Ifi crushed by cheap Chinese gear

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DM, you may want to Gloggle parasites in salmon...

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I want an HerbalLife Nutrition DAC - every 5 packets, I get money

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communism requires concentration of power to allocate goods & services; as a practical matter this leads to authoritarianism and then dictatorship

 

in the US, the Founders were very careful to chop the central govt. into small pieces - so much so that the first attempt (Articles of Confederation) failed; the 2nd attempt retained 3 branches, and federalism

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4 minutes ago, pkane2001 said:

 

Let’s see how well this design holds up in the age of Trump. Seems to me that it only works when the three branches are at odds with each other. When two to three branches align interests, there’s very little protection left against authoritarian or dictatorial tendencies.

 

while a good point, I analogize this to the "stress testing" of banks

 

this is a stress test for Democracy - it survived a civil war, so I am optimistic - I am less optimistic about things I know more about and which are easier to predict the future on however...

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Doesn't matter.

 

The US and Europe will be engulfed by fire, fleeing migrants, storms and water intrusion.

 

Later, the entire planet will be scorched by by the sun expanding before it flames out and then the entire universe will disappear into a cold dark entropic abyss.

 

On the bright side, that may not happen if the universe vanishes in a quantum fluctuation first.

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10 minutes ago, mav52 said:

Not much anyone can do about your bleak outcome, we all parish regardless of race nationality age and beliefs . 

 

no, only Catholics parish

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14 minutes ago, mav52 said:

Trump will be gone in 900 plus days so what crap he signs in the next president will change .  Ex: Obama laws, removed or changed by Trump.  

 

that applies to Exec. Orders, and to some extent agency rule-making

 

statutes will have to be passed by Congress

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1 minute ago, Nordkapp said:

Chi-fi still sucks.

 

Let's not denigrate Chicago too much!

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are DSD DACs inherently communistic??

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5 hours ago, sligolad said:

Wow....never seen a thread get so derailed....seems like we need a venting section or pub car park around here!

 

 

I blame I Fi

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too noisy

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9 hours ago, accwai said:

 

Easier said than done. So tell us, what is our original face before our parents were born?

 

very similar to a young chimp's face

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On 6/22/2018 at 3:15 AM, Audiophile Neuroscience said:

 

Ah, I wondered what you looked like Ralph

 

 

 

 

pity you didn't take any classes in evolution, anthropology or development