I'm not sure what this says about me, but I'd already figured out the icky stuff myself. Though ... (the next para contains more icky stuff. Please be warned)
I presume that, normally, the result of an abortion is disposed of. Thus an abortion could be used to destroy the evidence. However, the entire purpose of this bill could be achieved by mandating that after every abortion sufficient tissue for DNA testing be preserved for some reasonable period of time.
I'll leave it to the reader to conclude why this solution, which has the considerable advantage of not criminalizing rape victims, didn't occur to the Honorable Member from New Mexico.
Once we abandon the idea of a winner-take-all system, another alternative way for a state to allocate its electoral votes would be to do so proportionally to the voter
That also favors Republicans significantly. The reason that the EC more or less reflects the popular vote is that it's distorted in two ways that, fortunately, oppose each other:
1. Republicans win more states, so they get the advantage of the 2 extra EC votes each state gets on top of the ones proportional to its population.
2. Democrats win more large states, which gives them more benefit from winner-take-all.
Remove #2, and you have a system that skews Republican, which is why proportional EC schemes, even ones less obviously crooked than Virginia's, always originate from them.
The EC was more predictable (fewer variables, and turnout within a state is, to a first approximation, a wash.) The actual popular vote, which was an almost 4 point (5 million vote) victory for Obama, turned out to be quite a barrier as well.
Making presidential elections more manipulable by gerrymandering is a bad idea. So is making it more difficult for people who are constitutionally eligible to vote to do so. Period. The fact that Republicans strategies include both does not prove that both sides are the same.
Two's complement is how most computers represent negative numbers. It has the advantage that the same logic can add both signed and unsigned numbers. (I could enlarge on that, if anyone cares.) I don't (offhand) see any useful way to extend it beyond binary representations, making it fairly useless for humans (I didn't get to the ATM today. Can you lend me 10100 bucks?)
Women who want to bear a rapist's child, but are forced into an unwanted abortion by their attacker? A very pressing problem, badly in need of immediate legislative solutions.
The proper word for something as frequent as "except when a fellow Republican says something so phenomenally boneheaded that it makes every other Republican look bad" is not "exception".
Namely that we (meaning classical liberals, not necessarily including you and Mr Johnson) are not opposed to regulation as much as activist regulation.
I really wish I knew what that meant, because then I could agree or disagree with it. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that it's not what Republicans mean by an activist court (which is one that makes rulings they disagree with.)
How about this: you propose just one non-activist regulation that might address the problem we've been discussing, and contrast it with one activist regulation. Explain what puts each in its respective category. We can go from there. Maybe put it at the bottom of the page, so we don't start at maximum indent level.
And it obeyed no sensible protocol whatsoever -- so samples kept for retesting, no checks for contamination or mislabeling. It's an absolute disgrace that the results of those tests were ever made public.
1. We don't hear about a lot of concealed-carry-related dumb shootings.
2, In fact, under most circumstances we wouldn't even have heard about this one.
What happens is that each house as a separate room and if a woman wants to have sex, she invites a man to spend the night but he needs to leave by daybreak. If a woman gets pregnant, her brothers act as the parental role figures, not the biological father.
That sounds much like the matrilineal society described in Evangeline Walton's retellings of the Mabinogion, in which the fact that sex causes pregnancy is just being discovered. Sexual liaisons may be long-term, if that's mutually agreeable, but are not connected to parenthood or property. Motherhood is, of course, well-understood, so inheritance goes from a man to his eldest sister's eldest son.
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I'm not sure what this says about me, but I'd already figured out the icky stuff myself. Though ... (the next para contains more icky stuff. Please be warned)
I presume that, normally, the result of an abortion is disposed of. Thus an abortion could be used to destroy the evidence. However, the entire purpose of this bill could be achieved by mandating that after every abortion sufficient tissue for DNA testing be preserved for some reasonable period of time.
I'll leave it to the reader to conclude why this solution, which has the considerable advantage of not criminalizing rape victims, didn't occur to the Honorable Member from New Mexico.
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Once we abandon the idea of a winner-take-all system, another alternative way for a state to allocate its electoral votes would be to do so proportionally to the voter
That also favors Republicans significantly. The reason that the EC more or less reflects the popular vote is that it's distorted in two ways that, fortunately, oppose each other:
1. Republicans win more states, so they get the advantage of the 2 extra EC votes each state gets on top of the ones proportional to its population.
2. Democrats win more large states, which gives them more benefit from winner-take-all.
Remove #2, and you have a system that skews Republican, which is why proportional EC schemes, even ones less obviously crooked than Virginia's, always originate from them.
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The EC was more predictable (fewer variables, and turnout within a state is, to a first approximation, a wash.) The actual popular vote, which was an almost 4 point (5 million vote) victory for Obama, turned out to be quite a barrier as well.
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Making presidential elections more manipulable by gerrymandering is a bad idea. So is making it more difficult for people who are constitutionally eligible to vote to do so. Period. The fact that Republicans strategies include both does not prove that both sides are the same.
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a pet — a kept man — a sheep — a tool.
By all means, let's avoid language that leads to foregone conclusions.
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Two's complement is how most computers represent negative numbers. It has the advantage that the same logic can add both signed and unsigned numbers. (I could enlarge on that, if anyone cares.) I don't (offhand) see any useful way to extend it beyond binary representations, making it fairly useless for humans (I didn't get to the ATM today. Can you lend me 10100 bucks?)
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To be fair, if Kim is saying "He's intelligent in a way that some IQ tests completely miss", I couldn't reject that out of hand.
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See more glass.
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They are to a man and woman, good, decent, intelligent and reasonable people.
Though many are, to two men or two women, complete fishholes.
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If she didn't fight back hard enough, she wasn't really forced.
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But you know that the gun-grabbers are just waiting for any weak excuse (say, a rash of mass murders) to start proposing reasonable regulations.
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rapists who try to force their victims to abort
Women who want to bear a rapist's child, but are forced into an unwanted abortion by their attacker? A very pressing problem, badly in need of immediate legislative solutions.
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Honestly, I have never listened to a political speech that didn't mention rape and wondered afterward "Why not?".
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The proper word for something as frequent as "except when a fellow Republican says something so phenomenally boneheaded that it makes every other Republican look bad" is not "exception".
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Very pleased to welcome you aboard.
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Namely that we (meaning classical liberals, not necessarily including you and Mr Johnson) are not opposed to regulation as much as activist regulation.
I really wish I knew what that meant, because then I could agree or disagree with it. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that it's not what Republicans mean by an activist court (which is one that makes rulings they disagree with.)
How about this: you propose just one non-activist regulation that might address the problem we've been discussing, and contrast it with one activist regulation. Explain what puts each in its respective category. We can go from there. Maybe put it at the bottom of the page, so we don't start at maximum indent level.
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They didn't ask "Is this within policy?".
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And it obeyed no sensible protocol whatsoever -- so samples kept for retesting, no checks for contamination or mislabeling. It's an absolute disgrace that the results of those tests were ever made public.
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by their race, but by their race.”
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And relatively few of them with antlers.
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This seems self-refuting to me.
1. We don't hear about a lot of concealed-carry-related dumb shootings.
2, In fact, under most circumstances we wouldn't even have heard about this one.
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I was thinking more like girls at 18, boys at 40.
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What happens is that each house as a separate room and if a woman wants to have sex, she invites a man to spend the night but he needs to leave by daybreak. If a woman gets pregnant, her brothers act as the parental role figures, not the biological father.
That sounds much like the matrilineal society described in Evangeline Walton's retellings of the Mabinogion, in which the fact that sex causes pregnancy is just being discovered. Sexual liaisons may be long-term, if that's mutually agreeable, but are not connected to parenthood or property. Motherhood is, of course, well-understood, so inheritance goes from a man to his eldest sister's eldest son.
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I'm confused. Sleepwear and sweats make me look exactly like I'm going to work.
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STDs and pregnancy are not minor concerns (the latter being yet another reason that man-girl seems worse than woman-boy).