Reuben

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Name: Reuben Gann
Date registered: 11/30/-0001

Latest posts

  1. An illuminating trip to the Microsoft store — 12/29/2013
  2. Netflix streaming continues to founder as dozens of prominent movies are taken down — 12/28/2013
  3. Saints Row IV is the most fun I've had playing a game — 11/19/2013
  4. Statisticians need to see how experimental science really works, then shut up about it — 11/13/2013
  5. Surface Pro 2: first impressions — 10/24/2013

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Sep 26 2008

The liberal/conservative canard

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It is an unfortunate fact that the word "liberal" has multiple meanings, ranging anywhere from an Enlightenment term of high praise to a modern-day epithet associated with Marxism. This is perhaps not surprising, given the English usage of, for example, a "liberal amount" of ketchup, means that you really pile it on. So, naturally, liberals …

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Sep 22 2008

The Illiterate

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Politics

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Many have made light in this political season of McCain's computer illiteracy. The man has never sent an email, checked a website, downloaded a file, watched a youtube video. "Ha ha, the old man can't use the computer machine." Let us not make light of this. Let us take this as the serious issue that …

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Sep 18 2008

Why I am not a Libertarian

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General, Politics

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It's hard to dislike the ideals of the (big L) Libertarians. They line up with my common-sense notions on the decriminalization of victimless crimes such as drug use and prostitution (which are indefensible positions). They talk a good line about a statement of principles, and that's certainly not a bad thing to have. Their ideas …

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Sep 17 2008

Faux Republican Laissez Fair

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Politics

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So, we lowered taxes, reduced regulation, allowed companies to do virtually anything they wanted. Brought back the good ol' days like Reagan did. What a load of shit. The blame for the current disastrous financial situation sits squarely on Alan Greenspan and George W. Bush. There is a damned good reason that democrats are better …

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Sep 11 2008

A Galt's Gulch No More

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What accounts for the R&D dominance of the US between 1900 and the present day? Why were we able to be the first to make a nuclear bomb, reach the moon, invent the transistor, before all the other developed nations? Is it the much vaunted (during this campaign) small town folks from the "heartland"? No. …

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