2013 at 11:28 AM Rating: Good
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The plot may as well be from a "Transformers" movie.
It's a Batman movie. What were you expecting, Shakespeare?
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#146 Mar 19 2013 at 11:37 AM Rating: Decent
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The plot may as well be from a "Transformers" movie.
It's a Batman movie. What were you expecting, Shakespeare?


No, but I also didn't mistake it for the best batman movie.
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#147 Mar 19 2013 at 11:38 AM Rating: Good
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No, but I also didn't mistake it for the best batman movie.
It's very mature of you to admit your error so quickly.
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#148 Mar 19 2013 at 11:55 AM Rating: Good
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It's certainly been the best of all the Batman movie

Batman begins is better as a movie. It hangs together better. TDK is a horrible movie with a great performance by Ledger. The plot may as well be from a "Transformers" movie.


I vacillate between the two for this reason. The first is a better screenplay with more consistent performances, the second is a shaky screenplay with uneven performances, bolstered by one stellar acting job.

My current line of thinking is that I prefer the first. Really like that origin story - it really helps to guide the whole movie.
#149 Mar 19 2013 at 4:15 PM Rating: Default
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What right of others is being infringed if someone purchases a 20oz soda? None? Then we should not infringe the right to do so.


Drinkers of large soda drinks are at a much higher risk for diabetes & obesity, which leads to my tax dollars paying for fat people to not work, continue to consume large amounts of soda, which leads to further health issues.


If the problem is that your tax dollars will pay for their health problems, then the solution is to not have tax dollars pay for their health problems. Again, we create the need for government regulation of our day to day activities when we put the government in charge of paying for our health care. It's a predictable outcome, but it's shocking how consistently some people just fail to see it even when it's pointed out to them.


BTW, this is why conservatives oppose things like publicly funded health care. Not because we want people to be sick, or die, or suffer, but because we recognize the infringement of liberty that will inevitably result if the government is put in the position of paying for our health. Anything we do can be defined within the context of health, so by putting the government in the position of paying for our health we're basically giving the government unlimited power to control our activities on the grounds of reducing health care costs borne by all of us.

The correct answer, no matter how much you might thing it's cruel or uncaring, is to *not* make the government responsible for our health care.
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gbaji wrote:

Heaven forbid we allow the consumers to make their own choices! Government really has no business making that decision for us, much less passing a law forcing that decision on us. Freedom doesn't end at good choices, otherwise it's not really freedom.......
Yup. You made a choice. That's what freedom is all about.


The government didn't take a choice away from me, though - that company did.


Huh? No it didn't. You were free to order any size soda you wanted. You were free to inquire as to the actual ounces in each "size" of drink and get the one you wanted. You were free to get a smaller or larger drink, as you pleased. What do you want? Someone else to make your choice for you? Or a government to impose your choice on everyone else?


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Regulating the size of soda a company can sell isn't taking away your rights.


Of course it is. It's taking away the right to choose to buy a larger soda if you want. When did rights become defined in either/or terms? So since the company gives you the option of a larger drink, and you don't want one, instead of just asking for a smaller drink, you want the government to force the company to not be able to sell larger drinks at all, thus taking that choice away from all the consumers who might want larger drinks?

How the hell does that make any sense?

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It's forcing companies, and by extension the public, to be more responsible about the choices they make.


No. It's forcing companies, and by extension the public, to make the choices they want it to make. Which is the opposite of freedom.

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If NY tried to pass a law banning soda I'd be with you, but you are just grasping at straws with this one. If your wonderful free market hadn't made it a problem to begin with, this would never have seen the light of day.


The free market didn't make this a problem and I'm not sure why you'd think it did. The market offers larger drinks because customers want larger drinks. That and larger drinks are cheap, but make people think they're getting a better value. But at the end of the day, there's no law requiring companies to sell large drinks, nor consumers to buy large drinks. Thus, there is no problem which needs to be addressed.
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#151 Mar 19 2013 at 5:20 PM Rating: Decent
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The free market didn't make this a problem and I'm not sure why you'd think it did. The market offers larger drinks because customers want larger drinks. That and larger drinks are cheap, but make people think they're getting a better value.


Sort of true, sort of also a known fact that that food marketers try as hard as they can to create formulas that engage lower brain instincts that largely disable the brain's ability to say "nah I'm good." If there were a way to make cheese as addictive as heroin with it being immediately harmful or obvious, every cheese maker in the world would do that tomorrow.

To be clear, I don't think limiting the size of soda portions is a good idea, either from a policy standpoint or a health efficacy standpoint. I do think a law could be fairly easily crafted to allow a municipality to do so legally. I'm not familiar enough with the law or the ruling here to really have an opinion, but it sounds like poor legislative writing at first blush.
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