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    Movies or Scenes That Made You Cry.

    It's a bit embarrassing but I cried at the end of Bicentennial Man.
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    Conspiracy Theories

    Let's not beat around the bush here. Anyone who asks others to be more open minded is admitting to not having any kind of evidence behind their beliefs and would much appreciate it if you would join them. If being closed minded means following logic, common sense and using your ability to...
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    Conspiracy Theories

    Mainstream media doesn't cover this stuff because it's a joke. Just because something is a theory held by a select few doesn't mean CNN should have to cover it and give it exposure. A recurring theme with conspiracy theorists is that they confuse complete jumps in logic with being open minded...
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    If the government's healthcare insurance is so good...

    Norton: Firm believer in Worthington's Law. Now he's about as dumb as Einstein. Way to go Einstein!
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    If the government's healthcare insurance is so good...

    No, it comes down to the associative property of math. Might want to look it up. Still leaving though. On my way out. Promise this time.
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    If the government's healthcare insurance is so good...

    My Canadian girlfriend also pays 15% sales tax (even tax on food) plus income taxes...and please forgive me for not considering myself a charity case. I don't think it would be possible for you to come off as any more condescending. "Poor little guy, having to live an average life. Maybe we...
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    If the government's healthcare insurance is so good...

    Simple enough, Democrats have no interest in tort reform. Also, the Republican plan would also allow citizens to buy out-of-state insurance which in theory would greatly improve the efficiency of the industry. These are two rather large differences.
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    If the government's healthcare insurance is so good...

    Yes, because offering a plan that is only 33% less effective and could potentially be more effective when you do add in measures to reduce the uninsured is quite delusional and really amounts to nothing. The Republican plan was not the Democratic plan minus universal health care. Their plan...
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    If the government's healthcare insurance is so good...

    Innovation is indeed dying and it's intellectual property that is doing it. The patent trolling wars have been going strong. You want to reinvent the wheel? You can't, someone owns the concept of the wheel. Why would anyone in their right mind want to be an inventor or innovator at a time...
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    If the government's healthcare insurance is so good...

    You expect no one to call you out on that? That is not what the Congressional Budget Office concluded. Their conclusion was that the Republican plan would save $68 billion compared to the $104 billion offered up by the Democratic plan. Considerably less, but that is without any measures to...
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    Best Alarm Clock Ever.

    I made an alarm clock in C# that requires you to solve math problems in order to disable it. I wanted to add the ability to disable any attempt to mute the sound but that requires working with Win32 APIs which are a major pain when using managed programming languages like C#.
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    If the government's healthcare insurance is so good...

    The legislature is elected to represent the interests of their constituents, not to default to the nation's party of choice or to act on national opinion polls. The Republicans have offered alternatives which have to do with controlling costs by reducing waste and limiting doctor liability...
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    If the government's healthcare insurance is so good...

    Capitalism is not infallible, if you feel capitalism is bad and detrimental to the health care system then lay it out for us instead of trying to take a shortcut around one of the key issues of the entire debate. It's like debating abortion and telling people, "Please don't bring morality into...
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    If the government's healthcare insurance is so good...

    Excuse me? If Ben believes there is such a principle, it would not be in his interest to sway the opinion of peers? One would have to feel very strongly about a concept to call it a principle. By the way, I enjoyed the fact that you can't possibly debate against the most important piece of...
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    Obesity: A Health crisis or a moral one?

    I wouldn't be completely against clinics becoming socialized...but just clinics. That way it really wouldn't be preventing the commercial market and preventative care would improve.