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<let save name=debate-point-summary>This is just a back-door way to do something that can't be accomplished more legitimately.</let> ...ion to private industry, to get a back-door way to do something they can't do politically."</let>

...ve name=debate-point-summary>PZ Myers's request for a consecrated Eucarist to desecrate is not ethically justifiable.</let> ...ards and grim nuns hovering over your local communion ceremony, just write to me and I’ll send you my home address."

* it is able to act as quickly in dealing with problems on a larger scale ...quality [[../standards|standards]] (e.g. food safety, human rights, access to medical services)

...of trust]] is a chain of personal connections between two individuals who do not necessarily know each other directly. Each link in the chain involves s * Elaine and Alice want to do business with each other, but they don't know each other personally

...of [[solves::online voter fraud]]. There are a number of different ways to do it, but the key features are: * Every voter may indicate whether any other voter is known to them personally.

<let save name=debate-point-summary>We already do this to a very large extent; adopting this principle would require much greater leg ...ion, and incarceration, and possibly other things) shouldn't be outsourced to private for-profit companies. The analogy doesn't hold, as far as I can see

...at least since The Great and Thoroughly Unnecessary {{l/ip|Nymwars}}, so I do have a few anecdatapoints collected. ...sites) are there? (What's good and bad about each? Which ones come closest to meeting our needs?)

...t actually make gun ownership unaffordable, so this is not a reason not to do it. ...n a false premise -- so he puts it in the mouths of his opponents in order to make them look bad: kind of a combination straw-man and guilt-by-associatio

...echShop]] organized as [[social infrastructure]] -- money is not a barrier to entry ...wrong way or under the wrong circumstances can be dangerous), but we need to understand what aspects of it are valid and which are simply [[guild protec

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...her detail with you about this, though I am sure you don’t have courage to do so. You cowardless bitch, running off the stage! I hope people find you."</

...tphone or portable computing device with ad-hoc networking and the ability to plug in a headset. ...dden. Individual users could be authorized only to listen to a channel, or to speak. Anyone on the network can start a channel.

...ways that violate the rules under which the [[voting system]] is supposed to operate -- typically for the purpose of exercising disproportionate influen ...ort to influence the vote is best spent elsewhere. (Further data is needed to confirm if this is in fact the case, or if there are other factors which mi

...rica]]: How Big Business Broke Up The Nation And Why Americans Helped Them Do It''. So far, contributors include Wendy Cockcroft and [[Woozle]]. ==Topics to Cover==

...place, and the wondering only grows more acute as the technology continues to get cheaper and more a part of how people live their lives: ...>why isn't there a terminal I can walk up to and search for the item</b> – to find, for example what aisle it's in and what it costs?

...piracy of Mad Scientists''', a lair for plotting and developing inventions to destroy authoritarianism. ==Plots to be Thickened==

...or maybe a VAX, and required further programming in FORTRAN if you wanted to make it generate any new reports or anything. ...were run at the home office in Syracuse, NY and dumped fresh data nightly to our network down in Athens, GA.

...amounts tend to come from non-community sources, i.e. people who just want to make a profit and don't particularly care about how well the project serves ..."stake" in a project, the project's social benefit is generally irrelevant to those with the greatest "stake".

'''Jobsolescence: why chronic unemployment is the new normal, and what to do about it''' ''a traveler's guide to the new economic landscape''

...ustry became threatened as never before by a new technology -- the ability to quickly and cheaply share music over the internet. People who give each oth ...rite songs and giving them to each other for free without paying royalties to the copyright owners. This obviously represented a terrible loss of income